What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Taken.
I thought I go and see what all the 'full Neeson' fuss was about. And he does convince in the role, even though he's a highly improbably candidate for it.
And the action was really effective - but I wasn't surprised to find that it's a French director, because it's far more like a standard French crime thriller than anything Hollywood makes.
DotCommunist, are the sequels worth bothering with, or is it another case of 'thank God they only made one Matrix film"?
I thought I go and see what all the 'full Neeson' fuss was about. And he does convince in the role, even though he's a highly improbably candidate for it.
And the action was really effective - but I wasn't surprised to find that it's a French director, because it's far more like a standard French crime thriller than anything Hollywood makes.
DotCommunist, are the sequels worth bothering with, or is it another case of 'thank God they only made one Matrix film"?
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
It is smug but Grosse Point Blank is good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they are terrible films but worth it for the full neeson
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The Grifters, Eight Men Out. Both absolutely brilliant, and he is excellent in them. Both a bloody long time ago now, tho
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And he has the same glum, hangdog expression in the other two that he has in the first one, then?
And I assume there's to be a Taken 4?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I hope so!
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
.....he signally failed to convince me he could impersonate a French police inspector to a room full of ALbanian nogoodniks.....
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It wasn't meant to be Z you know.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I rewatched that last week. Couldn't finish it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I couldn't really follow the action in it. Didn't know who anyone was, why they were doing what they were doing, what they were saying or what they were doing.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Taken 2.
The full Neeson, this time in glamorous Istanbul. Even though it's a (different) French director, it felt much more like a conventional Hollywood actioner than the first one - it lacked all the French tropes and mannerisms of the first movie.
Submarine.
Directed by Richard "Moss off the IT Crowd" Ayoade, this depicts the coming of age of an adolescent pseudo-intellectual in provincial Wales. I don't know what he was whinging about, at least he had a girlfriend. In fact the girlfriend's story would have made for a better movie, given that she wasn't an irritating twat. But yes, I liked it. . . it reminded me a bit of In my father's den for some reason, even though it has none of the deeply grim stuff that film had.
The full Neeson, this time in glamorous Istanbul. Even though it's a (different) French director, it felt much more like a conventional Hollywood actioner than the first one - it lacked all the French tropes and mannerisms of the first movie.
Submarine.
Directed by Richard "Moss off the IT Crowd" Ayoade, this depicts the coming of age of an adolescent pseudo-intellectual in provincial Wales. I don't know what he was whinging about, at least he had a girlfriend. In fact the girlfriend's story would have made for a better movie, given that she wasn't an irritating twat. But yes, I liked it. . . it reminded me a bit of In my father's den for some reason, even though it has none of the deeply grim stuff that film had.
Reno
The In Kraut
I love Neeson's grumpy old man approach to the action hero. Skip the awful Taken sequels and watch a few of the other action films he made instead. Non-Stop, A Walk Among the Tombstones and Run All Night are all good fun.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'll do that!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just grabbed Walk Among The Tombstones for tonight dose of TFN.
Looks like a decent enough crime/revenge number
Looks like a decent enough crime/revenge number
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
suprisingly bleak as it goes. The sidekick kid was great. As was the idea of shooting a pistol backwards right next to your ear while being garroted. Thats TFN right there.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Haywire.
Stephen Soderbergh's action movie, starring MMA champion Gina Carano. Also Ewen McGregor, Michael Douglas, and Michael Fassbender. Channing Tatum does his usual excellent imitation of a meathead (what do you mean that's not acting?).
As good as any of the classic chase thrillers of the 70s, but maybe just a little too chin-strokingly intellectualised. But I really enjoyed it, I have to say. Even the bits set in Ireland (really).
Stephen Soderbergh's action movie, starring MMA champion Gina Carano. Also Ewen McGregor, Michael Douglas, and Michael Fassbender. Channing Tatum does his usual excellent imitation of a meathead (what do you mean that's not acting?).
As good as any of the classic chase thrillers of the 70s, but maybe just a little too chin-strokingly intellectualised. But I really enjoyed it, I have to say. Even the bits set in Ireland (really).
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
John Carter 'cos it was on telly. Every bit as dire as the universal press pannings suggested; loud, uninvolving, hamfisted, cackhanded, incoherent and - from the first 40 mins which was all I could bear to watch - really kinda racist in an odd Edwardian imperial way (masquerading as being species-ist). That might be from the source material though. It wasn't camp enough to work as a Flash Gordon or Mars Attacks sort of retro-nostalgia SF. Just space pants. Anyone who made it all the way through this "film" is free to convince me otherwise.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Dragon Blade
chackie chan in this chineese warriors vs romans thing that went on for hours and hours. There was war, theere was meolodrama, there was a weird sort of 'combat styles dance-off' between the romans and chinese. Jackie Chan did a couple of musical numbers. You certainly get your moneys worth when you go cinema in china eh? Some of the CGI looked like PC game cutscenes from 2012.
chackie chan in this chineese warriors vs romans thing that went on for hours and hours. There was war, theere was meolodrama, there was a weird sort of 'combat styles dance-off' between the romans and chinese. Jackie Chan did a couple of musical numbers. You certainly get your moneys worth when you go cinema in china eh? Some of the CGI looked like PC game cutscenes from 2012.
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
....ooh I did this one over the weekend aswell to clear some disc space & actually thought that OK is was terrible but it wasn't quite as terrible as I'd anticipated...didn't seem that much more loud, overblown & hoky than Avatar tbh...the usual repertory company of british thesps dressing up ridiculously for large cheques were either ludicrous ( West ) or phoning it in though ( Hinds ) , with none of the cheerful vim & brio that an unleashed Blessed would give you...
...I thought the race angle was albeit clumsily trying to make a point in that the "red race" set-up as a Martian counterpart to the Native Americans were the victims of aggression from the whites...
....I also liked the way the hero disappears to Mars leaving a bullet-riddled corpse lying in the graveyard for his nephew to explain away...
Reno
The In Kraut
Six episodes into season 2 of Penny Dreadful. Still good fun and Eva Green is great as ever but these nudie witches look stupid and why couldn't Billie Piper have stayed dead ? Characters aren't very consistently written. At one point Eva a Green is driven to insanity by the mindfuck witches and in the next scene she is all smiles again, advising Frankenstein's monster on romantic matters and dropping in on Dorian Gray's party. Maybe it will be a plot point...
Timothy Dalton looks very good for 71, I think he is more handsome now than when he was Bond.
Timothy Dalton looks very good for 71, I think he is more handsome now than when he was Bond.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I got bored with it after ep2. I only really like the emo Frankenstein's Monster storyline.
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