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

[krtek a houby]

Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior. Can't believe I've never watched it before. Was one of my late Uncle's faves, so I feel like I knew it well.

Guns for San Sebastian - Spaghetti western starring Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson with another excellent Moriccone score.

 

[Idris2002]

Hate the holodeck eps but that one was agreeable.

They did one in 40s film noir style, and with Beverly Crusher in a figure hugging femme fatale outfit. That one was agreeable, also.

 

[fishfinger]

Cell - John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson caught up in a mobile phone zombie plague. It's probably just a sly dig at pokemon go really. Predictable and bland. Cusack and Jackson must be pretty hard up

Bastille Day - Idris Elba and Richard "King of the North" Madden playing Americans in Paris, with terrorists and bombs as a background - passable as a TV movie.

 

[red & green]

Bridge of spies - confirmed my dislike for S Spielberg film making

 

[krtek a houby]

Bridge of spies - confirmed my dislike for S Spielberg film making

All his films?

 

[red & green]

Yep

 

[krtek a houby]

Yep

Harsh.

 

[The Boy]

Finished spotless. Pretty meh overall tbh. Full of plot holes and characters doing things that didn't make sense, but the denouement in particular was weak.

 

[Orang Utan]

Cell - John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson caught up in a mobile phone zombie plague. It's probably just a sly dig at pokemon go really. Predictable and bland. Cusack and Jackson must be pretty hard up

I doubt either are hard up, esp Jackson. They're just greedy.
Pokemon Go was released after the book was written and I would imagine the film was in production before it was released too, but certainly it's a critique of handheld technology. I'm surprised there haven't been more of this type of horror. It's a rich seam, surely?

 

[fishfinger]

I doubt either are hard up, esp Jackson. They're just greedy.
Pokemon Go was released after the book was written and I would imagine the film was in production before it was released too, but certainly it's a critique of handheld technology. I'm surprised there haven't been more of this type of horror. It's a rich seam, surely?

I hadn't even realised that it was based on a Stephen King story It was such a piss-poor zombie film.

 

[DotCommunist]

Deep Space 9: In The Pale Mooonlight

best dominion war episode yet. Sisko calmly details how he is a utalitarian monster as he drags an entire species into the war via underhand means. He is only one-upped on his slyness and false flaggery by the cardassian tailor. Good episode, strong.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Gone Girl.

Pike's performance is something, and there is something oddly attractive about her character.

 

[krtek a houby]

A Time to Kill - Joel Schumacher does a Grisham. Excellent cast but kind of mediocre result. Trying to be 12 Angry Men/To Kill a Mockingbird/Mississipi Burning but ending up somewhat melodramatic.

 

[Orang Utan]

A Time to Kill - Joel Schumacher does a Grisham. Excellent cast but kind of mediocre result. Trying to be 12 Angry Men/To Kill a Mockingbird/Mississipi Burning but ending up somewhat melodramatic.

A bit celebratory of vigilantism and rather racist too

 

[starfish]

We watched Absolutely Anything, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, voices of Robin Williams & Pythons, at the weekend. Hoped it would be hilariously funny, a film to remember. Turned out to be a typically shite Brit rom-com with embarrassing performances from all including the voices. ms starfish didnt speak to me for a few hours after because she was so appalled by its utter shiteness & the fact i chose it.

 

[belboid]

Sing Street - a cross between the Commitments & We Are the Best - without the pathos of the former or the spirit and energy of the latter. Therw are more plotholes than tunes and we both managed to predict almost the entire plot three minutes in, but it's charmingly done. The first and fantasy videos are hilarious and one of the kids (all of whom are great) can pull of a pink jacket surprisingly well.

 

[krtek a houby]

A bit celebratory of vigilantism and rather racist too

Yeah, there was that

 

[T & P]

Cell - John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson caught up in a mobile phone zombie plague. It's probably just a sly dig at pokemon go really. Predictable and bland. Cusack and Jackson must be pretty hard up
.

The book was good though. One of Stephen King's best works of recent times. So I wouldn't necessarily blame Cusack and Jackson for having a punt at it. But King's film adaptations are always a gamble, and as well as memorable ones you also get stinkers.

 

[krtek a houby]

Mud - Wonderful effort from a few years back. Set on the river in Arkansas, two boys find Matthew McConaughey hiding out on an island.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

American Psycho

I didn't like the book, and I really didn't enjoy the film. The ambiguity of narrative in the book was unsettling - the film just doesn't appear to have anything to offer except a mild confusion at the end.

 

[rubbershoes]

A couple of log haul flights allowed me to catch up on the things that Mrs Shoes wouldn't be interested in watching

Deadpool - Boring superhero stuff. It thinks it's clever than it is
Brothers Grimsby - I laughed so much I had to stop the film. Like all Sacha Baron Cohen films, if you can ignore the chorus of disapproval, there's some real humour there. It's the funniest film I've seen this year
10 Cloverfield Lane - John Goodman is excellent at being menacing while trying to be avuncular . The film was OK but I felt let down at the end
Deep Web Alex Winter documentary about the arrest of the person running the Silk Road . Really good. There are loose threads at the end but these aren't down to the filmmaker but the way the court case was controlled by the US Government
The man who knew infinity Decent mathematical biopic

 

[krtek a houby]

The last few eps of the final season of Parks & Recreation. A disappointing season, due to the absence of some characters and the heavily laid on sentimentality. But will genuinely miss the gang. Especially Ron.

Watchman - an everyday tale of CCTV surveillance, a bit of vigilantism and the wonderful Stephen Graham. He's the best thing about it. Oh and the ending, which is a nod to a famous British crime classic.

 

[DotCommunist]

6 Bullets

Jean Claud Van Damme won't let me down, thinks I. And indeed in the first bit theres an excellent fight scene. But the repeated use of child rape and abduction as the driver for what is a knockabout action flick got too gratitous. Charred kids bodies and everything, cheap. Sacked it off after half hour. Avoid.

 

[belboid]

The last few eps of the final season of Parks & Recreation. A disappointing season, due to the absence of some characters and the heavily laid on sentimentality. But will genuinely miss the gang. Especially Ron.

Yeah, it wasn't as poor or twee as I feared it might be, but a mere shadow of earlier seasons.

 

[Idris2002]

Overlord.

Docudrama about the Normandy landings. A fictional conscript is followed through basic training, and then to his doom. This is intercut with wartime archive footage.

Good overall, but it didn't really grab me. What I did like was on the extras, where they had 15 minute wartime documentary about newsreel cameramen in action.

 

[The Octagon]

Finally got round to Wolf of Wall Street.

Bit overlong, but otherwise pretty entertaining with some laugh out loud moments, Di Caprio owns the film and Scorsese does his usual thing with unlikeable characters. 7/10

Several opening episodes from Banshee Season 3 - so far I've watched a Neo-Nazi executed like he was Alex Murphy in the opening to Robocop, a Native American warrior/psychopath take down several marines with a bow and arrow and snap necks all over the place (including a deer's), and finally a brutal (and brilliantly shot) fight between a scalpel-wielding serial killer and a tomahawk-throwing warrior woman.

Oh, and incest plotlines and sex scenes that make Game of Thrones look like a model of restraint.

It's daft as fuck but hell if it isn't entertaining

 

[krtek a houby]

Jailhouse Rock - searing indictment of the American prison system and subsequent recording contracts in 50s America.

Elvis on Tour - his last film, circa 72? Scorsese was involved and the backstage stuff is cool but it makes me sad, for some reason.

 

[redsquirrel]

Keeper of Lost Causes - dreadful Danish police procedural using every tired cliche possible - divorced, troubled but "brilliant" who won't be bound by those pen-pushers cop tracks down sadistic murder. Absolute fucking crap, only single interesting character is the female lead who is the victim (of course). Avoid

 

[Reno]

I Am Not a Serial Killer. Indie movie mix of coming of age and horror film, based on the first of a series of novels. It's about a teenager who gets diagnosed as a sociopath with the potential of being a serial killer by his therapist. Knowing that, the boy keeps his urges to kill in check and when an active serial killer strikes in his small town, the boy's ability to relate to the murders makes him the perfect detective.

The film is pretty good, though it has a supernatural element which eventually leads to some dodgy CGI in the climax, which didn't fit with the gritty feel of the rest of the film. Apparently that gets explored more in the following novels, but here it's a set up for something left unexplored here. Otherwise it's very good and worth a watch.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Beasts of No Nation - Cracking film, well worth a watch.