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

[Orang Utan]

I watched Nighthawks last night on the telly.
Surprisingly good, as I was expecting it to be tosh.
Sylvester Stallone and Billie Dee Williams are renegade cops hunting down terrorist Rutger Hauer.
Score by Keith Emerson and some cool NY nightclub scenes.
You see Debenhams in Clapham Junction getting blown up.
The opening scene is great - Sly dressed as an old lady baiting muggers.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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You see Debenhams in Clapham Junction getting blown up.
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Meh, I saw that on riot night. What else does it have?

 

[Mapped]

Ted: turned it off 1/2 way through

 

[Reno]

Ted: turned it off 1/2 way through

I didn't even make it all the way through the trailer.

 

[Reno]

I watched Ill Manors. I like Plan B, but this is just another urban gang yoof film which doesn't add anything new to that particular genre. It's just about watchable but at times it's ridiculously melodramatic. The scene with the fire and the baby reminded me more of Mighty Joe Young than anything. As a piece of film-making it's all over the place. Occasionally it looks like pop promos have been inserted into the film when the style of the film breaks for a bit of music. Nice to see John Cooper Clarke in a small role.

 

[Firky]

Lawless, pretty good. Kept expecting to see Nookie Thompson though.

 

[The39thStep]

Outside Bet- surprisingly enjoyable story about a group of print workers who buy a horse.Not many films where you here a eulogy at a funeral about a bloke not crossing a picket line.

 

[Mapped]

Shut up and play the hits - LCD Sound-system Documentary. It was pretty good. Got their last ever gig to watch at some point in the near future.

 

[DotCommunist]

half of inglorious basterds. Brad Pitts accent is unconvincing but lol regardless. will finish tonioght

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Goebbels shagging.

 

[TruXta]

Ted. Ooooof. Then watched most of Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter, which was silly and ok enjoyable. Rank effects tho, I mean wtf.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Rubber - About a tyre that comes to life and kills people. Shit. And not even shit in an enjoyable way.

 

[Mapped]

Rubber - About a tyre that comes to life and kills people. Shit. And not even shit in an enjoyable way.

I quite enjoyed this. I was very, very stoned when I watched it though

 

[Part 2]

No need to be stoned, it's a good film anyway, I loved it.

 

[starfish]

Watched Angel Heart for the first time in many years today. The pieces fell into place a bit earlier this time. Still a great performance from Mickey Rourke.

 

[Mephitic]

The Holding – Mediocre, I found the storyline somewhat meh, rather tedious. I kept wondering how much longer to go before it ended.


Lawless – Good cast, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and the guy from the transformers movie all running around bootlegging moonshine and being rather violent, allegedly based on true events. It was an alright film but I had higher expectations of it. I disengaged with the storyline a few times and struggled a bit to get back into it, I wanted to see more of Oldman and much less of some of the others.


End Of Watch – Initially I was thinking “meh, not another copy story” but it turned out to be the best thing that I’ve watched for ages, the banter between the two main characters is tremendous, the bad guys are brilliant, and the plot kept me tuned in regardless of how unbelievable it was.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

half of inglorious basterds. Brad Pitts accent is unconvincing but lol regardless. will finish tonioght

The 'original' has a better title and is better.
I say 'original' but it is of course a different film altogether, plus Quentin was too pussy to even write the word 'Bastard', which is a totally legitimate actual word, like bitch.

 

[Reno]

Indie movie romance night for me. I watched the charming, low key Your Sister's Sister. It takes the premise for a sex farce and turns it into an exploration of how with changing times the idea of the traditional family changes.

Then I watched Like Crazy which suffered in comparison. I liked how it charted how young love unravels thanks to the mundane realities of life, I just didn't care much for the characters who seem like cyphers compared to the other film.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I just finished watching all the Morse episodes.....(I say watching....I fell asleep through most of them as I put them on at bedtime as a murderous whodunnit lullaby...)

It was an underwhelming end. Think I'll start falling asleep to Lewis now.

 

[DexterTCN]

Wanted. A reasonably cool action flick based on a Mark Millar (Kick Ass) series of comics partly spoiled by the presence of angelina jolie - but brad pitt is why Kick Ass was made so I let it slide.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wanted. A reasonably cool action flick based on a Mark Millar (Kick Ass) series of comics partly spoiled by the presence of angelina jolie - but brad pitt is why Kick Ass was made so I let it slide.

Watched it once drunk and thought it was interesting enough, and maybe shouldn't have been panned so badly.
Watched it the other day again on telly (drunk again) and it was utter shite. Don't watch it twice.
Extensive voice over is never a good sign.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

The recent prequel to "The Thing" which is basically a remake of the original with different characters and less tension.

Enjoyed some of the gruesome effects and it was better than I expected, mainly because I'd heard/read some iffy reviews so wasn't expecting much.

Oh and "Captain America" - which I love

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh and "Captain America" - which I love

Weirdly not that bad (though I got bored and didn't make it to the end).
Try the original for the antidote.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Watched Killer Joe this morning......if double crossing trailer trash and gratuitous violence and nudity is your thing.....go for it.

I enjoyed it.

It made me wanna eat junk food, so just gone out for Chilli burgers!

 

[DaveCinzano]

(though I got bored and didn't make it to the end).

You seem to have such a poor attention span that I'm surprised you can ever make it to the end of your morning shit.

 

[DotCommunist]

The recent prequel to "The Thing" which is basically a remake of the original with different characters and less tension.

Enjoyed some of the gruesome effects and it was better than I expected, mainly because I'd heard/read some iffy reviews so wasn't expecting much.

Oh and "Captain America" - which I love

entirely pointless imo. It wasn't as good, there wasn't anyone as good as kurt russel on his game.The effects were no vast improvement. The cast were bland, the bit in the spaceship at the end seemed tacked on just to justify the prequel tag.

I expect to be equally disappointed by the Total Recall remake when I can find a decent rip

 

[DaveCinzano]

The recent prequel to "The Thing" which is basically a remake of the original with different characters and less tension.

Preboot, if you please.

 

[Reno]

The Thing prequel actually grew on me slightly on second viewing. It is pointless, but at least it honours the atmosphere, look and pace of the Carpenter film and it's watchable enough, unlike the Total Recall remake which is strictly aimed at the ADHD crowd.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

entirely pointless imo. It wasn't as good, there wasn't anyone as good as kurt russel on his game.The effects were no vast improvement. The cast were bland, the bit in the spaceship at the end seemed tacked on just to justify the prequel tag.

I expect to be equally disappointed by the Total Recall remake when I can find a decent rip

I think that is very fair. It was totally pointless.

It might have been better to have dome something about the origins of the creature but then it would get all a bit Alien/Prometheus and tbh sometimes you don't want to know any 'backstory' just that the Alien or The Thing kills people in gruesome ways.

The one element I did find interesting was that it could only replicate organic material.

I can't say I didn't enjoy it, it was a solid Sunday evening 'don't have to think too much' film however the only time I got really excited was at then end when you hear the music from the John Carpenter film

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You seem to have such a poor attention span that I'm surprised you can ever make it to the end of your morning shit.

I was on a plane.
I had just watched three other films in a row and just couldn't finish it.