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

[Virtual Blue]

Was going to watch Train To Busan last night but I'm kinda zombied out atm (Walking Dead/ Ash vs Evil Dead).

 

[Reno]

Gone Girl - David Fincher's recent thriller. If you like Fincher, you'll like this.

I like Fincher, but I didn't like this. It's a trashy airport novel, contrived and with the pretense that it has something valuable to say about male/female relationships, which it doesn't.

 

[DotCommunist]

Was going to watch Train To Busan last night but I'm kinda zombied out atm (Walking Dead/ Ash vs Evil Dead).

bailed on walking dead seasons ago. Its to po-faced and thecharacters are all incredibly shallowly drawn imo.

 

[krtek a houby]

I like Fincher, but I didn't like this. It's a trashy airport novel, contrived and with the pretense that it has something valuable to say about male/female relationships, which it doesn't.

I just took it at face value; an entertaining thriller. What's wrong with trashy, anyway?

 

[krtek a houby]

bailed on walking dead seasons ago. Its to po-faced and thecharacters are all incredibly shallowly drawn imo.

I know a lot of people bailed on season 2. I almost did but it got so much better...

 

[Reno]

I just took it at face value; an entertaining thriller. What's wrong with trashy, anyway?

Nothing until trashy pretends its classy !

 

[krtek a houby]

Nothing until trashy pretends its classy !

Ok, the novel may have been a turd - I haven't read it - but IMHO Fincher may well have polished it

 

[Chz]

The end was fairly unsatisfying, but the trip to get there was entertaining enough.

 

[pesh]

No it wasn't.

 

[DexterTCN]

I like Fincher, but I didn't like this. It's a trashy airport novel, contrived and with the pretense that it has something valuable to say about male/female relationships, which it doesn't.

erm. I disagree.

 

[Reno]

Don't link to some online amateur film studies stuff using a text book step for step, because I don't care for the film enough to spend much time on this. If you disagree, tell me why you think so.

 

[DexterTCN]

It's a multi-media world, Reno. Tony's screenplay analyses are very interesting to me.

 

[Reno]

It's a multi-media world, Reno. Tony's screenplay analyses are very interesting to me.

I just don't have the time for all these itty-bitty youtube clips, especially, when it's on a film I don't care for. :shakes walking stick at the heavens:

 

[DexterTCN]

I just don't have the time for all these itty-bitty youtube clips, especially, when it's on a film I don't care for. :shakes walking stick at the heavens:

You don't like it, fine. I'll link to what I want though...the links are certainly more informative than you on the many occasions you don't like a film

I don't have a problem when you don't like a film but you have a tendency to a form of snobbery about it.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I've been watching Spooks at bedtime. I am on series 3. Do any of these characters ever develop?

 

[Reno]

You don't like it, fine. I'll link to what I want though...the links are certainly more informative than you on the many occasions you don't like a film

I don't have a problem when you don't like a film but you have a tendency to a form of snobbery about it.

Maybe starting a post with a condescending "erm" as if you are presenting some irrefutable truth by linking to some video doesn't help. The examples presented in the video could be applied to lots of other films, it's all so non-specific, basically its waffle. I like film theory and read a lt of it, but not in 5 minute YouTube clips for the ADHD crowd. In the end, Gone Girl is no Chinatown and this certainly didn't convice me that we are dealing with a great screenplay here.

A recent film which did something similar but far better is Steven Soderberg's neo-noir Side Effects which finds the right tone for its pulpy, twisty plot and which I thought was a lot more fun than Gone Girl.

 

[krtek a houby]

I've been watching Spooks at bedtime. I am on series 3. Do any of these characters ever develop?

Sort of. Harry's probably the most defined by the end. Worth sticking around for the most fabulous character; Ros.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Sort of. Harry's probably the most defined by the end. Worth sticking around for the most fabulous character; Ros.

I don't know much about you as a poster but, from what I have seen from your posts in film and TV, your endorsement is not a positive thing.

Sorry. No insult intended.

 

[hot air baboon]

I've been watching Spooks at bedtime. I am on series 3. Do any of these characters ever develop?

...no they mainly get blown up...

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't know much about you as a poster but, from what I have seen from your posts in film and TV, your endorsement is not a positive thing.

Sorry. No insult intended.

That's fine. Everybody has their own tastes. I can just as easily watch Gilmore Girls as I can Breaking Bad. Or The Tree of Life or Finding Nemo.

 

[rubbershoes]

The Witch. Most excellent halloween viewing

 

[Idris2002]

Our Man in Havana.

Alec Guinness in fine form. Ostensibly comic spying in prerevolutionary Cuba, but with a hard centre.

Carol Reed directs with only the rarest of nods to the Third Man.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Phantasm V - Ravager

I knew this was going to be shit and it didn't disappoint.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I've been watching Spooks at bedtime. I am on series 3. Do any of these characters ever develop?

Not really, no. Harry is the only character you get any sort of deeper insight into (and possibly one other, who I'm not sure will have showed up for you yet). But eh, it's Spooks, even if it is perfect bedtime fodder, it's really just more of the same right through to the end.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

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The Greasy Strangler. Words fail me when it comes to this one. People will either love or hate the film, I loved it. It's disgusting and extremely weird but the expression of a fully worked out vision. The closest it comes to reminding me of something is John Waters 70s films via an adults only Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, it's the gross out comedy to end them all. OMG the "disco outfit" !

Trailer NSFW:

I went to see this at the cinema this weekend - hilarious from start to finish. It is very like a John Waters film.

The 'disco outfit' as great, but I wouldn't wear one myself. #GetGreasy

It has been nominated for a BIFA Discovery Award.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Jack Reacher.

Twas okay, nothing new, just a standard attempt at an action thriller. There was, however, one line delivered by Cruise that SWMBO nearly choked at (regarding pregnancy or lack thereof).

 

[seventh bullet]

I recently watched all of the Hunger Games films. I really enjoyed them while not expecting to, and having never read the novels they are based on, didn't think they would be as bleak as they were. I particularly liked the final one, which apart from the moral wrangling over what is deemed to be acceptable or necessary behaviour in war, was helped by the look and feel of the evacuated parts of the Capitol as the rebel army closed in on the government, with its Soviet-style buildings that could belong on 1930s architectural plans or in the realised central parts of 1950s Moscow, although as seen in earlier films even the Victors' Village that's seen better days in the monochromatic coal mining district was like a pavilioned exhibition centre in the old USSR. The only thing that didn't quite fit was the ending, that final few minutes (I guess on how to deal with the mental trauma of war haunting you in the present, which isn't as 'happy' an ending as it might appear). Mockingjay parts one and two could also have just been one film, but I guess more money could be rinsed from the making of two.

Reno will be along soon to contradict me on something (and I do enjoy reading your posts).

 

[Reno]

I recently watched all of the Hunger Games films. I really enjoyed them while not expecting to, and having never read the novels they are based on, didn't think they would be as bleak as they were. I particularly liked the final one, which apart from the moral wrangling over what is deemed to be acceptable or necessary behaviour in war, was helped by the look and feel of the evacuated parts of the Capitol as the rebel army closed in on the government, with its Soviet-style buildings that could belong on 1930s architectural plans or in the realised central parts of 1950s Moscow, although as seen in earlier films even the Victors' Village that's seen better days in the monochromatic coal mining district was like a pavilioned exhibition centre in the old USSR. The only thing that didn't quite fit was the ending, that final few minutes (I guess on how to deal with the mental trauma of war haunting you in the present, which isn't as 'happy' an ending as it might appear). Mockingjay parts one and two could also have just been one film, but I guess more money could be rinsed from the making of two.

Reno will be along soon to contradict me on something (and I do enjoy reading your posts).

They were alright, I thought the second film was the best. Agree with you on the ending.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Train to Busan - I cried. Memorable and intense.

 

[The Octagon]

Scream 2 was on last night, got sucked into re-watching and think it might actually have the first one beat, very cleverly plotted and just self-deprecating enough to get away with the knowing references.

The first one has a stunning opening and some entertaining villain moments (Matthew Lillard in particular), but I think the 2nd one is superior.

For completeness - the 3rd one is mostly crap but Parker Posey has some good moments, while Scream 4 is actually pretty good (but not quite up to the standard of the first 2).

Also the latest Agents of Shield episode (S4 Ep 6), which was brilliant and felt like a mid-season finale, they are really not hanging about! Plus the fucking Ghost Rider is done very well (both in effects and in acting)