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

[Beats & Pieces]

Star Trek Beyond.

This was simply bad. The script is a mess, it feels very much like a film lacking any real story, it simply has nothing to say of any real interest - and Star Trek at its best is about ideas! Perhaps most tellingly the few moments that work are clearly (and quite knowingly) built upon nostalgia and fondness for the original series crew. Even more surprisingly, it is a film that looks cheap (outside of the big set pieces in space).

 

[DotCommunist]

Approaching The Unkown.

Pretty decent little near future sci fi film about one man on his one way trip to mars. It wasn't perfect but it was Worth My Time a 6/20 I recon. On that netflix

As is Luke Cage which I enjoyed even if the final boss battle was a bit wtf. Good series though

 

[DotCommunist]

He Never Died. Henry Rollins. Really interesting structure till it gets going on the violence front, latter third I'd say. And that was good shit as well. A hearty 8/10 here, would reccomend.

 

[Idris2002]

OK, let's see.

I Give It a Year.

Genuinely the worst film I have ever seen. It must have been made as a tax dodge or something.

Narcos, episodes 1 - 4. Good, just not as good as it thinks it is. I'll still keep watching, though.

Columbo, Season 1, Episode 2. Surprisingly inventive. I'd say the battered raincoat-wearer belongs to a tradition of trickster mythology, which tends to crop up in mythologies all over the world.

Trickster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[magneze]

I can't be bothered with Narcos S2. It's really dull.

 

[magneze]

Watched Rubble Kings last night. That was interesting.

 

[trabuquera]

The Charge of the Light Brigade - 1968 - pretty much what it says on the tin, a historical epic which isn't all that epic. An interesting failure imo - being a British production of that era, it's at once stuffed with stuffy grandee fossil actors (Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews etc etc) playing stuffy snobby military commanders riding their tactical hobbyhorses into disaster, and quite a bit of social-commentary/satire about how ridiculous the class system of the military and British society was in the 1850s. There's some quite bolshy stuff about stupid rules about drinking in the barracks and how all the nice girls in bonnets loved a soldier, and upper class twits just wanting to show off their flash uniforms while the peons died. Some terrific waxed facial hairs throughout.

Overall though it's just a bit dull and the final battle is bungled - real scenery and real horses, not CGI, but somehow there's very little drama to it.
Nicely bleak end credits though (soundtrack: flies buzzing over the corpses. More war films and westerns should do this. )

 

[Virtual Blue]

First 3 episodes of Luke Cage - I hope Mrs Lin isn't dead (she reminds me of my mum )

 

[rubbershoes]

...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 )

You've seen Prince of the City? Absolute belter

 

[DaveCinzano]

You've seen Prince of the City? Absolute belter

The book it's based on is an excellent read, too

 

[DotCommunist]

Watched Rubble Kings last night. That was interesting.

New York in the 70s. Imagine letting the city thats supposed to be the jewel of your countries cities (even if DC is admin capital) fall to that ruin. People should have been shot for that- starting with trumps father. Oh for a time machine

 

[trabuquera]

^ steady on DC, even when risking total planetary destruction you should never mess with the prime directive.

 

[DotCommunist]

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

enjoyable splatterfest nonsense with an amusing conciet. 5/10

The big bloke from Reaper is in it and there are a few solid lols

 

[TruXta]

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

enjoyable splatterfest nonsense with an amusing conciet. 5/10

The big bloke from Reaper is in it and there are a few solid lols

More like a 6.5/10.

 

[The Octagon]

The Running Man was on telly last night, me and my housemate spent a very pleasant 90-ish minutes tearing it apart and enjoying it at the same time

"Here iz Sub-Zero...naaaoow... Plain Zero"

 

[DotCommunist]

first 4 episodes of banshee.

OK so the main man has just looked at a woman and then been balls deep within moments. Are we to suppose there was dialouge inbetween the cut to shagging? Twice its happened.

The main baddy is quite good. Guy behind the bar is I think Pops from Luke Cage. Excellent fights. I'll finish up the season and see if I fancy more, the diamonds/eastern european gangsters plotline isn't really grabbing me

always eastern europeans now. Used to be italian american mafia for your generic mobster character needs

 

[Idris2002]

first 4 episodes of banshee.

OK so the main man has just looked at a woman and then been balls deep within moments. Are we to suppose there was dialouge inbetween the cut to shagging? Twice its happened.

The main baddy is quite good. Guy behind the bar is I think Pops from Luke Cage. Excellent fights. I'll finish up the season and see if I fancy more, the diamonds/eastern european gangsters plotline isn't really grabbing me

always eastern europeans now. Used to be italian american mafia for your generic mobster character needs

There was even a Noo Yawk Italian-American mafia guy in The Wild Geese. The poor sap of an actor who plays him has a real "wtf am I doing here expression on his face".

 

[The Octagon]

first 4 episodes of banshee.

OK so the main man has just looked at a woman and then been balls deep within moments. Are we to suppose there was dialouge inbetween the cut to shagging? Twice its happened.

The main baddy is quite good. Guy behind the bar is I think Pops from Luke Cage. Excellent fights. I'll finish up the season and see if I fancy more, the diamonds/eastern european gangsters plotline isn't really grabbing me

always eastern europeans now. Used to be italian american mafia for your generic mobster character needs

Also Deputy Ops Burrell from The Wire, in fact you'll get quite a few Baltimore alumni as the show goes on.

It's very over the top but fun, and the plotlines go all over the place.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Three Night Stand.

#uttershit

 

[DotCommunist]

It's very over the top but fun, and the plotlines go all over the place.

I realised it was going to get OTT quickly when the baddie gets a woman to put on an amish bonnet before sucking him off and him taking his shirt off to reveal a full crucifix backpiece

 

[May Kasahara]

The Parole Officer.

It was amazing...ly shit

 

[Idris2002]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Quirky feisty lady war reporter Tina Fey - for it is she - LIBERATES THE WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN via her quirky feistiness.

OK, that's unfair. But it's not that wide of the mark either. But, also, this was still good for what it was. Based on the memoirs of, yes, a lady war reporter (Kim Barker) who went to Kabul just as the Iraq war was beginning and as the first signs of what 'liberation' really meant in Afghanistan were beginning to set in. Despite Fey having made her name as a comedienne, this is far more serious than you might assume, and I'd say you could do a lot worse than have a look at this one.

Solid script and cast, and Billy Bob Thornton is good as the increasingly disillusioned USMC colonel. Martin Freeman is the foul-mouthed Weegie snapper.

That said, the real lady war reporters I've encountered in my time have been a whole lot tougher (and cynical in a way that's only hinted at here, and in a way that doesn't involve Fey's character) than their movie equivalents.

 

[moody]

watched a really good feature length doc on the history of London.

focusing on the waves of immigration that the city has gone through from just after victorian times at the turn of the century, with the Jews first.

features some amazing archive footage, period news-reels and interviews from people who lived in those times.

London: The Modern Babylon

 

[The39thStep]

first 4 episodes of banshee.

OK so the main man has just looked at a woman and then been balls deep within moments. Are we to suppose there was dialouge inbetween the cut to shagging? Twice its happened.

The main baddy is quite good. Guy behind the bar is I think Pops from Luke Cage. Excellent fights. I'll finish up the season and see if I fancy more, the diamonds/eastern european gangsters plotline isn't really grabbing me

always eastern europeans now. Used to be italian american mafia for your generic mobster character needs

It's brill

 

[DotCommunist]

It's brill

Last night I saw an albino giant prison daddy try to get him to suck his dick. The albino even comes our to the yard to demand it with a black brolly. Its mental but I like it so far.

 

[The39thStep]

Last night I saw an albino giant prison daddy try to get him to suck his dick. The albino even comes our to the yard to demand it with a black brolly. Its mental but I like it so far.

Forgot all about that. The albino isn't the most likeable person .

 

[flypanam]

Siege of Jadotville - The Irish armed forces "peacekeeping" in (The) Congo. Kill a load of 'rebels' Irish establishment proves itself to the west.

Dross, working class lads fill for the establishment. Irish establishment cums hard and says look what we did...'reward us" can we take our place as a nation of the world?

No lad gets regonition at home

 

[Reno]

Bastille Day, mediocre Paris set action film with Idris Elba which has further convinced me that he doesn't have it what it takes to make for a great leading man. He goes through the tough guy motions efficiently enough, but he doesn't bring anything extra to the role which would have made him memorable. Stringer Bell is still the most impressive thing he's done by far.

Lights Out, decent if one-note horror films with a few good scares, but with absolutely no depth or subtext unlike genuinely great ghost stories. I'm never keen when horror films which link physical afflictions with evil as this one does but on the most superficial level it works well enough. Not a patch in the great Under the Shadow which I saw at the pictures this week and which is a far better ghosty film about a mother and child.

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't have much attention span right now, so have been watching some very bad movies, as I have been listening to the How Did This Film Get Made? podcast which entertainingly roasts a turkey every week.
I've watched:
The Last Airbender
Old Dogs
Drive Angry
Jupiter Ascending
The Island Of Dr Moreau
Howard The Duck
Sucker Punch
Battlefield Earth
Season Of The Witch

They are are all truly terrible but I am glad I watched them.

 

[Sue]

OK, let's see.

I Give It a Year.

Genuinely the worst film I have ever seen. It must have been made as a tax dodge or something.

A friend went to one of those 'test it on the audience' things for this before it was released. That's pretty much exactly what she said, though believe they made some 'improvements' after they got the audience feedback.

Imagine how much worse that might've been than the version you saw. j