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

[Reno]

The

i would love his blue suit from NBNW.
eta: he wears this in TCAT:

i have a sweater just like that, but do i look cool in it? do i fuck. paul smith you are a liar.

It's the cravat which makes all the difference.

 

[Idris2002]

Ginger Snaps.

Canadian werewolf movie from 2000. Made me nostalgic for the days of Canuckistan's National Film Board.

Two sisters are students at a bogstandard suburban North American high school. One night on a full moon, the elder sister is bitten by a mysterious creature. Strange transformations then affect her.

Not a bad wee film all in all, but I've always found the horror genre a bit "meh".

(Btw, if you've ever lost a family member or friend to suicide, you might want to give the opening sequences of this one a miss).

 

[belboid]

Ginger Snaps.

I really liked that. So much so I even saw the sequel. Which was dreadful

 

[TruXta]

Ginger Snaps.

Canadian werewolf movie from 2000. Made me nostalgic for the days of Canuckistan's National Film Board.

Two sisters are students at a bogstandard suburban North American high school. One night on a full moon, the elder sister is bitten by a mysterious creature. Strange transformations then affect her.

Not a bad wee film all in all, but I've always found the horror genre a bit "meh".

(Btw, if you've ever lost a family member or friend to suicide, you might want to give the opening sequences of this one a miss).

Definitely in the category "worthwhile genre breakout attempt", but not a great film, no.

I really liked that. So much so I even saw the sequel. Which was dreadful

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Idris2002]

Oh, I liked it too, I just thought that when they had the line "only one creature kills for pure pleasure", it should have followed it with ". . . the domestic cat".

 

[Yetman]

Watching repo man right now, pretty good

Jude Law and that geezer out of Last King Of Scotland who I always fear since that film. I can already tell whats going to happen in this, the plots a bit obvious (well, we'll see eh!)

 

[belboid]

Watching repo man right now, pretty good

Jude Law and that geezer out of Last King Of Scotland who I always fear since that film. I can already tell whats going to happen in this, the plots a bit obvious (well, we'll see eh!)

Repo Men, not Man.

I was most confused there for a moment, seemed like an odd thing to remake - and even odder for me not to have heard of it!

 

[Yetman]

Repo Men, not Man.

I was most confused there for a moment, seemed like an odd thing to remake - and even odder for me not to have heard of it!

Ah, sorry old boy! Men, not man

 

[Orang Utan]

Tyrannosaur.
Very good wifebeating and dog murdering film.
No dinosaurs but stirling performances from both leads and the best bit of fly acting since once upon a time in the west.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

The Grey. I was expecting it to be an entertaining disaster/survival film, and it was in a few places, but it took itself too seriously, all the way to introspective action man Neeson taking on Daddy Wolf.

 

[Yetman]

Watching repo man right now, pretty good

Jude Law and that geezer out of Last King Of Scotland who I always fear since that film. I can already tell whats going to happen in this, the plots a bit obvious (well, we'll see eh!)

Well that was alright I suppose give it a 6.5/10. Bit of a comedy sexy surgery scene in it though

 

[Reno]

The Bay, found footage eco-horror film by Barry Levinson which is an odd choice for a prestige director like him. Fairly gory and not bad as this type of thing goes but a little unsatisfying by the end. Probably depends how scary you find the idea of parasites for it to work and I find them rather disgusting, so it worked for me

Grace, indie horror about a pregnant woman whose husband and foetus die in a car crash and who decides to still give birth later to the baby, which attracts flies and prefers blood to milk. Rather slow moving and the baby still looks too cute to be scary.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I thought it conveyed the self-centeredness of teenage boys very well indeed. He's no hero, just a shit like all the other kids he is so snooty about.

Well it didn't reflect my formative years in any way whatsoever. Not that that is important in a film. I have no problem with the characters other than instead of feeling like real people, they felt like how people think 'real' people should be portrayed in coming of age indie films.
Some cliched plot points and situations stuck together with lazy by the book montages and voice over.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Repo Men, not Man.

I was most confused there for a moment, seemed like an odd thing to remake - and even odder for me not to have heard of it!

I remember being mad about repo man when I was a teen, but I don't think I have watched it since I was 16.
How does Repo Men compare? Did Alex Cox do it?

 

[Reno]

I remember being mad about repo man when I was a teen, but I don't think I have watched it since I was 16.
How does Repo Men compare? Did Alex Cox do it?

Repo Men is a rubbishy Hollywood sci-fi action flick that has nothing to do with Repo Man. Alex Cox himself made a semi-sequel called Repo Chick. Haven't seen it, but like all of Cox's more recent films it disappeared fairly quickly.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Repo Men is a rubbishy Hollywood sci-fi action flick that has nothing to do with Repo Man. Alex Cox himself made a semi-sequel called Repo Chick. Haven't seen it, but like all of Cox's more recent films it disappeared fairly quickly.

Bah,
Didn't know about repo chick. I used to love that series of late night films he did where he would do an intro about the film before hand.
I must try and get a copy of repo man again, I bet I won't like it anymore.
I have not even seen straight to hell or walker.

 

[Reno]

Bah,
Didn't know about repo chick. I used to love that series of late night films he did where he would do an intro about the film before hand.
I must try and get a copy of repo man again, I bet I won't like it anymore.
I have not even seen straight to hell or walker.

Moviedrome was great !

I tried to watch Repo Man again and it hadn't held up that well for me, very much of its time. I admire his indie spirit but tbh I'm not actually a huge fan of Cox as a film-maker.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Moviedrome was great !

I tried to watch Repo Man again and it hadn't held up that well for me, very much of its time. I admire his indie spirit but tbh I'm not actually a huge fan of Cox as a film-maker.

Ah yes Moviedrome.

Yes, I remember Cox talking about films and it being interesting, but I sort of remember being dissapointed with his actual films.
I only remember enjoying repo man. I should on paper have loved sid and nancy, but I didn't really like it at all apart from a couple of scenes.

 

[belboid]

I remember being mad about repo man when I was a teen, but I don't think I have watched it since I was 16.
How does Repo Men compare? Did Alex Cox do it?

I can still watch it regularly, in either version, just for the marvellous dubbing of the swearing.

Repo Chicks is good fun, in a very very cheap and cheerful way (it cost $200,000) with precious little connection to the original, a few actors, but they're not playing the same characters iirr.

Searchers 2.0 is a better (but still astoundingly cheap and cheerful) microbudget movie by him.

 

[Idris2002]

Summer with Monika.

Ingmar Bergman flick. Could easily be "a summer with Monica, a lifetime with regret".

Two working class teenagers escape from Stockholm and have an idyllic summer. It ends with her pregnant, and them marrying - at an age when neither is suited to that step.

It's as grim as it sounds, but some of the black and white cinematography is genuinely beautiful. A good example of how arthouse film really can produce works of art.

 

[silverfish]

ultramarines, cartoon, kill yourself first. managed 15 minutes and that was because I was sat in a massage chair

 

[DaveCinzano]

ultramarines, cartoon, kill yourself first. managed 15 minutes and that was because I was sat in a massage chair

Was this some kind of refined form of waterboarding?

"If you don't talk we're going to screen both Dungeons & Dragons and Wrath Of The Dragon God..."

 

[silverfish]

Was this some kind of refined form of waterboarding?

"If you don't talk we're going to screen both Dungeons & Dragons and Wrath Of The Dragon God..."

thats how it felt with sean pertwee and terence stamp voice overing it

 

[DaveCinzano]

thats how it felt with sean pertwee and terence stamp voice overing it

Makes a change from documentaries about sharks and Nazis, I guess.

 

[Reno]

Skyfall made me want to watch the Daniel Craig Bond films again. Casino Royale is still great, Quantum of Solace is still shit. I kind of hoped the runt of the little would improve if watched straight after as it's the only real sequel in the series, but it truly has the most incompetently shot and edited action scenes ever and the plot is a snooze.

 

[DexterTCN]

I agree, I have not gone to see Skyfall because of QoS.

 

[Reno]

I agree, I have not gone to see Skyfall because of QoS.

Skyfall is great and as or at least nearly as good as Casino Royale. QoS doesn't even feel like a Bond film and Mark Foster is simply a shit director (who is currently running World War Z into the ground, it seems)

 

[DexterTCN]

Will have to wait until bluray release then, xmas budget. A film will have to be really good for me to go and see it just now.

Watched The Hunger Games yesterday, it was....well it was battle royale (and the running man) but my daughter's read the trilogy and she says it expands nicely into overthrowing the govt, which is always good.

The most interesting bits are the portrayal of the higher classes and media, I could have watched more of that. The girl from Winter's Bone is a natural acting talent.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Wrecked. Adrian Brody awakens with amnesia after his car crashes down a ravine in an isolated unnamed forest, and left wondering how the hell he got there. The film follows him trying to find help and fragmented memories slowly coming back and daydreams which only serve to confuse him. It was okay, could've been more interesting but I got bored of seeing him crawling around in the muck and dead leaves, going Fuck! or Ouch!

 

[The Octagon]

Episodes 2 and 3 of American Horror Story S2.

Bonkers, brilliant and actually quite effectively scary at times. Seems a stronger cast than S1 too, with James Cromwell and Lily Rabe in particular knocking it out of the park.

Ending of episode 3 was just plain nasty