Reno
The In Kraut
The yuppies in The Invitation are the peril.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Well done. You remember cat good.
Some of them.
DotCommunist
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The traffick jam episode of One Foot In The Grave. Still the best of the lot. It did feel a bit dated but the lols were there, good timing and superb writing plus that bitter meldrew sign-off about life as a traffic jam:
" Mirror image of your life really, isn't it? Car journey on a bank holiday. First fifty-odd miles on the go all the way - a sense of direction - bowling along. Get past sixty, everything slows down to a sudden crawl and you realise you're not going anywhere any more. All the things you thought you were going to do that never came to anything. And you can't turn the clock back. One way traffic just gradually grinding to a complete halt."
" Mirror image of your life really, isn't it? Car journey on a bank holiday. First fifty-odd miles on the go all the way - a sense of direction - bowling along. Get past sixty, everything slows down to a sudden crawl and you realise you're not going anywhere any more. All the things you thought you were going to do that never came to anything. And you can't turn the clock back. One way traffic just gradually grinding to a complete halt."
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I liked the one where they go to Portugal on holiday
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Jungle book
I haven't sen the original for 40 years but is so well known that there is a lot to live up to. This one does that but without feeling bound by it. The songs are done really well
I haven't sen the original for 40 years but is so well known that there is a lot to live up to. This one does that but without feeling bound by it. The songs are done really well
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Invitation. L.A yuppies dinner party goes a bit wonky!!!
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Train To Busan (2016)- very enjoyable Korean zombie apocalypse film set on a high speed train, it doesn't bring anything new to the genre but it moves along at a good pace with only a couple of brief soppy moments. There's an animated prequel called Seoul Station that came out a few weeks ago too which I'd like to see.
Also watched another Korean horror called The Wailing which seems to have good reviews but I didn't much like it. Too long and I didn't care for the main bumbling cop character.
Also watched another Korean horror called The Wailing which seems to have good reviews but I didn't much like it. Too long and I didn't care for the main bumbling cop character.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
They Might Be Giants. Oddity from 1971 starring George C Scott & Joanne Woodward. Scott believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes and Woodward is the psychiatrist who gets drawn into his world. A bit sentimental in parts and I don't get the ending. On the plus side; James Tolkan (Strickland from Bact to the Future) is in it. And a blink and you miss appearance from M Emmet Walsh.
Virtual Blue
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Swiss Army Man.
This movie is more than just fart and dick jokes.
Was surprised and it's probably the most touching film I've seen since Her.
Paul Dano is always great.
Harry Potter's best performance since Horns.
Recommend this one.
This movie is more than just fart and dick jokes.
Was surprised and it's probably the most touching film I've seen since Her.
Paul Dano is always great.
Harry Potter's best performance since Horns.
Recommend this one.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The Guest. Up there with It Follows and Stranger Things as a modern take on 80s Spielberg/Carpenter et al....
All the elements were in place yet it still felt fresh and modern.
All the elements were in place yet it still felt fresh and modern.
Yossarian
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The Dead Zone - 1980 Steven King adaptation with Christopher Walken as a psychic and Martin Sheen as a psychopath who wants to become president. There were a few parallels with today but not as many as I expected - the Sheen character came across as a lot more rational than Donald Trump does.
dessiato
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Over the last few days I've been watching The Big Bang Theory. I'm completely up to date, up to S10E2 now. I love it and have enjoyed watching some of the secondary characters develop. I'm hoping as S10 continues Bernadette develops.
Favourite episode, at the moment, is when Howard finds out his mother died and Sheldon's reaction. I like the first time Penny tells Leonard she loves him. Most disappointing episode so far is S10E1.
Favourite episode, at the moment, is when Howard finds out his mother died and Sheldon's reaction. I like the first time Penny tells Leonard she loves him. Most disappointing episode so far is S10E1.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Girl Can't Help It - Very dated comedy from 1956, with Jane Mansfield. Worth seeing for the wealth of talent on display; Little Richard, Abbey Lincoln, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane, The Platters, Fats Domino etc. And an all too brief appearance from Juanita Moore.
Boys - Saw this on netflix; I guess it was about the confusion that abounds in young love and all that. Not sure if it's Danish or German made.
Boys - Saw this on netflix; I guess it was about the confusion that abounds in young love and all that. Not sure if it's Danish or German made.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
been watching Voyager to give it a fairer shake than I have in the past, keep me going till Discovery comes out. As someone else mentioned, its not as awful as I remember, there are some strong episodes with characters I don't even like much like Harry 'boring' Kim. Some have to be skipped cos when its bad, it is baaaaad. But when its good, its solid Star Trek. Will have to catch some more tonight. Good old netflix
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Is Lucy worth 90 mins just for entrrtainment?
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Reno
The In Kraut
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I didn't bother. Opted for Gillian Anderson posing moodily in a blouse on bbc2 and then an episode of 4400
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Star Trek Beyond
Well, it's pretty much how you'd expect a Star Trek movie written by Simon Pegg to be. Apart from some of the character moments, the only thing I liked was the design of the huge starbase - it's the sort of megastructure a society with the resources of the Federation should always have been building in the Trek universe.
Well, it's pretty much how you'd expect a Star Trek movie written by Simon Pegg to be. Apart from some of the character moments, the only thing I liked was the design of the huge starbase - it's the sort of megastructure a society with the resources of the Federation should always have been building in the Trek universe.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Quarry- first three episodes of a new series on Cinemax. Set in the early 70s two men return home from Vietnam both having been investigated and then cleared of a massacre in Vietnam. The stigma follows them leading to reluctant involvement with a very shady criminal element. It's dark , broody and tense, well acted , with some great camera work and a brilliant soundtrack. Well worth watching so far.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
She has always reminded me of someone's elder sister when I was at school
hot air baboon
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...took a punt on this as it was a fairly cheap DVD ...and was not disappointed...one for those who deeply grok those gritty 70's New York crime thrillers ( Pelham 123, Serpico, 3 Days of the Condor etc )
effectively the unofficial sequel to French Connection by the same team with Roy Scheider playing the same character he played in FC, Sonny Grosso - add in the Bullitt car chase transplanted to NY but minus Friedkein, Hackman and the plot of FC it can't quite measure up to its predecessor ofcourse
effectively the unofficial sequel to French Connection by the same team with Roy Scheider playing the same character he played in FC, Sonny Grosso - add in the Bullitt car chase transplanted to NY but minus Friedkein, Hackman and the plot of FC it can't quite measure up to its predecessor ofcourse
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Savannah (2013) - Jim Caviezel is a roisterin' wild-duck hunter in early 20thC Georgia who lurves his wetlands as well as his Shakespeare and doesn't adapt well to high society, even though he was born into it. Would rather go camp in the marshes and shoot ducks with his bestie mate who is a former slave. Together they have Huck-Finn-like adventures, dodging redneck bigots, hoodwinking smalltown judges and telling lots and lots of manly shootin' anecdotes. Chiwetel Ejiofor struggles greatly to overcome the clichés of the script and the worst ageing-up makeup ever in cinema history but as a terrific actor, can make it work. Caviezel doesn't quite convince as this sort of larger-than-life Southern 'gentleman' and the movie hints at all sorts of Great Historical Crimes which it then wusses out of tackling seriously. Lots of nice pics of Georgia wetlands and marsh birds if you like that sort of thing. But it doesn't have the power or the authenticity of many other, better Southern / Southern Gothic movies.
Reno
The In Kraut
I watched the first three episodes of the six episode miniseries Wolf Creek, based on the Australian horror film and its sequel. This is surisingly good. Unlike the two films, which were quite gruesome, this is more of a revenge story where a girl whose family has been killed by Mick Taylor, the ongoing serial killer from the films and still played by John Jarratt, goes after him. It has a likeable and resourceful heroine and it's gripping and beautifully shot.
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