What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me, just because I like to see Ray Wise scream.
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
...thanks to this thread finally got to re-watch a ( pretty rough ) version of this
...if you hanker after a 70's mash-up of Zabriskie Point and Dogs of War, featuring a cameo appearance by Germaine Greer then my strong hunch is this will be your only opportunity...
...if you hanker after a 70's mash-up of Zabriskie Point and Dogs of War, featuring a cameo appearance by Germaine Greer then my strong hunch is this will be your only opportunity...
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Couldn't really get into a Liam Neeson film without him negotiating with some kidnappers
passenger
up and down...
Under the Skin (2013) i really liked this maybe not everyone lol 9/10
Gravity 7/10 really good one of the last to see it as good as people say
Gravity 7/10 really good one of the last to see it as good as people say
Indeliblelink
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Wir [We] (1981) German sci-fi TV movie based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 dystopian novel. Quite good despite the low budget, there's a good use of perspex and visual effects to create some interesting looking sets and images of life in the glass city.
Octobre (1994) Canadian director Pierre Falardeau's dramatization of the 1970 kidnap of Quebec minister Pierre Laporte by the Quebec Liberation Front, based on a book written by one of the kidnappers. Well worth watching. On youtube with subs
Octobre (1994) Canadian director Pierre Falardeau's dramatization of the 1970 kidnap of Quebec minister Pierre Laporte by the Quebec Liberation Front, based on a book written by one of the kidnappers. Well worth watching. On youtube with subs
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Never seen it and it was on FilmFour, so watched The Hunger Games (first one)
Not awful, but not particularly good either, strangely bloodless killings too.
Not awful, but not particularly good either, strangely bloodless killings too.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Princess Ka'iulani - watched this really only because it stars Q'orianka Kilcher who was so luminous in Malick's THE NEW WORLD and I always wondered what happened to her. Film is about the last days of Hawaiian independence before and after the islands were annexed by the USA. So it's a lot of politicking by men with mustaches, with intermittent scenes of the Princess mooning about in too many unflattering Victorian gowns and petticoats and being oppressed. I would love to have loved this, and it's not awful ... there is a tiny bit of sense of place and time, but not much ... but it's overwhelmingly dull and clunky and Kilcher is a charisma-free zone. The drama is fumbled when it's not just boring. So 2/10, sorry.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I watched an examination of the anglo saxons through art history. Second time I've seen a history docu that specifically uses art to examine the culture. Its an interesting approach.
lovely Dr Nina Ramirez presents: Treasures of the Anglo Saxons
lovely Dr Nina Ramirez presents: Treasures of the Anglo Saxons
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
...anyone been watching this / these one(s)....
http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/06/16/a-vhs-copy-of-hellraiser/
An Elephant & Castle bus stop may be a portal to hell, according to a peculiar story we picked up from Peckham Peculiar.
For the last few years, a VHS copy of 1987 horror film ‘Hellraiser’ – the moving tale of a chap with a pincushion for a noggin – has sat atop the bus shelter by Lidl on Old Kent Road. You’re thinking, ‘That’s just littering.’ So were we.
Until a second copy appeared. And then they both vanished. And then they came back. And vanished again. And returned again.
And then a copycat VHS turned up on a Stoke Newington bus stop. Is it a prank? Some kind of Walworth wormhole?
...turns out someone is attempting to put 21 copies on the roofs of the stops along the 21 bus route...
http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/06/16/a-vhs-copy-of-hellraiser/
An Elephant & Castle bus stop may be a portal to hell, according to a peculiar story we picked up from Peckham Peculiar.
For the last few years, a VHS copy of 1987 horror film ‘Hellraiser’ – the moving tale of a chap with a pincushion for a noggin – has sat atop the bus shelter by Lidl on Old Kent Road. You’re thinking, ‘That’s just littering.’ So were we.
Until a second copy appeared. And then they both vanished. And then they came back. And vanished again. And returned again.
And then a copycat VHS turned up on a Stoke Newington bus stop. Is it a prank? Some kind of Walworth wormhole?
...turns out someone is attempting to put 21 copies on the roofs of the stops along the 21 bus route...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Well it is for kids. Battle Royale is bloodier.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Nothing Bad Can Happen - can't make my mind up whether this is a really strong debut film or a piece of horrible exploitative empty crap under the flag of an attack on religion/humanity. Critics seem split down the middle. Basic plot is abandoned young kid is taken in by christian-punks and then another family and his faith is tested (that's putting it mildly). Based on a true story. But i just don't know...
Two (non-spoiler) pieces from reviews):
Two (non-spoiler) pieces from reviews):
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Breakfast on Pluto - Nice film made me smile 
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lucy
Directed by Luc Besson, and starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman.
The worst Sci-Fi film I've ever seen (and I've seen some stinkers). It's about a woman (Johansson) who manages to tap into 100% of her brain capacity (the rest of us only managing 10%). With Morgan Freeman providing the completely nonsensical sciencey explanations. Awful. I want those 90 minutes back.
Directed by Luc Besson, and starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman.
The worst Sci-Fi film I've ever seen (and I've seen some stinkers). It's about a woman (Johansson) who manages to tap into 100% of her brain capacity (the rest of us only managing 10%). With Morgan Freeman providing the completely nonsensical sciencey explanations. Awful. I want those 90 minutes back.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The basic premise, that we only use 10% of our brains, is a fallacy.
I know. It started with that fallacy, and just went downhill from there
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Have you read some posts on here recently ?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That's nothing. I'm watching Superman 3. It's super implausible (Onket).I know. It started with that fallacy, and just went downhill from there
How exactly does Superman fly? He doesn't seem to make any effort at all. It's almost as if he's suspended by some invisible wires.
And why does no-one realise that he's Clark Kent. People still recognise me if I take my glasses off and comb my hair differently.
Can't say I'm a fan of Superman either. At least he's only a comic book character. The film "Lucy" had pretensions at making some sort of profound point, and it failed miserably.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Just watched season 1 of Haven over the last 2 days.
Virtual Blue
ready
Lucy - okay until the final quarter. gets too stooopid in the end.
Virtual Blue
ready
2001: A Space Odyssey
I watched that on the plane the other week.
Forgot how good it was.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Ender's Game - good-looking but vacuous. As soon as the script spends any time with adult characters (and actors with presence, like Viola Davis and Harrison Ford) the conceit sort of falls apart and you realise none of it makes a lot of sense. But amusing enough to while away a rainy afternoon.
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
...finally got round to watching the Mel Gibson film version of Edge of Darkness to clear some disc space...it was a bit better than I was expecting but too many big chrome plated guns popping off spraying goo all over the place & Ray WInstone was a totally lame character compared to the glorious original plutonium-toting cowboy Jedburgh.....really need to rewatch the original to refresh the pallet now...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Enders Game often gets loads of praise as a game changer, a sci fi book that asks deep questions about morality, milirarism- its not. Its pious sub heinlien rubbish in love with itself. Author turned out to be a massive homophobe later on.
The scenes in the zero-g game room were good though.
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