What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Vikings series (all 9 eps of it via Lovefilm) - the first series I've ever watched online via package and it worked a treat. Lots of silly running around fighting, not to mention high-on-the-hog overacting, but beautifully photographed filmed and art directed (don't think I've ever seen such a convincingly dark and muddy and cold-looking Dark Ages Europe on screen before) and with more than enough dynamics to keep it interesting. Really nice handling of light throughout. As has become usual in this sort of thing, chock-full of anachronism (orange carrots? in Viking Scandinavia? in that century?) and wish-fulfilment sexxxiness, but also offering unusual nuance in the female roles. And the deeper aspects (pagans vs Christians, cruelty vs kindness etc) are dealt with with surprising restraint.
Fez909
toilet expert
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Sorry but this made me laugh
It is isn't it?
I might ask if she would like to watch take This Waltz First and then save Magnolia for some point in the future
Fez909
toilet expert
It is isn't it?
I might ask if she would like to watch take This Waltz First and then save Magnolia for some point in the future
Just take turns, that's what I used to do with the ex. Your film one night, hers another. It'll mean you'll have to sit through some stuff you would never normally watch, but then you get the odd gem. And vice versa. Save the stuff you know she'll hate for on your own. Sorted.
Another good methods is to pick three films that you want to watch as a shortlist, then let her pick from those. It does mean some films get eternally vetoed, though - I never did get to watch Aguirre, Wrath of God
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I think they highlighted for me that without them there was not much solid story. It felt like a lazy solution, though I hear it was his plan to have that as a style from the get go (in the script) and he had to fight to studio to keep them (so what to I know, I'm all for film makers keeping their vision undisrrupted)
Reno
The In Kraut
For me it was the best thing about the film, because it was about this Texan town and its inhabitants as much as it was about the crime. It even is particular in how this town defines itself in opposition to other places in Texas. You only understand why the case developed the way did because of what the place and the people were like and having the real people of that town in the film was more effective than just having actors play them.
Linklater is a humanist film-maker and he genuinely likes people and that's what all his films are about. He isn't really cut out to make a dark, misanthropic crime pic, this was like the sunny counterpart to Fargo.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Have you seen the original? I enjoyed the Miike version but much prefer the first - much more angry.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes, what I was trying (but not making a good job of) was that I could see why they were there and that they were important, but despite it being a good film (and I did enjoy it) I could not help being a little grated by them. It is probably just me, I used to make a lot of TV magazine shows and documentaries and vox pops (not interviews) were always the lazy option of joining something together.
Having just written that I have realized that technically these were not 'vox pops', they might seem like that as they are, by nature, just people being interviewed around town. But they are also interviews of people who knew Bernie.
Maybe it's ok.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just take turns, that's what I used to do with the ex. Your film one night, hers another. It'll mean you'll have to sit through some stuff you would never normally watch, but then you get the odd gem. And vice versa. Save the stuff you know she'll hate for on your own. Sorted.
Another good methods is to pick three films that you want to watch as a shortlist, then let her pick from those. It does mean some films get eternally vetoed, though - I never did get to watch Aguirre, Wrath of God
If I followed
I could well be picking up my P45. Its at an early and tentative phase so I haven't even got the step of sitting down next to her in front of a tele yet never mind inflicting my musical or film taste on her. She text me to say she was having a bottle of rose and watching Coyote ugly and asked what films I liked .Thought it best not get into that area so I said ones with a happy ending ( I assume Coyote Ugly does have a happy ending like The Grey ). I have swerved any discussion about music as well and just nodded in agreement to something about Mary J Bilge.
I watched that last week. I thought Jack Black was particularly good, he came across perfectly - not creepy or overtly camp that I reckon other actors would have probably fallen victim to. When I was watching it I was wondering it was based on actual events (I had never heard of the film, a friend recommended it to me). Loved it how no one missed her but they all said they'd miss Bernie
It would have worked better as a short film of an hour or so but I still enjoyed it. As I said it's not a brilliant film but what I liked most about it was that it was highly original and there was something quite quaint and endearing about it. It was typically British.
I felt that the film would have been much more realistic had he not caved in to the redemptive ending but continued to lie and save his own ass. Like the majority of addicts would. And - it would have more realistically - have to show him dealing with the guilt of slandering an innocent woman for the rest of his life.That would have been more realistic, and less of a cheap cop out. As for the big budget - $38m. Couldn't get any higher funding than that.
*smashes framed pictures off sideboard before slumping into chair etc. *
I also strongly dislike the whole 'It was jesus' angle from the co-pilot. Felt creepy wierd, like that in religion, he had an addiction to Jesus also. Endlessly banging on about that was very much a misstep.
That I do agree with. His heroism doesn't come from the drinking, but from a totally bizarre happenstance (flying the plane upside down)
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Watched these over the weekend
Shrooms - never seen it before, didn't like it apart from the talking Irish cow that spoke with an American accent.
Broken City - not bad but a tale of corruption and redemption has been done better before
My Cousin Vinnie - Marisa Tomei makes this movie. Loved it......
Croc--yep it was a load of Croc
Skeletons-Really enjoyed this.
Shrooms - never seen it before, didn't like it apart from the talking Irish cow that spoke with an American accent.
Broken City - not bad but a tale of corruption and redemption has been done better before
My Cousin Vinnie - Marisa Tomei makes this movie. Loved it......
Croc--yep it was a load of Croc
Skeletons-Really enjoyed this.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Warm Bodies - which I wasn't really wanting to watch but ended up enjoying it. Romeo + Juliet with zombies. Funny enough and the lead, the boy from About A Boy, was good enough...even though he's developed an American accent. The vampires from I Am Legend are now Zombies in this.
TruXta
tired
Not to my knowledge, cheers for the heads up.
Huh, wonder why I didn't get an alert for that - were you on mobile?
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't have a problem with his recovery, it just happened much too suddenly, but then we've both already agreed that the very end didn't work. That still left over two hours of flawed if reasonably intriguing film.
When I've lived in the States, I've worked with people like that co-pilot. They take their Christianity very seriously there. The co-pilot wasn't in the film that much though and had his big Jesus scene at the hospital. I would have had a problem if he's supposed to be a sympathetic character, but he isn't.
As to the budget, that's high for a drama that doesn't involve superheroes or Hobbits in Hollywood. It's rare that we get a serious drama on that scale at all now.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Dunno...didn't like Twilight, Warm Bodies didn't take itself seriously unlike the vampus opus. It's the same general target audience though, I guess.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
trupost
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Paperboy - A pulp swamp drama with a great cast working their arses off on a sleazy and grim story which just about holds together despite untold plot holes.
....and that jellyfish sting scene is to die for!
....and that jellyfish sting scene is to die for!
JimW
支那暗杀团
Wasn't impressed with this at all. As you say, looked good in bits and I could see it was being deliberately mannered or whatever here and there but overall just silly and I din't care about the characters.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
1st episode of Vikings
so far, so violently nordic. Have episode two queued for later
so far, so violently nordic. Have episode two queued for later
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Keep at it. Soon it will be Norsely violent.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Darkman (wacthed with my Son) - Silly Sam Raimi comic book fun....but pretty lousy at the same time.
Deadfall - Fargo without the dark humour, wit or charm.
Deadfall - Fargo without the dark humour, wit or charm.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Watched Man from Nowhere last night. I enjoyed it.
Have to agree with @100 masahiko's wife. Bin Won is quite fit
Reno
The In Kraut
I love Darkman. I think it's still better than most superhero pics that are based on comic books and I far prefer it to Raimi's Spiderman films.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I am no fan of Jared Leto, but he was excellent in that.
The book (by Hubert Selby jr.) is welll worth a read too.
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