What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Reno
The In Kraut
UNtouchable!
I've mentioned it only today
I think all the evidence points to the film being called The Intouchables in English.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I am watching Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. It's so bad that Johnny Vaughn is in it.
It is sexist, homophobic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic drivel, but it is very funny.
It is sexist, homophobic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic drivel, but it is very funny.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I think all the evidence points to the film being called The Intouchables in English.
Really?
Reno
The In Kraut
I made it to the end it was bloody awful. I suppose we generally only get the best of Korean cinema here, because this showed that they can make really bad films as well. The sentimentality was laid on with a trowel and there were incongruous slapstick scenes throughout the film for comic relief. One comedy relief character, a cook, obviously looked to Jar Jar Binks for his inspiration and was the most grating human character since Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element. The one poor family who just moved into the luxury building because they won the lottery are constantly being made fun of for their lack of sophistication and are the cause of much hilarity in the middle of a 9/11 scenario (it's actually twin towers). The special effects were fantastic and the film looked a lot more expensive than it was, but the action scenes were muddled and unclear and I needed rewinding a few times to figure out who had just snuffed it.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Sightseers- amusing rather than anything else , although there were a couple of bits of dialogue that made me laugh. It reminded me in bits of Nighty Night , which the prompted me to think that Nighty Night was in fact a lot better. Nevertheless very watchable.
Ha - I came on here to see if you'd watched it. Yeh, loved it when Banksy was on about the film he'd madeYeah I really liked this too. Just shows what you can get away with in the art world with a bit of hype and being enigmatic.
The fella wasn't convinced that actually WAS Banksy either...one of the great things about that film is that you can totally dissect it, in so many ways.Anyway, my mate cancelled on me Sunday night - she was gonna bring round a DVD of Whistle Down the Wind. So I watched Notes on a Scandal again, and then Felicia's Journey, which was really quite good considering Bob Hoskins played a main role in it. The young Irish lass in it was impossibly beautiful.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yeah it's underrated little film, it's quite a strange film part black comedy, part psychological thriller.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
My Brother The Devil - great ensemble acting, good performances, beautifully shot, much more interesting than the usual London endz film ... there's a lot going on in it, maybe too much (not sure all the dramatic strands are that well integrated) but really really worth a watch. I want to see more from director Sally al Hoseini and hope that it's got her foot into all the right doors.
Berberian Sound Studio - bit meh, for me, but perhaps I wasn't really in the right mood. Never a good sign when you watch something that's within the neat hour-and-a-half runtime and still think it could/should have been half an hour shorter. A bit chilly and over-thought-out, perhaps, too much a film for people who know about film made by people who also know almost too much about film, except for what actually hooks in a real live audience. Even though I should have a professional interest in any film about the mechanics of sound production it just ... didn't ... grab me. It's intelligent and fun enough but it didn't really hit the spot. Toby Jones brilliant as always, though. And top marks for creative (ab)use of vegetables.
Berberian Sound Studio - bit meh, for me, but perhaps I wasn't really in the right mood. Never a good sign when you watch something that's within the neat hour-and-a-half runtime and still think it could/should have been half an hour shorter. A bit chilly and over-thought-out, perhaps, too much a film for people who know about film made by people who also know almost too much about film, except for what actually hooks in a real live audience. Even though I should have a professional interest in any film about the mechanics of sound production it just ... didn't ... grab me. It's intelligent and fun enough but it didn't really hit the spot. Toby Jones brilliant as always, though. And top marks for creative (ab)use of vegetables.
Virtual Blue
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The Wire Season 4, Episode 4. Has more action than previous but so far, I prefer Season 2.
Walking Dead Season 3 - up to episode 10. Entertaining and best season by far.
And tonight Game of Thrones.
I should start watching films again - need more time (though I have heard Mad Men is really good
)
Walking Dead Season 3 - up to episode 10. Entertaining and best season by far.
And tonight Game of Thrones.
I should start watching films again - need more time (though I have heard Mad Men is really good
)
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Looper
Reno
The In Kraut
Upstream Color, Shane Carruth's follow up to Primer, a film I didn't really get on with as I'm rubbish at maths. Despite it's semi-experimental nature I found this one far more accessible. Beautifully shot and intriguing, though towards the end more wilfully obscure than mysterious. Its ideas, which blend Cronenberg style biology gone bad with Carruth's puzzle-box approach, aren't actually that difficult to figure out. The arty, fractured narrative allows for omissions which seem to cover over gaps in the plot rather than being extra layers of meaning. That said, it's certainly very stylish and unusual and there is a distinct vision at work. Well worth checking out if you are into sci-fi that is more about ideas than spectacle. Great sound design too and a lovely final shot.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Dr Parnassus. It's been sitting there for months and every time I pick it up, I put it back again. Decided I had to do it as I want to return it to owner. Wanted to switch it off within half hour, but gave it an hour and a half before switching off.
Waste of time. I shall attempt to watch the remaining half hour at some stage before returning it on Sunday
Waste of time. I shall attempt to watch the remaining half hour at some stage before returning it on Sunday
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I really liked that
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Two Days in New York.
Julie Delpy has issues when the flat she shares with neurotic middle-class African-American Chris Rock is invaded by her father, sister, and her sister's obnoxious dope-smoking boyfriend.
At first I thought this was going to be hit-and-miss at best, but it was not bad at all. An example of the kind of movies Wes Anderson thinks he's making (no whimsy, mind).
Julie Delpy has issues when the flat she shares with neurotic middle-class African-American Chris Rock is invaded by her father, sister, and her sister's obnoxious dope-smoking boyfriend.
At first I thought this was going to be hit-and-miss at best, but it was not bad at all. An example of the kind of movies Wes Anderson thinks he's making (no whimsy, mind).
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