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

[Voley]

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.

I like the look of that, too. Loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk, I've heard.

I'd not heard the Dylan song on the trailer before either. Looks interesting.

 

[Reno]

Call Me Kuchu, documentary about a group of gay activists in Uganda, shittest place to be gay, which depressed the fuck out of me. Activist David Kato was murdered during the making of it.

I see that Wikipedia is getting re-edited daily with the official Ugandan government line that Kato got killed by a rent boy in a squabble over money, rather than because the national newspaper there put his photo on the front page, encouraging vigilantes to kill him.

 

[Reno]

Harold's Going Stiff, British low budget zombie film which is oddly moving. It's about the growing friendship between pensioner Harold, who is getting zombiefied at an unusually slow pace (and therefore of interest to science) and his young nurse, who appears to be rather lonely. The characters are drawn with unusual depth for this type of film and it's rather tender. I had a lump in my throat by the end, which you don't expect from a zombie film.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Robert and Frank- I thought this was to another coming of age film but was blown away in it's simplicity and straight story telling. Recommend.

 

[Idris2002]

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

A really good bit of fun, this - one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

The eponymous Tucker and Dale are a pair of amiable, good-hearted redneck chumps, who encounter a group of obnoxious "college kids" who mistake them for a pair of Deliverance-style psycho killers.

Hilarity ensues - as does extreme body horror. I'll say no more, as I don't want to give away too much of the plot.

Seriously though, I'd recommend you give this one a look.

 

[Yetman]

Piggy

Surprisingly good. Had the lad out of Sweet Sixteen (gimme mah fuckin gear) with a not-quite there English accent but it's a good revenge flick that goes from sad to a bit disturbing.

 

[redsquirrel]

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.

Amazing film, it really can't be praised too much.

 

[trabuquera]

Silver Linings Playbook and I honestly cannot see what all the fuss is about. some nice camerawork and Jennifer Lawrence is amazingly charismatic but overall this just felt to me as if it was getting far too much kudos for being "brave" enough to "tackle" mental health in a mainstream film... and "daring" enough to have a lead female role with a sexual past (shocking!) and the ending's disappointingly conventional. A film constantly patting itself on the back, it seemed to me.

then watched Children of Men again on telly last night and realised again just how beautifully it's done and what a fantastic director Alfonso Cuaron is, to make a largely ludicrous and clunkily God-ridden conceit work on such a large and unsettling scale.

 

[editor]

Children of Men is a brilliant film, criminally underrated.

 

[Firky]

Warm Bodies,

I was enjoying it until he met the girl about twenty minutes into the film.

5/10

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Got 500 days of Summer, Minority Report and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in the £3 aisle at tesco today. Can't decide which one first... Not seen Tinker... yet. Is it all that? The other two were both good, and deserved a rewatch that I've not yet got round to...

 

[Firky]

TTSS is great, good book too.

 

[Voley]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in the £3 aisle at tesco today. Can't decide which one first... Not seen Tinker... yet. Is it all that?

The remake? I really enjoyed that. Gary Oldman was ace in it.

 

[JimW]

The remake? I really enjoyed that. Gary Oldman was ace in it.

I enjoyed it too having been braced for it measuring up poorly against the telly version. If you did make a comparison sure I would prefer the latter but the remake was a good film in itself.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Ttss it is then. Cheers folks.

 

[starfish]

Harold's Going Stiff, British low budget zombie film which is oddly moving. It's about the growing friendship between pensioner Harold, who is getting zombiefied at an unusually slow pace (and therefore of interest to science) and his young nurse, who appears to be rather lonely. The characters are drawn with unusual depth for this type of film and it's rather tender. I had a lump in my throat by the end, which you don't expect from a zombie film.

We watched this recently, know exactly what you mean Had some funny moments too.

 

[Sprocket.]

Watched Assembly a film by Feng Xiaogang.
Awesome, terrific combat scenes and I felt overwhelmed in parts at the comradeship portrayed.
The human spirit to do the right thing whatever the cost.
Set during the Chinese Civil War it follows the story of a captain in the People's Liberation Army fighting against the Chinese Republic Army.
Better war story than Saving Private Ryan by far.

 

[Virtual Blue]

The Loved Ones - okay. not bad at all.

 

[Firky]

Fell asleep watching 'The Place Beyond the Pines' this afternoon. From what I saw it was like two or three films badly put together.

 

[Belushi]

Attenberg - unconvincing Greek character study. Some nice cinematography.

 

[r0bb0]

Rust and Bone, first film I've seen in ages.

 

[belboid]

The Hobbit last night. Kinda better than expected. It was rarely dull, tho there was plenty of 'wtf is this crap, that's not in the book?' I imagine it would have looked great on the big screen.

Room 237 this morning. Quite brilliant, mad and marvellous. I am convinced by all of their arguments, especially the one about the moon landings.

 

[Part 2]

Rust and Bone, first film I've seen in ages.

And?

 

[Firky]

The Hunger Games,

I watched it last year and didn't enjoy it. Found it a bit pointless and far from original... I still maintain that it isn't original and despite its faults I did enjoy it much more this time around. There's a few films (and books) I read last year and thought were shit because my head wasn't in hte right place for books and films, but I am going to see what else I dismissed as shit on first viewing.

 

[belboid]

after Room 237 this morning, what else could I watch?

Barry Lyndon.

Haven't watched it in years now. God, it's wonderful, the most sumptuous movie ever, so many brilliant cameos. And, most astoundingly, it makes Ryan O'Neill bearable. Bloody brilliant.

 

[butchersapron]

after Room 237 this morning, what else could I watch?

Barry Lyndon.

Haven't watched it in years now. God, it's wonderful, the most sumptuous movie ever, so many brilliant cameos. And, most astoundingly, it makes Ryan O'Neill bearable. Bloody brilliant.

It'a allright. Drags.

 

[belboid]

you do need to take advantage of the intermission, but as long as you do, it's stupdenous

 

[butchersapron]

you do need to take advantage of the intermission, but as long as you do, it's stupdenous

You decided to watch that rather than lightning bolt at ATP. Long time ago i know but...

 

[belboid]

You decided to watch that rather than lightning bolt at ATP. Long time ago i know but...

did I? Fucking hell, sounds all too plausible. Not quite sure if I was right or not, have seen both the same number of times now...

 

[butchersapron]

Sunday aft sitting there getting 2nd wind, but its my fav film, you was ok by mad jap afternoon.