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

[The39thStep]

Chef - divorced top chef quits job sets up a Van selling Cubanos and in the process bonds with son and gets wife back. Great soundtrack , warm humour and brill shots of cooking. Makes you definitely want to make and eat a Cuban sandwich

 

[butchersapron]

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.

That was Petri's first full length film - imagine coming out of the blocks that confident, that well formed.

 

[inva]

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

thanks, I've got a lot of ideas of films to watch from posts people have made here so I try to give a bit of a review too.

That was Petri's first full length film - imagine coming out of the blocks that confident, that well formed.

yep it's a very impressive film. Now I want to see where he went from there

 

[redsquirrel]

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.

That was Petri's first full length film - imagine coming out of the blocks that confident, that well formed.

Saw a review of this on the Guardian website and stuck on my "to watch" list, guess it should be at the top?

 

[butchersapron]

It's a very good film, but the good news is that his later stuff is even better. His late 60s to late 70s stuff is up there with the best in post-war italian film making.

 

[gabi]

The Lego Movie

A work of genius

Lasted two minutes. Seemed cheesier than even toy story. Awful. I assume mr hanks was involved at some point.

Maybe I've grown up.

 

[belboid]

Lasted two minutes. Seemed cheesier than even toy story. Awful. I assume mr hanks was involved at some point.

Maybe I've grown up.

or maybe you've just got shit judgement

 

[Orang Utan]

or maybe you've just got shit judgement

Curiously childish thing to say. 'I'm a grown up. You lot are SOOOOO immature' <crosses arms and pouts>

 

[Grandma Death]

Lasted two minutes. Seemed cheesier than even toy story. Awful. I assume mr hanks was involved at some point.

Maybe I've grown up.

I watched it tonight. Had its moments-but other than that-quite tedious

 

[Idris2002]

Doctor in Love. One of several sequels to the Dirk Bogarde movie about medical students (except that Dirk's not in this one). Makes for peculiar viewing today. It dates from 1960, and the treatment of sex and sexual politics is strange to modern eyes. Leslie Philips engages in behaviour that would earn you a one way ticket to P45 city these days, for example.

Joan Sims turns up as a burlesque striptease artiste, with costume to match. James Robertson Justice is the flick's only saving grace, reprising his Dr. Lancelot Spratt act from the first movie.

The original Bogarde movie was from 1954. It's interesting that in the space of a few years they felt able to move on to more close to the knuckle humour.

 

[DotCommunist]

finished the Pirate series about Edward Teach 'Crossbones'

it was quite good, passed the time anyway. The naval battles weren't so hot. Jon Malkovitch basically carried this. Also you don't often see a treppaning on tele do you? that was a bonus.

What this really needed was more profanity, more sex and violence. Not that I'm so shallow thats all that interests me, but for a violent era of piratical etc, it felt a bit tame.

 

[butchersapron]

Álex de la Iglesia's stupidly titled Witching and Bitching (original title The Witches of Zugarramurdi) - if you know the directors previous work (esp The Last Circus and Acción mutante) and i say this film is about a gang of jewel robbers trapped and tormented by a coven of feminist witches and that this is a pic from the film, then i think you'll get some idea of whether it's for you or not. That said, this one only has a few surface allusions to capital/states mismanagement, his others are a lot heavier with them). Great first half then gets bit too daft. Oh yeah, it also has the Venus of WIllendorf as a big baddy. Really.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Spike Lee's Oldboy. Stupid.

Hobbit Part 2 - less shit that 1 but still no better than the ewok movies

Bounty Killer - a fun mad max/grindhouse low budget that wasfar better than both the above for a fraction of he cost: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2369396/

Beneath Hill 60 - Aussie world war 1 drama about miners used to set explosions under trenches - stars a great actor called Brendan Cowell http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1418646/

 

[Part 2]

Watched The Inbetweeners 2 last night....I could do with a laugh tbh....didn't find it there though, bobbins.

Night before I saw Under The Skin which was everything I expected. Quite brilliant.

 

[May Kasahara]

Mr K is making us watch 2012. It is both depressing in its depiction of the end of the human world and depressing in how deeply crap it is.

 

[DexterTCN]

Alladin. in memoriam

Then I read the imdb trivia. Awesome.

 

[Part 2]

Last night. Calvary. McDonagh film (Six Shooter/In Bruges/The Guard) about a priest given one week to live by a fella who comes to confession. It's addressing the issue of child abuse in the church in Ireland. I'm not sure if just doesn't work, or if I didn't get it.

Tonight. Night Moves. Three environmentalists blow up a dam. That's about it, build up to the act is slow, tension builds then the focus is on the two younger activists and how they deal with the aftermath. It was okay, performances were decent enough and the scenery etc is nice to look at. It's no Edukators though.

Oh, also watched two documentaries on new york gangs in the 70s mentioned somewhere on urban...The Flying Cut Sleeves and 80 blocks from Tiffanys, both of which are excellent.

 

[DotCommunist]

X men: days of future past

good, not great but good. The bloke playing tricky dickie looked like nixon as well, plus wolverine

 

[starfish]

Just watched Avengers Assemble. Took a while to get going i felt. Too much talking. Did have a couple of good chucklesome moments though.

 

[The Boy]

A.P.E.X. (1994). straight to video sci-fi effort involving time travel, parallel time lines and some dreadful acting.

Prayer of the Rollerboys (1991). Cory Haim twatting about on inline skates while crypto-fascists with rain coats and mullets sell Cake to the kids. There's some mild satire of Reagan-era economics and stuff that occasionally gets in the way of the roller skating.

 

[The Boy]

Also, Tank Girl (1995). Goes downhill after the opening credits.

 

[The39thStep]

Starred Up- one of the best excuses for lengthy jail terms I have seen for a while.

 

[DexterTCN]

True Romance.

I have no idea why Tony Scott gets the credit for this, it's Tarantino from start to end. Still very good.

 

[DotCommunist]

x men: days of future past

not as good as it could have been but worth the time even if its just to see wolverine with bone claws

 

[butchersapron]

x men: days of future past

not as good as it could have been but worth the time even if its just to see wolverine with bone claws

Watch something decent man. Or at least something worth posting about.

 

[DotCommunist]

I've not see a genuinly good film since Cloud Atlas. I'm looking forward to the damn lego film. Dark days.

 

[butchersapron]

I've not see a genuinly good film since Cloud Atlas. I'm looking forward to the damn lego film. Dark days.

There's fucking loads out there - watch cold in july or the red white and blue ffs, make an effort.

 

[Part 2]

There's fucking loads out there - watch cold in july

cheers for the tip

 

[Voley]

12 Years A Slave. As harrowing as you might imagine but quite surprising, too. It had a stark matter-of-fact take on the horror that I thought was good. Unlike Tarantino, they didn't need to sensationalise it; there were no dramatic escape attempts (which I'd sort of expected) or anything along those lines as the true story was grim enough. Some good stuff early on from Benedict Cumberbatch as the supposedly benevolent slaver that threw up some good contradictions (even if his accent was shit). Some cracking acting across the board - Michael Fassbender and Paul Dano were pure evil throughout. I'm beginning to like Paul Dano a lot; only seen him in a couple of things (There Will be Blood was the last, I think) but he's been very good in both.

 

[DotCommunist]

cheers for the tip

86% on Rotten Toms!

might be worth the download.

I just want a good sci fi film. A proper good one, one that makes me feel the way I felt when Luke strode into Jabbas palace all jedi-epic. Like when I first saw 2001 and realised kubrik was a genius. Like the opening sequence to Bladerunner where the towers vent flame as the camera pans down on soe far future night city. I want the wonder again. Cloud Atlas did that. Kicked my instinctive cynic out the window. Forever twelve with my nose pressed up against a window looking at a shiny thing. Thats how good it was.