What films have you watched this week?

[MattyD]

The version I saw only had the one trailer

[dvdmike]

Batman begins
Southland tales
Hellboy DC
Diary of the dead
Red planet
Torque

[buster_broon]

its been a movie fest this week, more crap than good to be honest

Spiderwick Chronicles
drill bit taylor
In Bruges
The Ruins (very good)
Shutter
Superhero movie
chaos theory
My moms new boyfriend
The Eye
Living Hell
Teeth
The List
The Mist (pretty decent)
the air i breathe (pretty decent)
The Other boleyn girl
Shepard border patrol
the bank job (pretty good)
The girl rebel force of competative swimmers

plan to watch the folowing over the weekend
the oxford murders
street kings
Vexille
Pathology

[buster_broon]

The version I saw only had the one trailer

the Canadian's got an extra trailer put in, which wasnt on the Jpn release

hobo with a shotgun

but thanksgiving is class, dont was good and was choc full of stars

[Family Fry]

Seems like i have had a comedy week, started off with Walk Hard which was ok had some funny moment but to me not a classic, and have literally just watched Hot Rod (FINALLY!) laughed my arse off with that one, it was just silly but really funny. His dancing in the woods bit had me in stitches, the 80's soundtrack was quality, the bit with "You're The Voice" (a classic song!) and the montage was great.
"Started off pretty motivational I thought."

[Square]

Watched The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) last night on a recommendation, and it was superb. A shocking account of life in East Germany around 1984, superbly acted and very tense, with a stunning performance from Ulrich Mühe as a Stasi (secret police) Captain.

[PrayforMojo]

There was an excellent BBC documentary about Werner Herzog on the tele a few nights ago, which gave me the urge to give Grizzly Man another watch. Fascinating film. If anyone hasn't seen it, do yourself a favour and do so. It doesn't happen often, maybe just a few times in your life, but the first time I saw Grizzly Man I had what I call a Eureka moment - sounds awfully poncy, but I found it to be an enlightening experience. I don't mean in a religious way, just a perspective, really - a worldview that connected with me on some level. Incredibly powerful film. Kind of funny, too, in its absurdity. How it wasn't nominated for an Oscar I'll never know.

[prinnysquad]

How the hell did I miss that docu? What was it called?

[PrayforMojo]

How the hell did I miss that docu? What was it called?

It was part of the Imagine series, entitled Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason. You're in luck. It's still available to watch on the Beeb's iPlayer -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ccgp3

[MattyD]

What's the thing with Werner Herzog being so popular? I don't know anything about him but I hear the name often.

[elkatas]

What's the thing with Werner Herzog being so popular?

Very talented and demanding director, and only one who managed to successfully shoot many movies with Klaus Kinski. Has more than few screws loose, but this tend to be norm with successful documentarists. Highlights in the career include;

- Aguirre: Wrath of God
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
- Cobra Verde
- Fitzcaraldo
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Stroszek
- Woyzcek

Anchor Bay has done excellent collection of his more popular works, and it sold in Play.com for 20 euros or so.

[Miguel007]

Very talented and demanding director, and only one who managed to successfully shoot many movies with Klaus Kinski. Has more than few screws loose, but this tend to be norm with successful documentarists. Highlights in the career include;

- Aguirre: Wrath of God
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
- Cobra Verde
- Fitzcaraldo
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Stroszek
- Woyzcek

Anchor Bay has done excellent collection of his more popular works, and it sold in Play.com for 20 euros or so.

Rescue Dawn is a cracking film too, by Werner Herzog. Starring Christian Bale, based on a true story - Blurb from the film: 'A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War'

I missed that Doc' as well off to the I-Player.

[12-51-00]

Raging Bull *****
5 Centimeters Per Second ****
Bad Lieutenant ****
Batman Begins ****
Death Proof ****
Manhattan ****
Vengeance is Mine ****
Airplane! ***
Be Kind Rewind ***
Bellissima ***
Casino Royale ***
The Darjeeling Limited ***
Lord of War ***
Planet Terror ***
Six Degrees of Separation ***
Billy Madison **
Pushing Tin **

Okay, the final list is in and over the past week I managed 17, not bad, probably a personal best. I'm gonna try for 3-a-day over the next week. Although I'll probably need to pick up some new DVDs, any recommendations?

[Welrain]

Get out a bit more ;P

This week I'm watched the stunning "Stardust", just recently finished the book and felt like watching the film again. It really is great and I love all the changes made for the film from the source material. great stuff.

Lastnight was the confused Resident Evil Extinction. Think Mad Max with zombies and you wouldn't be far wrong, in fact it would be a much better movie if they had stuck with that theme.

[elkatas]

Rescue Dawn is a cracking film too, by Werner Herzog.

I haven't seen it, but from what I heard, Herzog serious changes on the background. I.e. in reality, the escape was planned by other inmates, and Dieter (correct name?) just took advantage of it.