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

[8den]

Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink 2010) Crap time travel comedy, John Cusack is better than this.

John Cusacks career has been in a Nicolas Cage slump for over a decade. I bet he goes to sleep at night by smacking his head against the bed chanting "Why did I turn down Breaking Bad, Why did I turn down Breaking Bad" until he passes out.

 

[butchersapron]

He would have been a disaster in breaking bad.

 

[8den]

He would have been a disaster in breaking bad.

Quite Probably, it's inconceivable to imagine anyone but Cranston in that role. But Cusack hasn't made a decent film in about 15 years (seriously tell me he's done anything to match either High Fidelity or Being John Malkovich)/

 

[butchersapron]

Quite Probably, it's inconceivable to imagine anyone but Cranston in that role. But Cusack hasn't made a decent film in about 15 years (seriously tell me he's done anything to match either High Fidelity or Being John Malkovich)/

I'm struggling to find a good non-smug film that he's ever been in tbh.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I'm struggling to find a good non-smug film that he's ever been in tbh.

Pushing Tin? I suppose your definition of smug might be different to mine.

 

[8den]

Pushing Tin? I suppose your definition of smug might be different to mine.

Its okay ish butchers is right though he is very smug.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Its okay ish butchers is right though he is very smug.

Well, I'd hate to go against the party line

 

[Belushi]

Dog Pound (Kim Chapiron 2013) Piss poor American remake of Scum.

 

[Cheesypoof]

AIDS documentary 'We were here.' Its about how the community responded to the devastating AIDS epidemic in San Francisco when it first appeared in the early 80's. A terrifying number of people died - almost 20,000 in SF (at one point, 50% of the community in the early days) - their friends left behind tell their stories. Powerful, deeply moving stuff. It will stay with me for a long time.

 

[Idris2002]

Interstellar.

Better than I expected, not as good as was advertised.

 

[Sue]

Quite Probably, it's inconceivable to imagine anyone but Cranston in that role. But Cusack hasn't made a decent film in about 15 years (seriously tell me he's done anything to match either High Fidelity or Being John Malkovich)/

Maps to the Stars was quite good though his was more a supporting role.

 

[Ozric]

'Kill List' a disturbing British Horror. Kept me on edge all the way through...

 

[DotCommunist]

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.

does he go full neeson in this one? cos thats all I care about

 

[Belushi]

Imagine how much better Schindlers List would have been had he been allowed to go the full neeson.

 

[starfish]

Holy Motors, holy shit more like. Im sure it was all meant to symbolise something but fuck knows what. Great acting by Denis Lavant though.

 

[zxspectrum]

Jupiter Ascending.

Wachowski's in retrograde.

 

[DotCommunist]

Jupiter Ascending.

Wachowski's in retrograde.

I really enjoyed it, not for the laughably bad space opera guff crossed with some odd toilet cleaning realism bits, but for the visuals. The hover boots that eventually seemed to become flying boots, the weird looking people, the 'look we are doing a gibsonesque seoul again' city scape and the chase sequences. Wouldn't pay to watch but for free, great.

 

[zxspectrum]

I really enjoyed it, not for the laughably bad space opera guff crossed with some odd toilet cleaning realism bits, but for the visuals. The hover boots that eventually seemed to become flying boots, the weird looking people, the 'look we are doing a gibsonesque seoul again' city scape and the chase sequences. Wouldn't pay to watch but for free, great.

Visually it's great.

But the roller skates just made me think I was watching some weird 70's SF - except it didn't have the balls to go full Zardoz or something.

Instead Mila Kunis just seemed to accept everything that was happening as if she was mildly stoned.

The villain's acting was the worst thing I have ever seen (and not heard because he mumbled the whole way through as if someone had stuck Jack Nicholson's Joker prosthetic face into his mouth).

The intergalactic stuff should have been really awesome, but instead the visuals were wasted; oh look it's a dragon person, a porcupine faced dude, and some woman who bathes in soylent green. It was ho hum and noone really sold any of it.

And then she goes back to cleaning the bogs, like some dutiful lottery winner!

"ee a've been t' outer space, but it's not going t' change me, I'll keep me job cleaning lavs in t' Asdas!"

 

[Orang Utan]

Imagine how much better Schindlers List would have been had he been allowed to go the full neeson.

Someone needs to do a Taken/Schindler's mash up.

 

[DotCommunist]

Visually it's great.

But the roller skates just made me think I was watching some weird 70's SF - except it didn't have the balls to go full Zardoz or something.

Instead Mila Kunis just seemed to accept everything that was happening as if she was mildly stoned.

The villain's acting was the worst thing I have ever seen (and not heard because he mumbled the whole way through as if someone had stuck Jack Nicholson's Joker prosthetic face into his mouth).

The intergalactic stuff should have been really awesome, but instead the visuals were wasted; oh look it's a dragon person, a porcupine faced dude, and some woman who bathes in soylent green. It was ho hum and noone really sold any of it.

And then she goes back to cleaning the bogs, like some dutiful lottery winner!

"ee a've been t' outer space, but it's not going t' change me, I'll keep me job cleaning lavs in t' Asdas!"

Sense8, the netflix series they done, is by far the better in terms of storytelling. Quality visuals there as well, its not some 'straight to the internet' cheapjack effort




I watched episode 2 of Killjoys. Its a bit grim on the politics front what with debt slavery and all that. Hopefully by the end there is a revolt and heads get mounted on spikes

 

[DotCommunist]

Someone needs to do a Taken/Schindler's mash up.

if he'd been allowed to go full neeson, the war would have ended in 90 minutes as he worked his way through speer, bormann, eichman et al until he got to hitler

 

[zxspectrum]

Sense8, the netflix series they done, is by far the better in terms of storytelling. Quality visuals there as well, its not some 'straight to the internet' cheapjack effort




I watched episode 2 of Killjoys. Its a bit grim on the politics front what with debt slavery and all that. Hopefully by the end there is a revolt and heads get mounted on spikes

When sense8 appears on torrents I may check it out.

Jupiter Ascending should have been a stage musical like Starlight Express.

 

[DotCommunist]

When sense8 appears on torrents I may check it out.

Jupiter Ascending should have been a stage musical like Starlight Express.

well if you want to see a former doctor who companion doing her girlfriend with a strap on- this is the series for you

 

[zxspectrum]

well if you want to see a former doctor who companion doing her girlfriend with a strap on- this is the series for you

If there's one thing that can persuade me to watch anything on netflix...

 

[The39thStep]

does he go full neeson in this one? cos thats all I care about

Neeson turbo mode

 

[The39thStep]

if he'd been allowed to go full neeson, the war would have ended in 90 minutes as he worked his way through speer, bormann, eichman et al until he got to hitler

only if they kidnapped one of his family

 

[Orang Utan]

only if they kidnapped one of his family

They kidnapped his workers, who he regarded as his private property. Even more deserving of the full Neeson.

 

[Belushi]

In A Better World (Susanne Bier 2011) Watchable if somewhat glib Danish drama about violence and masculinity.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bad Ass (2012)

there is a lot to like about this film based on a youtube clip of a vietnam vet knocking someone out on a bus. But it didn't feel right. I liked the premise, of an aged vet who lost it and decided to avenge his mate death but the beating up black people angle was overplayed and came across a bit weird. And off. Its like the racial aspect of the whole thing was just over emphasised by the violence, I dunno maybe I'm being too 'pc' or whatever but it didn't feel righteous vengeance, like what neeson does

ron perlman is in it for about 5 mins

 

[rekil]

Speaking of Cusack - this promo pic for the appalling Dragon Blade (Romans wandering about China) reminds me of when Nigel Planer was asked to "look mean" in Bad News.