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

Reno said:
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.
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It has a very comic book feel to it. It also looks very dated now. It's enjoyable nonsense with doesn't take itself too seriously at all and it is entertaining.

It parts in reminded me of the TV movies of Spiderman that had theatrical releases in the UK.
 
The Body - enjoyable daft cat-and-mouse thing revolving around a body missing from a morgue - only spoilt be me guessing the way it would play out far far too early. Nothing special but good fun.
 
A King In New York,

About 60 year old but still has a gentle humour and charm.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050598/

Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.
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We watched Brave. It was ok. I actually watched it rather than gamed and looked at the TV occasionally(how I usually 'watch' tv)
 
Drug War - the new Johnnie To. You surely know what to expect by now? Much bleaker than his goes in this genre (even in music choices). Didn't really fire as he can, but still superior to 99% of films in this style that will be released or produced this year. (Oh yeah, the big shoot out was fantastic).
 
Watched Darkman with the young un after the comments earlier in the thread. It's a good story that could stand up to a remake and for all it's twisting and chopping of fingers it's not actually as violent as I remember.
 
The Purge.

A right load of shit. Rubbish premise, poor story badly told, shit acting, completely pointless. One of the worst films I've sat through for a long time.
 
Sweet Smell of Success, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Very enjoyable albeit bleak.

Come back here, I want to chastise you!
 
Chip Barm said:
Watched Darkman with the young un after the comments earlier in the thread. It's a good story that could stand up to a remake and for all it's twisting and chopping of fingers it's not actually as violent as I remember.
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The two things that make it great though are Sam Raimi's flair as a director and Liam Neeson's performance and considering how thoroughly bland and soulless most remakes are, why would it need to get remade ?
 
You have a point but the effects could do with updating and surely there's actors as good as Liam Neeson who could turn out a performance.
 
Chip Barm said:
You have a point but the effects could do with updating and surely there's actors as good as Liam Neeson who could turn out a performance.
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I don't see why films need to get updated to fit in with every other CGI fest. I enjoy older genre films in part for their analogue effects. It's the same logic that demands that black and white films need to get colorised. Just bring a bit of your own imagination to a film and it won't bother you that the effects aren't as seamless as they would be now. I like how old films are a window to their time and that includes that they are documents of past film technologies.
 
Reno said:
I don't see why films need to get updated to fit in with every other CGI fest. I enjoy older genre films in part for their analogue effects. It's the same logic that demands that black and white films need to get colorised. Just bring a bit of your own imagination to a film and it won't bother you that the effects aren't as seamless as they would be now. I like how old films are a window to their time and that includes that they are documents of past film technologies.
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It's not something that I'd usually think tbh. In fact I can't think of another film I like that I think could stand to be re-made. Maybe it's more that 80's look to it that I don't really get on with in this particular film.

Also I'd say comic book films are probably the genre where remakes can be done without previous versions being written off.
 
Chip Barm said:
It's not something that I'd usually think tbh. In fact I can't think of another film I like that I think could stand to be re-made. Maybe it's more that 80's look to it that I don't really get on with in this particular film.

Also I'd say comic book films are probably the genre where remakes can be done without previous versions being written off.
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Darkman wasn't based on a comic book, it was an original screenplay.

I'm not saying it's a perfect film, it has flaws but whatever is great about it is down to Raimi's direction. If you have some hack remake it, then whatever was distinctive about it is lost. Personally I love the way the film looks with its noirish cinematography, 30's Universal horror style art direction and all the crazy camera moves.
 
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