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

[Reno]

Absentia. US indie horror film and one of the best in the genre I've seen in a while. It's about a woman who has her husband declared dead 'in absentia' after he disappeared without trace seven years earlier. From that point on it seems like she has disturbing visions of him returning from the dead. All of this is connected to a tunnel nearby the woman's house and something isn't quite right in there, as the woman's sister finds out.

While the low budget shows at times with its modest locations shot on HD video and occasionally shaky acting, this is really well thought through in terms of plot, character development and atmosphere. Starting as a haunted house story, it's one of those horror films that suggests more than it shows, as it moves towards rarely explored Lovecraft style horror. I found this quite creepy and unsettling. Can't wait to see what the writer-director does next.

 

[albionism]

Remake of The Thing...........It were shite.

 

[Voley]

Neds. Half-decent for most of it in a Kes Ken Loach sort of way but one of the daftest fucking endings to a film I've seen in a long while.

 

[TruXta]

I enjoyed Guard Post, though it was basically an attempt of the director to repeat the success of the far superior R-Point

Shit, I've seen one of those, but I can't remember which.

Trailers suggest it was R-Point. Shan't be bothering with Guard Post then. I've got 13 Assassins going on soon, with Inland Empire to come in a day or two.

 

[butchersapron]

Shit, I've seen one of those, but I can't remember which.

Trailers suggest it was R-Point. Shan't be bothering with Guard Post then. I've got 13 Assassins going on soon, with Inland Empire to come in a day or two.

13 assassins is genius. The original is a great lost film as well. Inland empire,first lynch i wasn't keen on but i don't know why.

 

[Reno]

Ti West's new horror film The Innkeepers about two slacker hotel employees who in their boredom try to find the rumoured ghost of their workplace on their last shift before it closes down. It maybe a little short on scares, but still quite likeable do to it's the interplay between the two main characters. Despite the slow pace it manages to be quite suspenseful and like all of West's films it's a stylish and affectionate throwback to 70s/80s horror.

 

[TruXta]

13 assassins is genius. The original is a great lost film as well. Inland empire,first lynch i wasn't keen on but i don't know why.

Original? Right.

Have heard very polarised reports on IE. Therefore quite keen to see for myself, 4-5 years after the fact.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Enron: smartest guys in the room. Interesting to go back and re-watch in light of the financial crisis of the last three odd years.

 

[butchersapron]

Original? Right.

Not sure what this means.

 

[TruXta]

Not sure what this means.

Oh, simply that I wasn't aware this was a remake.

 

[TruXta]

Absentia. US indie horror film and one of the best in the genre I've seen in a while. It's about a woman who has her husband declared dead 'in absentia' after he disappeared without trace seven years earlier. From that point on it seems like she has disturbing visions of him returning from the dead. All of this is connected to a tunnel nearby the woman's house and something isn't quite right in there, as the woman's sister finds out.

While the low budget shows at times with its modest locations shot on HD video and occasionally shaky acting, this is really well thought through in terms of plot, character development and atmosphere. Starting as a haunted house story, it's one of those horror films that suggests more than it shows, as it moves towards rarely explored Lovecraft style horror. I found this quite creepy and unsettling. Can't wait to see what the writer-director does next.

Now this sounds interesting. DLing.

 

[Idris2002]

Ti West's new horror film The Innkeepers about two slacker hotel employees who in their boredom try to find the rumoured ghost of their workplace on their last shift before it closes down. It maybe a little short on scares, but still quite likeable do to it's the interplay between the two main characters. Despite the slow pace it manages to be quite suspenseful and like all off West's films it's a stylish and affectionate throwback to 70s/80s horror.

Let me guess . . . one of these two slackers is a large, talking dog?

 

[DotCommunist]

Chronicle.

Found footage movie about three lads who gain telekinesis and one of them goes all magneto with arrogance and hubris

 

[Part 2]

Who can kill a child - excellent creepy atmospehric Spanish sort of Horror from the mid-70s - don't let the opening put you off...

Very atmospheric and creepy. It reminded me a little of Don't Look Now. It has a similarly powerful sense of place, with an English couple abroad, where it slowly dawns on them that things aren't quite right. Agreed, the title sequence is in really poor taste and could put you off the film before it even starts.

Just watched this. Agreed about the start and the Don't Look Now feel. A proper scary film.

 

[avu9lives]

Vampire's Kiss Great Black comedy starring Nicolas cage. He does over ham it a bit at times but i laughed my arse off when he put the joke shop teeth in his gob.. Recommended!

 

[Reno]

Let me guess . . . one of these two slackers is a large, talking dog?

It has a little bit of a Scooby Doo vibe, but one of the two slackers is a girl, the ghosts turn out to be real and there is no happy end.

 

[october_lost]

Max Manus: Man of War, anti-nazi resistance film about one of Norways most decorrated combatants. Works well as an action and
a thriller. Max and a group of commandos basically go about sabotaging and eluding the gestapo in a cat and mouse routine that lasts the war. Some nice scenery shots, with minimal special effects, but great acting etc..could have done with more character development, and some periphery characters could have been fleshed out, but an otherwise brilliant film.

The Twilight Samurai, basic synopsis, its all about a low-level samurai whose eeking out an existence in pre-Meiji Japan. Having lost his wife, having to cope with raising two children and having a senile mother the guy is stretched to maintain himself. Along the way there is a romantic interest hes at pains to contemplate and there are wider politics he's begrudingly brought into. Seems to relish in the contradictions of the times, looking at the hardships when other films seem to discard this. A real gem of a film.

 

[Part 2]

Adam and Paul.... My Mrs hadn't seen it. I think it was better second time round, it's a good 'laugh one minute cry the next' film.

Crimson Gold....Doesn't have the laugh bits, fairly depressing really.

 

[october_lost]

Crimson Gold....Doesn't have the laugh bits, fairly depressing really.

If this is the Iranian film, I have heard good things...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Some clunky moments, but certainly not as great a travesty as the Watchmen movie was.

Watchmen shits on TLOEG movie and it's still horribly shit.
Watchmen would have only really been good as a TV series, LOEG could have been great but book two would have been even better.
I have just finished century 1969. Mixed feelings.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

If this is the Iranian film, I have heard good things...

I heard good things too but only managed about 20 minutes.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Turtles are better swimmers than expected.

Amazing reviews and a cheap price led me to this.
Starts off great but just peters out into nothing until it just ends. Didn't leave me with fond memories of it.

It did lead me to 'Summer time machine blues' though.
Some guys in a sci-fi club (that never do anything remotely sci-fi) spill coke on their air con controller. A time machine appears, so what do they do? Go back to 'yesterday' to get the remote before it was damaged so that they can fix the air con.

 

[Yetman]

The Weekend, better than expected but still nothing great.

Harold And Kumars Christmas - pretty funny but not as fun as the previous films. Totally milk the 3D thing as well.

 

[krtek a houby]

IP Man. As warned it does have a strong anti-Japanese sentiment to it but aside from that, great choreography. Would like to see Wong Kar Wei's version "The Grandmasters" and see if it's any closer to the true story about Yip Man...

 

[Idris2002]

Watchmen shits on TLOEG movie and it's still horribly shit.
Watchmen would have only really been good as a TV series, LOEG could have been great but book two would have been even better.
I have just finished century 1969. Mixed feelings.

I'd heard that LOEG was a total wash out, you see, but I don't think it inverted the message of the book (such as it is) in the way Watchmen did.

Anyway, last night I watched Alec Guiness keeping his upper lip stiff in The Malta Story:



That's the complete movie there: enjoy. They don't make them like this anymore.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'd heard that LOEG was a total wash out, you see, but I don't think it inverted the message of the book (such as it is).ore.

I think it did rather a lot.
It's a completely different story for a start. It really only takes the idea and executes it in probably the shittest way it could possibly have been done.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Vampire's Kiss Great Black comedy starring Nicolas cage. He does over ham it a bit at times but i laughed my arse off when he put the joke shop teeth in his gob.. Recommended!

Yeah, I like this one.

 

[butchersapron]

 

[no-no]

Max Manus: Man of War, anti-nazi resistance film about one of Norways most decorrated combatants. Works well as an action and
a thriller. Max and a group of commandos basically go about sabotaging and eluding the gestapo in a cat and mouse routine that lasts the war. Some nice scenery shots, with minimal special effects, but great acting etc..could have done with more character development, and some periphery characters could have been fleshed out, but an otherwise brilliant film.

The Twilight Samurai, basic synopsis, its all about a low-level samurai whose eeking out an existence in pre-Meiji Japan. Having lost his wife, having to cope with raising two children and having a senile mother the guy is stretched to maintain himself. Along the way there is a romantic interest hes at pains to contemplate and there are wider politics he's begrudingly brought into. Seems to relish in the contradictions of the times, looking at the hardships when other films seem to discard this. A real gem of a film.

Twilight Samurai is one of my favourite films ever, I can relate as I'm always too skint to go for a drink after work too.

 

[chazegee]

Old boy. Still a corker.