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

[Yetman]

The World End (2013) Pretty good actually. Considine was alright in a comedy role, nowhere near as good as he is in darker roles but still alright with his poncey hairdo, pulled it off imo. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny all the way but was still constantly amusing with a few hilarious bits.

I only remembered halfway through about the blue theme in it, and when you know about it, it's a very blue film, but not so much that it becomes noticeable unless you know about it and know why it's there. 7.5/10

 

[DotCommunist]

44 inch chest- jon hurt and lovejoy on fine form


Conspiracy, about the Wansee conference. horrible.

 

[TruXta]

Saw Skyfall the other night. Perfect for a moronic Friday night on the couch, would never pay to see it.

 

[flypanam]

Stick with it

I did. Quite unbelieveable but was good fun.

 

[Idris2002]

Watched this the other night:



About the kidnapping of Pierre Laporte, the event which sparked the Canadian October crisis of 1970. An attempt to show that the FLQ cell who abducted and killed the "minister of unemployment and assimilation" were the real victims.

Not truly terrible, but more of a "low costas-gavras" than a Costa-Gavras if you see what I mean.

 

[starfish]

Stake Land - hadn't heard of it before, but twas rather good - a bit like The Road but with added vampires.

Saw that too the other night. Agree, was pretty good.

 

[Yetman]

Battle Los Angles - started off good, Army, guns, stories.....and it just carried on with the same thing all the way through. I turned it off with 15 mins to go cos I knew what was gonna happen.... exactly the same thing that had happened throughout the whole film.

 

[DexterTCN]

Best In Show. Haven't watched this for ages, by the makers of Spinal Tap. At least as good, painfully, excruciatingly funny at times.

 

[May Kasahara]

Dark Star. Curiously engaging. I laughed a lot at Pinback's recorded message compilation.

 

[Idris2002]

Dark Star. Curiously engaging. I laughed a lot at Pinback's recorded message compilation.

I turned it off after 45 minutes. Should I have stuck with it?

 

[May Kasahara]

I don't know, should you?

 

[belboid]

I turned it off after 45 minutes. Should I have stuck with it?

its almost over by then! you might like the philosophical conversations with the bomb, but if the first 45 didnt grab you, its unlikely the other 35 would

 

[Idris2002]

i you might like the philosophical conversations with the bomb,

You know me so well.

 

[Supine]

The Prisoners - a very dark abduction story. Difficult to watch but also captivating. A big 9/10 from me.

 

[Idris2002]

Gambit. Cameron Diaz is a ditzy blonde Texan cowgirl and rodeo star, recruited by art historian Colin Firth to help defraud his boss, obnoxious press billionaire Alan Rickman.

Script by Joel and Ethan Coen, so it's better than it sounds, and better than it has a right to be.

Ms. Diaz was especially . . . stimulating . . . in her cowgirl outfits.

 

[The Boy]

21 (2008 ). Awful film about card counting student geniuses starring Kevin Spacey. Awful, awful, awful.

The Net (1995). Ahead-of-its-time cautionary tale about a world that is increasingly at the mercy of computers and those who control them. Or it was a badly acted mid-90s Sandra Bullock vehicle that could rival the worst of the worse thrillers. I'm struggling to remember anything about it tbh.

 

[DotCommunist]

21 (2008 ). Awful film about card counting student geniuses starring Kevin Spacey. Awful, awful, awful.

The Net (1995). Ahead-of-its-time cautionary tale about a world that is increasingly at the mercy of computers and those who control them. Or it was a badly acted mid-90s Sandra Bullock vehicle that could rival the worst of the worse thrillers. I'm struggling to remember anything about it tbh.

I saw that at the cinema. One of the games she is working on at the start is Wolfenstein 3d

ages it quite a bit.

 

[Part 2]

Prisoners. On at the pictures currently but good copies are to be had online. Two you girls abducted, how far will their fathers go to find them - that's the tagline or something similar.

It looks great, top cinematography reminded me of Winter's Bone. Torture scenes are well done, suggested violence with the results but difficult to view all the same. The story is good and tension keeps going for the full 150 minutes but needs a bit of concentration to pick up all the little bits of dialogue. (One of the problems with watching torrented films sometimes is the volume levels, if I'd turned it up anymore for the voices the bass when the music comes in would've broken the windows).

No sure about Jake Gyllenhal, what was with the tattoos?

Worth a watch anyway. 7/10

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog 2010) Wonderful.

This. Beautiful, captivating and a bit odd...

 

[Orang Utan]

The Prisoners - a very dark abduction story. Difficult to watch but also captivating. A big 9/10 from me.

The superfluous definite article here bothers way more than it should, so excuse me for the pedantry, but it is Prisoners not The Prisoners. Why do people do this?

 

[Me76]

The Time Traveler's Wife. Really enjoyed it, even if it was sentimental twaddle.

 

[Supine]

The superfluous definite article here bothers way more than it should, so excuse me for the pedantry, but it is Prisoners not The Prisoners. Why do people do this?

Good point

Better to use superfluous prose as a character flaw rather than child abduction!!!

 

[Awesome Wells]

Pacific Rim.

awesome fun.

 

[The Boy]

I'll sleep when I'm dead (2003). Weak British film about a retired British gangster type looking into the death of his annoying brother. Made worse by some very poor acting by some who should know better. Edit: and Clive Owen.

 

[DexterTCN]

Much Ado About Nothing. The Joss Whedon version.

Filmed in black and white in his own house (very nice) it's a who's who of Whedon's work. Some great performances. Funny, sexy, engaging. Easily recommended.

 

[Idris2002]

Sherlock - the Cumberbatch one.

I thought it was pretty good for what it was, but that won't stop me annoying my American lady academic contacts on facebook who have a certain gra for the Cumberbatch fellow.

 

[slightlytouched]

I watched Topgun for the first time, probably the last time too!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Time Traveler's Wife. Really enjoyed it, even if it was sentimental twaddle.

Does it have the bit in the book where the man goes back in time to wank himself of, only to be discovered by his dad and not even tell himself later when his past self goes back to fiddle with himself?

 

[Idris2002]

A Liar's Autobiography

The Lost Python, Graham Chapman, speaks FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, via recordings he did for his mid-80s memoirs about three years before he died of throat cancer at 48.

The thing is largely animated with other Pythons dropping in to play themselves, and the occasional bit of footage from MPFC. Each episode in our hero's life is done in a different animation style by a different animation team.

Hardcore Pythonistas will need to watch it, while the rest of us will still find plenty to enjoy and appreciate. Oh, and there's gay sex and plenty of it, until Chapman's drink-induced meltdown leads him to have sex with an actual woman or two.

Oh, and the DVD has a "making of" feature, with voiceover by none other than Paul Gambaccini.

 

[silverfish]

"Wrong"

Utterly baffled and frustrated by it

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