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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Reno
The In Kraut
Full Metal Jacket in my mission to work my way through the Kubrick films I never really got on with. There are some great moments and how they turned Beckton Gas Works into a Vietnamese war zone is very impressive, but I have the same problem with it that I have with many war films, it doesn't tell me anything I don't believe anyway: that war and Vietnam in particular is/was insanity. It's a message which I don't find that interesting because I've always believed it anyway and therefore it doesn't add to my view of the world and the film doesn't say much more. But maybe that's more a problem I have with the genre than the film itself. Though there are war films I love, but they tend to go beyond that message.
Why Vietnam in particular?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A Man for All Seasons.
Interesting to watch having read the Mantel, and its rather different version of Tommy More. Still a bloody good film, striking and intelligent, not as wholly one-sided as I half-recalled. Leo McKern does a good job of not making Cromwell a one-dimensional baddy. TM still comes over as a horrendously supercilious tosser tho. Off with his head.
Just seen there was another film version too, with and by, Charlton Heston. That must have been fucking awful.
Interesting to watch having read the Mantel, and its rather different version of Tommy More. Still a bloody good film, striking and intelligent, not as wholly one-sided as I half-recalled. Leo McKern does a good job of not making Cromwell a one-dimensional baddy. TM still comes over as a horrendously supercilious tosser tho. Off with his head.
Just seen there was another film version too, with and by, Charlton Heston. That must have been fucking awful.
Reno
The In Kraut
On principle all wars are insane, but in the case of Vietnam it was staggering how ineptly the US handeled itself.
Doesn't make it 'insane.' Seems a bit meaningless.
Reno
The In Kraut
Just like the message of the film for me.
I think you should stick to posting about films. You can be good at that. 
Reno
The In Kraut
I think you should stick to posting about films. You can be good at that.
I did.
Ventured out a bit, with 'bad stuff happens.'
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't know why people haven't been talking about this much. I loved it.
Is it just cos Polanski's a nonce?
Reno
The In Kraut
Instead of being pedantic about my choice of words, why don't you give me your educated opnion what you took away from Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now other than a "war is insane" message ?
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't think so. Here a lot of critics who saw the play were snooty about the film because they thought it was inferior. It was much better received in the US and appreciated more as a piece of film-making. I didn't see the play and I rather liked the film. Thought it was very funny.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It is indeed hilarious. Perhaps cos it is obviously a play adaptation, being set entirely in one room. It was a lovely room though and there was plenty to look at and it was filmed really well. As cinematic as you can get for such a restricted location.
Hey, I apologise if I pissed you off, I was genuinely curious. But, we were talking about why you thought the Vietnam war, that is, the actual war outside of the films and the 'messages' they give, was 'insane.' And not just that, particularly insane. I wondered what you meant by that, and to elaborate. Or do you want my educated opinion on the conflict itself, from both sides? Maybe I misinterpreted what you said. The message that war is insane, with the awful outcomes it has, some planned, some unintended, suggests something ahistorical and aberrational about the people who fight them and why. It can't be properly explained. It was just insane and shit.
Reno
The In Kraut
No, I'm not pissed off. Not sure where I was going there myself. I was trying to figure out why, despite amazing individual scenes, the film didn't click with me and why many war films don't. I still haven't quite figured it out, so I'll shut up about Full Metal Jacket till I have.
avu9lives
famous five member
Children of the Damned (1964) Oh yes i remember watchin this on bbc 2 as a nipper (shiver) and its still as good. Brilliant film now the dark nights are drawin in
Only laughed once at the beginning when he makes his owd slapper of a mother walk into the dark tunnel and she ends up in hospital
The rest of it was pure suspense. One of the best scifi movies from the sixty's Imho
Only laughed once at the beginning when he makes his owd slapper of a mother walk into the dark tunnel and she ends up in hospital
The rest of it was pure suspense. One of the best scifi movies from the sixty's Imho
JimW
支那暗杀团
Found it on a torrent site and am on episode three, just got to the factory occupation. Fantastic so far, presume he gets sucked in.
Reno
The In Kraut
Children of the Damned (1964) Oh yes i remember watchin this on bbc 2 as a nipper (shiver) and its still as good. Brilliant film now the dark nights are drawin in
Only laughed once at the beginning when he makes his owd slapper of a mother walk into the dark tunnel and she ends up in hospital
The rest of it was pure suspense. One of the best scifi movies from the sixty's Imho
Have you seen Village of the Damned to which this is a sequel ?
avu9lives
famous five member
A few people mention that its not actually a sequel because no mention is made of the events in the first film, also the kids don't mature really quickly in this one.
I have seen the first one and it seemed pretty similair ta me though.
Reno
The In Kraut
It was the "sequel as remake" approach. In any case it was made by the same studio as a follow up and was cashing in on the success of the first film with a similar theme and title, but with a smaller budget, less famous actors and it was not based on a classic sci-fi novel. Compared to Village I found Children rather lame, but I haven't seen that one in a long times. I prefer my alien children properly evil with glowing eyes and white hair.
Reno
The In Kraut
Last night I watched The Caller, which was a good idea left underdeveloped. Young woman moves into flat and gets phonecalls from a woman from 30 years in the past. She turns out to be rather unhinged and affects the heroines life by changing events in the past and not in a good way. There was too much filler and it felt like a 30 minute Twilight Zone episode stretched out to 90 minutes. Shame, because there was potential there.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the first one had superman in it as well.
if you like comics try Freak Angels- its what happens if the Midwich Cuckoos had grown up. Not directly based on but very heavily influenced by wydhams book
Reno
The In Kraut
That's the extrememly shit 90s remake.
The atmospheric 1960 b&w original stars the suave George Sanders.
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