What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You're lucky to just be discovering them - they are effing fantastic.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Their latest one "Wilderness" is excellent.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Phenomena - a 1985 Dario Argento
'Someone is decapitating pupils at an exclusive girls' finishing school in a secluded alpine tourist spot known as the Swiss Transylvania. Can schizophrenic sleepwalker Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) use her strange telepathic power over insects to unmask the hideous assassin before he's compelled to kill again...and again?'
It should have been magnificent, or at least damned funny, but it's actually just terrible. Badly acted, edited, recorded, directed, a great soundtrack terrible used, only the camera work is any good. Until the ending, or rather endings. Which are just magnificently OTT and as absurd as anything you could ever hope for.
'Someone is decapitating pupils at an exclusive girls' finishing school in a secluded alpine tourist spot known as the Swiss Transylvania. Can schizophrenic sleepwalker Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) use her strange telepathic power over insects to unmask the hideous assassin before he's compelled to kill again...and again?'
It should have been magnificent, or at least damned funny, but it's actually just terrible. Badly acted, edited, recorded, directed, a great soundtrack terrible used, only the camera work is any good. Until the ending, or rather endings. Which are just magnificently OTT and as absurd as anything you could ever hope for.
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
You gotta love, if not just for the soundtrack
Voley
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I loved the music in it. Wasn't RZA the sort of samurai/ninja bloke in it that crops up near the end, too? And more films should have gangsters singing along to 'Cold Lampin With Flavor' definitely. Even The Sopranos could've been improved if James Gandolfini occasionally burst into this:You gotta love, if not just for the soundtrack
not watched it for years! I liked the bits with the ice cream man
Voley
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Yeah he was good. I liked the telepathic thing going on. There was loads I liked about it. Just haven't got a clue wtf it was about.I liked the bits with the ice cream man
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I love Ghost Dog too - the soundtrack of course but also the decrepit gangsters in it and the inventive killing! Up a pipe through a sink!
Anchorman 2. 
Was going to (belatedly) see Inside Llewyn Davis and ended up in the wrong screen by mistake. My fault and by the time the film started and I realised, it would've been about half an hour into ILD. So since I'd paid for it, ended up watching it. Haven't seen Anchorman but it wasn't as bad as I feared it might be. Bizarrely, loads of people turn up for very fleeting on-screen appearances -- Harrison Ford, Marion Cothiard, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Vince Vaughan, Will Smith...
So then I went to see ILD. Low-key, probably not one of their best but decent enough.
Was going to (belatedly) see Inside Llewyn Davis and ended up in the wrong screen by mistake. My fault and by the time the film started and I realised, it would've been about half an hour into ILD. So since I'd paid for it, ended up watching it. Haven't seen Anchorman but it wasn't as bad as I feared it might be. Bizarrely, loads of people turn up for very fleeting on-screen appearances -- Harrison Ford, Marion Cothiard, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Vince Vaughan, Will Smith...So then I went to see ILD. Low-key, probably not one of their best but decent enough.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Cockneys vs Zombies
I laughed.
I laughed.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Vikings s2 ep1 on Lovefilm. Likey likey likey - especially how much rope the production team seem to have been given to go all-out with the arty focus / out of focus pulls and the gratuitously cod-Norse accents. You'll believe an Australian can speak Icelandic...
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
And Princess Olga of Kiev.
Been watching True Detective. Superb stuff. Gothic, haunting. Great performances from the leads.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
ooh, good story. The Drevlyans seem to have been idiots!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.
Odd film, but probably the best thing I have seen in a month. Didn't make much sense really.
Odd film, but probably the best thing I have seen in a month. Didn't make much sense really.
Voley
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DotCommunist said:
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me, too. I've decided to give it another go some other time.
I watched 'Elysium' last night which wasn't anything special but I just wanted something lightweight for a Friday night after a stressful week at work and it did the trick.
rekil
to menny cranks
The Bag Man - Rubbish lite-noir about a gangster (John Cusack) who has to deliver a bag to boss gangster De Niro (a bewigged De Niro). Cusack is not allowed to look in the bag. Guess why! I did. Also features tryhard measures such as a Serbian midget, sadistic coppers, a one-eyed pimp and a tall lady with big boobs who is outacted by the bag.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I saw a description of this film - it said cusack played a tough guy.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
The Wolverine.
Wolverine goes to Japan.
This film is entirely predictable all the way through but watchable and quite cool. You will know the bad guy, then the next bad guy. You will see the twists, every one. You will know exactly what is going to happen. It is absolutely mst3k'able.
It steals some sound effects from Bladerunner in the first half, which is cool.
Women will love Jackman, guys will get hot Japanese girls. There's ninja, nukes and very few mutants.
Good popcorn movie.
Wolverine goes to Japan.
This film is entirely predictable all the way through but watchable and quite cool. You will know the bad guy, then the next bad guy. You will see the twists, every one. You will know exactly what is going to happen. It is absolutely mst3k'able.
It steals some sound effects from Bladerunner in the first half, which is cool.
Women will love Jackman, guys will get hot Japanese girls. There's ninja, nukes and very few mutants.
Good popcorn movie.
rekil
to menny cranks
Yeah he kills people but not in his inimitable slackery weary way. The only reason I watched it was because the film's official account followed PD on the twitter. (I'm never making that mistake again)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Maybe PD needs a twitter cultural division - one fully engaged. In the modern worlds.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
"Flaming Creatures" (dir. Jack Smith, 1963) - A re-watch for me of NYC-based Smith's third "underground" feature (first saw this at the Lux Cinema in Hoxton in 2000). No real plot to speak of - mainly depictions of LGBT-style sexuality, with cross-dressing by the male leads thrown in. What could in theory have been a decent effort mainly induced boredom in me - there's a 10 minute group-sex scene (mostly simulated) which didn't exactly hit the spot for me (and the male-female sex scene made me go "hmmm..." for overtly-groping reasons). After the sex scene is over, there's really not much to write home about - just shots of the performers posing and lounging around in their get-ups, a bit more erotica...and that's it.
I know that Smith has got a fairly hard-hitting reputation in various film circles, but on the strength of this, I'm once again completely baffled as to where this reputation comes from. I think that the lack of structure and solidity definitely works against this film, and the actors attempt a laconic insouciance that simply doesn't work. I mean, Smith should I guess be credited for attempting a study of fluid sexuality (and for which he got hammered for on legal terms by the NYC authorities at the time), but he simply hasn't captured the essence of what this sexuality actually is.
The print in question I saw was in very poor quality - a lot of stock deterioration is on this copy, making it virtually unwatchable in places. There are also multiple sound drop-outs on the soundtrack - songs used suddenly cut off, never to re-appear (or re-appear in poor sound quality). The film is shot on 8mm stock on one camera, and although the editing is OK, I think (even at 42 minutes) some trimming could had taken place to tighten up the whole flow of the film.
Although my reaction this time is not as negative as it was on my initial viewing all them years ago, I can't help but feel that I'm either totally missing the point of this film, or a case of me simply finding this sphere of "underground" film-making not to my taste at all.
If you are a follower of this genre of cinema, I guess that you should give it a go at least once. Otherwise, I'm afraid to say that I can't recommend this one to the casual viewer.
I know that Smith has got a fairly hard-hitting reputation in various film circles, but on the strength of this, I'm once again completely baffled as to where this reputation comes from. I think that the lack of structure and solidity definitely works against this film, and the actors attempt a laconic insouciance that simply doesn't work. I mean, Smith should I guess be credited for attempting a study of fluid sexuality (and for which he got hammered for on legal terms by the NYC authorities at the time), but he simply hasn't captured the essence of what this sexuality actually is.
The print in question I saw was in very poor quality - a lot of stock deterioration is on this copy, making it virtually unwatchable in places. There are also multiple sound drop-outs on the soundtrack - songs used suddenly cut off, never to re-appear (or re-appear in poor sound quality). The film is shot on 8mm stock on one camera, and although the editing is OK, I think (even at 42 minutes) some trimming could had taken place to tighten up the whole flow of the film.
Although my reaction this time is not as negative as it was on my initial viewing all them years ago, I can't help but feel that I'm either totally missing the point of this film, or a case of me simply finding this sphere of "underground" film-making not to my taste at all.
If you are a follower of this genre of cinema, I guess that you should give it a go at least once. Otherwise, I'm afraid to say that I can't recommend this one to the casual viewer.
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