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

[Orang Utan]

I gave up after the first episode but I wasn't really paying attention. There seemed to be an awful lot of knocking on doors.

 

[DotCommunist]

give it another go

'What goes around comes around'

 

[jeff_leigh]

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes tonight

 

[DotCommunist]

its not as good. I watched dawn the other day and its a fun film for what it is but lacks the pathos and tightness of Rise. It also lacks Lithgow which holes it below the water

 

[Part 2]

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes tonight

I watch Dawn last night. Good franchise of remakes I reckon.

 

[Belushi]

Elles (Malgoska Szumowska 2012) Some good performances but a duff script.

 

[krtek a houby]

Safety Not Guaranteed - cynical journo/road trip/rites of passage/mad scientist/rom com. I like!

Le Havre - wonderfully retro French flick. Former bohemian looks out for refugee kid on the run. Heart warming.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark this morning, since I have the day off. Still excellent, although I suspect that as a younger man my infatuation with Marion allowed me to overlook her not-very-good acting. There are some glaring plot holes in it too.

 

[DotCommunist]

Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark this morning, since I have the day off. Still excellent, although I suspect that as a younger man my infatuation with Marion allowed me to overlook her not-very-good acting. There are some glaring plot holes in it too.

thats the one where Indy turns out to be a nonce right?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

thats the one where Indy turns out to be a nonce right?

If you choose to interpret it in a particular way, yes.

 

[Idris2002]

Three Days of the Condor.

Cult paranoia thriller from the 1970s. Very well done, and a bit more plausible than the "through the looking glass" conpsiraloonery of, e.g. The Parallax view (which is also a good movie, mind). Robert Redford's brutalization of Faye Dunaway strikes a sour note, however, and her subsequent decision to ally her character with his is psychologically incredible to the point of being absurd.

The fact that it's all about oil, that is oil is the driving force behind the killing of Redford's colleagues, also strikes a sour note today, albeit of a different kind.

 

[The Boy]

First two episodes of Peaky Blinders. Not bad, I guess. Was annoying having my once-upon-a-time-a-Brummie missus moaning about the accents though.

 

[Idris2002]

I'm gradually working my way through Scrubs, and it's not bad at all, definitely a cut above the the average US sitcom.

Maybe they got away with it because it's a medical-themed show, but some of the stuff on it is very close to the knuckle, if not beyond it. . . which makes me wonder how it got on US telly in the first place.

 

[belboid]

Suddenly Last Summer

The third Tennessee Williams play, filmed in the fifties. There's a great film to be made of the play, but I'm afraid that wasn't quite it. Shame. A few standout scenes tho. And an arguably racist ending.

 

[butchersapron]

Finally got round to the latest Dardennes: Two Days, One Night - typically brilliant and brutally effective whilst remaining totally human. Was sceptical of Marion Cotillard playing the central character but she was brilliant. A much more conventional/easy film that the majority of their work (none of which is actually that difficult once you're used to the handheld camera and over the shoulder shots) - if anyone here hasn't seen all of these from La Promesse on,do yourself a big favour and get cracking.

A similarly themed film - the damage that happens when capitalist dynamics enter the souls of real people - A Touch of Sin - and also similarly great. Four interconnected stories of real life things that happened in China during the last decades growth. As a believe a previous reviewer on this thread said: grim. Very grim.

An old play for today from the early 80s - The Flipside of Dominick Hide. Charming little cheapo sci-fi about time traveler who comes back to study london buses and gets involved in the usual entanglements. There's a follow up called another Another Flip for Dominick which i've not yet seen.

A fairly decent Korean action/thriller called A Hard Day -nothing special, just high energy stuff in the vein of many other recent biggish Korean films (Man From Nowhere etc)

 

[rekil]

A fairly decent Korean action/thriller called A Hard Day -nothing special, just high energy stuff in the vein of many other recent biggish Korean films (Man From Nowhere etc)

Kundo: Age of the Rampant looks worth a look for the title alone.

A period action film centered on a militia group who turn against an unjust nobility.

 

[butchersapron]

Kundo: Age of the Rampant looks worth a look for the title alone.

Ooh yeah, downloading now - ta! Excellent cover too:

 

[trabuquera]

The Cabin in the Woods - yeah, 2 years late and on Channel 5 to boot - the shame, the shame. Loved nearly every batshit minute of it; as you'd expect from a Joss Whedonverse product it's sharp, funny, brilliantly paced and keeps you right off balance all the way through. And it has plenty of Jesse Williams. oh yes.

 

[Sea Star]

I watched a film called Prophecy 2. A load of old nonsense, but entertaining and starring Christopher Walken!

I'm only annoyed that Netflix doesn't have Prophecy 1.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched a film called Prophecy 2. A load of old nonsense, but entertaining and starring Christopher Walken!

I'm only annoyed that Netflix doesn't have Prophecy 1.

I've got 1-6. Number 1 is a really unremarked gem, walken, viggo mortensen as satan. Heavy on the catholic imagery and gore

they get progressively less good and even walken can't save the 3rd one. He's not in the following three

 

[Sea Star]

I've got 1-6. Number 1 is a really unremarked gem, walken, viggo mortensen as satan. Heavy on the catholic imagery and gore

they get progressively less good and even walken can't save the 3rd one. He's not in the following three

I need to get the first one then... sounds like there's little point carrying on with the sequels.

 

[redsquirrel]

Midnight Lace - sub-sub-sub-Hitchcockian thriller about a women who's stalker threatens to kill her, starring Rex Harrison and Doris Day. Very average, Harrison is rather good but Day is terrible, although TBF it's a dreadful role, and the plot can be seen coming a mile off. Don't bother with it.

 

[Mumbles274]

Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark this morning, since I have the day off. Still excellent, although I suspect that as a younger man my infatuation with Marion allowed me to overlook her not-very-good acting. There are some glaring plot holes in it too.

I like the observation that Indiana jones effectively has no influence on the outcome of the movie.. that they would have still opened the Ark and all died had he been involved in the events or not

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I like the observation that Indiana jones effectively has no influence on the outcome of the movie.. that they would have still opened the Ark and all died had he been involved in the events or not

That's only sort of true. If he hadn't been there, then the Ark would not have ended up in the US government warehouse, it would probably have been packaged up again by some confused Nazis and shipped somewhere else, probably to Berlin.

Actually, now that I think about it, with Belloch dead, the original Nazi orders to send it back to Hitler would probably have been carried out... in which case Indiana Jones prevented Hitler from being killed when they opened the Ark a second time, and is therefore indirectly responsible for World War 2.

 

[stethoscope]

The Tall Guy - still cracks me up

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Tall Guy - still cracks me up

Emma Thompson's brisk manner with the Hoover pipe bloke still makes me laugh.

 

[ViolentPanda]

"The French Connection" and "French Connection II".

 

[trabuquera]

Narco Cultura (on Netflix.) Documentary about how being a cartel member / associate / wannabe has become an aspiration in Mexico and a profitable postmodern business in the USA. Extraordinary stuff - EXTREMELY graphic images of slaughter and mayhem, extremely uncomfortable sequences following the musicians and promoters milking the 'narco corrido' genre for every $ possible.

It is not quite as good as it thinks it is (there are only 2 real strands, and this is a story which it would take thousands of pages/hours to tell properly) - and it's a bit thin on deep analysis of what is going on and quite how/why the state power structures in Mexico are so weak/corrupt/inept/ruthless. But it is absolutely jaw-dropping, every bit as uncomfortable as (say) The Act of Killing, in a different way. Revolting, enraging, astonishing and depressing in equal measure. I recommend it to anyone with a strong stomach. If you watched Breaking Bad you should watch this, for a dose of reality.

 

[Virtual Blue]

The Europa Report - refreshing to watch a space/ disaster movie without CGI or a running Tom Cruise/ Will Smith.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - excellent sequel to the recent reboot. Makes you realise how rubbish the Tim Burton version was.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hell on Wheels

season 3 after a fairly long break


I see the writers still think having a Confederate ex soldier as the hero is so boundry pushing and clever they have to ram it down our throats every five mins