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

[andysays]

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.

Cheers, I'll look out for it

 

[butchersapron]

The film is utter shite mind. Someone's done a playlist of the soundtrack on youtube:

Spoiler: That Summer. Which is better than Radio on which is pretentious crap.

 

[andysays]

Whatever the merits of its soundtrack, I bet "That Summer" doesn't have an aerial shot of a car turning off the Westway at the White City roundabout and down the A3220 towards Shepherd's Bush

 

[butchersapron]

Thank fuck, what a cliched shot. Totally overdone. And the one going over the temple meads flyover when we can see directly into the old George Railway Hotel is better.

The one filmed from up there and looking right:

edit: i'll do a proper screenshot after the football and cricket.

 

[andysays]

Thank fuck, what a cliched shot. Totally overdone. And the one going over the temple meads flyover when we can see directly into the old George Railway Hotel is better.

The one filmed from up there and looking right:

edit: i'll do a proper screenshot after the football and cricket.

Yeah, I remember that bit too, though not having your local knowledge didn't know the names of those landmarks.

Enjoy the footie & cricket. I'm off to the allotment now, so we can argue later about which was better

 

[zenie]

Just watched Butterfly on a Wheel. Thoroughly enjoyable Saturday afternoon film

 

[Orang Utan]

The Woman In Black.
The stage show is supposed to be well scary, but this ain't.
And it has a godawful ending which seems like a total cop out. If they'd cut the last two minutes it would have been much better (though still a load of shite)

 

[Voley]

I'm always a bit when I see a bunch of quotes like those above advertising a film. Justified in this case, though. This is one of the most mindboggling documentaries I've ever seen. I finished watching it about a quarter of an hour ago and I haven't even begun to get my head around it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oblivion - awful piece of shit
Boring, grandiose nonsense.
Only worth it if to see Tom Cruise fighting with himself, which is a rather obvious but gratifying metaphor.

 

[purenarcotic]

The Woman In Black.
The stage show is supposed to be well scary, but this ain't.
And it has a godawful ending which seems like a total cop out. If they'd cut the last two minutes it would have been much better (though still a load of shite)

I'd say the stage show is well worth it, I don't get scared by any horror stuff but screamed like a little kid in the stage show, it was brilliant. Only two actors plus the woman in black on stage and barely any set, it's absolutely brilliant.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, I have read up on the novel, play and film now and it looks like they have changed huge amounts like the ending, motivation of protagonists and antagonists, just everything really

 

[trabuquera]

BATTLE OF WITS - unbearably tedious historical epic from China with Andy Lau as some sort of minority-group mystic warrior who comes to protect a medieval useless town with a corrupt and drunken king against the massed armies of the Liang (I think.) Extraordinarily dull - I kept watching hoping that there would at least be a good fight sequence or a hermaphroditic villain or some hungry ghosts along in a minute, but no. Just endless boring scenes of people whispering and scampering about in the dark, with occasional fires. Don't bother with it. Usually you can count on this sort of Chinese production to at least have some decent period detail, or visuals, or at lease get the sweep of a historical epic which really does have thousands of real live extras, but it was just dire.

Then a coincidentally Godly double bill of flicks about priests...(I'm an atheist)
OF GODS AND MEN Bit selfconsciously poetic but undeniably affecting movie about a bunch of Roman Catholic French priests working in Algeria who got caught up in the mid 90s civil war ... nicely acted, with great faces, some telling moments, and rather too much liturgy for me although the French style plainchant is beautiful. Very interesting how ambiguous the film chooses to play their eventual fate. And if you're unlikely ever to visit the Algerian Atlas, this film can take you there.

WHITE ELEPHANT Argentine counterpart to the above, where the priests aren't in the middle of a civil war but a socioeconomic one, living and working in a giant abandoned hospital near Buenos Aires which is ridden with drugs and gangs. More experimental, more political rougher, scuzzier and more realistic (well sorta) than the French movie, with a much stronger sense of coming from the place itself rather than just being about it. The narrative is weak, though. (And I'm so used to seeing Ricardo Darin playing scumbags, fraudsters and bad lads I just can't believe in him as a man of God!)

Both worth a watch for Catholics and heathens alike

 

[imposs1904]

The Punk Singer.

A documentary about Kathleen Hanna. Maybe a bit too short but there's no denying that she made some of the best pop music in the last 20 years.

 

[krtek a houby]

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

Because DKR portrays real life events so convincingly

This weekend I watched a restored "Up in Smoke". Now I get the jokes. Not because it looks brand new but I was 12 when I last saw it! Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow" - High school over achievers start to go a bit crim, like. I think that has to be the first Asian American movie I've watched. It's the only one I'm aware of. Also, having just finished Traudl Jung's book, I watched "Downfall". The fella who plays Hitler was convincing, I'll say that much.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[butchersapron]

Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow" - High school over achievers start to go a bit crim, like. I think that has to be the first Asian American movie I've watched. It's the only one I'm aware of.

You could have a look at Sion Sono's Hazard or Kitano's much better Brother.

 

[belboid]

over the last few days:

Tyrannosaur - which we've been meaning to watch for the last couple of years, but I've never quite been in the mood for. And, finally, it wasn't as brutal as I'd feared, tho, sadly, not as good as I hoped either. That Olivia Coleman is a brilliant actress is no longer a surprise, and Mullan & Marsan are reprising roles they've played many times before. Good, but not brilliant.

The Awakening - mrs b and I are both arguing about whose idea it was to watch this. It's rubbish.

Robocop (1987) - which mrs b has never seen, so she needed to. And it is still quite superb, hilarious and brutal and brilliant.

Ridicule - french thingy about the absurd decadence of the (about to fall) French court. Borrows distinctly from Dangerous Liaisons, but with added political vitriol. Very enjoyable, very watchable.

 

[DexterTCN]

Se7en. Picked this up on blu-ray at HMV for £6 the other day. It's aged well. There's no actual scenes of violence in this film, apart from a strike in a chase scene. That's stunning.

Morgan Freeman is Morgan Freeman, Paltrow is Paltrow...Spacey and Pitt steal it with their entirely opposite characters, I swear Spacey references Kaiser Soze. Freeman is probably in the middle of them, he can see both sides and wants everything in the middle. His desperation and pessimism, his altruism and loss, taint the quiet scenes with different horror.

Fincher's direction is brooding, building and uncomfortable. The cinematography turns the day scenes into night scenes.

Breath-taking, required viewing for a lover of cinema.

Tonight I watched The Machine, a watchable (not a word) indie about AI, the military and being human...the constant development of killer machines. Not entirely predictable and full of interesting ideas. Better than Splice, if you've seen that.

 

[Jeremy Vile]

Bomber (DVD) Russian WW2 movie with English subtitles. Soviet pilots crash their plan and end up in nazi territory. One gets captured and switches over to them, the other two find and join the resistance. I cant say too much or it will give it away, but it has a happy ending put it that way. It was a pretty decent movie.

 

[belboid]

Name of the Rose

Still absolutely magnificent, just a joy to watch.

 

[maya]

Name of the Rose

Still absolutely magnificent, just a joy to watch.

Connery is watchable in that, I like him better in those kind of roles. (Note to self: revisit Zardoz soon!) Christian Bale was one of the great child actors, IMO... Great performance in Empire Of The Sun aswell. (It's strange, he does most of the acting with his eyes, not very much facial expression going on but it's all energy and subtle shifts... Just a natural talent. For some reason I'm not as captivated by his roles/acting as an adult, but then again I know almost nothing about film...)

 

[DexterTCN]

Christian Slater.

 

[maya]

Christian Slater.

- Ah! You're right...

 

[jk27]

The Sopranos on last episode episode now but don't want to watch as I know the end will be sad

 

[jk27]

I loved it

 

[jk27]

i watched solaris again, this time on dvd and is was a much more rewarding viewing this time. the print they showed at the BFI was old and scratched and the subtitles appeared to be printed on dymo tape and were only partial. i actually think i understand what happened now. it's an extraordinary film. will go and see stalker next month. i'd like to see tarkovsky's earlier films on the big screen soon.
i'm in love with natalya bondarchuk now
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Love this film, it's beautiful dreamy and surreal

 

[jk27]

Wiv no breaking bad left to watch! Im havin whivdrawl symptoms and i canna find anything thats the slightest bit interesting! Tried Fringe, (nope) Wire, (nope) True blood, (nope) Dexter, (gone off it) Then Then Then! I fink ive found one! *In Treatment* starrin that irish bloke/ Uptoo episode 7 and im lovin it so far...... Hope it lasts or am goin to have to start watchin the feckin soaps!!!!!

 

[jk27]

Wiv no breaking bad left to watch! Im havin whivdrawl symptoms and i canna find anything thats the slightest bit interesting! Tried Fringe, (nope) Wire, (nope) True blood, (nope) Dexter, (gone off it) Then Then Then! I fink ive found one! *In Treatment* starrin that irish bloke/ Uptoo episode 7 and im lovin it so far...... Hope it lasts or am goin to have to start watchin the feckin soaps!!!!!

 

[Frances Lengel]

Ms.45. Mint film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082776/

 

[belboid]

Ms.45. Mint film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082776/

I was thinking about that just yesterday, must see if I can find my copy. Great movie, probly the finest of its sub-genre