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

[butchersapron]

Made his first film before Hitler came to power made his last while Obama was US president.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is this Manuel De Oliveirra?

 

[butchersapron]

Is this Manuel De Oliveirra?

Yep.

 

[Crispy]

AWOL: Absent Without Leave


Jean Claude Van Damme stars as a foreign legionnaire who deserts to go hunt down people who burned his brother to a crisp. As is a common feature for Van Damme films, this involves lots of illegal fights, which he wins.

total crap, but worth it for the fights.

so 1990 it hurts

Ah this was a staple of the soap bar addled nights of my youth. Can't remember a damn thing about it. Which one is it where dolf lundgren wears a necklace of ears?

 

[Voley]

Which one is it where dolf lundgren wears a necklace of ears?

 

[Voley]

20 Feet from Stardom

A great doc about backing singers who, more often than not, are shitloads better than the people they're backing. There's a bit in it with Merry Clayton singing on 'Gimme Shelter' that's just wonderful.



I'll be honest - I'd heard her name before but that's it. And she sang on one of the best songs I've ever heard. By anyone, ever.

Great film.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters

Brainless, but actually very good fun and more enjoyable than any other action/fantasy/horror I can remember recently.

 

[The Boy]

Which one is it where dolf lundgren wears a necklace of ears?

Universal soldiers.

 

[Supine]

Citizenfour - This is an amazing docu film. Fly on the wall camera as edward snowden first meets journalists in Hong Kong and then they start releasing secrets. I'm amazed this footage exists. A rare 10 security protocols breached out of 10.

As recommended on this thread

 

[Orang Utan]

Universal soldiers.

Universal Soldier. <pendant>

 

[The Boy]

Universal Soldier. <pendant>

Autocorrect fucked me. Hard.

Anyway, finished catching up with Better Call Saul. Also Grabbers (2012). A fun enough horror comedy about a group of people on a remote irish island who have to lock themselves in the pub when scary sea aliens invade.

 

[May Kasahara]

Black Swan. Like a lot of Aronofsky films, both brilliantly gripping and intensely annoying Mr K agreed that in many ways it could just have been a woman shouting PERIODS PERIODS PERIODS!!!!!!!! at the screen. Really well made though.

 

[Voley]

Black Swan. Like a lot of Aronofsky films, both brilliantly gripping and intensely annoying Mr K agreed that in many ways it could just have been a woman shouting PERIODS PERIODS PERIODS!!!!!!!! at the screen. Really well made though.

You don't get incisive criticism like that from Mark Kermode now, do you?

I really enjoyed Black Swan though.

 

[Voley]

I mostly enjoyed it because a mate of mine at work took her Auntie to see it thinking it'd be a ballet or something. With hilarious consequences.

 

[Orang Utan]

Pretty much my only memory of watching Black Swan is how much I needed a wee at the time.

 

[May Kasahara]

You don't get incisive criticism like that from Mark Kermode now, do you?

Hehe you know what I mean though. Femaleness viewed through the lens of someone who basically thinks the lives of women together are nothing but pillow fights and hair pulling. Bless his mystified little heart.

 

[Voley]

Hehe you know what I mean though. Femaleness viewed through the lens of someone who basically thinks the lives of women together are nothing but pillow fights and hair pulling. Bless his mystified little heart.

I do, totally. You're better than Kermode. Seriously.

 

[Voley]

Fucking hell, May, you've really made laugh tonight. Fucking spot on.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Sleep Tight, shown recently on BBC4. Spanish suspense thriller/psycho character study in the manner of Hitchcock or Polanski and very highly recommended.



Ah, just found out it's by the same guy who directed [REC].

 

[magneze]

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Pretty decent film for a third sequel especially considering how the trilogy was split into four. Could have done with a "previously" bit at the beginning though as I'd totally forgotten what happened in the second film.

Safety Not Guaranteed
Fantastic little comedy. Well worth seeking out.

Jeff, Who Lives At Home
Feelgood film. Not as good as the above two but passes the time pleasantly enough.

 

[The Boy]

sound of my voice (2011). Two documentary film makers infiltrate a cult lead by a woman who claims to be from the future. One of the guys starts going native.

One of the dullest films I've seen. Not in a "god, this is shit" kind of way. It's just fucking dull. Trying to be artsy but missing the target. And when it looks like it might get interesting, it ends.

Les Revenants. Only watched episode 1, and my French is now so poor I can't browse the internet while listening. Shows a lot of promise.

 

[The Boy]

22 Jump Street

Surprisingly enjoyable and very meta in it's approach to being a sequel (which sometimes works and other times becomes a get out for it's own failings, as it's basically a re-tread of the first film).

Ice Cube does good rage, Channing Tatum is actually amusing and the end credits are worth watching as they basically run through sequel ideas

Enjoyed both the jump Street films. Complete fluff, but they do what they do very well.

 

[The Boy]

Safety Not Guaranteed
Fantastic little comedy. Well worth seeking out.

A complete opposite of my review up thread. Think it might be an acquired taste. Or I'm just wrong.

 

[magneze]

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). Annoying American indie flick about some journalists investigating a guy who posted an small ad looking for a companion for time travel. Horrible, mawkish tripe with a never-ending, twee nu-folk soundtrack. Hateful characters you couldn't sympathise with

Safety Not Guaranteed
Fantastic little comedy. Well worth seeking out.

Well I liked it. Didn't know what to expect but was pleasantly surprised.

 

[Looby]

You don't get incisive criticism like that from Mark Kermode now, do you?

I really enjoyed Black Swan though.

Did you see Kermode yesterday on BBC news? He and Esler were chatting about biros not realising they were on air. It went on for aaages. [emoji1]

I'm watching Pitch Perfect, again! It's just brilliant, it makes me want to dance around and join a glee club. It also features this classic-


[emoji41]

 

[starfish]

Interstellar. I thought it was meant to be one of the greatest films of our time the way people had talked about it. Turns out it was just a load of cheesy old w@nk.

 

[The Boy]

Well I liked it. Didn't know what to expect but was pleasantly surprised.

I might just have been in a bad mood, tbf.

 

[Idris2002]

it was good to have a northern woman as a baddy in such a film, it added to the surreal edge

Watched it last night, and I kept thinking "that looks like Tilda Swinton".

Imagine my surprise when, on watching the credits, I discovered that it actually was Tilda Swinton.

An interesting episode in South Korea's quest for total world cultural hegemony.

Better than I expected, to be honest.

 

[butchersapron]

A northern woman! It's a very posh southern private school oxbridge marxist being really rather shit.

 

[Idris2002]

A northern woman! It's a very posh southern private school oxbridge marxist being really rather shit.

Yes, and? I've never thought of TS as one of the great luvvies of our time (she was alright as the corporate lawyer villainess in that George Clooney movie, I suppose), so I'm not bothered either way.