What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)
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This weekend I've watched Moon, In The Loop and Star Trek.
Star Trek was...refreshing, actually.
In The Loop...loved it..."F star star cunt!"
Moon is a gem and the best of the three, for me.
Interesting, all 3 are on my soon list, least of all moon to be honest, i'll check them all asap.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Eden Is West, latest Costa-Gavras - picaresque on an illegal immigrant trying to reach Paris/eden/etc. First half was clumsy rubbish, 2nd half very very good. Riccardo Scamarcio played it like Masina playing Chaplin - and the final scene seems to emphasise this, but instead of walking towards the camera laughing and crying like in Nights of Cabiria, he did the opposite and slunk away into the hidden world. Not his best work by any means, but better and more engaged than a whole heap of other films released this year.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Tokyo zombie.
Good first half, then got more than a little dull when it jumped 5 years into the future. The end was back to form but on the whole not a great film. Tadanobu Asano was great, fantastic understated comedy performance. I didn't think I had seem him in anything since ichi the killer but apparently he was the main guy (peeper) in party 7 and a shit load of other stuff, he looks completely different in every film.
Good first half, then got more than a little dull when it jumped 5 years into the future. The end was back to form but on the whole not a great film. Tadanobu Asano was great, fantastic understated comedy performance. I didn't think I had seem him in anything since ichi the killer but apparently he was the main guy (peeper) in party 7 and a shit load of other stuff, he looks completely different in every film.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Solaris; original Russian version. Mesmerising.
AverageJoe
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This weekend I've watched Moon, In The Loop and Star Trek.
Star Trek was...refreshing, actually.
In The Loop...loved it..."F star star cunt!"
Moon is a gem and the best of the three, for me.
I watched Star Trek as well. And made my Mrs watch it too. She doesnt really like 'my kind of films' although she *loved* Heat and Goodfellas, and she enjoyed this too. Fairly romps along and some great set pieces and effects.
Its no brain fun fun fun without getting cloyed in the trekkie sentimentality but at the same time paying it an affectionate wink.
Fedayn
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My brother is an only child
Good enjoyable tale about the political differences between two brothers living through the 'Anni di Piombe/years of lead' in Italy in the 70's. There's still a better film to be made out of this era though.
Maybe the recently released 'Prima Linea' will be part of that?!
Good enjoyable tale about the political differences between two brothers living through the 'Anni di Piombe/years of lead' in Italy in the 70's. There's still a better film to be made out of this era though.
Maybe the recently released 'Prima Linea' will be part of that?!
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Nixon / Frost
Reno
The In Kraut
I watched a (legitmate) screener of Precious. This is an overhyped US indie film about a much abused black, obese teenage girl in 1980s Harlem, NY. Overly simplistic this often feels like an "issue of the week" TV movie. The fantasy sequences the girl escapes to during moments of stress are embarrassing in their obviousness. Among all the fawning, film has been accused of racism by some critics in the US, but I don't think that's the case. Still, it's poverty porn really.
The performances are quite good though, with Mariah Carey surprisingly credible and unglamorous in a small role as the girls social worker. Apparently she took the role when Helen Mirren (of all people), dropped out.
The performances are quite good though, with Mariah Carey surprisingly credible and unglamorous in a small role as the girls social worker. Apparently she took the role when Helen Mirren (of all people), dropped out.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
9 (2009) directed by Shane Acker, not to be confused with Nine (2009)
Quite decent animated sci-fi film, great design & animation but was a bit short at 79m.
Quite decent animated sci-fi film, great design & animation but was a bit short at 79m.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Battlestar Galactica
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
2010 - The Year We Make Contact.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
The film was a massive improvement on the book.
Reno
The In Kraut
The book must have been reeeaaaly bad then.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
watched Anvil: The story of Anvil - silly canadian metalists do silly things 
Severance - I should have taken heed when i saw it has danny dyer in it and turned it off. how we got to the end i don't know!
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226"/]The Untouchables[/url] highly enjoyable and i'm not into american gangster films.
and sleepy hollow which is one of my most watched films.
and seasons 4&5 of house and 1&2 of the inbetweeners
hmm
Severance - I should have taken heed when i saw it has danny dyer in it and turned it off. how we got to the end i don't know!
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226"/]The Untouchables[/url] highly enjoyable and i'm not into american gangster films.
and sleepy hollow which is one of my most watched films.
and seasons 4&5 of house and 1&2 of the inbetweeners
hmm
kittyP
Pluviophile
I quite like that film in a totally stupid kinda way.
We watched Treasure Planet after trawling through the hundreds of films we have and being in to much of a state to make a proper decision.
It was actually quite enjoyable.
I am not a fan of Disney but it was quite different to most of their stuff if you manage to shut your ears to a few terrible songs.
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
I'm watching Wizards by Ralph Bakshi.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Wizards is a classic
I watched Coonskin a few months ago. worth it for Barry White's voice over. I prefer his version of LOTR too.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
was it worse than the death wish movies? michael caine naturally has a high opinion of it, claiming he deserved an oscar cos he cries!
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
people in furry suits today -
Ewoks: The Battle For Endor it had to be finally watched to satisfy the teenage Star Wars fanboy geek in me. Couldn't help thinking I was watching "Peadobear: The Movie" at various points.
Where The Wild Things Are - looked fantastic & the Karen O soundtrack was gorgeous but the plot was just boring I kept nodding off. Shame
Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
it had to be finally watched to satisfy the teenage Star Wars fanboy geek in me. Couldn't help thinking I was watching "Peadobear: The Movie" at various points. Where The Wild Things Are - looked fantastic & the Karen O soundtrack was gorgeous but the plot was just boring I kept nodding off. Shame
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i saw two appalling films recently - world trade center and doghouse - both of them exploitative pieces of trash in extremely poor taste.
the former stars nicolas cage and the latter stars danny dyer.
they are both actors with severely limited talents and tend to appear in very bad movies yet there's something about their screen presence that fascinates me. cage, mainly because of his ludicrous haircuts and his unnerving ability to make a bad movie worse just by pulling a face. dyer does so by essentially playing himself in every film: a repellent cockerknee oaf who's like a cross between big vern and sid the sexist from viz, yet he keeps getting work.
world trade center's a weird film. it doesn't stretch cage's ability too much as all he's really required to do is to grow a moustache and lie paralysed in some rubble for most of the film's running time. he doesn't even have a fancy wig, though the film's most amusing moment is when he's running from the first building falling down to the second building. he looks up in horror at the falling debris as he runs. it's really quite a sight - have you ever tried running whilst looking up? it's almost impossible, yet cage never puts a foot wrong.
the weirdest element of the film is the character of a twitchy ex-marine who decides that the country is at war and goes to help at ground zero, finding cage and partner in the rubble, thus rescuing them. he's portrayed as a near-psychotic hawkish unblinking robozealot single-mindedly doing his bit.it's hard to see the person the character's based on being happy with this portrayal. wiki says that he wasn't happy at all and also that there are a number of distortions of the true events that upset people - one of them was that one of the rescuers inexplicably being changed from a black character to a white character.
doghouse is also in dubious taste but at least it's deliberately so. dyer and his mates ditch their partners (all nagging harridans) for the weekend to cheer up a mate who's just got divorced from some woman who just doesn't understand him. all of them show zero self-awareness and are cheerfully sexist and misogynist (to give things just the thinnest veneer of political correctness, one of them is gay, though he won't let his effeminate boyfriend tag along) . they arrive at a village they're supposed to staying at, only to find it over-run by 'zombirds' who are all out to trap them and kill them. they have some kind of virus or something. all the zombies are dressed like various sexist stereotypes, so there's a dominatrix type, a librarian type, a horsy/hunty posh type, a snippy hairdresser/beautician type, a fat ugly type etc etc. dyer and co take turns calling them slags and fight back with improvised bloke weapons such as footballs and golf clubs, giving these sad-eyed pricks ample opportunities to justifiably mete out violence to women. it would be offensive if it wasn't so outrageously intended to be so. they should have called it slags from hell.
the former stars nicolas cage and the latter stars danny dyer.
they are both actors with severely limited talents and tend to appear in very bad movies yet there's something about their screen presence that fascinates me. cage, mainly because of his ludicrous haircuts and his unnerving ability to make a bad movie worse just by pulling a face. dyer does so by essentially playing himself in every film: a repellent cockerknee oaf who's like a cross between big vern and sid the sexist from viz, yet he keeps getting work.
world trade center's a weird film. it doesn't stretch cage's ability too much as all he's really required to do is to grow a moustache and lie paralysed in some rubble for most of the film's running time. he doesn't even have a fancy wig, though the film's most amusing moment is when he's running from the first building falling down to the second building. he looks up in horror at the falling debris as he runs. it's really quite a sight - have you ever tried running whilst looking up? it's almost impossible, yet cage never puts a foot wrong.
the weirdest element of the film is the character of a twitchy ex-marine who decides that the country is at war and goes to help at ground zero, finding cage and partner in the rubble, thus rescuing them. he's portrayed as a near-psychotic hawkish unblinking robozealot single-mindedly doing his bit.it's hard to see the person the character's based on being happy with this portrayal. wiki says that he wasn't happy at all and also that there are a number of distortions of the true events that upset people - one of them was that one of the rescuers inexplicably being changed from a black character to a white character.
doghouse is also in dubious taste but at least it's deliberately so. dyer and his mates ditch their partners (all nagging harridans) for the weekend to cheer up a mate who's just got divorced from some woman who just doesn't understand him. all of them show zero self-awareness and are cheerfully sexist and misogynist (to give things just the thinnest veneer of political correctness, one of them is gay, though he won't let his effeminate boyfriend tag along) . they arrive at a village they're supposed to staying at, only to find it over-run by 'zombirds' who are all out to trap them and kill them. they have some kind of virus or something. all the zombies are dressed like various sexist stereotypes, so there's a dominatrix type, a librarian type, a horsy/hunty posh type, a snippy hairdresser/beautician type, a fat ugly type etc etc. dyer and co take turns calling them slags and fight back with improvised bloke weapons such as footballs and golf clubs, giving these sad-eyed pricks ample opportunities to justifiably mete out violence to women. it would be offensive if it wasn't so outrageously intended to be so. they should have called it slags from hell.
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
I haven't seen it but I can tell he really loves LOTR!
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