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

[Orang Utan]

Better than the Mexican servant robots and the old-man-with-a-stick robot of Transformers fame

 

[inva]

The Lady Eve
1941 Preston Sturges comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda. I've seen a couple of other Sturges films Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story but I think this is my favourite of them - it never really hits a wrong note the whole way through. Some fantastic dialogue as you'd expect and really well cast with Stanwyck's performance being especially brilliant.

 

[DexterTCN]

The bit I found implausible...

(btw I loved Pacific Rim...but there wasn't anything plausible in it)

 

[Garek]

Watched Pacific Rim the other night. Terrible film. Gender politics completely and utterly disgraceful for a film made so recent.

 

[Orang Utan]

I saw a film called Trance recently with totally fucked gender politics. It was all about a pathetic excuse to show a bare fanny that belongs to a film star and nothing more than that.

 

[killer b]

I watched Posetitel Muzeya.

It was beautifully shot, but I dunno how much I liked it.

 

[DexterTCN]

I saw a film called Trance recently with totally fucked gender politics. It was all about a pathetic excuse to show a bare fanny that belongs to a film star and nothing more than that.

Stop watching at that point, did you?

 

[Orang Utan]

No, I'm not going to stop watching a film cos i think it's a load of shite. Maybe I should.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Strain

good start, jon hurt (yay) and biological rather than supernatural vamps- its some kind of infection rather than magic. the lead is a CDC operative. a touch of the schmaltz (the opening monolouge informs us that one of the greatest forces is love. So fucking deep).

 

[fishfinger]

The Strain

good start, jon hurt (yay) and biological rather than supernatural vamps- its some kind of infection rather than magic. the lead is a CDC operative. a touch of the schmaltz (the opening monolouge informs us that one of the greatest forces is love. So fucking deep).

John Hurt isn't in it.

 

[DotCommunist]

John Hurt isn't in it.

who is the bloke with the beard and swordstick then? I thought it was jon with big facial hair

 

[fishfinger]

David Bradley

 

[Orang Utan]

David Bradley? (Waldar Frey off of Game of Thrones)
Don't you ever look on IMDb?

 

[fishfinger]

If you want to watch something with John Hurt in it, there's always Snowpiercer. Based on a French graphic novel. Not bad. Saw it the other night.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[DotCommunist]

not really, I don't like the site design. Could have checked wiki tho

 

[fishfinger]

not really, I don't like the site design. Could have checked wiki tho

You could have gone to specsavers

 

[Voley]

I watched Sharknado. Astonishingly it was even worse than I thought it could be. Will definitely watch the sequel.

 

[DotCommunist]

Cloud Atlas

thats a 10. Thats nearly an eleven. Will watch again next week after digesting it. Too many things I liked to mention. It had the sort of narrative structure of magnolia but better. arg.

 

[DexterTCN]

Oculus. Decent enough horror (or is it a horror?) with Karen Gillan.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Fargo The TV Series well impressed

 

[DexterTCN]

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

If you're into Wes Anderson films, this is one of the best.

 

[starfish]

Watched a few episodes of Orange Is The New Black. Quite amusing so far.

 

[Idris2002]

Hitchcock's Notorious.

Ingrid Bergman is a Bad Girl whose German-American father has just been sent down for twenty years for treason (this is 1946).

Cary Grant is the federal agent (agency unspecified) detailed to guide her through an operation in Rio de Janeiro, where Claude Rains and some other German exiles are Up To No Good.

On youtube, at least it was a while ago. A really good film, possibly the best Hitchcock flick I've seen. This is before his Blonde Ice Queen phase, so there's still a bit of warmth in a film that might not be as perfect an expression of the Hitchcock vision in the way that say Vertigo is.

 

[DRTAvailable]

The bit I found implausible was the EMP deployed by one of the monsters not affecting the nuclear powered robot.

I've almost finished the first (only) series of Penny Dreadful. Not a fan of horror stuff but big on anything Victoriana and I have to say, pleasantly surprised by the show. Dalton is quality, the major plotline, the search for Mina, is brilliantly written and episode 5 alone - the backstory to the Vanessa-Mina betrayal - deserves a Peabody. Quality writing.

Up there with the best TV I've seen this year. Big fan of Boardwalk. True Detective easily the best show I've seen since Deadwood and The Wire, but Penny Dreadful is definitely up there.

 

[redsquirrel]

Hitchcock's Notorious.

Ingrid Bergman is a Bad Girl whose German-American father has just been sent down for twenty years for treason (this is 1946).

Cary Grant is the federal agent (agency unspecified) detailed to guide her through an operation in Rio de Janeiro, where Claude Rains and some other German exiles are Up To No Good.

On youtube, at least it was a while ago. A really good film, possibly the best Hitchcock flick I've seen. This is before his Blonde Ice Queen phase, so there's still a bit of warmth in a film that might not be as perfect an expression of the Hitchcock vision in the way that say Vertigo is.

Its an excellent film but I think there's better Hitchcock, you really rate it above The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, Vertigo, Marnie and Psycho?

 

[Idris2002]

Its an excellent film but I think there's better Hitchcock, you really rate it above The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, Vertigo, Marnie and Psycho?

H's later films are great, but they're harder to like than Notorious. They're technically perfect expressions of his vision, but his vision was that of a paid-up member of the see you next tuesday club.

The Lady Vanishes is also good, but it's all a bit too English for me.

And I don't think I've seen Grant or Bergman do anything as good as their performances in Notorious.

 

[belboid]

Shadow of a Doubt is actually his best film

 

[Orang Utan]

Dexter season 7. But only to see how it turns out. It was always a daft premise but it's got awfully silly. Only two more episodes and straight onto S8.

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Season 1.
It's not very funny. Just a standard American sitcom but with loathsome douchebags running a bar. Disappointing as I was led to believe it was more than that.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Guard and half of Grand Budapest Hotel. And true blood latest ep. Long night.

 

[DexterTCN]

Dexter season 7. But only to see how it turns out. It was always a daft premise but it's got awfully silly. Only two more episodes and straight onto S8....

If you want to have reasonably good memories of it, stop now, watch no more.