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

[Virtual Blue]

300 sequel - another example of an action movie that's boring - utterly uninspired.

Occulus - recommend, thoroughly enjoyed.

 

[mwgdrwg]

hows this for a villain:

I don't know what to take away from that post. Something about it just doesn't add up.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don't know what to take away from that post. Something about it just doesn't add up.

Looks like a bunch of dancing lumberjacks.

I blame it on the logger rhythms.

 

[belboid]

Peep Show - Series 1. Very, very funny right from the start. Johnson, oh Johnson.

Sgt Bilko - disc 2 of my 50th anniversary box set. Also still very, very funny from the start.

Paths of Glory. Not funny in the slightest. Fucking ace tho.

 

[Idris2002]

Holiday.

Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant.

Grant is a self-made business type who falls for the sister of blue-blood Katherine Hepburn. He and Hepburn hate each other from the get-go, which naturally means that. . . well, you can guess the rest.

A really nice bit of work, with the scriptwriter slipping in a bit of pro-New Deal and antifascist propaganda into the flick.

 

[trabuquera]

BLUE STEEL - early Kathryn Bigelow thriller with Jamie Lee Curtis (yes really) as a rookie cop possibly too in love with her gun and Ron Silver as a psychotic stockmarket broker (is there any other kind?) who's possibly far too much in love with her. It's amazing to realise it was made as late as 1989 ... everybody smokes ALL THE TIME, some of the dialogue is ripely sexist in that good old bantery 1970s way, it absolutely feels like something from the late 60s or early 70s. Visually smart, with a terrific soundtrack and some nicely knotty and uncomfortable moments in the script (just how aggressive is Curtis's character - is she too just another psycho with a gun? and how much is she repeating patterns of family violence?). It's also surprisingly graphic about both sex and violence. Not a 100% lost classic but definitely smarter and spikier than the average cop revenge rampage.

 

[Yetman]

Occulus - there's not much in the way of decent new horror movies. This was alright but not anything special. Bit boring really.

 

[butchersapron]

All the Sounds of the Sea - a grindingly slow and utterly boring film about italian-hungaro human traffiking and individual conscience and all that boring shit.

Battle of Okinawa - old fashioned (because old) Japanese film - looks rather odd to me for a number of reasons. Broad humour laced with hideous scenes (300 women killing themselves and their children with hand grenades and throat slitting and banging their heads on rocks next to a barber messing about with his cutthroat razor for example). Director has a serious record - including the fantastic Sword of Doom.

City of Life and Death - i probably only need say Nanking plot wise here. A serious non-exploitation. Very well done, but let down by some bad acting on the part of the red cross types.

 

[Idris2002]

How I Won the War.



Or, 'Why Officers Should be Shot'. An intensely bitter and angry attack on all things HM Forces. likesfish and others will find it all depressingly familiar.

Also stars John Lennon as a Mosley fan.

E2A: Did I mention it was a comedy?

 

[Idris2002]

let down by some bad acting on the part of the red cross types.

Like in real life, then?

 

[DotCommunist]

300: Rise of an Empire

Cersie Lannister is in it. It's basically 300 with naval battles and slightly less racism. Still very blood and soil.

 

[Grandma Death]

OK so Ive uninstalled all social media from my phone in order to reconnect with the world and cleanse myself of shite-so consequently I appear to have loads of time on my hands...so over the last six nights Ive watched the complete series 2 of Top Boy. Series 1 I loved-and I thought this had the same gritty feel as the first one but it did stretch it a little with the amount of killings in it-if that had happened on any other estate there'd have been police crawling everywhere. That aside enjoyable.

I also watched Before Sunset, Sunrise and Midnight over three of those nights. I loved them personally-the complete spectrum of love in all of its glory and Delpy is simply magnificent in it.

Wolf of Wall Street-yeah Scorsese by numbers but still watchable. Its a debauched film but really enjoyed it even if the subject matter wasnt an easy watch. One criticism was the frequency of sex scenes/drug taking. Im not prude but I think the message couldve easily been conveyed without the need for so many of the scenes. Overlong too.

 

[trabuquera]

CONAN THE BARBARIAN the 2011 remake. Big, dumb, violent, sexist (that's the movie, not the hero) ... and tremendous fun. Jason Momoa aka Khal Drogo does a decent job filling Ahnie's loincloth, the production design is fabulous, Ron Perlman has magnificent ringlets for a warlord and Rose McGowan camps it up a storm as evil princess type with some breathtakingly evil hairdos and unibrow eyeliner everywhere. It's much bloodier but not quite as fascist as the original comic and film. (nowhere near as nazified as 300 for instance.) There would be far worse ways to waste a couple of hours.

 

[Garek]

Silence of the Lambs

I'd forgotten just how classy, well paced and understated this film was. Truly superb.

 

[Idris2002]

The Monuments Men.

George Clooney helmed thing about the US army unit that scoured wartime Europe for art treasures looted by the Nazis.

Not that bad really, but proof that the Yanks regard the war as a jolly adventure their grandparents went on, rather than an horrific catastrophe.

Cate Blanchett is the French love interest.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Wolf of Wall Street - It gave me a headache.

 

[Supine]

Louie Series 4

Less of the standup and more of the surrealist drama. It really is very good.

 

[DexterTCN]

Desolation of Smaug. A bit rubbish, really - but it's set at a younger market I assume.

There was one cool bit when someone was launched up from a boat and had their head chopped off. Legolas is a bit chubby.

 

[renegadechicken]

Occulus - there's not much in the way of decent new horror movies. This was alright but not anything special. Bit boring really.

Watched this last night, thought it was okay, nothing special like, but really reminded me of an old hammer horror involving a black framed mirror and the shining.

 

[tufty79]

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.

cheers frances - didn't realise it was out yet . that's my weekend's braindistraction sorted

 

[Kanda]

Suits, I forgot the second half of season 3 came out. Season 4 just starting

 

[inva]

The Edge of the World
1937 Michael Powell film made about the evacuation of the last human inhabitants of the island of Hirta in the Outer Hebrides. A great film that very powerfully captures its harsh and isolated location in a portrayal of a community whose way of life is becoming impossible.

 

[DexterTCN]

Inception. Seen it twice before but the youngest is going on holiday so we got a take-away and re-watched it the night before she went.

I fucking love this movie, it pretty much has everything. Acting par excellence, action on par with (or better than?) the Matrix, subtexts, a perfectly complimentary soundtrack, well-timed comedy, a splash of horror-tinged psychopathy. And it's wonderfully made, I mean top, top quality direction.

This film came out the same year as Kick-Ass, Black Swan and Easy A. It's probably better than them all together.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Freight. Not bad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1376404/

 

[Idris2002]

Episode 13 of a documentary series on Canadian history:



There's 17 films in this series, all on youtube. This one deals with the 1930s, which were unusually bad in Canada. And even before the days of the crack-smoking mayor, it looks like Canada had some very peculiar people indeed involved in its politics.

 

[Yetman]

Joe - Nicholas Cage plays the part of a struggling to hold down a straight lifestyle kinda guy while taking a kid under his wing while the kids dad is an absolute prick. Great film

300 Rise of an Empire - The sea battles were cool, story not as good as the previous one but a jolly enough action history jaunt for a Sunday evening.

 

[rubbershoes]

Dallas Buyers Club

Really good film. Great central performances though more could have been made of Jennifer Garner's character

 

[Indeliblelink]

The Devil Strikes at Night [Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam](1957) - German drama based on the serial killer Bruno Ludke who killed at least 50 people until caught in 1943, the Nazis then tried to hush it up as they didn't want their police force to seem inadequate plus they didn't like the fact he wasnt a a foreigner or Jew. Good film but it seems in real life the evidence against Ludke was pretty flimsy.

 

[magneze]

Serenity
Spin off film from Whedon's Firefly series. Actually better than the series and I think would work as a pretty decent film on it's own, although seeing the series before certainly helps.

 

[mwgdrwg]

...
I also watched Before Sunset, Sunrise and Midnight over three of those nights. I loved them personally-the complete spectrum of love in all of its glory and Delpy is simply magnificent in it...

Might watch those. They sound right up my piscean street.