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

[Reno]

TBH, with young kids I'm always looking out for a 90 minute film over six hour classics. That's why I'm watching Danny Dyer's back catalogue as opposed to Bertolucci's 1900 at the moment.

Your kids would have loved the male-anal-revenge-rape-with-shotgun scene in Straightheads !

 

[imposs1904]

Your kids would have loved the male anal revenge rape with shotgun scene in Straightheads !

fuck sake. spoiler alert!

 

[Reno]

Sorry !

Though maybe you should put your children's mental and emotional wellbeing above worrying about spoilers for a truly terrible film.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Don't fret. I've got The Other Half lined up. Danny Dyer AND Vinnie Jones.

There's always the complete works of Tamer Hassan to work through.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Don't fret. I've got The Other Half lined up. Danny Dyer AND Vinnie Jones.

How about Devil's Playground? Dyer, plus Craig Fairbrass AND Sean Pertwee!
OR

 

[Reno]

Danny Dyer also was in...

...and that's where I live. The film is actually not too bad.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

How about Devil's Playground? Dyer, plus Craig Fairbrass AND Sean Pertwee!
OR

Or Dead Man Running...Dyer, Hassan, Brenda Blethyn and 50 CENT!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Danny Dyer also was in...

...and that's where I live. The film is actually not too bad.

Along with Borstal Boy it's the film that makes me think that Dyer can actually act when he stretches himself. Similarly, Love does a good job too. I just suspect that they have a destructive, co-dependent relationship that indulges each's worst attributes Certainly that's how it comes across in the video diaries from (IIRC) Outlaw anyway.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Vendetta:

Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents.

 

[Reno]

Dyer is an alright actor, he just makes a mostly terrible films.

 

[imposs1904]

Or Dead Man Running...Dyer, Hassan, Brenda Blethyn and 50 CENT!

keep up. just watched it. i couldn't get past 50 cent's teeth. any time he was on the screen, that's all I could look at.

 

[imposs1904]

There's always the complete works of Tamer Hassan to work through.

I'm working on it, but it may take a while. He's in 6 or 7 movies a year.

 

[imposs1904]

Danny Dyer also was in...

...and that's where I live. The film is actually not too bad.

I want to see this but it's not on Netflix.

eta: somebody's put it on youtube.

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's always the complete works of Tamer Hassan to work through.

His son appears to be called 'Taser'

 

[Sue]

So one minute I'm watching Les Revenants, the next I'm watching Hot Tub Time Machine. How did this happen (and what was John Cusack doing)??.

 

[imposs1904]

Thanks to YouTube, Goodbye Charlie Bright.

Nice enough film but not enough Danny Dyer in it.

 

[Idris2002]

Ruby Sparks.

Lonely nerd gets more than he bargained for when the girl of his dreams (literally) enters his life. She doesn't actually exist, you see, but is conjured into being by an act of imagination and will. Unfortunately for him, the fact that she is a product of his mind doesn't stop her having a mind of her own.

Not bad for what it was, I thought.

Written by its female lead Zoe Kazan - granddaughter of that Kazan, Elia K. of Waterfront and blacklist fame.

 

[Idris2002]

I've seen it. It's a one joke film which is fun for a while but it doesn't do much else than turn the narrow conventions of the slasher film on it's head rather than subverting stereotypes. The rednecks are nice simply because that's not what you are supposed to expect.

One joke films can work if the joke's a good one, and the people making the film put a bit of effort into it. T&D wasn't the worst flick I've seen by any means (it was certainly better than "Young Einstein", which is the first thing I would think of when I think of "one joke films").

 

[DotCommunist]

More Hannibal

Jack Crawford had a nice homburg on, Will Graham played it prole with a humble beanie. There was a totem pole made out of dead people and Hannibal oozed around being sinister

 

[The39thStep]

Parks and Recreation -Epidode 3 very well written and the characters are just developing . Good to see that the 'leadership at all levels' in public sector is the same across the Atlantic.

 

[magneze]

Cloud Atlas. Really enjoyed it - escapist fun. Hugh Grant shows that he is able to play other characters than Hugh Grant too, which was something of a revelation.

 

[Belushi]

Skyline (2011). Shiteline.

 

[starfish]

Parks and Recreation -Epidode 3 very well written and the characters are just developing . Good to see that the 'leadership at all levels' in public sector is the same across the Atlantic.

Been watching a lot of this on BBC 3 or 4 whichever its on. Its just keeps getting better & better.

 

[trabuquera]

Skyline (2011). Shiteline.

Agreed, it's utter toss. Should be in the AVOID: public service thread.

if you can still Iplayer it there was a film on BBC4 t'other nite which has about the most unpromising setup and hardest sell i can think of: Oslo, August 31 ... the tale of 24 hours in the life of a recovering/not recovering Norwegian drug addict.


(clears throat)
...and it's really worthwhile, not cliched, goes in all sorts of unexpected directions, nothing gangstery/exploitationy about it in any way, and is shot through with all sorts of humour (weird as that sounds), touching moments, fantastic acting and proper thoughts and thinking about the meaning of life. it's all very low key yet somehow NOT BORING. or grim or horrible. looking back on it I can't think exactly how it weaves its spell, but it really does.

Obvs this is not one for the 9 year olds or for if you want something fun to go with a curry. But it is seriously seriously good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Butterfly Effect. It's too bad that Ashton Kutcher can't act. Although, I'd pay good money to see him, Jake Gyllenhall, and Keanu Reeves in a movie together. It would be the perfect storm of terribleness.

The kid who played the younger Kutcher character was a way better actor.

 

[Sprocket.]

The Sweeney! You melt.

 

[Maltin]

Saw a couple of very good ones recently that don't appear to have been mentioned.

Nothing But the Truth

Film by Rod Lurie, who also directed the excellent The Contender, about a journalist who writes a story exposing a CIA agent and sticks by her principles in not naming her source. Inspired by the case of Judith Miller.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nothing-but-the-truth-2009

A Map of the World

Sigourney Weaver excellent in a story of woman who faces a couple of life changing events and tries to cope with them.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-map-of-the-world-2000

 

[jeff_leigh]

Beasts of the southern wild - Fucking loved it

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Eagle. An erstwhile Roman [Channing Tatum] goes north of Hadrian's on a quest.

I never knew that Roman-era Highlanders looked and acted like Iroquois warriors.

 

[Reno]

Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, an Italian anthology horror film from 1963 in an eye popping Blu-ray restoration. Typically stylish, this was Bava's first colour horror film, all in saturated candy colours. The last episode The Drop of Water is fantastic and the other two are pretty good. Boris Karloff who starred in the second episode also introduces the film. The Blu-ray also features the American version to which many changes were made. The central lesbian relationship between the two female characters in The Telefone was omitted, entirely changing the plot from giallo to nonsensical ghost story in the process. Music and sound effects have also been changed in the US version, making The Drop of Water much less effective.