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

We had 3 of our nieces staying with us again this weekend & despite me wanting to watch Evil Dead 2, we actually watched The Shawshank Redemption which they liked & Planes, Trains & Automobiles which they thought was hilarious.
 
Reno said:
In the end there is the reveal of what happened to him, so not sure why you think the film ignores the incident. While I usually hate films using
child abuse
as a dramatic device, here it was unusually well handled in that he couldn't stop loving the person who had done this to him. I actually thought this was better than many of these type of films, with Ezra Miller particularly good as the gay best mate. The only thing I found odd was that a group of kids who are obsessed with 70s and 80s music would not know Bowie's Heroes.
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that wasn't the bit I was referring to. I meant
his best mate shooting himself
. That was the supposed reason that he was messed up. What you mention is the late reveal, that really underlay everything.

Ezra Miller was straight out of Glee, and all of them were actually the absurdly intelligent but introspective, or brilliantly flamboyant or whatever - it's the screenwriters myth of why they were a quiet introspective child at school - they were brilliant actually, were it not for that trauma/parenting/whatever. Naah, you were just a bog standard, geeky awkward teen, the same as everyone else. And teenage parties were never that good.

Not knowing Heroes (or knowing anyone who wouldn't know it instantly) was absurd - only very very vaguely made up for by the fact that it was meant to be some shitty, depressing, Fleetwood Mac song.
 
Memoirs of a Geisha - not great, but some beautiful scenes.

Fish Tank - I didn't really think it was all that really.

Tin tin - really, really engrossing. Some great laugh out loud bits.
 
belboid said:
that wasn't the bit I was referring to. I meant
his best mate shooting himself
. That was the supposed reason that he was messed up. What you mention is the late reveal, that really underlay everything.
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belboid said:
Ezra Miller was straight out of Glee, and all of them were actually the absurdly intelligent but introspective, or brilliantly flamboyant or whatever - it's the screenwriters myth of why they were a quiet introspective child at school - they were brilliant actually, were it not for that trauma/parenting/whatever. Naah, you were just a bog standard, geeky awkward teen, the same as everyone else. And teenage parties were never that good.

Not knowing Heroes (or knowing anyone who wouldn't know it instantly) was absurd - only very very vaguely made up for by the fact that it was meant to be some shitty, depressing, Fleetwood Mac song.
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I thought the film made it pretty clear that the abuse was the real underlying problem and the reason for his lack of self-confidence, otherwise it wouldn't have been afforded the greater importance in the story than the suicide of his friend.

They were intelligent characters, but not absurdly so. Like with most films the characters are a little more eloquent than those in real life, but that doesn't mean it's telling some big lie in suggesting that teenagers can be smart and sensitive. Not every teenager is a thick fuck, I don't think I or my friends were.

Ezra Miller was one of the more rounded gay teenage characters I've seen in a mainstream film. If you think that him participating in The Rocky Horror Picture Show makes him stereotype, then so was I. Many young gay men experiment with their feminine side, so in that way it's not unrealistic and he was far from some mincing caricature. And gay teenagers in films like this were usually neutered and never allowed to have a sex life or be attractive, think of the sad sack in Fame. And he was no musical theatre queen so the Glee comparison is way off.

And I went to some fucking great parties as a student, so I pity you. :D
 
Casually Red said:
Just to explain about Red State . Its about a Fred Phelps style religious cult in the USA who run about killing homosexuals and anyone else they sexually disapprove of and then picketting the funerals . They then adopt the internet to try and lure wide eyed high school boys into group sex sessions with lonely housewives, which they classify as gay, in order to kill them. And theyve got a secure compound packed with a hoarded arsenal of weaponry waiting for the rapture and end of days. And it all kicks off big style.
Well worth seeing , Quentin Tarantino was ecstatic about it . Clever bit in it were they discuss the Phelps family and the feds describe them as serial litigators, not serial killers, and you realise the film makers are drawing a big distinction in order to ensure the Phelps family dont sue them .
The performances were brilliant, especially from the preacher, and you really havent a fucking clue whats about to happen next . Its clever .
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The ending of that film is superb.
 
Ruby Sparks, a pretty good indie film which starts out as a quirky sub-Charlie Kaufman meta-fiction but then takes a darker turn in the second half and becomes more interesting. It's about a young novelist suffering writing block following his successful first novel, who starts writing about his dream girl, who then materialises in the real world. He wrote her as his ideal of a woman and accordingly she turns into a smart, self-sufficient human being. The problem is that he isn't quite on her level as a human being and when she starts seeing though him and cracks appear in the relationship, he starts re-writing and manipulating her with increasingly sinister results. It's an interesting spin on the Pygmalion myth and it's dealt with in a reasonably thoughtful way, even if it is a little flat as a piece of film-making. Worth a watch though.
 
Reno said:
I thought the film made it pretty clear that the abuse was the real underlying problem and the reason for his lack of self-confidence, otherwise it wouldn't have been afforded the greater importance in the story than the suicide of his friend.

They were intelligent characters, but not absurdly so. Like with most films the characters are a little more eloquent than those in real life, but that doesn't mean it's telling some big lie in suggesting that teenagers can be smart and sensitive. Not every teenager is a thick fuck, I don't think I or my friends were.

Ezra Miller was one of the more rounded gay teenage characters I've seen in a mainstream film. If you think that him participating in The Rocky Horror Picture Show makes him stereotype, then so was I. Many young gay men experiment with their feminine side, so in that way it's not unrealistic and he was far from some mincing caricature. And gay teenagers in films like this were usually neutered and never allowed to have a sex life or be attractive, think of the sad sack in Fame. And he was no musical theatre queen so the Glee comparison is way off.

And I went to some fucking great parties as a student, so I pity you. :D
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what a fucking weird post. yes, it was blatantly obvious that the latter was more important, I have no idea why you feel the need to point that out. The point was the suicide was completely and utterly skimped over. As an explanation - which we were clearly meant to believe to be THE reason until ten minutes from the end - it was very poor.

I have equally no idea why you think the only alternative to being fucking absurdly insightful teenagers they would have to be a 'thick fuck'. That's your own projection that is. Likewise your description of Millers character, the Rocky Horror bits are irrelevant (and hackeneyed) - altho it is absurd that a studenty production of it could apparently be going on months. He was an archetype, there was nothing in his character that made him different to a thousand gay teens in such movies (or at least the ones made in the thirty years since Fame). Millers performance was probably the best thing in the film, but that wasnt difficult!

And I'm jolly glad you went to good student parties, but this wasnt a student party, it was a schoolkids party. He was meant to be 14 ffs!

A trite film full of 80's cliches, with 90's music, and kids from the 00's. Pisspoor. In my ever so humble...
 
"Absurdly intelligent" is no less of a projection than "thick fuck" so I was countering your exaggeration with mine.

That wasn't a student production, it was a midnight screening of the film. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is famous for the audience participating with the characters on the screen. That has been going on since the 70s and still does now and it has been a rite of passage for many kids who saw themselves more as the outsiders at school. There is a similar scene in Fame.
 
Reno said:
"Absurdly intelligent" is no less of a projection than "thick fuck" so I was countering your exaggeration with mine.

That wasn't a student production, it was a midnight screening of the film. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is famous for the audience participating with the characters on the screen. That has been going on since the 70s and still does now and it has been a rite of passage for many kids who saw themselves more as the outsiders at school. There is a similar scene in Fame.
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it WAS a production, you see them doing it, and cajoling kiddo into taking part. It was not just them 'participating' at a screening. The fact that they do something similar in a thirty year old movie just shows how unoriginal this trite drivel was tho.
 
belboid said:
it WAS a production, you see them doing it, and cajoling kiddo into taking part. It was not just them 'participating' at a screening. The fact that they do something similar in a thirty year old movie just shows how unoriginal this trite drivel was tho.
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It was not a production, you could see the film running behind them. That's how it works. The film shows at a theatre, there is a group of people who play the same characters that are on the screen and newbies are often encouraged to get up and participate as well.

And yes, of course the film was absolutely awful for repeating what is a pretty universal experience for a certain type of kid more than 30 years after another film did it.
 
Really? For that long a time? Well, fair do's. Once would have seemed plausible, twice - some time apart - seemed not. And if that was the only unoriginal thing, I could let it off. But everything about the film was unoriginal. A dull addition to the genre.
 
Baaria - same director as Cinema Paradiso, which I really must watch one of these days. Looks beautiful but even at 2hrs 30 mins felt it had been truncated. Would like to see a director's cut, if there is one.

To Kill a Mocking Bird - Saw it years ago and it still is a mighty film. Trivia wise, I was fascinated to find out that Scout's real life brother is Saturday Night Fever director John Badham...
 
Frankenweenie by Tim Burton...starring Tim Burton. Predictable but funny enough to be passable....dozens of movie references in there. The younger ones will enjoy it a lot more but it's good enough to pass a shortish hour and a half.
 
"The kids are alright" (was ok. not as good as I thought it was gonna be)
"Seeking a friend for the end of the world" (quite good, better than I thought it was gonna be)
"Dispicable me" (I might have cried a bit :oops: )
"harry potter and the goblet of fire " (just for the comfort)
 
Mama - different take on two kids left in the woods with a wicked witch. I liked the twist at the end Mrs Chicken thought the end spoilt it. Was reasonable enough to while a way an hour as long as you don't attempt to follow the back story too much as it doesn't hold up - nonetheless i did enjoy it including the little twist.
 
renegadechicken said:
Mama - different take on two kids left in the woods with a wicked witch. I liked the twist at the end Mrs Chicken thought the end spoilt it. Was reasonable enough to while a way an hour as long as you don't attempt to follow the back story too much as it doesn't hold up - nonetheless i did enjoy it including the little twist.
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I really liked the film, but what did you consider to be a twist ?
 
renegadechicken said:
That it didn't have the usual happy ending
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Horror films tend to go in either way, but unreservedly happy endings are not that common in the genre. It's not what I'd consider a twist though which means that something is revealed that's completely out of the blue. It was a bitter sweet ending and it kind of made sense considering that
the younger girl was probably still more emotionally attached to Mama than to her adoptive parents.
 
V for Vendetta tother night, and last night it was Melancholia - enjoyed both films. Always enjoy a good apocalype anyway :D thought Charlotte G was fantastic in it :cool:

Haven't watched films for ages but recently started watching a few with the fella - surprising how many he hasn't seen.

Tonight we're gonna watch Leon :cool:
 
sojourner said:
V for Vendetta tother night, and last night it was Melancholia - enjoyed both films. Always enjoy a good apocalype anyway :D thought Charlotte G was fantastic in it :cool:

Haven't watched films for ages but recently started watching a few with the fella - surprising how many he hasn't seen.

Tonight we're gonna watch Leon :cool:
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Melancholia? I have not seen. Is that the 1989 or the 2011 one? They are both on LoveFilm so can watch online :)
 
The Front Line, another Korean one. Started watching it ages ago, but it was a bit slow-going, so had another go last night and stuck with it.
 
my internet was slowing down by film watching - it's superfast now so have been watching loads of stuff on Netflix and Lovefilm

Cold Light of Day - Bruce Willis as a CIA agent, gets his family dragged into Spanish Shenanigans - not too bad as action movie/thrillers go
Tombstone - I prefer this one to the Costner one - 'Tell them Hell is coming with me' etc
Tuff Turf - James Spader and Robert Downey Jr in 80s High School shenanigans - very dated - but I have a weakness for 80s High School movies
 
The Irish gangster film Perrier's Bounty.

The same team that made the much superior Intermission.

As much as I love Jim Broadbent he was seriously miscast in this movie. The film was all over the place, not knowing if it was a straight up thriller or a black comedy but it was fun spotting The Game of Thrones actors in the cast.
 
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