What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It's a slow starter....I wasn't sure to begin with, and I think I like it more than Breaking Bad now.
Reno
The In Kraut
At this point I can take it or leave it and the only reason why I might keep watching is because I forgot to cancel my Netflix trial which I got to watch Stranger Things.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Rhea Seehorn gives a stand out performance in season two. It's worth watching just for her.
Miss congeniality (2000). Not even Bill Shatner was gonna save this one.
Mean Girls (2004). Teenage girls, bullying, identity crises. Killed 90minutes with the added advantage that it didn't really matter if little man kicked off and we had to miss a few minutes.
The Trip S1 (2010). Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a work related eating tour of...somewhere in England. Kind of gentle and bitter sweet and somehow made me laugh a lot even though I can't really remember at what.
Started season 2 which which sees them doing the same but in Piedmont in Italy. Not as good for some reason - lacks the needle between the two main characters that was present in the first.
Mean Girls (2004). Teenage girls, bullying, identity crises. Killed 90minutes with the added advantage that it didn't really matter if little man kicked off and we had to miss a few minutes.
The Trip S1 (2010). Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a work related eating tour of...somewhere in England. Kind of gentle and bitter sweet and somehow made me laugh a lot even though I can't really remember at what.
Started season 2 which which sees them doing the same but in Piedmont in Italy. Not as good for some reason - lacks the needle between the two main characters that was present in the first.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the michael caine impressions
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Unsolved - The Boy Who Disappeared (BBC iplayer): I like the short episode length but some of the things the investigators miss is annoying, and it's all a bit pointless in that you know there's never going to be any great closure for the mother. Still good though.
Eye in the Sky: Helen Mirren and Jesse off of Breaking Bad star in a morality movie about drones in Africa. Again, short, but I don't believe there's as much legal dithering as there appears to be when it comes to things like this.... or maybe there is. Highly watchable.
Eye in the Sky: Helen Mirren and Jesse off of Breaking Bad star in a morality movie about drones in Africa. Again, short, but I don't believe there's as much legal dithering as there appears to be when it comes to things like this.... or maybe there is. Highly watchable.
the michael caine impressions
"She was only 15..."
Reno
The In Kraut
It's all downhill from there.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I gave up on that nonsense...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it had lost it by the Carnval season, which was done much better but unfinished with Carnivale. Imagine I know how to do an accent on the E there.
First 3 seasons are fucking gold tho. Taking pastiche to incredible hieghts
First 3 seasons are fucking gold tho. Taking pastiche to incredible hieghts
Reno
The In Kraut
I thought it became shit by season 3 and I gave up half way through season 4. American Horror Story features great actors, looks fantastic and has the occasional, effective scene but as a piece of serialised story telling its crap. It keeps introducing promising plot lines and characters only to drop them or them not going anywhere interesting. And if in doubt, kill off a character...and then bring them back...and repeat. The second season was by far the best one.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It was certainly one show I really wanted to enjoy more. As you state, great performers and some brilliant scenes etc.....but yeah...it would often fall flat on its fancy arse...
The Wolf Of Wall Street
DiCaprio's performance stood out - with a true 'laugh out loud' moment prior to returning home in his car.
DiCaprio's performance stood out - with a true 'laugh out loud' moment prior to returning home in his car.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It's not laugh out loud. It's witless shit for cunts.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I think you should say what you mean!
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I enjoyed it, but it was essentially fake. . . it was basically nudge-nudge wink-wink "wouldn't you love to be him lads".
The Big Short, which I watched last night, was the real thing, a proper film by grown-ups for grown-ups, nearly as good as All the President's Men, I thought.
TruXta
tired
Far too didactic to work as a film I thought.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
"Didactic" is the sort of term I'd apply to a Ken Loach film, which the BS definitely wasn't.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
and what's wrong with that anyway? how does being didactic make a film fail?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
It doesn't but sometimes you just want to be entertained rather than improved
TruXta
tired
Nothing in principle, but in this case I thought the pace was off and the whole thing a bit clunky.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
47 Ronin (2013) - uneasy mashup of samurai movie, fantasy/folklore and Keanu Reeves vehicle.
It is of course inherently daft that a film supposedly about the crushing code of samurai duty ends up being made in English, so there's lots of clunky dancing around showing the aristocratic bad guys racially abusing Keanu for being "a halfbreed ... son of a peasant and a sailor" etc before he battles the CGI dragons and fox-lady-demon for them. Then it's off to the woods for some Robin-Hood style insurrection and a mass seppuku at the end.
It looks fine - very nicely shot - (apart from the crap CGI) and chugs along entertainingly enough. But it's very very silly all around and not quite entertaining enough.
It is of course inherently daft that a film supposedly about the crushing code of samurai duty ends up being made in English, so there's lots of clunky dancing around showing the aristocratic bad guys racially abusing Keanu for being "a halfbreed ... son of a peasant and a sailor" etc before he battles the CGI dragons and fox-lady-demon for them. Then it's off to the woods for some Robin-Hood style insurrection and a mass seppuku at the end.
It looks fine - very nicely shot - (apart from the crap CGI) and chugs along entertainingly enough. But it's very very silly all around and not quite entertaining enough.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It was shit.
I can see why the film could be viewed in that way, even found to be offensive. The fact it raises such a reaction speaks of DiCaprio's performance.
Gravity.
A very pretty film but ultimately lacking any real emotional impact. Disappointing.
A very pretty film but ultimately lacking any real emotional impact. Disappointing.
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