What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Voley
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The Master. Dunno how I felt about this tbh. Bit disappointed by it overall. Hard to put my finger on why - Philip Seymour Hoffman was up to his usual high standards in it and Joauquin (or however you fucking spell it) Phoenix was good at being pissed and awkward but there just wasn't much plot. Beautifully shot, genuinely interesting subject matter, atmospheric 1950's sets / clothes etc but not much of a story. A pity really as this could've been a great film.
Grabbers. Not bad. Ears out of Being Human seems to be everywhere ATM though.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Been watching more of Louis. It's funny. A politer Curb Your Enthusiasm.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Reign of Assassins - was hoping for decent chops and kicks and thrills and spills from this martial arts/history/magic effort, and expecting good things as John Woo coproduced and it stars Michelle Yeoh ... but it's just not much cop really. Not bonkers enough to be campy enjoyment, not beautifully designed or mad enough to be culty, and not polished enough to be a top-level blockbuster like Red Cliff or House of Flying Daggers etc. Not BAD, passed the time pleasantly enough ... just not very exciting.
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't like the term "feel good movie" but that's the one film in recent times which comes to closest to be just that for me. The combination of tentacly monsters and binge drinking makes me happy every time I watch this.
And the cast members all make a decent fist of acting drunk - Which is supposed to be quite difficult to pull off.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Voley
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Gruesome isn't it? I just watched it this evening. I made it all the way through but I don't know why it got such good reviews. Shit film.
Voley
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You did well to turn off then tbh. It gets worse.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Watched The Sorrow and the Pity just after reading the praise it got on that thread about documentaries. Everything people said and more. So many of the characters interviewed will stick with me - the two old farmer boy ex-maquis, some archetype of common decency; the former transvestite club singer turned SOE special agent; and the aristo ex-SS foreign legion volunteer to name a few.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Its a jaw-dropping, engrossing watch for sure. Never thought I'd sit and watch 3 hours of b&w subtitled documentary before.
I watched 'Fresh' last night, seen it before but quite some time ago. Its good how the chess metaphor isn't hammered into you eyeballs so relentlessly you are forced to understand the whole film in those terms. It's quite subtle in some ways.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
I LOOOOOOVE this film - and thought it was and still is hugely underrated. One of my favourites for its very calm, still, well-thought-out take on gangs-n-crime and 'young boy grows up in touch neighbourhood' tropes. Interestingly it also compeltely sidestepped all the usual 'urban movie=banging street soundtrack' decisions.
Also - another shocking senior moment : this film is now nearly 20 years old.
Most people involved in it have since had interesting-if-mixed careers (apart from N'Bushe Wright who seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.) But I can't understand why Sean Nelson, the young lead, isn't hugely famous by now.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Exactly. often sit through "worthy" stuff I think I ought to see where it's a grind but absolutely nothing of that here, time whizzed past better than most narrative films.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Daybreakers. Quite enjoyed it. Probably a better vampire/action hybrid film than Blade, if only because there's some decent blood and gore in it. 
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Reno
The In Kraut
You do and a nice bum it is.I'm sure someone told me you see Claire Danes' butt in this. And I missed it. Dammit!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I watched cloud atlas in a mildy drunken and sleepy state on the plane.
I think I liked it, however the makeup was really distracting. I would have prefered if they haddn't tried to do anything other than different ages. The westernising of the korean and the koreaning up of the westerners looked well odd. I think it would have been better just to leave it.
I quite like this style of film with several interacting stories, maybe I have a short attention span, but the way it was cut and mixed together at relivant points in each of the different stories felt quite masterful. Maybe I am a soft touch. I enjoyed it, and I did not expect to.
I also saw this is 40, which was very average but watchable. Just a long series of observations that didn't really lead anywhere storywise.
I flipped though a couple of other films but gave up on them, Wreck it Ralph and Skyfall didn:t really take.
I think I liked it, however the makeup was really distracting. I would have prefered if they haddn't tried to do anything other than different ages. The westernising of the korean and the koreaning up of the westerners looked well odd. I think it would have been better just to leave it.
I quite like this style of film with several interacting stories, maybe I have a short attention span, but the way it was cut and mixed together at relivant points in each of the different stories felt quite masterful. Maybe I am a soft touch. I enjoyed it, and I did not expect to.
I also saw this is 40, which was very average but watchable. Just a long series of observations that didn't really lead anywhere storywise.
I flipped though a couple of other films but gave up on them, Wreck it Ralph and Skyfall didn:t really take.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
My Brother Tom... kind of okay (a bit pretentious in places) and not an easy watch.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Le Capital/Capital - the new Costa-Gavras one. Awful confused shallow attempted viciousing of finance capital that appeared to defend french capital against a moral-free anglo-centric capital, that included the clumsiest rape-as-economics metaphor i've ever seen, some of the most lifeless acting i've seen outside Ali Macgraw and the worst artificial denunciation i think i've ever seen. Is this really the same person who made Z, State of Siege etc?
tony.c
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I watched 'The Grey'. Sounded promising, with Liam Neeson. Alaskan wilderness and wolves, what could be not to like? But turned out rather dull with the wolves as shadowy, demonic almost cartoon like, and although I had a (second hand) bluray the picture seemed grainy so even the Alaskan scenery wasn't that good. I was looking forward to watching it but was rather disappointed.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Don't know where else to put this, but I just watch the trailer for the new Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis which has just been screened at Cannes. Looks quite good. I don't go and watch that many films at the cinema these days but I might just go and watch that, when it comes out.
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