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

[rekil]

Miss Violence on xmas morning. I think I can safely say that it's probably one of the least "festive" films ever made, intending to be a broadside against the delusions, degeneracy and social reproduction of the Greek middle class, its fault lines exposed by the crisis. (If you haven't heard of it, don't click the imdb link cos it's got an early spoiler)

 

[D'wards]

Just watched The ABCs of Death. Now I normally love a horror compendium, but this was hard work. The only story I found interesting really was the one about the fat woman. The weird paedo/hunting one showed potential too and the Japanese Nazi one was definitely nightmarish.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Selfish Giant.

By far the best film I've seen in ages. The performances are excellent, best angry youth since Tim Roth in Made in Britain. Absolutely brilliant.

I'm watching that now. Some great acting in it. Sad though

 

[D'wards]

Predestination. Very good, but you definitely need to pay utmost attention

 

[mwgdrwg]

Watching E.T.

:'(

 

[fishfinger]

Predestination. Very good, but you definitely need to pay utmost attention

I saw that recently, and although I quite enjoyed it, found it to be very predictable.

 

[butchersapron]

Soon as you know it's time travel based you know where you're going.

 

[Idris2002]

South [Endurance] (1920), Frank Furley's silent era documentary that he shot on Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill fated expedition in Antarctica. Not as moving as "Great White Silence" or as beautiful as "Epic Of Everest" but still a great film, the footage of the Endurance getting trapped and crushed by the ice flows is particularly stunning.

If you like that you'll like Kon- Tiki, the Norwegian film of Heyerdal's famous voyage across the Pacific by raft. The hypothesis on which that voyage was based has since been disproven but it's an amazing story nonetheless. But you'll have to see it on the big screen.

 

[Part 2]

If you like that you'll like Kon- Tiki, the Norwegian film of Heyerdal's famous voyage across the Pacific by raft. The hypothesis on which that voyage was based has since been disproven but it's an amazing story nonetheless. But you'll have to see it on the big screen.

Sounds good. On a seafaring theme I love Deep Water, about the first round the world yacht race.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/

 

[Indeliblelink]

that sounds interesting Idris2002, I'll try track it down

 

[Idris2002]

Remember @IndelibleInk, see it on the big screen.

 

[butchersapron]

Sounds good. On a seafaring theme I love Deep Water, about the first round the world yacht race.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/

Great little doc that - his log-book from the last days is fascinating:

I have become a second generation cosmic being. I am conceived in the womb of nature, but in my own mind, in the womb of the universe. I was forced to admit that nature forces on a cosmic being the only sin they are capable of: the sin of concealment. It is a small sin for a man to commit, but it is a terrible sin for a cosmic being. I am what I am and I see the nature of my offence. I will only resign this game if you will agree that on the next occasion that this game is played, it will be played according to the rules that are devised by my great God. It is finished. It is finished. It is the mercy.

11:15:00

It is the end of my game. Truth has been revealed and it will be done as my family requires me to do it.

11:20:40

There is no reason for harmful"

 

[rekil]

And i watched 90 minutes of the interview then cut my losses - rubbish. Did Prof Franco's mum tell him he could do comedy or something? He can't. he doesn't appear to have a single funny bone in his body or psyche. That Brad Pitt War film Fury is more funny.

I made it to the end. Franco can't even maintain the sub Jerry Lewis mugging and speech impediment all the way through, which is probably for the best. Yer man doesn't even get a 'funny' death, unless his chopper getting shot in the rear is intended to provide bum gag continuity, and elections follow. Yep they give up trying to be funny altogether and try to have a go at making the audience take their stoner liberalism seriously. I'm just relieved that Danny McBride wasn't involved with this mess.

 

[Gone Girl]

Interstellar

I actually watched this at the cinema and quite enjoyed it but did get confused as to what the plot was at times, but pretty good and especially if you are into sci-Fi I guess.

I would rate this film 6.5/10

 

[trabuquera]

The Raven - overlong, but nicely art-directed sort-of-gothicky romp around 1800s Baltimore in the company of Edgar Allen Poe, who's being stalked and terrified by a copycat serial killer inspired by Poe's works. John Cusack does a nicely disheveled and dipsomaniac Poe and there are lots of good character actors. It all looks very good. But script is a bit flaccid and the damsel in distress didn't work for me. Amusing enough for a couple of hours of relaxation.
(* for the cthulhuthians, there are no tentacles involved at any point.)

 

[butchersapron]

Running Blind - rather exciting BBC mini-series also cobbled together as a film. Classic cold-war double-crossing intrigue etc with chases and sniper rifles and trench coats and all that. Very enjoyable.

Oh yeah, it's set in Iceland too.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ipcress File. Early role for Michael Caine. Old school spy thriller. Funny litle cars and grey men chasing each other I liked it. Went through a Deighton phase in my teens so the storytelling was familiar.


Also: Z Nation. Oh shock of shocks, syfy produce something quality! It's funny, dark and the anti-Walking Dead. Hiughly reccomended. I'm on episode 3.

its some ill-defined time after the zombia apocalypse and a rag tag group must escort a cowardly fool who is the on;y man ever to survive zombie bite to a californian CDC so they can synthesize a cure

 

[DexterTCN]

Snowpiercer.

Chris Evans (the captain america one), Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt and others.

Dark and apocalyptic, the only people left in the world are on a huge, class-divided train.

Tilda Swinton is fucking brilliant in this. Revelations come near the end.

 

[magneze]

Snowpiercer.

Chris Evans (the captain america one), Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt and others.

Dark and apocalyptic, the only people left in the world are on a huge, class-divided train.

Tilda Swinton is fucking brilliant in this. Revelations come near the end.

Great film.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ipcress File. Early role for Michael Caine.

Well, an early lead role for Caine, perhaps. IMDb clearly shows this to have been in the range of his 50th-55th credited screen role.

 

[yardbird]

Ch5 Now not last night.
The Dam Busters with full-on use of the N word.

 

[DotCommunist]

Well, an early lead role for Caine, perhaps. IMDb clearly shows this to have been in the range of his 50th-55th credited screen role.

'IMDB clearly shows' lol

feet of clay D

 

[redsquirrel]

Man of Violence (aka Moon) - one of films in the BFI's Flipside series, it's a crime/spy film made at the end of the 60s. It's got it's flaws, that plot is far too complicated for a 90 minute film, but it's also has some things that are genuinely good, as well as being an interesting piece of 60s film making. It's also very progressive regarding homosexuality, for the it's time anyway, with the lead character sleeping with another bloke, admittedly this is to extract some information, but it's clearly something that the character doesn't have a problem with, or even really see as an issue. Definitely recommended.

 

[trabuquera]

The rest of MARCO POLO, which did get better, but not much.

I'm still baffled how a titanically large-scale saga of clashing empires, fascinating experiments in multicultural society, deaths of tens of thousands, a tale teeming with assassins, harems and drugs turned out to be ... a bit dull really. It must be something to do with the writing (still wooden and dire) and the acting (predominantly clunky fake-archaic English as a second language) but it just never really *grips* you. Wonderfully art directed though - it's not a waste of time. But without actors willing to chew up the scenery and go OTT this kind of caper is hard to pull off. It just all seems much too detached - it never really builds you into the emotional world of any character - and it's hard to care about any of them.

 

[butchersapron]

Another Earth and I Origins - couple films of from Mike Cahill - both mixes of sci-fi style stuff intertwined with looks at regrets and loss. Both very similar, both interesting, but neither as deep or complex or clever as some reviewers seem to think.

 

[D'wards]

Nightcrawler - thought it was excellent. Jake Gyllenhal was superb as the slimey weirdo protagonist, should at least get an oscar nomination for that I think.

 

[butchersapron]

Nightcrawler - thought it was excellent. Jake Gyllenhal was superb as the slimey weirdo protagonist, should at least get an oscar nomination for that I think.

I enjoyed it until the last 40 minutes when it became too much of an aggressive finger pointing at a grotesque shouting DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?!!!? exercise.

 

[D'wards]

I enjoyed it until the last 40 minutes when it became too much of an aggressive finger pointing at a grotesque shouting DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?!!!? exercise.

Aye, was none-too subtle in that Natural Born Killers way

 

[belboid]

On The Town.

The greatest musical ever. And I never knew before that Betty Garrett was on the HUAC list.

 

[DotCommunist]

Starred (2013)

Brit prison film. Just unrelentingly grim and violent. Captures the claustrophobic and febrile environs perfectly. Btought up some npleasant recollections. Well done for what it is but one watch was enough. Strange, I watched that french on Prophet and it didn't push any buttons