DotCommunist
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first half dozen eps of Trailer Park Boys. I lolled
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ant-Man
What a piece of shit.
Featuring one of the worst haircuts in movies since The Fifth Element.
But the subatomic sequence was well ketamine
What a piece of shit.
Featuring one of the worst haircuts in movies since The Fifth Element.
But the subatomic sequence was well ketamine
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Flatliners
I hadn't seen it in over a decade and the person with me had never seen it. I remembered the bones of a good story but had forgotten everything else including the cast! julia roberts, kiefer sutherland, michael douglas directing. Still holds up 7/10
I hadn't seen it in over a decade and the person with me had never seen it. I remembered the bones of a good story but had forgotten everything else including the cast! julia roberts, kiefer sutherland, michael douglas directing. Still holds up 7/10
sovereignb
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Sicario - 6/10. This film seemed to get alot of hype...dunno why, unless i really missed something deep about it, seen it done before more entertaingly...not a complete waste though.
Dope - 8/10 - i enjoyed this.
Dope - 8/10 - i enjoyed this.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Spotlight
Okay, so an interesting story (investigative reporters in Boston unearth evidence of cover-up by Catholic church of widespread child abuse by its priests), and some committed performances (Ruffalo, Keaton, McAdams, Schreiber), but there's no real 'wow' to it. I mean, the whole thing is there in the first five minutes.
Okay, so an interesting story (investigative reporters in Boston unearth evidence of cover-up by Catholic church of widespread child abuse by its priests), and some committed performances (Ruffalo, Keaton, McAdams, Schreiber), but there's no real 'wow' to it. I mean, the whole thing is there in the first five minutes.
It's established from the off some Catholic priests are abusing kids but avoiding prosecution; that the Cardinal and other diocesan officers are facilitating their avoidance of charges; that details of the abuse and the cover-ups were known to lawyers and even sent to the Globe several years earlier.
Essentially the investigative unit doesn't want to cover the story, but is made to by the incoming editor. All the evidence was provided to the paper years earlier by a victim/survivor who is viewed as something of a kook - there aren't really any leads the journalists chase which don't come from the cache of material he provides.
The only thing they come up with themselves is from reading the diocesan directories, where they note that suspected abusers are given bland labels such as 'on sick leave'. It's a good ten, fifteen minutes in the film (or hours/days in real life) before they come up with the plainly obvious idea to search through the directories for any priests with these labels as a means of flagging up previously unidentified abusers, rather than just using it as a confirmation tool for the priests they already knew about.
Essentially the investigative unit doesn't want to cover the story, but is made to by the incoming editor. All the evidence was provided to the paper years earlier by a victim/survivor who is viewed as something of a kook - there aren't really any leads the journalists chase which don't come from the cache of material he provides.
The only thing they come up with themselves is from reading the diocesan directories, where they note that suspected abusers are given bland labels such as 'on sick leave'. It's a good ten, fifteen minutes in the film (or hours/days in real life) before they come up with the plainly obvious idea to search through the directories for any priests with these labels as a means of flagging up previously unidentified abusers, rather than just using it as a confirmation tool for the priests they already knew about.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
It's really rather pedestrian - it's essentially "reporters rummage through newspaper cuttings and other paperwork to expose the deeper scandal behind a scandal". There's nowt wrong with that, and it's decent enough, but ehhh.
Reno
The In Kraut
You really have no taste !
KeeperofDragons
Crazy dragon lady
Last 2 episodes of the first series of The Musketeers
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The Lost Weekend. Hadn't seen it for years. Great film. Great acting from Milland. Great music. Great directing from Wilder. Great lines. Great bit parts. Great shots.
Watch it again soon.
Watch it again soon.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Ilo Ilo (2013) - sensitive, slow moving, sardonic family drama set in Singapore about the problems and power plays among a struggling ethnic-Chinese Singaporean family (dad drowning in debt, pregnant mother worried about her job and the family's future, stroppy naughty son) and the Filipina woman who comes to work for them as a maid. It's very very low-key, neorealist style, but not bleak - some really good acting, touching moments, and very delicately-balanced script, careful to show how everyone involved has their own flaws and choices and often do the worst things for real, if not admirable, reasons. It's not thrilling and could be at least 10-15 minutes shorter, but really not bad at all.
Slow West 2014. Beautiful landscapes - proper lush and as a big a star of the as any of the actors. Nicely understated film, though a couple of points I'm not sure I understood why characters acted teh way they did. The end left me a little deflated too.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
I once watched ET in a bar on Xmas day. It was a bit of an afternoon lock-in for some of the regulars who didn't have anywhere else to go, so we made food for everyone, and ET was the film on whatever channel, so we all watched it on the big screen. There were tears, oh yes.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Dallas Buyers Club.
I enjoyed it for the performances but storytelling was patchy.
It was basically the kind of film that could have been made as a true life tv film...
Jared Leto was great.
I enjoyed it for the performances but storytelling was patchy.
It was basically the kind of film that could have been made as a true life tv film...
Jared Leto was great.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Gone Girl - Good stuff, original story, but no reason to drag it out for 2.5 hours. Most the films I've seen this year have gone on too long.
The Good Dinosaur - The Tiddler absolutely loved it. I found it a bit traumatic. Loved the early hominids with their attempts at speech and bipedal movement.
The Good Dinosaur - The Tiddler absolutely loved it. I found it a bit traumatic
. Loved the early hominids with their attempts at speech and bipedal movement.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Interstellar - enjoyed it far more than Nolan's other films. Didn't quite understand the time space stuff and how Coop could communicate with his daughter.
Room - very good adaptation - must check out Lenny Abrahamson's other films as Frank was great too.
Sisters - saw it a couple of weeks ago and have forgotten if I liked it or what the fuck it was all about. It had Any Poehler and Tina Fey in it. That's the best I can do.
Trainwreck - pretty funny, but ultimately forgettable.
Amy - fantastic doc, very sad.
Room - very good adaptation - must check out Lenny Abrahamson's other films as Frank was great too.
Sisters - saw it a couple of weeks ago and have forgotten if I liked it or what the fuck it was all about. It had Any Poehler and Tina Fey in it. That's the best I can do.
Trainwreck - pretty funny, but ultimately forgettable.
Amy - fantastic doc, very sad.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
The Grand Budapest Hotel on the insistence of a friend; "I guarantee you it's a Wes Anderson film you'll actually like!".
Didn't like it. Lovely performances from Ralph Fiennes and F Murray Abraham (and a bit annoyed that the brilliant Mathieu Amalric didn't get more of a part) but still had that sort of air of wholly deliberately conscious whimsy that always seems to annoy me so much about Wes Anderson films.
Think that bit of the film sent me from "hey this is quite a nice film" into eye-rolling territory personally. Loved all the pre-apocalyptic drama and the space stuff was utterly spectacular (and this is someone who thought Gravity was relatively unspectacular space-stuff-wise), but an overwrought Matthew McConnaghey hamfistedly playing a 3D bookcase time harp whilst quipping with his sarcastic dead robot pal made me want them to have ended the film a half hour sooner with everyone getting killed. It's like Nolan was trying to recreate the "WTF/WTF this is awesome" from the last act of 2001 but without having dropped enough acid first.
Didn't like it. Lovely performances from Ralph Fiennes and F Murray Abraham (and a bit annoyed that the brilliant Mathieu Amalric didn't get more of a part) but still had that sort of air of wholly deliberately conscious whimsy that always seems to annoy me so much about Wes Anderson films.
Think that bit of the film sent me from "hey this is quite a nice film" into eye-rolling territory personally. Loved all the pre-apocalyptic drama and the space stuff was utterly spectacular (and this is someone who thought Gravity was relatively unspectacular space-stuff-wise), but an overwrought Matthew McConnaghey hamfistedly playing a 3D bookcase time harp whilst quipping with his sarcastic dead robot pal made me want them to have ended the film a half hour sooner with everyone getting killed. It's like Nolan was trying to recreate the "WTF/WTF this is awesome" from the last act of 2001 but without having dropped enough acid first.
Zabo
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Herr Lehmann/Berlin Blue - Leander Haußmann
Some say the Germans have no sense of humour or it is different from ours. Nonsense! A lovely little film with a relatively unknown cast. The opening sequence was a hoot.
Christoph Waltz was good as the doctor but the best was the second main character Karl, played by Detlev Buck.
Some say the Germans have no sense of humour or it is different from ours. Nonsense! A lovely little film with a relatively unknown cast. The opening sequence was a hoot.
Christoph Waltz was good as the doctor but the best was the second main character Karl, played by Detlev Buck.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Grand Hotel, with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
The Two Faces of January - didn't know much about it before watching, but good film. Kirsten Dunst
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Tapeheads. A ramshackle 80s mess, just the kind of thing I enjoy. Also Tim Robbins 
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Most Dangerous Band in the World - The Story of Guns N' Roses. About as ridiculous as it sounds.
Ash Vs Evil Dead - First 3 episodes & as ridiculous as it sounds. But in a good way; loving it.
Ash Vs Evil Dead - First 3 episodes & as ridiculous as it sounds. But in a good way; loving it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Man of the Year
It had Robin Williams as an outsider comedian challenging for the presidency. Christopher Walken was the campaign manager. I thought it was ok, some good laughs and so on. But I dunno if it struck a consistent tone. Or even two tones that blended well. Sort of veered between pious and comedic. a 5/10
It had Robin Williams as an outsider comedian challenging for the presidency. Christopher Walken was the campaign manager. I thought it was ok, some good laughs and so on. But I dunno if it struck a consistent tone. Or even two tones that blended well. Sort of veered between pious and comedic. a 5/10
skyscraper101
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Zoolander.
Never seen it before, which for some reason seems to amaze people. It always looked unfunny to me so never really bothered. Anyway, I was right. Utter shite.
Never seen it before, which for some reason seems to amaze people. It always looked unfunny to me so never really bothered. Anyway, I was right. Utter shite.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Motel Life. Excellent little film anout two brothers trying to make through the bottom of society.
Great performances by Emile Hirsch and Brad Dorff....and a grand turn from Kris Kristofferson.
Great performances by Emile Hirsch and Brad Dorff....and a grand turn from Kris Kristofferson.
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A New Leaf
Elaine May's 1971 comedy starring May herself and Walter Matthau as the two leads. Henry Graham (Matthau) is spoilt, self-centered and upper class but out of money, so he decides to marry and then murder a naive, awkward and very rich botanist (May). A bit of a gem this film, sharply written and with real quality performances from the cast. Reminded me of some Ealing films.
Elaine May's 1971 comedy starring May herself and Walter Matthau as the two leads. Henry Graham (Matthau) is spoilt, self-centered and upper class but out of money, so he decides to marry and then murder a naive, awkward and very rich botanist (May). A bit of a gem this film, sharply written and with real quality performances from the cast. Reminded me of some Ealing films.
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