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

The Wolf of Wall Street - some lovely acting and dialogue here - and astonishing performances from Leonardo diCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill (!) in a tale of unabashed capitalism taken to the max. You can almost feel Scorsese the one-time aspirant priest dunking you in sex, drugs and greed, time after time, to ludicrous excess, with full-on Catholic disapproval - and yet he's more than half seduced by these characters and their schtick ... not least because he just lets it go on and on and on and on. No need whatsoever for this to be nearly 3 hours long - could have been done in under 2 and been a better film. It does have its highs (like its narrator(s) ) but it's Just Too Much.

All Good Things - effectively creepy and lowkey true crime sort of drama with Ryan Gosling (good acting, terrible makeup) and Kirsten Dunst. A bizarre and deliberately opaque treatment of a series of (possibly?) related killings .... really fantastic acting by everyone in a great cast, terrific art direction - a really convincing evocation of the 70s - but the central mystery of just how bonkers the central character really is, is left a bit unresolved. Worth a watch.
 
Selma. The Martin Luther King one. In the opening credits it said it was an Oprah Winfrey production. Nuff said. I can't believe made it to the end. Absolutely fucking shit.
 
been binge watching Jericho on Netflix - enjoyed it, it was cancelled after season 2, and Season 3 and 4 were made as graphic novels so I've bought them to see what happened :mad: (only cost about £8 in total so not too bad)
 
Virtual Blue said:
The Babadook - one of the best horrors of 2014 and on so many levels, it's no ordinary horror.

Recommend.
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Plan to watch that soon, only heard good things about it.

You watched Woman In Black? Thought it was excellent.

Hard to find decent horror movies these days.
 
gabi said:
Selma. The Martin Luther King one. In the opening credits it said it was an Oprah Winfrey production. Nuff said. I can't believe made it to the end. Absolutely fucking shit.
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clcat said:
Plan to watch that soon, only heard good things about it.

You watched Woman In Black? Thought it was excellent.

Hard to find decent horror movies these days.
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Isn't Woman in Black a typical horror?
Cheap jumps that kinda thing? I saw it in the Theatre but never bothered with film version.

Horns is pretty good - don't know why it got slated tbh...
 
Greenery Will Bloom Again - Ermanno Olmi's contribution to the WW1 centenary - his 2nd film since retiring in 2007 and nearly 60 years since his fist full length release). As a review says, a film about war, not a war film. If you like people sitting freezing on top of mountains and thinking about their probable death very soon, then this is the film for you.

Also watched a different type of war film, Five Cartridges/Cartridge Cases - 1960 east german production about a multi-national group of International Brigadiers who volunteer to cover a retreat, knowing they'll probably die doing so and are then chased across the mountains by the fascists. Different from other straightforward propaganda type films about the anti-fascist nature of the regimes foundations that were being pumped out at the time because this one looked to western films, and westerns in particular for stylistic inspiration. Which means that this one doesn't appear as dated as its contemporaries.
 
butchersapron said:
Greenery Will Bloom Again - Ermanno Olmi's contribution to the WW1 centenary - his 2nd film since retiring in 2007 and nearly 60 years since his fist full length release). As a review says, a film about war, not a war film. If you like people sitting freezing on top of mountains and thinking about their probable death very soon, then this is the film for you.

Also watched a different type of war film, Five Cartridges/Cartridge Cases - 1960 east german production about a multi-national group of International Brigadiers who volunteer to cover a retreat, knowing they'll probably die doing so and are then chased across the mountains by the fascists. Different from other straightforward propaganda type films about the anti-fascist nature of the regimes foundations that were being pumped out at the time because this one looked to western films, and westerns in particular for stylistic inspiration. Which means that this one doesn't appear as dated as its contemporaries.
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You had me at "people sitting freezing on top of mountains and thinking about their probable death very soon". The other sounds very intriguing, but I yesterday finally got my hands on a DVD of the Conformist, so that's next on the list.
 
Virtual Blue said:
John Wick - a simple film with brilliant execution. great scenes and super violent. not as cool as Raid II but on the same par as Man from Nowhere.
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If you like seeing Keanu Reeves shoot lots of blokes in dark suits in the face and a big spray of blood (and i do) then it's great. Very well done example of the Keanu Reeves face shooting genre.
 
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