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

Darkest Hour. Gary Oldman might well get his long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for this, but it's not that great a film. There's a sequence set in the Underground towards the end that is just so jarring and so unlikely that it really spoils the rest of it.
 
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.

It wasn't a bunch of laughs by any means. I was happy and sad to see Greebo in it making her voice heard.

It's a shocking exposure of the decline of social housing in this country and it didn't offer any signs of hope for improvement.
 
Inland Empire - David Lynch oddity from 2006. Still letting it settle in. The imagery and especially the soundscapes/soundtrack is scratched on my brain.

The only thing that could follow that was "Fishing with John". John Lurie goes fishing with Tom Waits in Jamaica, circa '92.

Tom does his tall tales, puts a fish in his pants and gets sea sick.

What's not to like?

 
Beats & Pieces said:
The Disaster Artist

A very strange film, painful to watch at times. I do wonder how much sense it will make to those who might not have seen 'The Room'. Tommy is laughing at us all.
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I hadn't seen it, but I really enjoyed this, will certainly now dig out the room itself and give it a watch. I don't think it really matters if you've seen it or not, if anything, not seeing it, makes you want to watch it, where as those who have seen it, will just appreciate this maybe slightly more than those who haven't. Overall it's a well made and enjoyable film to watch. Would be brilliant if this does get some recognition at the academy awards.
 
cybershot said:
I hadn't seen it, but I really enjoyed this, will certainly now dig out the room itself and give it a watch. I don't think it really matters if you've seen it or not, if anything, not seeing it, makes you want to watch it, where as those who have seen it, will just appreciate this maybe slightly more than those who haven't. Overall it's a well made and enjoyable film to watch. Would be brilliant if this does get some recognition at the academy awards.
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Definitely worth doing, I think it can only enrich your viewing of TDA.

:)
 
Finally got around to The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford.

Long, but possibly one of the best shot films I've ever seen, the whole thing was full of atmosphere and tension. Narration felt a bit overly wanky at times, but was useful in filling in some backstory.

Brad Pitt good (but not really stretching himself), Casey Affleck and the other supporting actors are brilliant as Ford and the rest of the James gang.

Great music too.
 
Got around to watching Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Probably good to have waited, as it allowed expectations (Love the BD, who better than Luc "5th Element" Besson? Hah!) to settle a bit based on the luke-warm reviews.

It's alright. It's gorgeous, and the world-building is great. But the story set inside that world? Meh. And the male lead? Where in the hell did they find someone with that level of screen presence? The ex-model who's the female lead acts circles around him, and she's no great shakes herself. The way that he basically tries to act like Keanu Reeves should remove any doubt that Reeves actually does have some talent.

So terrible acting, meh story, fantastic world and gorgeous. I'm still giving it an "alright" because I want to like it. It's the fanboy in me, and Rihanna's cameo is fantastic.
Quite frankly, if you want a shiny, whiz-bang SF film, Jupiter Rising was a lot better. The plot may have been utterly incoherent, but the leads did a decent job and it was lively. This one just sort of plods along most of the time.
 
Chz said:
Rihanna's cameo is fantastic.
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I just didn't get that at all. It was 30 minutes of randomness that did nothing for the story. The whole thing should have ended up on the cutting room floor and made the film shorter, which would have made it a bit more enjoyable.
 
Mother! - Not my favourite of his films, thought it was pretentious.

Bladerunner 2049 - Decent film but I was expecting something like the Korean movie, Natural City.
 
cybershot said:
I just didn't get that at all. It was 30 minutes of randomness that did nothing for the story. The whole thing should have ended up on the cutting room floor and made the film shorter, which would have made it a bit more enjoyable.
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It was decorative, though. And since the rest of the film was very filler-ish anyhow...
 
Ghost in the shell- watered down but great.
The Invitation - Brilliant horror!

krtek a houby said:
Inland Empire - David Lynch oddity from 2006. Still letting it settle in. The imagery and especially the soundscapes/soundtrack is scratched on my brain.
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I love Lynch. Probably the best film artist EVER. Truly scary stuff, and I just love the way he connects different scenes together with subliminal images.
 
Documentary on Lovecraft; Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown.

Fascinating and makes you realise how influential the man was. Also, the doc doesn't gloss over his racism. And it's a sad almost self-imposed isolation that he was in with real success always just out of reach. But 80 years on and what a legacy. I've come to the conclusion that a helluva lot of my comic/sci fi/film preferences since I was a kid owed big time to HP's writings. That said, I wasn't really aware of him until my teens and Grant Morrison carried on the Cthulu mythos in 2000AD.
 
krtek a houby said:
Documentary on Lovecraft; Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown.

Fascinating and makes you realise how influential the man was. Also, the doc doesn't gloss over his racism. And it's a sad almost self-imposed isolation that he was in with real success always just out of reach. But 80 years on and what a legacy. I've come to the conclusion that a helluva lot of my comic/sci fi/film preferences since I was a kid owed big time to HP's writings. That said, I wasn't really aware of him until my teens and Grant Morrison carried on the Cthulu mythos in 2000AD.
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Pickman's model
 
Fuck me though is he a racist cunt.. I mean even when i was 10 when i first read all his stuff it made me sick.
 
Ralph Llama said:
Fuck me though is he a racist cunt.. I mean even when i was 10 when i first read all his stuff it made me sick.
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Yeah, there's no excusing that. According to the doc, he mellowed in his later years but all the same. It does leave a bitter aftertaste.

That said; what an incredible writer and spinner of frightful yarns! I see the influence he's had more clearly than ever now. He's the Kraftwerk of horror writers. Love Kraftwerk, me.
 
Absolutley.... the Cuthulu mythos is uber-cool !
My favourite horror film -Evil Dead 2 - was inspired by his necronomicon.

*torrents that doc
 
krtek a houby said:
Yeah, there's no excusing that. According to the doc, he mellowed in his later years but all the same. It does leave a bitter aftertaste.

That said; what an incredible writer and spinner of frightful yarns! I see the influence he's had more clearly than ever now. He's the Kraftwerk of horror writers. Love Kraftwerk, me.
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He was born 25 years after the civil war and 18 years before Rosa Parks protests.
We cant say he was right but i would like to think that if he'd been born and raised today he wouldn't have been racists because different times n all that. No guarantees though.

Saying that maybe i should watch the documentary first. I don't actually know how he behaved.
I'll see if i can find it now.
 
Gromit said:
He was born 25 years after the civil war and 18 years before Rosa Parks protests.
We cant say he was right but i would like to think that if he'd been born and raised today he wouldn't have been racists because different times n all that. No guarantees though.

Saying that maybe i should watch the documentary first. I don't actually know how he behaved.
I'll see if i can find it now.
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Here it is

 
Nice one :thumbs: Torrent only had one seed
*grabs popcorn

this is great First speaker -Neil Gaimian !
 
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Molly's Game

This is Oscar bait, featuring a strong central performance from Jessica Chastain. Costner is good and Elba cranks his gears as fully as possible (perhaps a little too much). Is it a great film? No, but it will have strong support.

6/10
 
Beats & Pieces said:
Molly's Game

This is Oscar bait, featuring a strong central performance from Jessica Chastain. Costner is good and Elba cranks his gears as fully as possible (perhaps a little too much). Is it a great film? No, but it will have strong support.

6/10
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I really liked the first hour or so, basically until the Russians turn up. Full-on Aaron Sorkin dialogue and full-steam-ahead narrative, which I enjoy in smallish doses, but the film rather limps over the finish line. Chastain is great throughout though.
 
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