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The Weekend Entertainment

10:14 / 11.03.02

So what did you watch over the weekend, did you enjoy it?

This weekend I watched -

An American Werewolf in London - bought it on DVD, Tottenham Court Roads never looked so scary

Battle Royale - Not as shocking as I expected, it was ok didn't really feel anything for the characters, well maybe the computer nerds

Moulin Rouge - Really enjoyed it, got totally hooked in the first 20 mins (possibly due to stonage) story wasn't brilliant but it looked great

Downloaded - Buffy 6x01 Bargaining - it was alright just wish I had the whole series, is anyone in London taping it from Sky? and the musical episode which helped my Sunday moring hangover

24 - Has anyone been watching this, only been 2 episodes (hours) so far but its pretty damn good, feeel the tension..

And been playing Metal Gear Solid 2 - anyone completed it - I got the the last boss but had to take it back to Blockbuster (before I smashed the controller)

Anyone else, thoughts on the above (please this is probably the longest post I've written on Barbelith, maybe because I wont be around for awhile

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10:29 / 11.03.02

i had the ultra rare opportunity to actually see tv on saturday night, and i watched 'wonderland'. which was good, but incredibly depressing - just after i'd spent much time telling a dear friend how beautiful life could be, i saw this and felt it *was* pointless after all! it featured some excellent music by michael nyman.

<off topic - where you going then, bear?>

10:39 / 11.03.02

I'm going back home for awhile SFD (back tae the Highlands) - bit worried, not sure how the locals will take to my new hair, I've got a feeling I maybe put in stocks infront of the church to a warning to youngsters about leaving home and living in London

10:45 / 11.03.02

Did anyone else watch that one-off drama on BBC1, Saturday night (9-10ish) about demons and stuff? There was a bit where this guy is rattling off a list of different names for the Devil, and I SWEAR that the last name used was BARBELITH. Someone confirm this, please.

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Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

10:48 / 11.03.02

Most of my entertainment last weekend was provided by the lovely Peaches, but I did see "Smallville". Lex and Clark love each other *very* much.

10:55 / 11.03.02

Your not going to give that up are you, I saw a little bit of it, so I guess he got his powers back then, did he kill the guy that he got swapped with?

The Natural Way

11:02 / 11.03.02

I have mates who're taping Buffy in Brighton. I've been thinking about nicking the tapes and copying them at work (I work on Wardour St)... I could probably knock you up some copies too. Have to wait a week, though.

Saw Ocean's Eleven on Sunday and it was average. Soderbergh(sp?)'s a bit of a one trick pony. All his films are brown and feature David Holmes on the soundtrack. Twas okay, but didn't really give a shit.

Looking forward to Royal Tenenbaums on Friday. Oh, yes.

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11:43 / 11.03.02

I saw 24. Absolutely brilliant entertainment. Take a real-time Tv series and set it in Action Movie world, requiring your belief to be suspended so high it is practically orbiting the Earth. The bit where Kief cut the guy's finger off... I don't know why I love this, but I do.
And most Steven Soderburgh films have Cliff Martinez soundtracks.

11:46 / 11.03.02

Yeah the bit with the finger ! I thought he was going to take out a little finger print kit !
And the stuff with his daughter is getting pretty damn scary, not sure what's going to happen there - that guy with the crowbar !

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:23 / 11.03.02

Re the naff Strange, it's not Barbelith, but something similar, same number of vowels. Despite the quite nice male lead it was a rather ropy load of toss with the cliched 'hissing black cat' and 'mute 'Special' character with rather useless psychic powers'.

13:28 / 11.03.02

Saw 'videodrome'. Debbie Fucking Harry.

16:43 / 11.03.02

Recouperated from a Absinth binge with a big bowl of BC bud and a copy of CHEECH AND CHONGS NEXT MOVIE.

Followed that with SIX STRING SAMURAI -- which left a bad taste in my mouth.

The next day it was a hit of DMT chased with -- of all things -- FERN GULLY.

Gawd, sometimes I really do miss having cable.

17:13 / 11.03.02

quote:Originally posted by invix:
Saw 'videodrome'. Debbie Fucking Harry.

You saw me? I didn't see you....
"What's in the box?"
"Your head. <laughs> Your heads in the box."

Anyway.

Saw Donnie Darko this weekend. Fucking awesome. Little light towards the end, and there's a few problems with it, but overall it rocked and is recommended to everyone.

Also watched Titus again, which I liked the first time and loved this time around.

More of my self-linked throughts on Donnie Darko.

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17:50 / 11.03.02

Not 'videodrome', 'videodrome'.

Yeah, I really liked 'donnie darko', too. Any movie that opens w/ 'the killing moon' is allright in my book. Comes out on DVD next week, so it can officially assume its status as a cult film. Definitely worth checking out.

Matthew Fluxington

18:26 / 11.03.02

I watched the second half of "Live And Let Die" with my little brother, who has been watching every James Bond film in order as ABC airs them on Saturday nights. I'm fairly certain that this was one of the worst films that I've ever seen, my brother and I were just laughing at it the whole time.

Um...slow, rather uneventful boat chase through the Louisianna bayou...a spastic, over-the-top caricature of a good ol' boy southern sheriff...a guy with a none-too-menacing clamp claw...voodoo cults...a slow descent into a sharktank...a villain who pops like a baloon when he dies...a quasi-braindead tarot card reading love interest... It was horrid.

18:33 / 11.03.02

Never understood the draw of the whole 007 franchise, but then I grew up w/ the Roger Moore movies. Thought 'moonraker' was cool, but I was like 5 when I saw it.

'Alias', now that's a good spy show...

19:23 / 11.03.02

I also watches C.S.I - anyone seen it? got rave reviews and all, its alright, kinda like Quincy with more tricks

19:50 / 11.03.02

i'm fucking desperate to see Donnie Darko. i guess you guys live in USA. don't think its made it to England.

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:26 / 12.03.02

Apparently, Donnie Darko is due to be released on DVD in the UK soon. Don't have the date to hand, but I got the info from the people who made it...

09:56 / 12.03.02

Actually, 08, Donnie never got much of a release here in the states. I saw it at a small art/rep house where it ran for three days. They've showed it there before, but only on one or two other dates. It neve had a wide release - probably played only in the major cities. A shame, because it's so much better than most of what was out last year.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

09:56 / 12.03.02

Treated myself last night to generic sci-fi arsefest Andromeda.

Dylan and Tyr love each other very much.

09:56 / 12.03.02

I missed it apart from the last two minutes but I was rather delighted to note in the closing credits that the theme was "by Alex Lifeson of Rush". I shall be watching next week, oh yes.

13:24 / 12.03.02

quote:Originally posted by invix:
'Alias', now that's a good spy show...

Funny that you mention it. I had my first exposure to this show on the weekend. I had been avoiding all the current crop of Secret Agent shows because they all seemed so dark and involved. Alias was on right after a reshowing of the Degrassi premiere and the ad for it promised prophecies (shades of Millennium!) so I stuck around to see how it would play out.

It's funny that you would compare it to the Bond Franchise. The reason I enjoyed Alias is because it reminds me of the spy shows of the sixties. "I'm breaking into the Vatican. Tonight. Are you in?" And Roger Moore was delightful, for a change.

I really enjoyed the aforementioned Degrassi movie. I'm especially glad that they snuck in a Wheels appearance and a mention of the Zit Remedy.

The night before that, I had been pinning my hopes on Saturday Night at the Movies to deliver something good, like a Cary Grant/Alfred Hitchcock double bill. That didn't happen, but Off Beat Cinema showed Teenagers from Outer Space, one of my new favourite movies. The story behind that film is almost as interesting as the movie itself. Betrayal, lust, broken dreams, disappearance and discovery, coming out and Jesus Freaks.

To top it off, I bought a copy of Charade, since the stores here in Northern Ontario are no good. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Paris. Sigh.