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

[DotCommunist]

you sad bastard

 

[Reno]

Half of the first episode of Girls. I might sue for my money back, plus compensation for my time and damages. It's terrible.

I think for the most part Girls is great. I also don't think you are supposed to like the characters.

 

[8115]

Inside Llewyn Davies. I really liked this film.

 

[Belushi]

The Leopard (Luchino Visconti 1963) Masterful adaptation of the classic Italian novel about a Sicilian Prince at the time of the risorgimento.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Leopard (Luchino Visconti 1963) Masterful adaptation of the classic Italian novel about a Sicilian Prince at the time of the risorgimento.

shame it doesn't have a leopard in it, though that dog is pretty impressive

 

[8115]

West. It was ok. If you weren't semi obsessed with divided Germany it would be pretty tedious I think.

 

[Idris2002]

Boardwalk Empire.

Episodes one and two, season one. Much better than I expected. Not one of those "intelligent" TV series that is just trying too hard, and ends up exposing the weakness of the medium.

 

[belboid]

Ginger & Rosa

Which has its moments. Couldn't quite decide if the adults were a bit crapply written, or whether that was just meant to reflect the ways the girls saw them. Ellie Fanning & Alice Englert were both great

 

[Idris2002]

Ginger & Rosa

Which has its moments. Couldn't quite decide if the adults were a bit crapply written, or whether that was just meant to reflect the ways the girls saw them. Ellie Fanning & Alice Englert were both great

I thought Christina Hendricks was great in it - I didn't recognise her until an hour in. The arsehole father was well done, and probably a noticeable "social type" on the bohemian left in them days.

 

[Belushi]

Rush (Ron Howard 2013) Gripping account of the F1 rivalry between between Niki Lauda and James Hunt.

 

[DotCommunist]

Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood as the escapee and him out of the Prisoner as the sadistic Governer. Good, v. good. Old school.

 

[8den]

Started watching Narcos. It's not terrible. Then because of a random urban thread started watching the mad death. Which is.

 

[seventh bullet]

The Drop. Good crime drama with Tom Hardy as a modest and seemingly dim barman who possesses certain skills. James Gandolfini is a fellow underworld minnow, a bitter relative playing a dangerous game with Chechen gangsters. Noomi Rapace is Hardy's new girlfriend, trying to recover from an abusive relationship while her scumbag ex, basking in local smalltime criminal notoriety, keeps getting in their way. Nothing new but well done.

 

[Yetman]

Her
Man has nice apartment and falls in love with his operating system. They make twee ukelele music together....

SPOILER

 

[Orang Utan]

SPOILER

Fuck that, I'm doing you a favour

 

[Idris2002]

More Boardwalk Empire.

Kelly Macdonald is probably the best thing in it, followed by the young lad who plays the trenches veteran turned gangland assassin.

But it's really not about Prohibition-era America at all, it's about post-Iraq War America (hence the trenches veteran turned gangland assassin).

If I liked this, would I like that Peaky Blinders? Enquiring minds want to know.

 

[Yetman]

Fuck that, I'm doing you a favour

I liked it! MODS

 

[DotCommunist]

More Boardwalk Empire.

Kelly Macdonald is probably the best thing in it, followed by the young lad who plays the trenches veteran turned gangland assassin.

But it's really not about Prohibition-era America at all, it's about post-Iraq War America (hence the trenches veteran turned gangland assassin).

If I liked this, would I like that Peaky Blinders? Enquiring minds want to know.

yes. Its different. But good. And cillians easier on the eye than buscemi whose face is coming to resemble a gonad more and more every day. Although Buscemi is the better actor so its swings and roundabouts



I watched eps 1&2 of Dusk Till Dawn srs 2. Now its off the film re-tread its even better

 

[The Octagon]

Gotham's back in the US, just watched Season 2 Episode 1.

No messing about either, things escalating all over the shop and the guy playing Penguin is as over the top and entertaining as ever.

 

[krtek a houby]

I hope to start season 2 of The Strain tonight. Still struggling with season 1 of Buffy...

 

[Idris2002]

yes. Its different. But good. And cillians easier on the eye than buscemi whose face is coming to resemble a gonad more and more every day. Although Buscemi is the better actor so its swings and roundabouts



I watched eps 1&2 of Dusk Till Dawn srs 2. Now its off the film re-tread its even better

Buscemi used to look like nothing on earth. . . now he looks like nothing on earth, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and pluto.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

A friend recommended Blackhat on the basis that I quite like shit action movies, and also movies with hilariously bad computer hacking scenes. What can I say, both things are true.

Blackhat is utterly, utterly without merit. It's fucking terrible. What the hell has happened to Michael Mann?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Inbred. Actually very enjoyable British horror comedy.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Birdman.

shit.

 

[DangDarn]

NightCrawler.

Wadafug awesome.

 

[8den]

I hope to start season 2 of The Strain tonight. Still struggling with season 1 of Buffy...

The Strain is breathtakingly terrible how you can turn a Guillmero del Toro produced tv series about a Vampire Apocalypse and somehow make it boring and stupid. It's almost awe inspiring

 

[krtek a houby]

The Strain is breathtakingly terrible how you can turn a Guillmero del Toro produced tv series about a Vampire Apocalypse and somehow make it boring and stupid. It's almost awe inspiring

I think it's quite fun, actually

 

[DotCommunist]

I couldn't get into the strain- gave it a fair shake of three episodes but it never grabbed me, despite the novel CDC angle

 

[8den]

I think it's quite fun, actually

What season are you on?

 

[krtek a houby]

What season are you on?

Season 2; just watched the opening post. It's not up there with Fringe/XFiles; it's more akin to Helix.