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

DotCommunist said:
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
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Is that the one with the awesome Ernest Hemingway joke?
 
Things to Do In Denver When You are Dead- one of my favourites. Andy Garcia splendid in Italian suits as Jimmy The Saint, a barking mad Christopher Walkden and Steve Buscemi as a hit man.
 


I only made it half way through this one. It was unacceptably, direly mediocre, and even the presence of Brigitte Bardot could not save it.
 
After Earth (2013) Will mate sort yerself out lad! If your going to cast yer son as the main lead in a film make sure he takes a few acting lessons eh. Otherwise he's gonna look a right dick... ta think sum poor sods gonna pay a tenner for this when it comes out on dvd. Youd probably have more fun sticking the tenner on yer tv and stare at that fer 100 mins. Pish poor excuse for a film.
 
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Stories We Tell. Sarah Polley interviews members of her family and various others about her mother, who died when she was 11. The various recollections and revelations reveal how memories become quite personal narratives that depend as much on the ones who recall events as the events themselves.
 
In a Lonely Place
Brilliant, tense film directed by Nicholas Ray with Humphrey Bogart as a volatile script writer who is suspected of murder and Gloria Grahame who provides his alibi only to have doubts about his innocence. I thought both were very good in this.

It said on the wikipedia page for the film that the ending was improvised after the original ending was scrapped. They did a good job of it though because the ending is just right.
 
The Dock Brief, excellent little 60s Brit comedy drama about a barrister conversing with a prisoner in his cell before a trial. Two great performances from Peter Sellers & Richard Attenborough make this a delight.
 
thanks to Stigmata I have watched the evil mirror universe episodes of Star Trek enterprise. I'm now going to look for all the other evil trek episodes. It's like the future if the nazis had won.
 
Wake In Fright
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067541/

I've seen it before and it was butchersapron who recommended it. It's a mint film mate, thanks for that but I've read such bullshit about it on the net how it's disturbing and such like Nick Cave saying it's the scariest film about Australia and such - What was scary about it? The guy was getting the piss taken out of him as a teacher, 48 hours in the yabba and he's in with the top lads who look after him and take him out on the piss, he's got sex on draught with Janette if his cock is equal to her - Seems to me the film's about a straight choice - The bullshit you're used to or the chance of a decent butty.
 
DotCommunist said:
Tried to watch Upstream Colour but sacked it after 45 mins cos it was just weird, and not in a good way
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Rubbish it's great.

inva said:
In a Lonely Place
Brilliant, tense film directed by Nicholas Ray with Humphrey Bogart as a volatile script writer who is suspected of murder and Gloria Grahame who provides his alibi only to have doubts about his innocence. I thought both were very good in this.
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Fantastic film. Bogarts best performance IMO.
 
The Arrival of Wang. Shown as part of Film Four's Frightfest but not really a horror film. I knew absolutely nothing about it beforehand and, trust me, that's probably the best way to watch it. Not a perfect film by any means (with at least some of its faults down to the low budget), but pretty interesting and enjoyable all the same.

Also 'Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark' (the recent one). Was expecting it to be very average, but instead really liked it.
 


Getting Straight.

Early Elliot Gould movie where he plays a liberal academic at a neo-brutalist concrete jungle campus. It must have been made before Kent State, but when the National Guard show up there's a genuine "shit just got real" feeling. Also a good riot scene.

A lot of it doesn't stand up today, especially the way he treats his "chick, man" (played by Candice Bergen) - pull those stunts now, and you'd have a visit from your friendly neighbourhood feminist urban guerilla, who would fill you full of leaden death. But as a "slice of life" from an interesting time and place, it has fair number of good moments. The sole hippy (as distinct from student politicoes) in it is presented as a contemptible asshole, which is probably realistic.

Also stars a very young Harrison Ford in a small supporting role (NB, not as the hippy asshole).
 
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Tales from the Golden Age (2009) A collection of short Romanian black comedies based on urban legends from the Ceausescu era, enjoyed it.
 
Side Effects. This took two attempts to watch as I wasn't in the mood for it the first time. 5/10.

Can't think of anything I enjoyed about it. The cast were attractive but I was still confused at the end.
 
Something From Nothing - The Art of Rap. Ice-T gets his foot in the door to talk to a surprising number of 'classic' rappers about what makes them tick and how they compose / freestyle / conquered the world. It's weird really; surprising number of comic, self-mocking moments from a lot of the real talents, discombobulated mumblings from several others who seem a bit, um, chemically enhanced (beyond the industry standard). And sometimes the most apparently poetic/ articulate rappers on recordings being not so fast when just plain talking. Mostly what's weird (for me what grew up with these guys and their music) is how OLD they all are now ... and how the most obnoxious aspects of young men's posturing never really go away and don't improve with age...

It's quite nicely shot in bits (there's a recurring signature of landing in city X and having some instagrammed-and-filtered-to-blazes wonky helicopterscapes and a burst of classic hip hop for each one) but it mostly looks like a chaotic handheld reality documentary. Interesting bits: some truly revealing stuff about work methods, how rhymes get written and the particular challenges of the genre; Dr Dre coming over as a maniacally focused professional with no time for bullshit, let alone criminality (2 weeks out of the studio in close on a decade), various early-80s legends in various states of mental decay, Nas being quite funny, Eminem freestyling (ferociously) and Kanye West coming over as a whiny entitled little brat. (so no change there then.)

Overall - could be a decent TV documentary really, worth a watch if you like hip hop, probably 20 minutes too long, just like everything else.
 
Supine said:
Just finished Deadwood after seeing recommendations on here. Really good series with Ian mcshane on form.

The Wu character is brilliant "cock sucker!"
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Excellent telly.

"fuck you Wu"
 
trabuquera said:
Something From Nothing - The Art of Rap. Ice-T gets his foot in the door to talk to a surprising number of 'classic' rappers about what makes them tick and how they compose / freestyle / conquered the world. It's weird really; surprising number of comic, self-mocking moments from a lot of the real talents, discombobulated mumblings from several others who seem a bit, um, chemically enhanced (beyond the industry standard). And sometimes the most apparently poetic/ articulate rappers on recordings being not so fast when just plain talking. Mostly what's weird (for me what grew up with these guys and their music) is how OLD they all are now ... and how the most obnoxious aspects of young men's posturing never really go away and don't improve with age...

It's quite nicely shot in bits (there's a recurring signature of landing in city X and having some instagrammed-and-filtered-to-blazes wonky helicopterscapes and a burst of classic hip hop for each one) but it mostly looks like a chaotic handheld reality documentary. Interesting bits: some truly revealing stuff about work methods, how rhymes get written and the particular challenges of the genre; Dr Dre coming over as a maniacally focused professional with no time for bullshit, let alone criminality (2 weeks out of the studio in close on a decade), various early-80s legends in various states of mental decay, Nas being quite funny, Eminem freestyling (ferociously) and Kanye West coming over as a whiny entitled little brat. (so no change there then.)

Overall - could be a decent TV documentary really, worth a watch if you like hip hop, probably 20 minutes too long, just like everything else.
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I thought it was great, cheers for the heads up. My only gripe is that the interviews themselves were a little too short, but I did like the focus on the art itself. How many many times have we heard the 'coming up through the hood' stories from rappers? This avoided that and went straight to the process
 
redsquirrel said:
Fantastic film. Bogarts best performance IMO.
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I've not seen that many of his yet but I could well believe it.

Sullivan's Travels
Really entertaining film from 1941 written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. McCrea is John Sullivan, a director who decides he needs to go out and experience poverty in order to make a more important film with a social message, while Lake, who hasn't been able to find work as an actor, happens to meet Sullivan (in a great scene) just as she is about to leave Hollywood herself.

The film mixes light comedy with some quite bleak scenes of poverty and imprisonment so you end up with some quite surprising changes of tone at times. I thought it was excellent all round.
 
inva said:
I've not seen that many of his yet but I could well believe it.

Sullivan's Travels
Really entertaining film from 1941 written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. McCrea is John Sullivan, a director who decides he needs to go out and experience poverty in order to make a more important film with a social message, while Lake, who hasn't been able to find work as an actor, happens to meet Sullivan (in a great scene) just as she is about to leave Hollywood herself.

The film mixes light comedy with some quite bleak scenes of poverty and imprisonment so you end up with some quite surprising changes of tone at times. I thought it was excellent all round.
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I just checked to see if it's on youtube, and it appears to be, but only in chunks. It's worth making the effort to see this one, definitely.

As good, and as important, as His Girl Friday.
 
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