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

[ringo]

My boy was young when these came out so we saw them all at the cinema. Watching with kids helps, their excitement is infectious and helps lower the old critical shields...

Exactly. I've been completely meh about Star Wars for years, but watching them with my nipper and seeing how excited she is has got me appreciating them again. Attempting to throw out all of your preconceptions and intolerances helps, it's worked with literature for me for a few years now and I'm applying it to other things. Even watched a Bond film again.

 

[ringo]

Watching them with cats makes no difference on the other hand. I know, I've tried. Still crap.

I'll lend you a nipper for a week

 

[Reno]

I'll lend you a nipper for a week

I've borrowed my friend's teenagers to introduce them the the Godfather films, Alien and Blade Runner and that worked. The younger one didn't like Blade Runner but otherwise they went down a treat. They are too old and cool for Star Wars now (and they have probably seen them when they were smaller anyways.)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Exactly. I've been completely meh about Star Wars for years, but watching them with my nipper and seeing how excited she is has got me appreciating them again. Attempting to throw out all of your preconceptions and intolerances helps, it's worked with literature for me for a few years now and I'm applying it to other things. Even watched a Bond film again.

My boy got into Brosnan's Bond. Even had the Brosnan Bond Action Man

 

[sovereignb]

Ex-Machina - really enjoyed this but the ending didn't make much sense.

 

[Reno]

Ex-Machina - really enjoyed this but the ending didn't make much sense.

Why not ? Isn't that what the whole thing is geared towards ?

 

[sovereignb]

Why not ? Isn't that what the whole thing is geared towards ?

My only issue is how it got on the plane when the pilot had come to collect someone else...didn't understand that but its a small gripe.

 

[Chz]

I watched Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Now I like my arthouse stuff, and I think I have a fairly high tolerance for artistic wankitude when it serves a purpose. Buuuut...

I fell asleep. Palme D'Or, critics' darling, 88% on RT. Well it's rubbish. There is some excuse that it's supposed to be a small part of a larger art installation and blah-diddy-blah-blah-blah. But it's boring, and it's crap.

The last time I hated a critics' favourite this much was Under The Skin. At least that divided opinion and not everyone loved it.

 

[ringo]

Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope aka Star Wars innit

We were supposed to watch Revenge Of The Sith but I'd accidentally downloaded that crappy animation Clone Wars instead of episode 3. Me and the littlun decided it must be shit and we could go straight on to the original.

Hadn't seen it since 1978, when it was the birthday party treat of every boy at school, so I saw it three times at the cinema. Really enjoyed watching it with the littlun (12). The tiddler (6) was scared and had to sit on my lap hiding; just the right amount of scary and exciting to make them both completely obsessed with it. The constant light sabre battles they've had since are exactly the same as everyone did when it came out. That sums it up, it really has aged well and still has exactly the same affect on kids. Even the effects don't seem as dated as I thought they might, it doesn't look nearly 40 years old.

 

[DotCommunist]

Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope aka Star Wars innit

We were supposed to watch Revenge Of The Sith but I'd accidentally downloaded that crappy animation Clone Wars instead of episode 3. Me and the littlun decided it must be shit and we could go straight on to the original.

Hadn't seen it since 1978, when it was the birthday party treat of every boy at school, so I saw it three times at the cinema. Really enjoyed watching it with the littlun (12). The tiddler (6) was scared and had to sit on my lap hiding; just the right amount of scary and exciting to make them both completely obsessed with it. The constant light sabre battles they've had since are exactly the same as everyone did when it came out. That sums it up, it really has aged well and still has exactly the same affect on kids. Even the effects don't seem as dated as I thought they might, it doesn't look nearly 40 years old.

I take it you watched the version that was touched up and changed in the 90s? Special edition one, got a cinema release?

if so thats why it doesn't look like its from '77 (even tho the OG still looks good it does show its age)

also revenge of the Sith is indeed shit but the final duel between anakin and obi wan is good.

 

[DotCommunist]

I saw the latest American Horror Story episodes.

I think its quite good even if the story makes no real sense ATM, Lady Gaga and Kathy Bates plus the bald gay receptionist make the core team. Identikit blandly hansome american men who I can't really tell apart, not so much

 

[ringo]

I take it you watched the version that was touched up and changed in the 90s? Special edition one, got a cinema release?

if so thats why it doesn't look like its from '77 (even tho the OG still looks good it does show its age)

also revenge of the Sith is indeed shit but the final duel between anakin and obi wan is good.

Ooh, dunno. It was a rip a mate got of a Blu Ray release, but reading about that on Wikipedia just made my brain hurt so I have no idea.

We'll watch episode 3 some time, but now we're in a race to watch ESB and ROJ so I can take her to see the new one at the cinema in the Xmas holidays.

 

[krtek a houby]

Django Unchained. Much preferred it to Inglorious Basterds - Christoph Waltz was magnificent in both, mind.

 

[teqniq]

Watched just now. Sci fi short. Reminded me of Pat Cadigan novels, Synners and Fools.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Just thoroughly enjoyed Ant Man. The first marvel film in ages to be a fun ride. It was daft, but entertaining daft.

 

[teqniq]

Yes I saw that last week. Lots of comedy moments/lines. I like that it didn't take itself seriously at all.

'This is the work of Gypsies!'

 

[sovereignb]

A film called Pretty Persuasions - a slightly darker version of "Election"...funny, inappropriate and with a great underlying political commentary.
Good little find

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Gunman.

Sean Penn made a poor choice to star in this film. It plods along with a stale plot and offers little to get excited about. Trying to do a Neeson with Penn has not worked here. I'm still not convinced it worked with Neeson.

I like watching Penn on screen, but I turned this film off. It was dull.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Gave it another go this afternoon....cos I hate not finishing a film.

Fell asleep.

 

[rekil]

The Wave - Norwegian disaster fillum about a mountain that's going to fall into a fjord and cause a wave (hence the title) which will destroy Gerainger. All cliches present and correct. Boss who won't listen, genius geologist having a domestic, fuckwit teenager, coward freakout etc. Amazing scenery and very unpleasant drowning scene.

I also watched Hamlet 2 and The Parole Officer. The less said about them the better I think.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched the jimmy saville meets louis theroux docu with two people who hadn't seen it before. Crikey, seemed dodgy enough at the time but in retrospect its far worse

 

[8115]

Two days, one night, really beautiful French film about a woman recovering from depression at risk of losing her job. Really gentle.

 

[Reno]

I started rewatching The X-Files after getting the Blu-Ray box set of the entire show as an early Christmas present for myself. Watched the first three episodes which hold up well. Now there is a batch of rubbish episodes coming up. Will have to see whether I'll watch them all or skip the lesser ones.

Tangerine, which got a lot of attention for having been shot on an iPhone. Quite funny in places this film about LA transgender sex workers is no Pretty Woman, which us just as well. Not as good as Sean Baker's last film Starlet though, which unfortunately never got a release here.

Howl, British horror film which basically is Werewolves On A Train. Not bad, though it seems like the people who made the film have never been on a train in the UK.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Howl, British horror film which basically is Werewolves On A Train. Not bad, though it seems like the people who made the film have never been on a train in the UK.

Probably never even seen a proper werewolf either

 

[Reno]

Probably never even seen a proper werewolf either

Werewolves always look a bit rubbish. The only werewolf designs I've really liked so far were the ones in the original The Howling. Even the one in An American Werewolf in London (the greatest werewolf film ever made) looked more like a wild boar when fully transformed. The werewolves in this looked great at a distance and not so great close up, but they weren't the worst ones I've seen.

 

[DaveCinzano]

(the greatest werewolf film ever made)

You've earned yourself a reprieve

 

[Idris2002]

There were Werewolves in that What we do in the shadows think I watched last night. Great gas altogether.

Friday night I watched Le Cercle Rouge. A film noir in colour, if you can imagine such a thing. Also very good.

 

[Reno]

There were Werewolves in that What we do in the shadows think I watched last night. Great gas altogether.

My favourite film of the year, featuring my favourite line of dialogue ever!

 

[Orang Utan]

My favourite film of the year, featuring my favourite line of dialogue ever!

Is it the one about virgins?

 

[Reno]

Is it the one about virgins?

Spoiler

"We are werewolves, not swear wolves!"