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

[DaveCinzano]

Bonnot's Gang - Rubbish crude retelling of the Bonnot gang ...

 

[butchersapron]

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A select clientele indeed.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Watched Ginger Snaps with idumea last night. It's about two teenage outcast sisters, one of them becomes a werewolf.

 

[The Boy]

Watched Ginger Snaps with idumea last night. It's about two teenage outcast sisters, one of them becomes a werewolf.

I have that on my to watch list on Netflix. I remember it being half decent, but I was a mopey teenager when it came out.

 

[The Boy]

Donnie Brasco (1997). First of a bunch of Pacino, De Niro etc fillums I've lined up to watch/revisit over the next few days. Bit meh, tbh. Pacino is aces though.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I have that on my to watch list on Netflix. I remember it being half decent, but I was a mopey teenager when it came out.

Yeah I enjoyed it. But I quite like films about sisters, and women generally, esp if they are weirdos.

 

[Ponyutd]

Maps to the Stars.
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Juliet Moore is fantastic in this. John Cusack still hasn't bettered Grosse Point Blank but I like his acting. The young child star in this very good, but don't know his name.

 

[The Boy]

First two episodes of Lily hammer. I'm as yet undecided.

 

[Part 2]

The white balloon. Iranian. A girl wants a goldfish for new year and has to contend with adults trying to relieve her of the money given to her by her mum. There's a great scene where 3 kids are chewing gum, only very brief but completely adorable.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Re-watched Sightseers.

 

[maya]

Hairspray (1988 original)

I needed to cheer myself up a bit... and it worked.

 

[The Boy]

Re-watched Sightseers.

Cracking film.

 

[Belushi]

The Epic of Everest (Capt. John Noel) Beautiful BFI restoration of the footage from the 1924 Mallory/Irvine Everest expedition. Some stunning images and a great modern score.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Finished season two of The Shield last night. I'm going to crack on with season three now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/

 

[The Boy]

Caught five minutes of She The Man (2006) due to the TV being left on. Reckon I'll need to go some to see anything as bad as that.

Tonight is season four of the It Crowd.

 

[fishfinger]

The Prestige - Predictable rubbish.

 

[magneze]

T'ai Chi: Zero
The first of a steampunk martial arts trilogy loosely based upon the life of the founder of Yang style T'ai Chi. Good fun. Highly stylized, almost like a computer game at times.

Frank
Actually nothing like what I was expecting. It's nothing to do with Frank Sidebottom apart from having a guy with a paper mache head. Good though, well worth a watch.

 

[DexterTCN]

Big Trouble in Little China. Nowhere near as good as I remember but still a bit funny.

Capote. Quite excellent. You probably wouldn't watch it more than once but it's quality stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

Man of Tai Chi

I can't wait to give this film to my brother and watch his face take on an expression of pure joy. It has everything he likes.

-unassuming, quiet and good man who is secretly a proper martial artist

- a 'soft' martial art turned to the use of combat

-An old temple where the ancient master schools the student

- totally irrelevant subplot surrounding the cops

- illegal fighting ring that end in death

- keanu reeves

- occasional moments of mystic chi force


He is going to be in heaven when he watches this, then he will ask to practise karate moves on me, and thats a no.

myself, I give it a 6\10. I wanted to watch people doing ludicrous martial arts and it delivered in spades. At the start I was reminded of Enter The Dragon, because the protagonist was pitted against various foes and disciplines. The black guy with his wrestling, the white american with his judo. The brick shithouse russian doing who knows what but he got beat anyway- and his name was romanov (should have been Zangief really). Quality. Should have included a Brazilian doing capoeira for great win, but it didn't.

 

[DrRingDing]

The Epic of Everest (Capt. John Noel) Beautiful BFI restoration of the footage from the 1924 Mallory/Irvine Everest expedition. Some stunning images and a great modern score.

Watched it at the BFI. My gf snored through it. I loved it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Oh an Taken 3. What can one say about Taken 3. Its obeying the law of diminishing returns, but if you like angry neeson (and I do) then fill your boots. Its still a really shit film though

 

[Idris2002]

Man of Tai Chi

I can't wait to give this film to my brother and watch his face take on an expression of pure joy. It has everything he likes.

-unassuming, quiet and good man who is secretly a proper martial artist

- a 'soft' martial art turned to the use of combat

-An old temple where the ancient master schools the student

- totally irrelevant subplot surrounding the cops

- illegal fighting ring that end in death

- keanu reeves

- occasional moments of mystic chi force


He is going to be in heaven when he watches this, then he will ask to practise karate moves on me, and thats a no.

myself, I give it a 6\10. I wanted to watch people doing ludicrous martial arts and it delivered in spades. At the start I was reminded of Enter The Dragon, because the protagonist was pitted against various foes and disciplines. The black guy with his wrestling, the white american with his judo. The brick shithouse russian doing who knows what but he got beat anyway- and his name was romanov (should have been Zangief really). Quality. Should have included a Brazilian doing capoeira for great win, but it didn't.

I might get that for my sister, she's a big Keanu fan.

 

[Idris2002]

Anyway, over der wochenende, I watched the first half of the final season of Mad Men, the soap opera for people who think they're too good for soaps.

My favourite bits involved Megan, Don Draper's Quebecois wife, actually they should make a film about the October crisis with her in it.

As for MM as a whole, well it compares favourably with the Sopranos final season, which was a case of an exhausted show that had fully run out of ideas. The art direction is excellent as usual, and the tracking of social change in America is pretty cogent (though class is really more or less omitted). I think you'd actually have to be American to get the full nostalgia effect. At about this time in Ireland, we were getting ready for twenty-five years of semtex and checkpoint charlies.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Mad Men, the soap opera for people who think they're too good for soaps.

No.

I watched 'End of Watch'. Okay, but a pit too pro-polis.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Oh an Taken 3. What can one say about Taken 3. Its obeying the law of diminishing returns, but if you like angry neeson (and I do) then fill your boots. Its still a really shit film though

It's a big drop off from the first two Taken films, and that's faint praise.

 

[DotCommunist]

It's a big drop off from the first two Taken films, and that's faint praise.

the only people who have been taken are the fools wwho paid to watch that stinker A hahaha



I watched Wheel of Time: Winter Dragon

this is weird, where was the fanfare, where was the trailers, why was it pumped out on fxx at 12.30 in the am.

because it looks like the company had to air something by this date or else the ip lapses back to the estate.
It was OK, set in the Age of Legends, basically a conversation between the Forsaken Ishmael and Telamon the Dragon

Shouldn't queer the pitch for series proper, although its inevitably going to be an also ran to GoT

apparently Jordans widow had no knowledge of this and has got the right hump about people taking the piss with ip. Possible litigation on the horizon

 

[Idris2002]

No.

But yes!

Spoiler: spoiler for mad men season five

 

[Idris2002]

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Twelve Angry Men". Never seen it before but saw the show on stage last week and wanted to see the film. Both were/are excellent.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

But yes!

Name me a soap as multi-layered as Mad Men. The reason I watch Mad Men is not the reason why people watch soaps, and I'd argue soaps are far more preposterous.