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

[DexterTCN]

City of God. First saw it years ago, still as good now, still fresh. A story of a young boy growing into his teenage years living in a crime-ridden slum near Rio. Lots of characters and back-stories, really well shot and used locals for many of the parts.

 

[Part 2]

Just don't watch City of Men

 

[Redeyes]

Watching THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD haven't seen it for ages but it's still well good.

 

[DexterTCN]

Raid 2.

Now that's a fucking action movie.

Taking place about 10 minutes after Raid: Redemption this goes to town. Just great, pretty violent mind. Put it this way...one of the baddies is called Hammer-Girl. Moving away from the claustrophobia of the first movie, this one moves effortlessly between slums, kitchens, highways, sumptuous rooms and hallways to up the ante.

One slightly confusing thing - one of the baddies in the last one plays a different character in this one.

 

[DotCommunist]

eps 1-5 of 'Defiance' which has been something of a hit for syfy. It's nicely episodic and the leads carry it. Competent and occasionally witty dialogue and plotting. They've not pushed the boat out mythos wise hence the effects and costumes don't stray into territory where you can see that its low budget tv.


will keep watching.

 

[Part 2]

Frank.

Several people whose opinions on such things I value, told me this is a good film. I decided to watch it. I soon managed to switch of from this not being a film about Frank Sidebottom however It was boring. Really not my kind of film at all. A waste of 95 of my minutes.

 

[inva]

In The Fog - wonderful large film on small stage in Belarus during the war - so echoes of Come and See right off, the almost mute lead performance also mirroring Florya in the same. This is a slow thoughtful; film about all sorts of forms of collaboration or resistance. Director was previously working on documentaries and it shows. Highly recommended.

great film that, I think I saw it last year. I remember the bit near the beginning where the two partisans go to the other ones house being excellent.

 

[fishfinger]

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Having seen the 1992 original film "Bad Lieutenant" by Abel Ferrara - and thoroughly hating it, I was more than a little apprehensive about watching this 2009 "re-imagining". In the original, the titular Bad Lieutenant (played by Harvey Keitel) is a corrupt, drug and gambling addicted, rapist cop, with no redeeming features.

The 2009 version stars Nicolas Cage in the title role. Now, I'm no fan of Mr Cage (His OTT, often hammy performances are usually extremely off-putting). However, with Werner Herzog as director, Cage's scenery chewing is ideally suited to this surreal black comedy. The character is still a corrupt, drug and gambling addicted, rapist cop, with no redeeming features, but is too cartoony to actually hate.

So, thanks butchersapron for the recommendation, this was a pleasant surprise.

 

[sojourner]

We hardly ever watch films now, but were quite crushingly hungover yesterday, so watched Inception.

Fucking loved it. Feels a bit churlish to say that some of the 'action' scenes were overdone and way too James Bondy, but they were. Brilliant ending. Lush cinematography. Had us thinking whilst watching.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Michael... supposedly controversial, but actually just very boring.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ploughing through to half way through season 2 of Defiance. Its really good. Unashamedly sci fi, after a long run of recent sort-of (heroes, orphan black et al).

the character development is deft and the plots increasingly clever. Although its hitting every stock-character cliche its actually doing new things with old situations

also alien sideboob. A lot of alien sideboob

also questions on the nature of diversity and multicultural (or in this case multispecies) societies

 

[Belushi]

Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer 2009) Undemanding post-apocalypse road movie. Enjoyable enough for a sunday night.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

The Wall... another Austrian film, I think. Have come to the conclusion that Austrians don't make the most exciting cinema.

 

[Mab]

Watching THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD haven't seen it for ages but it's still well good.

Yes, and especially when the cyclops roasts men on the spit

 

[Idris2002]

Dig! the film about the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Flight of the Conchords, but for real, and without the jokes.

Don't Look Back. Dylan's British tour of '65 is documented in this fly on the wall thing by DA Pennebaker. Where the idea of cool, and the rocker as mad genius comes from - the idea that the bands in Dig! were trying (and failing) to imitate. Almost a relic of a lost civilisation at this point.

And now for something completely different. The Titfield Thunderbolt. Ealing comedy about a rural English village whose branch line is cut, and who decided to run the railroad themselves. Essentially a cry of frustration from an upper-middle class layer that felt itself threatened by both Butskellist nationalisation and pushy petit-bourgeois. An exercise in nostalgia for an age that never existed - but good fun all the same.

 

[passenger]

Hearafter Directed by Clint Eastwood not as good as i hoped for very good in bits poor in others

 

[Belushi]

Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam 2012) Belgian crime drama set in the Flemish countryside. Pretty good.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam 2012) Belgian crime drama set in the Flemish countryside. Pretty good.

...The young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader...

Right, I'm having that

 

[DexterTCN]

Aliens. Everybody's seen this a dozen times but it's still surprisingly brilliant. Director Cameron follows on from Scott's original and improves it beyond measure. Scary, exciting, dashes of humour and of course Cameron's ability to portray strong female characters.

 

[ringo]

Carnivale Series 1 Episode 1. Had the DVDs of both series for several years but only just got round to it.

 

[Spymaster]

I've been working my way through the box set of From The Earth To The Moon over the last couple of weeks.

It's pretty much a must watch for any Apollo/space/moon-landing nerds and really gets into the characters and all the missions.

Ace.

Happy to lend it when I'm done if anyone fancies it.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Raid 2.

Now that's a fucking action movie.

Taking place about 10 minutes after Raid: Redemption this goes to town. Just great, pretty violent mind. Put it this way...one of the baddies is called Hammer-Girl. Moving away from the claustrophobia of the first movie, this one moves effortlessly between slums, kitchens, highways, sumptuous rooms and hallways to up the ante.

One slightly confusing thing - one of the baddies in the last one plays a different character in this one.

you mean Mad Dog?
he rocked...RIP.

if you want to get more confused...he is in Merantau and also a bad guy who fights Rama.

Raid 2 is just fucking awesome.
Violence was great and the martial arts very accurate (respect to Silat).

Gareth Williams is one of the best directors in world for martial arts movies...

 

[DotCommunist]

Carnivale Series 1 Episode 1. Had the DVDs of both series for several years but only just got round to it.

this is quality^^^

I'm waiting for American Horror Story new series to come out- going to be a carny theme as well. compare/contrast

I watched a lot of 'Person of Interest. The conciet is that this bloke built a panopticon type computer for the US state and they use it to predict trrism. except it starts identifying violent crimes as well (of a non trrist nature). The Man doesn't care so the inventor tracks an ex cia bloke who is now a bum and recruits him to have adventures. Its a bit silly

 

[ringo]

this is quality^^^

I'm waiting for American Horror Story new series to come out- going to be a carny theme as well. compare/contrast

I watched a lot of 'Person of Interest. The conciet is that this bloke built a panopticon type computer for the US state and they use it to predict trrism. except it starts identifying violent crimes as well (of a non trrist nature). The Man doesn't care so the inventor tracks an ex cia bloke who is now a bum and recruits him to have adventures. Its a bit silly

Enjoyed the first one, good to see something a bit different. This was my choice, we've just finished Mrs R's choice which was Banshee season 2. A Spartacus sort of silly. She might go for Person Of Interest, I'll have a look.

 

[Idris2002]

I watched this the other week:



Hit Canadian comedy-thriller series about a father/son private eye firm. It might be going too far to say that if you like Trailer Park Boys you'll like this (it's really nothing like TPB, btw) but I would say give it a go. It's one of those things that is utter nonsense but which is good fun in spite of that.

 

[DexterTCN]

you mean Mad Dog?
he rocked...RIP.

if you want to get more confused...he is in Merantau and also a bad guy who fights Rama...

He's dead?

 

[maya]

It's one of those things that is utter nonsense but which is good fun in spite of that.

A bit like Psych?

 

[Orang Utan]

A Field In England.

Excellent.

Another good reason to hate tents.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hedgehog in the Fog [Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975] HQ:
Beautiful

 

[fishfinger]

Hedgehog in the Fog [Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975] HQ:
Beautiful

Thanks, I just watched it. Very good.