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

[Reno]

The Bank Job was a dreadful film, and a terrible waste of a great piece of true-life material. Imagine what a French or Italian director could have done with that story (compare it to Romanzo Criminale for example).

I didn't think it was very good either, but Statham wasn't the problem.

 

[Idris2002]

I didn't think it was very good either, but Statham wasn't the problem.

A reasonable enough proposition, I suppose.

 

[Yetman]

Ip man 2. Yes Excellent stuff

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Tried some 4od.
Started with a stupid aliens programme. I knew it was going to be shit but it was proper shit alien TV non expose by numbers.
It made me cry a little inside because I used to make shit mystery's of the world and universe programmes and felt terribly ashamed of myself.

Mine were short though, this had the usual C4 doc added pointless crap. "Let's spend 5 minutes showing you how we make a 3d computer picture" . . . why? You have the real thing in 3d right there? Just tell us, it's like a documentary bothering to explain how they made their animated charts and graphs or who they edited their cuttaways.

Anyway, I only managed 10 minutes.

Then on to some cartoon called Full English.
Utter utter utter shit. It's not comedy to point out something so obvious you wouldn't even bring it up if you were pissed down the pub and had run out of every other mundane thing there is to say. "Trees grow leaves".
So that's their only gag, and then they just throw in some horribly out of place crudity, or swear words.



I officially give up on TV

 

[rubbershoes]

District 9

Can't remember the last time I watched a film on TV

 

[marty21]

watched about 6 episodes of Andromeda yesterday (off sick) season 1, in which every episode seems to either have a galaxy being destroyed and billions dead, or they stop a galaxy being destroyed and billions dying

 

[TruXta]

Watched an ep of Arrested Development S1 again after a long hiatus. It is really quite good that show.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched some episodes from season one of Game of Thrones.


One does not simply defend the north

 

[DotCommunist]

watched about 6 episodes of Andromeda yesterday (off sick) season 1, in which every episode seems to either have a galaxy being destroyed and billions dead, or they stop a galaxy being destroyed and billions dying

Nietzchians lol

 

[TruXta]

I watched some episodes from season one of Game of Thrones.


One does not simply defend the north

Sphincter is coming.

 

[The Octagon]

Then on to some cartoon called Full English.
Utter utter utter shit. It's not comedy to point out something so obvious you wouldn't even bring it up if you were pissed down the pub and had run out of every other mundane thing there is to say. "Trees grow leaves".
So that's their only gag, and then they just throw in some horribly out of place crudity, or swear words.

I switched onto this halfway through and it had me and my housemate laughing, just seemed like a british Family Guy-esque sketch show. Harry Potter's "Rophynolliarmus!" and Jamie Oliver's breakdown over his wife running off with Ainsley Harriot were definite lols.

Can see it getting old quickly mind.

 

[marty21]

Nietzchians lol

They pwned them -

 

[Reno]

I switched onto this halfway through and it had me and my housemate laughing, just seemed like a british Family Guy-esque sketch show. Harry Potter's "Rophynolliarmus!" and Jamie Oliver's breakdown over his wife running off with Ainsley Harriot were definite lols.

Can see it getting old quickly mind.

I saw a couple of minutes it got old after half a second.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I switched onto this halfway through and it had me and my housemate laughing, just seemed like a british Family Guy-esque sketch show. Harry Potter's "Rophynolliarmus!" and Jamie Oliver's breakdown over his wife running off with Ainsley Harriot were definite lols.

Can see it getting old quickly mind.

Not the episode I watched, but I can't imagine it suddenly changed by ep3.
Nothing like family guy. I am no family guy fan but I can see it works, flows and fits together nicely. FE was so lazy, labored and unoriginal it actually made me mad.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Actually it didn't make me mad. I was just really dissapointed.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Finished watching The Riches. This is the fucking blackest of the black comedies. Joe Orton has nothing on this shit. You laugh while thinking about slitting your wrists.

Also, a documentary about the Russian Mafia, called Thieves by Law. Highly recommended.

 

[Yetman]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836944/

Baytown Outlaws - much better than imdb would have you believe

 

[belboid]

Finished watching The Riches. This is the fucking blackest of the black comedies. Joe Orton has nothing on this shit. You laugh while thinking about slitting your wrists.

It was shit, and about as 'black' as Michael Jackson.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It was shit, and about as 'black' as Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson was a black person; and the Riches is a black comedy. Because it's American, it has more levity and stupidity in it than it might if it was British or European; but it was a black comedy nonetheless.

If you hated it, why did you watch it all the way through?

 

[belboid]

I didn't, because it was shit. But the half a series I did watch was more than enough to know it was about as black as a black person who took skin whitening drugs for decades, and as funny is being shat upon.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If you didn't watch 3/4 of it, then you don't really know what it's like.

 

[belboid]

If you didn't watch 3/4 of it, then you don't really know what it's like.

Oh okay, it changed completely and utterly after the first half season did it? Bullshit

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Oh okay, it changed completely and utterly after the first half season did it? Bullshit

No need to get angry: we're discussing a tv show.

 

[belboid]

I'm not in the least bit angry. I'm just pointing out that you are talking complete and utter bullshit.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm not in the least bit angry. I'm just pointing out that you are talking complete and utter bullshit.

No, I'm giving my opinion about a piece of creative work. I think the series has some valuable things to say about the state of modern life.

 

[belboid]

Well, thats nice. I'm afraid I still think its bullshit tho

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched a film called Reindeer Games which was as daft as it was stupid.....but I enjoyed it while lolling on the sofa half a kip.....

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well, thats nice. I'm afraid I still think its bullshit tho

Not to worry. The chance of me coming over there and forcing you to watch the rest of the series at gunpoint, is exactly nil.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I also watched the British Office. Much superior to the US version imo. The american version is so - americanized. There's no real tension in it. The British version is like how life is, but with some humor added. The US version is about how life is portrayed by Hollywood.

 

[Idris2002]

Une Femme Douce.

Robert Bresson, 1969. How more French could this film be? NONE MORE FRENCH.

Dominique Sanda's first big role. Her character makes the mistake of marrying an embittered pawnshop owner. Most of the film is told in flashback after her suicide at the beginning. It's also based on a Dostoevsky story.