Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Tron Legacy.
So much wrong with it and no where near enough right.
So much wrong with it and no where near enough right.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The Panic in Needle Park.
Kitty Winn (who looks about 12 in some scenes) plays a naive innocent who enters the world of Needle Park, a nest of New York junkies who include in their number one Al Pacino.
Hang around the barber shop long enough and sooner or later you'll get your hair cut.So it is in our heroine's case: it's not long before she goes from "heroine" to "heroin" and prostitution as well. Yes, dear, pick a junkie as your boyfriend. That would be a good life decision for you. Yes.
The drug squad cop who pops up from time to time seems to know very well that his role in the then-new war on drugs is a Canute-like exercise in futility.
Al Pacino gives a very good performance, in fact the acting is really good all round. There's a very small role for Paul Sorvino, who would go on to be the father of the more famous Mira Sorvino.
I like these old movies from the very early 70s, it's something to do with the kind of film they were using at the time. The colours and textures are very like the French Connection for example. I'm also reminded of a family story: in the early 70s my aunt came to visit us in Canada, and she had to pass through New York to do it. My da sat down and wrote a long, stern letter warning her about how dangerous New York was, and she took umbrage at this.
Here's the trailer, which makes it look like "Love Story" meets "The Godfather", which it isn't really:
Kitty Winn (who looks about 12 in some scenes) plays a naive innocent who enters the world of Needle Park, a nest of New York junkies who include in their number one Al Pacino.
Hang around the barber shop long enough and sooner or later you'll get your hair cut.So it is in our heroine's case: it's not long before she goes from "heroine" to "heroin" and prostitution as well. Yes, dear, pick a junkie as your boyfriend. That would be a good life decision for you. Yes.
The drug squad cop who pops up from time to time seems to know very well that his role in the then-new war on drugs is a Canute-like exercise in futility.
Al Pacino gives a very good performance, in fact the acting is really good all round. There's a very small role for Paul Sorvino, who would go on to be the father of the more famous Mira Sorvino.
I like these old movies from the very early 70s, it's something to do with the kind of film they were using at the time. The colours and textures are very like the French Connection for example. I'm also reminded of a family story: in the early 70s my aunt came to visit us in Canada, and she had to pass through New York to do it. My da sat down and wrote a long, stern letter warning her about how dangerous New York was, and she took umbrage at this.
Here's the trailer, which makes it look like "Love Story" meets "The Godfather", which it isn't really:
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avu9lives
famous five member
land of the lost (2 fousand and 9) Der bluray version round someones house coz i aint got a one of me own. And yeah it looks good but its like when me hd freeview box asks me if i want ta watch bbc1 in hd and yer press ok and fer a second ya think wow thats clearer innit, but after a while ya dont give a ship wether its sd hd 720p 180p. Well i dont anyway! I hanker after days when ya used ta spend ages trackin yer video on an old vcr just ta get a good picture. Me owd vhs porn collection ones used ta have the lines and the bumpy picture, an it took real skill ta marry em up an get em right...... Anyway onta film, av seen it before and the bluray dint make a slight bit a differance coz i laugh me head of when he pours piss on himself but spend resta film moanin that Anna Friel shunt be in it ....
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
The what now?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Dark City.
Bit rubbish really.
Bit rubbish really.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
This is the End
Started off coming across as a load of rich Jewish comics showing off how much money they've got, with their shit parties and celebrity mates. BUT after about 45 minutes it goes bonkers, and all the better for it
Really funny as it went on, though there were a few scenes that were obviously improvised but didn't quite end up as funny as they could have been. 7.5/10
Started off coming across as a load of rich Jewish comics showing off how much money they've got, with their shit parties and celebrity mates. BUT after about 45 minutes it goes bonkers, and all the better for it
Really funny as it went on, though there were a few scenes that were obviously improvised but didn't quite end up as funny as they could have been. 7.5/10
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Life of Pi - sugary excrement - unicorn shit, if you will
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
History Boys
the bloke from Pie in The Sky is portrayed as a nonce.
the bloke from Pie in The Sky is portrayed as a nonce.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Countess Dracula. Enjoyed it.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
2010.
An interesting sequel that feels so different and stand alone that it does not feel like a sequel, more of a very straight companion piece. In an odd way it feels like the book 2001 compared to the film 2001.
I would also just like to point out that I think that 2001 is a bit overrated in anything other than a collection of 'visions of the future'.
An interesting sequel that feels so different and stand alone that it does not feel like a sequel, more of a very straight companion piece. In an odd way it feels like the book 2001 compared to the film 2001.
I would also just like to point out that I think that 2001 is a bit overrated in anything other than a collection of 'visions of the future'.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
SIDE BY SIDE - really not bad documentary presented by Keanu Reeves (He actually speaks! His own words! In more-or-less coherent sentences!) and all about what the digital revolution really means for film-making and for Hollywood.
It probably sounds very dull, lots of behind-the-scenes moviemaking lizards contemplating their own navels, talking bollocks about the Art Of Film and droning on about their kit and machines. But it's really not like that at all. The star pull obviously helped to get them to talk to loads of properly good directors and directors of photography, (James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, Scorsese, Soderbergh, Greta Gerwig etc etc etc) who have genuinely interesting and provocative things to say about how films and the film industry will change as cameras shrink and editing gets ever more recuttable. Some lovely jokes/anecdotes/revelations about what it's actually like to work on big-budget SFX-heavy productions as well as dramatic arthouse stuff. It's funny and it's thought-provoking and worth a watch even if you are not a bespectacled intellectual film nerd.
It probably sounds very dull, lots of behind-the-scenes moviemaking lizards contemplating their own navels, talking bollocks about the Art Of Film and droning on about their kit and machines. But it's really not like that at all. The star pull obviously helped to get them to talk to loads of properly good directors and directors of photography, (James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, Scorsese, Soderbergh, Greta Gerwig etc etc etc) who have genuinely interesting and provocative things to say about how films and the film industry will change as cameras shrink and editing gets ever more recuttable. Some lovely jokes/anecdotes/revelations about what it's actually like to work on big-budget SFX-heavy productions as well as dramatic arthouse stuff. It's funny and it's thought-provoking and worth a watch even if you are not a bespectacled intellectual film nerd.
On The Road with Sam Riley and Garret Hedlund. I can see why people reacted with a shrug to this. It doesn't bring very much that the book doesn't already deliver, except that its cast add a patina of glamour to the telling. Blink and you miss them roles like Viggo Mortensen as William Burroughs, Steve Buscemi and Elizabeth Moss lifted the story. The road had to be part of the telling and the exhilaration of being free to move from place to place as well as to live by their own rules conveyed the sense of youthful optimism. Though I did ponder on how the young wondering and wandering Sal became the later hidebound drunk Jack Kerouac.
Dirty fat twat.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The Impossible.
True story of one families experience of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Perfectly well done, on the whole. and the twenty mins around when the wave actually hit were very powerful - so much so they used them twice. But after that, there just wasn't much tension cos you knew (or were 99% sure at least) what was going to happen.
True story of one families experience of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Perfectly well done, on the whole. and the twenty mins around when the wave actually hit were very powerful - so much so they used them twice. But after that, there just wasn't much tension cos you knew (or were 99% sure at least) what was going to happen.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Goin' Down the Road.
Two Nova Scotian lads decide they'll try their luck in Toronto, and get more than they bargained for. Whoever made this must have watched a lot of Italian neo-realist flicks, and at times it's almost like a Ken Loach film.
One thing I liked is that even though it was made in the very late 60s (released 1970), virtually no one in it has long hair, in fact there are still loads of 50s style quiffs knocking about. We've been fed a nostalgic line about the 60s for decades, but films like this show something of the reality of that era, when the post-war boom started to stutter and die, and the crisis of the 70s approached.
And it turns out they made a sequel forty years later, but don't watch this trailer, because it contains a major spoiler for the first movie:
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Watched Cockneys vs Zombies cos ma wanted cheering up and I thought 'whats funnier than brick top vs a load of zombies?' also its nice to see Zoe out of eastenders getting some work.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Because your whole repertoire is just saying things from things.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep. I am. Let's see who wins.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Evil Dead 2
I think the film never truly tops the point where he puts his girlfriends possessed head into a bench vice and takes a chainsaw to it.
Is it supposed to be funny? cos I was laughing 90% of the time
I think the film never truly tops the point where he puts his girlfriends possessed head into a bench vice and takes a chainsaw to it.
Is it supposed to be funny? cos I was laughing 90% of the time
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Ending was just straight up radio rental as well. Why did the vortex suck him back to medieval times? why did....well why did anything happen. The film is just incredible. They even used stop motion at one point for the final baddie. WTF man.
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