What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Docu on Josephine Baker - fascinating, I had no idea she had worked with the French Resistance
Bellville Rendez-vous - love this film to bits, every time I watch it I see something new
The Producers - another favourite, hadn't watched it for ages so many lols were had. Nathan Lane is a genius
Mr Bean's Holiday - not as good as the first one but perfectly enjoyable. Some great laugh out loud moments
Bellville Rendez-vous - love this film to bits, every time I watch it I see something new
The Producers - another favourite, hadn't watched it for ages so many lols were had. Nathan Lane is a genius
Mr Bean's Holiday - not as good as the first one but perfectly enjoyable. Some great laugh out loud moments
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
It's got a kick ass sound track as well
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter - pants, and since when did silver bullets kill vampires huh? All that kept going through my head was the Tom Petty song Rebels and me thinking Tom Petty had to be a vampire.
Smiley - again absolute tosh - no LULZ anywhere in sight
Lovely Molly - Not bad, a bit convoluted at times but an ok watch.
Safety not guaranteed - a pretty enjoyable sunday afternoon film - no brains needed to watch it, which made it perfect for this afternoon.
Smiley - again absolute tosh - no LULZ anywhere in sight
Lovely Molly - Not bad, a bit convoluted at times but an ok watch.
Safety not guaranteed - a pretty enjoyable sunday afternoon film - no brains needed to watch it, which made it perfect for this afternoon.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
The Avengers (the marvel film)
Overrated.
Overrated.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Snow White and The Huntsman - Pretty good if you like this sort of thing. Birds film obviously but good effects (how did they get all the full sized actors to play the dwarves?!) and sticks to the story of the fairytale (iirc) quite closely.
Prometheus - yes, lots of questions, but I hope they'll be answered in future sequels. Still very good. Is that the dude out of Pete vs Life as well?
Prometheus - yes, lots of questions, but I hope they'll be answered in future sequels. Still very good. Is that the dude out of Pete vs Life as well?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
El sueño del mono loco (Twisted Obsession) - an intriguing but not very well made psycho drama about a scriptwriter, drugs, n incest. Okay for a sunday afternoon
The Hunger Games - rather better. Clearly derivative of half a dozen other films and stories, but very well done, Jennifer Lawrence iin particular is great. Was the Capitol city meant to look incredibly cheesy, or was that just a shortage of funds? I think it might have been the old Caprica set.
The Hunger Games - rather better. Clearly derivative of half a dozen other films and stories, but very well done, Jennifer Lawrence iin particular is great. Was the Capitol city meant to look incredibly cheesy, or was that just a shortage of funds? I think it might have been the old Caprica set.
Reno
The In Kraut
The film had some of the worst art direction I've seen in a major Hollywood film in a while. It looked really cheap. As Looper showed, a talented director can make a smallish budget stretch far and that films had less than half of the budget of The Hunger Games.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
The expendables.
Really? Someone thought that was worthwhile of everyones time. What a load of gash.
Really? Someone thought that was worthwhile of everyones time. What a load of gash.
blossie33
trailer trash
Expendables 2 has a better storyline than the first one.
Not normally my sort of films but I find them quite entertaining, you just have to accept them for what they are, I think they are meant to be a bit tongue in cheek.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Expendables had all the ingredients to be a great sort of pastiche/comedy of 80s action films, but sly wrote the script.
I caught episode 1 of series two 'Hell on Wheels'
so-so. hoping it picks up soon and I must have missed something cos Bohannons gone bandit
I caught episode 1 of series two 'Hell on Wheels'
so-so. hoping it picks up soon and I must have missed something cos Bohannons gone bandit
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Martha Marcy May Marlene - insidiously, deeply, truly creepy (but also brilliant) film about a recent cult escapee ... if that's really what she is. Really, really good. A a little bit mannered in its arthousy style at times (it very deliberately holds back on doling out information or explanation for any of the questions you'll be itching to ask, the structure's complex and none of the characters are particularly engaging.) But brilliant, all the same. seriously unsettling and haunting. Elizebeth Olson (for it is she!) gives a really remarkable performance and has an amazing face for this sort of thing ... like Maggie Gyllenhall she can look like a moonfaced teenager one moment, and then a luminous Renaissance beauty the next.
Bel Ami ... a steaming pile of overboiled europudding which despite having plenty of money to throw around and a respectable cast (uma thurman, christina ricci, kristen scott thomas alone should make a good movie, with or without the presence of Robert Pattinson as a central male), just never ever catches fire and gets going. Thurman looks really odd (surgery?) and acts very badly in this, although the script's so flimsy and the other direction so hamhanded it might not even be her fault. Also, this movie is sexist as all get-out ... I can accept it might be difficult to tell the tale of a remorseless gigolo who climbs his way up 19th-century Paris via a series of rich women's beds, but it's hard to distinguish the film's misogyny from its hero's. The actresses deserved better, never mind the audience. Don't bother with this one.
Bel Ami ... a steaming pile of overboiled europudding which despite having plenty of money to throw around and a respectable cast (uma thurman, christina ricci, kristen scott thomas alone should make a good movie, with or without the presence of Robert Pattinson as a central male), just never ever catches fire and gets going. Thurman looks really odd (surgery?) and acts very badly in this, although the script's so flimsy and the other direction so hamhanded it might not even be her fault. Also, this movie is sexist as all get-out ... I can accept it might be difficult to tell the tale of a remorseless gigolo who climbs his way up 19th-century Paris via a series of rich women's beds, but it's hard to distinguish the film's misogyny from its hero's. The actresses deserved better, never mind the audience. Don't bother with this one.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
It really wasn't my choice whatsoever. My phd educated girlfriend loves that kind of stuff. I on the other hand, left school with no qualifications, my favourite film is wim wender's wings of desire.
It was bad, so bad, tongue in cheek regardless.
Dr Nookie
Well-Known Member
Irreversible with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. No doubt it's been discussed here before, but yeah, found the rape scene hard to watch. That aside, I thought the concept of telling the film backwards (starts at the climax, then shows each scene leading up to it in reverse order) an interesting one that could have worked so brilliantly but thought it was a bit of wasted opportunity actually and not all that well executed. Still, it was kind of 'entertaining' if that's the right word in its own way.
And of course, the gorgeous Mr Cassel was very easy on the eye as always!
And of course, the gorgeous Mr Cassel was very easy on the eye as always!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Just finished the Romanzo Criminale series. Great first series, totally lost the 2nd.
Compared to the wire or that it's antediluvian.
Compared to the wire or that it's antediluvian.
Zac Stardust
Casual Observer
The Incident a.k.a Asylum Blackout. Actually a very good film. A horror film that subverts common cliches, the characters are not thick and react 'fairly' realistically to the situation. Some brutal moments, verrrrrry tense at points. Weird ending too, not sure if I need to watch it again to understand the last 5 or so minutes.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Moonrise Kingdom. What can you say? It's a Wes Anderson film and it does what Wes Anderson films do. Beautifully shot, great performances from the kids, quite charming....and so fucking what? Probly should have just turned it off, wasn't in the mood for such twee nonsense.
The Descendants - beautifully shot, marvellously acted, load of middle class wank. Dodges the interesting questions and goes straight for the mawk. Yawn.
The Descendants - beautifully shot, marvellously acted, load of middle class wank. Dodges the interesting questions and goes straight for the mawk. Yawn.
Reno
The In Kraut
The Danish thriller Headhunters. It's watchable enough, but it also thinks it's a lot more clever than it is. It's one of those twisty thrillers where characters seem to able to exactly calculate how their opponents will react for them to outsmart each other or set traps. There is not much more to it than plot mechanics and by the end I found it rather annoying. Overrated.
Also the Norwegian slasher sequel Cold Prey 2. One of the few horror sequels far superior to the (not bad) original.
Also the Norwegian slasher sequel Cold Prey 2. One of the few horror sequels far superior to the (not bad) original.
Jackobi
swallows anything
Cannibal Vegetarian (Ljudozder vegetarijanac) - "Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic."
The title insinuates a horrific, gore shocker. But instead it is a fairly matter of fact insight in to a corrupt Croatian hospital and the steady downfall of a gynaecological consultant. It is horrific at times but not gory, and portrays some sensitive subjects intelligently.
The subtitles I had were quite amateur, so (I presume) some of the dialogue lost its nuance.
The title insinuates a horrific, gore shocker. But instead it is a fairly matter of fact insight in to a corrupt Croatian hospital and the steady downfall of a gynaecological consultant. It is horrific at times but not gory, and portrays some sensitive subjects intelligently.
The subtitles I had were quite amateur, so (I presume) some of the dialogue lost its nuance.
Zac Stardust
Casual Observer
Shutter Island. Good stuff.
The Seventh Bullet. A very good example of a Soviet 'Eastern,' this one from Uzbekistan and a big hit in its day, back in 1972. Their version of a Western, indeed inspired by and borrowed from them - transposed styles, themes, tropes etc put in a 1920s Central Asian, revolution and civil war-era setting. But not to be confused with those Soviet/Eastern European films that actually were set in nineteenth-century America.
The same director also did another well-regarded film of the genre seven years later in 1979, for the Tajikfilm studio, called The Bodyguard.
The same director also did another well-regarded film of the genre seven years later in 1979, for the Tajikfilm studio, called The Bodyguard.
Mephitic
It's not easy having a good time
In prison my whole life ~ documentary about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Particularly worth watching.
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Killer Joe - a bit odd but some fine performances especially Matthew McConaughley as Killer Joe.
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