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

Peanut and Pickle; anarchic cartoon that reminds me a bit of Ren & Stimpy. Makes us giggle over its silliness.
The Crown - fascinating show. About 4 eps in and I thought given the subject matter I would hate it. I'm hooked,dammit.
The Defenders - loving it. First ep is slow but once it gets going it's great craic. Not as good as DD and JJ.
 
A few from over the weekend.

The Bleeder (2016) - IMDb It's not called the Bleeder, it's called Chuck!!!
Enjoyable biography type pic of the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, the inspiration behind Rocky Balbao and his rise & fall, and happy ending.
7/10

How to Be a Latin Lover (2017) - IMDb
A pretty poor quality comedy that has few laughs and is only saved by the calibre of some of the stars.
5/10

The Infiltrator (2016) - IMDb
Seem to be having a Bryan Cranston love in at the moment. Nicely paced and gritty true story drama of a customs officer going undercover in a bid to bring down a number of the drug lords in Pablo Escobar's drug network. No doubt would never have been made if Narcos was not such a hit on Netflix, but this film is really quite good, and anyone that enjoys said series will no doubt really enjoy this.
8/10
 
Just finished The Defenders last night.

Overall I enjoyed it (probably rate the whole series 7/10), but that last episode was not great...

Inconsistent fight scenes (both in terms of in-show power levels and cinematography), poor CGI (that elevator scene :rolleyes:) and having Matt 'sacrifice' himself when we know full well he's going to come back, meaning all the emotional weight of scenes with Karen, Foggy, et al don't really hit as hard as they should. Also the LOTR-type multiple endings with each character dragged a bit.

Oh, and they managed to fuck up using Wu Tang during that big final fight scene - the tone was jarring, the mixing was genuinely awful, and it robbed the action of a lot of the urgency it had built up :facepalm:

The overall show has been decent and had some excellent moments, especially when it focused on the character interactions (the Chinese restaurant episode was by far the best), hopefully they can move on from The Hand for a while now though in each character's respective next seasons.

And Jessica Jones is still awesome :cool:
 
Chappie - Blomkamp's latest sci-fi romp. Heavily borrowing from Robocop (with a little bit of ET); it's fun but nothing outstanding. Die Antwoord are game and Sharlto is great as usual but Sigourney Weaver is wasted and Hugh Jackman is two dimensional. I feel it was kind of rushed; there was potential for a better movie here.
 
cybershot said:
A few from over the weekend.

The Bleeder (2016) - IMDb It's not called the Bleeder, it's called Chuck!!!
Enjoyable biography type pic of the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, the inspiration behind Rocky Balbao and his rise & fall, and happy ending.
7/10

How to Be a Latin Lover (2017) - IMDb
A pretty poor quality comedy that has few laughs and is only saved by the calibre of some of the stars.
5/10

The Infiltrator (2016) - IMDb
Seem to be having a Bryan Cranston love in at the moment. Nicely paced and gritty true story drama of a customs officer going undercover in a bid to bring down a number of the drug lords in Pablo Escobar's drug network. No doubt would never have been made if Narcos was not such a hit on Netflix, but this film is really quite good, and anyone that enjoys said series will no doubt really enjoy this.
8/10
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I enjoyed The Infiltrator
 
Starting watching "The Good Place"

From the creators of Parks and Rec, Kristen Bell is accidentally let in heaven after she dies. She has to fake being a good person to fool Angel Ted Danson. Much funnier than the premise sounds.

 
8den said:
Starting watching "The Good Place"

From the creators of Parks and Rec, Kristen Bell is accidentally let in heaven after she dies. She has to fake being a good person to fool Angel Ted Danson. Much funnier than the premise sounds.

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I've got that lined up for later.

Chiefly watched The Tick new series last night. Its reasonably funny but a bit slow.
 
DotCommunist said:
I've got that lined up for later.

Chiefly watched The Tick new series last night. Its reasonably funny but a bit slow.
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Is more than one episode out? Where are you watching at the moment? I was using couchtuner but it seems down.
 
8den said:
Starting watching "The Good Place"

From the creators of Parks and Rec, Kristen Bell is accidentally let in heaven after she dies. She has to fake being a good person to fool Angel Ted Danson. Much funnier than the premise sounds.

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Just finished this and I've revised my opinion from very good to "tremendous"
The Twist at the end of the Season and the set up for season 2 are excellent and I can't forking wait for Season two in a few weeks.
 
8den said:
Just finished this and I've revised my opinion from very good to "tremendous"
The Twist at the end of the Season and the set up for season 2 are excellent and I can't forking wait for Season two in a few weeks.
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Yeah I nearly replied to your earlier post saying "I'd be interested to see what you thought of it once finished" but realised it was slightly hinting and spoilery

Ted Danson's grotesque smile when Eleanor figures it all out is truly disturbing and great :D
 
Lady Macbeth

A stunning adaptation by William Oldroyd and Alice Birch, based on the short story which became the (semi) famous opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk. Relocated to the north-east, it's magnificently bleak and gorgeous, stark and brutal. The way your sympathies are shifted is brilliantly done, and the cinematography is stunningly good. A magnificent film, watch it.
 
White God. It was okay, but a bit disappointing - I was expecting a bit less Disney, a bit more Cujo.

Also The Green Inferno. Good, gory fun, but obviously a total rip-off of old skool Cannibal films and I can see many folks getting upset over its portrayal of indigenous people, being a recent film. I quite like Eli Roth. Get over it. :p
 
Johnny Vodka said:
White God. It was okay, but a bit disappointing - I was expecting a bit less Disney, a bit more Cujo.

Also The Green Inferno. Good, gory fun, but obviously a total rip-off of old skool Cannibal films and I can see many folks getting upset over its portrayal of indigenous people, being a recent film. I quite like Eli Roth. Get over it. :p
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Read this: "The Green Inferno" – Even Worse Than We Anticipated
and then tell the Amazonian people and those who advocate for them who are offended by the film to 'get over it'
 
Orang Utan said:
Read this: "The Green Inferno" – Even Worse Than We Anticipated
and then tell the Amazonian people and those who advocate for them who are offended by the film to 'get over it'
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I'm telling people to get over my liking of Eli Roth. The Hostel films were singled out as being shit, but I actually think they're quite smart and have more ideas than most modern horror films. I might read that piece later, but The Green Inferno is just really a love letter to 70s cannibal movies. I'd hope most people watching it would get the references and understand its portrayal of indigenous people is intentionally outdated. At least Roth didn't kill any turtles..
 
Kong: Skull Island: passable B-flick with some good action, some terrible performances from some big names, a few laughs and a CGI Kong who isn't as cool as original stop motion version....
 
Snowpiercer (2013) - IMDb
Set in a future where climate change has changed the world so much that what is left of the human race is living on a train that goes around the globe, the train is sectioned into various levels of classes as per a normal train. After some kids are taken away from the grubs, they make it their mission to get them back and fight the system.
7/10
 
Started watching Atlanta, Donald Glover's comedy/drama about life and rap and shit. It's great. Some excellent satire and social commentary tightly written into a script which follows Glover's character as he tries to make a career out of managing a rapper, while trying keep a family going, learning the business ropes and coping with the everyday minefield of being a black American male....it's excellent stuff.
 
I watched a Richard Pryor documentary on netflix. Bit of a hagiography

then a documentary on pygmies which wasn't very informative but had good jungle footage
 
Vikings - Season 4.1

Which continued to be very good, if somewhat at odds with the known facts. Sadly, I mentioned having watched it when out the other night, and the person I spoke to clearly missed the '.1' part, as he then told me a rather important development from .2. The bastard.
 
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