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

[redsquirrel]

Starlet - Been meaning to watch this since Reno recommended it on here and I wasn't disappointed. Really really good, I won't bother repeating everything he said because he's already said it far better than I could but I totally concur with his recommendation.

(Also for trivia the young lead is a great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway)

 

[Idris2002]

I tried watching that Shutter Island last night, and turned it off after 35 minutes. Dreadful, dreadful stuff.

 

[DexterTCN]

I tried watching that Shutter Island last night, and turned it off after 35 minutes. Dreadful, dreadful stuff.

Agreed, saw the twist coming in the first five minutes. Expected better.

 

[DotCommunist]

I've downloaded the three good series of Spartacus: blood and tits

working my way through 'Gods of the Arena' at the moment. forgot how pumped slo mo fight scenes scored by heavy metal makes me feel

 

[mwgdrwg]

This is the End....Seth Rogen apocalypse film, which was okay. It held my attention for longer that Simon Pegg's The World's End.

 

[magneze]

On The Waterfront
Marlon Brando attempts to stand up to corrupt union bosses at the docks. The music was a bit annoying, but I guess that was the style at the time (1950s). Otherwise it was very good.

 

[The Boy]

Sharknado and Orphans. The latter was better than the former, though possibly not as funny.

edit: Actually, no. It was also funnier.

 

[trabuquera]

COME SEE THE PARADISE - 1990 effort by Alan Parker of all people, starring Dennis Quaid, a soapy, sentimental, schematic, but still interesting historical epic looking at the turbulent life of a Japanese-American family during the 1930s. Includes a surprising amount of 'subversive' history of the US, including labor agitation, internment and racism. Some really good performances from the Japanese-American actors (the woman playing the old grandma figure should have been a major star), fabulous art direction, and some very impressive hat-wearing. Worth a go if you are mildly interested in this period but can't face anything too taxing.

 

[Idris2002]

The Arrow



Fictionalised account of the rise and fall of the Avro Arrow, the Canadian fighter jet that was years ahead of its time, but SPOILER was cancelled by a short-sighted Ottawa government.

Your feminist friends will appreciate the feisty lady engineer heroine. Particularly the bits where she looks ready to jump the test pilot's bones and have him there in the cockpit (hey, is that why it's called. . .)

The Kate O’Hara character “was a fictitious person,” who actually represented the work done by close to 35 staff. And as Neal wrote his speech: “These people were almost exclusively male. Women with engineering degrees are scarce today, and they were even rarer in the ’50s.”

http://www.uofaengineer.engineering.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?article=71123&issue=70866

GOD DAMNIT ENGINEERING

Dan Aykroyd also stars.

 

[The Octagon]

The new Star Trek film (Into Darkness).

Not great, almost felt too linear, there was no building up of the supporting characters (Sulu and Chekov get relegated whilst Simon Pegg irritates).

And it's such a hugely unoriginal rip off of an earlier Trek film that it was laughable at times.

Decent action sequences, couple of good bits with Quinto, Pine and Cumberbatch.

 

[inva]

Morocco
1930 film directed by Josef Von Sternberg starring Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer (with a great set piece act early in the film) who has to choose between Gary Cooper as a Foreign Legion soldier and a rich man acted by Adolphe Menjou. Deitrich's persona isn't fully developed in this early film in the cycle she and Sternberg made together, and the fairly mundane plot might be a mark against it, but the plot isn't really very important and it's all done in Sternberg's incredible visual style. A very good film.

 

[starfish]

Star Trek Into Darkness. Better than the first but that was true first time around.

 

[DexterTCN]

Star Trek Into Darkness. Better than the first but that was true first time around.

I'm actually in tears.

 

[starfish]

I'm actually in tears.

How so?

 

[DexterTCN]

Sorry, wasn't meant to be insulting. Just the way you worded it.

Still a bit in tears, though.

 

[starfish]

Sorry, wasn't meant to be insulting. Just the way you worded it.

Still a bit in tears, though.

Ah, i thought you meant tears of sadness not laughter

 

[DexterTCN]

Ah, i thought you meant tears of sadness not laughter

heh!

I think Quinto makes a decent Spock, he's only had 2 shots at it so far, Nimoy has had...what...80? Pine I don't like but same thing probably goes. Don't mind Pegg either.

 

[Frances Lengel]

The Bed Sitting Room

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064074/

Best post apocalypse film I've ever seen.

 

[Idris2002]

Guns of Navarone.

Richard Harris' cameo as an angry Aussie bomber pilot was probably the best thing in it.

Overall, better than I expected, and I had to go and check to see if it was based on a true story (it isn't, but it was inspired by the actual Dodecanese campaign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecanese_Campaign )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecanese_Campaign

 

[DaveCinzano]

Overall, better than I expected

 

[Virtual Blue]

This is the End - I loved it. Really silly, crass, crude.

The World's End - okay until the final third. went all cheap and Doctor Who-ey.

 

[DexterTCN]

The Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

This (part one and two) really is quality Batman....if you're looking for some, jump straight into this...top class.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

This (part one and two) really is quality Batman....if you're looking for some, jump straight into this...top class.

I didn't like part two as much as part one, the politics of it turned very dodgy indeed I thought.

 

[butchersapron]

Top class fascism.

 

[SpookyFrank]

After Earth - Watched it to see if it was as awful as everyone seems to think, it wasn't actually that bad. The script is formulaic, the acting is indifferent and while the direction has its moments the film appears to have been edited by a chimpanzee. It's still far from the worst film ever made though, not even the worst film I've seen this year. Jennifer Anniston has been in half a dozen worse films. And it doesn't even come close to stealing the title of Worst Script Ever from Prometheus.

I do think Jaden Smith's character should probably have taken a gun with him though, rather than just a pointy stick.

 

[DexterTCN]

I didn't like part two as much as part one, the politics of it turned very dodgy indeed I thought.

Nah. If you look at Reagan and Superman in the second part, they're much worse than Batman. The police are' a bit' heavy-handed too.

See where you're coming from though.

 

[pissflaps]

frank miller.

 

[DotCommunist]

Original zod was so much better than concerned coupist bloodlines zod. Thats why I hat new superman. Original zod was just a cunt. This new zod displeases me.

 

[DotCommunist]

also the 'army of cops' bit in DKR was the most reactionary shit I've seen on a mainstream film in ages

 

[DaveCinzano]

Thats why I hat new superman.

Too much moral relativism for you? Or titfer tat, as you might say.