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

Not last night but the other day - Under the Skin. I thought it was gonna be boring coz it's on for nearly an hour and fifty and my attention does wander with films. But nah, this was a good one - And the beech scene was genuinely disturbing. A mint film.
 
I've been watching the Arrow. Basically its the story of Marvels Green Arrow. A vigilante millionaire playboy cleaning up the city etc etc

some nice bow work.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
and if you miss it tonight, it's repeated on the 18th :cool:

I'll be watching, even though I already have the DVD :D
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Probably missed it, but I have the DVD.

I've said it before, I'll say it again; there really arent enough films that show in close up some one being shot in multiple times in the face by a hand gun @ close range.
 
Crossbones episodes. Jon Malkovitch IS Edward Teach, Blackbeard. Good support, excellent piracy. Suitably evil english naval officer nemesis.
 
Idris2002 said:
The Guard.

An "odd couple" film starring Brendan Gleeson as a Wesht of Oireland Guard, and Don Cheadle as the FBI man forced to team up with him. A lot better than I expected, and Gleeson's performance is absolutely spot on. . . especially in the scene where Cheadle has to say "you have some balls to speak to your superior officer like that". It does recall Flann O'Brien's comment that 'the Irish stage Irishman is the finest in the world.'
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I avoided the film for years because I thought it was going to be one of those silly films like Hot Fuzz or something. Was surprised to find something a lot bleaker with a sharp sense of humour and a great performance from Gleeson.
 
Wishmaster 2- this 90s goth woman who wears crop tops and so on releases an evil genie from a jewel during a robbery in a museum.

This film is chock full of wtf moments. Basically no matter what you wish for the genie interprets the wish in a manner that means you die horribly. Or someone does. One scene this con wishes his lawyer could go fuck himself. 'Done' says wishmaster- and we see the implausible self buggery happen as well. This happens a lot. No matter how or what you wish for, you get fucked over.

apropos of nothing, the gothy protagonist chops her finger off. To purify her soul. Yeah that wasn't even explained. The man who plays humaniform Wishmaster has acne scars and a permanent grin.

highly recommended.
 
The other woman. Made me laugh but really don't think about it just watch it a wife and 2 mistresses seek revenge on a cheating guy ........
 
Metalhead - well made but predictable and ultimately very conservative Icelandic film about the ways in which people deal with grief. Some shocking mistakes made though - for instance, someone wearing a motorhead t-shirt in 1970 and someone in Iceland having a Judas priest song as his fav in the same year. Worth a look.

Shield of Straw - another piece of crap from Miike. Not even insane crap. Just crap crap.
 
A couple of new US TV series,

The Last Ship - think walking dead at sea
The Strain - think walking dead in NY

Both utterly rubbish but I'm enjoying them both :)
 
DotCommunist said:
The strain! Thats by him who directed Pans Labyrinth!
Guillermo del Toro

was hoping for good things!
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It's based on a trilogy of comics written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. I've read the first story called unsurprisingly "The Strain" and I've watched the first episode of the TV series. It's a fairly standard vampire story with a modern slant. Nothing special, but I'll continue watching to see how it develops and whether it differs much from the comic version.
 
Raging Bull. Amazing. Timeless.

Point Break. This film is still really good, some wonderful photography and great performances by Swayze and Gary Busey. Keanu slowly morphing from FBI agent to surfer-dude brings most of the humour.
 
Pacific Rim
Sort of Godzilla multiplied by Transformers with an addition of awesomeness. I didn't expect much really, but thought it was excellent. A thoroughly entertaining popcorn flick which wasn't overly mawkish or sentimental at the end as these things sometimes are.
 
Stringer Bell is in it. Can't really like Pacific Rim too much, it passed the time but I don't really rate mecha on the implausibility front. You simply wouldn't build a giant bipedal fighting robot, ever, for any reason. Those creatures could have been safely torpedoed back to alien realm from a distance by a pair of ohio nuclear subs.


I watched the new series of Utopia. Its great, all should tune in.
 
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