What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Yeah, good choice! Didn't really like Alpha Pappa though, I don't think... Something wasn't quite right.
I finally watched 'Downfall' this afternoon... what took me so long?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Alpha Papa
Back of the net!
Back of the net!
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Rolling With the Nines
utterly cliched bankrupt rubbish brit crime flick. More mockney accents than you can shake a stick at.
utterly cliched bankrupt rubbish brit crime flick. More mockney accents than you can shake a stick at.
Voley
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Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince. Good fun. I've watched all of them through a haze of red wine and Valium over the last week and I've really enjoyed them. They get better as they go along. I like Alan Rickman as Snape particularly. Looking forward to both parts of the Deathly Hallows over the next couple of days.
rekil
to menny cranks
Clandestine Childhood - A youngster returns to Argentina with his baby sister and Montoneros parents who along with macho uncle Beto are back to have a go at the dictatorship, so he has to juggle the secretive and confusing life of urban guerrillaness with the more or less normal trials of adolescence. I could see what he was trying to do by using comic book sequences in place of violent scenes but I thought they jarred a bit.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
At least Simon from Blue gets shot in the face early on. Up there with Faye from Steps dropping a barrel of acid on her own head in Kung Fu Flid in the death scenes of crap ex-pop stars in crap films stakes.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
What's the title?
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Island of Death! (1976)
21 Jump Street (2012). Highly derivative rehashing of 1980s film about a cop going back to high school to investigate drug dealing. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star. Amused me, but that may just be because I've had the will to live crushed out of me by the festive period.
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011). Highly Derivative rehashing of Kevin and Perry go large. But not really. Laughed like a dick for the first half hour or, not so much after that.
Apartment 143 (2012). Highly derivative example of the "found footage" genre. Although I'm struggling to think of an example from the genre that isn't. Terrible acting, awful script and a load of psychobabble and Bad Science. Oh, and scary moments. Very, very predictable scary moments. One for fans of the genre.
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011). Highly Derivative rehashing of Kevin and Perry go large. But not really. Laughed like a dick for the first half hour or, not so much after that.
Apartment 143 (2012). Highly derivative example of the "found footage" genre. Although I'm struggling to think of an example from the genre that isn't. Terrible acting, awful script and a load of psychobabble and Bad Science. Oh, and scary moments. Very, very predictable scary moments. One for fans of the genre.
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
I spent all day boxing day just watching movies.
Contracted - weird film regarding an std and the plot is never fully explained, but it's okay.
7E - no idea what this film was supposed to be about but the blurb that describes it is not what you see.
The stand -tv mini series of the Stephen King book turned into a 6 hr film. Watched in one hit, not bad, pretty true to the book.
Essex Boys and Rise of the Foot-soldiers one after the other - not much to say about them except rotfs was better than essex boys although they both covered the same subject.
Alpha Papa - Enjoyed this, Mrs Chicken laughed out loud at numerous points.
Rogue - some big crocodile kills some people in Australia
The Rock - liked this Nick Cage and Sean Connery break onto the rock to save the day.
And some truly mind numbing, brain off sit and watch movies that did their thing - run fatboy run, speed,revenge of the bridesmaids, blade etc.
Contracted - weird film regarding an std and the plot is never fully explained, but it's okay.
7E - no idea what this film was supposed to be about but the blurb that describes it is not what you see.
The stand -tv mini series of the Stephen King book turned into a 6 hr film. Watched in one hit, not bad, pretty true to the book.
Essex Boys and Rise of the Foot-soldiers one after the other - not much to say about them except rotfs was better than essex boys although they both covered the same subject.
Alpha Papa - Enjoyed this, Mrs Chicken laughed out loud at numerous points.
Rogue - some big crocodile kills some people in Australia
The Rock - liked this Nick Cage and Sean Connery break onto the rock to save the day.
And some truly mind numbing, brain off sit and watch movies that did their thing - run fatboy run, speed,revenge of the bridesmaids, blade etc.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Directed by Nico Mastorakis, and released in UK cinemas under the title "A Craving For Lust" in '76 with nearly 10 minutes cut out. Issued uncut on the AVI video label in the very early 80's, and was successfully prosecuted for obscenity. Rejected for video under the title "Psychic Killer 2" in 1987, and finally passed for DVD in 2010.
The goat scene is brief and shows nothing really (obviously faked) - there's a lot more sleaze and unpleasantness on offer (death by earthdigger, anyone?), and the "shock" ending isn't a shock at all (you could see it coming right from the start - remember the telephone box scene?). The acting is uniformly of the mugging variety, and the whole film is garishly shot. The theme tune was composed by Mastorakis himself and is truly horrendous.
Incidentally, he was accused of collaborating with the early 70's Greek junta in doing a programme which interviewed incarcerated students against their will, and was outcast from his career in Greek TV following the junta's fall. Perhaps that why he turned to low-budget exploitation then.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
The Guard.
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle team up in a hands-across-the-water cop buddy movie: Garda and FBI, taking on some drug smugglers who plan to land a bunch of dope on the shores of Erin.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle team up in a hands-across-the-water cop buddy movie: Garda and FBI, taking on some drug smugglers who plan to land a bunch of dope on the shores of Erin.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Scumbag.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Super - pretty enjoyable
And I took a break from Game of Thrones to start on Mad Men Season 4. It was beginning to dawn on me that GoT is pretty overrated, and it looks even more so when compared to Mad Men.
And I took a break from Game of Thrones to start on Mad Men Season 4. It was beginning to dawn on me that GoT is pretty overrated, and it looks even more so when compared to Mad Men.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Super - pretty enjoyable
And I took a break from Game of Thrones to start on Mad Men Season 4. It was beginning to dawn on me that GoT is pretty overrated, and it looks even more so when compared to Mad Men.
you just like madmen cos casual misogyny happens a lot
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
This is where you're precisely wrong. It's a show that works on so many levels, one of them being a look at gender issues at a particular point in time (which I find interesting). I'd argue the female characters are very strong. Now get back under your bridge.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It's the soap opera for people who think they're too good for soaps, basically.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
What other soap opera is as well written and acted? What other soap opera works on the various levels Mad Men does? I didn't think it would really be my sort of thing, but was hooked by the end of season 1. I know it shares a writer or something with The Sopranos and a lot of comparisons could be drawn, but personally I think it's a hell of a lot better than The Sopranos.
TruXta
tired
Dallas, possibly Falcon Crest too.
Loved the Guard. One of the best films I saw last year. The dialogue was great.The Guard.
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle team up in a hands-across-the-water cop buddy movie: Garda and FBI, taking on some drug smugglers who plan to land a bunch of dope on the shores of Erin.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Don't think I've seen a bad film with Brendan Gleeson in. Apart from Kingdom of Heaven.
Last night I watched Shadow of the Vampire on BBC 2. Never seen it before. Surprisingly good black comedy.
Willem Dafoe was excellent. John Malkovich played himself again. Eddie Izzard was bearable.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Two from the other day:
Violent Naples (1976), dir. Umberto Lenzi - Italian poliziotteschi film starring Maurizio Merli. This one is about a wave a crime hitting the streets of Naples - armed robbies, burglaries, assasinations, jewellery smuggling, protection rackets etc - and yer man Merli is the detective in charge of sorting out the mess. He's restrained initially, but towards the end is giving out slaps left, right and centre, and ends up in a shootout with a criminal mastermind. Genre stalwart John Saxon makes an appearance as a leading businessman who turns out to be corrupt, and who ends up in Merli's bad books.
Quite a good effort from genre-hopper Lenzi, with some good performances and some well-paced moments. Merli himself is pretty convincing in the lead role (though Franco Nero is better in these things, I feel), and the supporting actors essay the cast of criminals and victims pretty well. The ending is a bit hokey ("I resign! Actually, I don't."), but it doesn't detract from the film as a whole. The end credits music ("Man Before Your Time") is included on the Beretta '70 CD.
The Demons (1973), dir Jesus Franco - This is Franco's take on Ken Russell's "The Devils", and as in Russell's film, there's trouble with a clositer of nuns somewhere in England, who fall into erotic delirium, or as the locals have it, demonic possession. One by one the nuns are brought in for interrogation by the local bigwig witchfinder, and in the meantime the nuns fall under the spell of the Devil, leading to much nudity, eroticism and some sex scenes. Various women are accused of being the main witch, and the so-called religious menfolk keep trying it on with the nuns. Eventually, a well-to-do noblewoman is revelaed to be the witch in question, after being exposed by her sister, and the townsfolk wreak their punishment on her, but not before she carries out one final act of revenge on the witchfinder.
With this being a Franco film, it has its upsides and downsides. The plus point are a well-lensed film, with some good sets and halfway decent acting. The erotic moments are overall relatively tastefully done (well, as tasteful as you'll ever get from Franco), and it captures at least some of the sense of madness of the Ken Russell film. The music (co-composed by Franco) isn't too bad either, veering from jazz to psych rock. Debit points include dubbing that frequently swaps between English and French, making it hard at times to figure out what's going on; a wonky plot construction which means that you only find out that the film is set in England after an hour has passed; the special effects work is worthy of Ed Wood Jr; and finally, the menfolk keep their trousers on during the erotic/sex scenes. Franco's quality control veered wildly over the years (his 80's efforts are particularly shoddy), but this is one of his more focused and interested efforts, and a noteworthy addition to both the "nunspolitation" genre and Euro-exploitation cinema as a whole.
Violent Naples (1976), dir. Umberto Lenzi - Italian poliziotteschi film starring Maurizio Merli. This one is about a wave a crime hitting the streets of Naples - armed robbies, burglaries, assasinations, jewellery smuggling, protection rackets etc - and yer man Merli is the detective in charge of sorting out the mess. He's restrained initially, but towards the end is giving out slaps left, right and centre, and ends up in a shootout with a criminal mastermind. Genre stalwart John Saxon makes an appearance as a leading businessman who turns out to be corrupt, and who ends up in Merli's bad books.
Quite a good effort from genre-hopper Lenzi, with some good performances and some well-paced moments. Merli himself is pretty convincing in the lead role (though Franco Nero is better in these things, I feel), and the supporting actors essay the cast of criminals and victims pretty well. The ending is a bit hokey ("I resign! Actually, I don't."), but it doesn't detract from the film as a whole. The end credits music ("Man Before Your Time") is included on the Beretta '70 CD.
The Demons (1973), dir Jesus Franco - This is Franco's take on Ken Russell's "The Devils", and as in Russell's film, there's trouble with a clositer of nuns somewhere in England, who fall into erotic delirium, or as the locals have it, demonic possession. One by one the nuns are brought in for interrogation by the local bigwig witchfinder, and in the meantime the nuns fall under the spell of the Devil, leading to much nudity, eroticism and some sex scenes. Various women are accused of being the main witch, and the so-called religious menfolk keep trying it on with the nuns. Eventually, a well-to-do noblewoman is revelaed to be the witch in question, after being exposed by her sister, and the townsfolk wreak their punishment on her, but not before she carries out one final act of revenge on the witchfinder.
With this being a Franco film, it has its upsides and downsides. The plus point are a well-lensed film, with some good sets and halfway decent acting. The erotic moments are overall relatively tastefully done (well, as tasteful as you'll ever get from Franco), and it captures at least some of the sense of madness of the Ken Russell film. The music (co-composed by Franco) isn't too bad either, veering from jazz to psych rock. Debit points include dubbing that frequently swaps between English and French, making it hard at times to figure out what's going on; a wonky plot construction which means that you only find out that the film is set in England after an hour has passed; the special effects work is worthy of Ed Wood Jr; and finally, the menfolk keep their trousers on during the erotic/sex scenes. Franco's quality control veered wildly over the years (his 80's efforts are particularly shoddy), but this is one of his more focused and interested efforts, and a noteworthy addition to both the "nunspolitation" genre and Euro-exploitation cinema as a whole.
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