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

[butchersapron]

The Best Offer - Giuseppe Tornatore's first english language film, and a bit of a mess really, despite an interesting mystery plot. Main problems were the dialogue which sounds like it was auto-translated from italian, terrible in places, the clear setting of the film italy and then populating it with english types apart for a few italians who were really badly dubbed into english, and some really really bad acting - all of the above giving the impression of amateurism. Still, the mystery element worked enough that i sat through nearly 2 and 1/2 hours of it (not that the reveal was a surprise in any sense).

 

[Firky]

A Field in England.

I quite enjoyed it despite it getting a bit of a kicking on here the last time I checked. It reminded me of another film of cult status. One that I frustratingly can't think of. Maybe it was a TV Series...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Skyline (2011). Shiteline.

It's not great is it, but there is something so stupid about the end bit that makes me almost like it.
Enough for me to start giving it a second watch (well, for a few minutes) a while back, before remembering it was all toss.

 

[imposs1904]

Binged on the first four episodes of Netflix's new original drama, 'Orange is the New Black'.

Weeds' Jenji Kohan is the main person behind the series, so if you're a fan of Weeds, you'll probably enjoy this one as well.

 

[butchersapron]

Europa Report - discovery of footage of mission to europa (moon of Jupiter) and what went wrong - you know the type of thing. Very well done, but just not enough story to sustain it.

 

[Dillinger4]

Got hold of a few Maya Deren films so I am going to watch those tonight, maybe.

 

[marty21]

The 25th Reich...
quite enjoyed this tbf - although they could have got to the Nazis a bit quicker - apparently a sequel is in the works

 

[Firky]

Watched A Field in England again last night and it is actually very good, I enjoyed it the first time around but wasn't exactly sober so didn't take it all in.

Some of the shots would work well as stills, looks as if they have used a green filter for the wide angle shots because the contrast and tones are exceptional.

 

[Idris2002]

The 40 Year Old Virgin

DON'T JUDGE ME

 

[frogwoman]

watched Repo Men

really pleasantly surprised, a nasty dystopian film with o horrible ending. I was expecting tawdry redemption etc but no, it was just credits roll on the horror
/dotty

 

[Nanker Phelge]

A Good Day to Die Hard. Shite Hard.

 

[butchersapron]

The Resurrection of a Bastard - odd but inventive thing apparently from a graphic novel. Black humour, violence etc as gangster is resurrected into a non-violent nutter after an attempt on his life. Worth a watch. Bizarre (in a good way) turn from Jeroen Willems who died during the filming i think.

 

[marty21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Generals_(film)

Gods and Generals -
Great battle scenes, but way too long - and too many boring corny speeches

 

[DaveCinzano]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Generals_(film)

Gods and Generals -
Great battle scenes, but way too long - and too many boring corny speeches

Agreed!

 

[Thimble Queen]

Warm bodies. Quite sweet, would've liked it a lot more if I was a teenager I think. Although I did like the love conquers all message *blush*

 

[DexterTCN]

City of Death, an old Dr Who story, still funny and clever.

 

[imposs1904]

The 40 Year Old Virgin

DON'T JUDGE ME

what's to judge? it's a funny film.

 

[DexterTCN]

Warm bodies. Quite sweet, would've liked it a lot more if I was a teenager I think. Although I did like the love conquers all message *blush*

A zombie by any other name would smell as sweet.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Bullet to the Head. While watching it I kept thinking about the film Johnny Handsome with Mickey Rourke.....so I was pleasantly surprised to discover this was also directed by Walter Hill.

So it's neither star nor director at the peak of their powers, but it was a watchable slab of meat, much like Stallone himself.

It has lots of nods to old Hill films. The Southern Settings, lots of fighting in bathrooms (smashing ceramics and mirrors et al), cocksure dialogue, unbelievable macho shit, plenty of violence, and a story that would slot right into an old western.

 

[Jeremy Vile]

Saw the Wee Man last night about scot gangster Paul Ferris, that was ok. I read the book ages ago which invariably was better though!

 

[Reno]

Hunt vs. Lauda on BBC2 last night. I'd recently seen a preview of Ron Howard's Rush which told the F1 rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda as a drama, so it was interesting seeing a documentary telling the same story. Good to see that Rush stuck so close to the facts. I'm no huge F1 fan, but used to watch it as a kid with my dad in the 70s, so still remember this and what a hero Lauda was in German speaking countries.

 

[Yelkcub]

'The Other Guys'. It's not very good.

 

[DaveCinzano]

'The Other Guys'. It's not very good.

...and yet still better than Cop Out

 

[Yelkcub]

...and yet still better than Cop Out

I'll see if Netflix has that....

 

[trabuquera]

Beasts of the Southern Wild. Being dirt poor is fun and spiritually enriching, who knew ? Phoney crap, enraptured with its own sense of sub-Terrence Malick poetry, where people only converse in homespun wisdom (them black people sure do talks funny !) and where cartoonish stereotypes run amok without any sense of irony. Magic realism seldom works on film, here it comes across as precious and self-conscious. How do people fall for this rubbish ?

Yep, just caught up with it and this pretty much nails it. Just two things in its favour - it has a nice look to it (a nice look of carefully-constructed faux-junkyard southern gothic that is) - yes it's sub-Malick but it is occasionally visually beautiful. (Not beautiful enough to numb me to the "script" though.) And Quvenzhane Wallis is amazing even (?especially? it was a bit of a queasy watch) when being provoked into acting out pure rage and defiance.

 

[starfish]

Watched A Field in England again last night and it is actually very good, I enjoyed it the first time around but wasn't exactly sober so didn't take it all in.

Some of the shots would work well as stills, looks as if they have used a green filter for the wide angle shots because the contrast and tones are exceptional.

Watched this on saturday evening, still hungover & on a bit of a come down so kept nearly nodding off & probably didnt take it all in either. Will watch it again i think.

 

[Reno]

A Bigger Splash, the David Hockney film which was always playing art house cinemas when I was a kid, but which I'd never seen. It features Hockney and his friends and lovers in a dramatised version of his life. Everybody, Hockney in particular, does a terrible job at playing themselves. The whole thing has a Warholian self-consciously disaffected quality which was what cool people were supposed to be like then but it's an interesting time capsule of early 70s bohemian London (and a bit of NYC and LA). It's beautifully shot, approximating the look of Hockney's paintings and has some great clothes and interiors. What is going on around the fringes is often far more interesting than what's at the centre. It also has a very odd soundtrack, which sounds like a lesser Bernhard Herrmann score for a Hitchcock triller. It makes the mostly mundane scenarios seem like someone is about to get stabbed to death any moment.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Between The Canals - I've seen it before but it's mint.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/between_the_canals/

 

[DaveCinzano]

It makes the mostly mundane scenarios seem like someone is about to get stabbed to death any moment.

I'd buy that for a dollar

 

[Voley]

Sightseers. A few good laughs but Nuts In May did it better.