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

[Idris2002]

Grabbers. Alien octopus monsters invade an island full of Irish people. They discover that alcohol keeps the monsters at bay.

Sample dialogue[approx.]:

"They're like leeches - they drink blood."
"That one died when it bit Paddy."
"His blood alcohol was so high, it was toxic!"

"Inspired by real events."

 

[DotCommunist]

latest episode of vikings. They've stolen Ragnar Loftbokes lands and he's a little upset about it all. Axe time.

edit: also a documentary on Cosimo De Medici

looked for Jodorowsky's Dune documentary but its only been out three days so nobodys put online yet

 

[marty21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year

The Big Year - comedy about 'birding' which I really enjoyed - partly because I do see similar types out when I do go bird watching

then i saw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offender_(film)

Offender - Scum-like - set in a youth offenders insitution around the London riots a few years ago - protagonist wants to get revenge on the thugs who attacked his girlfriend - and deliberately twats a couple of coppers so he gets sent down to the same place - very violent - quite enjoyed it

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

"Inspired by real events."

 

[Orang Utan]

10 episodes into S1 of Boardwalk Empire and still waiting for it to get going.
Does it get any better?
It's well teed

 

[DotCommunist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year

The Big Year - comedy about 'birding' which I really enjoyed - partly because I do see similar types out when I do go bird watching

then i saw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offender_(film)

Offender - Scum-like - set in a youth offenders insitution around the London riots a few years ago - protagonist wants to get revenge on the thugs who attacked his girlfriend - and deliberately twats a couple of coppers so he gets sent down to the same place - very violent - quite enjoyed it

I just watched that- its no scum. Bit too messy in places, storytelling wise.

not bad overall though and good to see Gregg Adley once again playing a borderline psycho in a uniform (being human, Misfits)


excellent riotous soundtrack also

 

[DotCommunist]

A lion called Christian

it wasn't the lion cub riding around in 60s London that got me, it's when they'd repatriated the bastard to africa and came back a year later and it still remembered them and came in with big liony love, trying to jump into the arms of people who weighed about half its massive liony weight. Lovely.

 

[Belushi]

The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar 2011) One of his best.

 

[DotCommunist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year

The Big Year - comedy about 'birding' which I really enjoyed - partly because I do see similar types out when I do go bird watching

then i saw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offender_(film)

Offender - Scum-like - set in a youth offenders insitution around the London riots a few years ago - protagonist wants to get revenge on the thugs who attacked his girlfriend - and deliberately twats a couple of coppers so he gets sent down to the same place - very violent - quite enjoyed it

there was also too much attempts to make a grim brit YOI look like a US Federal prison. Not the interior shots, they looked as crappily institutional as you'd expect. But some of the external shots were over egging it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Star Trek Into Darkness. Dire. Posh off Cumberbatch.
The first hour of The Dark Knight Rises. Tedious incoherent shite

 

[DrRingDing]

Star Trek Into Darkness. Dire. Posh off Cumberbatch.

Old matey is directing Star Wars too

 

[DotCommunist]

when Cummerbund says 'my name is KHAAAAN' his mouth opens so wide you could have shoved a melon in there. Its not proper Star Trk in my opinion but as a sci fi film in itself its OK

they've made spock into a total twat as well.

can't recall what tenuose justification they had for Nimoy appearing in charater as Old Spock either.

 

[DotCommunist]

Star Trek Into Darkness. Dire. Posh off Cumberbatch.
The first hour of The Dark Knight Rises. Tedious incoherent shite

if you stay the course with DKR you are treated to the utterly sick-making reactionary jackboot worshipping 'army of cops' scene where a Gothams Finest charge the evil terrorists and die like heroes. Like that would ever happen, they don't like a fair fight let alone a last stand

 

[marty21]

I just watched that- its no scum. Bit too messy in places, storytelling wise.

not bad overall though and good to see Gregg Adley once again playing a borderline psycho in a uniform (being human, Misfits)


excellent riotous soundtrack also

there are Scum like scenes - but they are older than the Scum characters - and less of the humour - I found some of Scum hilarious

 

[DotCommunist]

there are Scum like scenes - but they are older than the Scum characters - and less of the humour - I found some of Scum hilarious

'it's at times like these I find myself drawn to mecca'

'MECCA!'




pretty much all Archer is solid comedy gold

 

[marty21]

'it's at times like these I find myself drawn to mecca'

'MECCA!'




pretty much all Archer is solid comedy gold

'I give you my fucking coffee and all you do it rip the fucking piss'

same scene - warder to Archer

 

[DotCommunist]

the mecca bit is from where Archer is up before the Governer iirc.

The coffee scene was where he was avoiding chapel- quite tragi-comic that scene, he's trying to get through to the bloke but he's so arrogant he just winds the screw up

 

[Orang Utan]

Archer is shite! LOLed once in two episodes!

 

[marty21]

the mecca bit is from where Archer is up before the Governer iirc.

The coffee scene was where he was avoiding chapel- quite tragi-comic that scene, he's trying to get through to the bloke but he's so arrogant he just winds the screw up

that's right - the Mecca scene is with the Governor.

 

[DotCommunist]

Archer is shite! LOLed once in two episodes!

not that archer man

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh Scum! d'oh!

 

[Voley]

'it's at times like these I find myself drawn to mecca'

'MECCA!'




pretty much all Archer is solid comedy gold

Ray Winstone toeing the line and saying that his faith is a great comfort to him is fucking great, too.

 

[butchersapron]

Did I mention Snowpiercer? Great film. Bonkers. Full of holes and wrong stuff but great nonetheless.

Disappointed in this. And i found Tilda 'i'm a real communist - here's some pics of me and my celeb mates on a tropical island i hired for a million quid piss up that i've given to the Observer' Swinton role as Olive off On the buses to be both deeply annoying and patronising.

 

[Orang Utan]

if you stay the course with DKR you are treated to the utterly sick-making reactionary jackboot worshipping 'army of cops' scene where a Gothams Finest charge the evil terrorists and die like heroes. Like that would ever happen, they don't like a fair fight let alone a last stand

I fast forwarded through all the muttering but stopped for action and Bean talking cos it made me giggle so much. Silliest voice since Merlin in Excalibur

 

[Voley]

After a long break I made serious inroads into Series 3 of The Shield this evening. I've ummed and aahed about whether it's actually that good tbh, but if you're drinking and don't want to think too much and shit it's ideal. Watched two discs worth and thoroughly enjoyed them. I've now bought all the rest of the series for the grand total of 17 quid.

 

[butchersapron]

Why Don't You Play in Hell? - the new Sion/Shion Sono. A brilliant mad burst of energy and inventiveness and love of film (if you've seen a lot of japanese films you'll be spotting the clever - rather than smug - allusions all over the place, but they're not necessary to enjoying the film), containing more ideas that a lot of people manage to produce in their whole career. This one is in the Love Exposure vein rather than Himizu. I couldn't do the plot justice so won't bother. Sono has to to be amongst the most consistent top rank directors working today. Totally 100% recommended.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Death Watch (the one from 1980, not the one from 2002)

A bit long but not bad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081182/

 

[butchersapron]

Radio On - much talked about/ Little seen. Fucking rubbish. Stick that on your poster.

A british road movie in black and white with wenders money. Pretentious drivel, redeemed for two minutes by a great shot of the sea and birnbeck pier with great sounds.

edit: there's a great shot of the old temple meads flyover as well. Forgot that.

 

[andysays]

Radio On - much talked about/ Little seen. Fucking rubbish. Stick that on your poster.

A british road movie in black and white with wenders money. Pretentious drivel, redeemed for two minutes by a great shot of the sea and birnbeck pier with great sounds.

edit: there's a great shot of the old temple meads flyover as well. Forgot that.

I saw this when it was on BBC a few months ago.

I agree that it was kind of pretentious in the Wenders style, but I enjoyed the visuals, including playing "spot the location" at the London end.

The soundtrack was also good, and I suspect fairly innovative for the time.

 

[butchersapron]

Bowie and wreckless eric with their biggest hits?

You could find the same on the That Summer soundtrack from the same year and Dury and others who were in both. A much better film.

edit: look at that, great soundtrack.