DotCommunist
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interesting choice, writing wise with the kid. That could have been done badly but the character rang true and his interactions with neeson didn't feel false
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
No sense of a "white saviour" thing with the kid, either, who clearly had his own goals and agenda.
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Kajaki (2014), based on a true story about a unit of British soldiers who get stuck in a minefield in Afghanistan while trying rescue a colleague. Great first feature length film from director Paul Katis, very tense with a good script and acting. Certainly one of the best British film I've seen in the last year or two.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
thats tonights film sorted thankyou
'll give the one with Rza a miss even though he was one of the hardest characters in that ludicrous (not him) wu tang themed beat em up game 'Taste The Pain'
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The one set in a pop-up bakery?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Housebound - a kiwi horror comedy wherein Kylie is subject to house arrest with her mother after a failed bank robbery. Mom thinks the house is haunted, and Kylie thinks that she is nuts, obviously. But is she.....
Unusually, it succeeds as both horror and comedy, proper rofl stuff on occasions, and while the scares aren't especially original, they are very well done, with a nice use of gore when appropriate. Morgana O'Reilly is great as Kylie, and has some marvelous 'wtf' expressions. Very much worth tracking down
Unusually, it succeeds as both horror and comedy, proper rofl stuff on occasions, and while the scares aren't especially original, they are very well done, with a nice use of gore when appropriate. Morgana O'Reilly is great as Kylie, and has some marvelous 'wtf' expressions. Very much worth tracking down
Reno
The In Kraut
Housebound is great fun, I especially loved the mother. One of my favourite films from last year.
I watched the Astaire musical The Band Wagon which I had not seen since my teens. Almost up there with Singin' in the Rain and from the same team, this takedown of Broadway theatre is basically Birdman with great songs and without the heavy-handed point scoring.
I watched the Astaire musical The Band Wagon which I had not seen since my teens. Almost up there with Singin' in the Rain and from the same team, this takedown of Broadway theatre is basically Birdman with great songs and without the heavy-handed point scoring.
Steel Icarus
we move
Gravity - more thoughtful than I expected, although obviously not DEEP or owt - it looked stunning and the acting was v. good. Was a bit silly in places but an entertaining 90 mins. Would have HURT in 3D I think 
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from your wiki-link there
It's a great little film and it's in English do we really need a remake already?Sinister (2012). Above average horror nonsense with yon Ethan Hawke in the lead role. One of those true crime writer types moves into a small town to investigate the incident of a family being hung from a tree in teh back garden. Finds some super8 films in the attic which suggest it was the work of a serial killer who looked a bit like Euronymous. A bit silly, and like all movies the characters do things that don't make sense - like moving your family into the scene of a gruesome murder without telling them, and not running like the wind when you realise that the person responsible for the murders came back and left the films for you to find.
Deliver us from Evil (2014). Same director as above, and seems to use the same MO of hiring a well known lead actor to try and carry a fairly weak plot. This time Eric Bana stars as a cop investigating weird crimes which seem to be related and involve some kind of possession. Aesthetically it borrows a lot from Seven, but that's about the best that can be said for it as the film. A few cheap jumps does not a horror film make. Not great.
Deliver us from Evil (2014). Same director as above, and seems to use the same MO of hiring a well known lead actor to try and carry a fairly weak plot. This time Eric Bana stars as a cop investigating weird crimes which seem to be related and involve some kind of possession. Aesthetically it borrows a lot from Seven, but that's about the best that can be said for it as the film. A few cheap jumps does not a horror film make. Not great.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The first 6 or 7 eps of Daredevil. This is splendid stuff. A lot more grittier than expected. What Gotham could have been...
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
The Last Ship is dreadful. So cheesy. I love it.
We watched it all over the last week or so...DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I never even rated Daredevil as a comic book character but that series is ace. The man playing big boss is great
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Seraphim Falls
I have seen this before, it was on the iplayer once. But I couldn't remember much except it had reminded me of a 70s bronson fim where he gets manhunted till he finally escapes over the snow to canada. Never can recall the title.
Anyway, this was similar manhunting fayre, with pierce pulling the 'I'm so hard a cuaterize my wounds with gunpowder trick, hiding up a tree and dropping a knife on someone, you know. The neesoning in this was around 30-50 % at any given time. As really, this was Pierce Brosnans moment to play the hardarse.
I have seen this before, it was on the iplayer once. But I couldn't remember much except it had reminded me of a 70s bronson fim where he gets manhunted till he finally escapes over the snow to canada. Never can recall the title.
Anyway, this was similar manhunting fayre, with pierce pulling the 'I'm so hard a cuaterize my wounds with gunpowder trick, hiding up a tree and dropping a knife on someone, you know. The neesoning in this was around 30-50 % at any given time. As really, this was Pierce Brosnans moment to play the hardarse.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
^ also set in an era before the phone so Neeson can't menace people telephonically enough for a proper TFN.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
telegraph era though? 'I willl find you stop and I will kill you stop'
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
*I will find you STOP and I will kill you STOP Good day sir ENDS*
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Was it something about 'the attraction of sex magnates'?
AverageJoe
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I watched Chappie today. As the father to a terminally Ill 4 year old I was quite surprised that it made me cry.
'why did you make me with a broken body? '
*tears*
It's just a film ffs
'why did you make me with a broken body? '
*tears*
It's just a film ffs
Reno
The In Kraut
OK, im confused and I give up. Some pun I don't get again.
Anyways, I quite liked Arbitage, it was a bit like a scaled down version of Bonfire of the Vanities, the novel rather than the terrible film.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Was rather disappointed, TBH - never really any feeling of tension, or cultural or political or even historical context, just some hams in rooms doing zee accentz. Half expected Hoffmeister to ask "Iz it zafe?"
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