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

[butchersapron]

Mid August Lunch. Same fella who did Gomorrah, Gianni Di Gregorio. Watched it as it's filmed in Trastevere where I'm going next week. 75 minutes bout a likeable bloke living with his mum. Other elderly women are left with him to care for and they all eat some gorgeous looking food. It's a nice little feel good film.

You just reminded me i have the new film from the bloke who directed Gommorah to watch Reality.

 

[Part 2]

Cheers butch, I'll check that out too. I've got another, Salt of Life to watch today.

In fact I think my mate went to see Reality at the weekend.

 

[butchersapron]

Cheers butch, I'll check that out too. I've got another, Salt of Life to watch today.

In fact I think my mate went to see Reality at the weekend.

Let us know what you think, may grab them two.

 

[Mapped]

This is 40 - some hilarious bits, a bit long for a comedy but well worth the watch and contains a lot of stuff that mid-30's-40's people would relate to

7.5/10

Mrs Mapped watched this on Sunday and told me I'd hate it, so I've deleted it off my HDD

 

[Yetman]

Mrs Mapped watched this on Sunday and told me I'd hate it, so I've deleted it off my HDD

Ha! Yeah you probably would, it's alright like, better than a lot of comedies currently out but a bit too long and BLATANTLY sponsored by Apple!

 

[Yetman]

The new Total Recall is ace btw. Flying cars and a lift to Australia (instead of Mars)

 

[Virtual Blue]

Searching for Sugar Man - I was shocked. sad. sadder. happy. sad and happy again. Great documentary.

 

[Mapped]

The new Total Recall is ace btw. Flying cars and a lift to Australia (instead of Mars)

I hated that one as well How can an action film manage to be so boring!

Anything you recommend from now I'll give a wide berth

 

[Yetman]

I hated that one as well How can an action film manage to be so boring!

Anything you recommend from now I'll give a wide berth

Haha! It was only for the nostalgia that I actually watched it, and ended up enjoying it quite a lot. One bit with a flying car falling from the sky was great. Mind you I was a bit oozed up when I watched it

 

[Part 2]

Let us know what you think, may grab them two.

Salt of Life is a bit of a romcom, his mum in a home, he feels like he's growing old and goes looking for a lover. It's obviously supposed to follow on from Mid August Lunch but I'm sure there was a line in that about him never having had any romance in his life and then in this one he's living with a wife and daughter. It could be a Hugh Grant film. I wouldn't be in a big rush to see it tbh.

 

[DrRingDing]

Blood for Dracula
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071233/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Fuck watching Stoker this is far more entertaining. You'll end up siding with the moany and sulky Count. There's a mysoginist, rapist Leninist in it who ends up have a political arguement with Dracula.

This gets the RingDing seal of approval.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I hated that one as well How can an action film manage to be so boring!

Anything you recommend from now I'll give a wide berth

Yeah me too. How a film, with a decent story behind it, millions of dollars and some brilliant effects can have me falling asleep the first time and then simply walking out due to boredom the second is beyond me.

It's probably due to the ramping up of the action and forgetting that 'the story' is what made the actual story good. There are no fancy CGI kungfu moments in books.

The Island is the prime example of this. What a fantastic film it could have been, with all sorts of interesting and difficult moral dilemmas for the audience to empathize with.
But no.
There is a baddie, who is consumed by badness and greed, some goodies, a double cross and impossible stunts with helicopters and BIG BIG explosions to the max. Fuck the story.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Same. Total Recall remake was shit.
I switched off less than halfway in. Just didn't give a fuck.

 

[Part 2]

The Little Fugitive. 1950s film, 7 year old kid is tricked into thinking he's killed his brother and runs away to Coney Island. The acting is a bit shit but the film is great as a historical document, great footage of Coney Island. Like a weegee film.

 

[rubbershoes]

Sightseers

It's a charming indie film on the delights of caravanning in the UK. Very funny too and the two leads give great performances

 

[Part 2]

Woke up and watched Meantime. It's still Mike Leigh's best for me. Phil Daniels and Tim Roth never gave better performances imo. (Quadrophenia and Made In Britain are on par mind).

 

[butchersapron]

Salt of Life is a bit of a romcom, his mum in a home, he feels like he's growing old and goes looking for a lover. It's obviously supposed to follow on from Mid August Lunch but I'm sure there was a line in that about him never having had any romance in his life and then in this one he's living with a wife and daughter. It could be a Hugh Grant film. I wouldn't be in a big rush to see it tbh.

Ta.

 

[8115]

I didn't think much of Salt of Life really. It doesn't really go anywhere.

I watched Poppy Shakespeare on 4od. It was great.

 

[Reno]

I watched My Brother the Devil, by far the best of the recent gang/council estate dramas and certainly better than the melodramatic Ill Manors. It had a dreamy/lyrical quality that reminded me a little of Fish Tank and was a first time feature film by writer/director Sally Al Hosaini. Looking forward to what she does next, she is a talent to watch out for.

I also watched the cocaine episode of season 2 of Girls, which was hilarious.

 

[Dandred]

Just watching Goodbye Lennin, can't believe it took me so long to get round to watching it. I've been meaning to watch it since I missed seeing it at a German film festival years ago.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Micmacs. Hated it. Quirky, annoying shite for no reason. The only film I've liked by those guys is Delicatessen... and, um, maybe Alien Resurrection just slightly.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Micmacs. Hated it. Quirky, annoying shite for no reason. The only film I've liked by those guys is Delicatessen... and, um, maybe Alien Resurrection just slightly.

Watch it stoned, you may change your opinion

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Watch it stoned, you may change your opinion

I doubt it! I remember disliking City of Lost Children (which looked like it was going to be awesome) and hated Amelie. They have a habit of creating very irritating characters.

 

[spawnofsatan]

I couldn't get on with City either, visually stunning, but it just didn't work for me.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Yeah, they got the visuals right in their films...I like weird stuff like David Lynch, etc, but he uses weirdness for a purpose (I think).

 

[spawnofsatan]

Have you seen Dead man?

 

[Reno]

Micmacs. Hated it. Quirky, annoying shite for no reason. The only film I've liked by those guys is Delicatessen... and, um, maybe Alien Resurrection just slightly.

Same here. I liked Delicatessen, but otherwise I loathe Jeunet and Caro and their digitally over-processed, saccharine "tears of a clown" whimsy.

 

[Reno]

Watch it stoned, you may change your opinion

I have never seen a crap film that gets better when stoned.

 

[belboid]

Tales of Hoffman.

Such a gorgeous film, and amazingly involving, considering its an opera

 

[frogwoman]

Watching LOTR, I swear I haven't seen this film though. I thought I had watched all of them but I think I might have only have watched one. Now watching the part where the evil elephant things are killing everyone on the battlefield.