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

It Follows. A sexually-transmitted curse causes a murderous shape-shifting being to doggedly pursue its victims.

Pretty damn good, but it could've done without Dostoevsky. Great soundtrack as well.
 
Finally, almost ten years after it came out, i sat down and watched Apocalypto.

Non-stop action, and visually stunning, but about as deep as a frisbee, and with as much plot and character development as my camera's instruction manual.

It's First Blood meets Last of the Mohicans, with none of the subtlety of either.
 
It Follows was the best scored and best shot film I saw last year. If awards weren't all about prestige and a consensus about what is and isn't awards bait, it should have been nominated for every award going in those two categories.
 
...and its art direction was fantastic too. It Follows appears to take place in some never defined decade sometime between the late 70s and the near future.

seventh bullet said:
Pretty damn good, but it could've done without Dostoevsky. Great soundtrack as well.
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I liked the Dostoevsky. Not only is that something teenagers read and like to be seen to be reading, I liked the shell e-reader which is an object that doesn't exist and which seemed futuristic in what mostly looked like the 70s or 80s.
 
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DotCommunist said:
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.
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Watched it yesterday & apparently the series proper starts on 19th. As a film; it doesn't work but as a pilot it's intrigueing.
 
krtek a houby said:
Watched it yesterday & apparently the series proper starts on 19th. As a film; it doesn't work but as a pilot it's intrigueing.
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I'd have been a lot less harsh if I'd known it was supposed to be a pilot. One makes allowances for things like the loose ends and the occaisonal bit of ropey acting with a pilot.
 
DotCommunist said:
I'd have been a lot less harsh if I'd known it was supposed to be a pilot. One makes allowances for things like the loose ends and the occaisonal bit of ropey acting with a pilot.
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Indeed. When I started watching Fringe I wasn't sure about that, either. Not that this is going to be up there with Fringe, mind.
 
Shit, I've been meaning to mention that it appeared to be a pilot for fucking ages. I was looking at it on imdb and saw 'season 1' and thought "must mention that on the DVD thread". Got sidetracked a bit though :(
 
Five Star Final (1931) - Edward G. Robinson as a newspaper editor whose paper rakes over the 20 year old story of a murderess causing tragic consequences for her family. Boris Karloff as a slimey undercover reporter is creepier than he is in most of his horror films.
Really good and still topical in the age of Leveson. Ripe for a modern day remake.
Murdoch & Co. should be strapped to chairs and forced to watch the last 15 minutes on a loop.
 
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Watched Predestination last night - very decent time paradox type film...really good turn by Sarah Snook
 
Reno said:
I liked the Dostoevsky. Not only is that something teenagers read and like to be seen to be reading, I liked the shell e-reader which is an object that doesn't exist and which seemed futuristic in what mostly looked like the 70s or 80s.
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I get the teenage pretensions, but it seemed clunky to me when relating its content to the threat of death by the being.
 
Reno said:
I didn't see that connection as the two don't really share a theme. But last saw the film half a year ago and don't remember if it is directly referred to as such.
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The quote in the hospital bed, about the mental anguish in awaiting inevitable death, read aloud in-between bites of a sandwich. I cringed a little but maybe that was the point with regard to the teenage thing... I was probably cringing about a myself in other youthful situations but didn't recognise it.

It's one of the best horror films I've seen in a long time though. The being was genuinely scary in some of its manifestations (the tall man plodding his way into the girl's bedroom being one). The music helped in that a lot, bringing up a feeling of dread for the safety of the cursed characters.
 
Chef (Dir. Jon Favreau, 2014)

Clearly a passion project for Favreau, but a lovely little film. Top chef loses his position at a restaurant and starts up a food truck selling Cuban food, along the way reconnects with his family, specifically his son.

Well acted (especially the kid, no cloying child performance here), not too long, ace music and a few A-list cameos that don't overshadow the film.

The real star is the food and cooking, was starving by the end of the film :D
 
Truffaut's Day for Night, still probably the most entertaining film about the making of a film.

Over the previous two evenings season 2 of Transparent, which was fantastic.
 
Columbo - never watched them before, (well caught some of one here and there)

doing all 13 series and the pilots, on series 2 now, ep 5 last night!

one was even in that London.
 
7 eps of The Walking Dead series 5. I was worried that the show wouldn't be able to keep up the momentum that series 3 & 4 had. I was wrong.

The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Brad Pitt has never been better. Beautifully shot; it reminded me of a Malick film.

Trapped - new Icelandic drama set in a small port in the north of the country. Very promising.
 
Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents
A documentary about the Residents, with contributors including Matt Groening, Penn Jillette, Les Claypool and members of the cryptic corporation.
 
fishfinger said:
Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents
A documentary about the Residents, with contributors including Matt Groening, Penn Jillette, Les Claypool and members of the cryptic corporation.
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Was it good ? If yes, I'll have to check it out.
 
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