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

[Fez909]

Just watched Rubber - utterly ridiculous. Somehow watchable, though, and a good soundtrack.

edit: I was sure the tune at the very end was Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk, but it sounded possibly remixed. Turns out it was a tune by Mr Oizo called Tricycle Express which is pretty funny if you know the scene.

edit2: turns out the entire soundtrack was by Mr Oizo, and he also wrote and directed the film!

 

[magneze]

It's a Wonderful Life
Never got around to see this before but it was on on Saturday afternoon so settled down with the missus and watched it. Brilliant film, thoroughly enjoyable.

Spoiler

Mr Potter getting to keep the money was a bit of a surprise but I guess that revenge isn't in the films DNA.

 

[Reno]

I watched my Blu-ray of The Trouble With Harry, one of the few Hitchcock films I don't really get on with. The restoration looks stunning, the Technicolor autumn trees pop off the screen, but I still don't like the film itself that much. It's a very talky one joke film that isn't really that funny and being one of Hitchcock's rare non-thrillers, it lacks a decent suspense scene. Great Bernard Herrmann score though, which is the one Danny Elfman has been ripping off his entire career and Shirley MacLaine looks cute in her first film role.

I also watched The Water Horse with my godson. Despite a few corny bits it's a surprisingly good family film, a sort of Scottish ET with Nessie as the lonely boy's otherworldly chum.

 

[purenarcotic]

The film Infamous deals with exactly the same story in a far better and more entertaining way and Toby Jones' performance as Capote wipes the floor with the miscast Philip Seymor Hoffman's overrated turn.

We'll watch that next in that case.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I watched my Blu-ray of The Trouble With Harry, one of the few Hitchcock films I don't really get on with.

Curmudgeon

 

[Reno]

Curmudgeon

I can just see you laughing uproariously every time someone disccovers the corpse and claims to be the guilty party.

I like Hitchcock's misantropic sense of humor much better when embedded in a thriller, than when it has to stand on its own in a pure comedy. Same goes to Mr. & Mrs. Smith, his screwball comedy, which will never get mistaken for one of the classics of the genre.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Killing Them Softly. I enjoyed it, liked the performances, but it was nothing special. I guess they were going for the 70s pulp crime feel, stuff like the Outfit and The Split etc.

I liked the idea of criminals compromised due to the economic climate, but the constant wedging into ever conversation couple with Obama's speeches was forced and clumsy.

would of like to have seen more Gandolfini.

I suppose it was a good gig for ex-soprano actors!

 

[Virtual Blue]

American Horror Story - season 1 - episodes 1 to 6.
Okay-ish. not overly cheesy, great at some places.
funny to see Sylar/ Spock as a psychotic impotent gay dude.

 

[Yetman]

Watched Amour the other night. I clicked pretty early on what was going to happen, but then put it to one side and sort of thought maybe it wouldn't. It's a bit slow, like old age is I suppose. Performances from the leads are excellent, much like watching real lives.

Is it any good though? Got it to watch but haven't made time for it yet

 

[rubbershoes]

Carnage

Very funny but needed an ending

I like the lawyer best. The only one who never pretended to be anything other than who he was

 

[imposs1904]

Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco

Great soundtrack as a back drop to a mildy amusing film.

 

[Part 2]

Is it any good though? Got it to watch but haven't made time for it yet

Having given it a few days thought, yeah I think it's very good. I'd watch it again.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I can just see you laughing uproariously every time someone disccovers the corpse and claims to be the guilty party.

I had to check for hidden cameras after reading that

 

[DaveCinzano]

...the constant wedging into ever conversation couple with Obama's speeches was forced and clumsy.

Bit optimistic to stick it in, I thought, as it just invited comparison with All The President's Men. That said, I didn't dislike it, and parts were very imaginatively played out.

 

[Mephitic]

Mimesis ~ an odd take on night of the living dead, kinda meh
Conspiracy ~ 100% must see
Battle For Haditha ~ Americans on the rampage in Iraq, it somewhat misses the mark tho
Body Of Lies ~ leonardo di caprio is rather good in this, kept me watching to the end
Harsh Times ~ Christian Bale struggles to keep it together when back on civi street, not too bad but i found it difficult to understand what he was saying at times, which was annoying

 

[DaveCinzano]

Conspiracy ~ 100% must see

I hope you mean the HBO one about the Wannsee Conference and not the Val Kilmer revenge flick!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Bit optimistic to stick it in, I thought, as it just invited comparison with All The President's Men. That said, I didn't dislike it, and parts were very imaginatively played out.

I did like it, It was fun and some great acting too....

.....that said, palying 'Heroin' by VU when someone's shooting up is proper lazy filmmaking....

 

[Mephitic]

I hope you mean the HBO one about the Wannsee Conference and not the Val Kilmer revenge flick!

Yep, said Wannsee Conference, soz for the confusion.

 

[Reno]

would of like to have seen more Gandolfini.

I suppose it was a good gig for ex-soprano actors!

Gandolfini pops up in lots of stuff. He's in Zero Dark Thirty, sharing a scene with John Barrowman of all people, which....was......weird.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Gandolfini pops up in lots of stuff. He's in Zero Dark Thirty, sharing a scene with John Barrowman of all people, which....was......weird.

hoping to watch this week....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Reminded me (in look at least) of McCabe and Mrs Miller and Jeremiah Johnson.

 

[sojourner]

Dead Man

Seen it before but the fella is William Blake's Number One Fan and wanted the dvd for crimbo. Excellent film - love the soundtrack too

 

[belboid]

One of Our Aircraft is Missing. Very low key with barely a word spoken for much of the film. Rather different to their earlier (and indeed later) war pieces, far more ‘traditional.’ Still good and fairly tense stuff, with a great role for Googie Withers.

The Town – finally got round to seeing this. A distinctly better than average version of a bog standard bank job story. Worth a view, tho hardly world shattering.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Extracted (2012) sci-fi/mystery about a man who creates a device they lets you enter the memories of other people, the police get him to enter the mind of a heroin addict accused of killing his girlfriend to see if he's guilty but he gets trapped there and has to try to escape.
The low budget shows in places and the concept has been done better in other films before but this is OK once it gets going.

 

[imposs1904]

Safety Not Guaranteed

A 2012 US indie comedy. I can't recommend this film enough. I know it looked it good from the trailer but it was so much more.

The link for the trailer.

 

[DexterTCN]

Safety Not Guaranteed

A 2012 US indie comedy. I can't recommend this film enough. I know it looked it good from the trailer but it was so much more.

The link for the trailer.

That looks fucking awesome.

 

[DexterTCN]

Safety Not Guaranteed

A 2012 US indie comedy. I can't recommend this film enough. I know it looked it good from the trailer but it was so much more.

The link for the trailer.

It's on netflix, US version

 

[avu9lives]

The Money Trap (1965) Rita Hayworth, Glen Ford an the lovely Elke Sommer. Even though shes crap in it. Yeah it has its flaws coz the actors seem ta be going through motions and there a bit one dimensional, but i really enjoyed it coz the story held me attention most at way through.

 

[smorodina]

Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich.
Lost interest half way through...
Will have to finish it at some point though, because I feel I must

 

[imposs1904]

episodes 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones.

Love it. It's been ages since I've been addicted to a soap opera.