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

[Virtual Blue]

Arrival - average first half but loved how the story came together in the end.
One thing that bugged me though was the first scene. It didn't make sense...

 

[Reno]

Arrival - average first half but loved how the story came together in the end.
One thing that bugged me though was the first scene. It didn't make sense...

I thought it was the other way round. A stunning first two thirds and then it dropped the ball at the end. Not so much what was happening, but how it handled it.

The first scene makes sense though.

 

[Sue]

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. Perfect.

 

[Virtual Blue]

I thought it was the other way round. A stunning first two thirds and then it dropped the ball at the end. Not so much what was happening, but how it handled it.

The first scene makes sense though.

Maybe I missed something.
....

 

[Supine]

Chance

Hugh Laurie plays a specialist medical practitioner with an American accent. Sounds familiar? Think House with a bent cop thriller story ark. Enjoying it so far

 

[belboid]

Spoiler

Maybe I missed something.
But I thought their language enabled her to live the future.
In the beginning, she had not met A&C?

You do know that various posters won't have seen the film.

 

[Reno]

Spoiler

Maybe I missed something.
But I thought their language enabled her to live the future.
In the beginning, she had not met A&C?

Spoiler

The beginning is a flashforward, which we think is a flashback till the end. It doesn't matter that she hasn't yet met A&C. Through learning their language she learns to experience time in a non-linear way and as the film is from her perspective, it turns out that the film told the story in a non-linear way too. The alien language doesn't so much as enable her to live in the future, she can access different points in a timeline.

...and as belboid said, put that in a spoiler (even though you got it slightly wrong)

 

[belboid]

Spoiler

The beginning is a flashforward, which we think is a flashback till the end. It doesn't matter that she hasn't yet met A&C. Through learning their language she learns to experience time in a non-linear way and as the film is from her perspective, it turns out that the film told the story in a non-linear way too. The alien language doesn't so much as enable her to live in the future, she can access different points in a timeline.

...and as belboid said, put that in a spoiler (even though you got it slightly wrong)

I really should have put one in myself, shouldn't I?

 

[Virtual Blue]

Spoiler

The beginning is a flashforward, which we think is a flashback till the end. It doesn't matter that she hasn't yet met A&C. Through learning their language she learns to experience time in a non-linear way and as the film is from her perspective, it turns out that the film told the story in a non-linear way too. The alien language doesn't so much as enable her to live in the future, she can access different points in a timeline.

...and as belboid said, put that in a spoiler (even though you got it slightly wrong)

Very well put.
I think I like it even more now

 

[Beats & Pieces]

The Founder.

A curious film - Keaton gives a beguiling performance - and you wonder at the takeover and exploitation of the original McDonalds brand.

8/10

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Quit trying with Suicide Squad....Just meandering nonsense....

Quit trying with Batman Vs Superman....more meandering nonsense...

The Lego Batman film is the best superhero flick in ages...

 

[krtek a houby]

First 4 eps of Taboo. Dark, broody and bonkers. And that's just Hardy... I like it.

 

[Sue]

Quit trying with Suicide Squad....Just meandering nonsense....

Quit trying with Batman Vs Superman....more meandering nonsense...

The Lego Batman film is the best superhero flick in ages...

Watched Suicide Squad on a plane. Well watched a small bit of it before I lost the will and had a kip instead. (The bit I watched was right rubbish. But then I'm not into superhero type movies so...)

 

[Sue]

California Split. Find gamblers and gambling pretty dull in general but liked the 70s feel and the performances. And a super-young Jeff Goldblum to boot!

 

[belboid]

Vikings, season 2.

More bloodiness and politicking. Linus Roache actually puts some effort in as King of Wessex, unlike Gabriel Byrne in S1. They still downplay the surprisingly democratic nature of Viking society, and rather exaggerate its feminism, but, hey. Good entertainment.

Can't decide what series to do next, Stranger Things or Search Party.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Seventh Bullet - Soviet Central Asian western (eastern?) about communist ideology versus Muslim ideology. Also, slightly dodgy love interest (she's clearly underage)...

 

[DotCommunist]

Vikings, season 2.

More bloodiness and politicking. Linus Roache actually puts some effort in as King of Wessex, unlike Gabriel Byrne in S1. They still downplay the surprisingly democratic nature of Viking society, and rather exaggerate its feminism, but, hey. Good entertainment.

Can't decide what series to do next, Stranger Things or Search Party.

almost certainly stranger things. Its very good. Winona Ryder from the adult cast suprised me a lot, didn't know she had such a performance in her. Last thing I cheered her on in was some Alin film. Probably 4. The one where she's a synthetic on the downlow

I caught up with Marves Agent of Shield.

its quite disturbing to see jon hannah who will forever be Batiatus in my head acting allongside people who don't sy 'jupiters cock!' and so on

 

[Chz]

Winona Ryder from the adult cast suprised me a lot, didn't know she had such a performance in her

I just felt sorry for her. The way the role is written, it's 80% teetering on the edge of total breakdown and 20% stone cold killer. I think she's awful in it, but it's not her fault - just the way it's written.

 

[Reno]

Ryder hits the "crazy" pedal in Stranger Things and never takes the foot off. A more subtle actress might have done more with the role but she's fun to watch. I still can't wrap my mind round the fact that Winona Ryder plays mums now.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Fresh Off The Boat.

Very much influneced by 'Everybody Hates Chris', this is funny but very interesting for the positions taken in respect of 'otherness' (largely through the references to Hip Hop by the main protagonist).

 

[krtek a houby]

Ex Machina - superb. Reminded me a little bit of Blade Runner in parts. And that Oscar Issacs is a chameleon.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Ex Machina - superb. Reminded me a little bit of Blade Runner in parts. And that Oscar Issacs is a chameleon.

This. I thought the way the story unfolded was very well handled, with some very good performances from all involved.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Moana.

You could be cynical about this, and question the slightly confused musical material, but this made me smile. Moreover, it was very interesting to see that the physicality of the main female character was established by action and body type.

9/10

 

[krtek a houby]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - great cast, terrible adaptation. Read the book instead.
Roots - the reboot, as I can barely remember the original, this is quite something. Nice to see Levar Burton is involve in it.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Dukhtar (2014)
A really beautifully shot and very feminist film about a mother running away with her daughter in northern Pakistan in order to protect her from child marriage, with the leaders of two clans ordering their pursuit with murderous intent. It got a bit formulaic at times (a campfire scene in which a people thrown together on the run reveal their pasts, a vehicle that won't start as the enemy approaches) and it was no suprise that the good-looking truckdriver who finds them hiding in his beautiful truck becomes a big part of the story, but the relationships are nicely portrayed and the theme of mother's love makes the film stand out.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Roots - the reboot, as I can barely remember the original, this is quite something. Nice to see Levar Burton is involve in it.

Well damn, I didn't realise Burton played the young Kunta Kinte in the original. It was a long time ago though.

 

[DotCommunist]

Legends of Tomorrow

in this weeks installment Rip has been turned evil so goes back in time to kill george washington. Jack Harkness stars once mor as the least convincing ex ra's al ghul ever, but he is funny. Also, theres a nice bit of an american history lesson within. I knew nothing about washington attacking over the Delaware

 

[TruXta]

Ouija Origin of evil. Nicely made if rather by the numbers haunted house scary kids period effort.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Watchmen.

Horrible. Dull. Pretentious. Ponderous. There is nothing about this film that I like.

 

[belboid]

Ryder hits the "crazy" pedal in Stranger Things and never takes the foot off. A more subtle actress might have done more with the role but she's fun to watch. I still can't wrap my mind round the fact that Winona Ryder plays mums now.

Really? I'm more surprised she was actually the age of the character she was playing in Heathers.

Watched the first half of ST tonight. The very fact we watched the first half should tel you we enjoye it. Winnie is very watchable, and I'll be generous and say the cheesiness of her performance is something of a homage to eighties values. The kids are great, especially El, and the story is a sold blend of a dozen or so eighties movies. What's not to love?