DotCommunist
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I do like the way the batbike flips its tyres when a character makes an impossible turn at high speed. It probably would never work according to SCIENCE but its a nice touch anyway
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Anyone else expect Bane to suddenly say 'Nobody beats the Riz!' and start drinking the tears of abused children?
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
... VROOOM VROOOM!
(*or, should that be: da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da... VROOM-VROOM! vroom-vroom)
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Beasts of the Southern WIlds - Very good. Thoroughly 'enjoyed' that.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Two films starring Tahar Rahim - one staggeringly awful, one an interesting failure...
Black Gold, made by Jean-Jaques Annaud - (in)famous for Enemy at the Gate and other history-for-dummies stuff. Quite possibly one of the worst films ever made, but definitely so bad it's worth a watch for the lulz. An astonishingly cackhanded Euro/internationalpudding of a film purporting to dramatise the early years of the Gulf oil boom (1920s ish? who knows? who cares? the period detail's beside the point), filmed in Qatar and Tunisia (the latter when it was still under Ben Ali). It's absolutely bizarre.
It should tell you something when a cast of supposed Saudi characters is represented by: Tahar Rahim (French/Algerian), Frieda Pinto (South Indian - because OF COURSE she has to get her kit off and no Arab actress would do it), Antonio Banderas (channelling his inner Andalusian Arab apparently, although he still lisps his way through the thing like a Spaniard) and that well known friend of the Middle East MARK STRONG (can't break out of the London hardman persona even when done up in robes and a headdress...) The script is a mishmash of appalling Orientalist cliches and meaningless platitudes about Gaaaaahd. The plot is just pants. Some of it looks lovely but in the fakiest stagiest way you can imagine. It's about the most ludicrous film you could imagine about a genuinely interesting historical epoch and real questions (how did it come about that the Saudis and US ended up ruling the world blah blah blah). Altogether is SO BAD that it's kind of fun. There should be a drinking game invented to make viewing it even more entertaining.
Free Men is a different proposition entirely - rather earnest, slightly stagey, very French drama about the weird underworld/spy games going on in occupied Paris in the 1940s with Tahar Rahim as a dozy amateur black-marketer who gets pulled into the orbit of Nazis, the Moroccan state and Vichy regime. Directed by a French/Algerian and was controversial in France, I think, though I can't remember exactly why or who objected. It's a bit odd, standard French lefty message at heart (remember the WWII resistants) although has to be one of the few films in history to reinterpret this era through the prism of North African Muslims saving various N African Jews from the Nazis' clutches ... yes really. It's obviously low budget and the script creaks in places ... it's just not very dramatically told. But interesting (as much for the hints it drops about the doomy future awaiting many characters, not to mention the future of France and Algeria and other colonies) and has its moments. Worth a watch if you are interested in this era or WW2 films in general - it's certainly an oblique look at the "Big Story" from characters usually sidelined form media counds.
Black Gold, made by Jean-Jaques Annaud - (in)famous for Enemy at the Gate and other history-for-dummies stuff. Quite possibly one of the worst films ever made, but definitely so bad it's worth a watch for the lulz. An astonishingly cackhanded Euro/internationalpudding of a film purporting to dramatise the early years of the Gulf oil boom (1920s ish? who knows? who cares? the period detail's beside the point), filmed in Qatar and Tunisia (the latter when it was still under Ben Ali). It's absolutely bizarre.
It should tell you something when a cast of supposed Saudi characters is represented by: Tahar Rahim (French/Algerian), Frieda Pinto (South Indian - because OF COURSE she has to get her kit off and no Arab actress would do it), Antonio Banderas (channelling his inner Andalusian Arab apparently, although he still lisps his way through the thing like a Spaniard) and that well known friend of the Middle East MARK STRONG (can't break out of the London hardman persona even when done up in robes and a headdress...) The script is a mishmash of appalling Orientalist cliches and meaningless platitudes about Gaaaaahd. The plot is just pants. Some of it looks lovely but in the fakiest stagiest way you can imagine. It's about the most ludicrous film you could imagine about a genuinely interesting historical epoch and real questions (how did it come about that the Saudis and US ended up ruling the world blah blah blah). Altogether is SO BAD that it's kind of fun. There should be a drinking game invented to make viewing it even more entertaining.
Free Men is a different proposition entirely - rather earnest, slightly stagey, very French drama about the weird underworld/spy games going on in occupied Paris in the 1940s with Tahar Rahim as a dozy amateur black-marketer who gets pulled into the orbit of Nazis, the Moroccan state and Vichy regime. Directed by a French/Algerian and was controversial in France, I think, though I can't remember exactly why or who objected. It's a bit odd, standard French lefty message at heart (remember the WWII resistants) although has to be one of the few films in history to reinterpret this era through the prism of North African Muslims saving various N African Jews from the Nazis' clutches ... yes really. It's obviously low budget and the script creaks in places ... it's just not very dramatically told. But interesting (as much for the hints it drops about the doomy future awaiting many characters, not to mention the future of France and Algeria and other colonies) and has its moments. Worth a watch if you are interested in this era or WW2 films in general - it's certainly an oblique look at the "Big Story" from characters usually sidelined form media counds.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Made in Britain
Can't believe I haven't seen that before. I recognize a lot of the sampled quotes from Skinnymans 'concil estate of mind' now.
Not perfect, but good.
Think I spotted a youthfulish Bob Cryer as the social worker at the start
Can't believe I haven't seen that before. I recognize a lot of the sampled quotes from Skinnymans 'concil estate of mind' now.
Not perfect, but good.
Think I spotted a youthfulish Bob Cryer as the social worker at the start
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Youthfull! He was 42!
DotCommunist
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ish, younger than I remember him from the bill anyway
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Started on the bill 2 years later.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
when I was a whole 1 years old. he was older when I saw him on the bill. Grey hair.
bob^^^
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
when I was a whole 1 years old. he was older when I saw him on the bill. Grey hair.
bob^^^
Kids these days....
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Started watching Pacifc (mini series) tonight and watched 6 episodes.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Off to Jura shortly, so I watched I Know Where I'm Going (about Colonsay, but close enough) yet again. And it was still marvellous.
Then had a mate over, who is fascinated by St Kilda, but had never seen Edge of the World. What else could be done? He loved it almost as much as I did.
Then had a mate over, who is fascinated by St Kilda, but had never seen Edge of the World. What else could be done? He loved it almost as much as I did.
Both great films. I'm off to the Outer Hebrides next week so may need to rewatch Whisky Galore before I go ;-).
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 8 first three episodes .This has got to be the best American comedy series I have seen.
Nighty Night first two episodes . Very clever dark surreal humour.
Nighty Night first two episodes . Very clever dark surreal humour.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Sleepless Night - excellently constructed and efficient french action thriller.
Killing Words - so/so cat-and-mouse killer type thing which - half way through - i remembered i'd already seen.
Killing Words - so/so cat-and-mouse killer type thing which - half way through - i remembered i'd already seen.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
El Bosc - one of the stupidest films i've ever seen. Spanish Civil war: Anarchist village, fascist-sympathiser who refuses to take part in the collectivisations etc Communist IB group, tensions. All done very straightforwardly (including the expected political cliches and heavy-handedness) - until the fascist sympathiser escapes through a eerie light in a grove on his land that takes him to a land of fish-men who live in artichoke houses. For real.
Voley
🐀
I finished watching the BBC dramatisation of The Crow Road last night. They've been showing it again as a tribute to Iain Banks. I enjoyed it but it just made me want to read the book again, really. The lad that played Prentice McHoan was a bit drippy in it, possibly deliberately I dunno. I ought to read the book again really. It's a good mystery story that manages to bring in themes of the existence of God / the nature of faith / drink and drugs / socialism vs capitalism etc. It felt like the BBC series just scratched the surface really. Yer man from The Thick Of It was good as the Uncle who disappears mind. Bill Paterson's good in it, too.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I've been visiting my dad for a couple of days now, but my initial enthusiasm for this dwindled somewhat by his dedication to watch every single episode of "Heartbeat" ever recorded, plus dvd extras and documentary shorts... Only interrupted by coffee/meal breaks, and anecdotes of his most recent medical history... Please save me. 
Voley
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Christ.I've been visiting my dad for a couple of days now, but my initial enthusiasm for this dwindled somewhat by his dedication to watch every single episode of "Heartbeat" ever recorded, plus dvd extras and documentary shorts... Only interrupted by coffee/meal breaks, and anecdotes of his most recent medical history... Please save me.
JimW
支那暗杀团
I love him though, so I have to put up with it. I blame Greengrass.
Sympathy like there.
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
I declare War - : "Bang, bang, you're dead. No, really dead. A group of twelve year old kids play war in a forest but the audience views the action through their eyes. They fire real machine guns, hear mortars exploding around them, and dodge bloody shrapnel from grenades. I Declare War is a movie for young and adult audiences alike, featuring twelve to thirteen year old actors in the tradition of Stand By Me.
It was alright, and i did enjoy it, but definitely overtones of lord of the flies.
It was alright, and i did enjoy it, but definitely overtones of lord of the flies.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Conjuring.
Really enjoyed it. One of the best horror films I've seen for a long while. It's well shot, there's plenty of jumpscares and an amazing screaming kid. Maybe the 70s were just scarier but I liked the look of it even though at one point it did remind me of Scooby Doo. I hadn't read anything beforehand but the similarities with Amityville are obvious.
Really enjoyed it. One of the best horror films I've seen for a long while. It's well shot, there's plenty of jumpscares and an amazing screaming kid. Maybe the 70s were just scarier but I liked the look of it even though at one point it did remind me of Scooby Doo. I hadn't read anything beforehand but the similarities with Amityville are obvious.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I watched Hairspray on DVD again last night. Always a film that makes me happy. 
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