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

[Idris2002]

I watched God Help the Girl again, and why, because fuck you that's why.

And then I watched this:



Vittorio de Sica directs Peter Sellers in the role of Aldo Vanucci, master criminal - "If only I could steal enough to become an honest man".

Britt Ekland plays his sister, aspiring movie star "Gina Romantica", while Victor "hey Vic, fancy getting pissed" Mature sends himself up as fading Hollywood icon "Tony Powell".

Watching it I was reminded of the old line about At Swim Two-Birds, "the kind of glee you experience when crockery is smashed on stage".

That was Friday night. Last night I watched Gone Girl, efficient but preposterous American crime thriller. Gamergaters and Redditors will delight in this exercise in misogyny. Sixty years ago, Hollywood did "your spouse is not what he or she seems" movies like Gaslight (the 1944 version with Ingrid Bergman, which doesn't seem to be on youtube) or The Stranger, which are probably worth more of your time.

 

[Ranbay]

Kingsmen. When they sucked all of the camp out of the Casino Royale reboot, they put it to one side then used it to make this. Entertaining enough but not as funny as it thinks it is, nice line in hyperviolence to balance out the sillier elements 5/10

Re-watched dredd after finding a HD copy. The 'this scene is blates meant to be watched in 3d' bit were evenm more annoying on widescreen hi deff but thge film still stands up

tried to watch Maleficent- was too twee and Gaimanesque for my mood. Tried to watch The Wrestler- too depressing

x-men cartoons of the 90s? just about right

sort ya ratio out....

 

[Belushi]

Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927) Incredible set design and cinematography, naïve story.

 

[electroplated]

I thought kingsmen was fucking ace

 

[starfish]

Colombiana, a young girls parents are murdered by local drug lord, years later she goes on a revenge rampage.

A few more episodes of Game of Thrones. I'm getting into it but ms starfish is still a bit meh.

 

[DexterTCN]

Colombiana, a young girls parents are murdered by local drug lord, years later she goes on a revenge rampage...

Is that the one with the avatar woman? I liked that.

 

[starfish]

Is that the one with the avatar woman? I liked that.

I didn't know that till I just checked, prompted by your post, & she is. Thought I recognised her from somewhere. I knew she wasn't Thandie Newton.

 

[DexterTCN]

I didn't know that till I just checked, prompted by your post, & she is. Thought I recognised her from somewhere. I knew she wasn't Thandie Newton.

Great action film

If you like that you may like Haywire.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/haywire_2011/

 

[Belushi]

The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa 1958) Really enjoyable comic adventure.

 

[The39thStep]

American Hustle
Good, but not as good as House of Games.

I saw the House of Games when it first came out.Its a really underrated film imo

 

[wtfftw]

Teen Witch.

Painfully 80s. I had to get very stoned.

 

[trabuquera]

Dragon aka Wu Xia (2011) on netflix - it tries to raise the bar a bit above the standard slap-fest, with a thinnish but relatively un-clichéd story of an apparently inept 'quiet man' played by Donnie Yen who turns out to be a notorious killer and gang member (surprise!) hiding out in rural Yunan around 1911ish, and the cerebral detective type (played by Takeshi Koneshiro) trying to explode his fake identity with new-fangled knowledge and strong pressure-point skillz. It's beautifully filmed and more downbeat (and in a way subversive) than your standard hero epic - overall, everyone's pretty cynical about authority, mistrustful of the powers that be and even the evil evil gang boss might have turned out to have his reasons. Nothing exceptional about the fighting, though, and the final 10 minutes or so are ludicrous. It looks good, but not beautiful, and the script is a bit more nuanced than usual, but not really deep. Sort of falls between two chairs, it's not an enjoyably trashy all-fight fest or a massive arthouse epic either.

 

[sovereignb]

Great action film

If you like that you may like Haywire.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/haywire_2011/

I thought Haywire was atrocious. Saying that, i only got 20 minutes in before turning off, something i hadnt done before that film

 

[sovereignb]

Gone Girl - overrated.

 

[trabuquera]

Gangs of Tooting Broadway - absolute shite. cackhanded 99p shop uk attempt at yoof issues drama which throws in everything it can think of (drugs, police corruption, mi5, bit of rape and murder blablabla). barely watchable no matter how baked you might be.

 

[keybored]

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2002)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271211/

Documentary exploring the rise and fall of 80s skateboard legend Mark "Gator" Rogowski. Incredible footage and for me personal nostalgia for my skating youth for the first hour. Very sad ending as personal and professional misfortune and ensuing mental health issues led him to the shockingly brutal sexually violent murder for which he's still serving life.

Rising Son (Hosoi bio) is worth a watch too. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0782079/

 

[ringo]

Rising Son (Hosoi bio) is worth a watch too. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0782079/

Cheers

 

[Shirl]

Peeping Tom

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Blackfish (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545118/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film)#Reception

 

[8den]

Kingsmen is basically Mathew Vaughen doing a english version of Kick Ass.

 

[May Kasahara]

Currently watching Prometheus. Enjoyment of its many fine visual qualities is being spoilt by how incredibly shit everyone is at their jobs. A scientific expedition this revolutionary would not commence with 'park it there and let's barge in for a nosy, yeah?'

 

[Maharani]

The Lunchbox. Shit title but very nice to watch.

 

[Belushi]

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder 1944) Classic film noir. Great cast, great cinematography.

 

[May Kasahara]

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder 1944) Classic film noir, great cast.

We watched that on Friday! It is ace, unlike the pile of shite we're watching now.

 

[Maharani]

We watched that on Friday! It is ace, unlike the pile of shite we're watching now.

Saw premethewhatsit and thought the same as you May Kasahara

 

[May Kasahara]

It's just finished. It was utter gash! I'm sticking to hipster mumblecore from now on

 

[rekil]

It's just finished. It was utter gash! I'm sticking to hipster mumblecore from now on

I enjoyed Baghead which I think is classed as mumblecore - v.low budget thing about resting actors who, inspired by a shit indie auteur, go off to a cabin in the the woods to write a film over a weekend and end up getting terrorised.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

McCullin (2012)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2354205/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McCullin

 

[trabuquera]

Taras Bulba (1962) - hilarious cod-epic which is supposed to have something to do with Cossacks battling the Polish empire in the 1700s but is mostly an exercise in spending loads of money* on galloping about on horses with Yul Brynner laughing fake-heartily at things. There's some sort of doomed romance involving Tony Curtis ( ! - least convincing Slav evarrr...) and somebody forgettable, but it's really all about the sweaty men drinking, carousing, waving their swords about, and a surprising amount of flogging.

*the epic cavalry battles are impressive - no CGI in them days and there are literally thousands of chaps milling about on horseback in impressive scenery. Turns out this was filmed in Argentina under military junta . *and it bankrupted the studio which made it.

I have no idea whatsoever about how close any of it is to historical fact (it's based on a Gogol story which was based on a legend) and my knowledge of Ukrainian politics is dodgy now, never mind in 17xx. If you watched this you'd think Cossacks were Mongolian-looking chaps in topknots and too much bronzer. hmmm.

 

[sovereignb]

Enemy - A man seeks out an exact opposite of himself after seeing him in a movie...except its not actually about that at all and is apparently an allegory about something else.

Its says a lot when i turn off a film off before it gets to the end...