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

Vanilla Sky. Tom Cruise stole (ok paid for) this film from Alejandro Almenabar who made the original Abre los Ojos . In the Almenabar original Penelope Cruz's character is hypnotic, she is reined in more in the Cruise version to the detriment of the film. The soundtrack is better in the Cruise version (he always gets good music) and a lot of it is visually excellent.

I like both versions a lot.

I don't like Cruise. I do however like him in Vanilla Sky and Tropic Thunder. And Legend and Magnolia. I still don't like him.
 
Toomelah - drama about an aboriginal community told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy. Not bad and some very good performances, especially from the youngsters, but I don't think it's as good a films as the directors previous film Beneath Clouds.
 
Huge: If you're going to make a film about stand-up comedians it might be an idea to make it in some way funny. A terrible film with Noel Clarke horribly miscast as the zany half of a comedy double act.
 
Last night we watched

The Talented Mr Ripley followed by 8 Mile then finished off with Die Hard.

Today we have just watched The Goonies.

We are very high brow in this house.
 
Orang Utan said:
And? :mad:
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I read and enjoyed Kaui Hart Hemmings novel a few months back, so I was initially a wee bit wary of some of the casting for the film but I think Clooney nailed the role and I understand why the film got the positive reviews that it did.

What with the adapted screenplay being by Alexander Payne and Jim Rash I was expecting the film to be more laugh out loud funny but the humour is more restrained which, I guess, is in keeping with the subject matter of the film and book.

The real star of the film is the Hawaiian Islands. Beautiful scenery. That's the end of my Claudia Winkelman impersonation.
 
Ripleys Game ~ Ray Winston & John Malcovich.... terrific stuff, except for the end which was rather pants.
 
imposs1904 said:
I read and enjoyed Kaui Hart Hemmings novel a few months back, so I was initially a wee bit wary of some of the casting for the film but I think Clooney nailed the role and I understand why the film got the positive reviews that it did.

What with the adapted screenplay being by Alexander Payne and Jim Rash I was expecting the film to be more laugh out loud funny but the humour is more restrained which, I guess, is in keeping with the subject matter of the film and book.

The real star of the film is the Hawaiian Islands. Beautiful scenery. That's the end of my Claudia Winkelman impersonation.
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Cheers.
Can't believe Jim Rash co-wrote it!
I only know him from playing the Dean in Community!
 
Idris2002 said:
Where did it all go wrong, eh Lusty?

Forgot to mention that the other night I watched Easy Rider.

Very much of its time, but bar the graveyard scene (which is just embarassing) it actually does stand up 45 years on. You know things are bad when Dennis Hopper is the sane and plausible voice of reason, though.

Also, it's always interesting to see what Jack Nicholson could do before he became a caricature of himself.

The real star of the movie, though, is America. It would actually make you want to get on a bike and ride through the deserts and canyons. . .
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Didn't they actually trip for the graveyard scene?
 
Watched The Cabin in the Woods - different take on the 5 chums go to a desolate place in the woods. Some nice twists, not a bad watch - corny in places but enjoyable. Can't really say more about it without spoiling it.
 
Detachment,
Tony Kaye (American History X)

Acting's good, films pretty good - it just could have been better, doesn't quite live up to what it is trying to deliver. Daft stuff spoils what would have been a good film, chalkboard animations etc.

Sounds like the film changed a fair bit from what it was supposed to be

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...he-fly-improvising-in-detachment#.T_9L_3BAn-k

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-...lationship-with-detachment-director-tony-kaye



renegadechicken said:
Watched The Cabin in the Woods - different take on the 5 chums go to a desolate place in the woods. Some nice twists, not a bad watch - corny in places but enjoyable. Can't really say more about it without spoiling it.
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I enjoyed it.
 
Watched Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood film, he's a very impressive director in many ways. Hilary Swank nails her part.
 
watched The Avengers...meh preferred the separate movies of thor/ironman but not capt america(didnt watch and wont watch). Was drivel apart from the iron man i love the character Robert Downey plays..the hulks part appeared very much an 'add on' and at no point was it explained how he became a good guy after trying to kill everyone. I disliked it so much its now deleted from the hard drive.
 
renegadechicken said:
watched The Avengers...meh preferred the separate movies of thor/ironman but not capt america(didnt watch and wont watch). Was drivel apart from the iron man i love the character Robert Downey plays..the hulks part appeared very much an 'add on' and at no point was it explained how he became a good guy after trying to kill everyone. I disliked it so much its now deleted from the hard drive.
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I enjoyed it but thought it very overrated – the first Iron Man film is still my favourite Marvel adaptation with maybe Blade a close second.
 
A Clockwork Orange. I'd never seen the entire film, because I don't really like it that much. But I went to see a Stanley Kubrick exhibition in Amsterdam over the weekend which got me in the mood to watch the films of his I'd always had problems with. I liked it better this time thanks to the outrageous 70s costumes and art direction, but it's still not one of my favourites of his.

The other two I'll give another try will be Full Metal Jacket (never seen it at all) and Eyes Wide Shut (only made it through half the film)
 
Reno said:
A Clockwork Orange. I'd never seen the entire film, because I don't really like it that much. But I went to see a Stanley Kubrick exhibition in Amsterdam over the weekend which got me in the mood to watch the films of his I'd always had problems with. I liked it better this time thanks to the outrageous 70s costumes and art direction, but it's still not one of my favourites of his.
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Given its homage (to put it politely) to ACO, I'm interested in your opinion of The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael. I found it pretty powerful...

...in the way it slowly built up through all this tedious, mundane stuff to that climax, and just leaves you hanging at the end, a guilty voyeur.

I'd already heard about the plot, seen stills, read about the shitstorm it caused, seen a ropey 3rd or 4th generation 'blizzards in Lapland'-style VHS of A Clockwork Orange before finally viewing it 'properly'; by which time any power it had was lost on me. Whereas Ecstasy came to me without any preconceptions or expectations (I didn't know anything about it, except it was set in a dreary seaside town), and seems to be heading more for 'examine evil acts and you'll find banality' territory, a modestly-aimed destination to which I think it succeeds in delivering its audience.
 
DaveCinzano said:
Given its homage (to put it politely) to ACO, I'm interested in your opinion of The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael. I found it pretty powerful...
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I read reviews when it came out and what I read didn't grab me, so I haven't seen it. Isn't it just provocation for the sake of it ? Is there any more to it than mere provocation, because A Clockwork Orange at last is a satire which first of all deals with free will. Isn't the whole 'implicating the viewer as a voyer' and 'banality of evil' thing on it's own a bit of an old hat and always in risk of becoming exploitative ? Hitchcock has dealt with that for his entire career.
 
Reno said:
I read reviews when it came out and what I read didn't grab me, so I haven't seen it. Isn't it just provocation for the sake of it ? Is there any more to it than mere provocation, because A Clockwork Orange at last is a garish satire which first of all deals with free will. Isn't the whole 'implicating the viewer as a voyer' and 'banality of evil' thing on it's own a bit of an old hat and always in risk of becoming exploitative ? Hitchcock has dealt with that for his entire career.
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True, but it's not like every film is going to be about a topic that's never been dealt with before. It certainly got a visceral reaction from me as a viewer, and stayed in my mind. I felt it was more than competently constructed from meagre materials.
 
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