Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Glenn Miller Story (1954). Jimmy Stewart brings a lump to the throat (albeit it in a jazz lite way) again.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Fantasy film jumps the shark shocker
I really should have avoided it....but felt I had to finish what I'd started.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they should never have added non book material to pad it to three films then, and get this, favour the new material over giving the treasured beats from the written story decent treatment! Maggotry of the highest order. Wasted Beorn, made Radagast a dickhead by having him in itetc etc
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Just be prepared for much fish based acrobatics in the new Star Wars flick (if you haven't already seen it)
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Just be prepared for much fish based acrobatics in the new Star Wars flick (if you haven't already seen it)
Seen and loved.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Its got one of my favourite lines of dialogue in it. Surely "“what you just did there, that was pretty sneaky" made you laugh.
It was a funny line, but he would have been protected from the brunt of the blow from the bear trap by the guy who had landed on top of him so totes would have been fine.
It really is, isn't it. It's decent enough, and when my partner and I watched it we were in the middle of a flurry of really awful horror films that seemed to bask in their awfulness, so it was refreshing to see someone making an effort to make something good but it was good and no more, imo.
See also: It Follows. Good film, but from some of the hype (which I admittedly only picked up on after watching) you'd think it was the horror genre's answer to The Third Man or something.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Indeliblelink
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Rotten Tomatoes I'm guessing.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Watched a couple more eps of Fringe. There's some really duff shit in it, and already one throwaway episode and I'm only 5 in.
The overall premise is good, and I like the Mad Professor idea and the whole 50s sci fi retro nod introduced with the Observer. The shady corporation, the secret government cells, the blurred lines between terrorism and global defence, technology, science, sci-fi and the paranormal all offer endless opportunities to blend and bend genres to fit these bonkers/half baked stories....
So, it's fun, but It's silly. I am enjoying it.
I think Person of Interest is better. Abrams is involved in that with the Nolans (the Brothers not the sisters). That's more grounded in tech and science and public surveillance. It has its fair share of throwaway eps too...
The overall premise is good, and I like the Mad Professor idea and the whole 50s sci fi retro nod introduced with the Observer. The shady corporation, the secret government cells, the blurred lines between terrorism and global defence, technology, science, sci-fi and the paranormal all offer endless opportunities to blend and bend genres to fit these bonkers/half baked stories....
So, it's fun, but It's silly. I am enjoying it.
I think Person of Interest is better. Abrams is involved in that with the Nolans (the Brothers not the sisters). That's more grounded in tech and science and public surveillance. It has its fair share of throwaway eps too...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Galaxy Quest
seen it before but its still good.
seen it before but its still good.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Rotten Tomatoes, as Indelibleink says. It's only just occurred to me that Russia Today gets enough viewers/readers now that it might actually be confused with it without explicit context.
And yeah, Galaxy Quest is good fun. Should be part of any Alan Rickman marathon.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
The Backwoods
Good idea but I thought ALL of the acting was dire. I love both Oldman and Considine but they weren't at their best at all. Both of the women were god awful.
Jimi Hendrix: All is By My Side (on Netflix)
Biopic of the early days of Jimi Hendrix. Andre Benjamin was absolutely superb playing Jimi. I actually believed it was him throughout the film. He did his voice excellently. Shame the makers decided to add some very negative untruths about him. There was talk of hi ex gf suing them.
I enjoyed it regardless. Acting in it was ace and the music obv.
I do like a good biopic.
Just went to see Room. Was hard to watch, very moving. Brilliantly acted. The kid was the best.
Good idea but I thought ALL of the acting was dire. I love both Oldman and Considine but they weren't at their best at all. Both of the women were god awful.
Jimi Hendrix: All is By My Side (on Netflix)
Biopic of the early days of Jimi Hendrix. Andre Benjamin was absolutely superb playing Jimi. I actually believed it was him throughout the film. He did his voice excellently. Shame the makers decided to add some very negative untruths about him. There was talk of hi ex gf suing them.
I enjoyed it regardless. Acting in it was ace and the music obv.
I do like a good biopic.
Just went to see Room. Was hard to watch, very moving. Brilliantly acted. The kid was the best.
magneze
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Yeah, at that stage I think it's still finding it's feet. They get better around Ep 9/10. Am only on 12 at the moment.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Amy... Wouldn't have considered myself a fan (though this doc certainly proved her talents), but this is an excellent and heart-breaking film.
Reno
The In Kraut
Three episodes into Making a Murderer and not as gripped by it as the rest of the world seems to be. After listening to Serial and watching The Jinx (which I though was amazing) I've become maybe a little too familiar with the format. This was clearly comissioned by Netflx because of the success of the earlier two true crime series. Both of these had more fascinating or at least more engaging central characters than the redneck murder suspect in this. It's also no news to me how utterly fucked the US justice system is. I'll stick with it a little longer and hope the reason this is so popular is because it will become more interesting and unpredictable.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i recently downloaded Serial and got to the fifth episode, then read somewhere that you don't find out if he did it or not, so gave up.
I have Making Of A Murderer downloaded, and am now wary of watching it. I like closure.
I have Making Of A Murderer downloaded, and am now wary of watching it. I like closure.
Reno
The In Kraut
I think it's not too hard to make up your mind about whether he did it or not by the end of Serial. I know where I stand and I wasn't left dissatisfied by the end.
The Jinx is by far the best of the three (unless something amazingly unexpected happens in Making a Murderer). It's truly a story you could not make up. If it was fiction, it would be considered too far fetched. There were a couple of moments I found genuinely hair raising. Robert Durst, the central character, is also a freakishly fascinating character and he isn't even the only eccentric weirdo in it. It's also a beautiful piece of film making, almost like a David Lynch film come true.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
season finale of American Horror Story: Hotel
deffo not as strong as the first couple of series but beautifully done. The art deco hotel itself, all that 20-30s styling and some genuine jumps. Lady Gaga did ok, felt a bit flat in places but the character was designed to be this cold and aloof. I can't help wonder what the part would have been like played with Jessica Lange's flamboyance and intensity. Bald guy and kathy bates alsoo good. Not sure what was going on with the whole vampirical subtext here, the ghosts trapped in a hotel run by vamps with a few tame demons? but overall it hung together.
deffo not as strong as the first couple of series but beautifully done. The art deco hotel itself, all that 20-30s styling and some genuine jumps. Lady Gaga did ok, felt a bit flat in places but the character was designed to be this cold and aloof. I can't help wonder what the part would have been like played with Jessica Lange's flamboyance and intensity. Bald guy and kathy bates alsoo good. Not sure what was going on with the whole vampirical subtext here, the ghosts trapped in a hotel run by vamps with a few tame demons? but overall it hung together.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Labyrinth - so much fun. Bowie is a bit wooden in it and I really didn't need to see his cock and balls bouncing around in his grey JD Sports sweatpants, but the puppet characters are ace - I especially liked the posh English foxthing Sir Didymus who had absurd sense of entitlement and just assumed he'd win at everything because he was an aristocrat.
Then for some reason, I reaaaally don't know what, I watched Michael Jackson's Ghosts. It's really fucking weird and even fucking weirder in hindsight. It's basically an extended dance video, with Jackson in various guises as himself, a skeleton, a ghoul and a white old man - see what I mean?
Some villagers turn up at his house to pitchfork him out of town so he weirds them out even more - the adults are freaked out and scared but the children are delighted.
One of the villagers is a young Mos Def/Yaasin Bey, Make up and direction by the dependable and ubiquitous Stan Winston.
File under curate's egg
Then for some reason, I reaaaally don't know what, I watched Michael Jackson's Ghosts. It's really fucking weird and even fucking weirder in hindsight. It's basically an extended dance video, with Jackson in various guises as himself, a skeleton, a ghoul and a white old man - see what I mean?
Some villagers turn up at his house to pitchfork him out of town so he weirds them out even more - the adults are freaked out and scared but the children are delighted.
One of the villagers is a young Mos Def/Yaasin Bey, Make up and direction by the dependable and ubiquitous Stan Winston.
File under curate's egg
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Just watched Ex Machina - fucking superb !
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Watching Drive again- also superb and engrossing
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