Dredd. It was okay, I enjoyed it, and it was very violent, but beyond that I'm not sure how it measures up wrt 2000 AD as it really isn't my territory.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
first two eps of American Horror Story season 2
haunted hospital. Nuns.
haunted hospital. Nuns.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. After some unpleasant (unpleasantly bum-freezingly dull) experiences with other films by Nuri Bilge Ceylan I was approaching this more in the spirit of duty but it did weave a spell. It's still glacially slow-paced and overall bleak and curmudgeonly, but there's a lot more intrigue and suspense (sort of) and humour (of the blackest, most absurdist kind) as a bunch of disillusioned, demotivated and not-that-bright Turkish policemen and hangers-on try to do the paperwork for a routine - and not at all mysterious - crime. Some absolutely brilliant acting and the cinematography is amazing ... it really works if you can ride out the longueurs. ideal watching for a snowed-in sunday because you can ffwd all the megalong landscape takes (and there are plenty) and break off for a cup of tea when it all gets too lugubrious.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I watched a 2011 film called The Hunters which is seriously misrepresented by the synopsis attached to it. What is sold as a "teens enter woods and wind up dead" slasher flick is actually something a little more off the wall and interesting.
There's a couple of plot threads, one following an injured war veteran who is in his frist weeks with the police, one following a small group of everyday folk with a grim hobby, and lastly a brief glimpse at some graduating lawyers about to leave town to enter the big wide world.
I'm not sure where it was filmed, but the accents vary from american, bad american, french, and english. The locations look like eastern europe, but the town is simply called the town and the capital city simply called the capital city. Only the fort where most of the story unfolds is given a name.
Anyway....the film is basically about the cop heading up to the fort to meet an informer to take him into protective custody only to find himself locked in with the draw bridge lifted, no escape and a group of townsfolk with some iffy weekend past times. All this actually makes for quite an unorthadox thriller, pretty well shot and acted and entertaining in a slow burning way.
It doesn't entirely work, there are plot holes and the three story strands only really needed to be two, but even then the third strand with the young lawyers (which the synopsis is IMBD and Wiki are built from) doesn't really take away from the overall story and adds some nice tense moments later on.
That we know who the Hunters are and what they are doing from very early on should kill the film dead, but it enables their story to be told, and they are not drawn as bad men, they are shown in their day jobs, with their families, going about life, suffering the daily routines and rituals and monotony which provides the motivation for their 'hunting' at the weekend.
So there's no real surprises, clever plot twists or anything especially outstanding about The Hunters, but it is a well made and slow moving, character driven horror/thriller made within certain budgetry limitations that looks good, kept me interested, and actually suprised me because I put it on as background noise and ended up being quite taken with it. I fully expect to see director Chris Briant making a bit of a name for himself.
I found it on Netflix
There's a couple of plot threads, one following an injured war veteran who is in his frist weeks with the police, one following a small group of everyday folk with a grim hobby, and lastly a brief glimpse at some graduating lawyers about to leave town to enter the big wide world.
I'm not sure where it was filmed, but the accents vary from american, bad american, french, and english. The locations look like eastern europe, but the town is simply called the town and the capital city simply called the capital city. Only the fort where most of the story unfolds is given a name.
Anyway....the film is basically about the cop heading up to the fort to meet an informer to take him into protective custody only to find himself locked in with the draw bridge lifted, no escape and a group of townsfolk with some iffy weekend past times. All this actually makes for quite an unorthadox thriller, pretty well shot and acted and entertaining in a slow burning way.
It doesn't entirely work, there are plot holes and the three story strands only really needed to be two, but even then the third strand with the young lawyers (which the synopsis is IMBD and Wiki are built from) doesn't really take away from the overall story and adds some nice tense moments later on.
That we know who the Hunters are and what they are doing from very early on should kill the film dead, but it enables their story to be told, and they are not drawn as bad men, they are shown in their day jobs, with their families, going about life, suffering the daily routines and rituals and monotony which provides the motivation for their 'hunting' at the weekend.
So there's no real surprises, clever plot twists or anything especially outstanding about The Hunters, but it is a well made and slow moving, character driven horror/thriller made within certain budgetry limitations that looks good, kept me interested, and actually suprised me because I put it on as background noise and ended up being quite taken with it. I fully expect to see director Chris Briant making a bit of a name for himself.
I found it on Netflix
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I went for Witchfinder General in the end, which was still very good. Tho it would probably have been even better had the DVD player not packed up after an hour.
Fortunately the USB plug on it was still working, aso I then watched The Oblong Box - which Michael Reeves was meant to direct after WG, had he not died. A good story (not the Poe one) reasonably made, tho let down by a poor and rather confused ending.
Fortunately the USB plug on it was still working, aso I then watched The Oblong Box - which Michael Reeves was meant to direct after WG, had he not died. A good story (not the Poe one) reasonably made, tho let down by a poor and rather confused ending.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Bringing Up Baby
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn. Hep's role is a bit one dimesional, but then so is Grant's. This film rips the piss out of academics. Also includes a tame leopard.
The Philadelphia Story
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart - Stewart being cast against type as an embittered leftwing writer sent by his celebrity paparazzi magazine, which sends him to cover Hepburn's marriage to a former coal miner turned manager. Grant plays her first husband, who is lurking about the place. Hijinks ensue. Hepburn came from this world (New England bluebloods) herself, which may make her performance all the better.
It Happened One Night.
More fun in the Great Depression. Spoiled heiress Claudette Colbert runs away from her controlling millionaire father. Down at heel journalist Clark Gable takes her under his wing. Hijinks ensue.
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn. Hep's role is a bit one dimesional, but then so is Grant's. This film rips the piss out of academics. Also includes a tame leopard.
The Philadelphia Story
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart - Stewart being cast against type as an embittered leftwing writer sent by his celebrity paparazzi magazine, which sends him to cover Hepburn's marriage to a former coal miner turned manager. Grant plays her first husband, who is lurking about the place. Hijinks ensue. Hepburn came from this world (New England bluebloods) herself, which may make her performance all the better.
It Happened One Night.
More fun in the Great Depression. Spoiled heiress Claudette Colbert runs away from her controlling millionaire father. Down at heel journalist Clark Gable takes her under his wing. Hijinks ensue.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Moonrise Kingdom. Don't know what to say, really. The romance of two kids surrounded by those adults who've lost or never had it. Everyone against them then everyone for them - to the background of noah's flood and a helping of the wicked witch of the west.
I checked the music and apparently it wasn't written for the film. Amazing.
All of the actors commit to this light tale and it's well worth catching. Just over 90 minutes, too.
I checked the music and apparently it wasn't written for the film. Amazing.
All of the actors commit to this light tale and it's well worth catching. Just over 90 minutes, too.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Sexy Beast. Good job by Kingsley; but once he's gone, it turns into a Grade B heist movie.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
My favourite screwball comedy.
Reno
The In Kraut
That's what I watched tonight. This season is even more bonkers than the last one, but that's fine with me. In the first two episodes we had a UFO, demonic possession, randy nuns, a sadistic doctor, a monster who rips off someones arm and Jessica Lange camping it up for all she's worth. Good times !
jelavicroad
Active Member
killer joe not quite sure what the chicken drumstick scene was all about mind
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
and we've still yet to find out what those creatures are!
Her who plays the lover of the journo who gets interred- I know her from the invasion of the bodysnatchers style thing 'The Faculty'
Wonderful '50 fags and two bottles of jack per day' croak to her vocals
Reno
The In Kraut
Clea Du Vall. She was also in Argo this year and she was one of the leads in Carnivale.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Farewell Johnny - South African film from the early 70s. Don't really know what to say about it - this review might explain why.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It sounds at first glance like an attempt to pretend that South Africa doesn't have any black people in it. Is the asylum a metaphor for the apartheid state, or for the white community? I think I'll give this one a miss, anyway.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Both - and of the effects of apartheid on them. And Jans Rautenbach really can't be accused of doing what so many other white artisits did - he always put apartheid right up front. This film came out of his own experience running a private mental hospital where the only black people were staff - as is the case in the film. I think you may be mistaking it for a a more 'normal' type film than it actually is, it's more like a political-absurdist work in the vein of Fernando Arrabal's work, The Tree of Guernica especially, but without the visual flair.
The Kidnappers. 1953 film about two orphans who go to live with their grandparents in Nova Scotia and find a baby. Great film with a cute kid actor turning out a great performance. Some great dialogue and loads of smiles all the way through. I love films like this.
It's on Youtube in bits.
It's on Youtube in bits.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I'm just about to start watching A Christmas Tale.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Well if I was young, watching A Christmas Tale would put me off giong to Finland 
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Just watched Mother (same director of Memories of Murder) and Hansel and Gretel (another Korean one)
That's 3 foreign films in a row. Need to give my eyes a rest from subtitles
That's 3 foreign films in a row. Need to give my eyes a rest from subtitles
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
God Bless America. I enjoyed it, pretty dark subject but found it a bit preachy.
Virtual Blue
ready
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Slavery was not a vampire movie. Terrible, terrible movie....
mango5
Endeavour era
Add to that Island in the Sun, Buck and the Preacher, Carmen Jones and Sing Your Song for a magnificent DIY Belafonte Film Festival.
Reno
The In Kraut
Reno
The In Kraut
More of American Horror Story. So far season 2 is even better than season 1. I can see why this would be a love it or hate it TV series, but the reason why it works is because it has a seriously nasty sense of humor. Mental note: when someone is too nice to be true and their lampshade has nipples, then it's time to run.
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