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

[magneze]

Avengers Assemble
Enjoyable superhero nonsense. Captain America is still the worst superhero of all time though.

 

[belboid]

Captain America is still the worst superhero of all time though.

pah, the Captain has nothing on the Great Lakes Avengers' Squirrel Girl

GLA also brought us the amazing Leather Boy, tho he wasn't allowed to join for some reason...

 

[DotCommunist]

hows this for a villain:

 

[Orang Utan]

'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

Isn't Predator also notable cos quite a few cast members ended up as politicians?

 

[DotCommunist]

Isn't Predator also notable cos quite a few cast members ended up as politicians?

the docu was quite dated- only 15 years after the release of pred, so no mention of that.. Who other than arnie?

 

[belboid]

not sure if two and a half (Billy ran a couple of times for the Libertarian Party) really counts as quite a few

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is the other

 

[Orang Utan]

not sure if two and a half (Billy ran a couple of times for the Libertarian Party) really counts as quite a few

I think three is a good proportion!
More than most anyway!
Two Governors is certainly notable.

 

[belboid]

I must try and think of a film that has more, there must be something

 

[Orang Utan]

I must try and think of a film that has more, there must be something

Now there's a challenge. You're not allowed documentaries, of course.

 

[belboid]

two Labour MP's were in The Music Lovers, several (as well as some mere candidates) have been in Doctor who

 

[belboid]

Now there's a challenge. You're not allowed documentaries, of course.

or appearances 'as themselves'

 

[Orang Utan]

or appearances 'as themselves'

Aye. There's probably quite a few obscure politicians who have acted in films.
Like Ronald Reagan.

And don't forget Gerald Ford in Beverly Hills Cop

 

[Orang Utan]

two Labour MP's were in The Music Lovers, several (as well as some mere candidates) have been in Doctor who

Glenda and ?
Who's been in Dr Who? Recently?

 

[belboid]

Reagan was in That Hagen Girl with Shirley Temple. Can't see a third in there tho.

The Labour guy was called Andrew Faulds - he was actually a Labour MP when he made Music Lovers (and then The Devils and a bunch more Ken's). He was the guy who beat the man who ran the 'if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour' campaign in Smethwick, and he was denied cabinet office because of his support for Palestine (well, either that or those Ken Russel films).

He was also in Doctor Who, as was Michael Cashman, Cheryl Hall (Labour leader in Kent council) and some UKIP twat. Cheryl was Wolfie's girlfriend in Citizen Smith.

 

[belboid]

just realised that The Music Lovers was also written by Melvyn Bragg, Baron of Wigton, who sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer.

 

[DexterTCN]

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

??

It's not noir. It's funny with awesome action.

 

[DexterTCN]

Pacific Rim.

Utter nonsense, totally brilliant.

Rips off everything ever made...does them all better.

 

[rubbershoes]

??

It's not noir. It's funny with awesome action.

Not that Drive. The modern one with Ryan Goslng

 

[DexterTCN]

Not that Drive. The modern one with Ryan Goslng

Sorry, I thought you meant the good one.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Sorry, I thought you meant the good one.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Martha Marcy May Marlene. Brilliant film, probably will bother with the extras on the blu-ray.

 

[Supine]

Pacific Rim.

Utter nonsense, totally brilliant.

Rips off everything ever made...does them all better.

Have you sobered up yet?

 

[DexterTCN]

Have you sobered up yet?

How dare you.

 

[Garek]

Devil's Advocate

Actually not a bad film, so long as you don't try and view it as it would like to be seen. I think it tries to be like its contemporary Seven, but comes no where close. A lot of Rosemary's Baby in there to. Al Pacino is gloriously hammy. Keanu Reeves gives a fine display of his acting talent and thankfully no less.

It's almost like someone tried to make a serious '60s/'70s horror movie, like The Omen or the aforementioned Rosemary's Baby, for the nineties.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Orange is the new black - second series. Mint. I really liked tasty's family background - that is how it is - Drug dealers are nice people as well.

 

[skyscraper101]

Silence of the Lambs. Lame.

 

[Ponyutd]

3 days to kill. I got up and walked out....and I was watching it at home. Luc Beeson, hang your head in shame.

 

[redsquirrel]

Saw this awesome spaghetti western tonight, Orson Welles was magnificent in it. Everyone was tbf.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063679/

Hmm looks good, I'll have to check that out.

Violent Saturday - Colour film noir set around the robbery of a bank in a small town on a Saturday Morning, but the violence is from plenty of others besides the bank robbers. It's nicely sleazy (for 1955) though it does cop out a bit at the end by having the "fallen woman" killed off. Still worth seeing though looks great and has Ernest Borgnine playing an Amish Farmer.

 

[redsquirrel]

I must try and think of a film that has more, there must be something

Something starring Reagan? EDIT as OU has pointed out.

 

[killer b]

last night I watched this 90 minute interview with Genesis P Orridge. It's not always possible to separate the truth from the self aggrandisement, but I don't suppose that matters much.

http://ubu.com/film/oursler_p-orridge.html

going to have to track down the other interviews in the series, it looks incredible... John Cale, Thurston Moore, Dan Graham, Kim Gordon, Glenn Branca, Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, and Arto Lindsay.