DotCommunist
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that orc thing as the main baddie ennit. You could have told the Hobbit in one film but there are merchandising opportunities to think of.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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that orc thing as the main baddie ennit. You could have told the Hobbit in one film but there are merchandising opportunities to think of.
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I have finally watched No by Pablo Lorrain. Beautiful. Perfect for right now. Pinochet was fucking evil. We can win.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Outrage Beyond - Takeshi Kitano's follow up to the excellent Outrage, no big changes, just the continuation of the story (oddly enough, with some characters who died in #1 still alive in #2). Gets the balance between violence and the political/business intrigues spot on. Johnny To's Election and Election 2 are still the high point of this genre but this is also recommended.
Reno
The In Kraut
Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, which I'd been meaning to watch again since I saw Stoker, which clumsily rips the film off only to add a fashionably misanthropic twist. The "reveal" in Stoker, which comes as no great surprise, is so much less effective than the creeping horror of discovering someone you think you knew well was someone else entirely. With the possible exception of Notorious this is my favourite Hitchcock from the 40s. I don't think Joseph Cotten was ever better than as serial killer Uncle Charlie, switching back and forth between being charming and brutally ruthless. Theresa Wright is also great as his niece Charlie and a very different type of heroine from Hitchcock's cool blondes.
Watched this last night, the 12 year old really enjoyed it. To make a Kermode judgement it has quite a few big laughs, maybe just short of his comedy qualification. The 'monster' scenes were well done and it was pretty threatening, although the 12 y.o wasn't scared obviously. Unfortunately the audio on the copy I have was a bit poor so couldn't turn it up loud without it distorting.
Also watched The Hunt. I was a bit knackered by then, never a good thing for me with subtitles. It was good. I'm still trying to decide whether the whole scenario in terms of the girl making the allegation in the first place was believable though. I' may try and talk the Mrs into watching it next time.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Big Daddy
I like Adam Sandler movies.
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Remus Harbank
Cake and whipped cream…
Marnie. Quite painful.
Voley
🐀
More Lord Of The Rings. Being perfectly honest I was beginning to think that this Blu-Ray thingy wasn't all that amazing really. Everything looked good on it, don't get me wrong, and decent enough value at fifty quid but there was only really 'Inception' that had looked amazing. Changed me mind after just watching the Ent battle and the Helm's Deep bit in 'The Two Towers', though. Totally ace. Even the opening scene just flying over the mountains looks great. You've just enough time to go 'ooh' at that and next thing you're plunging through the depths with Gandalf battling The Balrog. I thought I'd really watched all of these films quite enough but this has given them a new lease of life for me. I've got The Hobbit to watch this weekend too. Looking forward to all the battles in that.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Absolutely grand isn't it. So well made.
Have you seen the one about Bob Marley? Follows a very similar format and also excellently made.
threeminus
New Member
I finished watching Limitless. It was an okay movie.
Reno
The In Kraut
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
No, but you do.
Pingu
Credo
just watched this tonight... fuck me they had big balls racing back then...
eta and prost is a cunt
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Alphaville - only the second Godard film I've ever seen (A bout de soufflé being the other), last night probably wasn't the right time for it as I was knackered, kept drifting off and having to wake myself up, to do it justice I probably need to watch it again when I'm less tired.
Style wise I liked it as it made references to plenty of the things/themes I'm interested in, and Anna Karina is always good to look at. Plot wise I just found the whole 'society controlled by a computer' plot so hackneyed that I found it hard going, and I wasn't sure if it was a pastiche (like the noir elements clearly are) or whether that in 1965 the idea of a "logical society" was still a relatively new idea.
Style wise I liked it as it made references to plenty of the things/themes I'm interested in, and Anna Karina is always good to look at. Plot wise I just found the whole 'society controlled by a computer' plot so hackneyed that I found it hard going, and I wasn't sure if it was a pastiche (like the noir elements clearly are) or whether that in 1965 the idea of a "logical society" was still a relatively new idea.
Private Storm
Smell The Glove
The Sweeny. Avoid. Plan B doing plan A, when it should be plan z for him.
Reno
The In Kraut
The film omits a lot and turns Prost into a villain because it makes for more of a dramatic narrative. He and Senna reconciled and became friends, but the film leaves that out. Tempers run high and things are said in the heat of the moment, but I really don't think Prost was a cunt.
TruXta
tired
Shush you cretin.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Boardwalk empire, bought the season 1&2 boxset, really enjoying it, up to episode 6 now.
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