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

[krtek a houby]

Some non-porn films which feature unsimulated sex and erections:

9 Songs
Love
Enter the Void
Intimacy
Romance
The Brown Bunny
Stranger by the Lake
Baise-moi
Shortbus
Import/Export
Pasolini
Starlet
Wetlands

...and Von Trier's own Antichrist

Sex and Lucia has a mud caked semi, iirc

 

[Reno]

I'm assuming he watched whatever version Film Four are showing, which is split into two parts (2nd part on tonight). Is this the director's cut? Still to watch it meself. Looking forward to some filth.

Both versions come in two parts, I don't know which one Film Four is showing. You can check the running time against what it says in the Wikipedia entry: Nymphomaniac (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Both versions come in two parts, I don't know which one Film Four is showing. You can check the running time against what it says in the Wikipedia entry: Nymphomaniac (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like the short version. Boo.

 

[moody]

I'm assuming he watched whatever version Film Four are showing, which is split into two parts (2nd part on tonight). Is this the director's cut? Still to watch it meself. Looking forward to some filth.

Vol 2 tonight huh?

I read up on Vol 2 from wiki, it looks dark, dark erm..........dark.

No thanks.

 

[The Boy]

Finished watching season 2 of Kimmy Schmidt. good.

Started watching that Flowers which has Olivia Coleman and Julian Barret. Not so sure.

 

[Reno]

Von Trier works so hard on being a provocateur, I find it impossible to take him that seriously. So no matter how "dark" he goes, I always find his films a bit silly.

 

[keybored]

I think I can pinpoint the precise moment I stopped taking Von Trier seriously.

 

[Reno]

For me it was when those heavenly bells show up at the end of Breaking the Waves.

I liked the creepy animals in Antichrist, it's the sexual politics I found ridiculous.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Crimson Pirate - Burt Lancaster, Christopher Lee and the wonderful Noel Purcell. Swashbuckling with ham, thickly sliced

Influenced both Terry Gilliam and Pirates of the Caribbean, apparently.

 

[DotCommunist]

Pandorum. Enjoyable space opera thing, nicely claustrophobic and jumpy 7/10

 

[The Octagon]

There's a full HD version of Deadpool out online now, so rewatched it last night.

Slightly less funny now I know the jokes, but overall still very entertaining.

 

[Reno]

Pandorum. Enjoyable space opera thing, nicely claustrophobic and jumpy 7/10

I quite like that one too and the final plot twist is great. It's the only science fiction film I can think of which is about

Spoiler

a generation ship.

 

[DotCommunist]

I quite like that one too and the final plot twist is great. It's the only science fiction film I can think of which is about

Spoiler

a generation ship.

Spoiler: spoile

yes I was enthused to see a film that dark and veering on space-horror have a really happy uplifting ending. In many ways it reminded me of something that alistair reynolds migth have written, his Revelation Space universe would easily tell this sort of story.

 

[DexterTCN]

Exactly. I'm no Mary Whitehouse so am cool but was surprised as never seen in a non porn movie before

I was the same!

I was sure it was a 'law'. There was one in that Under The Skin film and I was totally confused. I was shrugging my shoulders going 'isn't that illegal'...sounding like a homophobe.

 

[ginger_syn]

Watched Amy today, a beautiful film but sad and horrible too.

 

[Orang Utan]

I was the same!

I was sure it was a 'law'. There was one in that Under The Skin film and I was totally confused. I was shrugging my shoulders going 'isn't that illegal'...sounding like a homophobe.

I don't think erect penises have ever been banned specifically. I think the only specific guidance is whether the material is likely to deprave or corrupt, which would make it obscene and therefore illegal. So it's very much to do with the standards of the time, rather than anything definite, though there was a rumour that the BBFC had a 'Mull Of Kintyre' rule on penises - if it got any higher than how the peninsula looked on a map, then it had to be cut!

 

[seventh bullet]

Midnight Special. A film about parental love done as a 1970/80s-style sci-fi thriller partly influenced by the likes of John Carpenter's Starman and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters. Worth the ticket and the cost of the next one.

 

[redsquirrel]

Also there are two versions of Nymphomaniac, the director's cut being longer and far more explicit.

Do you think the directors cut brings a lot more to the table? I saw Nymphomaniac at the cinema and while I don't regret it I can't say that I'm burning with desire to see it again.

 

[Reno]

Do you think the directors cut brings a lot more to the table? I saw Nymphomaniac at the cinema and while I don't regret it I can't say that I'm burning with desire to see it again.

I only saw the directors cut, so don't know how they compare apart from what I read. I too wouldn't sit through it for a second time.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some non-porn films which feature unsimulated sex and erections:

How about Ai No Corrida/In The Realm Of The Senses? I can't remember if there's any actual pink-on-pink or glowing tumescences - mind always slightly distracted by, ah, other stuff

 

[DexterTCN]

All The President's Men.

A masterclass in acting, screenwriting, cinematography and narrative. Pretty much perfect.

 

[Dieselpunk2000]

High-rise. I still haven't made my mind up as to liking it or not. I may give it a second viewing. The book is one of my favourites though, as I am a fan of Ballard and brutalist buildings.

 

[Plumdaff]

Series 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Really hit its stride, very funny indeed.

Edge of Tomorrow. Much better than a Sci fi action film involving time travel and Tom Cruise has any right to be. An enjoyable Saturday evening watch.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Edge of Tomorrow. Much better than a Sci fi action film involving time travel and Tom Cruise has any right to be. An enjoyable Saturday evening watch.

I think this is the film that has the highest ratio of delivery:expectation I've seen for years

 

[trabuquera]

Bessie (2014) - very pedestrian made for TV biopic of legendary blueswoman Bessie Smith, which smothers an absolutely fantastic cast in a blanket of cliche. It's like a rolodex of great black acting talent (Queen Latifah! Michael K Williams! Khandi Alexander!) but the best performance of them all is actually Mo'Nique as Bessie's mentor/frenemy Ma Rainey. The script is weak and the visuals are way too airbrushy, and it tries to fit too much in, without really catching fire. But not at all a waste of time if you're interested in an extraordinary woman.

 

[DotCommunist]

RED

Loads of people in this 'retired black ops caper' thing. The jason bournes of yesteryear are goaded into action when blah blah karl urban leads the baddies. Fairly fun, malkovitch and freeman and bruce willis and some nonsense. 4.5/10


Legion

This riffs a little on The Prophecy but not a lot its mainly a war-in-heaven horror siege monster demon thing. I give it a 6.5/10
that .5 goes to an early scene where michael cuts off his wings for reasons that go entirely unexplained.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Jupiter Ascending.

lol

 

[Vintage Paw]

As I wrote above, it's a remake of the 80s British TV movie.

The Woman in Black (1989 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It wasn't a low budget film either (if you think thats a justification for its failings) it had a relatively large budget for a British horror film and was art directed to death, cramming every corner of the frame with "creepy dolls" and other tiresome cliches of the haunted house film. From The Pact, to The Innkeepers, to Left Bank I can think of about ten haunted house films of the last few years which felt a lot more fresh than The Woman in Black.

It's a book, first and foremost. The book is great (v. short too).

It gets adapted for stage an awful lot. I've seen it locally, and the production was fab. Proper creepy.

 

[Reno]

It's a book, first and foremost. The book is great (v. short too).

It gets adapted for stage an awful lot. I've seen it locally, and the production was fab. Proper creepy.

I've read the book and it's great. Is there a stage play based on it other than the one which has been in the West End for decades now ?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Not sure. I saw it in Stoke-on-Trent, maybe 6 years ago. Don't know what tour it was part of.