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

[butchersapron]

Pain and Gain.

I did not find it as hilarious as Butchers but it was still good. The Rock has some of the best lines

You nee to watch it ten times before the true beauty within makes itself known. How can you not love a film with the line Don’t be a Don’ter! – Do be a Doer!!

 

[blairsh]

I've got a choice of

Breathless
Antique Bakery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_(film))
Desire to Kill (Joogigo Sipeun aka Enemy at the Dead End) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Desire-Kill-DVD-Cheon-Jin/dp/B0083V8LLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376662350&sr=8-1&keywords=desire to kill


Think it'll be Breathless or Desire to Kill

Well, i thought breathless was great, plus lots of swearing in Korean

 

[DotCommunist]

Petrol Bombs and Peace: Belfast today


Can't believe theres still peace walls in the disputed turf of the ardoyne.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Wolverine - wasn't expecting much, and wasn't disappointed. Jackman's a great Wolverine all right, but the character can't really carry a film single-clawedly without a decent ensemble to play off. I'm already struggling to remember much of the plot, but it concluded with a big and obvious battle with a giant robot for some reason. I'm pretty sure this film was comissioned before anyone actually wrote a script for it.

Still better than the Wolverine Origin movie though, that was fucking terrible.

 

[tufty79]

three miles north of molkom. one of my top happymaking films.

 

[Grandma Death]

The House I live In. Fucking brilliant but depressing nevertheless

 

[Frances Lengel]

5 Souls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737795/

Couldn't make head nor tail of it TBH.

And Evidence

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/evidence_2013/

Which was alright. And I sussed who the baddie was going to be.

 

[DotCommunist]

Taken 2

Liam Neeson goes ape. Again. And kills loads of vaugely eastern european sorts. Istanbul setting, lovely skyline on that place

 

[magneze]

Stalker
Tarkovsky (of Solaris fame) Sci-Fi. At almost 3 hours long, we watched it in two sections. Very philosophical and intense and definitely film as art IYSWIM. The plot is: there's a rumour that there is a room inside a place known as the Zone where wishes come true. Only some people, known as Stalkers, can guide normal people there. The film is about three men (1 Stalker and 2 normal people) who make the journey. I liked it. Apparently there is a Geoff Dyer book about the film which I've now added to my list of books to read.

 

[5t3IIa]

Bit of Tron. Is it even meant to be a film? What's it supposed to be?

 

[Idris2002]

Le Petit Soldat.

A deserter from the French army in Algeria is employed by a right-wing intelligence outfit in Geneva. They do not trust him, and order him to assasinate somebody. Things proceed to develop badly for him, and his target.

Godard's second film, after Breathless, but before he decided that boredom was revolutionary. Interesting that this was the first French film to explicitly deal with the Algerian war though - filmed in 1960, it was banned for three years by the French state.

Also, I've been catching up with the last season of the Sopranos. Nice to watch a bunch of trash wallow in squalor of their own making.

 

[JimW]

I did watch that Pain & Gain thing the other night and while maybe not rating it quite as highly as Butchers did it was pretty good entertainment and very funny.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think the stand out line for me is when pesci threatens to tell jesus what the Rock has been up to and he says 'you aint telling jesus nothing' while force feeding pesci booze

 

[maya]

Stalker- Tarkovsky

IIRC the film is based on a well-known (Soviet era) russian science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, called 'Roadside Picnic'. The novel is rated highly in SF circles apparently, personally I thought it was a bit dull though (but who wouldn't find a book a bit dry after watching Tarkovsky's cinematic masterpiece!), you might want to check it out regardless- If so, the library will be your friend.

 

[DotCommunist]

and also

'What happened to you was unamerican'

from that bloke who has made a career out of playing 'retired marine corps'

 

[sojourner]

We watched the film of Fahrenheit 451 last night. I have one word which sums it up perfectly: appalling.

Any scenes of unbearable tension that were in the book were drained to within an inch of their lives in the film. Points were missed so badly that they ended up being almost comedic genius. I did wonder whether, in the initial meeting, the following conversation was had:

"You know how, like, the book is, like, the most brilliant book ever written? Well, and you'll love this, how about we make the shittest film of it ever produced and directed?" *rounds of applause from a drink-sodden group of idiots*

Bob's favourite bit was the colours they used. Mine were the moments of unintentional hilarity.

Woeful.

 

[Idris2002]

I like Cyril Cusack in it, though.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sunday I watched Machete.
Most enjoyable.

 

[butchersapron]

I think the stand out line for me is when pesci threatens to tell jesus what the Rock has been up to and he says 'you aint telling jesus nothing' while force feeding pesci booze

Not Pesci, Tony Shalhoub - channeling Pesci but with a lot more intelligence and cunning rather than just violence. The bloke he was playing was later jailed for multi-million pound fraud. So maybe not that intelligent and cunning.

 

[Yetman]

Epic - highly enjoyable jungle borrower romp for kids but hey, we liked it

 

[Frances Lengel]

We watched the film of Fahrenheit 451 last night. I have one word which sums it up perfectly: appalling.

Any scenes of unbearable tension that were in the book were drained to within an inch of their lives in the film. Points were missed so badly that they ended up being almost comedic genius. I did wonder whether, in the initial meeting, the following conversation was had:

"You know how, like, the book is, like, the most brilliant book ever written? Well, and you'll love this, how about we make the shittest film of it ever produced and directed?" *rounds of applause from a drink-sodden group of idiots*

Bob's favourite bit was the colours they used. Mine were the moments of unintentional hilarity.

Woeful.

Nice shots of some flats near the beginning I seem to remember though. Probably not enough to redeem the film but.

 

[JimW]

Not Pesci, Tony Shalhoub - channeling Pesci but with a lot more intelligence and cunning rather than just violence. The bloke he was playing was later jailed for multi-million pound fraud. So maybe not that intelligent and cunning.

"You're a very hard victim to like" was another top line.

 

[butchersapron]

"You're a very hard victim to like" was another top line.

Watch it again, there are so many nuggets. Trust me

 

[JimW]

Watch it again, there are so many nuggets. Trust me

I have kept the file as I thought it will definitely stand a re-watch, which is already a big thumbs up given the crappy disc space on this laptop.

 

[butchersapron]

Good lad

 

[DotCommunist]

in a wierd meta thing I just realised the bloke who plays the PI is in fact the leader of the marines turned merc in the film 'The Rock'

snake eats own tail

 

[butchersapron]

It's not him either.

Edit: it flippin is

 

[butchersapron]

in a wierd meta thing I just realised the bloke who plays the PI is in fact the leader of the marines turned merc in the film 'The Rock'

snake eats own tail

How does a bloke being in different films mean anything beyond that?

 

[DotCommunist]

How does a bloke being in different films mean anything beyond that?

the film is called the Rock. The Rock plays one of the three baddies in Pain and Gain. Retired badass marine plays another retired badass. It all fits a greater puzzle. In my head.

 

[butchersapron]

the film is called the Rock. The Rock plays one of the three baddies in Pain and Gain. Retired badass marine plays another retired badass. It all fits a greater puzzle. In my head.

Don't you forget it.