Movie/film thread: resurrected

Shroomy, I downloaded it as I do all my movies.
Find the old thread called 'torrent download sites' and you'll discover a world of movies and tv series at your fingertips.

Most Hugh Grant movies are all the same but I'm with Eric on this one  . About a Boy was pretty good.

Stupid romance portions aside, Notting Hill was a scream, the British cast anyway- Julia roberts kind of sucked.  Four Weddings and a Funeral was genuinely funny, too.

Yeah, I've probably seen Four Weddings and a Funeral at least a dozen times.  It never gets old.

I recently watched another British funeral-related comedy, Death at a Funeral, which was quite funny, with the guy who plays Wash in Firefly doing a commendably good British accent.

Hot Fuzz is another British movie I can recommend. It was no Shaun of the Dead, but Simon Pegg is funny and it was really well made.

I wanted to see Death at a Funeral before I left the States, but it hadn't come to my dark little corner yet.  How did you get it?

Has anyone followed my advice and checked out "Dead Man's Shoes" or "This is England" yet?

I watched "Dead Man's shoes"...it was rather brutal...

Didn't see either in the DVD market today.

But I enjoyed watching Serenity.  And bonus - the DVD was a good enough copy that it included the extras - including the original soundtrack!!!!

I wanted to see Death at a Funeral before I left the States, but it hadn't come to my dark little corner yet.  How did you get it?

A friend lent me the DVD which he bought somewhere in Dalian...

I've got to find a decent DVD place here.  My primary translator/guide/friend is too young to understand the needs of adults.  Well, most needs anyway. Our taste in films is very different.  Can you explain the torrent thing as easily as you did the avatars?  Most appreciated.

Torrents.

Get and install utorrent.

Browse torrent websites--torrentspy.com, mininova.org for starters--and click on a download link you like.  A very short time later the "torrent" will have downloaded and utorrent will start up to ask if you want to download the "torrent" (the actual content of the torrent, not the whatchacallit, the first thing you downloaded), so tell it yay or nay, and that's when you find out if your internet service provider is or is not set up for that kind of downloading.  (Some of them aren't because webmasters have to have opened a port, or some such thing--utorrent has indicators down on the status bar that'll tell you what's going or not going on.)

Get used to leaving your computer on 24/7.


Strange British Movies

Dead Man's Shoes.  Strange movie.  Watched it a year or so ago.  I recall it felt strange, a little affected, but was compelling.  They didn't quite pull off the conceit, as I recall, but made a pretty good fist of trying.  I recall there was a commentary track or a Making Of doco on the copy I had, and that was interesting.

This is England.  A much better movie.  Real characters.  Genuine menace together with insight and an accomplished story.  Comparable to Romper Stomper, but with more accessible characters.


Ugly men movies?  Try an Oz film called The Boys.

I'm glad you mentioned the characters in This is England.  For my money, that film was amongst the best I've ever seen for depicting *real* characters and friendships.

The bit at the beginning where Shaun first meets the gang hanging out under the bridge, is just spot on, and it makes it seem like they are friends in real life too.

Tyler Perry's "Madea: Family Re-Union".  Very popular here.  Makes some good points, without preaching at you.  Madea, herself, is a HOOT!