DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
You're a glutton for punishment.Flowers of War (another one based on rape of Nanking)
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Perfume
Strange but funny
Strange but funny
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Argo - A well made piece of drama that looked good and entertained while being a bit silly too. (watched with friends which I hardly do so may have a different view of it when I watch it on my own).
Fargo - Excellent again. I'd forgotten how violent and grim the whole thing is. Brilliant and bleak and funny and with just enough of a soft centre to stop it descending into complete darkness.
Switchbacks - 90s serial killer thriller with Dennis Quaid. Starts of with some promise but descends into a cat and mouse catch me if you can actioner. lovely turn from R Lee Emery as a small town Sheriff playing against his usual loud pain in the arse authoritarian type and settling into something a bit softer, world weary and human.
Hannibal - eps 4,5,6 - Picking up nicely. Still not blown away with it, but intrigued enough to keep going.
Girls - Eps 1,2,3 - had me pissing myself laughing. It's funny and just sweet enough. Actually presents young trendy New Yorkers with enough humility to appear occasionally sympathetic.
Top of the Lake - Ep 1 - Jane Campion TV show (has it aired in uk yet?) - First ep impressive. Slow going, but certainly kept me wanting.
Fargo - Excellent again. I'd forgotten how violent and grim the whole thing is. Brilliant and bleak and funny and with just enough of a soft centre to stop it descending into complete darkness.
Switchbacks - 90s serial killer thriller with Dennis Quaid. Starts of with some promise but descends into a cat and mouse catch me if you can actioner. lovely turn from R Lee Emery as a small town Sheriff playing against his usual loud pain in the arse authoritarian type and settling into something a bit softer, world weary and human.
Hannibal - eps 4,5,6 - Picking up nicely. Still not blown away with it, but intrigued enough to keep going.
Girls - Eps 1,2,3 - had me pissing myself laughing. It's funny and just sweet enough. Actually presents young trendy New Yorkers with enough humility to appear occasionally sympathetic.
Top of the Lake - Ep 1 - Jane Campion TV show (has it aired in uk yet?) - First ep impressive. Slow going, but certainly kept me wanting.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I watched 6 episodes of Game of Thrones last night. Good stuff. Watched another episode just now and almost resenting going out as I want to watch more 
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
petee
no gods, no malarkey
watched it now, the criterion version, it contains scenes that weren't included the last time i saw it (in a theater). my obsessive self spotted some continuity issues and some creaky acting, but never mind, it's great.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - saw it in the cinema and found it 'meh', watched again via telly and I can appreciate more of its incredible visual beauty ... and the modesty and restraint of the script and Brad Pitt's performance. Still think it might have been a bit overcalculated in parts, should have been shorter, and still hate some of the mumbliness and incoherence of the dialogue. (and still just can't deal with Casey Affleck, even though I can recognise it's a great performane as an awkward and somewhat repellent character.) But really genuinely amazing to look at.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Fat City - John Huston's sort of early 70s comeback, great film with another great Stacey Keach performance - really solid character piece with little or no plot to speak of set among 'low lifes' in dead end town stockon in california. Has one of the best opening credit sequences (as in fitting the film perfectly) i've seen in a long time as well. Boxing fans will scoff at the fight scenes though, not really about them though, they are almost irrelevant. If you like stuff like KIller of Sheep etc then have a look.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
That sounds pretty good, think I'll have to grab it.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Well worth the time. Watched an attempt at a similar one one from the same year last night Cisco Pike - and like Fat City it has opening credits set to a Kriss Krisstofersen song, and Harry Dean Stanton also proclaimed Fat City! on scoring some skag. This was the same sort of loosely plotted character study but about counter-culture types rather than day labourers and amateur boxers. All a bit too messy rally - Gene Hackman gives a very odd performance but because he didn't have enough screen time (i think this was due to the French Connection messing up CP schedule) he couldn't push it through into something memorable. Interesting little film anyway and sheds light on the way hollywood was trying to deal with films of this type and about these people post easy-rider.
Don Draper ! DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Running Man
They just don't make em like that anymore
They just don't make em like that anymore
Reno
The In Kraut
Yes, apparently they don't as there seems to be a thread about it now. Has it gotten any better since the 80s then ?
Pawn - It held my attention, I thought it was alright.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1551630/
Didn't have a problem with Chiklis's English accent though, it's all about suspension of disbelief. Anyway, that guy's so manly he even looks like a bollock.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1551630/
When he was in the hospital bed, and the ginger guy came in, who got shot there?
Didn't have a problem with Chiklis's English accent though, it's all about suspension of disbelief. Anyway, that guy's so manly he even looks like a bollock.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
...the chap who gets shot was a waiter from the diner, and the one who precipitated its being robbed by grassing on the owner.
Was better than I thought it was going to be, but felt it could have been even stronger. Lopping off the cosy epilogue for a start.
Voley
🐀
Django Unchained. If this had been by anyone else I'd be saying it was really good but Tarantino can be shitloads better. Just didn't have the great dialogue I've come to expect from him. And the KKK scene where they were arguing about the holes in their masks was laughable for all the wrong reasons. Good film but really not up to much by his standards.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Resolution - interesting, sort of odd, but inventive mix of genres (horror, thiller etc). I enjoyed but can see it putting a lot of people off.
Straight Time - Dustom Hoffman plays Eddy Bunker basically (film based on his novel about his life). Played very well and escalates rather quickly, con pretending to himself he wants to go straight, arsehole probation officer etc - Harry dean Stanton perfectly cast and Theresa Russel made what could have been a nothing role into something memorable. Great David Shire soundtrack as well. Bunker is one scene for about 5 minutes and you can tell straight away that he was the real deal. Surprised this is so rarely mentioned nowadays.
Hit! - very enjoyable early 70s actiony seriousy type thing with the illegally handsome Billy Dee Williams. Some really funny scenes and a great finale. Sort of like if the french connection and the a-team.
Straight Time - Dustom Hoffman plays Eddy Bunker basically (film based on his novel about his life). Played very well and escalates rather quickly, con pretending to himself he wants to go straight, arsehole probation officer etc - Harry dean Stanton perfectly cast and Theresa Russel made what could have been a nothing role into something memorable. Great David Shire soundtrack as well. Bunker is one scene for about 5 minutes and you can tell straight away that he was the real deal. Surprised this is so rarely mentioned nowadays.
Hit! - very enjoyable early 70s actiony seriousy type thing with the illegally handsome Billy Dee Williams. Some really funny scenes and a great finale. Sort of like if the french connection and the a-team.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
I read the book a couple of years ago & thought it was very good & have been meaning to watch this for a while, although i cant quite picture Hoffman in the role.
Watched Tombstone last night, excellent film.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I think he did a good job of appearing to not be a hard man but being prepared to do what he thought needed doing. He did look very un-conny though.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
My Week with Marilyn. Mostly pretty dull. Stellar cast not quite sure whether do overdo it wildly or try and be restrained and respectful, so it all ends up a bit muted and veddy veddy English. Judi Dench better than everyone else in the film (as is so often the case) ... but Eddie Redmayne at least didn't make me want to kill him. Nothing special in the design or looks department but the odd good one-liner from Kenneth Branagh hamming it up to the max as Laurence Olivier.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
The Dyatlov pass incident - Okayish lost footage type film of a group of students who look for answers to the Dyatlov pass incident, where 9 hikers were all killed amidst some mystery but much speculation regarding how they died - true story . Been done many times but was worth an early evening watch.
Redemption -Jason Statham as ex forces, homeless on the run from court martial blokey who becomes involved with a Nun, and tries to right one wrong whilst committing millions of other wrongs and being Jason.
Freebird - not sure parts of this i enjoyed others i thought were a bit meh. 3 guys go to buy some weed in wales, trip out, get involved in a pretty shit biker war - Phil Daniels as grouch had to be the best of it.
Olympus has fallen - White house taken by terrorists, president hostage, 40 odd superbaddies taken out by one lone disgraced ex secret service bod. Says it all.
Silver Linings Playbook - okay rom com dealing with ocd, bi polar and dance. Turn off brain to watch.
Redemption -Jason Statham as ex forces, homeless on the run from court martial blokey who becomes involved with a Nun, and tries to right one wrong whilst committing millions of other wrongs and being Jason.
Freebird - not sure parts of this i enjoyed others i thought were a bit meh. 3 guys go to buy some weed in wales, trip out, get involved in a pretty shit biker war - Phil Daniels as grouch had to be the best of it.
Olympus has fallen - White house taken by terrorists, president hostage, 40 odd superbaddies taken out by one lone disgraced ex secret service bod. Says it all.
Silver Linings Playbook - okay rom com dealing with ocd, bi polar and dance. Turn off brain to watch.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Star Wars..which I haven't seen for decades. It holds the test of time...a kid's fantasy but still cool. However...those storm-troopers in white...they are shit...fucking useless, thick, terrible shots. It would have been nice if Tarkin had survived into further episodes.
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