What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[Greebo]

The first 3 episodes of Weissensee

 

[DotCommunist]

Ep 3 of Utopia. Some unsettling bits

Thought it was supposed to be a three parter but no...

 

[Yetman]

2/3rds of Absentia. Proper freaked me out it did - best horror I've seen since Let The Right One In. Had to get to bed, will do the last half hour tonight.

Nah its not that scary. It is a bit, but after the initial scary bits (which are a bit stereotypical of horror movies now) it's more subtle and doesn't have you on the edge of your seat or hiding behind a cushion.

I want either properly dark scary, or bonkers funny scary. This tries to be the former, doesn't quite make it but is still a decent enough flick compared to most other horror movies out recently.

Oh I also watched the first two episodes of Game Of Thrones. Not usually my bag but it's choc-full of hot chicks with big tits so I'm going to keep watching it with the wife and pretend I'm actually following the story

 

[sojourner]

Episode 7 of Season 1 of The Wire

The fella's never seen it!! Yay! I get to watch it allll again, with a virgin He fucking LOVES it hehe - annoyingly though, we do have to keep pausing while he discusses a plot point or feels the irrepressible urge to rave over some dialogue.

It's ace - his reaction to the chess scene hehe

 

[butchersapron]

Sitting Target - 1972 film with Oliver Reed and Ian Macshane, used to be talked about as the third part of a british gangster trilogy with Get Carter and Villain as the other two pieces, but seems to have disappeared from popular consciousness over the last few decades. It's a pretty horrible and odd film in all honesty and Reed's attempt at working class cockney is terrible whilst macshane gives off that child-killer vibe that makes wonder how he was ever considered for the part of lovejoy (not to mention him being a fascist bank robber as well). Reed played almost exactly the same role the next year in Revolver but even more thuggishly caveman like (that time on a rampage to save his wife rather than murder her).

 

[Virtual Blue]

5 episodes of Homeland (Season 1) - Nothing really happens...what's the fuss about?

 

[starfish]

It's the longer US cut which used to crop up on ITV. Before he released the film in Europe Kubrick cut quite a few scenes and I think the shorter European version is superior. I always found that shot of the skeletons in the US version a bit tacky, more becoming of a Blackpool ghost train. There are also a lot of scenes of Wendy and Danny watching TV in this version and the extra stuff makes an already long film a little sluggish.

Ah, that would explain it. I downloaded this one.

 

[DexterTCN]

Inglorious Bastards. It was ok, trouble is I've already watched Pulp Fiction and Django this week and they're better.

Music wasn't up to scratch and without warning, near the end, it turned into a fantasy.

I like Inglorious Basterds far better than the other two. The music was great and the end was the whole point.

You're spelling it wrongly.

No matter how fantastic or weird the work of QT, the end of IB is just too weird, what's he doing? We've no idea of who these Jewish guys are, we don't know anything about them, no story-time has been given to them apart from an Italian humour sketch. Kill bill pees on this, as does Pulp fiction. And Django, of course.

imo

 

[zenie]

Ep 3 of Utopia. Some unsettling bits

Thought it was supposed to be a three parter but no...

Is utopia worth watching?

I finished season 5 of weeds today....am gonna go to bed and watch this week's ripper street I think.

 

[DotCommunist]

Is utopia worth watching?

I finished season 5 of weeds today....am gonna go to bed and watch this week's ripper street I think.

yes I recon so, and I don't have a high tolerance for shit.

It's shot in a way that emphasis colours but thats OK. Theres some sharp observations in it as well

 

[belboid]

Frankenweenie.

Which was highly entertaining, the ten minutes when Sparky is first left alone are just fucking hilarious.

 

[Reno]

You're spelling it wrongly.

No matter how fantastic or weird the work of QT, the end of IB is just too weird, what's he doing? We've no idea of who these Jewish guys are, we don't know anything about them, no story-time has been given to them apart from an Italian humour sketch. Kill bill pees on this, as does Pulp fiction. And Django, of course.

imo

Tarantino spelt it wrongly, so don't blame me.

I don't understand why "we" have no idea who these Jewish guys are. The film explains it perfectly well. In any case, the "Basterds" aren't the central characters, Shoshanna Dreyfuss is. The whole film is her revenge story, it just happens to tell that story in different segments from different perspectives,. Structurally I found it far more interesting than the more conventional Django. And as to the end being "weird" that also made perfect sense to me. It's a "fuck you" to all the sanctimonious, reverential Oscar grabbing melodramas about the Holocaust and it is the ultimate Jewish revenge fantasy. Just like with Django it's history seen through the filter of 70s exploitation, but it goes much further and is formally more interesting. And I also found Dreyfuss a far more compelling heroine than Django is a hero.

 

[Orang Utan]

Tarantino spelt it Inglourious Basterds, Reno

 

[Reno]

Tarantino spelt it Inglourious Basterds, Reno

This is where I play the "I'm foreign, I don't know the language" card.

 

[butchersapron]

Holle Hamburg - i am only going to give a plot synopsis for this, should be enough to tell you if its up your street:

The film project "HELL HAMBURG" is about a ship that is abandoned in Hamburg’s harbour by it’s owners, the crew who then find themselves in a desperate situation and a female journalist whose talents are barely recognised by the film company she works for but all the more so by an agent of the secret services.

Within the crew, there is a small group who are members of a mysterious and secretive seafarer’s cult that represents the residuum of the marine section of the Comintern. Several cells of this organisation survived the Comintern’s disintegration in 1942 and have transformed it’s secret codes as well as the communist agitprop using an obsessive trance technique : through a medium, they communicate with the dead souls of the Comintern functionaries and guided by them, they take control of the ship.

 

[DexterTCN]

This is where I play the "I'm foreign, I don't know the language" card.

 

[mattie]

Lovefilm recommended Oldboy, so I gave it a punt.

Very, very peculiar film, but reasonably engaging. Although the missus fell asleep.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

 

[ringo]

Lovefilm recommended Oldboy, so I gave it a punt.

Very, very peculiar film, but reasonably engaging. Although the missus fell asleep.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

I liked it, quite mental

 

[belboid]

Holle Hamburg - i am only going to give a plot synopsis for this, should be enough to tell you if its up your street:

I cant quite decide whether that sounds brilliant or appalling. Think I'll grab it when I get home tho

 

[redsquirrel]

Newsfront - Good piece of work by Phillip Noyce back when he was decent films. Not quite sure the switching between colour and black & white totally works but the performances are good (possible exception of Gerard Kennedy who overplays it a touch IMO), especially Bill Hunter in the lead.

 

[Reno]

Holy Motors, which after not having liked the director's last two films I thought would be self indulgent crap, but it was actually great fun in a completely off the wall way. A man played by Denis Lavant gets driven around Paris in a limousine and whenever he leaves the car, he is required to perform different 'roles' in elaborate disguises for a mysterious agency. It has Kylie in it, giving a surprisingly touching performance and singing a song co-written by Neil Hannon and the limousine driver is played by Edith Scob, best known for playing the masked girl in the 50s French horror classic Eyes Without a Face. It also gets my "weirdest end of the year" award.

 

[DotCommunist]

Breaking Bad series 2- first three episodes. V. Good indeed

 

[Voley]

Holy Motors,

I like the look of that. Mark Kermode gave it a good review on telly last night. He reckoned it shouldn't have worked, but did, too.

 

[belboid]

ParaNorman.

Some very funny moments, but, overall, slightly disappointing so soon after watching Frankenweenie.

 

[butchersapron]

Beyond the Hills - superb film from Christian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days). Haven't got time to say much else beyond that right now (superb 5 minute scene towards the end). Recommended though.

 

[DexterTCN]

Reservoir dogs.

A cult classic. The early blossom, colourful and narrative, of the Tarantino flower.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Snow On Tha Bluff (2011) - docu-drama by Atlanta crack dealer & robber Curtis Snow, supposedly made after he stole some tourists camcorder. Good "hood" film.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Skyfall. Really enjoyable nonsense.

 

[Thimble Queen]

snowtown really grim... rape, murder and abuse... should have watched fluffy kittens instead :/

 

[8115]

The Weatherman. I turned it off before the end, was tired and it wasn't really going anywhere.