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

True Lies. Arnie as secret agent/family man, Jamie-Lee Curtis as frumpy wife who turns sexy. Quite funny, incredible amount of money spent on this.
 
I watched an odd little 25 minute thing called Black Angel

34 years ago it was realased (after being comissioned but not shot) by Georgle Lucas as a little warm up piece foe Empire Strikes Back. cost £25k to make so limited even tho 25k bought you a lot more back then. The film then got lost when a company holding it went into recievership. But lo! a print has been unearthed, so they remastered it and for 1 month only its free on youtube. It had gained a sort of legendary status among people who saw it and empire way back then 'I was there man'

Bloke straight back from the crusades finds himself transported into a fantasy england. Its creepy and weird.



 
Birdman. As a movie-lover it's great to live in a world where a film like this can be made.

Keaton, Stone and (for me, especially) Norton are just brilliant in this. Nothing wrong with any of the others either.

Funny, original and engaging sound-track, technically **perfect**.....buuuut it's an art house film so not everyone will like it.
 
Mad Max.

The original, with an incredibly young looking Mel Gibson.

Every so slightly dated now? But still one of the great stupid movies. Best bit is the Toecutter, as played with scenery-chewing aplomb by thon Shakespearean bloke.
 
Prizzi's Honor - nearly 30 years since I last saw it. Wonderful John Huston mafia flick, old fashioned and Jack Nicholson's Charlie Partana is a great creation.

The Evil Dead - recent remake. Amputations, immolations and smelly cats. Not for the squeamish.

Mad Max - Fury Road - enjoyable romp; can I suggest Hardy, Theron and Hoult as the replacement presenters for Top Gear?
 
Maps to the Stars

A very enjoyable, and often funny, David Cronenberger. Not one of his very best tho, the script was written 30 odd years ago - pre The Player - and it really shows.
 
Mad Max.

The original, with an incredibly young looking Mel Gibson.

Every so slightly dated now? But still one of the great stupid movies. Best bit is the Toecutter, as played with scenery-chewing aplomb by thon Shakespearean bloke.
Gibson was dubbed in the original release as his aussie game was too strong.

Not sure if he was a jew hater back then. Maybe he grew into it.

e2a dubbed not subbed.Fucking brain
 
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"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" - overlong, portentous and dull

After you've already given over 9 hours of your life to The Hobbit films, now probably isn't the time to know that you could have seen everything worthwhile in less than half the time .

The fanedit here is about 4 hours . The whole lot in one sesssion :).
 
After you've already given over 9 hours of your life to The Hobbit films, now probably isn't the time to know that you could have seen everything worthwhile in less than half the time .

The fanedit here is about 4 hours . The whole lot in one sesssion :).
Hmmmm....that could be interesting!

I did enjoy the ogre smashing the wall with a stone on his head but that is not quite enough to sustain 130 whatever minutes :D
 
Gibson was subbed in the original release as his aussie game was too strong.

Not sure if he was a jew hater back then. Maybe he grew into it.

I thought it was the whole movie that was dubbed into American English, for poor idiot yanks who no speako da 'Straylian.

Whether or not he was an anti-semite then, he's probably always been an asshole. His Da is in some kind of weird RC far-right group - not Opus Dei but something like that.
 
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