Films

[t8yman]

I've never seen a £25 DVD, not ever. so thats just bollocks. I had a DVD player when they were £329, and my first 2 movies were Ronin and The Matrix, neither of which were ever £25

bluray will fail imho, people have built up large DVD collections, and I for one arent going to invest in another proprietry format for my entertainment, and even though I can hear the cries of "hypocrite" (after my rather vocal condemnation of video game piracy) ringing in my ears - the days of me buying movies are long gone. If I find a film is truly excellent - I will buy it. Otherwise its a download for me.

Edited November 3, 2008 by t8yman

[Steve P]

Well I went to see Quantum of Solace on Friday night and was fairly dissapointed. It just didn't have any sense of fun about it at all which to me all Bond movies should have. I know that this was supposed to be dark but it just felt wrong to me. If anything I think there was too much action and the whole thing has gone too far down the Bourne route. Not that it was a dreadful film, just not what I hoped for.

I also watched Wanted on saturday. Very very silly but enjoyable enough.

[Purple Monkey]

These days a £25 Blu-Ray copy is hard to come by. They were pricey during the HD-DVD war but I was saying for ages that as soon as one won then prices would fall as demand would pick up due to a more clear future for the format. The DVD never had that battle to fight.

Latest releases on Blu-Ray (on Play.com, this is regardless of what YOU think these films are worth):

Iron Man - £17.

Sleeping Beauty - £17.

Hulk - £16

Hellboy 2 - £13

Hancock - £16

These are DVD prices from not long ago, in fact I'm pretty sure there were £17 DVD's in shops around Christmas last year.

We had these same debates with VHS vs DVD. The same arguments are now regurgitated and that is irregardless of what DVD did for playback of a film making it an obvious winner. I simply see Blu-Rays as the same thing as going for the "deluxe" version of a DVD - you pay a bit more, for more. People forked out for special editions of DVD's at twice the price of the "vanilla" one, and still do, and that is just DVD, so people will fork out for Blu-Ray.

This time I see blu-Ray accompanying DVD's. They are optional, but they're there and are pretty great in my opinion so why wish for it to fail? That's so petty. Besides, seeing as everytime I look at a Blu-Ray section of a store it has become bigger or moved to a bigger more prominent space in that store, it isn't failling.

People are just being cheap. Which I understand and not saying is bad, but they're making justifications for it based on bullshit and myth, grasping at straws, as if being cheap and frugal is such a bad thing to admit, and instead decide to deride, without reason, what they cannot lay their hands on - a very British trait I've noticed.

It's like fanboys of games consoles - instead of saying "I can't afford both" they'd rather say "that other console is shit because of X, Y, Z and my console is great because I bought it because of X, Y, Z". Interesting behaviour.

Edited November 3, 2008 by Purple Monkey

[t8yman]

These days a £25 Blu-Ray copy is hard to come by. They were pricey during the HD-DVD war but I was saying for ages that as soon as one won then prices would fall as demand would pick up due to a more clear future for the format. The DVD never had that battle to fight.

Latest releases on Blu-Ray (on Play.com, this is regardless of what YOU think these films are worth):

Iron Man - £17.

Sleeping Beauty - £17.

Hulk - £16

Hellboy 2 - £13

Hancock - £16

These are DVD prices from not long ago, in fact I'm pretty sure there were £17 DVD's in shops around Christmas last year.

We had these same debates with VHS vs DVD. The same arguments are now regurgitated and that is irregardless of what DVD did for playback of a film making it an obvious winner. I simply see Blu-Rays as the same thing as going for the "deluxe" version of a DVD - you pay a bit more, for more. People forked out for special editions of DVD's at twice the price of the "vanilla" one, and still do, and that is just DVD, so people will fork out for Blu-Ray.

This time I see blu-Ray accompanying DVD's. They are optional, but they're there and are pretty great in my opinion so why wish for it to fail? That's so petty. Besides, seeing as everytime I look at a Blu-Ray section of a store it has become bigger or moved to a bigger more prominent space in that store, it isn't failling.

[Steve P]

I'm not wishing for it to fail monkey - far from it, i just dont think it will ever be "the new dvd" with digital distribution being such a potentially big option. ive said it before - if the film industry can learn from past mistakes and embrace the opportunities downloads have to offer - they can cash in big time with hardly any distribution or production costs.

in ten years time, the DVD and CD shelves in our homes will be a thing of the past. IMHO.

[Purple Monkey]

I'm not wishing for it to fail monkey - far from it, i just dont think it will ever be "the new dvd" with digital distribution being such a potentially big option. ive said it before - if the film industry can learn from past mistakes and embrace the opportunities downloads have to offer - they can cash in big time with hardly any distribution or production costs.

in ten years time, the DVD and CD shelves in our homes will be a thing of the past. IMHO.

[philipsteak]

just finished watching it, I had a lump in my throat at the end. marvellous film.

[ralph250]

in ten years time, the DVD and CD shelves in our homes will be a thing of the past. IMHO.

[Purple Monkey]

Bigger, Faster, Stronger*

*The side effects of being American

Fascinating documentary made by a guy who got into body builiding, inspired as the weedy fat kid, by his heroes, Arnie, Stallone, and Hulk Hogan(huh?), then devestated to find out they all used steroids, as did his brothers, decides to look into this great american passtime. Uncovers a lot of the hypocrisy and hysteria, and is pretty funny in parts,as well as the bits covering his own family are quite moving too.

Also compares the sports "cheats" to students using drugs which help with studying, fighter pilots using amphetimines (which is scary is f**k. Most countries dont allow it, in the US its mandatory) and classical musicians using beta-blockers to calm nerves.

[nightcrawler13]

just watched Mr & Mrs Smith...

urg

[Radar]

187 was quite good, the other night?

Samuel L Jackson as a teacher in this rough school in a rough area, somewhere in Cali I think... and he loses it a bit... I dunno, anyway it was quite good, look it up on IMDB if you're that interested... film thread... *face hits keyboard zzzzzzzzzzz*

[Katster]

just watched Mr & Mrs Smith...

urg

[ampersand]

Did you expect anything more?

I started watching Rattatouille last night but I was too tired. It's lovely though eh, I got a bit weepy

[Katster]

watched that last sunday. fell asleep for a bit of it but i do that at all films.

not as good as some other pixar efforts but a good film.

[sifi]

Over the last few nights I've rewatched Nikita, The Usual Suspects, New Jack City and Almost Famous.

I'm missing the Wire terribly.

[ronaldo]

Watched James Bond last night and was dissappointed...didn't understand a lot of it and the action scenes were too frequent and too unreal (I thought before Casino Royale they were saying they were gonna try and make Bond more real??). Also a lot of the time there was this shakey-camera-during-the-action-scenes going on which was just annoying, couldn't see what was happening half the time. In all not impressed.

[Purple Monkey]

Oh and having a bit of an argument at work (sorry bit perverted), in the hotel at the end when the girl is being attacked/raped in the room when Bond jumps in to save her, is there a bit of a 'Basic Instinct' - up skirt' shot?

[Katster]

I'm going to see the new Bond on Wednesday

[minute5072]

I thought that too!

[nightcrawler13]

Did you expect anything more?

[dakyras]

Twas alright but as stated before just felt a lot like action sequence after action sequence, strung together by

short short scenes of bond finding out where he had to go next

[Purple Monkey]

*snip*

Edited November 10, 2008 by Purple Monkey

[windy_miller]

Watched In Bruges last night. Top quality film. The bit on the staircase in the hotel towards the end was very silly.

[t8yman]

Watched In Bruges last night. Top quality film. The bit on the staircase in the hotel towards the end was very silly.

[Steve P]

I watched The Darjeling Limited on saturday. I was really looking forward to it after reading nothing but good reviews when it was released but I thought it was fairly dissapointing. It wasn't dreadful by any means, and there were some funny bits but it just didn't work for me.