What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Mesrine" - admired both the film and Vincent Cassel's performance but disliked his character so much I doubt if I will watch the second one
Johnny Canuck3
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That movie was made before the days of de rigueur tokenism.
Gravity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
Gripping stuff. Visually stunning. It's not the Best Picture for me regarding the Oscars but still a great watch.
"Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
Gripping stuff. Visually stunning. It's not the Best Picture for me regarding the Oscars but still a great watch.
"Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission."
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Dark Days. Dug out my old DVD. Apparently re-released at the cinema.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
The Breach (aka "La Rupture") (1970) - dir. Claude Chabrol - Overall pretty impressive stuff by Claude Chabrol - a decent story, some good performances, and pretty-well paced. My criticisms of it is that it could have lost 15-20 mins of running time to tighten up the flow of the film, the ending is slighty daft, and the plot seems to veer off at tangents at times. But all in all, good work by Mr Chabrol. Will check out his "L'Enfer" in due course.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Started watching a documentary about a serial killer called Pee Wee Gaskins - The Meanest Man in America. I fell asleep about five minutes in though which I'm glad about because if I'd have stayed up to watch the whole thing I probably wouldn't have slept at all.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
I saw that the other week with a mate. It was fantastic.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Big Bad Wolves - very well done small budget black-humourish revenge and its consequences film. Nothing too original but just different enough to stand out. Hint of political stuff there as well.
My Way - hilariously bad Korean film that i was sold as being a brutal war film but instead was a series of badly executed patriotic cliches and semi-racist nonsense.
My Way - hilariously bad Korean film that i was sold as being a brutal war film but instead was a series of badly executed patriotic cliches and semi-racist nonsense.
Minter, that. I wonder what happened to them all? That Tommy was hip hop as fuck.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Watched the 1st series of the US version of House of Cards (2013) and then watched the first series of the British one (1990).
The US one was a predictably tamer on the dark sexual stuff. It was milked for 13 episodes which was about 5 episodes too much. Spacey does a decent job but is dull and pedestrian compared to Ian Richardson's performance in the UK version.
The 2nd US version comes out on the 14th Feb I think.
The US one was a predictably tamer on the dark sexual stuff. It was milked for 13 episodes which was about 5 episodes too much. Spacey does a decent job but is dull and pedestrian compared to Ian Richardson's performance in the UK version.
The 2nd US version comes out on the 14th Feb I think.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I recommend watching both but there are some very problematic scenes in the US version. One example being the striking teachers protesting outside of a shindig by the protagonist. Spacey's character and his missus deliver food and drink from the party to the protesters and they just accept and are won over by this cheap gimmick. An insult.
Gravity
which MUST be based on the Ray Bradbury story 'Kaleidoscope' and yet I see no reference to RB at all, which is out of order.
It was okay, but we found fault with an awful lot of the Hollywoodisms - man has the best kit/is calmer/more logical, woman has no fucking jetpack, is emotional, less logical, but does manage to wear tiny undercrackers, with lots of titillatory scenes. The 'symbolism' was right fucking cack-handed and clumsy too.
I liked the view of the planet and the space debris scenes the best. I would give my left arm to go into space, really would. It's something I've dreamed of since being a kid.
which MUST be based on the Ray Bradbury story 'Kaleidoscope' and yet I see no reference to RB at all, which is out of order.
It was okay, but we found fault with an awful lot of the Hollywoodisms - man has the best kit/is calmer/more logical, woman has no fucking jetpack, is emotional, less logical, but does manage to wear tiny undercrackers, with lots of titillatory scenes. The 'symbolism' was right fucking cack-handed and clumsy too.
I liked the view of the planet and the space debris scenes the best. I would give my left arm to go into space, really would. It's something I've dreamed of since being a kid.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Cocaine Cowboys (2006) - dir. Billy Corben - a documentary covering the history of the cocaine trade within Miami, and the attendant "drug wars", during the late 1970's, up to the end of the 1980's. What I was hoping to be a serious, sober look at the cocaine industry turns out to be nothing of the sort - starting out with gun pornography, this documentary wheels outs much-repeated cliches and tropes (including some rather racist commentary upon the Colombian and Cuban population of Miami), and seems to revel in death and murder (there are many gruesome still photos of murder victims featured throughout)
There are little actual insights from the law enforcement agencies and "experts" (no surprise there then), and those involved in the cocaine trade themselves seem to spend much time talking about the "good old days". Police corruption and political campaign financing is touched upon momentarily, but never followed up, and the documentary peddles the nonsense that Miami was "crime free" before the cocaine wars kicked in. George Bush Senior is shown in his "war on drugs" mode, which the documentary considers to be a "success", and other minor-league politicos get to air their views without being challenged once.
The last hour of the documentary spends much time upon the life of Medellin Cartel member Griselda Blanco, but even this gives no real insights into her control, power and influence within Miami and beyond - all we hear is that she had expensive tastes, was a lesbian (shock horror!), and was not averse to having rivals bumped off. The rest of the running time involves various small-fry gangsters and hitmen talking about their activities, and how they ended up being caught and imprisoned.
The documentary itself has a distinctive made-for-TV feel to it, and at 2 hours in length, is way overlong; the running time could easily have been cut by at least 30 minutes. There's absolutely no comment made on the impact of the cocaine trade on Miami's Latino population - all we're told is that the Latinos are essentially "bad" people, and that's your lot. There's also zero comment on the effect/impact of the cocaine trade within Colombia itself.
"Cocaine Cowboys" seems to possess all the accuracy and insight of your average "Mondo" film, and says nothing at all about how the influx of cocaine affected a major American city. In fact, the only thing to note on this documentary is that the incidental music was done by Jan Hammer, composer of the "Miami Vice" theme tune...and you'd probably get a more accurate idea of the drug trade by watching an episode of said TV programme!
An uninformative, slanted and cliched documentary, then. Doubtlessly there are other drug-related documentaries out there which offer far more in scope and information. Seek them out instead, and avoid this pile of nonsense. Not recommended at all.
There are little actual insights from the law enforcement agencies and "experts" (no surprise there then), and those involved in the cocaine trade themselves seem to spend much time talking about the "good old days". Police corruption and political campaign financing is touched upon momentarily, but never followed up, and the documentary peddles the nonsense that Miami was "crime free" before the cocaine wars kicked in. George Bush Senior is shown in his "war on drugs" mode, which the documentary considers to be a "success", and other minor-league politicos get to air their views without being challenged once.
The last hour of the documentary spends much time upon the life of Medellin Cartel member Griselda Blanco, but even this gives no real insights into her control, power and influence within Miami and beyond - all we hear is that she had expensive tastes, was a lesbian (shock horror!), and was not averse to having rivals bumped off. The rest of the running time involves various small-fry gangsters and hitmen talking about their activities, and how they ended up being caught and imprisoned.
The documentary itself has a distinctive made-for-TV feel to it, and at 2 hours in length, is way overlong; the running time could easily have been cut by at least 30 minutes. There's absolutely no comment made on the impact of the cocaine trade on Miami's Latino population - all we're told is that the Latinos are essentially "bad" people, and that's your lot. There's also zero comment on the effect/impact of the cocaine trade within Colombia itself.
"Cocaine Cowboys" seems to possess all the accuracy and insight of your average "Mondo" film, and says nothing at all about how the influx of cocaine affected a major American city. In fact, the only thing to note on this documentary is that the incidental music was done by Jan Hammer, composer of the "Miami Vice" theme tune...and you'd probably get a more accurate idea of the drug trade by watching an episode of said TV programme!
An uninformative, slanted and cliched documentary, then. Doubtlessly there are other drug-related documentaries out there which offer far more in scope and information. Seek them out instead, and avoid this pile of nonsense. Not recommended at all.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
I think there might be something very very wrong with me. over the weekend I watched PAIN AND GAIN and enjoyed it hugely. I might even have thought it was a bang-on satire of the worst excesses of American get-rich self-improvement gym-bunny culture.
Bizarrely, this loud, garish, vulgar, coarse, sexist crimefest was directed by Michael Bay and I can say it was the perfect marriage of director and subject; this is a man who knows from big shiny over-the-top neon excess and to my mind lampooned it perfectly.
It also left me thinking that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a hugely talented, deftly intelligent comedy actor who should be doing more movies aimed at non-morons. And it gets worse: the DVD extras persuade me he's also a nice guy and genuinely nuanced human being, not just a marketing dream in a muscle suit.
What just happened?
Bizarrely, this loud, garish, vulgar, coarse, sexist crimefest was directed by Michael Bay and I can say it was the perfect marriage of director and subject; this is a man who knows from big shiny over-the-top neon excess and to my mind lampooned it perfectly.
It also left me thinking that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a hugely talented, deftly intelligent comedy actor who should be doing more movies aimed at non-morons. And it gets worse: the DVD extras persuade me he's also a nice guy and genuinely nuanced human being, not just a marketing dream in a muscle suit.
What just happened?
Autochthonous1
Well-Known Member
Second one is a massive disappointment after the first (which I absolutely loved), so the fact you're put off is a good thing.
I watched this recently. I didn't enjoy it all that much but the outfits kept me watching
Autochthonous1
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I just watched (and highly recommend) Atomised (Elementarteilchen) if you're in Germany. About two half-brothers whose mother was an erratic hippy/unfit mother, forcing them to grow up with their grandmother/boarding school. One brother's a scientists who's done well for himself and all that stuff; working on a revolutionary breakthrough, and one's turned out a bit of fuck-up who turns to prostitutes and orgies after failing so royally in his romantic relationships. Anyway, it's fantastic. Clever. Witty. Funny. Watch it.
I am STILL trying to get through Inside Llewyn Davis - it's taken me over 24 hours so far; they KEEP FUCKING SINGING. That ginger cat is the best thing about this film (don't get me wrong, the filming is great). I'm really trying with this film, what with all those rave reviews and it being the Coen Bros (I had a dog named Fargo), but I am so close to turning it off, unfinished, again. Oh, the singing, MORE FILM, LESS SINGING, PLEASE, it's doing my head in!
I am STILL trying to get through Inside Llewyn Davis - it's taken me over 24 hours so far; they KEEP FUCKING SINGING. That ginger cat is the best thing about this film (don't get me wrong, the filming is great). I'm really trying with this film, what with all those rave reviews and it being the Coen Bros (I had a dog named Fargo), but I am so close to turning it off, unfinished, again. Oh, the singing, MORE FILM, LESS SINGING, PLEASE, it's doing my head in!
Autochthonous1
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Art and Copy is a great documentary I watched, not last night, but last week (but then I am into copywriting and advertising). Great editing, thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Check that out too.
http://www.artandcopyfilm.com/
http://www.artandcopyfilm.com/
Autochthonous1
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Sorry, I just put ''Spun'' into the search bar of this thread. Was presented with your post from last Feb. Did anyone get back to you with those recommendations?
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Probably, but it was a very long time ago.
Requiem for a dream is in the same vain though if that's any help. A bit more depressing than spun though
Autochthonous1
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Yeah, not really the same thing at all, to me. I loved the kooky characters in Spun and all the other general kookiness, it was just madness. Ta though.
Haystacks raves about it here What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3) & it's actually not bad. A bit over long for me, but it does feature a leather pig mask which can never be a bad thing,
DP
See what I did there? Eh, Eh?
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