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

[DexterTCN]

Top Five

Not what i was expecting. As it's written by and starring Chris Rock , you might expect everything being way over the top. And bits of it are but It treads a line between being reflective and funny and manages to hit both.

There's some great cameos, especially DMX

Shit...really wanted to watch that....then forgot all about it. Age...sigh.

Anyway!

Here is the first 5 minutes of Zootopia!

 

[rubbershoes]

Here is the first 5 minutes of Zootopia!

Zootopia's good. Not a patch on Inside Out but good enough

 

[DexterTCN]

Zootopia's good. Not a patch on Inside Out but good enough

Different things. Inside Out is about growing up, Zootopia is about gender stereotypes and racism. But yes Inside Out is a better film.

 

[Idris2002]

I'm strictly a Frozen man, myself.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

A great documentary about some kids in the 80s making a scene by scene remake of raiders if the lost ark.

They did every scene but the pay roach aeroplane scene so they go back and finish it. In the meantime their efforts are 'found' by the film world and taken from home movie to LA film fests.

Great fun....and very emotional too.

 

[krtek a houby]

First 3 eps of The Get Down. Love it.

 

[not-bono-ever]

lots of flights of late, lots movies

Trumbo- lovely

The Dressmaker- odd little dark Australian piece with Kate Winslett

Zootopia- brilliant

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Rogue - Aussie crocodile flick with a brief appearance from Sam Worthington. Just another Jaws variation.

Eternal (AKA Trance AKA The Mummy) - Supernatural horror set in Ireland with Christopher Walken and Jared Harris. What a pile of shite.

Reef - Some young aussie folk fuck their boat and decide to swim 12 miles through shark infested waters to reach land. I fell alseep.

 

[krtek a houby]

First 3 eps of The Get Down. Love it.

And the last 3. Can't wait until part 2, whenever that is.

 

[Idris2002]

Scarface.

I'd never seen it, so when I saw it for rent, I thought "why not?"

Not exactly Al Pacino's greatest role, but at the same time, without him it would just have been a pretty witless b-movie. Michelle Pfeiffer also very good, her performance a masterpiece of coiled tension. All those movies from the Carter/Early Reagan era look absolutely hellish, I have to say, with or without cocaine.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I have mixed feelings about Scarface these days...but agree about Pfeiffer.

All the females parts are played well.

 

[Reno]

I'm a huge De Palma fan (this for some reason always gets one Urbanite into a state of frothing rage) but while its among his most popular, Scarface is among my least favourite films of his. It feels more like a later Scorsese film, with all the excess and obsession with machismo which I dislike about those films. Cinematography, Pfeiffer and the Moroder score are great, but the film and Pacino grate on me.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'm a huge De Palma fan (this for some reason always gets one Urbanite into a state of frothing rage) but while its among his most popular, Scarface is among my least favourite films of his. It feels more like a later Scorsese film, with all the excess and obsession with machismo which I dislike about those films. Cinematography, Pfeiffer and the Moroder score are great, but the film and Pacino grate on me.

I love Body Double...lol

 

[Nanker Phelge]

No....really I do.

 

[Reno]

No....really I do.

So do I. It was made as a big "fuck you!" to all his critics and he gleefully put everything in there they found objectionable about his previous films.

 

[Idris2002]

I'm a huge De Palma fan (this for some reason always gets one Urbanite into a state of frothing rage) but while its among his most popular, Scarface is among my least favourite films of his. It feels more like a later Scorsese film, with all the excess and obsession with machismo which I dislike about those films. Cinematography, Pfeiffer and the Moroder score are great, but the film and Pacino grate on me.

There's a scene at the beginning, when Pacino and his mate are still in the refugee camp, where he's still playing it like the old Pacino, the lad who was in Panic in Needle Park, and the Godfather, and Dog Day Afternoon.

After that, he just turns into a caricature - why I don't know. Maybe he got high on his own supply.

 

[Reno]

There's a scene at the beginning, when Pacino and his mate are still in the refugee camp, where he's still playing it like the old Pacino, the lad who was in Panic in Needle Park, and the Godfather, and Dog Day Afternoon.

After that, he just turns into a caricature - why I don't know. Maybe he got high on his own supply.

True, this is the film where he started to became a caricature of himself, the same happened with Nicholson after The Shining. Both still occasionally gave good performances afterwards, but more often they kept chewing the scenery and everything else in sight.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Given the way he played Michael Corleone, it is really quite sad how Pacino took that route.

I actually fear new Pacino and DeNiro films for the continued eroding of their genuine and original talent that they displayed early on.

 

[Reno]

There is a new documentary about Brian De Palma out by Noah Baumbach which is supposed to be very good. I'm off on a holiday to the States next week and I've got it on my tablet to watch on the plane.

De Palma

 

[Idris2002]

True, this is the film where he started to became a caricature of himself, the same happened with Nicholson after The Shining. Both still occasionally gave good performances afterwards, but more often they kept chewing the scenery and everything else in sight.

Given the way he played Michael Corleone, it is really quite sad how Pacino took that route.

I actually fear new Pacino and DeNiro films for the continued eroding of their genuine and original talent that they displayed early on.

I never saw Heat. Should I bother, or is it 3 hours of scenery-chewing?

 

[Reno]

I never saw Heat. Should I bother, or is it 3 hours of scenery-chewing?

Watch it. I think it's Michael Mann's best film and both of them are good in it.

 

[butchersapron]

Watch it. I think it's Michael Mann's best film.

It's on film 4 tonight. It's a great heist film.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I never saw Heat. Should I bother, or is it 3 hours of scenery-chewing?

I hated it when it was released. I have grown fonder of it accepting it as no more than a good action/heist thriler.

Some great set pieces.

Frankly, I think Mann's first go at it, the tv film, L.A. Takedown, is better.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Creed. What's not to like.

It's a Rocky movie. Stallone proves again there is an actor in there and that he is smart enough to not only add another film to the series but reboot it with intelligence and passion and heart.

Good on him.

Here's to Creed 2.

 

[DexterTCN]

Searching for Sugarman. A selective (for good reasons) but involving documentary about a singer from the 70s who sounded like Cat Stevens but was Mexican so never got played on the radio.

Bit surprised it won an oscar but it was compelling. Would have liked more stuff about the regime in South Africa, which was obviously horrific.

 

[Reno]

Krisha, American indie drama about the family fuck-up who comes home for Thanksgiving to make amends. Only she is still getting wasted, she still fucks everything up and now she's in her sixties. It's a small scale but very confidently made film, with strong hints of John Cassavetes and David Lynch and structured around the impressive performance of its lead actress. It's very much a first film but one which makes me curious about what the filmmaker will do next.

 

[Idris2002]

What Richard Did.

This one made me angry. Loosely - very loosely - based on the killing of 19 year old Brian Murphy by a gang of drunk rugger-bugger meatheads in Dublin in 2000, it's a pretty blatant attempt to whitewash the perpetrators of that crime, and the social class they sprung from.

Competently directed by Lenny Abrahamson (the guy who did the Frank Sidebottom movie, which wasn't really about FS, of course, and Adam and Paul, which I'm going to have to watch now), it also had competent acting from a young cast. But that cast are drawn from the same social swamp of unearned privilege that the killers in the original case came from, so it's not like they were being stretched.

Though more than a few of them could do with a "stretch", preferably in Mountjoy. Or maybe we could rent a gulag off Putin.

 

[trabuquera]

Sicario . It's OK. Does roiling unease very well (soundtrack full of the Droney Buzz of Doom(TM) and Emily Blunt is great at looking nervous.) Doesn't really bed the characters in or - as usual - take anything much more than a cursory interest in actual Mexico or actual Mexicans, the Evil of Drugs and Good Guys vs Bad Guys themes being thought more important. But it's great at conjuring the extraordinary murk of this world of mercs - and anything getting Benicio Del Toro more screen time should be welcomed. However, if you ever imagined that there are even such things as good guys in this narco-war affair you should read this first: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/world/americas/colombia-cocaine-human-rights.html?_r=0 before believing that the US federal agencies are really interested in fighting evil drugs cartels.

 

[flypanam]

Silicon Valley - S3.

Finally I've gotten into this. A very good satire on the tech industry. Worth it alone for TJ Miller's flights of megalomania.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Rewatched Pride. With German subtitles.