What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Time To Kill (ake The High Window) - another 'Marlowe' where Marlowe is replaced by some bloke. It's a good tale, the cast and script are decent, so it's still pretty good, and only an hour long.
The Big Sleep (1978). Absolutely awful, with Bob Mitchum, sole redeeming feature being that it sticks very close to the original novel, so has a few more twists and turns than the Bogart. Oliver Reed is campilly amusing, briefly. It's also, amusingly, transposed to England in 1978. but the only thing they change to make that work is turning the dollars into pounds. This makes it somewhat amusing when the General starts to talking about what a good guy Regan is, and what a vital role he played in the Irish revolution. I don't really think they thought that one through. Like a shit Michael Winner film, which it was.
Force Majeure - that one about the bloke who saves his phone not his kids. Very, very, well done until the ending(s), which were just a bit....odd. Absolutely gripping for an hour and forty five minutes tho.
The Big Sleep (1978). Absolutely awful, with Bob Mitchum, sole redeeming feature being that it sticks very close to the original novel, so has a few more twists and turns than the Bogart. Oliver Reed is campilly amusing, briefly. It's also, amusingly, transposed to England in 1978. but the only thing they change to make that work is turning the dollars into pounds. This makes it somewhat amusing when the General starts to talking about what a good guy Regan is, and what a vital role he played in the Irish revolution. I don't really think they thought that one through. Like a shit Michael Winner film, which it was.
Force Majeure - that one about the bloke who saves his phone not his kids. Very, very, well done until the ending(s), which were just a bit....odd. Absolutely gripping for an hour and forty five minutes tho.
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It Follows (2015). Girl has a sexual encounter, after which her date ties her up and explains that he's passed on a curse to her which can only be lifted by hey sleeping with someone else. A sort of sexually transmitted haunting, if you will.
I'm sure the film thinks it has something to say about the isolation of suburban living and urban decay, but it's basically a decent effort at an old school, creepy horror - has a hint of the Halloween about it IMO. Enjoyable and recommended, though looking online it seems to have all sorts of rave reviews which over rate it a bit for me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.
I'm sure the film thinks it has something to say about the isolation of suburban living and urban decay, but it's basically a decent effort at an old school, creepy horror - has a hint of the Halloween about it IMO. Enjoyable and recommended, though looking online it seems to have all sorts of rave reviews which over rate it a bit for me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Rated X - 2001 vanity project with Emilio Estevez directing and playing one of the porn world's Mitchell Brothers (they made Behind the Green Door and ran a skinflick/strip/sex show empire in Sna Francisco); the other brother is played by Emilio's real-life bro Charlie Sheen, who is truly convincing in the part of a raging paranoiac ranting aggressive misogynist cokehead asshole (#norealactingrequired). Both sport hilarious identical balding bonces and lurid 70s fashions, there's lots of swearing, trailer loads of (mostly naked) gals and truckfuls of coke to be snorted. The plot reaches truly sleazy/scary territory at times but overall the mood is a bit flat, it views more like a made-for-TV film than anything deeper. While obviously trying to 'do a Boogie Nights' it doesn't have that film's nuance or - crucially - its humour. But the relationship between the two brothers is infectiously warm and realistic.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
... 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)
So you missed the bit of Guardians of the Galaxy that actually had Howard the Duck in it, then?
Virtual Blue
ready
It was overrated.
You pretty much summed up what I thought about the film - better than average but no way is it a masterpiece.
It's been a long while since I saw a decent horror now.
Maybe The Babadook or Evil Dead (re-issue).
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Everything I watch these days has a trans character in it!
Currently watching Sense8 which I'm finding very moving and gripping too, even without Nomi, the trans woman in the series, whose scenes mostly make me cry, but in a good way. Very inspirational!
Currently watching Sense8 which I'm finding very moving and gripping too, even without Nomi, the trans woman in the series, whose scenes mostly make me cry, but in a good way. Very inspirational!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes, as it's in the credits. Hence my reference. I can Google too, you know.So you missed the bit of Guardians of the Galaxy that actually had Howard the Duck in it, then?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Didn't google, I watched the entire film because I knew to expect exactly what the film showed - fairless mindless action hokum.
All the "Marvel Universe" films have "Easter Eggs" in the credits (from Iron Man onward), so if you've seen one, you know to watch out for them in the rest.
We're the Millers (2013). Silly, stupid comedy about a small time drug dealer who enlists the help of people he doesn't like so they can masquerade as a family to smuggle a heap of drugs into the country for a comedy drug lord he owes money to.
Has Rachel from friends and one of the guys from the hangover movies. Basically the same sort of humour as those.
Killed some time, I suppose.
The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974). Awesome opening credits. Top film.
Has Rachel from friends and one of the guys from the hangover movies. Basically the same sort of humour as those.
Killed some time, I suppose.
The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974). Awesome opening credits. Top film.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
If it's any consolation I watched this during my night shift last night:I'm 20 minutes into this atm.
It's really fucking dire. Why am I surprised by this?
Cheers for that, Netflix algorithm
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The actress who played the teenage "daughter" would have done well in the sort of "bad girl" roles Barbara Stanwyck used to do. But Stanwyck made her films back when Hollywood still made movies for grown-ups.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
There's quite a few reviews out there about this turd, but the one in the comments on this blog post summarises everything that needs to be said about it the best, I feel:If it's any consolation I watched this during my night shift last night:
Cheers for that, Netflix algorithm
https://britpic.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/he-who-dares-2-downing-street-siege/
magneze
🎧
Ace film
Really? I'd been looking forward to it for ages, but just didn't get on with it at all.Ace film
magneze
🎧
Yeah, really liked it.
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
...god...this thing was actually meant to be "serious"...looked like a Comic Strip Presents spoof of some sort...
....there I was thinking Nick Love was the bottom of the barrel when it turns out he is actually the cream of the crop floating in the rather rancid looking tub that is our own thriving little exploitation film industry.....Extinction : Jurassic Predators, Essex boys Retribution, Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan....I am enlightened...
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Really? I thought it was great.
Class warfare with Tilda Swinton turning in an Oscar-worthy performance?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Joe Strummer, The Future is Unwritten:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800099/
St. Joseph of Strummer will need no introduction to anyone on here, of course.
Like all rock n' roll stars he was a real fake, but unlike most of them (like Bono, who appears in this) underneath it all there was a core of sincerity.
Even if there were a few points in his career when he came perilously close to being the male Hazel O'Connor, the balance sheet is positive.
So yeah, if you're a worshipper at the Shrine of Strummer, you should watch this.
(The most interesting parts were the ones about his hippy artschool days, a part of the story I was previously unaware of).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800099/
St. Joseph of Strummer will need no introduction to anyone on here, of course.
Like all rock n' roll stars he was a real fake, but unlike most of them (like Bono, who appears in this) underneath it all there was a core of sincerity.
Even if there were a few points in his career when he came perilously close to being the male Hazel O'Connor, the balance sheet is positive.
So yeah, if you're a worshipper at the Shrine of Strummer, you should watch this.
(The most interesting parts were the ones about his hippy artschool days, a part of the story I was previously unaware of).
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Lemmy: The Movie. Greasily enjoyable, especially the footage of him singing 'that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever...apparently I am' during Ace of Spades
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The Babadook (2014). Another horror film that's been getting a lot of rave reviews. Wasn't all that bothered by it. Like with It Follows it was nice to see a horror film trying to do something a bit more, but I just found the whole affair rather dull tbh.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Lemmy: The Movie. Greasily enjoyable, especially the footage of him singing 'that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever...apparently I am' during Ace of Spades
I continue to be stunned that the only (rarely since he took to wearing a hat full-time) visible sign of ageing on St. Lemuel of Kilminster is his thinning head hair. he still looks pretty much the same as he did 35+ years ago, the first time I saw the 'head.
I reckon all that sulphate and Jack has kind of "pickled" him at a permanent 30-something.
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