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

DexterTCN said:
How many times am I going to click on TV and Film and end up in the Music forum?
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You won't like this post then.

I've just watched two Stones gigs on BluRay this afternoon - 'Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones' which is totally ace from start to finish as it's the Mick Taylor 'Exile On Main Street' version of the band and they really were the best fucking band ever then. Now I'm watching 'Some Girls Live In Texas'. This was only a few years later but Keith looks visibly more fucked and Mick has visibly less underpants. They're on really good form on this one, too, despite Mick's ill-advised punk 'Destroy' swastika T-Shirt. The high powered version of 'Starfucker' they do with Mick leaping about like a nutter is a pretty good advert for the virtues of cocaine. Despite this, Mick apologises for the lack of energy from the band as they'd all spent the previous night fucking. They do make me laugh sometimes. :D
 
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The Sessions. 38 year old in iron lung wants to lose his virginity. 'Based on true events' or something like that. It's okay, a good 90 minuter. Story is touching and the main guy is pretty funny at times.

The Nasty Girl. German film about a woman investigating he towns Nazi past. It's bloody brilliant.
 
The Letter



Psychological trauma with Winona Ryder and James Franco. How many films have there been with Winona Ryder playing a young woman having a breakdown? All of them, right? This is good though. If you like that kind of thing. I'm going to have to watch it again.
 
Queen of the Sun

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There are some dodgy hippie sequences; but imo this is one of the most sobering and frightening documentaries about what agri-business is doing to the planet. Some of what's going on seems to transcend the merely short-sighted or blind, and transgress into the diabolical.

A must-see documentary.
 
The Great Gatsby
Wonderfully made Baz Luhrmann version. Very entertaining and visually spectacular. The mixing of modern music into it was a little surprising but didn't detract. I guess having Jay-Z as a producer might possibly have influenced that somewhat. Quite fancy seeing it in 3D on a big screen. It's that sort of film.
 
I've finished working my way through Silent Witness, tonight I'm going to start Waking the Dead.
Good British telly with some obvious then and now illustrations.

Casual smoking, funny how it's so noticeable.
Lingering shots on the slab, that's okay, but now you wouldn't see the breasts of an under 16. Well I rather hope not.

Anyway, starting with the pilot.
 
The Act Of Killing.
I saw it a few nights ago and still don't know what to say about it. A grim but funny documentary about the perpetrators of the mass murder of 'communists' in Indonesia. Originally the film was supposed to be about the victims, but the still-in-power gangsters demanded that the crew make a film about them instead, re-enacting scenes of their atrocities, using Hollywood movie clichés, sometimes using some victims' families as extras. There's a horrible bit where they stop filming and the kids and some of the adults don't stop weeping. The matter of fact way that these killers talk about their horrific crimes whilst made up as corpses or dressed as cowboys is chilling but blackly comic.
Not sure what the message is. Still chewing it over.
These gangsters who ran and who still run Indonesia have never been held to account and probably won't be. The fly gangster dude who was head killer only appeared to realise what he'd done was wrong when he pretended to be a victim for the camera. How could he be so blyth about it? The human mind is adept at burying really bad things I guess.
The film could have taken the time to give the events a bit more context. There are just a few introductory captions at the beginning and the end.
Also, the killers kept going on about how the word 'gangster' meant 'free man'. Something must have been lost in translation there.
 
NVP said:
Mulholland Drive. It made more sense when I tried to watch it the other night when I was asleep on drugs.
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Wait til you see Inland Empire :D

I watched Insidious 2 last night. Bit crap really, the first was better and that wasn't even that good.
 
We had a yearning to watch Zulu again, after talking about it the other day, so watched it on Sunday afternoon, and cried all over again. Fucking brilliant film that :cool:
 
its been nearly a decade since Battlestar Galactica aired soI thought I'd start again from episode one. Fantastically, my memories of it are hazy enough to cover only vauge overarching plot points and character dev.

its like watching it all for the first time :cool:

got to ep 3last night. Forgot all about Balthar rinsing Starbuck at poker
 
I watched A Late Quartet while on the train. It's been on my hard drive for ages. No idea why I downloaded it.
 
some docu from that serial killer series im watching, about serial killers from round the world, it cant have been that good as i fell asleep during it.
 
frogwoman said:
didn't he go to south america?
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via bavaria, went to this town which was virtually owned by his fathers business. Used his extensive funds to fuck of to paraguay where he bought a passport and the friendship of some fash loving dictator there. Worth a watch, not easy viewing though
 
DotCommunist said:
via bavaria, went to this town which was virtually owned by his fathers business. Used his extensive funds to fuck of to paraguay where he bought a passport and the friendship of some fash loving dictator there. Worth a watch, not easy viewing though
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yeah i find it really hard to watch shit like that. :(
 
Big Bang Theory, sixth season. Not as bad as it used to be. But why do they still have to make the cast so pathetic?

You could imagine having a drink with Roy off the IT crowd, and maybe even Moss - but these guys?
 
frogwoman said:
yeah i find it really hard to watch shit like that. :(
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Mossad nearly had him, same outfit they were running to do the eichmann snatch- somehow he got wind of it and employed armed guards and attack dogs. At that time israeli security forces were stretched to breaking point finance/materials/manpower wise so they had to let him slip in order to land eichmann.
 
You might get more out of the Stranger, 1946 film noir with Edward G. Robinson as a nazi-hunter:



Also has Orson Welles in it.
 
frogwoman said:
oh well, :( hopefully he had a painful death eventually.
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fingers crossed eh. But what a horrible decision to have take- one or the other, eichmann or mengele?

I think they took the right decision, get the architect not the freak who used camp people for his 'experiments'. Mengele is still a name that causes revulsion today cos he wasn't even a common and garden sadist, worse he was curious.


I imagine the boots on the ground told themselves the slightly smaller fish's time would come.
 
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