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

Bunny Lake is Missing
1965 film directed by Otto Preminger about a woman who goes to collect her daughter on the first day of school only to find that her daughter is not there and that as time goes on those around her are increasingly doubtful that the child ever existed at all. The sinister atmosphere was created well and the quite ordinary locations become suitably strange and menacing. I thought Carol Lynley was good in the lead as Ann Lake as was Laurence Olivier as a police superintendent. Up until about two thirds of the way through it's a very good mystery film but the ending involves a very abrupt change in one of the characters which either needed to be much milder (and I think it would have been better that way), or there needed to be more of a sign than there was in the build up. I'm not sure how much the weird pervert Noel Coward landlord added to the film for that matter either. Still on the whole it was a decent film and well worth a watch.

Chase a Crooked Shadow
This suspense thriller film is from 1958. Kimberly Prescott's brother died in a car crash but a man suddenly appears claiming to be him and everyone else seems to believe it. All very mysterious and though there isn't much about it to make it stand out from many similar films it's entertaining enough.
 
Taken 3- if its not his daughter that is kidnapped , its his wife that is kidnapped, This time someone kills his wife and tries to kill his daughter.Guy deserves a bit of a break imo.
 
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hanson-Love 2012) Exactly what it says on the tin, a portrait of youthful infatuation, starts well but goes off the boil a bit. Good performance from Lola Creton in the lead and some lovely shots of the Loire.
 
We're the Millers.

Surprisingly not bad for what it was. Though Jennifer Aniston performing a strip tease is probably the most unerotic thing I have ever seen. High concept: a weed dealer must disguise himself as a family man to smuggle cannabis from Mexico to USA. Behind the facade of dope-smoking rebellion this film insidiously affirms the values of white suburban AmeriKKKa.
 
2001 : A Space Odyssey

...a nice advert & station-logo free recording from BBC2HD....although some jerk still managed to talk over the credits...

..spell binding....a truly awe-inspiring technical & imaginative cinematic achievement that after several decades consigns inferior derivative garbage like Interstellar into the shit-can were it belongs...
 
Had a bit of a session recently...(Tried to stick a few soft ones in there as wasn't in the mood to focus properly)

Taken 3: Indistinguishable from the first 2 apart from the whopping drop in interest/ingenuity. Surely the 'thing' is over now?

The Gambler: SO CROSS. I LOVE Marky Mark, and no fear of a shite cheeseathons ( so was really looking forward to it!), but I don't think they could have made a worse film if they tried.:mad: The main character is just a dick, there's no real payoff at the predictable end as you just don't care, and I didn't hear Kenny Rogers once :(

Foxcatcher - great acting, and everything up to the last few scene was brilliant, though really didn't deliver the end in a remotely satisfactory way :(. Everything has been said about Magic Mike and the 40 year old Virgin going serious and they nailed it (if Carells make up was a bit much).

Whiplash: Now. We. Are. Talking. The best new film I've seen in flippin ages. The final act is just something else. A genuine joy to watch and I think everyone has felt identically pumped in unison when the credits rolled :cool: The boy lead was a brave choice - he was almost too average/rough round the edges perfect look wise - which I suppose they should be credited for. Don't think it'll be a great advert to launch his career though, sadly (as it should be given the strength of his role and the profile of the film).

Promised Land - Standard IMDB 6/10 Matt Damonathon where he's srs bsns corporate stooge convincing this small town to welcome fracking. A whopping oversight in it that renders the final act simply implausible and otherwise every small US town cliche present and correct!

American Sniper - Not bad, though tbh seen it all before. Couldn't believe it was a Clint direction - his stuff is normally infinitely better executed than this. Could have been a great film if it didn't retire to a budget Enemy of the Gates yawnathon.

As an aside - find it genuinely bonkers that Nightcrawler was so overlooked at the Oscars. Wasn't a huge fan, but American Sniper or Argo aren't remotely in the same league as it.
 
The Rolling Stone review of American Sniper is, well as you'd expect. Thumbs down.

I watched five minutes of 'Only Lovers Left Alive'. Its a vampire love story played out over time with Tilda Swinton, Jon Hurt and someone else. Fell asleep beore the title sequences had really finished, long day. Will attempt again tonight.
 
DotCommunist said:
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
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litigation ensues. The people putting out this short had to do so to stop the rights lapsing back to Universal (why Universal had been been sitting on a goldmine previously and sold the rights to some minor outfit without touching it is a mystery).

But, Jordans widows statements about how they had not the right to do this (frankly poor) short has resulted in them sueing her for queering the pitch wrt them in 'ongoing negotiations' with 'large operators'

so yet more development hell for the forseeable.

I want HBO to do it, if its anyone less risque they will cut out all the spanking bits.
 
Nightcrawler: Visually it was pretty good but I found the main character far too absurd to take seriously. Came across as sort of a cartoon sociopath rather an actual sociopath. Another over hyped film.
 
Ted Striker said:
Whiplash: Now. We. Are. Talking. The best new film I've seen in flippin ages. The final act is just something else. A genuine joy to watch and I think everyone has felt identically pumped in unison when the credits rolled :cool: The boy lead was a brave choice - he was almost too average/rough round the edges perfect look wise - which I suppose they should be credited for. Don't think it'll be a great advert to launch his career though, sadly (as it should be given the strength of his role and the profile of the film).
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Did you like it that much? The lead actor put in a superb performance but I found it to be monstrously overrated and the final act didn't really make up for it. I really didn't like the film's message at all either.

The final act is essentially just an amazing drum solo that turned out to be disappointing because you thought it was going to be the boy getting one over on his abuser. Instead it turned into them feeding off each other and then a big smile to each other at the end which said 'Well it's ok to be an abusive cunt to your students, slap them about, throw chairs at them and cause one of them to hang themselves just as long as one of them becomes a great drummer.' That's the message I took from it and it's an utterly appalling one I feel and coloured the rest of the film for me.
 
We Are The Best - as brilliant as everyone says.
Spot on about everything - being a teen, friendship, hating PE at school, band politics and endearingly crappy punk lyrics:
People die and scream
But all you care about is your soccer team
Children in Africa are dying
But you're all about balls flying
Nuclear power plants poison the air
You're playing hockey, so unaware
The atomic bombs blow up our cities
Yet you want more tennis committees
Come on! Come on!
No difference at all
It's just a ball!
:D
 
Finished 'The Shield' last night. All seven seasons, blimey. Good ending I thought. For the last year or so it's always been good for a couple of episodes when I want to watch something that's not too taxing but with a decent plot that winds all over the place. Bit daft at times, some crappy acting now and then but overall very enjoyable. Some good laughs, too, mainly at Dutch's expense: the 'Hungry Like The Wolf' bit, particularly.

Need something to take its place so might give Breaking Bad another go - I watched one discs worth first time round and it was pretty good. I never got round to finishing the last season of Deadwood mind so I might start that right from the beginning again.
 
Voley said:
Finished 'The Shield' last night. All seven seasons, blimey. Good ending I thought. For the last year or so it's always been good for a couple of episodes when I want to watch something that's not too taxing but with a decent plot that winds all over the place. Bit daft at times, some crappy acting now and then but overall very enjoyable. Some good laughs, too, mainly at Dutch's expense: the 'Hungry Like The Wolf' bit, particularly.

Need something to take its place so might give Breaking Bad another go - I watched one discs worth first time round and it was pretty good. I never got round to finishing the last season of Deadwood mind so I might start that right from the beginning again.
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Gave up with The Shield towards the end of season 3. Couldn't stomach The Strike Team any longer. Dutch Boy was my favourite character.

Deadwood is outstanding, on a similar theme Hell On Wheels is a reasonable watch (4 seasons) and you can't go wrong with Breaking Bad.
 
The Wee Man. Slightly fictional life story of Glagow gangster Paul Ferris. Accents all over the place but it helped pass a wet Sunday afternoon & I remember when the central events happened. Nasty business.
 
A most wanted man- a quite taut thriller set in Germany Philip Hoffman playing a counter terrorist trying to use a Chechan dissident to trap an Islamic leader suspected of financing extremists. Hoffman's great and I kept thinking what a loss.
 
Voley said:
Finished 'The Shield' last night. All seven seasons, blimey. Good ending I thought. For the last year or so it's always been good for a couple of episodes when I want to watch something that's not too taxing but with a decent plot that winds all over the place. Bit daft at times, some crappy acting now and then but overall very enjoyable. Some good laughs, too, mainly at Dutch's expense: the 'Hungry Like The Wolf' bit, particularly.

Need something to take its place so might give Breaking Bad another go - I watched one discs worth first time round and it was pretty good. I never got round to finishing the last season of Deadwood mind so I might start that right from the beginning again.
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The ending of The Shield was so good, Rick consigned to his own personal Hell, I'd recommend The Wire if you haven't seen it ditto Breaking Bad
 
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