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

frogwoman said:
I'm writing a story atm with a prison escape in it and I watched a documentary about the IRA breakout from the Maze prison in 1983, got about halfway through just before I fell asleep. It's really good so far :eek:
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linkage m8s? I need something serious to watch after the ever-more-ludicrous but funny American Horror Story: Hotel
 
DotCommunist said:
:d yeah it sounds like it would be.
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It was meant to be one of the most difficult Prisons in Europe to escape from but the IRA smuggled guns in to it and planned their operation with "military precision". Part of what they did was to act all matey with the screws so that they would think that they had broken them and act all relaxed around security systems, start leaving doors unlocked etc, they did this over a period of many months :eek:
 
The Rover, directed by David Michôd who also made the excellent Animal Kingdom.

It's set in a post econimic collapse Australia, not quite Mad Max world...but close, it's lawless and desolate, and grim. Guy Pearce plays a guy who just wants his car back...

That's about it. Pearce and Robert Pattinson make a fairly nothing film incredibly watchable. Great score too.
 
so watched the Maze prison break docu, good stuff
American horror story: Hotel. Lady gaga joins the familiar cast in what is already basicaly sex, gore, humour and horror film pastiches
Dusk Till Dawn series 2, episodes 5-8

very good indeed.

Heroes Reborn catch up run tonight
 
I watched Jarhead; I thought I might like it but I found it to be really good, especially as there wasn't much actual fighting in it, more how the characters dealt with what they had to do. Performances were really good other than a few generic grunt types, but Gyllenhall was terrific - the bit where he tried to apologise was fantastic acting imo
Plus some of the shots were visually astonishing.
 
Love and Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic. A lot better than I expected.

Paul Dano is young hitmaker Wilson, John Cusack the old Wilson, trapped in the clutches of abusive hustler Eugene Landy, played by Paul Giamatti.

Elizabeth Banks plays Brian W.'s potential rescuer. Will she be able to rescue him? Watch it for yourself.
 
Gary Busey would never be in a load of old pony now would he?


I've lined up Robocop the uncut version for tonight so I can see what the cut ultraviolence adds. The torrent came with a commentary track from verhoeven and others so I'll watch it with that on, given how often I've seen various cuts I don't need to follow every line of dialouge.
 
The ultraviolence of robocop was fairly tame, but the voice over from verhoeven and co was brilliant. As he's describing what he was trying to do with the unease of comedy/violence and this hper reality- the exaggeration of it all I was nodding along, you can see exactly the same style and themes teased out in the later starship troopers. will look for a few more directors commentaries to films I know well I think.
 
The Paperboy - bonkers, overheated, Southern-gothic murder/mystery/thriller sort of thing directed by Lee Daniels (Precious) and a stonking worlds-colliding cast (Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, Zac Efron, Macy Gracy (!) John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey, who're all brilliant.) It's completely over the top and doesn't make much sense at all but it's weirdly compelling.
 
12 Years a Slave.
It was a gift so I had to watch it really, although I didn't want to. It was as I thought, hard to watch and gives the viewer a helplessness, sorrow, and well, sod It, I (allegedly) cried a lot.
Surprisingly I had a tiny bit of empathy for the some of the slave owners who were caught in their own nightmares and would have found it difficult to escape from that society.
I thought the cast was very good.
 
The Homesman - Tommy Lee Jones stars and directs this tale of one woman, a very good Hilary Swank, taking three other women, who are cracking up in the brutality of 1850's Nebraska (and/or their shitty husbands) back Home, to Ohio. It starts well, and looks great, but also looks like a middle aged man trying hard to tell a feminist tale. Some of the brutality is laid on with a trowel, and TLJ himself is just not very good. Absurd in places, in fact.

It gets a bit better after the 'shocking incident', but that really just stands in contradiction to everything else the film was trying to do. Okay, but not as good as it should have been.
 
Catch Me Daddy...fucking harrowing, briliiantly acted...very violent and extremely sad. Don't watch it if you're feeling poorly or unhinged...
 
trabuquera said:
The Paperboy - bonkers, overheated, Southern-gothic murder/mystery/thriller sort of thing directed by Lee Daniels (Precious) and a stonking worlds-colliding cast (Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, Zac Efron, Macy Gracy (!) John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey, who're all brilliant.) It's completely over the top and doesn't make much sense at all but it's weirdly compelling.
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I liked it...but yes, tis bonkers!
 
The Principles of Lust - well up there as one of the worst films I have EVER seen, and the competition is fierce. Grim, pretentious, po-faced, miserable, "look at me I'm so daring" tale of a wannabe writer who can't decide whether to settle down with his nice single-mother GF or keep going out on the lash for lots of decadent drugssexdrugs with his evil BF (Marc Warren doing his best to be charismatic-demonic). Set in Sheffield. It's just painful - surely one of those Lottery-funded Britfilms which attracted about 7 people to the cinema. Do not bother, it doesn't even have kitsch or laugh value.
 
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