butchersapron
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Seen yes, brilliant
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Cold in July
Neat. Retro. Memorable.
Neat. Retro. Memorable.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Yugoslav film? Can you recommend somewhere to get this?
butchersapron
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Yes, yugoslav - I got it off karaga***rga which is invite only i'm afraid - hang on a sec and i'll check if i have any spare.
butchersapron
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You're in luck - pm me and email and i'll send invite (not hotmail or msn though),
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Bring back hanging
The Violin - very good film ostensibly about a very small part of one of the failed peasants revolts and the states dirty war in Mexico in the 70s (this one i think would have been in Guerrero from the presence of a character i think is meant to be Lucio Cabanas - the failure of which later helped in the success of the Chiapas uprising) but actually about how culture and history and consequently resistance is formed and passed on. I've made it sound like Land and Freedom or something, but it's really nothing like that - it's a small film that concentrates big questions and concepts down to a few very simple things. And no fighting - at least not physically.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
star wars part 4 ie the 1977 one
not-bono-ever
meh
About time- that curtis one - this time with the family. As much as I want to kill RC for the smugness and his romanticised version of London, I did find some of it amusing.
Dallas Buyers Club - wonderful. so easily could have slipped into cloying sentimism, but it worked very well.
Dallas Buyers Club - wonderful. so easily could have slipped into cloying sentimism, but it worked very well.
Watched S1 E3 of Gomorrah then went back to re-watching Breaking Bad from the beginning. No spoilers please as I'm on S3 on my re-watch but haven't seen the end (S4/5).
Ponyutd
Greebo likes this....r.i.p.
Watched Frozen Ground last night.....this morning read this on line
...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ka-serial-killer-butcher-baker_n_5698890.html
Bit of a coincidence, watching the film the day the he died.
...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ka-serial-killer-butcher-baker_n_5698890.htmlBit of a coincidence, watching the film the day the he died.
butchersapron
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Bikie Wars eps 1&2
its basically a low rent aussie rip off of Sons of Anarchy. Avoid.
its basically a low rent aussie rip off of Sons of Anarchy. Avoid.
Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla fights 2 overgrown staple-removers in America. Avoid.
Bring back Toho films, and guys in rubber monster suits.
Godzilla fights 2 overgrown staple-removers in America. Avoid.
Bring back Toho films, and guys in rubber monster suits.
Bikie Wars is based on a true story - It's not a rip off of anything. I liked it anyway.
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
Yeah, I enjoyed it to. The problem I have with Anderson though is sometimes he feels like he's trying to make quirky European films for Americans to insular to actually watch a quirky European film.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Just read up on this, and ye gods - this reads like an extended version of that utterly awful Australian 70's biker movie "Stone" (I yelled about said film on this thread earlier this year)!
(Coming soon: my lengthy and tiresome rant/"review" of making myself endure "Mark Of The Devil" yet again - bet you all can't wait for that one!)
Little bit seedy, isn't it?
Anyway, last night was The Innkeepers (2011, iirc). Low rent ghosty yarn about two youngsters in an old hotel as it gets ready to close down. Not much in the way of spooks, jumps or scares, the characters are dicks that you hope upon hope get got, the dialogue is weak. And the end is a disgrace.
Still sat through it obviously.
Sad to hear. Had many a good evening spent watching their stuff with old flatmates many years ago.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
American Hustle-lots of things I loved about this movie. Some great performances, great soundtrack, some great set pieces (the discotheque for one), the costumes and witty dialogue. I though Bale was great and I should imagine he shared his trailer with De Niro cause there were times he appeared to be blatantly acting like him.
I did think the movie was not very convincing with the storyline in parts and there were some flat bits in the movie-but its pace was quite good apart from that. I think they could've shaved half hour off it though.
I did think the movie was not very convincing with the storyline in parts and there were some flat bits in the movie-but its pace was quite good apart from that. I think they could've shaved half hour off it though.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Penny Dreadful.
Not quite dreadful but a bit of a curate's egg.
Very unsatisfactory story telling but some interesting characters. I like the idea of telling new stories with characters from public domain classics, but Alan Moore does it better.
They had too many major characters with little to do and it just came across as ill-concieved and unfinished.
Eva Green's accent was hard to listen and she was a bit panto but Reeve Carney's was impressive, though his Dorian Gray was too wet. Gray is supposed to be a vicious and cruel man.
Timothy Dalton and Rory Kinnear were as reliable as ever. The latter's Monster (Frankenstein's) was the best thing in it, though underused.
Not quite dreadful but a bit of a curate's egg.
Very unsatisfactory story telling but some interesting characters. I like the idea of telling new stories with characters from public domain classics, but Alan Moore does it better.
They had too many major characters with little to do and it just came across as ill-concieved and unfinished.
Eva Green's accent was hard to listen and she was a bit panto but Reeve Carney's was impressive, though his Dorian Gray was too wet. Gray is supposed to be a vicious and cruel man.
Timothy Dalton and Rory Kinnear were as reliable as ever. The latter's Monster (Frankenstein's) was the best thing in it, though underused.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I felt the same about it. In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths too.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Captain America (The Winter Soldier) - not half bad at all, most enjoyable
The Machine - low budget british B-movie sci fi - okish
Thor (The Dark World) - enjoyable
Ender's Game - seeing as i appear to be one of the few on here that actually like the books.........ok, not a patch on the book and as per usual they softened down the grimness of it
The Machine - low budget british B-movie sci fi - okish
Thor (The Dark World) - enjoyable
Ender's Game - seeing as i appear to be one of the few on here that actually like the books.........ok, not a patch on the book and as per usual they softened down the grimness of it
L'Assassino
1961 Elio Petri film. Marcello Mastroianni delivers an excellent performance as a man arrested for murder in a film which seems as much interested in examining the character played by Mastroianni and the moral evidence against him as it does in the actual case. Really enjoyed this and it has a great jazz soundtrack.
Unfaithfully Yours
Preston Sturges comedy from 1948. Rex Harrison is a famous conductor who, having begun to believe his wife (played by Linda Darnell) is having an affair, fantasises (in some well constructed scenes set in the middle of him conducting an orchestra) about revenge, forgiveness and suicide, but finds that enacting what he'd imagined doesn't go as smoothly. I think I'm right in saying that this film marked the end of Sturges' great run of successes as a director/writer and at times it struggles to hit the right notes which he seemed able to do almost effortlessly in earlier films. That being said it's still great on the whole and always watchable, with some real stand-out scenes and generally excellent performances from the leads as well as a number of the familiar Sturges actors. A good comedy with a darker edge and definitely well worth watching.
1961 Elio Petri film. Marcello Mastroianni delivers an excellent performance as a man arrested for murder in a film which seems as much interested in examining the character played by Mastroianni and the moral evidence against him as it does in the actual case. Really enjoyed this and it has a great jazz soundtrack.
Unfaithfully Yours
Preston Sturges comedy from 1948. Rex Harrison is a famous conductor who, having begun to believe his wife (played by Linda Darnell) is having an affair, fantasises (in some well constructed scenes set in the middle of him conducting an orchestra) about revenge, forgiveness and suicide, but finds that enacting what he'd imagined doesn't go as smoothly. I think I'm right in saying that this film marked the end of Sturges' great run of successes as a director/writer and at times it struggles to hit the right notes which he seemed able to do almost effortlessly in earlier films. That being said it's still great on the whole and always watchable, with some real stand-out scenes and generally excellent performances from the leads as well as a number of the familiar Sturges actors. A good comedy with a darker edge and definitely well worth watching.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I like posts like this because they make me want to see films I haven't yet seen, by giving a taste of what they're about but without spoilers
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