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

[Reno]

You thought it's overrated? I thought it was excellent.

I liked the first 20 or 30 minutes which were quite tense and then I thought it got repetitive, contrived and rather dull. The idea was good, but the execution was poor. I didn't believe in the characters and the same is the case with Extraterrestrial.

 

[flypanam]

Love/Hate. (first series) So far pretty fucking dull even by RTE standards. Still better than Luther, in the battle of the post The Wire cop/gang shows.

 

[butchersapron]

Lesson of the Evil - last Miike but one. Oddly structured film. First hour and a bit was spent building up a pretty effective creepy mystery thriller vibe that had lots of potential paths to go down. Very well done. Second hour and a bit was spent closing all those paths down to produce a very effective murder-fest. Also very well done. But when put together just didn't feel right. Well worth a watch though.

 

[DotCommunist]

lining up a few to watch this weekend, any reccs urban?

nothing from the last three pages caught my eye

 

[butchersapron]

Stoker - the first english language Chan-wook Park film. Disappointing and obvious, looked very good in parts, but again, in an obvious way.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Love/Hate. (first series) So far pretty fucking dull even by RTE standards. Still better than Luther, in the battle of the post The Wire cop/gang shows.

It does get more interesting - see thread: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/love-hate-dublin-gangster-nonsense.303604/

 

[DJ Squelch]

As it's on Youtube at the moment I watched the hard to find The Cool World (1964), drama/documentary about a New York, Harlem street gang, directed by Shirley Clarke & produced by Patrick Wiseman with a Dizzy Gillespie soundtrack. A great film, it really deserves a decent DVD release.

 

[Firky]

Skeletons is on tonight, worth a watch.

 

[8115]

What channel is it on?

eta BBC2 11.40.

 

[Firky]

What channel is it on?

BBC 2, 11.40pm

It's not a brilliant film but what I liked most about it was that it is quite different.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yxz9s

DURATION: 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES
Bennett and Davis are psychic exorcists, travelling the country and using supernatural means to get inside people, help unburden them of the skeletons in their closet and find their darkest secrets. It's a dirty job, with strict protocols and not much time for friendships. When they are sent on a difficult mission to try and find a woman's missing husband, presumed dead, they can find no trace of his memory in the house. They realise this job is more complilcated than they'd imagined, in all sorts of ways.  SHOW LESS

 

[8115]

Thanks. It looks quite good. Fresh.

 

[8115]

I'm eatching Sleepy Hollow. It's ok. I seriously have the attention span of a gnat though.

 

[MBV]

Tried to watch Dead Man Down but gave up after 20 mins. Watched State of Play (film) version) instead

 

[rekil]

BBC 2, 11.40pm

It's not a brilliant film but what I liked most about it was that it is quite different.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yxz9s

DURATION: 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES
Bennett and Davis are psychic exorcists, travelling the country and using supernatural means to get inside people, help unburden them of the skeletons in their closet and find their darkest secrets. It's a dirty job, with strict protocols and not much time for friendships. When they are sent on a difficult mission to try and find a woman's missing husband, presumed dead, they can find no trace of his memory in the house. They realise this job is more complilcated than they'd imagined, in all sorts of ways.  SHOW LESS

It was made by a friend of someone on here.

 

[Me76]

I watched Flight last night. Ok but not as good as I expected given all the hype.

 

[Meh O'Naise]

I watched Flight last night. Ok but not as good as I expected given all the hype.

*SPOILERS* I hated the ending. Denzel was on top form and great - lots of subtle moments in his performance - but the script was lazy shorthand for "look! He's got a drink problem!". The ending was very much "last minute revelation / death bed confession that undoes everythign that came before " tacky bullshit.

 

[Firky]

It was made by a friend of someone on here.

Wasn't dubversion was it? He loves it!

 

[rekil]

Wasn't dubversion was it? He loves it!

strummerville I think. I thought it did a terrific job of creating its own world without dissolving into wacky for wacky's sake self-indulgent mush. Tiny budget and all.

 

[Reno]

*SPOILERS* I hated the ending. Denzel was on top form and great - lots of subtle moments in his performance - but the script was lazy shorthand for "look! He's got a drink problem!". The ending was very much "last minute revelation / death bed confession that undoes everythign that came before " tacky bullshit.

I agree that the end was predictable redemption slush but until then it was a bit more shaded and far less hysterical about addiction than many films, especially for a big budget Hollywood film. Not sure how the script used lazy shorthand in regard to his addiction. It was a long film about a complex case following a freakishly positive side effect of his addiction (he saves a planeload of passengers while and possibly because he was drunk and drugfucked) and it went quite some way to subvert cliches about addiction, functionality and accountability. He is an unrepentant addict for most of the film, but the screenplay never diminishes his heroism and his competence and that's rather unusual.

 

[Firky]

strummerville I think. I thought it did a terrific job of creating its own world without dissolving into wacky for wacky's sake self-indulgent mush. Tiny budget and all.

It gets 10/10 for originality!

 

[Firky]

Just noticed Valhalla Rising is on. Great film.

 

[strummerville]

strummerville I think. I thought it did a terrific job of creating its own world without dissolving into wacky for wacky's sake self-indulgent mush. Tiny budget and all.

Director is old mate of mine, Nick Whitfield. Used to be an actor, he's a top man and conceived, wrote and directed Skeletons.

 

[The39thStep]

I watched Flight last night. Ok but not as good as I expected given all the hype.

Odd film in that everyone talks about the emergency landing bit in it but the story is actually about a more modest crash landing which was his return to being sober.

 

[The39thStep]

Just got a copy of Magnolia ( which is one of my favourite films) . Just need to find a way of getting this woman that I like to watch it with me. She likes Coyote Ugly so I explained this was a bit like it.

 

[Voley]

The Beat That My Heart Skipped - another Audiard one. Good film, not quite up there with some of his others but some typically great acting in it. He seems to be really good at getting terrific performances out of his actors. Haven't seen a bad film by him yet.

 

[Voley]

Skeletons is on tonight, worth a watch.

Bollocks. I've wanted to see that for ages.

 

[Idris2002]

Youth in Revolt.

Michael Cera is typecast again as a wimpy adolescent neurotic. This time he's playing the sub-type who is into French literature, Sinatra records and aspires to becoming a writer.

There's one in every town - but usually only one. And they tend not to mate in captivity, or at all. The plot of YiR centres around the lead character's pursuit of the girl of his dreams (thankfully not a manic pixie dream girl). This pursuit ultimately involves the wilful, massive destruction of property, and leads to our hero running from the law.

It's very silly, but also a great bit of fun.

Steve Buscemi and Ray Liotta also star.

 

[pissflaps]

'I Wish'

Japanese coming of age whimsy. Allright - if you like that sort of thing.

 

[Reno]

I watched Richard Linklater's true-crime black comedy Bernie which was very good. I was reminded to do so after I just saw his excellent Before Midnight. Bernie just came and went here and in the US despite great reviews.

I then tried to watch Skeletons recommended by a few people here. Maybe I was just tired, but I couldn't get into it. 'Different' may be good, but this struck me a bit too pleased with its own quirkiness and it felt very repetitive, more like an overextended one joke short film than a proper feature. I may give this another go when I feel more alert.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I watched Richard Linklater's true-crime black comedy Bernie which was very good. I was reminded to do so after I just saw his excellent Before Midnight. Bernie just came and went here and in the US despite great reviews..

Quite a good performance from Black I thought, and nice to see him doing something a bit different. I watched it relatively 'cold' so did not know much about the 'true life' element. I realize the vox pops were an important part of the film, but they still grated on me a little.
It was a nice, simple short and to the point story . . a breath of fresh air from all the CGI blockbusters that are all over the place.
I watched it on a plane. I had no idea the film even existed, so when I looked it up on wiki later I was quite surprised to find out that it was actually a couple of years old.