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

Belushi said:
I love the French Connection films. Gene Hackman is going to be my role model as I enter middle age :cool:
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I have to watch both in one sitting. I do this roughly once a year. Get a bottle of something decent in and start early. It's fucking great. And I've just decided that's what I'm doing tomorrow night.
 
ringo said:
The remake of Brighton Rock. Not as good as the original and deviated from the book a bit much. Some of the resetting into the 60's went too far into the standard Brighton cliches and detracted from the story. 5/10.
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Difficult to disagree with that summary!

I read an interview with the director, Rowan Joffé:

The novel was worthy of a contemporary adaptation. In fact, it makes it almost more dutiful as a filmmaker if you love the novel, to bring it to life without the restriction of censorship.

I mean, a lot of the Catholicism was cut out of the original film because they didn’t want to offend Catholics…. there are aspects of the film where if critics were to be honest about, and few of them have been certainly in England, that the 1947 version is a rather tame adaptation and certainly fails to do justice to the character of Rose, because the original black and white was made is a period where we were culturally and politically very patronising to women.
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Erm, well, let's skate over how he thinks he's better than Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan and the Boulting Brothers - and yes, there were elements and themes from the book which were much diluted by the time the film came out. But I can't see how the 2010 version is more ‘authentic’ or closer to the text of the book than the 1947 one. Joffé simply doesn't get to grips with the issue of Catholicism as it related to the original story, set as it was in the 1930s, or make it understandable to an audience in the 2010s - not least because by relocating it to the 1960s, it's just not got the same potency.

And how is conflating Ida - a likeable barfly with a moral code in both the book and the 1947 film - with Rose's respectable tea rooms manager in any way a good idea? Or for that matter making newspaperman Hale into a gangster in Colleoni's mob who also already knows Ida? Or - if you are going to have Ida being an old friend of Hale - making her so oblivious to local gangsters, up until she starts nosing around?
 
So in last three days. Filth. Which I quite liked. Its as shocking as the book and I thought James McAvoy was outstanding in it. Tonight |Ive watched 12 Years A Slave. Brilliant-Steve McQueen is a brilliant director and his collaborations with Fassbender are oustanding
 
Voley said:
The Selfish Giant. Really good, very powerful, the two kids in it were brilliant but fuck me it was bleak. Had to put Requiem For A Dream on after to cheer myself up.
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My comment when it finished was "Well, that was fuckin' dour". Agree with your appraisal.

After completing: Breaking Bad, The Wire, Orange is the New Black, True Detective, House of Cards (American version) gf and I are now working our way through The Sopranos. I'm currently watching Vikings whilst she's doing Fargo. The odd film does get thrown in, too.
 
Voley said:
Had to put Requiem For A Dream on after to cheer myself up.
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The first time I watched that I went to a house party straight afterwards. A couple of hours later I was curled up on the flagstones in the back yard crying.
 
I watched three films. Well, two and a half. The first one was 'I, frankenstein'

absolute shit, start to finish gorgonzola. Good enough CGI. A modern day Frankensteins monster fights demons alongside his Gargoyle friends in order to stop the Demon prince. ETC


3 days To kill:

a CIA man is diagnosed with terminal cancer so accepts one last job to lay enough p's to keep his family secure when he is gone. Some great action scenes. Some woeful filler bits.

Last House on The Left: I was expecting a fairly average slasher/horror type thing but this was fucking grim and dark and I sacked it off halfway through cos it was grubby.
 
The Silence
2010 German crime film directed by Baran bo Odar. A girl disappears in a way that seems like a repeat of a murder that took place 23 years ago at the same spot. Police investigate and the past comes back to haunt people etc. Could have been a very good film but it was let down mainly by trying to do too much I think. It felt like one of those Scandinavian crime tv series crammed into the running time of a film and it ended up seeming more cluttered than complex.
 
Elysium - starts off promising enough - loved the polite but oppressive RoboCops. But Elysium looks like Benidorm in space and it all ends up in a big boring standard fight sequence.
Sharlto Copley is great though.
 
starfish said:
47 Ronin, was alright if you like that sort of thing.
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nearly all of London's chinese population was in that (mainlyt as extras)!
i unfortunately had to start work but showed up for my costume fitting as a wanky demon samauri.

the film was shite btw - what the fuck were they thinking?
 
Drive

It was quite noir which I wasn't expecting. It took me a while to get into it but ultimately it's well worth a look. Won't watch it again though
 
'If it bleeds we can kill it'

Making of the film Predator. Lots of fun. Never knew the tobacco chewing marine was an actually ex navy SEAL

and the bloke in the predator suit was HUGE
 
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