Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yeah, I can see it aint for everyone. The low budget look and feel can be off putting at times, but I really enjoyed the film. Hitman meets Wickerman, Hammer house of Geezer flick....and it was funny.
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Yeah, I can see it aint for everyone. The low budget look and feel can be off putting at times, but I really enjoyed the film. Hitman meets Wickerman, Hammer house of Geezer flick....and it was funny.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
One day I'll visit the pride of Swindon, the statue of Diana Dors.
(*which sadly looks a bit more like that gal from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but nevermind...)By the way, is this true, or did someone have fun at Wikipedia?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Bernie. A nice slice and something different, but I hate vox pops and without the vox pops the film would have fallen down. Simple film and enjoyable enough.
Warm Bodies. I think that was what it was called, the zombie romance thing. I decided to watch when I read that the main zombie ate the girls boyfriends brains before they got together. I thought this could be interesting. Sadly the issue is dodged too easily. The whole zombies becoming normal again was pretty emotional after a few drinks and I enjoyed it. I am always a bit wary of films with VO, might as well read a book if you can't tell the story in the visual medium. I hated the way they gained memories from eating brains. It devalued the science and the emotional connection.
Still, an enjoyable enough jaunt but I shall not be watching it again.
Django. I was really entertained for the first half, just a great fun film. Then it fell into what feels like a well trodden Tarrentino path of tense dialogue leading to something bad. I think I have just seen it too much now and it wasn't all that good in Django, especially when, for a change, the action was entertaining (very rare in modern film). Tarrentinos acting in this was utterly appalling. He has been ok in other films but here he stood out like a sore thumb, in an almost pointless 20 minute scene.
This could have been a fantastic 1 hour 20 film that I would have run to the shops to buy after unexpectedly loving it. Sadly it outstayed it's welcome and moved into areas that sapped the joy of it's B movie celebration and indulgence.
. . .also, leonardo de caprio is not scary.
Warm Bodies. I think that was what it was called, the zombie romance thing. I decided to watch when I read that the main zombie ate the girls boyfriends brains before they got together. I thought this could be interesting. Sadly the issue is dodged too easily. The whole zombies becoming normal again was pretty emotional after a few drinks and I enjoyed it. I am always a bit wary of films with VO, might as well read a book if you can't tell the story in the visual medium. I hated the way they gained memories from eating brains. It devalued the science and the emotional connection.
Still, an enjoyable enough jaunt but I shall not be watching it again.
Django. I was really entertained for the first half, just a great fun film. Then it fell into what feels like a well trodden Tarrentino path of tense dialogue leading to something bad. I think I have just seen it too much now and it wasn't all that good in Django, especially when, for a change, the action was entertaining (very rare in modern film). Tarrentinos acting in this was utterly appalling. He has been ok in other films but here he stood out like a sore thumb, in an almost pointless 20 minute scene.
This could have been a fantastic 1 hour 20 film that I would have run to the shops to buy after unexpectedly loving it. Sadly it outstayed it's welcome and moved into areas that sapped the joy of it's B movie celebration and indulgence.
. . .also, leonardo de caprio is not scary.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I liked Bernie.
I liked Django Unchained, although your views of it are pretty fair. I think in trying to squeeze together the Spag Western with the Blaxploitation and liberally garnish with Mandingo and Skin Games Tarantino did push an idea too many, or at least got lost in the editing. I still really enjoyed it, because Tarantion films are like sightseeing expeditions for film geeks, and I like the journey. Soundtrack was also faultless and I'm a bit of a soundtrack geek too. Totally agree that it could have been shaven down somewhat. The Original Django is still the best.
Not seen Warm Bodies. It's on my list.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
It's a massively overrated piece of shlock - the lovely bohemian artists fighting against the evil system. Barbara, tackles similar themes with a thousand times more subtlety.
I obviously really enjoyed it and didn't let the fact that they were MC bohos spoil it. They could have been bin men and it would still have worked. Plus it's better than 99% of the shit that gets churned out the Hollywood shit machine.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Liability - A hit man road movie that resembles Stephen Frears' 'The Hit' as if directed by Shane Meadows with a hint of In Bruge. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite it getting a bit silly towards the end. Not sure it ended in a satisfactory way at all really, but It was all very entertaining and good to see Tim Roth in something with his own accent again.
The Awakening - A film I knew nothing about and just put on for something to look at. It's a supernatural thriller/ghost story about a woman who exposes supernatural hoaxes just after the WW1. She gets called to a school to investigate the unexplained death of a child after claiming to have seen a ghost. I thought it very good. An old fashioned ghost story that wasn't trying to be too clever, and had enough twists, turns and bumps in the night to keep me watching until the end.
The Awakening - A film I knew nothing about and just put on for something to look at. It's a supernatural thriller/ghost story about a woman who exposes supernatural hoaxes just after the WW1. She gets called to a school to investigate the unexplained death of a child after claiming to have seen a ghost. I thought it very good. An old fashioned ghost story that wasn't trying to be too clever, and had enough twists, turns and bumps in the night to keep me watching until the end.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
The more I think about Warm Bodies they less I like it. Yes Django was an experience. A very entertaining journey and a great soundtrack.
Just remembered that I also watched the life of Pi.
Not what I had expected from all the adverts I had seen. I was expecting some visual weirdness and some boy bonding with a tiger in a tricky situation. It was a far more straight film than expected and I quite liked it. I also liked how they did not attempt to big up any imaginary film bond / emotion between Pi and the tiger. The tiger not even looking back was particularly good, as you just come to expect shit like that when making a movie, so it was all the more powerful in its realism (of a very unreal situation).
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Looper - simple sci fi actioner. Bruce always watchable, but he dont stretch himself much.
Reno
The In Kraut
That's why it's Gordon-Levitt's film, who does stretch himself a lot.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Goodbye Lenin is excellent but if you can get hold of it on a torrent Sonnenallee is a really good Ost film
Reno
The In Kraut
Behind the Candelabra, the Soderbergh HBO Liberace biopic. As biopics go this was middling and fairly conventional and not as much kitschy fun as I thought it would be. Michael Douglas is very good and his total lack of vanity is admirable, while Damon is OK as Liberace's lover/assistant Scott Thorson (it's really mainly his story), if about 25 years too old for the role.
Reno
The In Kraut
If Not Us, Who? about the early life of Baader-Meinhof member Gudrun Ensslin was pretty good and more thoughtful and less superficial than the action movie approach of The Baader-Meinhof Complex.
Christian Petzhold's films are worth checking out, he deals with the former GDR and the post GDR climate in Germany in Barbara and Yella in a more subtle way that The Lives of Others, which is an entertaining enough political thriller.
Goodbye Lenin is great. People have been a little snooty about it since because it was hugely popular it's so unaplogetically entertaining, but don't let that put you off.
One film based closely on a real case and which I think is really great is the black comedy The Nasty Girl (a mistranslated Das Schreckliche Maedchen/The Terrible Girl) about a young girl who in the 70s innocently researched a school essay about her town Passau during the Third Reich, hoping to find tales of resistance and who opens a can of worms that leads to much of the town out for her head.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
There's the Legend of Rita - but that's on a sort of spectacular level, following the life of a terrorist who fled to the DDR rather than non-celebs (although it does try to show the latter in parts).
One called Shores of Hope that i've not yet seen about east german dockworkers in the 80s, their union and the state.
One called Shores of Hope that i've not yet seen about east german dockworkers in the 80s, their union and the state.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
just started watching 24 - series 7 - the usual nonsense but i do enjoy it
I enjoyed 7 & 8 but for life of me can not remember anything about them at all any longer. They're not even a blur. I sat through them but the plots are just missing from my head.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I've been meaning to watch eight for the last couple of years. Now I'm unemployed again it wouldnt feel such an utter waste of time. I cant remember much about 7 apart from it started bloody silly and was truly absurd by the end of it. Eight must be even madder
Ranbay
The same rules apply
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381355/
fucked up film, only started watching it because of the name. really well done in some parts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935902/
Another one i watched based on the name, thought it was good indie film.
fucked up film, only started watching it because of the name. really well done in some parts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935902/
Another one i watched based on the name, thought it was good indie film.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Seriously?
yeah
Piers Gibbon
Well-Known Member
It's been mentioned on here very positively quite a few times but anyway last night I watched The Sorrow and the Pity...It is an extraordinary documentary and I can't believe it wasn't shown to me when I was studying the second world war. In the first few seconds a provincial German Vicar gives the Nazi salute...in 1969 ffs, and the stand out moments just keep coming. This is a brilliantly made and gripping piece of modern history and pretty much everyone should watch it imho. Thank you u75 for bringing it to my attention...why oh why had I not already seen it at school and on the telly??
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Cos Nazis are THEM and not US right? doesn't suit the narrative of gcse history to present nuance. Don't get me started on how the gcse version of the cold war goes..
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It was banned from French TV until 1981.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Shame. Quite liked it, but the ambiguity between the two main characters seemed a bit of a cop out, as if the writer/director couldn't pin down the relationship.
I loved Barbara.
Very very well made, effective and packed a political punch.
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