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

[Reno]

Well, yeah, spose, sort of....it's not a interplanetary communication/travel film at its core though. I was hoping for more sci-fi, less emotion.

I thought the central idea was lovely and the shots of the other earth hanging in the sky were beautiful, but the film wasn't that well executed and it was a little dull in places. I got thatv the lead actresss was trying for "traumatised" but she seemed to sleepwalk through the film.

This 60s film has a similar concept and is more sci-fi, with rockets and stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelgänger_(1969_film)

 

[Prince Bert]

I though Eva Green was great in this.

Nope. She was alright in any scene that wasn't based around them trying to outwit each other. The scene on the train in particular expose them both for not having the acting ability. It would have been great dialogue for different actors, but they didn't seem to do it justice. Watch it yourself again and tell me if it's convincing. I don't think so. She should really have got her baps out.

 

[Reno]

She should really have got her baps out.

Obviously you are a true connoisseur of the art of acting.

 

[jeff_leigh]

71 Into the fire - Korean movie about a bunch of South Korean rookie recruits defending a college in an Alamo type scenario against a much bigger force of invading North Koreans.

 

[The39thStep]

Wild Bill...

Charlie Creed-Miles (the copper from Harry Brown) plays Bill a guy out on parole who finds his kids have been left by their mother to fend for themselves. After one of the kids gets in trouble he has to make the decision between being a good father (and risk going back into prison) or running away from his past.

Really enjoyed it, showed quite well what routes people can take when faced with poverty

yes enjoyed it, had some real insight amongst the feel good stuff.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Burn After Reading. Very enjoyable.

 

[Yetman]

This 60s film has a similar concept and is more sci-fi, with rockets and stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelgänger_(1969_film)

Ah cool, didnt realise it was a remake, ta

Just watched Hereafter with the lass. Meh.

 

[Reno]

Ah cool, didnt realise it was a remake, ta

Just watched Hereafter with the lass. Meh.

It's not a remake, it's just that the premise happens to be similar.

 

[avu9lives]

Battleship )2012) well what can i say hooper the trooper and his cheesy balls comes through in the end kinda film. Loved the rotatin oreo biscuits!! Rhianna certainly looks the bees knees when shes got water runnin down her face!

Best pothead movie of the year fer me. .,/.spent the last 15 mins laughin me head offfffff

 

[Prince Bert]

Con Air. Quite a good plot and some decent characters although a lot of it seemed cliché, especially the FBI agents freaking out and being aggressive. It was surprising how they made the all-American hero thing work at the end despite the fact it was corny at some points. Definitely some comedy value when Cage saves the bunny from falling down the drain at the end.

 

[Orang Utan]

Battleship )2012) well what can i say hooper the trooper and his cheesy balls comes through in the end kinda film. Loved the rotatin oreo biscuits!! Rhianna certainly looks the bees knees when shes got water runnin down her face!

Best pothead movie of the year fer me. .,/.spent the last 15 mins laughin me head offfffff

I saw that last night.
So silly.
After seeing his brother's boat get blown to smithereens, killing hundreds, he exclaims 'I've got a bad feeling about this!'

 

[Firky]

Burn After Reading. Very enjoyable.

It is. Even if it is essentially Fargo repackaged.


Going to watch this in a bit: Indonesia's most successful film. Ever!

 

[DexterTCN]

It's meant to be fucking awesome.

 

[Part 2]

Xiao Xiao the movie

 

[Reno]

The Straw Dogs remake. Not as bad as it could have been, but still thoroughly unnecessary. Mind, I never really cared for the original.

[REC]3. Really disappointing after the excellent first film and the not bad follow up. It abandons the "found footage" conceit 20 minutes in and goes for an early Peter Jackson style zombie comedy vibe, which unfortunately isn't scary or funny in this case. The third and the fourth film have been solo-directed by the co-directors of the first two films and hopefully the last one will have been made by the more talented of the two.

 

[DaveCinzano]

71 Into the fire - Korean movie about a bunch of South Korean rookie recruits defending a college in an Alamo type scenario against a much bigger force of invading North Koreans.

Sounds like it's worth taking for a spin, ta.

 

[The39thStep]

Walking Dead season 1 - Wasn't sure I would like this but my son keeps telling me to watch it. Saw first two episodes during the week and decided that I would finish off watching the rest before going away. Really enjoyed it , its got quite a poignant pace to it , good characters ( apart from the sheriffs wife who is quite frankly annoying) , a decent plot and the filming is excellent.

 

[The39thStep]

Burn After Reading. Very enjoyable.

It's ok but I actually think its one of the more average Coen Bros films

 

[Captain Hurrah]

The ending was a little rushed, I felt.

'the security of your ... shit.'

 

[DotCommunist]

Walking Dead season 1 - Wasn't sure I would like this but my son keeps telling me to watch it. Saw first two episodes during the week and decided that I would finish off watching the rest before going away. Really enjoyed it , its got quite a poignant pace to it , good characters ( apart from the sheriffs wife who is quite frankly annoying) , a decent plot and the filming is excellent.

I"ve found Walking Dead to be both frustrating and strangely compelling. I dislike almost all of the characters and can only wonder at some of the idiocies. And yet, keep returning. Season two does see an improvement in the collective IQ, but still. When raiding a nest of cars for suplies 'I don't like this, feels like robbing a graveyard'

yeah. The whole world is a graveyard, your utterly fucked and have seen the worst of horrors but you get antsy going through dead peoples dashboards? come on.



Also the sherrifs son is a dick. Props to the man with the crossbow tho

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Lockout. Escape from New York in space. It was ... okay. The hero, Guy Pearce's Snow, takes the place of Snake Plissken, but he's not as good with the deadpan one-liners, although his acting is better than most of the others.

 

[DotCommunist]

Lockout. Escape from New York in space. It was ... okay. The hero, Guy Pearce's Snow, takes the place of Snake Plissken, but he's not as good with the deadpan one-liners, although his acting was better than most of the others.

Watched that a week back. It should, by its on paper ingredients, be a total winner. But it was not. I found the main problem to be Pearce also, his offhand stuff didn't really work and rapey eli from emmerdale/misfits didn't work either. It passed muster in that I kept watching till the end but was strangely disappointing. Really could have done with some more extreme violence to spice it up. Or a better script. I don't know I'm not a critic, but there was something missing.

A decent explosive decompression scene would have done it. Like in that connery vehicle where he is a detective on some space industry.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I didn't find Pearce to be a major problem, his acting was better than the other characters, just his jokes weren't up to much. The opening scene where he gets punched in the face after every wisecrack. He didn't do it as well as Russell. 'President of what?' Got to work with what you've got I suppose. The younger brother of the main bad guy was annoying. The sets and special effects were quite impressive, though.

You mean Connery in Outland? Where the High Noon showdown takes place at a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io.

 

[Reno]

I thought Guy Pearce was hilarious, he made the film for me. I agree that it could have been more violent, but otherwise it was a nice throwback to 80s low budget sci-fi. I thought it was a hell of a lot more fun than most of the overhyped blockbuster of this year.

 

[TruXta]

Just finished Kaurismaki's latest, Le Havre. It's been years and years since I last saw one of his. This one was beautiful. Such a pleasure watching a director care about the images he makes and the people that make up his universe.

 

[starfish]

Isolation. Experiments on cows on an Irish farm go very wrong. A bit of a mix of Alien & The Thing.

Nude Nuns with Big Guns. Drug dealing priests & bikers. An abused nun goes on a revenge rampage. Although it was mostly just 1 nun with the guns, there was, however, a lot of nudity. I dont think ive ever seen someone have their dick shot off then pick it up & wave it at the people who just shot it off.

 

[belboid]

Wake Wood.

The first film from the reborn Hammer Studios. A good story, some strong moments of script, but let down appalingly by production values that would have embarasssed the team on the Hammer House of Horror. Worth a watch on a saturday night if there's nothing better on.

 

[Firky]

Utterly daft and didn't make any sense, extremely violent and graphic.

Cool it is certainly is but it's not a good film, I kept wondering if it had turned into a zombie slasher / shooter in places.

I enjoyed it but watched it in two halves which kind of tells you what it's like

 

[DexterTCN]

Watched Woochi. A reasonably cool and funny film about a korean wizard who comes to the 21st century. That doesn't really describe it though.

It's also on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear....1.1.0.78.321.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.YXwTVd-_WKQ

 

[redsquirrel]

Le Boucher - One of Chabrol's most highly regarded films, and easy to see why. Some fantastic scenes and excellent performances from the two leads.