Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Why? Funniest thing I'd seen in ages - so savageI fucking hated this in the end.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Johnny Canuck3
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An Irish vampire film: Byzantium. Lots of good twisted vampire-ness.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Savage, maybe, but it's hard to care about a film where the characters have no redeeming features whatsoever. That said, I'm not really a play person and anything which is basically just a few characters stuck in one location talking shit has to work hard to entertain me.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Star Trek: Into Darkness
In 3d. The first film I've watched on my new TV like that.
I'm not the biggest fan of the first of Abrams' reboots, honestly, so I approached this with slight caution.
Ridiculous amounts of flare-y lens shots (as well documented... everywhere else!) with bright, bright lights, huge wide angle camera-work... and angry, angry Kirk. But as a visual experience, quite impressive. The CGI'd 3d bits were excellent, as you'd expect. Unfortunately, though some of the flatter, standard shots didn't work so well - particularly the over the shoulder, person to person conversations, where image quality was sacrificed for depth. Clearly, the 3d experience will be better with films shot specifically in 3d, rather than converted 2d ones.
The movie itself actually wasn't bad. Standard sci-fi blockbuster fare, some twists you'd probably need to be blind to see coming, a bad guy so bad you want him to lose, triumph in the face of adversity, heroes eventually winning out, a reversal, cheers all round. That sort of thing.
Oh, and Alice Eve.
In 3d. The first film I've watched on my new TV like that.
I'm not the biggest fan of the first of Abrams' reboots, honestly, so I approached this with slight caution.
Ridiculous amounts of flare-y lens shots (as well documented... everywhere else!) with bright, bright lights, huge wide angle camera-work... and angry, angry Kirk. But as a visual experience, quite impressive. The CGI'd 3d bits were excellent, as you'd expect. Unfortunately, though some of the flatter, standard shots didn't work so well - particularly the over the shoulder, person to person conversations, where image quality was sacrificed for depth. Clearly, the 3d experience will be better with films shot specifically in 3d, rather than converted 2d ones.
The movie itself actually wasn't bad. Standard sci-fi blockbuster fare, some twists you'd probably need to be blind to see coming, a bad guy so bad you want him to lose, triumph in the face of adversity, heroes eventually winning out, a reversal, cheers all round. That sort of thing.
Oh, and Alice Eve.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I don't like new Spock.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Yeah. No. I can see why that may be. Although, he was redeemed somewhat when
sorta thing. 
the big reverse happened, Kirk "died" and he went all angry and did the whole "Kaaaaaaaaahhhhhhn" bit, then beamed down and super Vulcan'd on Cumberbatch's ass
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I won't evangelise
Having never watched a single episode and not having the slightest idea what it was about at all, I have now watched the first four series of Breaking Bad since New Years Eve. I watched all of Season 4 yesterday, all of Season 3 the day before and the first two seasons in the few days before that.
Now I'll have to get Season 5 which seems to be split into two separate DVDs. Don't know what I'm going to do with myself today. Am in withdrawal. Maybe I'll watch Series 4 of Love/Hate
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kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewv...nete_Sauvage_1973_Classic__English_subtitles/
Just watched this! Loved it!
Just watched this! Loved it!
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I Am Breathing - feature documentary about a guy dying from Motor Neuron disease. It's as sad as you'd expect, but worth watching.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
bloody friends have suckered in, after years of refusal, they just refuse to let us not join in their conversations. So
Game of Thrones - season 1, first half. Annoyingly entertaining tosh
To make up for it, I watched a Michael Powell. Though only Age of Consent - his final feature film. Definitely a minor effort, a good performance from James Mason, in a role that's something of a counterpoint to that in Lolita. Helen Mirren is okay, tho clearly too old for the role (her first as a lead). It's probably the pretty scenery of the Great Barrier Reef which is the real star of the show.
Game of Thrones - season 1, first half. Annoyingly entertaining tosh
To make up for it, I watched a Michael Powell. Though only Age of Consent - his final feature film. Definitely a minor effort, a good performance from James Mason, in a role that's something of a counterpoint to that in Lolita. Helen Mirren is okay, tho clearly too old for the role (her first as a lead). It's probably the pretty scenery of the Great Barrier Reef which is the real star of the show.
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MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Oasis Of Fear (aka An Ideal Place To Kill) (1971) dir. Umberto Lenzi - A young couple (Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti) begin the film by buying and distributing pornography to all and sundry in Italy. This raises the hackles of the authorities, and the couple try it on further by selling nude snaps of Muti. On the run from the police, they drive off to a large secluded villa (the "Oasis"), and try to siphon off petrol from a car. The villa is owned by a "NATO colonel", and his wife (Irene Papas) welcomes in the dirty-pics flogging couple inside. Initially getting on well with each other, things hot up when the colonel is found dead in the back of one of his cars. Suspicion and tension mount up, and Papas ends up being held up in her own home. The police and villa workers sniff around for the colonel, but are put off the scent by Muti and a frightened Papas. Lovelock and Muti eventually escape from the villa, and Papas is rescued by the police. In flashbacks, it is revealed that it is Papas herself who shot her colonel husband. The wayward couple make their escape plans across the border, whilst stopping off for a quick sunbathing session. Inevitably the police catch them at a roadblock, and Lovelock ends up driving off a cliff, after a dog runs in front of his car.
This has been billed as an entry in the giallo genre in some places, but this is more accurately describe as a crime/kidnap film. It's a pretty good entry by genre hopper Lenzi, who seemed to be comfortable in this period taking on giallos, thrillers and the like. Well filmed and put together, the pace moves along nicely, and there's enough tension going on during the latter part of the film. The script is fairly elementary, but has all the elements necessary for the film to hang together. Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti carry off their performances pretty well, and Irene Papas is impressive as the victim with a murderous secret. The ending is perhaps a bit predictable, but doesn't detract from the rest of the film.
The version of this I saw (the Shameless DVD release) is uncut, but is compiled from different sources - the language swaps between English dubbing and Italian language w/English subtitles. It's not offputting for me personally, but other viewers may well find it distracting.
Overall then, an adequate entry into the 70's Italian film stakes by Lenzi, who would later tackle the poliziotteschi genre (eg with "Violent Naples"), and would eventually lose his way in the 80's with fare such as the notorious "Cannibal Ferox", and Conan clone "Ironmaster". Nevertheless, Lenzi had a sure hand on this one, and directs a film worthy of investigation by fans of thrillers and exploitation in general.
This has been billed as an entry in the giallo genre in some places, but this is more accurately describe as a crime/kidnap film. It's a pretty good entry by genre hopper Lenzi, who seemed to be comfortable in this period taking on giallos, thrillers and the like. Well filmed and put together, the pace moves along nicely, and there's enough tension going on during the latter part of the film. The script is fairly elementary, but has all the elements necessary for the film to hang together. Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti carry off their performances pretty well, and Irene Papas is impressive as the victim with a murderous secret. The ending is perhaps a bit predictable, but doesn't detract from the rest of the film.
The version of this I saw (the Shameless DVD release) is uncut, but is compiled from different sources - the language swaps between English dubbing and Italian language w/English subtitles. It's not offputting for me personally, but other viewers may well find it distracting.
Overall then, an adequate entry into the 70's Italian film stakes by Lenzi, who would later tackle the poliziotteschi genre (eg with "Violent Naples"), and would eventually lose his way in the 80's with fare such as the notorious "Cannibal Ferox", and Conan clone "Ironmaster". Nevertheless, Lenzi had a sure hand on this one, and directs a film worthy of investigation by fans of thrillers and exploitation in general.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
A point may come where you really regret not just keeping on watching GoT. It's not for everyone...but if it is for you....fuck.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Day Of The Dead (1985) - dir. George Romero - Excellent entry into the zombie genre by Romero. Full of claustrophobia and tension. A team of army personnel and scientists are locked down in an underground bunker, whilst zombies are on the rampage on the outside. Things get more harrowing for the main protagonists until the last 15 minutes, where in a wham-bam finale, all of the army personnel meet their match with the zombies, whilst some of the scientists make their escape. Impressive special effect work c/o Tom Savini, and some good all-round performances too. A worthwhile film for Romero's "Dead" cycle, and one of the highlights of 1980's mainstream horror too.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's my favourite Dead movie.
I got a nosh to it once at the Hyde Park Cinema in Leeds.
I got a nosh to it once at the Hyde Park Cinema in Leeds.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Yep. Cracking filum.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned
What an awful, awful film.
What an awful, awful film.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Magic Mike. Can't say I walked away remembering the plot..... but it was entertaining. 
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Pacific Rim: Really good action movie
Red 2: enjoyable caper, Bruce Willis being Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta Jones in a Soviet uniform, the only downside is Malkovich who just serves a ripe ham and kooky sandwich
Blue Jasmine: It's supposed to be a comedy but I found it really disturbing, a movie about a woman breaking down, full of clichés too. Woody Allen is a bit of a wrongun, isn't he?
La Grande Boucle: A feelgood French Movie about the tour de france.
Red 2: enjoyable caper, Bruce Willis being Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta Jones in a Soviet uniform, the only downside is Malkovich who just serves a ripe ham and kooky sandwich
Blue Jasmine: It's supposed to be a comedy but I found it really disturbing, a movie about a woman breaking down, full of clichés too. Woody Allen is a bit of a wrongun, isn't he?
La Grande Boucle: A feelgood French Movie about the tour de france.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Black Pond: cheap as chips british black comedy, starring Chris Langham in his (first/only) post-prison release, along with Simon Amstell. Langham is, actually, brilliant, Amstell is shit. But a very good low budget fillum, sits well alongside Kill List or Skeletons.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia'
basically vice 'journalists' want dumping in an active caldera for this exploitative shlock value dehumanising piece of shit
basically vice 'journalists' want dumping in an active caldera for this exploitative shlock value dehumanising piece of shit
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Pretty Sweet
And it is. One of the greats.
And it is. One of the greats.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Kings of Summer - was having a right shit day til I watched this. Excellent stuff 
You're Next - one of those 'load of people get attacked in a house by unseen attackers' films. Started off typical and pretty cringeworthy but actually got quite enjoyable. Lots of Home Alone-esque traps and hilarity, blenders in the face, knives in the head, great stuff
You're Next - one of those 'load of people get attacked in a house by unseen attackers' films. Started off typical and pretty cringeworthy but actually got quite enjoyable. Lots of Home Alone-esque traps and hilarity, blenders in the face, knives in the head, great stuff
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
A Syrian soldier cutting out an enemy's heart and eating it. Not recommended, esp before bedtime and if in a frail psychological state. Insomnia sucks.
TruXta
tired
I envy you now. e2a was it the original original or the "remastered" one?
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
If it makes you feel any better (it won't), it was found to be a bit of lung or liver rather than heart.
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