What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Reno
The In Kraut
In the last season anybody could be a ghost, in this season
anybody could be a psycho.
Article about that episode here:
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Seven Psychopaths - which i enjoyed. The meta narrative bit didnt work very well, and the excuse for having no good lines for women really should have been cut (or replaced by....some good lines for women!) but there were some great scenes and wicked dialogie, so that'll do. Sam Rockwell was brilliant, and I thgought Walken was just gonne do his standard kooky character, but as the film progressed he actually played the role with a lot more subtelty than I'd have thought. Not quite as fresh and original as In Bruges, but darn good stuff.
I watched Turtles Can Fly. Same director as A Time For Drunken Horses. Whereas ATFDH is bleak from the outset this has a hint of that at the start but has a bit more of a lighthearted feel to it at points. The main character, Satellite is an upbeat lively lad who effectively rallies the other kids collecting landmines to sell. What a great cast of kids. Some really amazing performances especially the kid with no arms, the kid who cries a lot and the kid who must be no more than 3 years old. I wouldn't want to go into the story too much as I don't want to spoil anything.
Fuck knows how you even get started making a film like these in such conditions. Can't recommend these enough and both are in full on youtube so there's no excuse for not seeing them.
Fuck knows how you even get started making a film like these in such conditions. Can't recommend these enough and both are in full on youtube so there's no excuse for not seeing them.
Mephitic
It's not easy having a good time
Robot & Frank ~ what a totally shite robot, no machine guns, missiles, or even a flame-thrower, rather disappointing.
Promised Land ~ a load of ol'bollocks staring the rather nice Matt Damon as Matt Damon, there's too much fracking in this movie, originally the script was about wind farms but you get way more bang for you buck with fracking, so they changed it.
The Liability ~ Tim Roth is fairly good in this, but the plot goes to fuck after the half way mark (which kinnda spoils it), it recovers for the ending, however compared to the two above 'pile of shite' flicks it was tremendous.
Promised Land ~ a load of ol'bollocks staring the rather nice Matt Damon as Matt Damon, there's too much fracking in this movie, originally the script was about wind farms but you get way more bang for you buck with fracking, so they changed it.
The Liability ~ Tim Roth is fairly good in this, but the plot goes to fuck after the half way mark (which kinnda spoils it), it recovers for the ending, however compared to the two above 'pile of shite' flicks it was tremendous.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
When the Lights Go Out - another brit exorcist lite, this time based on the 'Pontefract Poltergeist.' A reasonable set up soon drifts through the usual tropes - which is worse, the poltergeist or the seventies decor? Finished off with a really crap ending (storywise and cinematically), the only thing of note about it was it seemed to have Andrew Flintoff as the dad.
Contraband (aka Blackout) - Powell & Pressburgers second film together, and another fast paced, light-hearted spy thriller with Veidt and Hobson. Somewhat odd 'fell' to it, being released just as the 'phoney war' had finished, but still damned fine.
Contraband (aka Blackout) - Powell & Pressburgers second film together, and another fast paced, light-hearted spy thriller with Veidt and Hobson. Somewhat odd 'fell' to it, being released just as the 'phoney war' had finished, but still damned fine.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
i've just watched threads, a fucking horrible film. very realistic as well. gripping though.
annoyingly enough the lefty rabble rousers were calling for 'general strike now' just before the bombs hit. This weeks Morning Star had a bit on a TUC meeting to agree a general strike and an editorial piece about the need for end to sectarianism. Has nothing changed?
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
My own private idaho... pile of wank no pun intended.
Not a DVD or anything but I watched that 'One Born Every Minute' on Channel 4 for the first time. I really enjoyed and I am only posting this because I was surprised at myself. Quite funny watching big, burly, hairy arsed men turn white and start crying at the sight of a new born baby. I'd watch it again 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I watched You Me & Dupree, starring Owen Cocknose, about an aimless lazy manchild cyclist who loses his job and goes to live on his mate's sofa. 
It was shit
It was shit
TruXta
tired
OH had it on for a bit earlier, was there even a plot?I watched You Me & Dupree, starring Owen Cocknose, about an aimless lazy manchild cyclist who loses his job and goes to live on his mate's sofa.
It was shit
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
He becomes a motivational speaker at the end, though I was sure he was going to become a primary school teacher while he was dating that librarian...
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Have just remembered that the version of The Shining we watched at the weekend had an extra scene or 2 that i'd never seen before. Towards the end when Shelley Duvall is running around, wafting the knife about, just after she encounters the man in the bear!! suit blowing the man in the dinner suit she carries on down a corridor & enters a ballroom that is covered in cobwebs & there are skeletons sitting around. That was new to me. Has anyone else seen that scene before.
Reno
The In Kraut
It's the longer US cut which used to crop up on ITV. Before he released the film in Europe Kubrick cut quite a few scenes and I think the shorter European version is superior. I always found that shot of the skeletons in the US version a bit tacky, more becoming of a Blackpool ghost train. There are also a lot of scenes of Wendy and Danny watching TV in this version and the extra stuff makes an already long film a little sluggish.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Exte - Silly Japanese horror film about killer hair
Reno
The In Kraut
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
At some point a Japanese horror film just had to address the hair directly.
It had the girl who was in Battle Royale in it.
I'm not really into horror films as they don't scare me. I watch more for the giggles
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Queen of Versailles. Jaw-dropping documentary about a (once) billionaire timeshare developer, his trophy wife, and their grotesquely over-leveraged, oversized, monstrous mansion ("the largest home in the entire US!") ... and the voyage of all these, plus their menagerie of 8+children, thousands of employees, team of domestic staff and horde of neglected pet animals through the US financial crash and beyond. It is AMAZING ... not just for the decadence portrayed but for the personalities involved (truly, the rich also cry ... and some of them are even, simultaneously, annoying sociopaths and yet nice at times ...) and for the riddle of why and how on earth they ever thought it would be a good idea to be filmed for this. It's absolutely brilliant and worth anyone's time.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Lifeboat - Not quite in the top draw of Hitchcock movies but still good, worth watching for Tallulah Bankhead's performance alone.
Reno
The In Kraut
I like Inglorious Basterds far better than the other two. The music was great and the end was the whole point.
stuffarondyou
New Member
when is the the series (the walking dead gonna) resume? I miss watching it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's in the middle of season 3. So it's still going on! Finale sometime in March!
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
next episode out in early feb. can't wait
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