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

[belboid]

Shame - Steve McQueen

It looked just like some art wank at first, beautifully shot, slow, lingering shots, no dialogue, big swinging cock...but after an hour or so it had become quite engrossing, if bleak and horrible. Still very arty, with McQueen's body fascination very much to the fore, but well worth a watch. Tho probably not with your parents. Or on a plane.

 

[rubbershoes]

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

What a brilliant film. Perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon

I can' wait till my children are old enough to watch it. Lots of lessons for life in there

 

[rubbershoes]

Taras Bulba (1962) - hilarious cod-epic ....

In the same vein as El Cid, Spartacus and Ben Hur

By contrast Lawrence of Arabia does it how it should be done

 

[Ranbay]

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?'

Why don't the just run left or right at the end?

 

[trabuquera]

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?'

See also: "we've been on this alien planet with a deadly-hostile atmosphere full of CO2, crawling with creepy necro artwork all over the shop and no sign of life during the last few millennia. Uff, it's a bit fusty innit? Time to take my helmet off .... what are you looking at? readout says there was at least some oxygen in there..."

and: "sorry, away exploring team, big dust storm means you're just going to have to kip in that creepy cave overnight with no provisions, safety kit (or even sleeping bags or groundsheets). BRB, okay?"

 

[May Kasahara]

Shame - Steve McQueen

It looked just like some art wank at first, beautifully shot, slow, lingering shots, no dialogue, big swinging cock...but after an hour or so it had become quite engrossing, if bleak and horrible. Still very arty, with McQueen's body fascination very much to the fore, but well worth a watch. Tho probably not with your parents. Or on a plane.

I agree, a film that lingered long in my memory and not just because of Fassbender's cock. I thought he and Carey Mulligan were both outstanding.

 

[adidaswoody]

Inbetweeners 2 and mirror!!
Inbetweeners not as good as first at all, it just felt like a dragged out episode rather than a movie
And mirror, a rip off of oculus, not a very good watch either!
Finsihed off watching X-files on netflix! Series 1-9 is on there so im excited to do some back to back sweating for a while ^.^

 

[Voley]

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.

Good film, that. I liked how someone would die, they'd have a drunken wake over a fucking wolf pit or something and inevitably someone else would die meaning another wake/death was necessary. Funerals were better back then imo.

 

[Belushi]

Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1943) Sex, guilt and witchcraft in 17th century Denmark.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Religulous (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/

 

[Orang Utan]

Jack Reacher - woeful. Tom Cruise just ruins all of his films. You can tell he insists on fucking with the script and characters of all of his films to supposedly make him look better. In this, every single woman he meets quivers and bare gushes as the mere sight of him.
Not even Werner Herzog villaining can save this sorry sack of cinematic cliches. The ending is just like a videogame boss fight. it even has save points.

 

[The Boy]

Les Revenants (2004). Film that the tv series was adapted from. Millions of dead people come back to life over a two hour period, including 13000 in an unnamed French town. Is more about how they go about reintegrating these people into society after their being gone and stuff. Weird things happen with bombs and tunnels, then it ends. Starts off well but loses its way a bit .

Halt and Catch Fire (2014). Tv series about the early age of computing. Set in 1983 and based (loosely, I think) on the group who reverse engineered the IBM PC. Seems promising after spending ages looking for a new box set to watch.

 

[adidaswoody]

Babadook last night
Film started off slightly eerie and scary, it got me thinking wow, this bitch is getting haunted bad and i wouldnt like it!
Then it got stupid and not scary at all, not funny either, just stupid
Terrible ending also!
I reckon just watch the first 40 minutes then call it a night!

 

[Idris2002]

Mistaken for Strangers.

Aging manchild is invited to roadie for his older brother, frontman for the National (bog-standard boring Coldplay-style indie rockers). Gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that the real world isn't as tolerant of his manchildishness as his "Mommy".

Interesting documentary, but very cringeworthy in places.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

In this, every single woman he meets quivers and bare gushes as the mere sight of him.

I'm told (ahem) that Reacher has that effect on women in the books. Of course, in them, he's 6 foot 5 and built like a brick shithouse.

 

[Indeliblelink]

The Silent Village (1943), Humphrey Jennings' re-enactment of the Nazi massacre of the Czech village of Lidice re-set in a Welsh mining village.

 

[Belushi]

The Silent Village (1943), Humphrey Jennings' re-enactment of the Nazi massacre of the Czech village of Lidice re-set in a Welsh mining village.

My grandfather is the union leader making a speech at the pit head in that

 

[Indeliblelink]

Cool

it's on Youtube also BTW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE9MLxf1kZk

 

[Belushi]

Most of the film was shot in Cwmgiedd but the pit is Seven Sisters in the Dulais valley.

 

[Belushi]

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (Jan Kounen 2010) Well made account of their affair which I enjoyed more than I thought I would, terrific score.

 

[trabuquera]

The Last Legion (2007) on Netflix - amazingly trashy sword 'n sandal stuff from the shameless Dino de Laurentiis clan. Plot is some sort of bobbins about a lost late-Roman boy emperor finding his way to Britannia and founding noble line of King Arthur, etc, but that is mostly irrelevant. Mostly you just feast your eyes on an absolutely astonishing cast of hi-grade UK thesps, random international stars and loads of people you've already seen in almost everything involving a toga or a wolfskin. (Almost everyone's been in the HBO TV series Rome, or the telly Spartacus, or Game of Thrones at some point.) For completely inexplicable reasons, Ben Kingsley plays one major character in a strong fake-Welsh accent throughout, Colin Firth just looks constantly baffled the whole way through at what he has done to end up in this, and Aishwarya Rai (!!!) turns up to flash a sword about (to be fair she does sterling work in the action scenes) and heave her bosom prettily. It's absolutely bizarre but good-natured fun (despite the constant violence there's not much blood or darkness of tone.)

 

[Maharani]

Watched Bobby last night...all star cast...bit cheesy, Hollywood romantic in some places but liked the actual footage of Bobby and the last scene was extremely moving.

 

[hot air baboon]

absolutely astonishing cast of hi-grade UK thesps, random international stars and loads of people you've already seen in almost everything involving a toga or a wolfskin. (Almost everyone's been in the HBO TV series Rome or Game of Thrones at some point.)

...those RADA toga, sandals & wolfskin workshops really seem to pay-off...

The Silent Village (1943), Humphrey Jennings' re-enactment of the Nazi massacre of the Czech village of Lidice re-set in a Welsh mining village.

......Michael Mann filmed cult WWII horror-fest The Keep in a Welsh quarry - doubling up for Transylvania...altogether a rather less historically grounded take on Nazi activity in that theatre of operations tbh...Craig Fairbrass in Darklands however may have single-handedley strangled the nascent Welsh film industry ....

 

[Idris2002]

The Last Legion (2007) on Netflix - amazingly trashy sword 'n sandal stuff from the shameless Dino de Laurentiis clan. Plot is some sort of bobbins about a lost late-Roman boy emperor finding his way to Britannia and founding noble line of King Arthur, etc, but that is mostly irrelevant. Mostly you just feast your eyes on an absolutely astonishing cast of hi-grade UK thesps, random international stars and loads of people you've already seen in almost everything involving a toga or a wolfskin. (Almost everyone's been in the HBO TV series Rome or Game of Thrones at some point.) For completely inexplicable reasons, Ben Kingsley plays one major character in a strong fake-Welsh accent throughout, Colin Firth just looks constantly baffled the whole way through at what he has done to end up in this, and Aishwarya Rai (!!!) turns up to flash a sword about (to be fair she does sterling work in the action scenes) and heave her bosom prettily. It's absolutely bizarre but good-natured fun (despite the constant violence there's not much blood or darkness of tone.)

Wasn't there a film very like this with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley?

 

[Orang Utan]

Watched Bobby last night...all star cast...bit cheesy, Hollywood romantic in some places but liked the actual footage of Bobby and the last scene was extremely moving.

Bobby Kennedy?

 

[starfish]

More Game of Thrones. We're up to series 3 episode 5.

 

[trabuquera]

Wasn't there a film very like this with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley?

Yup - was called King Arthur and came out in 2004. TBH that, the Last Legion, and the infinitely superior The Eagle (the Channing Tatum + Jamie Bell one which turned out to be actually quite serious and earnest in tone, and I really liked) all begin to blur together after a bit - I'm sure there's massive overlap in the casts.

 

[Maharani]

Bobby Kennedy?

yeah.

 

[Belushi]

White Elephant (Pablo Trapero 2013) Argentine drama about Catholic priests in the slums of Buenos Aires. Starts well but ultimately disappoints.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Burning through The West Wing, four episodes into series 3. I really like it, but Sorkin was surely coked out his nut while writing by this point? It's so bam bam bam bam bam