Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Are you kidding? He looks at least twenty years older than that
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
I had a second go at Jupiter Ascending but I could only manage an hour or so. What a confusing and confused mess this is. Fucking magic boots.
I've just got started on Season 6 of The West Wing, and while I'm still liking it, the love has worn off a bit. I'm going to keep with it though, because I still adore CJ, and I really want Josh and Donna to finally just fuck each other and get on with their lives. I'm also noting that John Spencer is looking increasingly ill
I've just got started on Season 6 of The West Wing, and while I'm still liking it, the love has worn off a bit. I'm going to keep with it though, because I still adore CJ, and I really want Josh and Donna to finally just fuck each other and get on with their lives. I'm also noting that John Spencer is looking increasingly ill
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Inherent Vice.
Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Unlike the novel, which is a nostalgic look back at what John "War Nerd" Dolan called the "Tolkien Jihad" of late '60s California, this has a basic core of unease and dread underneath the hippy vibes, maaan. It's almost a sort of '60s Chinatown, except it's not made by a paedophile rapist and it's also a good movie.
Joaquin Phoenix is good as the hippy hero, Josh Brolin is better as his thug-in-uniform-well-plain-clothes LAPD nemesis. Oral symbolism (yes, that kind of oral) is important in this movie - see how much of it you can spot.
Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Unlike the novel, which is a nostalgic look back at what John "War Nerd" Dolan called the "Tolkien Jihad" of late '60s California, this has a basic core of unease and dread underneath the hippy vibes, maaan. It's almost a sort of '60s Chinatown, except it's not made by a paedophile rapist and it's also a good movie.
Joaquin Phoenix is good as the hippy hero, Josh Brolin is better as his thug-in-uniform-well-plain-clothes LAPD nemesis. Oral symbolism (yes, that kind of oral) is important in this movie - see how much of it you can spot.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
I had a second go at Jupiter Ascending but I could only manage an hour or so. What a confusing and confused mess this is. Fucking magic boots.
I've just got started on Season 6 of The West Wing, and while I'm still liking it, the love has worn off a bit. I'm going to keep with it though, because I still adore CJ, and I really want Josh and Donna to finally just fuck each other and get on with their lives. I'm also noting that John Spencer is looking increasingly ill
I think its season 4 where Sorkin got fired (he tried to board a domestic flight with what can only be described as a plethora of drugs on his person) he was writing so much of the show single handed often scripts would arrive minutes before shooting happened, and it was wearing the cast out and putting him under immense pressure, and thus the drugs.
The show really hurts with him gone and gets much more mauldin, still miles better than most dross on tv (I think someone pointed out that 2004 was the greatest year in the history of tv) and nails it.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamiejones/why-2004-was-the-greatest-year-in-television-history#.sukBEmJZG
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Only Lovers Left Alive.
Jim Jarmusch...auteur of Dead Man, Ghost Dog and other excellent movies...does vampires.
Backed up by Hiddlestone, Swinton and Hurt comfortably acting off each other...playing off each other.
Dark, human and affecting. An undertone of looking after the planet. caring for your resources, living in the modern world.
Probably the best vampire movie since Near Dark.
Jim Jarmusch...auteur of Dead Man, Ghost Dog and other excellent movies...does vampires.
Backed up by Hiddlestone, Swinton and Hurt comfortably acting off each other...playing off each other.
Dark, human and affecting. An undertone of looking after the planet. caring for your resources, living in the modern world.
Probably the best vampire movie since Near Dark.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
No but it's on my list. The trouble is it's been a really good movie period for the last few years....loads of quality stuff all over the place. It's hard to keep up
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Ex machina (2015)
I really liked it. A sci fi film that doesn't depend on explosions or aliens.
I preferred the boss to the coder.
I really liked it. A sci fi film that doesn't depend on explosions or aliens.
I preferred the boss to the coder.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A Girl Walks Alone At Night
A US/Persian (?) film, the first Iranian vampire western, apparently. Neatly shot, very funny in places, and well worth a viewing.
Also finished watching Better Call Saul - been meaning to for ages, but only just got round to it. Not quite what I was expecting at all, much, much better.
A US/Persian (?) film, the first Iranian vampire western, apparently. Neatly shot, very funny in places, and well worth a viewing.
Also finished watching Better Call Saul - been meaning to for ages, but only just got round to it. Not quite what I was expecting at all, much, much better.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
moody
Member of The Underground.
First time I have ever seen this, didn't even know about it.
It's now 08.16 and i have just finished watching quite a few of them.
Very funny.
Reno
The In Kraut
I watched Big Hero 6 which was better than I thought it would be. It's like a mash-up of Brad Bird's two animated features The Iron Giant and The Incredibles and while fun, it's not as good as either of them.
I also watched the retro-style horror film We Are Still Here, which is very good till it falls apart in the last ten minutes. Nice to have middle aged characters in a horror film for once and it's good to see 80s scream queen Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, The Beyond) making a comeback. She is very good as the 50something heroine of the film.
I also watched the retro-style horror film We Are Still Here, which is very good till it falls apart in the last ten minutes. Nice to have middle aged characters in a horror film for once and it's good to see 80s scream queen Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, The Beyond) making a comeback. She is very good as the 50something heroine of the film.
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
Another convert! It really is an underrated gem that very few people know about.
Shame they never made anymore.
moody
Member of The Underground.
Reno
The In Kraut
The Nightmare, an attempt at a horror documentary about sleep paralysis. People describe their nightmares and the documentary sort of dramatises them. Sounds more interesting than it is and gets repetitive fast. From the director of Room 237 about The Shining consiraloons, which also went out of steam well before the end.
The Haunted Palace from my new Vincent Price blu-ray box set. Gothic fun and went well with the real thunderstorm outside.
The Haunted Palace from my new Vincent Price blu-ray box set. Gothic fun and went well with the real thunderstorm outside.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
by the third one I was only watching out of a sense of duty and shouting abuse at the screen in father jack style outbursts of boredom and rage
such a waste. They turned radagast into a shit-headed magic mushroom casualty as well
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I held out til the second one with the posh dragon
Still Life
2013 film starring Eddie Marsan as a soon to be redundant funeral officer out on one last case. I've seen it described as a comedy but I can't say I noticed much humour – I thought it had a fairly relentlessly glum tone. There's plenty of lingering shots of nothing much after Marsan's character has moped out of view somewhere and a sad piano score. Marsan acted his part well, as did Joanne Froggatt as one of the relatives he tracks down and whose appearance quite late on in the film does help to lift the plot out of its sluggishness. Overall, despite liking the basic idea I felt like it fell short of the mark.
Nightmare Alley
1947 carnival based film noir directed by Edmund Goulding. Tyrone Power stars as a ruthless sideshow worker who is determined to learn the code that Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband once used in a top-billed clairvoyant act before the husband deteriorated too much to perform it. As you would expect, nothing satisfies his ambitions and Power is suitably charming and treacherous on his way to the top. Another highlight of the film was Helen Walker's scheming psychologist, who is drawn into the plot through her scepticism of Power's character once he's started branching out into spiritualist cons. I did feel the part of the narrative concerning Walker was very promising and could almost have been a whole other film, and maybe as a result you get the sense that everything happens a bit too quickly and without enough development. One other issue was that the ending didn't quite fit, but on the whole it was a very enjoyable noir with a little bit of a difference and well worth a watch.
2013 film starring Eddie Marsan as a soon to be redundant funeral officer out on one last case. I've seen it described as a comedy but I can't say I noticed much humour – I thought it had a fairly relentlessly glum tone. There's plenty of lingering shots of nothing much after Marsan's character has moped out of view somewhere and a sad piano score. Marsan acted his part well, as did Joanne Froggatt as one of the relatives he tracks down and whose appearance quite late on in the film does help to lift the plot out of its sluggishness. Overall, despite liking the basic idea I felt like it fell short of the mark.
Nightmare Alley
1947 carnival based film noir directed by Edmund Goulding. Tyrone Power stars as a ruthless sideshow worker who is determined to learn the code that Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband once used in a top-billed clairvoyant act before the husband deteriorated too much to perform it. As you would expect, nothing satisfies his ambitions and Power is suitably charming and treacherous on his way to the top. Another highlight of the film was Helen Walker's scheming psychologist, who is drawn into the plot through her scepticism of Power's character once he's started branching out into spiritualist cons. I did feel the part of the narrative concerning Walker was very promising and could almost have been a whole other film, and maybe as a result you get the sense that everything happens a bit too quickly and without enough development. One other issue was that the ending didn't quite fit, but on the whole it was a very enjoyable noir with a little bit of a difference and well worth a watch.
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
Didnt think of the Peep Show similarities but your right
Reno
The In Kraut
Phoenix by Christian Petzold which got rave reviews but like most of his films found it a bit boring to be honest. There are strong smilarities to Vertigo but this unfolds almost suspenseless.
To perk myself up with some trash afterwards I tried to watch Stung, a monster movie about giant wasps which turned out to be a German film with US leads shot in English. It was unbearably shit and I gave up after 30 minutes. I think I'll get back to my Vincent Price box set tonight for some quality films.
To perk myself up with some trash afterwards I tried to watch Stung, a monster movie about giant wasps which turned out to be a German film with US leads shot in English. It was unbearably shit and I gave up after 30 minutes. I think I'll get back to my Vincent Price box set tonight for some quality films.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Run All Night - Liam Neeson unusually plays a bad guy working for an Irish criminal gang . He is a serial killer , bit of a drunk and his son doesn't want to know him. But guess what? He falls out with his boss and his boss wants to kill his son.Obviously Liam won't let him and is forced to play the same role as he does in his last five films.I was trying to explain that at one time Liam could act and that he was really good in Schindlers List but my girlfriend wasn't interested.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
There's a fan edit of all three films were they are wittled down from over a 9 hour total into one single 4 hour film. Thats still about a hour too long, but there was no fucking way I was watching that tiny book get bloated into a trilogy.
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