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

[magneze]

I thought it dragged on a bit when I saw it first (the shorter version) but when I saw the extended one it didn't seem to. I think in the shorter movie it takes up a bigger chunk of time but with three hours or so of battling to Mordor preceding it,it works alright.

It's certainly quite a commitment. That's why it's taken so long to get around to see it. It's not often that I think, "right, I've got four hours to myself, lets watch one film".

 

[Voley]

It's certainly quite a commitment. That's why it's taken so long to get around to see it. It's not often that I think, "right, I've got four hours to myself, lets watch one film".

I had a week off work and no money so watched the whole lot - extended editions - over the course of about 4 nights. I think someone on here watched them all in a day once. Pingu maybe? Next step will be to add all three extended Hobbits to it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Taken 2 which is exactly like Taken 1 minus the best bit. Zero Dark Thirty which wasn't quite as 'WOO! GO USA!' as I thought it might be but which seems to think it's VERY SERIOUS INDEED when it really isn't. Both fairly shit but both fairly enjoyable too iykwim.

its the exact same film only neeson has had a shave

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I watched the conjuring last night. A pretty well done creepy fest I thought.

 

[Voley]

its the exact same film only neeson has had a shave

Disappointing lack of 'I WILL KILL YOU'. They might as well have had that in it again.

 

[Pingu]

I had a week off work and no money so watched the whole lot - extended editions - over the course of about 4 nights. I think someone on here watched them all in a day once. Pingu maybe? Next step will be to add all three extended Hobbits to it.

yeah we did a lotrathon... even for us staunch LOTR fans it was hard going

 

[8115]

I watched Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel. It's epic. It was on i-player. 10/10.

 

[Idris2002]

The Dambusters.

Apart from the obvious problem with the dog's name, it was yet another example of the British film industry trying to make the Second World War boring. In this case, they didn't succeed, but it wasn't for want of trying.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Frost/Nixon

 

[DexterTCN]

Berberian Sound Studio. It's very clever and weirdly creepy, the performances are really, really good. It seems to be saying something about what happens to your mind if you willingly watch video nasties.

It' not for everyone...or even for most people, most likely.

 

[Meh O'Naise]

I had a week off work and no money so watched the whole lot - extended editions - over the course of about 4 nights. I think someone on here watched them all in a day once. Pingu maybe? Next step will be to add all three extended Hobbits to it.

I don't know about Pingu, but first time I watched extended ROTK was in a single sitting of the entire extended trilogy. Saturday night, 2004, it had just arrived, friends over, was supposed to be going out.

Going out got cancelled. Its 9PM.

"Lets put the LOTR trilogy", someone says. "Extended editions", someone says. "It'll finish at 10 in the fucking morning", I say. I get outvoted.

Those fuckers collapsed into bed about 5. Splitters. I watched ROTK extended, on my own , for a debut sitting of all 3 in one go.

I felt like a survivor of the somme afterwards. Mainly as in the sense that I just wanted to wander around aimlessly at people, shell shocked and incoherent, shouting "Never Again......."

 

[trabuquera]

In Darkness - how a Polish petty criminal kept a small group of Jews alive in the drain system of Lvov through the Nazi occupation. Schindler's List in the sewers, basically, very very well done and much less sentimental and hard-edged than the Spielberg, though. All human life is here (betrayal, religion, sex, birth, murder, hatred, love, class analysis, etc etc etc) and there's a genuine sense of unease and brutality even when there isn't anything shockingly violent going on on screen. Excellent performances and - for a movie shot mostly in deep shadow and with "not much happening" (* apart from WWII and the Holocaust obvs) the drama never flags. Great, really. But not an evening's light viewing.

Rebellion - this was EXCELLENT and I think criminally underpublicised when it came out. Matthieu Kassovitz (of La Haine, Self Made Hero etc) made this about one of those classically violent, heavy handed, French colonial responses to a biti of bother popping off in one of its domains abroad - in this case based on a hostage crisis in French New Caledonia (Papua New Guinea sort of) in 1988, just as Chirac and Miterrand where competing for the Presidency of France. Film focuses on how the response to the hostage taking was turned inot one huge territorial pissing match between different arms of the French State and how little any of it had to do with the separatists' demands or tactics. Its own take is v obviously sympathetic to the separatists but it's also very incisive and sharp about (some of) the French gendarmes / soldiers / negotiators who weren't actually trying to put the colonialist boot down quite so hard. I love any film where a lot of it is powerful guys running around going "what the fuck's going on?" and there was plenty of that. Looks beautiful and has some wonderful shots to look at. Highly highly recommended.

 

[Yetman]

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Great
Monsters University....not that great

Animation Sunday

 

[belboid]

Trollhunter again. Still very very funny

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought it dragged on a bit when I saw it first (the shorter version) but when I saw the extended one it didn't seem to. I think in the shorter movie it takes up a bigger chunk of time but with three hours or so of battling to Mordor preceding it,it works alright.

I saw it at the cinema and there were audible groans and sighs (including mine) after the third time it 'ended' and yet another coda began.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Watched Mesrine pt 1 & 2 again with Jnr to aid his french studies.

1 was good, very well paced. 2 was much slower and patchy. Overall a good tale well told.

 

[DotCommunist]

Immortals

Jon Hurt makes a convincing Zeus. Orlando Bloom does not.

 

[butchersapron]

The Great Beauty - New one from Paolo Sorrentino (best known for Il divo and the disappointing This Must Be the Place). This one is a gorgeous look at at a vacuous bourgeois rome full of lying to oneself and allusions to the obvious past masters. Very melancholy - and i understand why it had to be so empty for much of the film (to mirror the lifes) but pushing that for nearly 2 and half hours was a bit wearying. Can't wait to see it on a big screen though, looked fantastic. Oh yeah, the opening 15-20 minute scene is excellent and really reminds me that british/irish and europeans really are very different people.

 

[Yetman]

I watched the conjuring last night. A pretty well done creepy fest I thought.

Me too. Mrs shat her brick several times

 

[DaveCinzano]

I saw it at the cinema and there were audible groans and sighs (including mine) after the third time it 'ended' and yet another coda began.

Like the multiple 'endings' of the Cluedo film?

 

[Orang Utan]

Like the multiple 'endings' of the Cluedo film?

I have not had the pleasure

 

[DaveCinzano]

I have not had the pleasure

 

[Meh O'Naise]

Like the multiple 'endings' of the Cluedo film?

The original cinema versions were shipped out with all the different, alternate versions. You never knew what you were going to get when you walked into the cinema. The DVD is an entirely different version of the film, as in all the alternate version are presented one after the other, unlike any of the cinema releases.

 

[The Octagon]

Makes me think of -

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Great Beauty - New one from Paolo Sorrentino (best known for Il divo and the disappointing This Must Be the Place). This one is a gorgeous look at at a vacuous bourgeois rome full of lying to oneself and allusions to the obvious past masters. Very melancholy - and i understand why it had to be so empty for much of the film (to mirror the lifes) but pushing that for nearly 2 and half hours was a bit wearying. Can't wait to see it on a big screen though, looked fantastic. Oh yeah, the opening 15-20 minute scene is excellent and really reminds me that british/irish and europeans really are very different people.

I saw this at the cinema - Loved it. Consequences of Love is my favourite of his, but I really enjoyed this on the big screen.

 

[DotCommunist]

American Horror Story: Coven. First two eps. Looks like a good un

 

[Yelkcub]

The Hunt. Grim.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Pacific Rim. Disappointing Michael Bay-esque fluff from the usually brilliant Guillermo del Toro. A comic relief subplot featuring Charlie Day, Ron Perlman and Burn Gorman on fine form was a welcome distraction, but the movie as a whole was deadly dull IMO.

 

[stuff_it]

RIPD

It was actually much better than I thought it would be.

 

[Idris2002]

Pacific Rim. Disappointing Michael Bay-esque fluff from the usually brilliant Guillermo del Toro. A comic relief subplot featuring Charlie Day, Ron Perlman and Burn Gorman on fine form was a welcome distraction, but the movie as a whole was deadly dull IMO.

I dunno, I thought it was pretty good.

For what it was.