What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Bit disappointing to hear, as it's by Penny Woolcock, who did the Tina films, which I loved
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Just watched this and I second this motion.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Starting watching Fargo. 4 eps in.
It's strange how it captures the whole look/feel/mood of the film and deliver characters that seem familar to those in the film while delivering a new story which is disconnected yet totally within the same universe. It's cleverly achieved. I'm enjoying.
Martin Freeman reminds me of Norman Wisdom in it.
It's strange how it captures the whole look/feel/mood of the film and deliver characters that seem familar to those in the film while delivering a new story which is disconnected yet totally within the same universe. It's cleverly achieved. I'm enjoying.
Martin Freeman reminds me of Norman Wisdom in it.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Field of Dreams. I like neither Costner nor baseball. I still like this though. "I'm Melting!"
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. The Flash changes history, things are fucked up. Gorier than most of this kind of thing, good voice-acting. Direct link on google, too.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. The Flash changes history, things are fucked up. Gorier than most of this kind of thing, good voice-acting. Direct link on google, too.
I don't know, I thought he was playing the fool to an extent and that there's a lot more going on with him than the hapless slacker persona.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
If he was that good an actor, would he still be living in his parents house at age 35+?
What did you think of it as a doc, by the way? I'd never heard of this band "the National", but they seemed like a more boring version of Coldplay.
He had had some acting roles prior to making that film, lots of actor/arty types still at home at 30
I thought he managed to make a good documentary out of the most boring band tour ever.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I'm having a complete playthrough of One Foot in the Grave. Since I discovered let's plays on YT a couple of years ago, I've been giving the old sitcom DVDs a rest, but it's time for a change. OFITG really is riotously funny. To think it ended fifteen years ago 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the stone classic is the episode set entirely in the car in traffic with him, mrs warboise and mrs meldrew. I thought it couldn't crack me up these days but when he sticks the tape in and the mechanic have done a whole song cunting him offI'm having a complete playthrough of One Foot in the Grave. Since I discovered let's plays on YT a couple of years ago, I've been giving the old sitcom DVDs a rest, but it's time for a change. OFITG really is riotously funny. To think it ended fifteen years ago
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Frailty - bleak mucky serial-killer psychological drama with Matthew McConaughey as grown-up son of a psycho religiously-inspired murderer, who may or may not be leading police to solve all his dad's bonkers crimez. Good nasty Halloween fun, not massively gory but very unsettling because Psycho Dad is played by Bill Paxton the archetypal straight-arrow boring Midwestern good-guy good dad type … even has he coerces 2 young sons into getting busy with the farm implements. Good twist ending as well.
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
the stone classic is the episode set entirely in the car in traffic with him, mrs warboise and mrs meldrew. I thought it couldn't crack me up these days but when he sticks the tape in and the mechanic have done a whole song cunting him off
....the best moment has to be the one when he's trying ( unsuccessfully ofcourse ) to push a car off a cliff...its those 3 or 4 seconds of pure comedy gold when the viewer knows before he does that his own car has slipped the handbrake and is rolling with gathering speed towards the precipitous void....
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
That one was surprisingly funny, and the actress who played the young street kid could have been very good in the kind of "bad girl" roles Barbara Stanwyck used to do. I think that was the problem though - it made you realise just how much better the old Hollywood classics like It Happened One Night and Sullivan's Travels were.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
"With a little Sex"...
Nick Offerman is popping up everywhere at the moment (he& his wife played the human I laws on hotel Transylvania 2) he's generally typecast but so good you don't care.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
20 Feet from Stardom & Miss Simone, What Happened?
Both inspiring, spirited, sad and revealing.
I thought I knew a good amount about Nina Simone's life, but there was a big chunk I hadn't realised.
That someone who was such a strong, powerful, outspoken individual in the civil rights movement went home to be beaten and raped by her husband was difficult to comprehend and hard to learn.
Footage of Simone in Paris during her fall from grace was shocking too. I always imagined her living a bit of a boho muso existence but she was really down and out and broken.
Both inspiring, spirited, sad and revealing.
I thought I knew a good amount about Nina Simone's life, but there was a big chunk I hadn't realised.
That someone who was such a strong, powerful, outspoken individual in the civil rights movement went home to be beaten and raped by her husband was difficult to comprehend and hard to learn.
Footage of Simone in Paris during her fall from grace was shocking too. I always imagined her living a bit of a boho muso existence but she was really down and out and broken.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Mr Robot - basically everyone on urban needs to watch this ASAP as it could not be more relevant to average poster's interests. Top.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Where's that on? Or was it a box set?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Jurassic World and Mad Max: Fury Road
Jurassic World was pretty easy watching with a few decent action moments, but the plot was silly and the kid actors were irritating beyond belief. Chris Pratt was likeable enough but a bit too secure in his own awesomeness. Overall the whole thing felt surprisingly small considering the pedigree of Jurassic Park, and how it's managed to become the 3rd highest grossing film of all time I don't know. 6/10
Mad Max was great from an action perspective, basically one non-stop chase scene, but all the things that gave it it's strength (hardly slowing down, barely any dialogue, film-as-pure-visual-experience) were also what stopped it being a coherent film IMO.
Charlize Theron's character was great, but there's no indication of why she's picked this moment to turn on her captors and rescue the 'wives', it's an example of incomplete info that the film is littered with. Nitpicky perhaps, but it pulled me out of the film several times, as did the repetitive assaults on the War Rig, it all got a bit samey.
Tom Hardy didn't really add much besides squinting (I'd argue Nicholas Hoult put in the best performance of the film, at least his character was sketched out quickly but instantly easy to empathise with).
That said, a stunning film to look at and respect to the practical effects used, maybe it was one I should have seen on the big screen - 7/10
Jurassic World was pretty easy watching with a few decent action moments, but the plot was silly and the kid actors were irritating beyond belief. Chris Pratt was likeable enough but a bit too secure in his own awesomeness. Overall the whole thing felt surprisingly small considering the pedigree of Jurassic Park, and how it's managed to become the 3rd highest grossing film of all time I don't know. 6/10
Mad Max was great from an action perspective, basically one non-stop chase scene, but all the things that gave it it's strength (hardly slowing down, barely any dialogue, film-as-pure-visual-experience) were also what stopped it being a coherent film IMO.
Charlize Theron's character was great, but there's no indication of why she's picked this moment to turn on her captors and rescue the 'wives', it's an example of incomplete info that the film is littered with. Nitpicky perhaps, but it pulled me out of the film several times, as did the repetitive assaults on the War Rig, it all got a bit samey.
Tom Hardy didn't really add much besides squinting (I'd argue Nicholas Hoult put in the best performance of the film, at least his character was sketched out quickly but instantly easy to empathise with).
That said, a stunning film to look at and respect to the practical effects used, maybe it was one I should have seen on the big screen - 7/10
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Imperator Furiosa much like max had just had enough. 'As the world fell, each of us in our own way were broken'
It's the finest of the Mad Max films. There is a version- called 'Black and Chrome' that is done in b&w with no dialouge. Thats the one the director says he wanted to release if he could have persuaded people to give him money to do it. It got leaked on the internet as a fan edit job but has now vanished.
I fucking loved it. Immortan Joe
it wasn't perhaps the most coherent of narratives but then its just a big long car chase. But fuck me. I left the cinema wanting to be a Warboy
It's the finest of the Mad Max films. There is a version- called 'Black and Chrome' that is done in b&w with no dialouge. Thats the one the director says he wanted to release if he could have persuaded people to give him money to do it. It got leaked on the internet as a fan edit job but has now vanished.
I fucking loved it. Immortan Joe
it wasn't perhaps the most coherent of narratives but then its just a big long car chase. But fuck me. I left the cinema wanting to be a Warboy
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Live the dream, my friend, live the dreamExcellent. A programme about pub quizzes and long distance walking
seventh bullet
sovietwave
And Metal Beard, of course.
I recently saw The Guest. Slick, silly and very very good. Dan Stevens is great fun as the psychopathic killing machine making himself at home.
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