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

[krtek a houby]

Moby Dick, the 1956 John Huston effort. Bit melodramatic and obviously shears off the novel's digressions, which I guess you'd have to back in the day to make for a standard seat-filler. Nice to see Noel Purcell and a bit of Youghal in there but overall, not one of Huston's best.

 

[DexterTCN]

Castaway.

Never seen this. Tom Hanks gets marooned on a desert island with nothing but a picture of Helen Hunt. This obviously makes him want to kill himself but her evil spirit stops him.

He eventually decides to go out into the sea and die amongst the whales but her evil spirit finds him again and draws him to her. Fortunately he escapes at the end. We're talking Requiem for a Dream level horror here.

That about right?

 

[sojourner]

I Am Not An Easy Man.

Thought it would be great. It was fucking shit, and offensive to boot

 

[Reno]

Summer of 84, a deeply mediocre entry in the wave of 80s nostalgia horror movies and TV series.

 

[belboid]

Ready Player One - I wasn’t exactly expecting Shakespeare, but this was just pants. Never seen Mark Rylance be so shit.

American Animals - that’s better! Top drawer entertainment. Of course the mixture of the real people and actors is nowt like as original as the publicity claimed, but it works and is a pretty great tale. Despite the fact that they’re obviously arseholes.

Hereditary - nearly brilliant. I’m still not quite sure why the ending doesn’t have the impact it should, it’s all set up in earlier scenes, and makes sense. But it isn’t scary or shocking, more ‘oh, okay, so that’s it’. Shame, but still well worth viewing.

Amadeus - again, obviously. Tom Hulce is more irritating than I remembered, but it’s still fucking magnificent.

 

[flypanam]

Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace.

Watched the first hour of it last night and will watch the rest over the next five days (It's 6 hours long). It's excellent though, much better than the BBC adaptation fro a couple of years ago.

 

[cybershot]

Bad Sarmatian

Thought this was pretty good. Don't get me wrong it's a formula that's been done to death but had enough in it to keep it interesting. Has David Tennant in, being delightfully creepy, and that Irish lad who was in Misfits. Rather than give anything away, I'll just post the blurb..

A pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob.

 

[Idris2002]

Bad Sarmatian

Thought this was pretty good. Don't get me wrong it's a formula that's been done to death but had enough in it to keep it interesting. Has David Tennant in, being delightfully creepy, and that Irish lad who was in Misfits. Rather than give anything away, I'll just post the blurb..

A pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob.

Nice to see Sarmatia getting some recognition. Sarmatians - Wikipedia

 

[DaveCinzano]

Nice to see Sarmatia getting some recognition. Sarmatians - Wikipedia

I like 101 Sarmatians, but 102 was just a cash-in sequel too far

 

[not-bono-ever]

bit behind the curve on this - La La land

its a beautiful sumptious film

well worth the time

 

[May Kasahara]

Sightseers.

 

[krtek a houby]

A rather sobering and depressing documentary on migrant workers in the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia and Jordan where domestic staff are made part of the kafala system.
Maid in Hell, it's a BBC co-production and follows the plight of a worker who was burnt by her employees. Horrific and desperately shocking stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

Legends of Tomorrow

the best comic book thing on small or big screen returns with a killer unicorn at woodstock and all round lols. Saras continued love affair with the head of the time bureau and gary's missing nipple bringing the background

 

[rekil]

Oceans 8 . How they pull the heist off is clever , how they pull the film off isn't. Only watched it because Cate Blanchett is in it and I quite liked Oceans Trilogy.

I went along with it until the necklace bit. Count on guards to be sub-G4S calibre then plonk a massive chunk of jewellery on a passing waiter's tray and hope he's too thick/blind to notice. Also it's not a heist fillum if they don't end up killing or ratting out each other.

 

[belboid]

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Watched mostly for it's shots of Angkor Wat, I had remembered it as being a pretty good romp, which it was, I guess, although showing its age. I had forgotten just how very very silly it was tho, Chris bloody Barrie! Such a young Julian Rhind-Tutt. Met the criteria for amusing guff. Not one I'll be in a desperate rush to revisit tho

 

[rubbershoes]

Ouija : origin of evil

Complete tosh.

 

[Reno]

Ouija : origin of evil

Complete tosh.

Not sure what your expectations were. For a low budget horror sequel to a film which was terrible, I thought this was pretty good.

 

[DexterTCN]

Chronicle. A gem of a found footage film (but it's better than those really) from 2012 which can be found on youtube in hd. Only an hour and a half, it's kinda like an origin story and well worth your time for its original take on superhero-ish type movies.

 

[DexterTCN]

Sicario 2. Brolin and Del Toro still here from the first one, the main plotline is 'fuck with the cartels'. It's decent enough, plenty of tension. Not as good as the first one but very watchable.

 

[Reno]

I watched the original The Fly from the 50s, which I had not seen in a long time. Still pretty good and structured like a murder mystery till it gets to the monster stuff in the last act. The end is one of the best.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Journey to Greenland

Two French lads head off to Greenland to see one lad's dad and hang out with the locals. That's it, really. Slight but sweet.

 

[rubbershoes]

Not sure what your expectations were. For a low budget horror sequel to a film which was terrible, I thought this was pretty good.

Thank you for telling me that I was wrong. I'll bear this in mind before posting on this thread again

 

[Reno]

Thank you for telling me that I was wrong. I'll bear this in mind before posting on this thread again

Much obliged! We couldn’t possibly disagree on an issue on urban, it’s practically unheard of.

 

[The Octagon]

Ocean's Eight

Bit of a waste of everyone's involvement to be honest, couple of funny moments and the soundtrack is pleasant, but the plot is nonsense and the characters don't behave in logical ways.

Spoiler: general plot stuff

The plan goes smoothly from start to finish, with very little in the way of conflict (any hint of a bump in the road, such as Anne Hathaway's character figuring things out or James Corden's insurance investigator digging into the case, is handwaved away by "they like these women and therefore will go along with framing Debbie's Ocean's ex-boyfriend for no reason"), doesn't really make for a particularly engaging experience.

5/10

 

[Indeliblelink]

Mandy (2018) Absolutely loved this, both beautifully psychedelic and fantastic fun, with Nicholas Cage on good form getting to turn it up to 11. Surely destined to become a cult midnight movie.
The score by Johann Johannsson, one the last he did before sadly passing away this year, is great too.
I had enjoyed director, Panos Cosmatos' previous effort "Beyond The Black Rainbow" despite it being rather let down by a crap ending but he nails it here.
10/10

 

[The39thStep]

Chronicle. A gem of a found footage film (but it's better than those really) from 2012 which can be found on youtube in hd. Only an hour and a half, it's kinda like an origin story and well worth your time for its original take on superhero-ish type movies.

Liked that when it came out

 

[Reno]

I’m three episodes into season 4 of Channel Zero and it’s by far the best (it’s an anthology show, so you can skip the others). If you want a horror tv series that’s actually scary, then this is a better bet than The Haunting of Hill House.

 

[seventh bullet]

Mandy (2018) Absolutely loved this, both beautifully psychedelic and fantastic fun, with Nicholas Cage on good form getting to turn it up to 11. Surely destined to become a cult midnight movie.
The score by Johann Johannsson, one the last he did before sadly passing away this year, is great too.
I had enjoyed director, Panos Cosmatos' previous effort "Beyond The Black Rainbow" despite it being rather let down by a crap ending but he nails it here.
10/10

Spoiler

There was thin characterisation, but what there was of it, the cult leader was more interesting in his insecure, ego like a sheet of glass depravity than Cage screaming in his underpants while downing vodka.

The vaguely Cenobite trio of 'demon' bikers on a permanent bad trip were also interesting but dispatched easily.

 

[keybored]

Spoiler

There was thin characterisation, but what there was of it, the cult leader was more interesting in his insecure, ego like a sheet of glass depravity than Cage screaming in his underpants while downing vodka.

The vaguely Cenobite trio of 'demon' bikers on a permanent bad trip were also interesting but dispatched easily.

Spoiler

Enjoyed it, but I was properly thrown because I watched half last night, then at some point at work today I half-arsed Googled reviews for it to see if it was worth watching the rest and there were mentions of the title character being a liar and abuse survivor. "That'll explain the scars on her face" I thought, and watched the rest tonight, fully expecting that the body that was burnt was the young chubby kid and Mandy turns out to be not only alive and well, but the real leader of the hippy cult and she'd been been stringing along poor wide-eyed Cage for a laugh.

Turns out there was a different film called Mandy a few years back.

 

[seventh bullet]

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