What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Voley
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Rust And Bone. Pretty good, very powerful in places but nowhere near as good as A Prophet which was his last film. Following that one up is a pretty tall order tbf and expecting it to be as good isn't a good way to approach this one. The two main performances are very good, though. I liked Marion Cotillard in this a lot.
Voley
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I've not seen anything else by him. Was 'A Prophet' a bit of a departure from his usual style then?
Reno
The In Kraut
Not really, he mostly makes films about tough guys, but I like him even better when he uses that sensibility to make films about women. Read My Lips is probably my favourite film of the last decade. It's also about a woman with a disability who falls in with a hoodlum. His only real departure is the period comedy Self-Made Hero, which also is the only one of his films I don't like. His first film See How They Fall is another favourite of mine. He is pretty much one of my favourite directors working now.
Killing Them Softly - Was alright, I liked how scruffy all the scenery was. Also had a go at watching Threads but only got as far as the bit where everything's on fire & had too turn it off. Too much for me, that.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
End of Watch. Competent and watchable. The daily horrors were suitably horrific and the tension suitably tense. Nothing new, or groundbreaking about it.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Big Gun (also known as 'No Way Out' & 'Tony Arzenta') - Alain Delon doing what he does best, playing a lone hitman, saying little and killing lots. Also starring Richard Conte (in what appears to be the exact same costume he wore during the step shooting scene from the Godfather).
Not quite up there with Le Samourai and other more existential french crime dramas (this one being italian, therefore more gung ho), but good entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, with some fine car chase sequences in which europes finiest cars get mashed and smashed on proper streets, dustbins fly high, market stalls get trashed, construction sites become destruction sites and mothers with prams escape by the skin of their teeth!
Not quite up there with Le Samourai and other more existential french crime dramas (this one being italian, therefore more gung ho), but good entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, with some fine car chase sequences in which europes finiest cars get mashed and smashed on proper streets, dustbins fly high, market stalls get trashed, construction sites become destruction sites and mothers with prams escape by the skin of their teeth!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Reno
The In Kraut
He's awesome in Guest House Paradiso
I've never seen him not being awesome.
Even in shit films...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
...and boy, has he made some shit films...
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I've never seen him not being awesome.
Even in shit films...
Come on! That's not fair!
It's more a puke than a shit film.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
That's from the barf fest that is GHP...
Reno
The In Kraut
Can't find it in his filmography.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
John Carter (of mars).................not excellent but entertaining enough on a sunday afternoon !
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202381/
He's Euro filmstar 'Gino Bolognese', who goes out with 'Gina Carbonara'
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
watched the 1992 Mice and Men. brilliant. on netflix now
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Django...Prepare a Coffin. Almost an official Django sequal. Nero had been on board to star in this.
Great plot idea.... hangman fakes executions to form phantom gang to help him seek revenge against wealthy badman and his gang of rogues.... which makes for a good prequal story really, great soundtrack by Gianfranco Reverberi, and plenty of story twists and turns and good performances to rank it at the upper end of the euro western genre.
Terence Hill is a spit for Franco Nero, but he's a more wooden and less enigmatic actor without the presence of the original Django actor.
Great plot idea.... hangman fakes executions to form phantom gang to help him seek revenge against wealthy badman and his gang of rogues.... which makes for a good prequal story really, great soundtrack by Gianfranco Reverberi, and plenty of story twists and turns and good performances to rank it at the upper end of the euro western genre.
Terence Hill is a spit for Franco Nero, but he's a more wooden and less enigmatic actor without the presence of the original Django actor.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Sweeney - dunno why it was called The Sweeney really. It's just a half decent cops and robbers film full of geezer cliches, gaping plot holes and semi-erect actors poncing about.
It has none of the charm, wit or humanity that the original Sweeney relied on to keep Regan and Carter real, and while Winstone and Drew had ok chemistry I just didn't care if they lived, died or went to heaven in a silver jag!
It has none of the charm, wit or humanity that the original Sweeney relied on to keep Regan and Carter real, and while Winstone and Drew had ok chemistry I just didn't care if they lived, died or went to heaven in a silver jag!
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Does it have the music? It would be cool with the music. Da nana, da nana...da dadadaDA dadadada
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Nope.
It does have a car chase through a camp site! Proper fackin' Esssex 'oliday chaos!
Virtual Blue
ready
Skyfall - Did Chris Nolan direct this? Really? It was that guy instead? Interesting...
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Seven Psychopaths, pretty good, nothing spectacular which I'd hoped for with the cast.
Kill Them Softly, this was better
Argo - can't really understand what all the fuss was about. It's alright, but it's not THAT big a deal and the movie does a fair job of telling the story but it's not that exciting a story anyway so :S
Kill Them Softly, this was better
Argo - can't really understand what all the fuss was about. It's alright, but it's not THAT big a deal and the movie does a fair job of telling the story but it's not that exciting a story anyway so :S
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I watched this last night as well. It is very well done, maintains tension alongside the sense of absurdity, good performances all round, and mostly well drawn characters. Not a work of outstanding genius and beauty or owt, but a solid bit of film-making that moves along constantly and consistently without any need for flash bang gimmicks.
Although the last ten minutes or so are getting to 'oh come on, that never happened' levels of daftness.
Reno
The In Kraut
The police tried to shoot the plane dead !
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Source: an annoyingly preachy, PC, kumbaya-singing drama which sounds as if it was proposed as a worthy UN multiagency 'capacitation' project. Which is a shame because its heart's in the right place, director Radu Mihaileanu has made good stuff in the past, the location (North Africa) and some of the cast are amazing. Basically it's a reatread of Lysistrata with a bunch of oppressed Arab women deciding they're mad as hell and not going to haul water downhill to their village in buckets any more, so launch a sex strike and end patriarchy. (Sort of.) There are blatant overtones and undertones all the way (it's really all about the Arab Spring, is one possible reading), and it's been deliberately set in a sort of no-place and avoids any reference to factual characters, places or events ... which made it lose authenticity and bite imo. Actresses as talented and as different in style as the stroppy, sparky French sparkler Hafsia Herzi (Couscous) and Hiam Abbass (regal Palestinian icon of grief you might know from Lemon Tree) are shoehorned into the same scenes and it just does't work.
Breathless - not Belmondo looking cool, but a real dirty nasty downery tale of generations of violence, machismo and all-around hatefulness in 2009 South Korea. Main character's a sneering debt-collector handing out slaps, kicks and punches to anyone who crosses his path and / but strikes up a relationship with a memorably bad-attitude-having schoolgirl who doesn't buy the tough-gy act for a moment. It won truckloads of awards but as far as I can tell it's no more or less than Tyrannosaur - a good filthy dunking in everything that's bad about society and family life.
Bathory: here at last I can save the urbz some time: don't watch this. You might think as I did that with a title like that there'd be some decent genre horror action and maybe some lesbian nuns or something. And Anna Friel of sainted Brookside is the lead, so the omens for entertaining trash seemed good. In fact, because it was made by in Eastern Europe (Slovak director and sets) it goes with the considerably less sexy revisionist approach that far from bathing in virgins' blood to preserve her eerie beauty, the real Erszebet Bathory was a much-persecuted lady unjustly victimised by the Hapsburgs (and history) because she was rich and Protestant. So it was all about the Great Powers and the class struggle in the end after all! um, perhaps not quite enough to sustain two and half hours, even if they do throw in a couple of investigative friars from The Name of the Rose just to liven thing up a bit. Quite extraordinarily bad, but what's most mystifying is that there are glimmers of really good supporting work (some of the music, for instance, is proper period and beautifully performed, and surprisingly large chunks of dialogue are in Hungarian, everybody says "Erszebet" with the right accent etc) which would be more at home in proper 'art' films.
Breathless - not Belmondo looking cool, but a real dirty nasty downery tale of generations of violence, machismo and all-around hatefulness in 2009 South Korea. Main character's a sneering debt-collector handing out slaps, kicks and punches to anyone who crosses his path and / but strikes up a relationship with a memorably bad-attitude-having schoolgirl who doesn't buy the tough-gy act for a moment. It won truckloads of awards but as far as I can tell it's no more or less than Tyrannosaur - a good filthy dunking in everything that's bad about society and family life.
Bathory: here at last I can save the urbz some time: don't watch this. You might think as I did that with a title like that there'd be some decent genre horror action and maybe some lesbian nuns or something. And Anna Friel of sainted Brookside is the lead, so the omens for entertaining trash seemed good. In fact, because it was made by in Eastern Europe (Slovak director and sets) it goes with the considerably less sexy revisionist approach that far from bathing in virgins' blood to preserve her eerie beauty, the real Erszebet Bathory was a much-persecuted lady unjustly victimised by the Hapsburgs (and history) because she was rich and Protestant. So it was all about the Great Powers and the class struggle in the end after all! um, perhaps not quite enough to sustain two and half hours, even if they do throw in a couple of investigative friars from The Name of the Rose just to liven thing up a bit. Quite extraordinarily bad, but what's most mystifying is that there are glimmers of really good supporting work (some of the music, for instance, is proper period and beautifully performed, and surprisingly large chunks of dialogue are in Hungarian, everybody says "Erszebet" with the right accent etc) which would be more at home in proper 'art' films.
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