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

oh and watched Only Lovers Left Alive on the train yesterday. Tilda Swinton is great in it, jon hurt is jon hurt. He was jon hurt when he was doctor who as well. His character is jon hurt.

even when he did 44" chest as a miserable old cockney gangster, it was just him doing a ropey old style cockernee.

Its nice to see a vampire film done with some heart over violence though.
 
Fargo (1996). Car salesman with money problems arranges for his wife to be kidnapped in order to get his hands on the ransom money.

Things go wrong. Steve buscemi is kinda funny looking.
 
The traveler (2010). On Christmas night, a frighteningly old Val Kilmer rocks up to a police station to confess to murders that hasn't happened yet.

Boringness ensues, with the twist at the end actually detracting from rest of a fairy mediocre horror effort. Actually, the most horrifying thing is that there are six cops on duty at Christmas in what appears to be a small town.

Decent Christmas carol cover at the end credits is about the highlight.
 
Big Sur
Film of the Jack Kerouac book. I fell asleep for a bit.

Cuban Fury
Nick Frost salsa comedy. Good fun. Better than expected.
 
Calvary (2014). Bleakly dark comedy about a priest who is told by someone in confession that he will kill him in a week. Brendan Gleeson is great, as usual. Chris o'dowd was more of a surprise. Aiden gillen can't even do his own accent.
 
DotCommunist said:
I watched Educating Rita this afternoon. For a film that doesn't use the C word once it talks about it a lot. Seems somehow crude and dated but the perfomances carry it. and the issues surrounding eduation and class haven't gone away so perhaps its just the age of the film making it seem dated to me
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A fair old bit of it filmed in Dublin, iirc
 
Wild Tales - great black humour comedy with serious bits and lots of violence, anthology film as well which is quite rare nowadays i think. Oscar nominated as well i read. 6 stories about what happens when the veneer of civilisation is ripped - looks great, like a proper film.

The Owl Service - 1969 ITV mini-series adaptation of the Alan Garner book. Very good and built up a nice atmosphere. Rather odd to have such old characters playing the kids which only helps the odd atmosphere. Excellent look at class/culture/sex/memory/myth and many other things - surprised they made something so complex and deep for kids. The bloke playing the welsh lad was murdered in a london pub a few years after this.

The Taking of Tiger Mountain - yes, that one. Enjoyable, big budget patriotic Chinese adventure film about what the title says - bandits vs People's Liberation Army vs Kuomintang vs locals up a mountain in the snow.
 
Kosmicheskiy reys [Cosmic Journey] (1935) - a charming soviet sci-fi silent about a professor's rocket ship journey to the moon, made to encourage youngsters to get into space studies. There's not much plot but the special effects are great for the time with some wonderful scale models of the rocket ship base and stop motion animation of them jumping about weightless on the moon. The science is isn't bad too as the director consulted with one of Russia's leading aeronautical theorist of the time, unfortunately the soviet censors claimed it was against the spirit of "socialist realism" and banned the film.
 
Alien 3 - the Directors Cut

Still doesn't really quite work. Shame, there's some great stuff in it, but it's a disappointment after the first two
 
Girls - the Lena Dunham series.

An appalling document of the appalling lives led by a certain type of appalling person. And this Dunham person obviously expects us to sympathise with the shower she has placed on the screen.

Absolutely awful, but still compelling to watch. How can these people live like this?

And in other hands it could have been satirical, but there's obviously no ironic distance at all between Dunham and her creations.
 
The HBO James Gandolfini tribute-very moving

And Still The Enemy Within-very well made documentary about the minders strike. But equally very depressing-the landmark dispute that knocked the stuffing out of a movement that will never ever recover to the same levels of power and membership
 
3rd attempt on Prometheus, this time with a decent copy. Nope. Just nope.

How is it possible to make a film with spaceships and peril in it that I can't be arsed with. Bladerunner 2 is going to be shit.
 
DotCommunist said:
3rd attempt on Prometheus, this time with a decent copy. Nope. Just nope.

How is it possible to make a film with spaceships and peril in it that I can't be arsed with. Bladerunner 2 is going to be shit.
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The awful thing was that there were obvious points where you could tell they just hadn't bothered making the same effort that they'd made with the rest of the movie.

Like. . .
the bit where the two "redshirts" get the heebie-jeebies while inside the tomb and run for it. Fair enough. Except that they then spend the night camped out in the spookiest place in the entire complex. A tad inconsistent, no?

And only a fool would go and see Bladerunner 2. My sister doesn't really like SF but she does like Keanu Reeves. . . so she saw the first Matrix film but made a point of not watching the sequels.
 
The warriors (1979). Grimey, old new York, seriously camp get ups*, quality tunes and every awful lesbian stereotype imaginable.

*though having seen 80 blocks from tiffany's the aesthetic is closer to reality than I had thought.

First few episodes of Braquo (2009-). Bent cops in the salubrious environs of western Paris. Was recommended by someone who's suggestions are usually spot on, but not really feeling it atm.
 
A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Simon Pegg as a freelance author in the grip of a semi-psychotic paranoid meltdown, in old Hackney town.

Would it be going too far to say it was nearly as good as the old Ealing comedies? Probably, yes. But that's what I thought of while watching it. Really good bit of work, that one.
 
The last exorcism (2010). Good old found footage films, god bless their cotton socks. Unfortunately, this one didn't seem to know what it was doing. Spent time actually setting things up and at least trying to flesh out the characters. Then it seemed to just get bored.

The last exorcism: part 2 (2013). We only watched the first one as my partner realised after about five minutes that this was a sequel. Not made in the find footage style, but picks up with the girl from the first film trying to get on with shit in a bizarrely friendly group home.

Does creepy bit better than the first one, but the New Orleans stereotypes are a bit tiring, and I've still but figured out what was happening in thw opening scene, or to whom.
 
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