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

Reno said:
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.
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Lots of people read it! :mad:

I think it's kinda cool that it's separate from a 270 pages thread, and no, I don't go to the movies.
 
little_legs said:
Lots of people read it! :mad:

I think it's kinda cool that it's separate from a 270 pages thread, and no, I don't go to the movies.
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I'm not so sure as hardly anybody seems to reply to posts apart from those who also saw the film at the cinema. I write something about a new film and then the thread sinks again. You'd think a few people would be excited about a film like Rush, but nope. :(
 
I think i've mentally filtered it out from threads i check for some reason. Had forgot about it until Reno mentioned it the other day. I've got it ordered in my brain that aside from specific film threads that this is the films (any/all) that you've seen thread. I shall in future try to post/read the other one.
 
I see your point, Reno, I personally would have no problem if you posted same reviews on both threads, but I appreciate it could complicate things.

The other thread for me is about the films that have been just released or re-released in the UK movie theatres, that's why I like it separate.
 
why make that distinction? if you're into film, why does it matter when it was released? Especially if you don't actually go to the cinema!
 
Because I don't want to read that someone has seen Godfather last night on the thread about the new/currently in movie theatres films.

Why especially? I refuse to pay for an experience that involves sitting next to people opening their coke cans, pigging out on crisps, texting, etc. but I do want to know what the urban cinephiles think about the new films regardless of how they watched them.
 
belboid said:
that's be a thousand times better than watching them via a crappy download or on a bleeding phone
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nothing wrong with a quality download on a large screen in your own home with decent surrond sound though.

what masochist watches films on a phone
 
Meh O'Naise said:
Wrong.The ending improves on the book, Stephen King admits, and is one of the best endings in history.

Explain exactly how it was stupid, and then maybe you might have a point.
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Ok, what was the point of the eventuality that he could have waited a few minutes and not needed to do as he did? I can't see a link to a theme of earlier impulsiveness, for example. Seems like a cheap shock.
 
Meh O'Naise said:
Wrong.The ending improves on the book, Stephen King admits, and is one of the best endings in history.

Explain exactly how it was stupid, and then maybe you might have a point.
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The end was handled so ponderously, with Dead Can Dance warbling all over it like it was some sort of grand tragedy. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is an example of how this type of ending should be done, like a short sharp shock with a sense of irony, not like it suddenly wants to be Schindler's List. The tone of the end is totally off for what wants to be a homage to 50s style monster movies.

I don't like the film of The Mist much, it's way too preachy and didactic. Darabont is a such a heavy handed director and even what should be a fun monster movie is weighed down by his pretentions. The novella was a lot more fun and that's what a film about homicidal critters from another dimension should be.

Stephen King isn't the greatest judge of his work on screen, otherwise he wouldn't let the that no-talent TV hack Mick Garris adapt so many of his books.
 
Burton and Taylor, the BBC 4 film about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's poorly received stage production of Noel Coward's Private Lives which was like an epilogue to their famous relationship. Pretty good and well judget by restricting itself to one episode in their lives. While they may not exactly physically resemble them, Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West are both fantastic. It gives a bit of insight of how people like Taylor, who have been famous for their entire lives, end up like spoilt children for life and yet it doesn't caricature her. The end was genuinely touching. That was the last original drama on BBC4's after their budget got slashed.
 
Broken.

Sort of a modern take on To Kill a Mockingbird. Great film!

Ending was sort of a let down though with the odd fantasy church scenes
 
TruXta said:
I thought West was pretty poor in that. Man's got no range ffs.
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I disagree, I thought he was very good (as was his Fred West). In the end it was Bonham Carter's show though and Burton in real life was the straight man to the flamboyant, immature, irresponsible Taylor. Neither of them did a full on Spitting Image impersonation which is a good thing, but they caught something about the relationship which rang true to me from what I've read about it. For that you need two actors to make it work.
 
Reno said:
I disagree, I thought he was very good (as was his Fred West). In the end it was Bonham Carter's show though and Burton in real life was the straight man to the flamboyant, immature, irresponsible Taylor. Neither of them did a full on Spitting Image impersonation which is a good thing, but they caught something about the relationship which rang true to me from what I've read about it. For that you need two actors to make it work.
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Horses for courses. Me and the OH both agreed it was pretty run of the mill. For some reason I really don't get on with HBC anymore - that said I thought she carried the piece.
 
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - never heard of this but was was reccomended to me years ago. Very witty and cheeesy attempt at pulp film noir in which Val Kilmer is quite superb as a gay private detective, Robert Downey very witty ( and younger) and Michelle Monaghan plays hard to get.
 
Reno said:
Burton and Taylor, the BBC 4 film about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's poorly received stage production of Noel Coward's Private Lives which was like an epilogue to their famous relationship. Pretty good and well judget by restricting itself to one episode in their lives. While they may not exactly physically resemble them, Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West are both fantastic. It gives a bit of insight of how people like Taylor, who have been famous for their entire lives, end up like spoilt children for life and yet it doesn't caricature her. The end was genuinely touching. That was the last original drama on BBC4's after their budget got slashed.
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Actually, my "It's complicated on Facebook" met Taylor once and didn't come away thinking "this is a spoilt child in a woman's body". That was just the one time, of course.
 
Dead Snow - Silly, but funny, Norwegian Zombie Nazi flick. I laughed.

Eyeborgs - A low budget sci-fi film which is basically about surveillance-bots breaking bad...I liked the story.
 
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