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

[Part 2]

Just watched McCullin, the documentary about the photographer.

It's excellent, but very bleak as would be expected really. Hearing him speak about the various hellish situations he's been in is just breathtaking. I was left wondering if anyone could claim to have seen as much in terms of human devastation, he must have so many horrible images stored in his memory. What an amazing man.

 

[The39thStep]

The Grey.

Did I miss something?

 

[Firky]

Jack Reacher.

The worst film I have seen this year and one of the worst action films I have ever seen.

"I don't mind the site of blood."
"Because you're relieved you're not pregnant"

 

[Voley]

"I don't mind the site of blood."
"Because you're relieved you're not pregnant"

Really?

 

[Firky]

Really?

The dialogue is awful, it is so unnatural you'd be forgiven for thinking the scriptwriter has never had a conversation with a human being in their life. It isn't even so bad it is funny, it is just shit.

It even has a shootout scene in the rain, set in a quarry with big diggers and dumper-trucks

 

[Voley]

Tom Cruise is only ever any good when he's playing a total twat. Magnolia - total twat, good performance. Tropic Thunder, the same. I think it's because he doesn't have to act much.

 

[Part 2]

Following, Christopher Nolan. $6k budget? Great stuff.

This morning I watched Antichrist. Bit of an odd choice to watch on a Sunday morning. It's very good though. I've had it sat there waiting on the hard drive for ages and forgot anything I'd ever read about it. Charlotte Gainsbourg's performance is outstanding. It's definitely one that left me thinking, plenty I didn't quite get but I'm not sure a rewatch will be on the cards anytime soon.

 

[Firky]

Tom Cruise is only ever any good when he's playing a total twat. Magnolia - total twat, good performance. Tropic Thunder, the same. I think it's because he doesn't have to act much.

I quite liked him in Vanilla Sky.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched a film called Tiny Furniture. I didn't know anything at all about it.....and it was full of really annoying New York arty rich people being dicks to each other, but I actually enjoyed it a lot. The central character's story managed to be grounded and real, and funny. Writer, director, actor Lena Dunham was pretty fearless in exposing herself on screen and clearly doesn't mind being the butt of her own jokes to get her point across.

 

[Reno]

I watched a film called Tiny Furniture. I didn't know anything at all about it.....and it was full of really annoying New York arty rich people being dicks to each other, but I actually enjoyed it a lot. The central character's story managed to be grounded and real, and funny. Writer, director, actor Lena Dunham was pretty fearless in exposing herself on screen and clearly doesn't mind being the butt of her own jokes to get her point across.

I still haven't seen the film but it sounds pretty much like her TV series Girls, which I rather like.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I still haven't seen the film but it sounds pretty much like her TV series Girls, which I rather like.

I hadn't made the connection between the two actually. I've heard good things about Girls. Gonna give it a shot.

A lot of US indie films can try too hard to be both cool, neurotic and satirical......Tiny Furniture was very balanced and having just read up on Lena Dunham's background there's no reason why she wouldn't nail the subject matter. I liked the way it was understated and not show offy when depicting a world that is overstated and full of ego. Also, she did show some sympathy, even for the total pricks in the story.

 

[DexterTCN]

I quite liked him in Vanilla Sky.

He was a dick in that one.

 

[Reno]

Tom Cruise was alright early in his career when he still had was connected to something resembling real life, but since then he appears to have completely lost touch with how a regular human being behaves. I never find him believable in anything, he is like a personality void which I have to fill with an actor in my mind. He goes through the motions, but it's all surface. Even in roles where he plays a dick, like in Magnolia, he wasn't really that good. He got props for taking on such an unsympathetic role and for not being awful, but he still looked too controlled and self-conscious.

 

[Orang Utan]

He was great in Risky Business

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just watched Untouchable again.

 

[starfish]

Resurrecting The Street Walker. A young film maker finds a copy of an unfinished 80s horror & attempts to make the ending. It was filmed in a documentary style & i must have been still a lot hungover as i didnt realise it wasnt an actual documentary until the final few minutes.

 

[DexterTCN]

Tom Cruise was alright early in his career when he still had was connected to something resembling real life, but since then he appears to have completely lost touch with how a regular human being behaves. I never find him believable in anything, he is like a personality void which I have to fill with an actor in my mind. He goes through the motions, but it's all surface. Even in roles where he plays a dick, like in Magnolia, he wasn't really that good. He got props for taking on such an unsympathetic role and for not being awful, but he still looked too controlled and self-conscious.

He only seems to have one smile. Fucking alien.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?saf....667.12.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.12.img.wyeiPSTj6ig

 

[Reno]

I'm not sure how many smiles I've got ?

 

[Part 2]

My 12 year old is desperate to watch horror films, so we watched Jeepers Creepers. I knew it was rubbish and he's seen scarier stuff but he just took the piss all the way through, making it far more enjoyable than it would've been otherwise.

 

[DexterTCN]

My 12 year old is desperate to watch horror films, so we watched Jeepers Creepers. I knew it was rubbish and he's seen scarier stuff but he just took the piss all the way through, making it far more enjoyable than it would've been otherwise.

The Ring (Japanese version) should shut him up.

 

[thriller]

Tom Cruise is only ever any good when he's playing a total twat. Magnolia - total twat, good performance. Tropic Thunder, the same. I think it's because he doesn't have to act much.

tom cruise was excellent in Mission Impossible. And to think they were initially thinking of making it a team franchise like the original show. But Tommo took it as a one man show (vanity or not) and it was perfect. He was perfect in Minority Report. I liked Reacher. It certainly has been a hit at the box office. War of the worlds. Another Cruise good 'un. Collateral: great cruise movie. Haven't yet seen his new sci-fi, but its also got good reviews and with me: if it has tom cruise and it's sci-fi: I'm in.

If my user name was not thriller, it would have been tom cruise.

Now, I'm not saying all his films are awesome. I found tropic thunder a fucking bore.

 

[Part 2]

The Ring (Japanese version) should shut him up.

It's on the list

 

[Reno]

The Ring (Japanese version) should shut him up.

I showed Ring (The Ring is the US remake) to a 13 year old and he found it boring. I think it's a good horror film, but it has now been imitated by so many other films, Asian and American, that its power is somewhat diminished.

 

[thriller]

the japanese ring did scare me when I first saw it. that ending

 

[DexterTCN]

I showed Ring (The Ring is the US remake) to a 13 year old and he was very blase about it. I think it's a good horror film, but it has now been imitated by so many other films, Asian and American, that its power is somewhat diminished.

Totally...only works if you don't know.

That can be the joy of showing films to the young ones.

btw It's Ringu

 

[DexterTCN]

the japanese ring did scare me when I first saw it. that ending

 

[Reno]

Totally...only works if you don't know.

That can be the joy of showing films to the young ones.

btw It's Ringu

I know that the Japanese title is Ringu. For English speaking countries its title was Ring when it came out, not The Ring, which is a different film. Don't try to out-pedant me.

He didn't know anything about it and the film bored him. Horror films affect different people differently. When they have been ripped off many times they stop working because they don't look that original anymore in retrospect.

Posting the ending is not very scary out of context and is guaranteed to ruin the film for anybody who hasn't seen it, btw.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Ring (Japanese version) should shut him up.

i watched that half-cut with three friends and because one of them was in a cynical mood and taking the piss, it was impossible to take seriously and it just seemed like stupid nonsense.

 

[DexterTCN]

I know that the Japanese title is Ringu

No the Japanese title is リング

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Ring (Japanese version) should shut him up.

I didn't really find that scary