jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Repo Man - The original Alex Cox one, I've always loved this movie, First time I saw it was at the Scala Cinema near Kings X Station 
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
oh yeah, Half Nelson. He's fine in that.
The Bay - the Barry Levinson horror thing from a couple of years back. i think i thought it was something else when I put it ion, but it was a perfectly decent minor horror flick.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It was sad when the dog died
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
After twenty minutes of lots of talking and walking around in bunker corridors I was just waiting for the cnut to blow his brains out. But no, it took another two fucking hours before they got there... Cunts.
("He's changed since we came here, mein Adolf... Only talking of vegetarian health food, and those jews")
I don't buy the story that the secretary was as innocent as she claimed to be, though.
("He's changed since we came here, mein Adolf... Only talking of vegetarian health food, and those jews")
I don't buy the story that the secretary was as innocent as she claimed to be, though.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
BTW it's a bit funny/fucked up that we got upset when the dog got shot, but not as much when Magda Goebbels murdered her six children... what's wrong with us?
I mean, they were brainwashed nazi clones, but they were just children... It wasn't their fault their parents were batshit nazis.
I mean, they were brainwashed nazi clones, but they were just children... It wasn't their fault their parents were batshit nazis.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Dogs dying are sadder than children dying. Everyone knows that!
But yeah, how fucked up
I think in the film it was especially sad as it seemed so unnecessary. It wasn't going to spill the beans or owt. I dunno. Maybe they didn't want it to be used politically somehow.
Killing the kids makes more sense, if there's a logic to it.
But yeah, how fucked up
I think in the film it was especially sad as it seemed so unnecessary. It wasn't going to spill the beans or owt. I dunno. Maybe they didn't want it to be used politically somehow.
Killing the kids makes more sense, if there's a logic to it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Titter ye did not?
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Artist. I do like the old films and this was a loving hommage to them.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Quick round up of a few films I've found on youtube recently.
Psychological horror directed by Brad Anderson, 2001. A crew of asbestos removal workers, including Peter Mullan and David Caruso, come across strange goings on and spooky situations while working in an abandoned mental insitution.
2010 Australian thriller dealing within infant abduction. A young couple are driving across country. The heavily pregnant woman is kidnapped, and wakes to find that her baby has been removed by Caesarean section. She soon discovers that she's not the only one this has happened to.
Super low budget sci fi drama from 2004 about the accidental discovery of a means of time travel. The plot gets increasing complicated as the two engineers travel back on a number of occasions, and as trust between them breaks down, each one starts to go back alone and in secret, to re-do what they have done and counter act what the other has done.
Psychological horror directed by Brad Anderson, 2001. A crew of asbestos removal workers, including Peter Mullan and David Caruso, come across strange goings on and spooky situations while working in an abandoned mental insitution.
2010 Australian thriller dealing within infant abduction. A young couple are driving across country. The heavily pregnant woman is kidnapped, and wakes to find that her baby has been removed by Caesarean section. She soon discovers that she's not the only one this has happened to.
Super low budget sci fi drama from 2004 about the accidental discovery of a means of time travel. The plot gets increasing complicated as the two engineers travel back on a number of occasions, and as trust between them breaks down, each one starts to go back alone and in secret, to re-do what they have done and counter act what the other has done.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Are you talking about the Frankie Howard one or the new one ? I remember trying blag my way into the Frankie Howard when I was at school, Got turned away
47 Ronin; the new version which is probably blasphemous to most. But I love seeing oriental fantasy elements in films.
bring on Donnie Yen and Chow Yun Fat in the Monkey King, when they get round to subbing and releasing it over here.
bring on Donnie Yen and Chow Yun Fat in the Monkey King, when they get round to subbing and releasing it over here.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You could have seen it months ago if you knew how to use the internet.
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
Are you talking about the Frankie Howard one or the new one ? I remember trying blag my way into the Frankie Howard when I was at school, Got turned away
Howard. Didn't even know there was a new one!
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Rear Window. One of my favourite Hitchcock films actually... As a conceptual story, it's quite clever. It's not got a lot of running away from airplanes or action-filled climbing across the faces of Mount Rushmore or anything, but exactly because the suspense is more low key, I can relate to it. It feels a bit more plausible somehow. Subtlety, you know.
All the action takes place either in the flat of Jimmy Stewart's main character, where he looks out at the windows opposite or the back yard in between- Even when his gf goes over to the other building to investigate, we only see what's happening through the windows from the outside, a cunning visual idea. It helps build the suspense even more... Especially as they're trying to unveil a killer. Bonus points for the plot device of putting Stewart's character in a wheelchair: His character drives the action forward in that he becomes more and more careless in his hunt to confront the killer, something which [SPOILER ALERT!] inevitably comes to the attention of the killer in the end... and when danger looms, he can't move...
Love the intro in the beginning, where you see the backyard through the windows of the flat, and as the subtitles roll by the blinds go up and down... Visually it has a very modern feel to it, must've been way ahead of its time.
Conclusion: Well worth it, I'd watch it again (and I do, usually every third year or so, but wouldn't watch it every day, it ruins the suspense like...) A to A minus/B+.
All the action takes place either in the flat of Jimmy Stewart's main character, where he looks out at the windows opposite or the back yard in between- Even when his gf goes over to the other building to investigate, we only see what's happening through the windows from the outside, a cunning visual idea. It helps build the suspense even more... Especially as they're trying to unveil a killer. Bonus points for the plot device of putting Stewart's character in a wheelchair: His character drives the action forward in that he becomes more and more careless in his hunt to confront the killer, something which [SPOILER ALERT!] inevitably comes to the attention of the killer in the end... and when danger looms, he can't move...
Love the intro in the beginning, where you see the backyard through the windows of the flat, and as the subtitles roll by the blinds go up and down... Visually it has a very modern feel to it, must've been way ahead of its time.
Conclusion: Well worth it, I'd watch it again (and I do, usually every third year or so, but wouldn't watch it every day, it ruins the suspense like...) A to A minus/B+.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I love Rear Window, it's a great film. Grace Kelly is wonderful (but then I think she could have stood in a paper bag doing nothing and she'd be wonderful).
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Just watched Sleepwalk With Me, an indie dark comedy written, directed by and starring a guy who has shown up as a supporting character on a few sitcoms; it's about a struggling standup comedian with a sleepwalking problem and a relationship that's moving too fast for him. It was pretty good - not too predictable, engaging, and some laugh-out-loud jokes.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Wow, was that Grace Kelly? Just to think I'd watched this film so many times, yet still didn't know... (Then again, it was only when watching it yesterday that I spotted the Hitchcock cameo scene! It's
in the pianist/composer's flat, he's winding up an old clock...)
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Well, three!She's in quite a few of his.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yeah, what makes it so so great for me is that Hitchcock balances the comic elements, thriller elements, incidental dramas and romantic elements perfectly, none overpowers any of the others.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Coincidentally, the new biopic about Grace Kelly featuring Nicole Kidman is so shit it becomes involuntarily funny... She should never have had that botox forehead thing (Nicole, not Grace just to clarify). She can hardly make any facial expressions anymore, she looks perpetually surprised. Way, way back before she had all that surgery and ting she was actually a pretty decent actress- "To Die For"(1995) was spot on and very funny (plus featuring a young Joaquin Phoenix!). No idea what attracted ms. Kelly to the jet set prince of a former pirate city state, but at least he didn't lack money... And I guess they didn't lack casinos or fun parties either. Bling bling!
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I don't rate Kidman as an actor tbh.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
when i said "pretty decent", i meant okay-ish, not the greatest in the world tbf, so i agree with you- but also as in "then again not the worst in the world either"... i can think of worse ones. winona ryder, for example.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Very true. And now I think about it, in Dogville Kidman was actually not bad.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
She's brilliant in To Die For and Malice.
And BMX Bandits.
And BMX Bandits.
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