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

[Frances Lengel]

watching end of the first series of Underbelly 'Fuck you, suck on my toe jam' mrs21 is loving it, being an Aussie and that.

And you can have endless fun leaving your house - Open the front door, then hurriedly close it again in mock horror and exclaim "It's a jungle out there". Never gets old.

 

[marty21]

She has the best lines! She is also one of the few of the crims still alive!

 

[Reno]

A very unusual double bill.

I don't really "theme" my own viewing. I recently bought a bunch of favourite classics on Blu-ray which I'm working my way through and I have my Lovefilm rentals.

 

[DaveCinzano]

She has the best lines! She is also one of the few of the crims still alive!

There was a site where you could buy Roberta-themed memorabilia but THE MAN shut it down

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Starcrash guy? Wow, now that's a film. Every part of the plot goes nowhere. Gotners character can see into the future but can't act on it or tell anyone so the only part it plays in the plot is that it is mentioned.

Marjoe's big part was in Earthquake.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Five Minutes of Heaven. The Troubles come to Liam Neeson. The actor who plays the adult brother is very good in the role.

 

[Idris2002]

Five Minutes of Heaven. The Troubles come to Liam Neeson. The actor who plays the adult brother is very good in the role.

I really liked that - especially because it didn't have a cop out ending where everyone is reconciled. Nice bit of casting, given that in real life Neeson and Nesbitt come from sides opposite to those of the characters they play.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Marjoe's big part was in Earthquake.

Not seen that.

 

[Voley]

Submarine, as recommended by this very thread. Really enjoyed this, thanks. I cringed a lot, though. The pretentious kid reminded me a bit too much of myself at that age. Good film, really fucking funny in places. Paddy Considine good as ever.

 

[Orang Utan]

'i've even had a brief hat phase'

 

[Voley]

'i've even had a brief hat phase'

I think it was the bit with him lying on the floor listening to French crooners that made me die a bit. I did a similar thing with classical music for, ooh, at least a week.

 

[Orang Utan]

the whole pretentiousness and selfishness was down pat and new to me in british film.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's uk indie flick by numbers. No effort put in whatsoever to make something even vaguely new or different.
Sadly, this is even right down to the detail of Paddy Constantine doing a 'mad' little turn in it.
It wasn't even based on an original book.
People lap it up and the small amount of funding that goes to the british film industry keeps on being spent on the same old unoriginal, undaring, stagnant films, over and over again.
Big Brother was an interesting idea for a TV programme, the people loved it. They loved it because it was fresh and new. Instead of realizing something fresh and new was exciting and interesting, the TV companies thought more reality TV was in order. Nothing new was ever made they just made the saem old shit and copies of it. Now we have a bloody telly programme on Channel 4 of people watching telly.

 

[Voley]

the whole pretentiousness and selfishness was down pat and new to me in british film.

Yeah it was ace. Not a massive spoiler here but still don't want to ruin it for anyone:

Spoiler

I really liked all the conflict between the intellectual image he was trying to portray (so he could get a girlfriend) and all his mates being laddish and calling him a gaylord. Then when he finally gets a girlfriend all she wants to do is set things on fire and spit at stuff.

I recall similar dilemmas from my embarrassing youth. I might watch this again before I send it back.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Jesus.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Jesus.

He won't help.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Started series 3 of weeds. It's fucking stupid.

 

[DotCommunist]

one docu on the french revolution and robespierre who was more complex than I thought. And one on Long Kesh internment camp, wound me right up to see thatch giving it the biggun

 

[butchersapron]

Jackpot - Lock stock derived Norwegian drivel. Loads of this stuff coming from up there recently - not necessarily a problem if done well but i've yet to see one that has been.

 

[Reno]

Started series 3 of weeds. It's fucking stupid.

I bailed half way through season 2. Started out fun, but very quickly run its course.

 

[Idris2002]

The other night I watched the first episode of the original UK, House of Cards.

It was. . . OK. But I don't see why people rave about it. In fact, it reminded me a lot of the Wild Geese. While it wasn't as bad as that bloody pig's abortion of a movie, it did once again prove that no one wants Tories to try and get creative.

 

[Belushi]

Micmacs (2009) Looks nice, but Jeunets brand of French whimsy leaves me cold.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Fear Dot Com. Shit Dot Com.

 

[trabuquera]

Looper. Genuinely brilliant, original, wellshot, cleverly art-directed for a grungy, credible near future .... and almost deflated entirely by a lazy lapse into 'evil child' cliches and excessive (and not very good) CGI in the final reel. Some good, unshowy acting (with a bit too much mumbling) and downbeat mood made it worthwhile all the same.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hitlers Britain


A docu about hitlers plan for how he would have run britain after a successful invasion. Loads of wild speculation by talking heads, but the gem of it was when they got to the end and started having talk from the Auxiliary Units and you had kindly old grandad sorts saying 'well of course we weren't given a life expectancy of more than 25 days once the Germans had landed'

And this absolute gem from a bearded old man wrt a .22 sniper rifle 'It was the most beautiful and best made weapon I've ever handled'


Another bald headed raptor of a pensioner proudly boasted 'we had the only active, government funded resistance network in place before the nazis landed. Even the French Resistance were after the fact, we were waiting before that even happened'


CRUSH THE BOSCHE etc

 

[Me76]

Hanna. I haven't watched an action film for ages and really enjoyed it.

 

[starfish]

See No Evil. A WWE produced slasher horror starring the wrestler Kane in which your typical hot US delinquent teens get fucked up in various gruesome ways.

 

[DexterTCN]

Hanna. I haven't watched an action film for ages and really enjoyed it.

It was ok, Hit Girl probably spoiled it a bit for me.

 

[redsquirrel]

A Shock to the System - One of those corporate America is literally murder flicks, starring Michael Caine. Not very good really, I think it was supposed to be a black comedy but it wasn't very funny to start with and gave up any attempt at humour about half-way through and just became a, not very good, crime film.

Little Murders - this is a genuine black comedy and the fist half in particular is great, the wedding with Donald Sutherland as the reverend is very funny. The second half with the unsolved murders etc I didn't think worked as well.

 

[DexterTCN]

Another Earth.

Very impressive sub-scifi film. It's so well done it almost seems like a book sometimes. I don't know if it has a twist at the end, it might have, it might not. Not sure.

It was written and directed by the same guy, sometimes that's rubbish, sometimes it's great but they only have one movie in them, sometimes blah blah. This, by the law of averages, is the best thing Mike Cahill will ever do.