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

[butchersapron]

Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn's failed attempt to do an Aguirre - he removed it of all the latter's poltivcal edge, instead making it a personal psyche type journey that came off as pompous and self-indulgent. Plus, one of the main characters looked and spoke just like George Galoway which tended to undermine its 'serious' nature for me. I did enjoy it despite knowing it wasn't working.

 

[Sunspots]

Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn's failed attempt to do an Aguirre - he removed it of all the latter's poltivcal edge, instead making it a personal psyche type journey that came off as pompous and self-indulgent. Plus, one of the main characters looked and spoke just like George Galoway which tended to undermine its 'serious' nature for me. I did enjoy it despite knowing it wasn't working.

It is indeed self-indulgent; style over content. And as you say, Aguirre did this kind of story so much better.

That said, I did get quite immersed in this one though.

one of the main characters looked and spoke just like George Galoway

True.

 

[rutabowa]

i watched Suburbia, a punk film from 1983 that someone here suggested, it is now my favourite film ever, i love the monotone wooden acting, it is so serious.

 

[Sunspots]

i watched Suburbia, a punk film from 1983 that someone here suggested, it is now my favourite film ever, i love the monotone wooden acting, it is so serious.

I saw this in the late eighties, probably a rented video. All I can remember now is that Flea's in it.

 

[rutabowa]

yeah he is good, well he is right for the film anyway.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

We watched Moon last night, good film. A little slow in places but at just over an hour and a half it doesn't affect the film overall. Nicely poignant story, with some decent if circumspect social commentary.

Worth watching, especially for those that like both Bladerunner and Silent Running.

 

[DexterTCN]

Moon's actually worth watching twice - because of its nature. Rockwell's turn as J Hammer in Iron Man 2 is a bit lacklustre but you can only work with the tools you're given.

 

[Revolver]

Watched The French Connection for the first time. Liked it alot, good acting and well shot but maybe a little out dated in it's pacing. Mind you, I found myself appreciating some of the slower moments so probably not such a fault on the whole. Heard so much about the film since forever it was always going to be hard to ignore the rep.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Moon's actually worth watching twice - because of its nature. Rockwell's turn as J Hammer in Iron Man 2 is a bit lacklustre but you can only work with the tools you're given.

Twice? Not sure what there was to get a second time tbh, am thinking I might buy it as it sits well within the science fiction lineage I like...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Worth watching, especially for those that like both Bladerunner and Silent Running.

I like Moon, Silent Running. Bladerunner is shite.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bladerunner is not shite. It is a classic of eighties sci fi. And yes I do prefer the version with the v/o

 

[nicksonic]

Bladerunner is not shite. It is a classic of eighties sci fi. And yes I do prefer the version with the v/o

i've recently purchased that, haven't watched it yet.

i did just watch 'damien: omen II'.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

And yes I do prefer the version with the v/o

Jesus wept. What's left for me to make fun of now?

 

[rollinder]

One Foot In The Grave - Dreamland (the one where Margaret does a runner and Victor & the police thinks she's chucked herself in the canal) remembered the dead man's shoes and tramp rejection of the Noel Edmonds jumper scenes plus most of the last half or so & the gossiping to total strangers but no memory of Victor being molested by a PG tips chimp at the village fate.

 

[Dillinger4]

Bladerunner is not shite. It is a classic of eighties sci fi. And yes I do prefer the version with the v/o

bladerunner is shite.

 

[DotCommunist]

No it isn't. It is a visually beautiful examination on the nature of what it means to be human.

Of course, PK Dicks wrote it better even if he had actual robotics rather than organic ones. There is a hauntingly melencholic aside where Deckard thinks he has found a real toad but it turns out to be another robot pet. The film missed that out, the whole doomed thing of people keeping expensive pets or robots to keep in line with some post World War Terminus philosophy.

Also, they should have worked the Penfield Mood Organ in there somewhere. Deckards wife dialing for depression is a great comment on the ennui of middle class suburban stay home wives of that era. Or just PK on an amphy rant. Either way, it is a great idea and should have been in the film.

 

[nicksonic]

daryl hannah also had awesome hair

 

[boskysquelch]

Valhalla Rising....dope!!!111

 

[ramjamclub]

Leningrad 6/10
gives a bit of an insight into the siege on Leningrad WWII

 

[Captain Hurrah]

No it isn't. It is a visually beautiful examination on the nature of what it means to be human.

Of course, PK Dicks wrote it better even if he had actual robotics rather than organic ones. There is a hauntingly melencholic aside where Deckard thinks he has found a real toad but it turns out to be another robot pet. The film missed that out, the whole doomed thing of people keeping expensive pets or robots to keep in line with some post World War Terminus philosophy.

Also, they should have worked the Penfield Mood Organ in there somewhere. Deckards wife dialing for depression is a great comment on the ennui of middle class suburban stay home wives of that era. Or just PK on an amphy rant. Either way, it is a great idea and should have been in the film.

The 'andys' are organic though. The Mood Organ is supposed to help uplift people, but his wife, Iran, decides to turn the dial the other way, and make her already crap emotional state worse. His wife indulging herself in a depression is pretty much why at the start he goes out to catch the rouges, to earn enough money to buy a real animal (instead of say, an electric sheep), because he thinks this gift will help save his marriage.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

No it isn't. It is a visually beautiful examination on the nature of what it means to be human.

Of course, PK Dicks wrote it better even if he had actual robotics rather than organic ones. There is a hauntingly melencholic aside where Deckard thinks he has found a real toad but it turns out to be another robot pet. The film missed that out, the whole doomed thing of people keeping expensive pets or robots to keep in line with some post World War Terminus philosophy.

Also, they should have worked the Penfield Mood Organ in there somewhere. Deckards wife dialing for depression is a great comment on the ennui of middle class suburban stay home wives of that era. Or just PK on an amphy rant. Either way, it is a great idea and should have been in the film.

Yeah, you are just highlighting more reasons that the film is not 'all that' and misses some of the better points.
It's a rather boring film that looks nice enough. I can't stand films that need some sort of voice over to let you know whats going on. I have seen the vo less version once and it was far less irritating but still rather boring.
OK, it's not a terrible film, but I do feel that it has been put on an unwarranted pedestal as a film giant.

I used to have a copy when it first came out on VHS, it had one of those massive plastic molded book style cases.

 

[belboid]

And yes I do prefer the version with the v/o

have you watched it lately? I thought similarly, or at least, I thought that I did really really like the voiceover, until I actually watched it again (as well as the other four versions on the DVD). Good idea, but just too badly done. Ford really obviously doesn't care about it, doesn't think it's well written - as it isn't in a few places - and puts sod all effort in. And that's before we get to the scenes that were cut.

otherwuise, you are right tho, Bladerunner is magnificent, quite possibly the best sci-fi ever made, far better than Moon, which is very enjoyable, but doesn't have the rewatchability or the depth to it.

 

[belboid]

I can't stand films that need some sort of voice over to let you know whats going on.

It doesn't 'need it,' it's goodness (bearing in mind what I say above) is to do with how it fits into the genre playfulness.

 

[punchdrunkme]

Sin Nombre, cracking film. 9/10

Also got loads on the ipod to get stuck into on the train today, win

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I used to have a copy when it first came out on VHS, it had one of those massive plastic molded book style cases.

My old Escape from New York tape is a bit like that.

 

[DotCommunist]

The 'andys' are organic though. The Mood Organ is supposed to help uplift people, but his wife, Iran, decides to turn the dial the other way, and make her already crap emotional state worse. His wife indulging herself in a depression is pretty much why at the start he goes out to catch the rouges, to earn enough money to buy a real animal (instead of say, an electric sheep), because he thinks this gift will help save his marriage.

I'm thinking of the humanoid claws from second nature- theWounded Soldier, The David etc.

Although I could swear in DADOES when deckard shoots an and cogs and wheels come out.

 

[DotCommunist]

have you watched it lately? I thought similarly, or at least, I thought that I did really really like the voiceover, until I actually watched it again (as well as the other four versions on the DVD). Good idea, but just too badly done. Ford really obviously doesn't care about it, doesn't think it's well written - as it isn't in a few places - and puts sod all effort in. And that's before we get to the scenes that were cut.

otherwuise, you are right tho, Bladerunner is magnificent, quite possibly the best sci-fi ever made, far better than Moon, which is very enjoyable, but doesn't have the rewatchability or the depth to it.

Actually, no. They only ever play the d/c on the TV. I might have to get this collectors edition thing.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I'm thinking of the humanoid claws from second nature- theWounded Soldier, The David etc.

Although I could swear in DADOES when deckard shoots an and cogs and wheels come out.

You must be mixed up. An illustration of this is when the competing and sadistic bounty hunter Phil Resch catches up with Deckard and shoots a female under the alias Luba Luft in the stomach with his laser. He dislikes andys and did it to make that particular one feel pain before 'dying.' Deckard puts it out of it's misery. The andys are artificial, but biologically pretty much like humans, not bits of metal and wiring and circuit board hidden under flesh.

 

[nicksonic]

'state of play'. thought it was pretty good.

question - should i watch the bbc series? how similar are they...?

 

[Orang Utan]

i haven't seen the film but it's got russell crowe in it. say no more.