[Feb] What did you watch on DVD/VHS/theaters this month

[WayneLigon]

This month:
Theater
Daredevil, of course.
Shanghai Knights.
DVD
Dagon
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
What Women Want
Atlantis
Final Fantasy
Spider-Man
The Musketeer
Iron Monkey
Two Buffy Season Three Episodes 'The Wish' and 'Dopplegangland' - Re-watching those

 

[Enforcer]

In the Theater:
The Recruit--YES! Very good spy thriller. I liked it very nearly as much as Spy Game.

Daredevil--Also good, but I left before the scene in the hospital. I didn't know!

DVD:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding--Very funny. That family had a lot of similarities to most Jewish families I know (including mine).

Cable Premium Channels:
The Rookie--Good but nothing spectacular.

 

[stevelabny]

Only movie in theatres was Daredevil.

At home, I FINALLY watched Alien, Tombstone, and Conan for the FIRST time. (when i was young, i never watched a lot of movies, and these three travesties show why)

I've also seen Battle Royale, the Japanese movie about high school kids purposely left on an island to fight to the death until there's a sole survivor. (based on a manga)

Buffy Seasons 1 and 2 for the first time on DVD (but I've been watching from the beginning) have taken most of my time.

The first 4 episodes of Trigun just last night which was the first anime that actually made me want to watch a 2nd episode.

i will soon be renting One Hour Photo.
And after I watch Buffy Season 3, i will move over to my Gargoyles collection. or Twin Peaks. or get a life.

steve

 

[Azure Trance]

In the past week I saw:

• Subterano
• Alien Tracker
• The Professional
• Interstate 60
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• S1m0ne
• My Little Eye
• Gangs of New York
• Formula 51
• We Were Soldiers
• Solaris
• Ghost Ship
• Below

Some of those movies were so bad, my eyes bled. Four of them I caught one right after the other.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

At home, I FINALLY watched Alien, Tombstone, and Conan for the FIRST time. (when i was young, i never watched a lot of movies, and these three travesties show why)

So you're saying you disliked all three?

 

[Sagan Darkside]

In the Theater:
The Recruit--YES! Very good spy thriller. I liked it very nearly as much as Spy Game.

hmm- You are the first person I have seen say they liked the movie. I thought it was pretty bad.

SD

 

[Enforcer]

hmm- You are the first person I have seen say they liked the movie. I thought it was pretty bad.

SD

Why?

The same goes for stevelabny regarding Tombstone. How could you not love a movie with the lines:

"I'm your huckleberry"

"You ain't no daisy, no daisy at all"

and don't forget

"Anything Val Kilmer says"

?

 

[stevelabny]

yes, I'm actually saying I didn't like all three. and now i will talk about them, so if youre in a 20 year movie black hole like me, dont read.

They all move sooooo slow. Alien took forever to get started and did NOT do a good job of setting the mood at all. I didnt listen to the whole director commentary, but the delete scene with the cocoons had its own commentary that i did listen too. which was the director saying that NOTHING happens in the first 45 minutes, and that test audiences were getting restless...but he thought the score was so good that it set the mood for the movie and so he left it the way it is. yikes. if the mood he was trying to set was boredom, or apathy i guess he suceeded. the only good bit was the robot bilbo.

Tombstone's quotes aren't half as cool as people make them out to be. A friend of mine is in a fantasy sports league where all the teams are named after characters and quotes from this movie. Apparently their drug use as bad as Kurt Russel's wife in the movie. What was the point of her? I felt like I was reading a Grant Morrison or Alan Moore comic book. Let's invent peripheral characters with weak ties to the main plot who do massive quantities of "cool" drugs. At least in From Hell they had the decency to give the addiction to the main character so it didn't seem as annoying when they rammed it down our throats.

As for Conan, it wasn't as bad as the D&D movie because at least it had some sort of coherent story,but could it have moved any slower? the first half of the movie coulda been done in 20 minutes. And they didnt even try to make any of the characters fun in any way. I was just supposed to oooh and aaaah at the fight-scenes which were even awful for 20 years ago.

I have seen some older movies I like, I have definitely seen slow movies that I like (all the M Night movies, especially Unbreakable)
so its not the i need all my movies at breakneck speed. But these movies are boring while theyre being slow. Nothing funny, nothing emotional, nothing visually exciting.

steve

 

[Chauzu]

Wow... that's the first time I've heard anybody say they disliked Conan and Alien...

 

[Ristamar]

...and since when is opium a "cool" drug? C'mon, that went out decades ago, ecstasy is where it's at in the 21st century.

But seriously, I'd say the drug use in that movie is very low key compared to today's standards. I've never heard anyone single it out before.

Also, it's funny you mention From Hell, as the movie portrays Frederick Abberline as an opium addict when, in fact, he was not. Wyatt Earp's wife, on the other hand, certainly was an addict IRL. If any of the two movies glorifies drug use as 'cool', it's definitely From Hell.