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Insidious
I want that hour and a half back, what a pile of plodding, unscary shite.
I want that hour and a half back, what a pile of plodding, unscary shite.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Before Midnight - I was looking forward to this. I got the DVD on Wednesday and left it until last night to watch it. It seemed rather laboured, like everyone had a hard time summoning up enthusiasm. Everything else was in place. The thoughtful discussions, the self-aware and interesting reflections on life and relationships as they change over time, all played out in a comfortable, almost idyllic setting. But the youthful fire seemed to have been replaced by a sort of world-weariness. And I couldn't rid myself of the thought that they were exploiting the franchise more than returning to the story because it needed to be told. This is based on seeing the first hour. I'll return to it and see if I change my mind when I've watched it all.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
The Brave one - Jodie Foster doing Charles Bronson's Death Wish role
The Two Escobars. Documentary about Pablo the Columbian drug trafficker and Andres the Columbian footballer. Follows the rise of Columbian football as it was financed by the drugs trade up to the 1994 World cup.
Good film, though I could've done with putting on something more uplifting tbh.
Good film, though I could've done with putting on something more uplifting tbh.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Man of Steel. It was really awful. I kept with it for 2.5hrs and it was torture. What a wasted effort.
magneze
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Behind the Candelabra
Michael Douglas is quite amazing in this story of Liberace's secret love. Just watch it. Great film.
Mud
Billed as one of Matthew McConaughey's best films. I can confirm that it is. Unfortunately it's a bit shit. However, I would like his shirt which despite everything stays completely clean throughout. Just one of the many completely unrealistically silly things that happen.
Michael Douglas is quite amazing in this story of Liberace's secret love. Just watch it. Great film.
Mud
Billed as one of Matthew McConaughey's best films. I can confirm that it is. Unfortunately it's a bit shit. However, I would like his shirt which despite everything stays completely clean throughout. Just one of the many completely unrealistically silly things that happen.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Shanghai Gesture absolutely demented 1930s Orientalist campy druggy nonsense from Erich von Stroheim. Fantastic costume and set design, weirdly static acting and pacing, one racial stereotype after another.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
This. I quite liked the first third of it, and the end bit was ok for a while, got tedious though and too long. Still, well shot and cool FX.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I hated the FX. All the action stuff has been done so many times in all the other super hero films. During the action sequences all the character were rendered like rubber toys. The plot was flimsier than a wet bog roll. It was really very poor.
Jackobi
swallows anything
The first series of Utopia which was on Channel 4 recently. Neil Maskell piques my interest, he's always such a convincing, cold-blooded murderer, scary man. Overall it's worthy as a gritty, Brit thriller.
Also keeping up with American Horror Story,Walking Dead and Inside Broadmoor on Channel 5.
Also keeping up with American Horror Story,Walking Dead and Inside Broadmoor on Channel 5.
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
La Noche de los Lapices
I am not sure about this film. In some ways good, in others it felt like it didn't quite work. The long beginning felt at times too slow, and the youthful innocence angle overplayed. But then it also captured quite well the horror and sheer shock of what it must have been like for the kids abducted who the film seem to make out could never of imagined such an all out violent response to their actions.
I want to say it is a bit like The Breakfast Club set in neo-fascist Argentina but that sounds harsher than I mean it.
I am not sure about this film. In some ways good, in others it felt like it didn't quite work. The long beginning felt at times too slow, and the youthful innocence angle overplayed. But then it also captured quite well the horror and sheer shock of what it must have been like for the kids abducted who the film seem to make out could never of imagined such an all out violent response to their actions.
I want to say it is a bit like The Breakfast Club set in neo-fascist Argentina but that sounds harsher than I mean it.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's a great film, the slow start is to differentiate what should be normal civil society demands (a school bus pass ffs) from the speed of the regime (and other regimes). It had to show they were different.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Yeah I suppose. I'm just impressed by buildings falling over and people smashing into mountains
It was seriously cheesy as well
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No idea, that's what happened though - it wasn't a dramatical invention.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yeah I suppose. I'm just impressed by buildings falling over and people smashing into mountains
It was seriously cheesy as well
It just lacked any human heart for me. I just didn't care.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
I've signed up to Mubi, much better value than lovefilm. Ok you don't get to pick your own films but I have trouble deciding anyway, and their selection seems pretty good.
For starters they had Il Conformista which I've wanted to see for ages but couldn't get anywhere.
Yesterday I watched Lebanon (about 4 Israeli soldiers in a tank in the Lebanon (obvs) war). It was really well done, very moving. If anyone's seen it can they tell me what that stuff dripping down the walls/in the dials was?
For starters they had Il Conformista which I've wanted to see for ages but couldn't get anywhere.
Yesterday I watched Lebanon (about 4 Israeli soldiers in a tank in the Lebanon (obvs) war). It was really well done, very moving. If anyone's seen it can they tell me what that stuff dripping down the walls/in the dials was?
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Condensation iirc - mostly the manly sweat of all those blokes stuck in the tank! - and leaking engine oil / hydraulic fluid perhaps?
Brilliant film that.
I've been watching some of Les Vampires, Louis Fueillade's 1915 series of short films about a criminal gang calling themselves the Vampires who are jumping down wells, climbing through secret doors behind paintings, putting on implausible disguises, decapitating people and stealing jewels etc. Edouard Mathe is Philippe Guerande, a reporter investigating the gang, and Musidora is Irma Vep, one of the vampires. Really enjoying it so far, lots of twists and turns and inventiveness.
By coincidence I've also watched over the last few days Celine and Julie Go Boating, a 3 hour or so film from 1974 directed by Jacques Rivette, which I noticed had a reference to Les Vampires in it, where Celine and Julie are making a getaway from a library in the same black outfits as the vampires wear, except that they are on rollerskates. It stars Juliet Berto as a magician called Celine and Dominique Labourier as a librarian called Julie, who were just fantastic in this. Both had quite a big role in writing the script for the film, and I read that they worked out the script for each scene as they went along which maybe helps to give the film its spontaneous feeling. It ends up as a sort of dreamlike mystery in which Celine and Julie share an imagined film within a film experience of a strange house and its inhabitants where there seems to be a murderous plot going on if they can just imagine what it is. It was the first Rivette film I've seen and it really was excellent, although very difficult to describe it.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
ah yeah that would make sense
Indeliblelink
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Couple of haunted house films, both of which were quite enjoyable.
Expulsion of the Devil [At The Meeting With Joyous Death], 1973 from Juan Luis Bunuel, son of Luis Bunuel, about a french family who have just moved into a new countryside home who are harrassed by a poltergeist which seems to be triggered by the presence of their pubescent daughter. Features a young Gerard Depardieu.
Even The Wind Is Afraid, 1968 - Mexican ghost-story based in a girls' boarding school. A group of girls has to stay at the their school over a holiday as a punishment, they start seeing visions of a girl who committed suicide at the school in past.
Expulsion of the Devil [At The Meeting With Joyous Death], 1973 from Juan Luis Bunuel, son of Luis Bunuel, about a french family who have just moved into a new countryside home who are harrassed by a poltergeist which seems to be triggered by the presence of their pubescent daughter. Features a young Gerard Depardieu.
Even The Wind Is Afraid, 1968 - Mexican ghost-story based in a girls' boarding school. A group of girls has to stay at the their school over a holiday as a punishment, they start seeing visions of a girl who committed suicide at the school in past.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Sounds potentially entertaining, I'll try n look it out.
Indeliblelink
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It's also on Youtube
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the Wolverine origin story. It was popcorn fayre
first episode of Alphas series 2- syfy's answer to heroes. good start
first episode of Alphas series 2- syfy's answer to heroes. good start
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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