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

[DotCommunist]

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.

the son of the mad genius also stars in that fucking hilarious remake of Red Dawn as the marine who whips the kids into insurgents par ecellance

 

[magneze]

the son of the mad genius also stars in that fucking hilarious remake of Red Dawn as the marine who whips the kids into insurgents par ecellance

Wasn't he in Dawson's Creek too? (So I'm told anyway, not that I watched it)

 

[DotCommunist]

Wasn't he in Dawson's Creek too? (So I'm told anyway, not that I watched it)

alas my knowledge of teen soaps goes no further than Heartbreak High, Moesha and Sister Sister

 

[The Boy]

Wasn't he in Dawson's Creek too? (So I'm told anyway, not that I watched it)

Pacey, I believe.

 

[The Boy]

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"

fair enough. The suggestion of linkage was enough for me - your review confirm for met hat my decision was teh correct one.

 

[Orang Utan]

the son of the mad genius also stars in that fucking hilarious remake of Red Dawn as the marine who whips the kids into insurgents par ecellance

No he doesn't! Jeffry Dean Morgan and Joshua Jackson don't even look alike!

 

[DotCommunist]

yes they do. But I accept I may be mistaken

 

[The Octagon]

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

I thoroughly enjoyed all of Fringe, it's batshit insane but the leads are all brilliant, and don't worry, it's much better at internal consistency and plot resolution than X-Files or Lost.

 

[Reno]

I thoroughly enjoyed all of Fringe, it's batshit insane but the leads are all brilliant, and don't worry, it's much better at internal consistency and plot resolution than X-Files or Lost.

The X-Files mostly consisted of stand alone episodes and those were on the whole better than the ones in Fringe. It never was a heavily serialised show like Lost and only about a quarter of each season was devoted to an ongoing story. With The X-Files the mytholgy episodes lost their way by season 5, with Fringe I always felt the show was treading water with its stand alones, but the mythology episodes were better. Fringe still owed an awful lot to The X-Files though and while a decent enough show, I never thought it was good as The X-Files at its best.

 

[The Octagon]

The X-Files mostly consisted of stand alone episodes and those were on the whole better than the ones in Fringe. It never was a heavily serialised show like Lost and only about a quarter of each season was devoted to an ongoing story. With The X-Files the mytholgy episodes lost their way by season 5, with Fringe I always felt the show was treading water with its stand alones, but the mythology episodes were better. Fringe still owed an awful lot to The X-Files though and while a decent enough show, I never thought it was good as The X-Files at its best.

Honestly I just didn't enjoy a lot of The X-Files, I enjoyed the characters and their chemistry, and several standalone episodes, but the overarcing plot was a mess and IMO Fringe was more focused and took far greater risks with better results.

X-Files made Fringe (and a lot of what we now call 'The Golden Age of TV') possible, but in all honesty a lot of it was filler.

Spoiler: for later seasons of fringe, don't read if you're not finished

Mulder's absence really hurt X-Files, whereas Peter's propelled the story in interesting ways

 

[Reno]

Watched the first four episodes of Ash vs The Evil Dead. The pilot may just be the best incarnation of The Evil Dead ever, but after that it quickly seems to run out of ideas.

Then I watched the first episode of Making a Murderer and though: he set the family cat on fire, he deserves everything he got.

 

[fishfinger]

I've just finished watching Suffragette. Brave, brave women. I'm still crying as I type this.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I've just finished watching Suffragette. Brave, brave women. I'm still crying as I type this.

That bit at end where David Bowie dies is very sad.

 

[fishfinger]

That bit at end where David Bowie dies is very sad.

Fuck off

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Started Fringe.

What totally watchable nonsense.

Much like Person of Interest.

I shall continue.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Fuck off

Ooh...handbag

 

[fishfinger]

Ooh...handbag

No. Really FUCK OFF!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

No. Really FUCK OFF!

What's your problem. Ffs. Get over yourself.

 

[felixthecat]

Watched Child44 - wasn't as dire as I was lead to believe, more turgid and heavy that strictly rubbish. A good story, some good acting but a bit like wading through treacle.

Any film starring Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman should be brilliant - this sadly wasn't, even though Mr Hardy thinks its one of his best acting performances.

 

[krtek a houby]

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.

Yup. Season 1 is a bit X Files but the underlying story arc just gets better and better.

 

[Teenage Cthulhu]

That bit at end where David Bowie dies is very sad.

It got too much for me when Alan Rickman came into the room with a spoon

 

[Teenage Cthulhu]

We watched The Circle with an old friend last night who recommended it to us.


The Circle

"Jafar Panahi's political edge has never been more searing or devastating than in "The Circle." The movie centers on the interconnected stories of several women in Tehran and paints a crippling portrait of how the country treats its female citizens. Be it a new grandmother who is upset to learn her daughter has given birth to a baby girl — she knows her son-in-law won't be happy with such results — or a group of escaped prisoners whose attempt to flee the city are constantly upended by strict and sexist laws (i.e women aren't allowed to travel alone), Panahi keeps the stories of female suffering spinning without any sense of closure or background. The result is a powerful wake-up call for international viewers that is impossible to shake."

 

[fishfinger]

What's your problem. Ffs. Get over yourself.

First you responded to my post, with gross insensitivity to my stated feelings (bonus points for turning it into a Bowie joke before his ashes are even cold). Then you manage to make a sexist reference to handbags (irony much).

Now, I know you enjoy the sartorial aesthetic of the 1960s (which is fine), but you might want to try to bring your attitudes into this century.

As for me getting over myself - What do you mean?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

First you responded to my post, with gross insensitivity to my stated feelings (bonus points for turning it into a Bowie joke before his ashes are even cold). Then you manage to make a sexist reference to handbags (irony much).

Now, I know you enjoy the sartorial aesthetic of the 1960s (which is fine), but you might want to try to bring your attitudes into this century.

As for me getting over myself - What do you mean?

Don't be fucking daft. The handbag thing is not in anyway sexist. It's a very popular method of calling out a humorless twit much used by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.......and I'm sure Bowie's ashes were cold quite quickly after his cremation, that is part of the process.

As I said. Get over yourself.

This is a fairly light hearted thread and your reaction has been well over the top and continues to be.

Give it a rest now.

 

[fishfinger]

Don't be fucking daft. The handbag thing is not in anyway sexist. It's a very popular method of calling out a humorless twit much used by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.......and I'm sure Bowie's ashes were cold quite quickly after his cremation, that is part of the process.

As I said. Get over yourself.

This is a fairly light hearted thread and your reaction has been well over the top and continues to be.

Give it a rest now.

Handbags is short for "handbags at dawn" which is very much a sexist reference to women supposedly using the aforementioned articles when fighting.

I really don't know what you mean by "get over yourself". Is it some sort of reference to my* very real feelings?



* Bear in mind that I am autistic, and my emotional responses are likely to be more extreme than most.

 

[Chz]

Babadook.

Alright, and a decent flick (if telegraphing everything from the word go is alright). But hideously overrated on RT.

 

[Maharani]

Sorry to interject and I know Nanker can fight his own battles, but I know he doesn't have a sexist bone in his body.

I also agree that this is a lighthearted thread and it'd be nice to keep it so.

 

[Idris2002]

This episode of Callan, featuring Edward Woodward as the eponymous secret agent:



"The entire section goes on red alert when Liz, Hunter's ever-punctual secretary, fails to show up for work. Trying to trace her, Callan begins to suspect that Liz's disappearance involves not an enemy from the present, but a ghost from her past."

I thought it was very good indeed, even if Callan's boss does look like an unearthly cross between Frankie Howerd and Leonid Brezhnev.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Handbags is short for "handbags at dawn" which is very much a sexist reference to women supposedly using the aforementioned articles when fighting.

I really don't know what you mean by "get over yourself". Is it some sort of reference to my* very real feelings?



* Bear in mind that I am autistic, and my emotional responses are likely to be more extreme than most.

I'm not going to engage with you on this any longer. I have nothing to prove or win, and I doubt it's doing you any favours.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Forced myself to watch the final part of The Hobbit trilogy last night. I've been putting it of for ages, but as I am having sleepless nights due to Bronchitis I figured a 3 hour fantasy film might send me to sleep....

It didn't send me to sleep, but it was boring. Those films really jumped the shark. the plot, like the fight scenes, went on and on, characters were thinly sketched and there was nothing that made me care who lived/died/died and came back to life.

Jackson SFX seem to have got worse and worse since the first Lord of the Rings films....from King Kong onwards they look rushed and 'acceptable'

Clearly Ian McKellen was not available much because there were so many shots of a random dressed as Gandalf stood in the background with his hat low to his beard, that it was quite fun spotting the stand in.