What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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John Wick starring Keanu Reeves.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Wild - Reese Witherspoon escapes from her life by going on a very long walk, meets lots of smug twats on the way, looks at mountains and stuff, finds meaning in the universe.
Under no circumstances watch this film. It is terrible.
Under no circumstances watch this film. It is terrible.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The Anderson Tapes.
Sean Connery is the eponymous master burglar, out of jail after a ten-stretch and looking for somewhere new to rob. His high class call-girl girlfriend (played by Dyan Cannon: unlike the others, he doesn't have to pay her) lives in a palatial New York apartment complex with plenty of rich neighbours. . .
Features an incredibly young Christopher Walken in his first big role. Best thing about it: like the Conversation from around the same time, it's one of the first films to deal with issues arising out of the burgeoning surveillance state (hence the 'tapes' in the title).
Also Martin Balsam as a stereotypical gay antiques dealer/fence. He was also in Catch-22 and that Peter Sellers vehicle Hunt the Fox that I saw recently.
This is the real thing, one of the best films I've yet seen, and definitely worth 90 minutes of your time.
Sean Connery is the eponymous master burglar, out of jail after a ten-stretch and looking for somewhere new to rob. His high class call-girl girlfriend (played by Dyan Cannon: unlike the others, he doesn't have to pay her) lives in a palatial New York apartment complex with plenty of rich neighbours. . .
Features an incredibly young Christopher Walken in his first big role. Best thing about it: like the Conversation from around the same time, it's one of the first films to deal with issues arising out of the burgeoning surveillance state (hence the 'tapes' in the title).
Also Martin Balsam as a stereotypical gay antiques dealer/fence. He was also in Catch-22 and that Peter Sellers vehicle Hunt the Fox that I saw recently.
This is the real thing, one of the best films I've yet seen, and definitely worth 90 minutes of your time.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
As The Gods Will - what's this, another decent film from Miike? Getting dangerously close to some sort of form here. Anyway, very bloody, very colourful, very funny, very inventive film that takes the battle royale games theme a bit further. And very obv set up for a sequel.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Yes, but no - imo the very best thing about the Anderson Tapes is the soundtrack - worth listening to on its own! Agree with you the film's well worth your time as well though.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Soundtrack is by Quincy Jones, and I agree. It's an early example of Jazz Fusion, I think, before that genre became too "music by musicians for other musicians".
RebeccaLoi22
New Member
Hi Guys!
Last night I was watching "I Am Sam" (2002).
It was very nice and interesting!
Last night I was watching "I Am Sam" (2002).
It was very nice and interesting!
spare part
Well-Known Member
8 1/2 by Fellini, because I was in the mood for a chain-smoking Marcello Mastroianni. Very good but had to stop halfway through because it got a little too depressing and heavy for me. May watch the rest of it tonight.
First five episodes of the fifth season of game of thrones. Still good.
Also watched the first fifteen minutes of an American series called betas (2014). My other half suggested it was going to be Nathan barley but rubbish and American. i assured her otherwise, but within the first five minutes there had been two jokes lifted straight from barley. Was rubbish, so off it went.
Also watched the first fifteen minutes of an American series called betas (2014). My other half suggested it was going to be Nathan barley but rubbish and American. i assured her otherwise, but within the first five minutes there had been two jokes lifted straight from barley. Was rubbish, so off it went.
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
A film called Coherence, about the effects of a passing comet on a group of friends at a dinner party. Alternate realities kinda stuff that got a bit confusing in the end.
Are you suggesting it lacked coherence?
magneze
🎧
Great film imo
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
More sense8
freema agyeman does an american accent in this
freema agyeman does an american accent in this
Steel Icarus
we move
Watched Kick Ass for the first time this afternoon while on the sofa nursing a cold. Was a bit silly but thoroughly enjoyed it
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Vault of Horror. Cheesy as fuck 70s portmanteau flick.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Shame (2011). I am a huge fan of almost everyone who worked on this film (dir Steve McQueen, actors Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, Nicole Beharie) but I thought it was, in every sense, a load of self-pitying pretentious portentous toss.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Fatalistic Ealing film from 1955 directed by Basil Dearden and set in the midst of post WW2 disillusionment as ex Navy servicemen who turn to smuggling across the Channel from France using their old boat from the war find themselves in increasingly morally questionable waters. George Baker and Bill Owen were particularly good in two of the lead roles and it also stars Richard Attenborough. Really a very good little thriller.
Daisies
1966 film directed and co-written by Věra Chytilová and maybe the most 'new wave' of the Czech New Wave. A manic bit of surreal cinema featuring two young women played gleefully well by Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová who decide that as the world has gone bad they will be bad, which mostly seems to mean spending their time either looking for food or eating it and bundling men on to trains. A better knowledge of the context it was made in would probably have given me more of an understanding of what Chytilová was targeting/responding to but I can't say I minded much. I was very strongly reminded of Jacques Rivette's late New Wave film Celine & Julie Go Boating which Daisies must surely have been a great influence on with its semi-improvised style and most obviously in concerning the mad adventures of two young women.It also has a similar sense of the everyday world made strange/sinister that is shared by Rivette's films like in the investigation of Paris by the two women in Le Pont Du Nord.
I'd been meaning to see this for a long time and it's definitely a great film that is anarchic, fun and very of its time with a filmmaking style as crazed as the content. Good use of colour and sound too. Highly recommended.
Fatalistic Ealing film from 1955 directed by Basil Dearden and set in the midst of post WW2 disillusionment as ex Navy servicemen who turn to smuggling across the Channel from France using their old boat from the war find themselves in increasingly morally questionable waters. George Baker and Bill Owen were particularly good in two of the lead roles and it also stars Richard Attenborough. Really a very good little thriller.
Daisies
1966 film directed and co-written by Věra Chytilová and maybe the most 'new wave' of the Czech New Wave. A manic bit of surreal cinema featuring two young women played gleefully well by Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová who decide that as the world has gone bad they will be bad, which mostly seems to mean spending their time either looking for food or eating it and bundling men on to trains. A better knowledge of the context it was made in would probably have given me more of an understanding of what Chytilová was targeting/responding to but I can't say I minded much. I was very strongly reminded of Jacques Rivette's late New Wave film Celine & Julie Go Boating which Daisies must surely have been a great influence on with its semi-improvised style and most obviously in concerning the mad adventures of two young women.It also has a similar sense of the everyday world made strange/sinister that is shared by Rivette's films like in the investigation of Paris by the two women in Le Pont Du Nord.
I'd been meaning to see this for a long time and it's definitely a great film that is anarchic, fun and very of its time with a filmmaking style as crazed as the content. Good use of colour and sound too. Highly recommended.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm with you. All that triumphant running. Poor handsome guy with a nice and enormous flat who has too much sex. Poor poor handsome guy!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Always enjoy your reviews, trabuquera 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I saw a tv movie called Trilogy Of Terror at a mate's house. It was the first horror film he ever saw and it scared the shit out of him. It's now on YouTube so thought we'd revisit it and find out if it's still scary. It's not. It's three stories starring the beautiful but mad-looking Karen Black off of Easy Rider in the lead of each story playing women in peril, but it's risible, despite being penned by the mighty Richard Matheson. The third story, the one which scared my friend at eight years old, is about a voodoo doll that comes to life and menaces Black. The doll looks like this:
The ending was actually pretty good and you could see why it would have scared the shit out of a kid.
It was entertaining at least, which i wish i could say about the next film we tried to watch, Guardians Of The Galaxy. We switched it off after an hour cos it was so appalling. It has far too many characters, the thin plot was hard to follow, it was full of jokes whilst being totally witless (most of them were pop-culture injokes that only Comic Book Store Guy would get the references to), it was full of spectacular stunts, battles and CGI nonsense, but it was boring as fuck. Howard The Duck is a better film. Makes me hate people. If you like this film, I despise you. (well, not really)
The ending was actually pretty good and you could see why it would have scared the shit out of a kid.
It was entertaining at least, which i wish i could say about the next film we tried to watch, Guardians Of The Galaxy. We switched it off after an hour cos it was so appalling. It has far too many characters, the thin plot was hard to follow, it was full of jokes whilst being totally witless (most of them were pop-culture injokes that only Comic Book Store Guy would get the references to), it was full of spectacular stunts, battles and CGI nonsense, but it was boring as fuck. Howard The Duck is a better film. Makes me hate people. If you like this film, I despise you. (well, not really
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DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch directs a vampire film starring Tilda Swinton. Sounds great but is intensely boring and embarrassing. I was willing for the film to end. It did, badly. Most disapointing film I've seen for a while.
Jim Jarmusch directs a vampire film starring Tilda Swinton. Sounds great but is intensely boring and embarrassing. I was willing for the film to end. It did, badly. Most disapointing film I've seen for a while.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
KIngsmen
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?DVDID=120282
Deliciously violent and funny take on the spy movie with large nods to Bond, Bourne and Bauer, by the Kick-Ass coupling of Millar and Vaughn.
The second half of this movie is really good. At one point Colin Firth gets involved with a congregation of westboro-baptist types and it's outrageously satisfying.
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?DVDID=120282
Deliciously violent and funny take on the spy movie with large nods to Bond, Bourne and Bauer, by the Kick-Ass coupling of Millar and Vaughn.
The second half of this movie is really good. At one point Colin Firth gets involved with a congregation of westboro-baptist types and it's outrageously satisfying.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Been meaning to watch it for an age, and it was well worth the wait. Some cops and a couple of crims go looking for a shallow grave on a windy road in an confusingly unmemorable bit of Anatolia. It takes them some time. The coppers chat about all sorts, including ones ex-wife.
The firs hour and a half are quite brilliant and gripping. The last hour (or so, once they've left the road) remains very good, but not quite as gripping. And the sub-plot referred to above just doesn't quite convince because you are two steps ahead of the doctor, who must be as dumb as the character they were searching for if he hadn't twigged what we'd already twigged. But, despite that, it is a great film and very well worth a watch.
Been meaning to watch it for an age, and it was well worth the wait. Some cops and a couple of crims go looking for a shallow grave on a windy road in an confusingly unmemorable bit of Anatolia. It takes them some time. The coppers chat about all sorts, including ones ex-wife.
The firs hour and a half are quite brilliant and gripping. The last hour (or so, once they've left the road) remains very good, but not quite as gripping. And the sub-plot referred to above just doesn't quite convince because you are two steps ahead of the doctor, who must be as dumb as the character they were searching for if he hadn't twigged what we'd already twigged. But, despite that, it is a great film and very well worth a watch.
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starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Saw this last night too. Had a couple of niggles with it but it was fairly enjoyable & funny.
Also watched Live.Die.Repeat. Same feelings as above. Bet it went down well in parts in parts of Northern Ireland though. UDF saves the world
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