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

The Lobster. Dystopian dark comedy where newly single people have 45 days to find a new partner or be changed into an animal of their choosing. Highly recommended. :thumbs:
 
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Halfway through S2 of Les Revenants. Enjoying it. Doing a good job of moving things forward while filling in the back story.
 
The White Reindeer [Valkoinen Peura] early 1950s Finnish story of a newly married woman who goes to the local shaman to get a potion to help her love life but gets turned into a shape shifting vampire reindeer who starts killing off the remote village's men folk, that sounds rather silly but it's actually a rather gorgeous film full of beautiful shots of the snowy plains of Lapland.
 
Indeliblelink said:
The White Reindeer [Valkoinen Peura] early 1950s Finnish story of a newly married woman who goes to the local shamen to get a potion to help her love life but gets turned into a shape shifting vampire reindeer who starts killing off the remote village's men folk, that sounds rather silly but it's actually a rather gorgeous film full of beautiful shots of the snowy plains of Lapland.
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You mean Shaman. She didn't recruit an 80s indie band to turn her into a reindeer.
 
Season Of The Witch.
Another gloriously abominable Nicolas Cage movie made in Europe and featuring the supernatural.
Except there's no witch.
It's basically justifying the Catholic Church's persecution of women. Cos one of them is a demon. Or something like that. It's not very coherent.
On the plus side, it has Ron Perlman in it and Cage has a interesting barnet.
On the negative side, it's shit and the CGI is shit.
 
Idris2002 said:
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.
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It's also based on the book "Bad Day in Blackrock" which is loosely based on the murder. I thought it was more of a supressed rage at the perps and their privileged background. I got the impression it was designed to make the viewer feel "those fucking bastards" rather than a whitewash...

Watched "Locke" - Tom Hardy is on a personal mission and he's willing to sacrifice his marriage and job in order to prove a point. Brought to you by the writer of Peaky Blinders. But don't expect Alfie Solomons.
 
krtek a houby said:
It's also based on the book "Bad Day in Blackrock" which is loosely based on the murder. I thought it was more of a supressed rage at the perps and their privileged background. I got the impression it was designed to make the viewer feel "those fucking bastards" rather than a whitewash...
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I honestly don't get how you could think that. Even in the funeral scene, when the victim's mum lashes out at those hiding behind a wall of silence, the camera immediately cuts to the perpetrator and his Da sitting in the pew. That looked to me like a very conscious, deliberate effort to divert sympathy towards those two, not to make the viewer think "those fucking bastards".
 
The MAgicians

I'd avoided it because it sounded shit but people kept bigging it up and some end of season reviews were favourable. 4 people discover they have magic and enter a world of etc. Its quite good, plenty of horror and magic, odd bit of vanilla sex and a strong story with a decently intimidating baddie. Will watch season 2
 
Idris2002 said:
I honestly don't get how you could think that. Even in the funeral scene, when the victim's mum lashes out at those hiding behind a wall of silence, the camera immediately cuts to the perpetrator and his Da sitting in the pew. That looked to me like a very conscious, deliberate effort to divert sympathy towards those two, not to make the viewer think "those fucking bastards".
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What can I say? It had the opposite effect on me. At no point did I feel any sympathy or empathy with the perps. They got away with it - how could anyone pitch for the perp?
 
krtek a houby said:
What can I say? It had the opposite effect on me. At no point did I feel any sympathy or empathy with the perps. They got away with it - how could anyone pitch for the perp?
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If they were a D4, anything is possible. One of my cousins from the posh intellectual side of the family (really) taught the lads involved in the original case. Her comment to me was "they were such nice boys, I can't understand it".

I could understand it only too well. . .
 
Brick Mansions - Cliched but entertaining.

Jane Got A Gun - Can't believe I sat through all of it. Nothing new, not a lot to look at.

Narcos Series 2 - excellent tellybox

The Get Down, episode 1. Enjoyed that, wasn't sure about the fantasy/magic realism in it at first but they got away with it. Good stuff.
 
Idris2002 said:
If they were a D4, anything is possible. One of my cousins from the posh intellectual side of the family (really) taught the lads involved in the original case. Her comment to me was "they were such nice boys, I can't understand it".

I could understand it only too well. . .
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Yeah, there's people like that. And not just in D4. Double murder, out in the sticks some years back. Local sympathy went to the perp; as his partner had been allegedly shagging someone else. The saying was, at the time, (from some) that they deserved it and you could hardly blame the poor man :hmm::(
 
Battle of the Bogside

Lots of crazy footage and talking heads from those who were there

Harlan County USA

very strong docu about the miners and people of harlan county, history of struggle told through them and the songs. At one point theres footage of a machine gun pointing at strikers. That got me wound up more than a little. Excellent docu tho.
 
DotCommunist said:
Battle of the Bogside

Lots of crazy footage and talking heads from those who were there

Harlan County USA

very strong docu about the miners and people of harlan county, history of struggle told through them and the songs. At one point theres footage of a machine gun pointing at strikers. That got me wound up more than a little. Excellent docu tho.
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At one point you see the bits of the brains of a striker on the ground never mind a machine gun.
 
Sue said:
I really like those of his I've seen. All quite dark and not very sympathetic to bourgeois France.
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I've only see one Chabrol that wasn't worth watching, Inspector Lavardin. Of his late work The Colour of Lies, The Bridesmaid, The Girl Cut In Two and Bellamy all have at least something in them.
 
redsquirrel said:
I've only see one Chabrol that wasn't worth watching, Inspector Lavardin. Of his late work The Colour of Lies, The Bridesmaid, The Girl Cut In Two and Bellamy all have at least something in them.
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Still a few to work through but will keep in mind that IL's not up to much.
 
butchersapron said:
At one point you see the bits of the brains of a striker on the ground never mind a machine gun.
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one thing out of many that struck me- not allowed to call scab at a scab. The gun thugs allowed to murder with impunity but should a striking worker so much as raise a fist, you're nicked. Made me think about the Matewan film and how the local sherrif actually being onside must have been a rarity in places where the company had bought the judiacry a long time ago
 
The Lost Boys, for what I think was the first or possibly second time since I snuck out of the house to see a midnight showing of it when it first came out.

Made me laugh and it's aged pretty well considering it is nearly 30 years old - one big contrast to today was that in a movie full of alternative types, the only tattoo I noticed was a sleeve tattoo on a guy at an ear-piercing stand in the opening shots of Santa Carla, he was in the credits as "Tattoo Man."
 
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