What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)

[DotCommunist]

The Road...Made me sad

It is really melancholy film is it not? There's no hope, no final realisation of salvation just the grim grind of people trying to survive a world wrecked by nuclear holocaust. I don't often cry at films (being made of granite) but I did when Vigo started coughing up teeth. The grimmest vision of the future since Soylent Green imho

 

[Yelkcub]

Watched "The Box" tonight. Entertaining enough up to a point and then got very, very silly. It reminded me of when the really shit aliens finally get seen in 'Signs'!

 

[Part 2]

It is really melancholy film is it not? There's no hope, no final realisation of salvation just the grim grind of people trying to survive a world wrecked by nuclear holocaust. I don't often cry at films (being made of granite) but I did when Vigo started coughing up teeth. The grimmest vision of the future since Soylent Green imho

It was obvious from the start there was little hope of a happy ending, and my mate had already hinted at something upsetting by telling me I'd be in tears if I watched it with my son.

As it was I watched it with the Mrs. Her assessment of the film being "well that was a bit weird", while I was welling up.

 

[Cm7]

Sherlock Holmes -

Rather interesting take on the character. e.g. I liked how he analysed his fighting moves before action.
And I thought the bad guy was Andy Garcia... That Mark Strong looks exactly like him.

 

[kyser_soze]

Watched Bobby - load of crap, got about 50 mins in and both of us decided it was shite.

 

[Voley]

The 25th Hour. Had Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in it. Was directed by Spike Lee. Was still rubbish. Ho hum.

 

[Orang Utan]

i saw black narcissus and it's an incredible film.
it's pretty psychedelic as it was filmed in technicolour on massive soundstages at pinewood, so the himalayan setting is picturesque yet totally unreal.
it's the sauciest PG film i've ever seen - loads of smouldering eyes and absent minded fumbling with wimples.
kathleen byron is brilliant as the mentalest nun.
gonna check out the rest of powell & pressberger's films. i've only seen peeping tom and this.

 

[belboid]

mmm, scrmuptious.



I watched Fish Tank last night. Not quite as bleak as it might have been.

 

[marty21]

mmm, scrmuptious.



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indeed

 

[Orang Utan]

possible spoiler there!

 

[stupid dogbot]

First couple of episodes of The Pacific, in glorious HD.

Dead good.

 

[imposs1904]

Devil In A Blue Dress

Good film. Pity they didn't adapt more of Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlins books.

 

[Badgers]

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Was excellent

 

[rutabowa]

i watched "Afterschool". a bit undecided... it was kind of like a cross between Kids and david lynch, and about as good as that would imply ie kind of good but a bit shallow in the end. i liked the weird dissociated feel of it and the spookiness though.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

De Niro and Pacino, you'd hope that it wasn't shit

Bloody awful with an ending so shit I saw it coming in the first 2 mins of the film. Very very bad!

I saw a Pacino film called 80 minutes or something equally shite recently (can't be bothered to look up title)....that was terrible too.

How do these great actors end up as such pale versions of themselves in films that no one really wants to see....?

 

[DJ Squelch]

Lion Of The Desert (1981) about Omar Mukhtar, the head of a muslim guerilla army fighting against an occupying army of western forces (1920s Italian occupation of Libya). Anthony Quinn & Oliver Reed were good in the lead roles but Oli's strong english accent was a bit off putting when trying to imagine him as italian. Good film though, worth tracking down.

 

[Orang Utan]

i was going for a charlton heston double bill with the omega man and touch of evil but, alas, touch of evil was the wrong region (will it play on my macbook without fucking things up?), so had to settle for heston (the only actor named after two places in london?) in the omega man.
it was much better than expected, mainly cos of the unexpected grooviness of ron 'dr who' granier's score.
one of many adaptations of richard matheson's i am legend, it's certainly better than the will smith effort, though the vampires have inexplicably been downgraded into dead-eyed albinos who are just brainwashed cult members rather than unspeakable supernatural monsters, seemingly with nothing wrong with them beyond bad eyesight and a deathly pallor. the ghouls are organised and have a charismatic leader, like in the book, but they all look so ridiculous (they dress like the killer(s) in the scream movies) any possible menace is dissipated, especially when their leader is the gloriously camp anthony zerbe.
heston is great though. he's a ham but he certainly has presence and only he can get away with looking in a massive screen showing him in his (partial) birthday suit and growling 'hey big brother, how's your ass?'
also notable for being the source of many EBM and techno record samples - 'we can cleanse the world'.
great ending too.

i also watched silent running. now this has an AWFUL score by joan baez that is completely unsuitable. it's crying out for a 'rescore' pref by someone with an enormous collection of vintage synths (OPN?)
at the beginning i was tempted to dimiss it as a load of treehuggin' hippy shit but it's better than that and it asks a lot of questions that are even more prescient now and it has a rather delicious darkside that i didn't notice when i was a kid.
the robots are brilliantly dated (they must have been hard work for the people inside to operate - legless people standing on their hands apparently) and the sets are brilliant, but it's a little quiet and slow moving for this day and age. if they made it now, it would have loads of explosions and evil robots and lasers in it and it would be crap.

 

[Belushi]

I love Charlton Heston, particularly his 70's SF movies.

 

[Orang Utan]

he's in solyent green isn't he?
he's his best when he's bare chested and loudly lamenting mankind's folly.
70s scifi really nailed it when portraying dystopian nightmares.
got logan's run next up!

 

[Belushi]

he's in solyent green isn't he?

Aye, and Planet of the Apes of course (another movie with an awesome soundtrack).

got logan's run next up

Jenny Agutter

 

[Orang Utan]

ben said he was saving logan's run up for later. i think maybe he meant later, in his room, on his own.

 

[100% masahiko]

Time Traveller's Wife - Corny, possibly the worst doomed love story out there.

Death Wish 3 - this says it all. Funny and stupidly .Republican

oh and here's another

 

[DotCommunist]

Soylent Green is fucking ace. It's when Hestons housemate cries at seeing a bit of meat that you go 'wow the future looks shit'

 

[The Octagon]

Death Wish 3 - this says it all. Funny and stupidly .Republican

Is that Deanna Troi in the first clip?

 

[Orang Utan]

Is that Deanna Troi in the first clip?

dunno, she's a psycho prison warden in green street 2 though

 

[100% masahiko]

The Seventh Seal - yeah it's a classic. Bit too serious though - for a Sunday afternoon movie.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

The Road...Made me sad

Cheers for the Takashi Mike recommendations AS

I watched it on saturday and I cried and a film has never made me cry.

 

[marty21]

Defiance

quite enjoyed it, amazing story, wasn't sure about Billy Elliott being a resistance leader though

 

[Badgers]

Breaking Bad.
Series one, episode three.

Going a bit slow with this one but liking it a lot!

 

[sojourner]

Coffee and Cigarettes

After 2 years of denying he had it, I found my copy of this in my dad's house - so watched it again last night, and it's even better than I remembered.

So MUCH to it - the small frames, each one different and loaded with detail, the overhead shots of the coffee and tables, smoke blowing out. Funny, twisted, immensely clever. I fucking love Jim Jarmusch