Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Watched an odd sci-fi film called The Frame. It was ok then got a bit weird at the end.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
- Thread starter editor
- Start date
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I don't if it was bad...just big ideas done on a budget so it felt a bit half done...and clunky...and slightly odd alongside the previous 90mins of the film.
magneze
🎧
Great film imo.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I enjoyed most of it....
Assassin's Creed.
Why. Did. I. Bother.
Why. Did. I. Bother.
Last edited:
flustercuck
Spoonerist
Assassin's Creed.
Why. Did. I Bother.
I asked myself the same question. Utterly pointless, and unengaging.
It was a production that clearly had been given a budget, as the visual special effects worked very well. It was the story (or rather lack thereof) that was so irritating, and the fact it was clearly constructed with a view to launching a franchise. The game has been successful but it is hard to see this enjoying the same degree or level of appeal.
flustercuck
Spoonerist
I felt the action scenes were well constructed, and unlike many a film - very clearly geographically so you always knew where the action was taking place and in relation to everyone else. However, the whole "it happened 500 years ago" means there was never any sense of danger - you knew the character escaped. he had to escape, otherwise they could never have succeeded, or his bloodline continued...
Ultimately as a framing device it made everything pointless, and never in any real danger. And thats why it failed.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
computer game films are always shit. Mario, Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat scrapes in at watchable because of the fantasy/martial arts stuff being well done. But even that, 50p bargain bin only
I watched Marvels Agents of Shield. Was starting to get bored with the robot shenanigans but last nights kicked it right up a notch
I watched Marvels Agents of Shield. Was starting to get bored with the robot shenanigans but last nights kicked it right up a notch
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Prince of Persia was (to my extreme surprise) a passable film as well. But in terms of game adaptations, I can only think of Mortal Kombat, PoP and Resident Evil as being Not Shit. None of them were great, but Not Shit is incredibly high praise compared to all the other game-based films.
flustercuck
Spoonerist
First and Only Video Game franchise to hit $1billion at box office (unless I've forgotten something), First and Only horror franchise to hit $1 billion as box office too.
Mind you, in terms of video game adaptations - Doom was much in the same ballpark, but mostly a failure. There's a fan re-edit of Doom on vimeo that is about 15 minutes shorter, changed all the music over to stuff from the video game...much much better than the other version.
I'll see if I can find it.
flustercuck
Spoonerist
here it is! (I saved to to my hard drive and watched it on the big tellybocks, mind you)
flustercuck
Spoonerist
Yes, it was. But in mixing oriental mysticism and western aesthetics, It failed, miserably. This whole earth gaia thing wouldn't sit well with the American "blow shit up!" ethos. I still rate the backgrounds in it immensely, but wish they had used real actors instead. Looking at stuff like "Starship Troopers:Invasion" shows just how far things have come in the intervening 15 years.
lefteri
Well-Known Member
Should I look at starship troopers: invasion then?
flustercuck
Spoonerist
As a 100% Japanese made CGI Sci-fi actioner, I thought it was quite good. The levels and texturing for the CGI was on a par, if not better than FF:Spirits Within.
However,it does have a completely gratitous and unneeded shower scene for the female characters. If you know, CGI hand to gland combat is your thing. if you want to check out that scene for the animation quality, i think it is pronhub... ;-)
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
The latest US episode?
I thought that was possibly the best ep they've done in the entire series, the acting was incredible and the twists were really well done.
Last night I watched The Drug Trial (bbc2).
A magnificent lesson in how to pad out 20mins to 1hour.
Unbelievable number of shots of London from above, both day and night. Lingering waste of time as required.
The meat of all this could easily been told in a much much shorter time because it was a pure waste of mine.
A magnificent lesson in how to pad out 20mins to 1hour.
Unbelievable number of shots of London from above, both day and night. Lingering waste of time as required.
The meat of all this could easily been told in a much much shorter time because it was a pure waste of mine.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yep. For the first time robot woman was actually scary.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
for some fucken reason i accidentally did a ben affleck double bill - The Accountant, where he is utterly unconvincing as an autistic person, and Live By Night where he is utterly unconvincing as an anti-racist gangster. how did that happen? what is wrong with my VCR tape recording television set?
flustercuck
Spoonerist
Aye. It falls foul of the typical biopic issues - compression of events, merging multiple people into one fictional character etc. - but well worth seeing. And much funnier than I expected,
flustercuck
Spoonerist
There's a whole host of different cuts of Brotherhood Of The Wolf.
1. Original french version; (Also on US DVD)
2. UK Cinema / DVD Version ; 137mins (PAL Speedup)
3. Directors Cut (Canadian DVD); 152mins
I've only seen the UK Cinema version (subbed) and it is... unmissable. As for Interstellar, I'd love there to be a proper, shorter re-edit of that film. The opening 40 minutes is all backstory and it drags to high hell.
Didn't know that. Just streamed it no idea which version. Got the gist of it though I've not seen it for years. As good as I remembered.
Didn't drag at all. Used to detest Matthew McConaughey but he's done well recently. Loved Dallas Buyers Club and Mud.
flustercuck
Spoonerist
On rewatches I find the first 40 minutes or so - the earthbound stuff - very dull and lacking. I'm not saying he's not great - because he clearly is very good at what he dpes. (Though that Wild Turkey ad really grates)
The whole stuff about the drone - what was that needed for? there was little in that scene that could not be verbalised in 30 seconds. Same as with the school teachers / we didn't go the moon scene. And really - there is absolutely NO way that an interloper onto a secret govt site would then be handed the keys to a spaceship. Nope, that doesnt so much strain credible plotting as much as... break into a thousand pieces. had he been approached by the govt directly and then he not allowed to explain to his daughter, it would have made much more sense than the whole "stumble into it / you're the right man for the job" - which is an all too often too used trope in movies (see the "White Man / outsider saviour" cliche).
A re-edit could trim 20 minutes of the flab and be more linear and direct. 2001 is 25 minutes shorter and perfect. Just imagine what 2001 might have been like with an extra half hour of monkeys grunting, and you get my point ;-)
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Elizabeth.
The Cate Blanchett flick from the late 1990s. It's a good thing that Kathy Burke as Mary Tudor dies early on, or she would have stolen the whole thing with her scenery chewing aplomb. But this was well done - I didn't notice the time passing, and the cast all look like they're having fun, Blanchett especially.
Someone needs to make an historically accurate movie about Elizabeth I's Irish wars, though.
The Cate Blanchett flick from the late 1990s. It's a good thing that Kathy Burke as Mary Tudor dies early on, or she would have stolen the whole thing with her scenery chewing aplomb. But this was well done - I didn't notice the time passing, and the cast all look like they're having fun, Blanchett especially.
Someone needs to make an historically accurate movie about Elizabeth I's Irish wars, though.
Similar threads
