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

The39thStep said:
John Wicks- Keanu Reeves in sad mode for fifteen minutes after his wife dies and the puppy she sends him from her death bed is killed by a load of very nasty Russians. Turns out he is an ex paid killer ( there seems to be quite a few of these about in films either that or retired CIA operatives) and surprisingly seeks revenge. Never mind all that kung fu bollocks this fella must have shot about forty people in the film but its fast paced , got a good twist in some of the action being set in a hotel for hitmen and its got William Defoe in it. If you want mindless fast paced violence then don't bother with re runs of Ashley Barnes against Chelsea and settle down with this.
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He's not bad for 50 odd is he.
I thought the film was funny in parts, made for 16 year olds I thought. Written by 14 year old.
 
butchersapron said:
The Canal - quite decent effective little irish horror with a few genuinely creepy moments. Not a hint of originality - in fact, three scenes are direct steals from the most feted horror films of recent years - but a fair enough time waster. Also is going to be hampered by its terrible terrible cover poster which makes it look like one of those shit 80s horror vids you could hire from the newsagents. Seriously bad choice that may hamper distro deals/sales.
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I have that on the computer lined up to watch at some point. Good to know it isn't a complete miss.
 
The39thStep said:
John Wicks- Keanu Reeves in sad mode for fifteen minutes after his wife dies and the puppy she sends him from her death bed is killed by a load of very nasty Russians. Turns out he is an ex paid killer ( there seems to be quite a few of these about in films either that or retired CIA operatives) and surprisingly seeks revenge. Never mind all that kung fu bollocks this fella must have shot about forty people in the film but its fast paced , got a good twist in some of the action being set in a hotel for hitmen and its got William Defoe in it. If you want mindless fast paced violence then don't bother with re runs of Ashley Barnes against Chelsea and settle down with this.
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how does it compare with the Taken films
 
Klute (Alan J. Pakula 1971) Classic 70's psychological thriller. Jane Fonda gives the performance of her career, Donald Sutherland and Roy Scheider are terrific too.
 
Kingsman - Secret Service

Brilliant. Good performances & action...conspiracy theorists (for lack of a better word) like myself should enjoy it too.
 
episode 2-4 of Powers. Really starting to kick into gear now.

Last night saw an insane Eddie Izzard literally ripping people into pieces and eating them whole. Michelle Forbes* is Retrogirl and Sharlto Copley is Walker.

Might have to seek out the comics now

*a true sci fi fan fave- Ensign Ro in TNG, Battlestar Galactica, True Blood.

script can be clunky in places and theres that thing where someone cannot do club scenes- should be a thread for that 'worst club scenes on tele or film'.
 
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Another Cracker, and probably the last one I'll watch for a while. The one featuring
Jimmy Beck's suicide

It really has dated incredibly badly. Though the places where it was set were still living the hangover of the 80s, and the half-life of the 70s.

Nice to see something from the days when academics could expect to live in big fuck-off houses, though.
 
The thick of it. I wanted to give it a go for a long time :) So, I'm delighted by Peter Capaldi's character "and all that swearing", but don't get the political background. It must be cultural or something :D
 
Impossible Girl said:
The thick of it. I wanted to give it a go for a long time :) So, I'm delighted by Peter Capaldi's character "and all that swearing", but don't get the political background. It must be cultural or something :D
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it's largely a pisstake of the focus-group driven gaffe prone venal idiots and a satire on their disconnect. Knowledge of brit politics does drive some of it but characters drive also. Like a dysfunctional office only this is backroom government. I'd seen Capaldi as Tucker swearing like a pro long before he was the doctor. Must be odd the other way round.
 
DotCommunist said:
it's largely a pisstake of the focus-group driven gaffe prone venal idiots and a satire on their disconnect. Knowledge of brit politics does drive some of it but characters drive also. Like a dysfunctional office only this is backroom government. I'd seen Capaldi as Tucker swearing like a pro long before he was the doctor. Must be odd the other way round.
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Not really odd I would say, but when you're a foreigner there are things you don't get and it's fine :) What is important is the journey not the destination :thumbs:
 
Lucy. A film where you look at Scarlet Johansson's face for 60% of the film. I realised this is not a bad thing.

Choi Min Sik (Oldboy) and Morgan Freeman (voice for rent) and Amr (no idea how you say that, he's not a rapper, he's French) provide the lenses for her to magnify.

Luc Besson to the core with a manga tinge, it flies in at 80 odd minutes and is an enjoyable romp. He loves female heroes, music and decent action.

Starts drug-drama then she gets kicked in the stomach and turns into Neo.

Enjoyable enough.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jinx_(miniseries)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4299972/

Unbelievable and utterly gripping. It's a slam dunk must watch.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/five-questions-the-jinx-finale-left-unanswered
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Following on from this watched All Good Things (2010) inspired by the real life story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175709/

The film was disappointing but nothing can really top that tv series.
 
Monstered through the last four episodes of season one of Orange Is the New Black.

Really rather enjoying it.
 
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So, as I said on the shittiest night club scene thread, last night I watched MASH - the film version, directed by Robert Altman and starring Sutherland and Gould, and Sally Kellerman as the uptight major from the nursing corps.

And it was a bit shit to be honest, even if it had some value as a document of its time. Firstly, there's not even an attempt at providing a semblance of a plot. Then there's the crude sexual politics, which are basically what a 16 year old boy would think real life is like.

The public humiliation of Sally Kellerman's character is something that leaves a bad taste in the mouth today, and would surely have raised eyebrows even then, or at least one would hope so. She turns up later without apparently being permanently pissed off at this experience, and this is never explained - which tells you something about the competence with which this movie was made.

As for that theme song -
well, the moronic 'suicide is painless' line comes from a sequence involving a mock suicide of a dentist who has convinced himself he is gay, and who is provided with a ritualised rebirth and re-heterosexualisation via a blasphemous reenactment of the last supper.

It should be no surprise that the song was written by a teenager - there was only one Bob Dylan son, and you're not him.

So what is it's value as a document of the time? I don't see how you could read any anti-Vietnam protest into this one, unless it's in the ridiculing of the army life. And even though it was set in the Korean war, it also references World War Two. It's not a complete dead loss, but an historical curio more than anything else.

It's really an exercise in wish fulfilment, I think. In real life you wouldn't take the chance of blackmailing a superior officer to get one over on army regulations, and you'd probably be too intimidated by a woman like "Hot Lips" Houlihan to even speak to her (cue loud chorus of "eh, no, Idris, that's just you").

Also scripted by blacklistee Ring Lardner Jr.

Anyway, I suppose that next I'm going to have to watch the films of Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-5
 
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