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

[Yetman]

This movie is hilarious. Basically an American military officer of average intelligence is put in a hibernation chamber and wakes up 500 years in the future where stupid people have outbred smart people and the world is now populated by idiots.

Got this on the download

 

[joe dick]

Jesus, you think that's good quality?

you mean compared to the absolute shit offered here? yes i do. but i am curious, what do you have against utopia? Raison Boy alone made it T.V. worth watching.
but i have to admit... i am not very critical when it comes to any representation of present day or future dystopias.

 

[joe dick]

Natalie Portman gave Lana Wachowski a copy of the book while they were filming V for Vendetta, they've been working on it on and off since then. Portman was meant to be in it but was pregnant. (imdb)

I wonder, what role Portman would have taken?

 

[DexterTCN]

I wonder, what role Portman would have taken?

Portman was promised the role as Sonmi-451 (imdb)

 

[jeff_leigh]

Finished Series 1 of The Shield last night. Good fun, nothing amazing, occasionally really shit, some good plot twists. Ideal for when you get home after a draining day and your brain's stopped working.

If you haven't seen it I'd also recommend HBO's The Wire to watch along side

 

[joe dick]

Portman was promised the role as Sonmi-451 (imdb)

I probably should have just read the imdb article. thanks for the reply.

It's pretty hard for me to picture Portman as a Korean fabricant.

 

[joe dick]

If you haven't seen it I'd also recommend HBO's The Wire to watch along side

adding my recommendation of The Wire. I only recently became aware of this truly great series, watched it all over the course of one weekend and sadly came to the realization that I would probably never find another film or TV series to equal it.
Favorite The Wire quote" There you go again. Giving a fuck when it's not your turn to give a fuck".

 

[The39thStep]

adding my recommendation of The Wire. I only recently became aware of this truly great series, watched it all over the course of one weekend and sadly came to the realization that I would probably never find another film or TV series to equal it.
Favorite The Wire quote" There you go again. Giving a fuck when it's not your turn to give a fuck".

It is addictive but even so 60 episodes is a lot to get through over a weekend

 

[joe dick]

It is addictive but even so 60 episodes is a lot to get through over a weekend

i have no life. i did literally nothing else from friday afternoon to early monday morning. except speed. i did a lot of speed. and pot. smoked tons of pot. as i said - i have no life.

that... or maybe it was all a dream and took longer. i don't know anymore. anyways, i watched it all in one great big long go. however long it took it was worth it and totally immersive.

 

[DexterTCN]

Super 8.

Thoughts. Seth mcFarlane is father to one of the goonies, rhys ifans is father to another. The goonies have a stoner pal, Jesus. They have an adventure.

Second thoughts. A wonderful film reminiscent of Goonies, Stand By Me and ET, wonderfully shot with some very decent performances from the young ones.

At the end credits you get the film the kids were actually making which enhances the whole thing.

Commercial but evocative.

 

[joe dick]

Super 8.

Thoughts. Seth mcFarlane is father to one of the goonies, rhys ifans is father to another. The goonies have a stoner pal, Jesus. They have an adventure.

Second thoughts. A wonderful film reminiscent of Goonies, Stand By Me and ET, wonderfully shot with some very decent performances from the young ones.

At the end credits you get the film the kids were actually making which enhances the whole thing.

Commercial but evocative.

I wanted to like "Super 8" and was disappointed in myself when I didn't. The train wreck was pretty sharp. but i didn't really "like" any of the characters. I could tell it was actually a pretty good film and could understand why others would enjoy it... but it did nothing for me.
i remember childhood as somewhat disappointingly less than magical and i guess when it comes to films involving children and childhood "Welcome to the Dollhouse" is more my thing.

 

[Grandma Death]

Shame. I thought it was excellent. I love the Fassbender and McQueen collaborations.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched a bbc4 documentary about the 100 years war. living the dream

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Hills Run Red - Italian western with a cracking score by Morricone which I never heard much of before.

It looks and feels like a traditional US western especially the 'happy' ending, but there's enough 'euro' in this to keep it interesting, from the barbed wire, standing room, only solitary confinement of the prison to the revenge fuelling flashbacks and loony henchman (Henry Silva).

None of your usual euro-western actors in this one (Silva aside), whichs add to the look of a low budget american film, but some good solid performances and lead Thomas Hunter gre on me as the film went on.

Not a classic, but well worth 88mins if you like simple revenge fuelled spaghetti westerns and don't expect them all to have the operatic misery of a Leone or a Corbucci.

 

[rubbershoes]

Dead Set: Just finished watching it. THIS IS ZOMBIE TV! I'll never be able to watch another episode of "The Walking Dead".

Look out for Dead Set Serious. It's a fan re-edit of Dead Set and cuts out a lot of the tedious Big Brother stuff,.

It was never released commercially of course so it's only on torrents


And you'd definitely like Pontypool.

 

[imposs1904]

All Night Long

A 1981 comedy starring Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand. Hackman dependable as ever in a not so funny comedy but Streisand's performance is awful. Really off-key.

 

[belboid]

Mean Girls. As part of the ongoing denial that 30 Rock is over...

A strong addition to the Evil High School Cliques genre, top three even.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

you mean compared to the absolute shit offered here? yes i do. but i am curious, what do you have against utopia? Raison Boy alone made it T.V. worth watching.
but i have to admit... i am not very critical when it comes to any representation of present day or future dystopias.

First episode was good but then it was just terrible. Annoying characters, shock moments just for shocks sake, a conspiracy plot that doesn't stand up. Waaay too try hard. Nicely shot in places but it was like they decided that every five minutes they would have a considered stylized shot simply for that reason alone. Hey lets commission some odd music.
It's like walking down a shitty shorditch street dressed as an ironic hipster.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I watched Madagascar 3 with the daughter.
I loved the first one, and thought the second, though a little contrived into a sequel, was also good fun.

This one though is simply shit. Shit on toast.

 

[joe dick]

First episode was good but then it was just terrible. Annoying characters, shock moments just for shocks sake, a conspiracy plot that doesn't stand up. Waaay too try hard. Nicely shot in places but it was like they decided that every five minutes they would have a considered stylized shot simply for that reason alone. Hey lets commission some odd music.
It's like walking down a shitty shorditch street dressed as an ironic hipster.

agreed. utopia may have been a little too stylized for it's own good. i still really enjoyed it and would much rather support something that i enjoyed (despite it's flaws) than something which, though "objectively" perfect, i didn't.
but here's where our paths diverge... i thought the soundtrack of utopia was fantastic and i found that its odd silliness was a perfect representation of the silly human tricks that were unfolding on-screen.

could we all agree to STOP using "too try hard" as a blanket condemnation? it's pretty "hipster".

 

[joe dick]

Look out for Dead Set Serious. It's a fan re-edit of Dead Set and cuts out a lot of the tedious Big Brother stuff,.

It was never released commercially of course so it's only on torrents


And you'd definitely like Pontypool.

I found that the central idea of "Pontypool" was pretty original and well worth a film. However, the film itself really failed to live up to the greatness of it's premise. just my opinion. I thought the idea so good that i was hoping for a better film. also i took an instant dislike to the actor portraying the central character and spent much of the film wishing that he would die. will watch it again though.
Bruce Macdonald has other films which you may wish to watch even though they are nothing like "Pontypool". Might I suggest "Hard Core Logo"?

Dead Set Serious, will look for it. thanks.

 

[joe dick]

watched "The Thick of It" over the past few days. Malcolm Tucker is my new role model. all that juicy, sociopathic anger and aggression. "twAT!"

 

[Greebo]

Couldn't read or do much (unless it was going to be redone later), so finished watching season one of Glee with the volume right down.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

but here's where our paths diverge... i thought the soundtrack of utopia was fantastic and i found that its odd silliness was a perfect representation of the silly human tricks that were unfolding on-screen.

I thought the soundtrack was good and different, refreshing even.
I think, cynically perhaps, though that they commissioned something wacky and odd just for the sake of wacky different oddness.
Maybe I am just being a bit mean.

 

[Orang Utan]

Couldn't read or do much (unless it was going to be redone later), so finished watching season one of Glee with the volume right down.

That's the best way to watch it

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That's the best way to watch it

From previous experience, the best way to watch Glee is with the sound down, and the TV turned off. Then sit in another room, stick your fingers in your ears and shout at the top of your voice for two hours (just in case).

 

[renegadechicken]

The Baytown Outlaws - was pretty good for a turn your brain off and just enjoy type thing - some gaping plot holes, that even my half asleep drunk wife asked about, but overall quite enjoyable.

 

[DexterTCN]

The Terminator. It's old, it's a b movie but definitely still watchable and enjoyable, the almost john carpenter-like soundtrack helps keep a nice tension. The pacing, like the baddy, is relentless.

 

[joe dick]

The Terminator. It's old, it's a b movie but definitely still watchable and enjoyable, the almost john carpenter-like soundtrack helps keep a nice tension. The pacing, like the baddy, is relentless.

Linda Hamilton's very 80's hairstyle. You forgot to mention. Jesus, did we really go out in public looking like that? No wonder the future was sending robots back in time to terminate us...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Mill and the Cross, by Lech Majewski. It's a film interpretation of Breughel's painting The Procession To Calvary. The dialogue is light, and the plot, which draws parallels between the treatment of the Low Countries by the Spanish, and the events surrounding the Crucifixion, isn't really well developed. But you watch this movie for the visuals. Amost every screenshot could pass for a 16th century painting [although some of it is more reminiscent of Corot than it is of Breughel or other Flemish painters].

A visual feast. Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling.