Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Chz
Stark Raving Sane
"We Are The Best!"
IMDB summary does it best: "Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead."
An object lesson in how to do warm-hearted without making the viewer yak on syrupy nonsense.
IMDB summary does it best: "Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead."
An object lesson in how to do warm-hearted without making the viewer yak on syrupy nonsense.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The Saffa accents sounded OK to me. I will say that the actors (especially Whitaker and Bloom) really inhabited their roles, their acting was very good. So I suppose that would extend to their accents also?
Voley
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This was really good. I won't give away what happened in the last episode but it actually made me go 'fuuuuuuck' out loud. Great documentary. Up there with 'Making A Murderer' for me.First episode of The Jinx.
Intriguing so far, mainly because I'm fairly certain I've seen it before, probably when I was pissed, and can't remember a fucking thing about it.
For a bit of light relief after that I watched the second episode of 'Westworld'. Enjoying that, too, particularly the evil Ed Harris bloke.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me.
Kermode loves it & reckons it was unfairly treated at the time of release. It still drags a bit but it's not as bad as I remember it. And yes, Sheryl Lee is very affecting and effective in it.
Kermode loves it & reckons it was unfairly treated at the time of release. It still drags a bit but it's not as bad as I remember it. And yes, Sheryl Lee is very affecting and effective in it.
Reno
The In Kraut
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words, fantastic documentary on the Hollywood star who was far more intelligent and interesting than your average Hollywood diva and who documented everything on a 16mm, so there are masses of archive footage.
Amanda Knox, the Netflix documentary, which when compared to something like The Jinx or Making a Murderer, feels too short to do the case justice, but in its focus on four characters, comes up with two compelling villains in the Daily Mail hack who termed the nickname "Foxy Knoxy" and in the Italian prosecuter who pursued his theory of an orgy gone wrong, which seemed to only be based on his own Catholic fucked up sex fantasy rather than by going on forensic evidence. The film doesn't have a commentary, just by interviewing them it gives them enough rope to hang themselves with. Nick Pisa, the journalist, obviously fancies himself a bit of a rogue and bad boy of tabloid journalism but comes across as an irredeemable arsehole. You couldn't come up with a more extreme parody of tabloid journalism than the real thing here.
Friend Request, another social media horror film which isn't exactly a great film, but which has some very effective scares.
Tried to watch Swiss Army Man, the Daniel Radcliffe "farting corpse comedy" but it irritated the fuck out of me in its contrived wackiness and it features a particularely annoying Paul Dano performance in the lead.
Amanda Knox, the Netflix documentary, which when compared to something like The Jinx or Making a Murderer, feels too short to do the case justice, but in its focus on four characters, comes up with two compelling villains in the Daily Mail hack who termed the nickname "Foxy Knoxy" and in the Italian prosecuter who pursued his theory of an orgy gone wrong, which seemed to only be based on his own Catholic fucked up sex fantasy rather than by going on forensic evidence. The film doesn't have a commentary, just by interviewing them it gives them enough rope to hang themselves with. Nick Pisa, the journalist, obviously fancies himself a bit of a rogue and bad boy of tabloid journalism but comes across as an irredeemable arsehole. You couldn't come up with a more extreme parody of tabloid journalism than the real thing here.
Friend Request, another social media horror film which isn't exactly a great film, but which has some very effective scares.
Tried to watch Swiss Army Man, the Daniel Radcliffe "farting corpse comedy" but it irritated the fuck out of me in its contrived wackiness and it features a particularely annoying Paul Dano performance in the lead.
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Virtual Blue
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Episode 5 of Luke Cage - it's getting boring now and feels more like a chore.
Will invest my time in Westworld and Walking Dead (when it starts).
Will invest my time in Westworld and Walking Dead (when it starts).
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Damn, was really looking fwd to it. Mate was raving about it yesterday.
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It's good and loadsa people love it.
I'm finding Luke to be a tad boring. He's too much of a cheesebag with the ladies and too self-righteous with the men he fights. All the villains are lame.
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Don't Breathe - Jane Levy is superb in this. Has a similar feel to The Green Room. Recommend.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Bummer. DD had Kingpin, the various gangs and Frank Castle. JJ had the mad David Tennant character. Lame villains on a Marvel Netflix effort does not compute
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Bummer. DD had Kingpin, the various gangs and Frank Castle. JJ had the mad David Tennant character. Lame villains on a Marvel Netflix effort does not compute
Frank Castle? I love that guy!!
I doubt a series about him could possibly work. The guy is meant to a serial killer with inventive ways of murdering (Garth Ennis' version).
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Agree. He's a brilliant supporting character but not sure an entire series could revolve around him. Mind you, Season 2 DD nearly did!
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Well he's getting his own series so we'll find out - Netflix Original Series 'Marvel's The Punisher' Announces Three New Cast Members | News | Marvel.com
ska invita
back on the other side
thats enoughLast Sunday when I was walking on Dartmoor, I'm sure none of my friends got in the slightest bit bored of my Brian Glover impression
(**im always saying 'thats enough' to people in that accent, but i dont think they know why, usually just get a quizzical look )
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Roaring Twenties - I've been watching Boardwalk Empire S1 with my Dad, and he suggested we watch this as a complement to the tv series.
It's great - James Cagney was a deserved star with a natural charisma and Raoul Walsh's montages depicting Prohibition in the 20s are fantastic and much imitated - it reminded me of The Hudsucker Proxy in that respect.
We now have White Heat, The Public Enemy and Angels With Dirty Faces in the queue.
It's great - James Cagney was a deserved star with a natural charisma and Raoul Walsh's montages depicting Prohibition in the 20s are fantastic and much imitated - it reminded me of The Hudsucker Proxy in that respect.
We now have White Heat, The Public Enemy and Angels With Dirty Faces in the queue.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Bloody hell, I was just watching that now! You're right, it's great stuff. Anyone who hasn't seen it, should.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
All great movies. Angels is probably the best...although many would say White Heat.
Roaring Twenties is a bit special though.
The original scarface is worth viewing and Little Ceaser.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I think is in Angels where the kids that play the two leads as kids were cast and the scenes shot before the decision to have Cagney play Rocky. So in the young scenes the kids are playing the wrong version of the older version.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
It's a 5 star Lynch film, as good as anything he's done (but very bleak).
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
In Tinme - from the writer of Gattaca & The Truman Show. But not as good.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
The Social Network
Had it sat on my DVD shelf for ages and finally got round to watching it last night.
Really enjoyed it, fantastically shot and written, with Fincher's visuals and stylistic choices helping to balance out Sorkin's mile-a-minute screenplay. Great soundtrack too, so many scenes enhanced by the music or even deliberately dwarfed by it (the club scene where Sean Parker manipulates Zuckerberg is brilliantly done, with the audience left in just as much confusion as Mark, straining to hear what Sean is alluding to whilst distracted by models and stories of million dollar losses).
Good performances across the board, not much in the way of likeable characters but Garfield and Eisenberg in particular are great to watch. Timberlake plays paranoid asshole well too.
Had it sat on my DVD shelf for ages and finally got round to watching it last night.
Really enjoyed it, fantastically shot and written, with Fincher's visuals and stylistic choices helping to balance out Sorkin's mile-a-minute screenplay. Great soundtrack too, so many scenes enhanced by the music or even deliberately dwarfed by it (the club scene where Sean Parker manipulates Zuckerberg is brilliantly done, with the audience left in just as much confusion as Mark, straining to hear what Sean is alluding to whilst distracted by models and stories of million dollar losses).
Good performances across the board, not much in the way of likeable characters but Garfield and Eisenberg in particular are great to watch. Timberlake plays paranoid asshole well too.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Under the Shadow - very confident debut, very obv influenced by 2000s era J-horror, but adding a subtle political undertone. Great performance by Narges Rashidi who had to carry almost the whole film.
Symptoms - very interesting 'lost' horror/psychological/gothic thriller from mid-70s, restored by BFI. Very creepy and atmospheric. Only thing that put me off was the pretty poor acting and forced RP accents which slightly undermined it, without adding to the feeling of unreality as it may have done otherwise. I notice a lot of non-anglophone reviewers particularly liked this, which may have something to do with them not picking up on that aspect. Jean Seberg was first choice for the lead but there was some union problem and it never happened. Even with that mild annoyance this is one worth searching out.
Symptoms - very interesting 'lost' horror/psychological/gothic thriller from mid-70s, restored by BFI. Very creepy and atmospheric. Only thing that put me off was the pretty poor acting and forced RP accents which slightly undermined it, without adding to the feeling of unreality as it may have done otherwise. I notice a lot of non-anglophone reviewers particularly liked this, which may have something to do with them not picking up on that aspect. Jean Seberg was first choice for the lead but there was some union problem and it never happened. Even with that mild annoyance this is one worth searching out.
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Non-Stop
Liam Neeson brings you the FULL NEESON - ON A PLANE! Julianne Moore excels as his suspect co-passenger. Interesting entry in the cinema of post-9/11 security (that's probably worth a thread in itself).
Sleeping With Other People
A rare thing, a rom-com with brains. Surprisingly not bad. Includes master class in female masturbation technique.
The Roaring Twenties.
Already mentioned above. Like Key Largo, there seems to be a subtext that involves reminding people of just what a bad idea Prohibition really was. While The Public Enemy, from about eight years before is only really of historical interest, this one still stands up as a very effective movie.
The Kremlin Letter.
Spy thriller with some improbable incidents and plotting. Helsinki stands in for Moscow, and they don't even bother to put Cyrillic on all the buildings. Only made in 1969, but already it's assumed that agencies like the CIA are dodgy people who do dirty things. Orson Welles appears as a KGB boss, but alas we don't quite get the FULL ORSON. John Huston directs.
Liam Neeson brings you the FULL NEESON - ON A PLANE! Julianne Moore excels as his suspect co-passenger. Interesting entry in the cinema of post-9/11 security (that's probably worth a thread in itself).
Sleeping With Other People
A rare thing, a rom-com with brains. Surprisingly not bad. Includes master class in female masturbation technique.
The Roaring Twenties.
Already mentioned above. Like Key Largo, there seems to be a subtext that involves reminding people of just what a bad idea Prohibition really was. While The Public Enemy, from about eight years before is only really of historical interest, this one still stands up as a very effective movie.
The Kremlin Letter.
Spy thriller with some improbable incidents and plotting. Helsinki stands in for Moscow, and they don't even bother to put Cyrillic on all the buildings. Only made in 1969, but already it's assumed that agencies like the CIA are dodgy people who do dirty things. Orson Welles appears as a KGB boss, but alas we don't quite get the FULL ORSON. John Huston directs.
hot air baboon
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I hadn't - looks exactly like what i like. Ta.....have you heard about this one B.A.....?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Angels With Dirty Faces - this is as good as Reno and Nanker Phelge say - it is a bit preachy when the priest speechifies, but he is a priest after all. The ending was great - I hope it was meant to be as ambiguous as I felt it was. I may be romanticising old movies, but they knew how to end films better in those days. or so it seems.
I had assumed the New York street scenes had been shot on location, but it appears that they were filmed at Burbank - it must have been a vast set.
The shoot-out at near the end is especially memorable with fantastic shadows and angles.
I had assumed the New York street scenes had been shot on location, but it appears that they were filmed at Burbank - it must have been a vast set.
The shoot-out at near the end is especially memorable with fantastic shadows and angles.
I don't think so - they were teens rather than kids and the young man who plays Rocky, Frankie Burke, is the spit of Cagney:
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