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

[Yetman]

Dont be Afraid of the Dark
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1270761/

Like a modern age Gremlins but not as funny or as lasting. Could have been better but still good - evil fairies want childrens teeth and try and drag them into the underworld.

South Park - 6 Days to Air
http://collider.com/south-park-6-days-to-air-trailer/117453/

Brilliant insight into how SP is made and the incredibly tight deadlines they work to. The creators have a laugh but they work really fucking hard as well. Excellent stuff.

http://www.watchdocumentary.tv/ancient-world-hypatia-of-alexandria-documentary/
Also excellent. Fucking Christians

 

[Firky]

Total Recall (2012)

Even the thooper dooper CGI dystopian Blade Runner style city was too highly polished.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

 

[Firky]

That makes a lot of sense! I just presumed he looked old from being ravaged by drug abuse :/

In the book he's a knackered old man who really can't be arsed with anything.

 

[butchersapron]

That's his cover.

 

[Part 2]

I watched A Time For Drunken Horses. What an amazing film.

 

[butchersapron]

Yes, it is.

 

[Part 2]

Just downloading Turtles Can Fly

 

[Mephitic]

Inbred. Pretty good. Nice to hear an Oldham accent as well.

I just watched it, good but disturbingly odd. That boozer the 'dirty hole' reminded me of drinking in Dreghorn in Ayrshire on a Sunday afternoon. Catchy tune tho.

 

[Mephitic]

Campaign ~ i tried really hard not to like it, it's not that great... BUT the line "i went to the petting zoo and let the goat lick my penis" was the start of a few minutes of dialogue which just cracked me up.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Let The Right One In - Bit boring.

 

[Reno]

Let The Right One In - Bit boring.

You really preferred Inbred ?

 

[Frances Lengel]

I must be some sort of philistine.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Watched Igby Goes Down last night. I liked the story but some of the acting wasn't great. I felt quite sorry for Igby his family seemed like dicks. Easy Sunday night viewing would watch again.

 

[Mephitic]

I watched A Time For Drunken Horses. What an amazing film.

Watched it last night, I wholeheartedly concur, brilliant.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Straight Time - Pretty good. 70's as fuck.

 

[Jackobi]

You really preferred Inbred ?

I was very disappointed with Inbred, it had so much potential.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Following on from a recommendation on this thread I watched Harolds going stiff last night. Brilliant film, reallyfunny. The documentary style really worked. The relationship between Harold and the nurse was really sweet and added a lot of comedy value. Def recommend.

 

[Orang Utan]

Urban Explorer - a terrible slasher in which young people go urban exploring in the Berlin underground.
A derivative and charmless waste of time but it did have a couple of funny stereotypical jokes about the supposed German character.

 

[Yetman]

Goon. Not as bad as I expected but still not great. 6/10.

 

[Yetman]

Red. Story about some guy getting revenge after some punks kill his dog. Pretty good, even though its a very simple tale. It's a lesson not to piss old people off, they've not got a lot to lose

 

[trabuquera]

Texas Killing Fields. Rather odd attempt to be well arty (in lighting and generally noirish grungy mood) while still casting superHollywood faces (Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain). Uncomfortably sexist and a bit boring tbh. I'm not sure if it's a real Texas coast accent but Worthington swallows all his words down so fast I had to watch it with subtitles on. Some quite moody art direction and landscape shots but overall a bit of a waste of time.

 

[Idris2002]

The Lady from Shanghai.

While I was initially unconvinced by Orson Welles' Behanesque Irish broth-of-a-boy sailor, this was one film that just got better and better and never stopped. Absolutely excellent, and I got it off Youtube as well.

"They say you killed a man".

"It was in Spain. . . he was a Franco spy".

"Well, I was on a pro-Franco committee during that war. . . what do you think of that?"

I had also previously been unaware of the charms of Rita Hayworth, and have been fully converted to same. . .

 

[DexterTCN]

A Midsummer Night's Dream. The one with Kline as Bottom - love the Mechanicals in this, Rockwell is good. Flockhart seems outclassed acting-wise early but seems to grow into it. Bale doesn't do much but that's Demetrius anyway.

 

[Reno]

The Lady from Shanghai.

While I was initially unconvinced by Orson Welles' Behanesque Irish broth-of-a-boy sailor, this was one film that just got better and better and never stopped. Absolutely excellent, and I got it off Youtube as well.

"They say you killed a man".

"It was in Spain. . . he was a Franco spy".

"Well, I was on a pro-Franco committee during that war. . . what do you think of that?"

I had also previously been unaware of the charms of Rita Hayworth, and have been fully converted to same. . .

It's my favourite Welles film and like most of his films, it just gets better the more you watch it.

 

[Reno]

A Midsummer Night's Dream. The one with Kline as Bottom - love the Mechanicals in this, Rockwell is good. Flockhart seems outclassed acting-wise early but seems to grow into it. Bale doesn't do much but that's Demetrius anyway.

Have you seen the 30's version with James Cagney ? It's lovely and still the one to beat.

 

[DexterTCN]

No, I was looking for it last night on youtube but it only seemed to have small clips. Cagney had no Shakespearean knowledge but was apparently great - as Bottom, I think.

 

[Reno]

No, I was looking for it last night on youtube but it only seemed to have small clips. Cagney had no Shakespearean knowledge but was apparently great - as Bottom, I think.

Yes, he was great as Bottom via Brooklyn. Purists may have been appalled, but I thought he was charming and funny. The film itself is simply gorgeous, still one of the most beautiful fantasy films ever made.

 

[Mephitic]

Killer Joe ~ disturbing in parts, but worth watching.

 

[DexterTCN]

Yes, he was great as Bottom via Brooklyn. Purists may have been appalled, but I thought he was charming and funny. The film itself is simply gorgeous, still one of the most beautiful fantasy films ever made.

Just googling Cagney's Bottom...should be fine.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I also saw Down Terrace, which really pissed me off too as it has such a ludicrous plot which totally clashes with the gritty realist look and feel of it. Still, it was thought provoking as I am still musing on it a few days later. A very odd film.

"Have you got a web presence?"

*beat*

"Not yet."