What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Bitter Rice [Riso Amaro] (1949) exceptionally good Italian neo-realist film from Giuseppe De Santis, about two petty criminals hiding out among the mostly female workforce of a rice plantation. Both the lead actresses are briilliant, Silvana Mangano is sexy as hell.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kickass-esque violent and sweary Bond pisstake.
Takes a while to get going but then rockets through to the end (mostly at the expense of plot or characterisation).
Nifty action sequences and a hilarious church massacre (not words you hear every day), plus some other amusing visual / audio flourishes (you're unlikely to have seen mass beheadings look so pretty before). Some quite clever subversions of the gentleman spy genre, alongside some fairly broad obvious jokes and a bit of unexpected nudity.
Firth good, new kid decent enough, Sam Jackson doing...something, still not quite sure what he was going for, acting-wise.
Entertaining nonsense
Kickass-esque violent and sweary Bond pisstake.
Takes a while to get going but then rockets through to the end (mostly at the expense of plot or characterisation).
Nifty action sequences and a hilarious church massacre (not words you hear every day), plus some other amusing visual / audio flourishes (you're unlikely to have seen mass beheadings look so pretty before). Some quite clever subversions of the gentleman spy genre, alongside some fairly broad obvious jokes and a bit of unexpected nudity.
Firth good, new kid decent enough, Sam Jackson doing...something, still not quite sure what he was going for, acting-wise.
Entertaining nonsense
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
oneunder
Mind The Gap !
My mate rang me earlier to tell me he was loving it but his media box packed in half way through. He's calling up tomorrow for the second half.+1 for the recommendation of this. Really really liked it
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Jimmy Stewart plays a countryside rube of a politico in that scheming Washington
Jimmy Stewart plays a countryside rube of a politico in that scheming Washington
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Banshee first three episodes. Makes the full Neeson look like a cuddly Buddhist peace demonstration.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Wrong Turn 4, which I kind of enjoyed in a trashy horror way - although the characters in this really are the dumbest in horror film history!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Angel Heart.
Damn but Mickey Rourke looked fine when he was young. What happened to ya, Mickey? A bit silly, but still a bit great.
The Devil Rides Out
Both appalling and brilliant. Some of it really is cringeworthy - the African dude for starters - but it remains an effective chiller. Until you get to the bit with the spider, when you just can't help giggling.
Damn but Mickey Rourke looked fine when he was young. What happened to ya, Mickey? A bit silly, but still a bit great.
The Devil Rides Out
Both appalling and brilliant. Some of it really is cringeworthy - the African dude for starters - but it remains an effective chiller. Until you get to the bit with the spider, when you just can't help giggling.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Watched this last night - entertaining nonsense sums it up very well. At one point I thought things might take a turn for the dark and the "heroes" might be revealed as villains - but as they say in this one "this isn't that kind of movie".Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kickass-esque violent and sweary Bond pisstake.
Takes a while to get going but then rockets through to the end (mostly at the expense of plot or characterisation).
Nifty action sequences and a hilarious church massacre (not words you hear every day), plus some other amusing visual / audio flourishes (you're unlikely to have seen mass beheadings look so pretty before). Some quite clever subversions of the gentleman spy genre, alongside some fairly broad obvious jokes and a bit of unexpected nudity.
Firth good, new kid decent enough, Sam Jackson doing...something, still not quite sure what he was going for, acting-wise.
Entertaining nonsense
My nieces would have absolutely loved it though.
It's a real marmite film. I thought it was a stunning piece of cinema, but I've only seen it on the big screen, need to have another viewing on my tv to see if it has the same impact.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Marmite film is a good description. I thought it was fucking bizarre and didn't really enjoy it at all. I did want to watch to the end to see what happened though so I guess that's something for it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The One. Sliders meets Highlander in this Jet Li sci fi martial arts timewaster. The deal is they've proved the many worlds theory and can travel between them. They've only found 125 of them and thats not how many worlds theory works, but fuck it, plot device.
Evil jet Li has been bumping off all the other Jet Li's. Each time one dies he gets stronger, faster, smarter. He's down to the last Jet Li left to kill snd brcome a God.
Jet Li gets to play both the baddie AND the goodie. The Stath is in it.
4/10
Evil jet Li has been bumping off all the other Jet Li's. Each time one dies he gets stronger, faster, smarter. He's down to the last Jet Li left to kill snd brcome a God.
Jet Li gets to play both the baddie AND the goodie. The Stath is in it.
4/10
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
What Richard Did - sort of mumble core Irish social drama about an elite-y sporting lad who commits a random-ish crime and what ensues. all very very deliberately low-key and frankly not that interesting - not bad, but not a gripper.
The Double (2013) - slightly self-consciously weird and arty film by Richard Ayoade based on a novella by Dostoevsky. Another Marmitey sort of film, because it's so stylised satire/nightmare and it's a bit too cool for school, with a Korine co-scripting and Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska starring (they're both excellent, btw). But it's certainly original and distinctive, reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and with some real menace and chills at times. Plus a cameo role for Chris Morris!!! I liked it a lot.
The Double (2013) - slightly self-consciously weird and arty film by Richard Ayoade based on a novella by Dostoevsky. Another Marmitey sort of film, because it's so stylised satire/nightmare and it's a bit too cool for school, with a Korine co-scripting and Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska starring (they're both excellent, btw). But it's certainly original and distinctive, reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and with some real menace and chills at times. Plus a cameo role for Chris Morris!!! I liked it a lot.
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Persons of Interest - season 3; I think, just when I was thinking on giving up on it - the whole HR stuff. Enjoyable nonsense.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Straight Outta Compton
Biopic of NWA's rise. V. Tired so fell asleep halfway through but it appears to e your tandard growing-up-in-the-hood stuff at the moment, presumably p2 will cover easy e's death and the fame n fortune stuf. No sign of murder man suge yet
Biopic of NWA's rise. V. Tired so fell asleep halfway through but it appears to e your tandard growing-up-in-the-hood stuff at the moment, presumably p2 will cover easy e's death and the fame n fortune stuf. No sign of murder man suge yet
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Mad Men S1 Ep1.
Avoided for years 'cos I already work in an office with arseholes aplenty and its about advertising twats. Still, it looks good, the script and acting is great and we enjoyed it. I wasn't sure about the period misogyny but it's more of an important part of it than I'd first thought and makes it what it is. Not sure I really want to sit through seven series of it though.
Avoided for years 'cos I already work in an office with arseholes aplenty and its about advertising twats. Still, it looks good, the script and acting is great and we enjoyed it. I wasn't sure about the period misogyny but it's more of an important part of it than I'd first thought and makes it what it is. Not sure I really want to sit through seven series of it though.
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