What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Reno
The In Kraut
Talk about bitter, at least she never bitched about you !
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Not in public.
Fez909
toilet expert
Watched the first four of this after reading your comment . So far it's decent!
I have a good feeling about Netflix originals. House of Cards was really good and this looks to be well worth watching. I can imagine they will only get better too.
Making every episode available in one go is great.
Edit: I didn't realise you had watched four as well. I just read 'binged' and assumed you'd watched them all. Just thought I'd mention that in case it seemed weird
You seriously think Dorothy Parker wasn't witty..?
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Only God Forgives - had high hopes of this, Nicolas Winding Refn's follow up to Drive. What a mess. Did twin peaks not get aired in Denmark or something? Obvious obvious weirdness - look at me, i'm being weird now. But not weird enough Nicolas, and not enough narrative or interesting characters to carry the weirdness along. Glad he's trying to do different stuff at least.
Voley
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That's disappointing to hear. I liked Drive a lot. I started watching Killing Them Softly last night and was quite enjoying it but a hard day's sitting on my arse doing fuck all in the sun took it's toll and I probably saw about half an hour.
Reno
The In Kraut
Yup, Only God Forgives was shit. Wrote quite a bit about it on the cinema thread a couple of weeks ago, which nobody seems to read, because hardly anybody here watches films at the cinema it seems.
It's been suggested before and I still think it would be great if we had a sticky film thread for home and cinema viewing rather than one for home viewing only. Just drop the "DVD/Video" bit and replace it with "Film". As many more people watch TV programmes than films, popular TV shows tend to get their own thread anyway. Some of us make an effort to write a bit more extensively on the cinema thread, which seems to go mostly ignored.
Last night I watched the BFI restoration of the British silent film Underground. The story may be a bit on the melodramatic side leading from romantic comedy to murder, but it's a great film. Much of it takes place on the Northern Line and it's a fascinating document of what the underground system was like in 1928. The male lead character works as an escalator attendant, a job that long ago has ceased to exist. Beautiful German expressionist style cinematography and unusually for the period, it's about the romantic entanglements of working class characters.
It's been suggested before and I still think it would be great if we had a sticky film thread for home and cinema viewing rather than one for home viewing only. Just drop the "DVD/Video" bit and replace it with "Film". As many more people watch TV programmes than films, popular TV shows tend to get their own thread anyway. Some of us make an effort to write a bit more extensively on the cinema thread, which seems to go mostly ignored.
Last night I watched the BFI restoration of the British silent film Underground. The story may be a bit on the melodramatic side leading from romantic comedy to murder, but it's a great film. Much of it takes place on the Northern Line and it's a fascinating document of what the underground system was like in 1928. The male lead character works as an escalator attendant, a job that long ago has ceased to exist. Beautiful German expressionist style cinematography and unusually for the period, it's about the romantic entanglements of working class characters.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
finished man of steel. Don't know why I bothered. There was literally more explosions than dialouge. Coming off the back of watching supe the Donner cut it was all the more painful to see what a puffed out, leaden bunch of wank this film was. So much plainly lacked even a sense of its own internal logic, introducing the bloodlines stuff was utterly pointless and the whole thing felt like a very expensive waste of my time
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Only God Forgives - A thoroughly shameless display of style over content. Viciously violent, a threadbare plot, but very nice to look at in a David Lynch meets Terence Malick via Johnny To kinda way....?!?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Because it's expensive?
magneze
🎧
Primer
A great time-travel film. It's only about 80 minutes, but packs more interest into those minutes than many films manage in over 2 hours. Whilst it's hard to follow the detail, the overall story is reasonably well defined so it works well as a thriller and yet it would survive many a re-watching too. Been reading loads about it since the finish and still not satisfied which is a good sign IMO.
A great time-travel film. It's only about 80 minutes, but packs more interest into those minutes than many films manage in over 2 hours. Whilst it's hard to follow the detail, the overall story is reasonably well defined so it works well as a thriller and yet it would survive many a re-watching too. Been reading loads about it since the finish and still not satisfied which is a good sign IMO.
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't care whether people go to the cinema or not, that's not what I was on about.
Reno
The In Kraut
Have you seen Shane Carruths new film, Upstream Color ?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
magneze
🎧
Not yet, but I'd like to.
Reno
The In Kraut
I was on about this thread and the cinema thread and that they cover much of the same ground and that I think it would make more sense to have one "film" thread.
I know why people don't go to the cinema. If I wasn't a BAFTA member and would see new films in their lovely cinema I wouldn't go much to the cinema myself. Less because of the price, but because lots of people in the audience these days are chatty, mobile phone obsessed, nacho chips munching, seat kicking cunts.
Reno
The In Kraut
Though I found it interesting I couldn't quite get on with Primer, maybe because I'm not very mathematically minded but I loved Upstream Color. It's my favourite film of the year so far and I've watched it about three times and I got something new out of it every time.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I'm a SHAFTA member. Their cinema is a bit squalid and sticky.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Like Reno says...Upstream Color is also very good. It's on netflix if you have it.
The Green Butchers. Pretty good. Worth a look, I'd say.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342492/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342492/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
I reall wanted Only God Forgives to be good. But I literally haven't heard a positive thing about it yet. Drive was one of the best films I've seen in ages, so this sucks.
I've got a friend who has been going on about Primer and Upstream Colour for a while now, so I need to dip into those.
Last night I watched Series 2 of 30 Rock as I'm introducing a housemate to it.
I've got a friend who has been going on about Primer and Upstream Colour for a while now, so I need to dip into those.
Last night I watched Series 2 of 30 Rock as I'm introducing a housemate to it.
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