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

[seventh bullet]

The Revenant

quite good. Di Caprio gets fucked up quite a lot.By a massive bear to start with. At one point he pulled the 'I'm so hard I cuaterise my wound with gunpowder' move which I always enjoy

I think I'll see that at the cinema.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think I'll see that at the cinema.

yeah the scenery is breathtaking even on my home widescreen monitor. The initial bear attack reminded me never to visit bear country. It just went savage on him. Cinema would favour some of those amazing shots

 

[ringo]

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes - Dull. Long, long stretches of film where nothing happens. Huge build ups to make relatively small and obvious comparisons between humans and apes with the occasional battle thrown in as a desperate attempt to keep it entertaining.

 

[magneze]

Parallels
Alternative Earth concept film. Quite good. In the end, I thought it would make a good TV series. After investigating turned out that this was the intention. Hope they make it, it was a good setup.

 

[SamSav]

Watched 'The Jinx' last night based on another member's recommendation in the 'Making a Murderer' thread and it was brilliant. Another gripping whodunnit type doc with an amazing ending.

 

[belboid]

What We Did In The Shadows - very entertaining, just the right side of silly.

Ex Machina - for the first fifteen minutes or so, I really didn't think I was going to enjoy this. But then I started to, and it only got better. I may have a couple of philosophical quibbles about the ending, but fuck 'em. Quite brilliant film.

 

[DotCommunist]

Parallels
Alternative Earth concept film. Quite good. In the end, I thought it would make a good TV series. After investigating turned out that this was the intention. Hope they make it, it was a good setup.

this is a terible film

 

[Chz]

Wild - Reese Witherspoon escapes from her life by going on a very long walk, meets lots of smug twats on the way, looks at mountains and stuff, finds meaning in the universe.

Under no circumstances watch this film. It is terrible.

I have to agree...

Okay, I don't think it was terrible. It's pretty and I like Reese. But that's about all it has going for it. I didn't think "Oh my god, I want those two hours back", but at no time did I actually enjoy myself either.

 

[magneze]

this is a terible film

It has potential as a TV series though.

 

[krtek a houby]

Headhunters - Norwegian thriller based on a stand alone Jo Nesbo effort. Thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[DotCommunist]

It has potential as a TV series though.

I'll give you that, I love a many worlds thing like Sliders. Even stargate had that potential of 'new world every week'

in the film though they only visit two worlds, one bombe out shithole and one about 5 years ahead of us in tech terms. A series could deffo do a lot more than that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

in the film though they only visit two worlds, one bombe out shithole and one about 5 years ahead of us in tech terms.

In real terms, isn't that just every possible iteration of Northampton?

 

[krtek a houby]

I'll give you that, I love a many worlds thing like Sliders. Even stargate had that potential of 'new world every week'

in the film though they only visit two worlds, one bombe out shithole and one about 5 years ahead of us in tech terms. A series could deffo do a lot more than that.

Best parallell universe show for me was Fringe.

 

[The Boy]

Bone Tomahawk. Rare hybrid of western and horror film. Starts out as The Searchers with four men setting out to search for an abducted woman (the wife of one of the men) and in the last third it turns into a 19th century The Hills Have Eyes when it turns out that who snatched her weren't just a regular Native American tribe. Pretty good, with a great cast including Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson (and a small role for a post-career implosion Sean Young). It may be too slow for some, but I liked the way it was paced and the way we get to know the four main characters during their search. When the film shifts into horror, it gets quite gruesome.

I spent an hour trawling through Genesis looking for something to watch that wouldn't need rewatched when the OH gets back later in the week. Spotted this and thought it looked an OK western but passed over it.

Went back to it on the basis of the above and glad I did. Probably should have read till the end of your post though - the scene with the deputy was a bit "Oh, they're done now. Oh, no they're going to do...oh...."

 

[rubbershoes]

Headhunters - Norwegian thriller based on a stand alone Jo Nesbo effort. Thoroughly enjoyable.

The book is worth reading

 

[The Boy]

The signal (2014). Not totally dreadful sci-fi effort. Was a bit silly though, and the end was telegraphed. Overall: meh.

 

[westpier]

Watched 'The Jinx' last night based on another member's recommendation in the 'Making a Murderer' thread and it was brilliant. Another gripping whodunnit type doc with an amazing ending.

I thought the Jinx was excellent, probably one of the best documentaries out there. I didn't look up any info before watching it which helped as the amount of surprises in it were great. Robert Durst himself made for compelling viewing along with his partner (though I think she was only in the first programme sadly).

 

[Virtual Blue]

Count Yorga, Vampire. 1970 exploitation flick which is a sentimental favourite and which basically is Dracula set in modern LA. Still fun.

That looks like a nice death.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Looked great. Excellent performance from Tilda Swinton. It wasn't an easy watch. I'm not it answered any of its own questions.

 

[The Boy]

The Parallax View (1974). Cold War paranoia and political assassinations and stuff. Decent enough way to pretend it was a bank holiday.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Backwoods - Gary Oldman and Paddy Considine star in a Deliverence/Straw Dogs type tale set in the Basque Country. They find the a girl chained up in a barn, and try to free her, much to the upset of the locals...

It's ok enough...passes 90 mins...

 

[SamSav]

I thought the Jinx was excellent, probably one of the best documentaries out there. I didn't look up any info before watching it which helped as the amount of surprises in it were great. Robert Durst himself made for compelling viewing along with his partner (though I think she was only in the first programme sadly).

Yeah I resisted the urge to Google it as well, enjoyed it much more than ones I've watched where I had an idea of what was going on. Desperately trying to find similar documentaries or short series similar to this but struggling so far.

 

[r0bb0]

I enjoyed watching this documentary as I always wanted to be at that table. Offers some insightful glimpses into the workings of the craft.
The directors include Quentin Tarantino ('The Hateful Eight'), Tom Hooper ('The Danish Girl'), Alejandro G. Inarritu ('The Revenant'), Ridley Scott ('The Martian'), Danny Boyle ('Steve Jobs') and David O. Russell ('Joy').

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Monster: Dark Continent.

Dull as fuck.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

47 Ronin.

Everything about it was poor. The story, the action, the acting, the casting, the special effects....everything was bad.

 

[The Boy]

Ravenous (1999). Cowardice and cannibalism with Robert Carlyle and Guy Pierce. Directed by the same person as Face (1995) and misses in much the same way. Interesting start buy pretty meh by the end.

He Who Dares (2014). Ok so I say we watched this, but we only really fastforwarded through it focusing on the funniest looking parts. Awful acting, script and just about everything else. Laughably bad. Someone on here once posted a blog that reviewed these ultra-low budget gangster/soldier/other tough guy-themed brit flicks. There's a reason it's a niche interest.

 

[DotCommunist]

Fringe

a series. Three eps in. JJ Abrams is on the opening credits and it rattles along nicely but I'm getting a huge x-files 'they will never explain half this mysterious shit' vibe. Its sort of sci fi but only 5 mins in the future. Say, a decade or two from now in terms of biotech and cybernetics and computing

 

[The Boy]

Monster: Dark Continent.

Dull as fuck.

Was going to watch this, but then I remembered how much I disliked Monsters.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Was going to watch this, but then I remembered how much I disliked Monsters.

The two films are pretty much disconnected....

ETA: "Tom Green wrote the screenplay with Jay Basu and the two had free rein to make what type of movie they wanted as long as it included monsters"

 

[magneze]

Fringe

a series. Three eps in. JJ Abrams is on the opening credits and it rattles along nicely but I'm getting a huge x-files 'they will never explain half this mysterious shit' vibe. Its sort of sci fi but only 5 mins in the future. Say, a decade or two from now in terms of biotech and cybernetics and computing

It's great. I'm on about episode 12 of the first series now. Gets really interesting. The science is completely fake throughout but it's just really enjoyable.