What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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or, I might just move onto game of thrones 
It's got the plot of Polanski's Chinatown.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yeah. And a shitload of movie references, even on first viewing.
It's a fun film.
Johnny Canuck3
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The first two instalments of something called the Red Riding Trilogy, about the Yorkshire Ripper.
Jesus fucking christ, it's bleak.
Jesus fucking christ, it's bleak.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
The books it was based on were even more bleak (by David Peace). Couldn't stop reading them but wished I hadn't iyswim.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That was prime time UK free broadcast stuff. That's what it's like over here.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Compliance which was interesting.
I spent half the film facepalming and the other half trying to understand the lives and positions of the characters and why they would act and comply as they did without really questioning the motives of 'the caller' or their own morality.
I guess there's a whole heap of stuff around power and authority, ageism, social status and workplace relationships up for discussion, even more so that this was based upon a number of real events, one of which took place in a McDonald's and resulted in a full strip search of a female member of staff.
The performances were very good too...
I spent half the film facepalming and the other half trying to understand the lives and positions of the characters and why they would act and comply as they did without really questioning the motives of 'the caller' or their own morality.
I guess there's a whole heap of stuff around power and authority, ageism, social status and workplace relationships up for discussion, even more so that this was based upon a number of real events, one of which took place in a McDonald's and resulted in a full strip search of a female member of staff.
The performances were very good too...
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Don't you just love the little Dwarf guy ?
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
he does seem to get all the best lines.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
First two episodes of Spiral. I like, plus I'm watching a french thing with subtitles which alays makes me feel dead clever
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You're watching an extended episode of the bill.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Barbie and the Three Musketeeers
there's probably a pr0n version
there's probably a pr0n version
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Oh....and saw the last of the current batch of Breaking Bad....hmmm
Johnny Canuck3
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Unfortunately the third instalment isn't on Netflix; so I don't get to see how it all turns out. I want to research it on google, but that would spoil the suspense of seeing the last bit.
Onto a new show now: House of Cards. I watched the US Netflix version, which is very well done and well acted, and obviously with a big budget. Started the UK version: very different from its american counterpart. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen a full season.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
am now halfway through Spirals series one, and Judge Roban does look and act like a gallic version of Bob Cryer
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Barquero - entertaining seige western with Lee Van Cleef as the stoic bargeman who becomes reluctant hero to the local townsfolk as Warren Oates' stoned paranoid psycho rides into town with his band of outlaws to steal, cross the river and then burn the barge to stop the lawmen on his trail. They all sit either side of the river trying to outwit and out shoot one another.
Oates out twitches Van Cleef, playing a dope smoking loon descending further and further into manic paranoia as time runs out for him and his gang. Van Cleef is mostly sweaty, topless and sunburnt fighting off both women and outlaws in equal measures as he fights to protect his onw true love, his barge.
It's a US film made in a euro-western style, with a fairly good soundtrack from Dominic Frontiere of which only a couple of songs got a release as extra tracks on the High Plains Drifter soundtrack......I'd love to have the rest of it.
Got a couple of trippy stoner flashbacks, and some good cameos, especially from Forrest Tucker who play and amiable, but murderous, mountain man.
Worth 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
Oates out twitches Van Cleef, playing a dope smoking loon descending further and further into manic paranoia as time runs out for him and his gang. Van Cleef is mostly sweaty, topless and sunburnt fighting off both women and outlaws in equal measures as he fights to protect his onw true love, his barge.
It's a US film made in a euro-western style, with a fairly good soundtrack from Dominic Frontiere of which only a couple of songs got a release as extra tracks on the High Plains Drifter soundtrack......I'd love to have the rest of it.
Got a couple of trippy stoner flashbacks, and some good cameos, especially from Forrest Tucker who play and amiable, but murderous, mountain man.
Worth 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
Reno
The In Kraut
Beasts of the Southern Wild. Being dirt poor is fun and spiritually enriching, who knew ? Phoney crap, enraptured with its own sense of sub-Terrence Malick poetry, where people only converse in homespun wisdom (them black people sure do talks funny !) and where cartoonish stereotypes run amok without any sense of irony. Magic realism seldom works on film, here it comes across as precious and self-conscious. How do people fall for this rubbish ?
Next, my Criterion Blu-ray of Rosemary's Baby which arrived today, to gargle the bad taste away.
Next, my Criterion Blu-ray of Rosemary's Baby which arrived today, to gargle the bad taste away.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm considering downloading Jonny Mnemonic next week as in my head its a great piece of overblown dystopian sci fi and keanu reeves puts in a solid performance. Worried it might actully be crap and ruin my cherished memory of it being awesome though.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I think tonight may be The Front Line or I may start Love/Hate series
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Source Code" - which I rather enjoyed
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