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

[Idris2002]

Name me a soap as multi-layered as Mad Men.

Galaxia de Pasion, of course.

 

[butchersapron]

A Most Violent Year - very well done old school drama about a shady businessman trying to be a shady businessman the right and honourable way ( to live outside the law, you must be honest) but finishing that no one on any side wants to be honest, and those that do end up in some trouble. Some fine acting in this esp from
Oscar Isaac. A serious film done seriously.

Finally watched The Drop - well one in it's shabby atmos but the whole stroy arc was given away in the opening lines plus i can't take Tom Hardy seriously nor,in this film, could i stop imagining Matthias Schoenaerts injecting cattle growth hormone.

Gangster Payday - throwback to the old school of HK crime/cop films, complete with crap slapstick and funny faces. Just outdated now.

Julia - ridiculous rape-revenge thing with more ideas that ability to come through on them.

Son of a Gun - aussie thing that looked like it might be a a decent prison/heist piece but was just terrible all round. Equivalent of all them shit cockney gangster or hooly films. Didn't Ewan McGregor use to be an actor?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

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.

While since I've seen it, but I used to love it and thought the ginger burd was HAWT!

 

[DaveCinzano]

...i can't stop imagining Matthias Schoenaerts injecting cattle growth hormone...

Made me think Hollywood had remade Rundskop for a minute there

 

[butchersapron]

Made me think Hollywood had remade Rundskop for a minute there

I should have mentioned that he was in The Drop and this wasn't just a thing i think about whilst watching tom hardy. Checking if there was a remake this was the first result: Dubbel goed nieuws voor Rundskop. Talk about unintelligible.

 

[Idris2002]

Didn't Ewan McGregor use to be an actor?

I think the last thing I saw him was that that thing with Charlie Boorman where they were tramping through the Central American rainforest. Or was it riding motorbikes across Africa? It was quite some time ago, either way.

 

[starfish]

First 2 episodes of Tokyo Ghoul. I fancied some anime & thought I'd give this one a go. It's ok so far.

 

[redsquirrel]

plus i can't take Tom Hardy seriously nor,in this film,

Likewise, really don't see why he gets the plaudits he does.

 

[Belushi]

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2012) Slow moving character study, beautifully shot.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Just watched 'In Fear' - low-key, interesting horror/thriller, which I now need to go away and think about...

 

[Idris2002]

The Mighty Boosh. A bit shit, really.

 

[trabuquera]

Hercules - definitive chewing gum for the eyes and brain, a ridiculously camp, trashy, flashy, hyperactive modern cartoon-based thing starring Dwayne Johnson (my new favourite rubbish actor), vast swathes of CGI, and a horrifyingly overqualified cast of brit luvvies (John Hurt, Joseph Fiennes, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell etc etc) who are clearly just in it for a laugh. And it IS a laugh, in a good, stupid, crunchingly violent sort of way. Bit strong for a 12A cert in my view (loads and loads and LOADS of slayings, a bit of swearing, some dodgy bondage jokes) and the one good female character is confined to a suspiciously skimpy leather outfit, though she is a badass with the arrows. Really good fun.

The Lego Movie - I'm too old to appreciate every flashing pixel and there's an insane amount of detail to every frame; it's visual overload if you didn't grow up with live gaming, but I loved it. how they managed to sneak quite that much anarchist/marxist/libertarian subversion into a film which is itself a mega-enlarged product placement is a wonder. Fantastic voice acting and some great gags. (The evil Lord Business looks and sounds more like Mitt Romney than Mitt Romney himself.) Lived up to all the good things I had heard.

now for something penitent and miserable and art house and very very adult, i think...

 

[starfish]

More Tokyo Ghoul. It's gone from "ok so far" to "wow, omfg, this is brilliant".

 

[Idris2002]

The Mighty Boosh. A bit shit, really.

On reflection, after viewing another couple of episodes, it's not that bad. But it does feel awfully like a Radio 4 comedy show that got on the telly.

I presume it was Radio 4, originally?

 

[Ponyutd]

This Sporting Life.
I never thought much of Richard Harris as an actor mainly because I haven't seen him much.
This was a bolt out of the blue. Brilliantly acted and just superb viewing.

 

[The Boy]

On reflection, after viewing another couple of episodes, it's not that bad. But it does feel awfully like a Radio 4 comedy show that got on the telly.

I presume it was Radio 4, originally?

You presume correct. Though i think it was just called 'Boosh'.

 

[The Boy]

Last night: Final season of IT Crowd so we could go ahead and watch the final episode which I hadn't seen (was insisting on us watching through the whole series first). Turns out I'd seen it anyway. Sigh.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

The Imitation Game (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

Enjoyed it.

 

[rubbershoes]

American Sniper

How this is nominated for best picture Oscar is beyond me. It's just not a good film.

 

[DotCommunist]

Wrong About Anime

an interesting lecture about how anime has been received in the west and how the cross cultural influences shaped it, some interesting stuff in here. Slightly shrill note struck by the 'we are not hentai buyers!' bits. Highlights the racist nature the press has treated japanese culture on occasion


Stargate SG1: Ark Of Truth

its deffo one for the fans. This was supposed to be the capping off of season 10. I'd given up somewhere in season 8. Its not bad, the production values are that 'just a bit better than a standard episode' you expect from a TV movie. The story was strong, pacing perfect and Tealc got to stride across a vast wilderness while making that endurance face he does
But as a sci fi film alone, well, there wasn't enough exposition to background it for a casual viewer. Only watch this if you like Stargate. Otherwise you'll be bored.

There is a new stargate film on the cards as well, but a complete reboot, no tele lore involved

 

[Idris2002]

An old episode of Cracker I haven't seen, featuring Robbie C. as Fitz, and a frighteningly young looking Ricky Tomlinson as DCI Wise.

This time they were in Hong Kong just before the handover, on the trail of a gwailo gone bad. Other than the "fitz out of water" stuff, and the tension between the UK police chief and his Chinese second-in-command (the woman who is about to inherit his job after 1997) nothing spectacular, just the usual formula run through its paces.

 

[butchersapron]

This Sporting Life.
I never thought much of Richard Harris as an actor mainly because I haven't seen him much.
This was a bolt out of the blue. Brilliantly acted and just superb viewing.

Great performance from him - Rachel Roberts was brilliant too mind.

 

[Idris2002]

Richard Harris was one of those actors who could be in absolutely awful movies but still turn in a good performance. He's probably the only thing worth watching in The Wild Geese, for example.

 

[Orang Utan]

Richard Harris was one of those actors who could be in absolutely awful movies but still turn in a good performance. He's probably the only thing worth watching in The Wild Geese, for example.

Hardy Kruger and Roger Moore also deliver

 

[hot air baboon]

...have fond memories of Harris in that 70's bomb disposal thriller Juggernaut....

 

[DaveCinzano]

...have fond memories of Harris in that 70's bomb disposal thriller Juggernaut....

And Roy Kinnear as the much put-upon Ents Officer

 

[Betsy]

Watched Gone Girl last night...thoroughly enjoyed it up until the last twenty minutes or so...ended up being very disappointed with it.

 

[Idris2002]

...have fond memories of Harris in that 70's bomb disposal thriller Juggernaut....

Omar Sharif was good in that as well.

 

[Ted Striker]

Richard Harris was one of those actors who could be in absolutely awful movies but still turn in a good performance. He's probably the only thing worth watching in The Wild Geese, for example.

A) The Wild Geese if bloody amazing

B) Richard Harris (for true evidence of his genius) - nay any living creature, soul or hypothetical imaginative religious figure - hasn't performed such a turd polishment as he did to the line "Someone's left the cake out in the rain".

 

[Ted Striker]

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