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

The Crying Game. Should have switched it off after the first half hour, which was really good. Rest was rubbish.
 
Valkyrie. Shallow but good looking historical drama. Tom Cruise utterly upstaged by British supporting cast in every single scene :D

Oh, and saw the A-Team on the plane, which was actually pretty good :)
 
revolutionary road
sam mendes' 'best' film so far, though that's not saying much.
was kind of repulsed by the characters at first but couldn't help getting sucked in.
thought the secondary characters were interesting too. michael shannon was great i thought.
i have a feeling it would work better as a novel, so will check out the book.
 
The Special Relationship. The least of the three Blair films, but still watchable. Hope Davis as Hillary Clinton was the best thing in the film.
 
The Canadian indie film Last Night, which is one of those films I can watch again and again. It's about how a loosely connected group of people spend the last six hours on earth, which is about to be obliterated by an unspecified (the only clue is that the sun never sets) disaster.

Made on a modest budget, this is the complete opposite of the likes of Armageddon and Deep Impact which came out around the same time. Featuring barely any effects, it concentrates instead on characters and atmosphere. The film is a who is who of Canadian acting talent and stars director Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Genevieve Bujold, Sandra Oh (who I fell in love with in this) and David Cronenberg among others. It also has a great soundtrack of obscure 70s pop songs.
 
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Pandorum: Bonkers sci-fi about the crew of an interstellar spaceship waking up from suspended animation to find their craft is overrun by psychotic mutant cannibals. It's no Alien but quite entertaining none the less...
 
Reno said:
The Canadian indie film Last Night, which is one of those films I can watch again and again. It's about how a loosely connected group of people spend the last six hours on earth, which is about to be obliterated by an unspecified (the only clue is that the sun never sets) disaster.

Made on a modest budget, this is the complete opposite of the likes of Armageddon and Deep Impact which came out around the same time. Featuring barely any effects, it concentrates instead on characters and atmosphere. The film is a who is who of Canadian acting talent and stars director Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Genevieve Bujold, Sandra Oh (who I fell in love with in this) and David Cronenberg among others. It also has a great soundtrack of obscure 70s pop songs.
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Great film - I caught this at the cinema when it was released. Only seen it once since. It's good how it focusses on some small stories which have nothing to do with end of the world heroics. It's an almost life affirming end of the world.
 
been catching up with a few things. An Education was good, Carey M marvellous, tho also somewhat irritating (that was exactly what is was like was it Lynn? My arse)

The Prestige. Many good bits, some fucking stupid ones too tho.

Kick-Ass. Pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Now just settling down to watch Gumshoe. Great film, as I recall, not seen it in years now tho. Well, either that or My Son, My Son, What Have You Done?
 
belboid said:
been catching up with a few things. An Education was good, Carey M marvellous, tho also somewhat irritating (that was exactly what is was like was it Lynn? My arse)
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Lynn Barber wasn't involved with the making of the film and she herself has said that it took many liberties with her memoir. I agree with you that it's a good film though.
 
I've only read her Guardian article on the film, not the moir, or the original pieces. But in the one I read she explicitly said they got it spot on and it was like watching herself.

She might well have contradicted that statement in other places, of course.
 
belboid said:
I've only read her Guardian article on the film, not the moir, or the original pieces. But in the one I read she explicitly said they got it spot on and it was like watching herself.

She might well have contradicted that statement in other places, of course.
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An Desert Island discs and a few interviews I've read she said that there were things they did got spot on, like the relationship between her lover and her parents, but that with a lot of other things they took a dramatic licence, not least with the two central characters. She never took cello lessons, the Rosamund Pike character didn't exist, etc, It's only to be expected, because the film has to work as a drama. There is a reason Mulligan's character is called Jenny and not Lynn.
 
The Helen character was terrible, the attitude towards her the worst thing about the film. The parents were rather cliched too, no insights there at all.

But Carey was ace!
 
I quite liked Helen, simply because Pike is a fantastic actress who managed to bring some depth and warmth to a character who could just have been an one dimensional airhead. The parents were off their rocker, happily handing their daughter over to a crook and Molina was fantastic. Carey Mulligan did truly give a star making performance, she is wonderful.
 
The Edge of the World. I watched this on my projector, a gorgeous restoration by the BFI on Blu-ray and it was spectacular. Michael Powell's first really personal film, this 30s drama about the de-population of the outer Scottish isles is a beautiful looking film. Like many of Powell's best films it has a very strong sense of place and it makes you feel like you've been there.
 
A boy called dad....Just over 80 minutes, more of a TV drama than a film. The story was half well told and half jumbled up, performances similar, Ian Hart was good but the kid who I'd seen praised in reviews couldn't deliver a line IMO. It sort of came together in the end but relied on a section of dialogue to explain some of the story. My Mrs enjoyed it more than I did.
 
Reno said:
The Edge of the World. I watched this on my projector, a gorgeous restoration by the BFI on Blu-ray and it was spectacular. Michael Powell's first really personal film, this 30s drama about the de-population of the outer Scottish isles is a beautiful looking film. Like many of Powell's best films it has a very strong sense of place and it makes you feel like you've been there.
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have you watched the 'Britains Loneliest Isle' short thats on the disc as well? Great wee thing
 
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