What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Saw that over Xmas, really liked it. Also I thought is was surprisingly progressive in many ways for 1947
avu9lives
famous five member
The Thing with Two Heads (1972) (or a man stood behind another guys back as close as possible) hahaha. Its one hell of a fecked up movie and dont think its possible ta put into words. When they chase the escaped gorilla though and find sat in supermarket eatin bananas had me laughin like a lunatic.
Reno
The In Kraut
True, especially when compared something like Brief Encounter. Here the wife hops into bed with a convict and doesn't think twice about it. And the film doesn't condemn her for it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sucker Punch - a load of old toss. Wank fantasy toss.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Oil City Confidential" - excellent
Reno
The In Kraut
...your flatmate again ?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No, me
it was £3 in Sainsbury's
Reno
The In Kraut
You've been robbed.No, me
This was on BBC2 last night. Didn't get to see it last night but will watch it on iplayer.
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Ill Manors - Good film but pretty grim and although it felt at one bit like it had been going on forever (it's just over 2hours) it is well worth a watch (if you want to watch something that isn't that cheery overall)
Hunger Games - Was smashed by this point so easily pleased, thought it was pretty decent if not a little cheesy.
Hunger Games - Was smashed by this point so easily pleased, thought it was pretty decent if not a little cheesy.
golightly
economically inactive
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Silence - grim, earnest, depressing German crime shocker about a paeophile (double) murderer and a sidekick whose life and sanity he compromises ... and also (more widely) about death, grief, love, compromise and all of that. Beautifully photographed. Rather seedy in approach and perhaps uncomfortably close to misery porn at times. Not fun.
The Omega Man I'd never seen this! Stonking 70s blaxploitation soundtrack, and some really imaginative and memorable shots of deserted American cityscapes. But still painfully / laughably dated and creaky in places in its contrasting of Good Guy Survivor Charlton Heston and the Bad Guy survivors / vampires he must battle . I already knew about the un-originality of the "last man on earth" plot and that this is based on same book as I Am Legend, etc, so wasn't expecting miracles. But I honestly couldn't see why this is such a cult film (except maybe because of its being part of a streak of 70s post-apocalypse movies in general.) For me its main interest was in the freaky wig-out-ness of seeing Charlton Heston, today's uberconservative, archRepublican, face of Moses, hand of the NRA, engage with the counterculture (including shagging a black lass - a vampire to boot - and moving in with a bunch of hippies in a cult). Couldn't quite 'read' what his reaction to the surviving film of Woodstock was meant to be (rueful? ridiculing it? missing it like mad?) ... or how much irony was at play.
Killing them Softly - bit of a weird one, this ... close to being a heist-goes-wrong-by-numbers effort (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Killer Joe etc), and doesn't really redefine any of the cliched gangsters-and-hitmen archetypes all that well, but it has a strange woozy pace and a welcomely eerie/unfamiliar feel to the plotting and dialogue. Absolutely corking cast, most of whom are obviously having some fun and getting involved rather than just phoning it in (James Gandolfini particularly good on this, as a character who's sort of Soprano's even-less-lovable alter ego); and tho the expressionistic camerawork goes over the top at times (OK, yes, you are slowing down the frames and pulling the focus to illustrate a heroin high, or to punch home a killing, I GET IT already ) it has moments of genuine beauty and weirdness as well. I have to love any American crime movie where Driving Ceaseless Rain and Urban Decay are (or ought to be) the lead players too. However, a note to the filmmaker: 50% or more of humanity is female ... surely there was / could have been / should have been SOME sort of female character over and above a charming-and-stroppy hooker in this screenplay?
The Omega Man I'd never seen this! Stonking 70s blaxploitation soundtrack, and some really imaginative and memorable shots of deserted American cityscapes. But still painfully / laughably dated and creaky in places in its contrasting of Good Guy Survivor Charlton Heston and the Bad Guy survivors / vampires he must battle . I already knew about the un-originality of the "last man on earth" plot and that this is based on same book as I Am Legend, etc, so wasn't expecting miracles. But I honestly couldn't see why this is such a cult film (except maybe because of its being part of a streak of 70s post-apocalypse movies in general.) For me its main interest was in the freaky wig-out-ness of seeing Charlton Heston, today's uberconservative, archRepublican, face of Moses, hand of the NRA, engage with the counterculture (including shagging a black lass - a vampire to boot - and moving in with a bunch of hippies in a cult). Couldn't quite 'read' what his reaction to the surviving film of Woodstock was meant to be (rueful? ridiculing it? missing it like mad?) ... or how much irony was at play.
Killing them Softly - bit of a weird one, this ... close to being a heist-goes-wrong-by-numbers effort (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Killer Joe etc), and doesn't really redefine any of the cliched gangsters-and-hitmen archetypes all that well, but it has a strange woozy pace and a welcomely eerie/unfamiliar feel to the plotting and dialogue. Absolutely corking cast, most of whom are obviously having some fun and getting involved rather than just phoning it in (James Gandolfini particularly good on this, as a character who's sort of Soprano's even-less-lovable alter ego); and tho the expressionistic camerawork goes over the top at times (OK, yes, you are slowing down the frames and pulling the focus to illustrate a heroin high, or to punch home a killing, I GET IT already ) it has moments of genuine beauty and weirdness as well. I have to love any American crime movie where Driving Ceaseless Rain and Urban Decay are (or ought to be) the lead players too. However, a note to the filmmaker: 50% or more of humanity is female ... surely there was / could have been / should have been SOME sort of female character over and above a charming-and-stroppy hooker in this screenplay?
Reno
The In Kraut
I'm not sure it's that big a cult film, more an example of a decently budgeted sci-fi flick in pre-Star Wars times, when that kind of thing wasn't so common yet.The first half is not bad and the Rob Grainer score is classic, but once the albino mutants dominate the plot it gets silly and becomes another failed adaptation of I Am Legend.
When Heston made the film he was still very much a liberal. He was active in the civil rights movement, was pro-gun control and he was opposed to Vietnam. He didn't turn into a rightwing nut till the 80s. So maybe he really did enjoy Woodstock.
Reno
The In Kraut
It makes perfect sense when sober.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Thor.
Bit of a nothing film.
Bit of a nothing film.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
That reminds me, I have that on DVD but have never watched it. I am told it is great, but I have never been in the right mood, and then I forgot.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Totally..one of the worst of the multitude being thrown at us these days, (I think he's there for the girls). He's good in Avengers though....well he has at least one brilliant line.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I think it could have been a fairly interesting film but it did just about everything wrong.
I think the first and maybe biggest mistake is when the leading lady fights her first CGI foes. She is a bit crap and they come at her full on and smack her right across a court yard and through a wall or something.
Are we supposed to be worrying about her or rooting for her? She just gets up. Basically she is indestructible or something, there is no jeopardy any more, from there on in we are just watching a CGI battle play out and we know she can only win.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I didn't like the Avengers. Some good turns in Stark, Banner and thor though.
I can't remember how Thor got there. He was in Asguard at the end of the movie I just watched.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I didn't want to like it, tbh. I did though.....mostly. Stupid fucking Renner shouldn't have been in it, or some others....but it was very funny. The action was mostly predictable and boring apart from the hulk stuff but there were touches here and there...banner and stark, like you said, things like that.
Hulk v Loki. Could become a movie classic, that clip.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I find the fight scenes in these kind of things as dull as anything. It reminds you that a good film is not about crazy effects. It's like when the commodore 64 forgot that graphics do not make the game, the game makes the game.
Reno
The In Kraut
I liked the dialogue scenes in The Avengers, because Whedon writes great dialogue, but I found the action scenes tedious. I wished the sequel would be a superhero ensemble drama where they just sit around and chat. The Big Chill or Diner in spandex.
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