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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I know not this "psych" of which you speak.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Aliens is a brilliant action film, but to say it improves on Alien beyond measure is ridiculous.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I disagree.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Les femmes de l'ombre / Female Agents - standard , pretty old fashioned WWII Resistance tales of derring-do with Sophie Marceau etc. Surprisingly hardboiled in places, but somehow the drama never really takes wing. (Not half as tense as Flame and Citron for example; not even in the same league as classics like Army of Shadows, A Self Made Hero, Indigenes, Sorrow and the Pity etc). Not a waste of time - plenty of parachutes, guns, a bit of stripping, nice frocks - but a bit static.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Cameron's a brilliant action director. But ideas? The man has none. And no ear for dialogue.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
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There are loads of cool lines in Aliens...none at all in Alien. T1 and T2 have some brilliant lines too.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
I really like Aliens and Cameron...it's just that to compare it to Alien is madness. One is an action film with cool dialogue and cool characters, Alien is all about mood, tension, horror...which it does fantastically. Both are equally fantastic at what they intend to do.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
A thor movie. Shit. All the Norse gods had thick oldy world posh British accents. The nice one died. . . and that woman from Leon, for no reason.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Ah, OK... it's a TV series about a very observant and analytically gifted (but incredibly annoying) guy who pretends to be a psychic so that he can get a job where he can help the police solve crime cases. Together with his nerdy best friend Gus and his retired ex-cop dad he ends up solving a lot of cases. It's mostly a bit silly/high on comedy and with a lot of references to other series/films and pop culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491738/?ref_=nv_sr_2
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Yeah but it's got Kat Dennings in it
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
The little girl from 40 year old virgin?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The pencils are writing again - students from the same college protesting in the same place 38 years later:
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Joe-can't remember the last Nicolas Cage film since Wild at Heart or Raising Arizona that I liked . Like Liam Neilson his career just seemed to focus on action films rather than build on his earlier performances.
Joe is set in some god awful small town in some southern state in America . Life is dire, full of poverty, too much alcohol, broken dreams and mind numbing resignation that this , what ever it is , is how it is always going to be .
Joe ( cage) meets some kid who wants to a job working on Cages field clearance poisoning trees. Won't spoil the story but it's a good grim tale in which nobody lives happily but at least someone lives.
Joe is set in some god awful small town in some southern state in America . Life is dire, full of poverty, too much alcohol, broken dreams and mind numbing resignation that this , what ever it is , is how it is always going to be .
Joe ( cage) meets some kid who wants to a job working on Cages field clearance poisoning trees. Won't spoil the story but it's a good grim tale in which nobody lives happily but at least someone lives.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Pompeii and it's my own fault, it was every bit as bad as I'd expected and worse. Well, ok, a half-entertaining way to unwind for 100min but it's over-CGI'd, historically sloppy, stupidly mushily sentimentally anachronistic (orphaned enslaved Celtic genocide survivor Kit Harrington risks all for lurve of drippy Pompeiian aristocrat because she's not a Roman from Rome, so that's OK then, and she fancies him because he's a great Celtic horse whisperer) … and there's hardly any sex or swearing despite loads and loads of video game style violence. Doesn't have the courage of its convictions to be as brutal/gory as Spartacus or as high-minded as Gladiator, despite loads of blatant stylistic rips from both.
And I just can't get into any reimagined Roman Empire where a leading evil Senator is played by none other than … I shit you not … Kiefer Sutherlaaaand!
It's not even bad enough to be good, only just not very good.
And I just can't get into any reimagined Roman Empire where a leading evil Senator is played by none other than … I shit you not … Kiefer Sutherlaaaand!
It's not even bad enough to be good, only just not very good.
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Let me in
Not bad for a remake
Not bad for a remake
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
One of the top 3 Marvel movies, easily. It's predictable up to a point (lots of points in fact) but the action is very cool and it's a bit subversive.
It's not great but if you're going to watch a Marvel movie this is one of the best.
One of the top 3 Marvel movies, easily. It's predictable up to a point (lots of points in fact) but the action is very cool and it's a bit subversive.
It's not great but if you're going to watch a Marvel movie this is one of the best.
Leaving Las Vegas is a masterful performance. He's a really good actor but says yes to some awful movies. I can't judge him for that, it's work and I've worked for lots of cunts and corporations in my time.
E2A: His body of work doesn't do him justice but he is a standout actor IMO with the right script and director.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Forgot about Leaving Las Vegas in which I agree he was excellent
Semi-pro (2008). There's a bit near the end where will Ferrell's character has a dream where his dad mum explains to him the alley-oop. At which point I realised it was set in the 1970s. Nt the 70s fashion, the 70s cars or interior decor, not the repeats shots of the team calendar which clearly showed the year as 1976. It didn't really have my attention.
Grosse point blank (1997). John Cusack twatting about all glaikit, killing people and making jokes to a short of cool sound track. I have an unreasonable fondness for this film.
Grosse point blank (1997). John Cusack twatting about all glaikit, killing people and making jokes to a short of cool sound track. I have an unreasonable fondness for this film.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Arn: the Knight Templar - supposedly the biggest-budget Scandi film ever made, so it stars every Dane/Swede/Norwegian actor you'll already recognise, except Mads Mikkelsen (including her off The Bridge and, um, Simon Callow in a bit part). A stolid, stodgy Europudding of medieval swordfighting with bits of the Crusades ... including the now-obligatory portrait of Saladin as an honourable and charismatic if a bit ruthless kind of guy ... and a lot of inside-baseball medievallery about the feuding clans of postViking Sweden. The dialogue gets delivered in Swedish, English, French and Arabic. It's not BAD but it is a bit dull - and very old fashioned. Sort of like Ridley Scott's City of God but less epic-scale and played straight rather than hammy. One for crusades groupies only I think.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Quite right DaveC. Must have been distracted by all the sword-clanging.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Killers - indo/japanese film that was sold to me as a sort of 7even/ichi/odlboy type of film. Which it sort of was. A pale imitation of each but with with more attempts at shock value violence and cruelty. I expect this will become a hip hit very shortly. It is worth a watch if you're after an easy couple of hours - that's the best i can say for it.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
I watched Her. One of the best films I have seen in a long long time. So much about this film I loved. Its central theme of the construct of love in a digital age was relevant and very moving. Probably the best Jonze film I've ever seen.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The two faces of January - goodlooking movie with some actors I like (Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac out of Inside Llewyn Davis) and nice sense of place (early 1960s Greece) but absolutely no sense of suspense. Very much Talented Mr Ripley territory - it's allegedly a 'thriller' about scammers with lots of double crossing - but it isn't really.
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