What DVD are you watching lately?
Posted by _Dalida_ on Feb 09, 2009 · Member since Jan 2009 · 966 posts
I have BBC's Persuasion on, but I can't really get into. I've heard thought that BBC's Sense & Sensibility is good. Of course I"ve watched the Ang Lee Emma Thompson version which is superb... I may get it this week to see :P
Just finished watching "Sybil" for the first time in years and I forgot how amazing Sally Field was in that role. That pretty much catapulted her from being some silly TV actress to an award-winning, dramatic actress. Very disturbing and yet touching movie. I highly reccomend it if you haven't seen it yet.
I read that book it was pretty neat.
has anyone watched W? Came out to rent today so i'm thinking of doing that. interesting? boring? i know richard dreyfuss (sp?) plays cheney and that alone interests me, i think he's a very intelligent actor...
anywho... watched Ironman for the 5th time tonight. Robert Downey Jr is awesomely hot in that movie
yup! :)>>>
***potential spoiler alert***
I just saw the Kite Runner-- very bittersweet. I couldn't get over how the boy let his friend (servant's son- later finds out brother) get totally beat up & sodomized by the older boys. He just runs away. I wanted to throw up. Argh. He does nothing until it's almost too late to do anything.
Gah >:(
I just saw the Kite Runner-- very bittersweet. I couldn't get over how the boy let his friend (servant's son- later finds out brother get totally beat up & sodomized by the older boys. He just runs away. I wanted to throw up. Argh. He does nothing until it's almost too late to do anything.
Gah >:(
maybe you should preface a post like that with "potential spoiler" in case someone hasn't seen it. :-[
I just saw the Kite Runner-- very bittersweet. I couldn't get over how the boy let his friend (servant's son- later finds out brother get totally beat up & sodomized by the older boys. He just runs away. I wanted to throw up. Argh. He does nothing until it's almost too late to do anything.
Gah >:(
maybe you should preface a post like that with "potential spoiler" in case someone hasn't seen it. :-[
sorry ok i added the 'spoiler alert' .....i just got pretty worked up over those unresolved issues :(
i also thought maybe everybody had watched it since i had put off seeing it for so long :P
I LOVE anything by/about Jane Austen. Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
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I LOVE anything by/about Jane Austen. Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
;)
Same here! Becoming Jane was a bit :'( though
I LOVE anything by/about Jane Austen. Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
;)
Same here! Becoming Jane was a bit :'( though
Yes, but I LOVE the actress who played her. My current favorite for sure! Also love Amy Adams, and Enchanted. Actually, I'm watching it (sort of) right now. :)
I LOVE anything by/about Jane Austen. Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
;)
Same here! Becoming Jane was a bit :'( though
Yes, but I LOVE the actress who played her. My current favorite for sure! Also love Amy Adams, and Enchanted. Actually, I'm watching it (sort of) right now. :)
I looove Enchanted too! We have the same tastes ;)b
;)b
What DVD are you watching lately?
don't watch television but yes, do occasionally look at a DVD; recently have been rewatching some French films, e.g., "Amélie" ...
~ fr
I LOVE anything by/about Jane Austen. Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
;)b
If you have access online to British TV movies (ITV), I can highly recommend "Lost in Austen." Time warp etc.
I love the line: "Okaaaay...Elisabeth Bennett just lent me her mobile."
I watched the rocker last night. Have to say I loved it... and having been in a band before could relate on many levels.
too funny :>
I watch Sweeney Todd religiously. I used to watch Across the Universe, like, every week. However, it's just not the same after you've listened to the Beatles a lot. (Yes, I was one of those people that just listened to the top 40 pop tunes on the radio and never ventured anywhere else. I was a little bit of a music n00b.)
I also really love Penelope; it's inspired me (not to sound cheesy) to live my life the way I want to, and the sexy Scottish stud James McAvoy is in it and I adore him.
I just finished watching Choke based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It was really good. I love his stuff.
Mamma Mia!! It really refreshed my love of ABBA music! :D
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog! My affection for Joss Whedon's work is coming back....He's amazing for so many reasons.
I hope to be watching the last performance of RENT on DVD soon, as I hope to purchase it tonight. :)
whoops! spoke too soon! the drive on my DVD player burned out & won't play a disc ...
... but hope to replace it really, really soon. stay tuned! LOL!
~ fr
The original 1963 version of The Pink Panther, the first-ever Clouseau film, with a cast of great actors who are now, unfortunately, all dead (except maybe Robert Wagner, I'm not sure about him.) I use it in my English classes because the first 20 min are mostly action and I can pause it and ask questions and they get into it without being intimidated by a lot of talk, and it's funny. And they just came out with a remake of it with (cringe) Steve Martin. Sorry if there are any SM fans out there but I didn't think he was all that funny when I was 15 and he was the new guy. He will never, can never, be Peter Sellers.
And I always wonder: how can you hope to have a good remake of what was a resounding sucess when it first came out? I mean, anyone can improve on a disaster, but how can you hope to improve on something that worked perfectly the first time?
And why do we live in the Age of the Remake? Granted, we've taken the action film about as far as it can go, but what ever happened to scriptwriters? Don't they have original ideas anymore?
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