What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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One of my favourite films of 2017.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
He's very good in this. He's in one of the most moving scenes in it.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Watched Gremlins with my boy this afternoon. We both really enjoyed it.
Yea I've seen it, he ruined it for me. I think I was OK with him in land and freedom but saw a really bad film with him in that I can't shake. Can't remember the name but he plays an absent dad and there's a scene where he has his kid driving his car. It was piss poor.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Rocky IV. It was shit.
But...but...the montages.
And Rocky ending the Cold War with a speech
To be fair, I think you're only going to enjoy Rocky Balboa and Creed (not seen Creed 2 yet) if any, the series morphs into a much more thoughtful and interesting one at that point.
Virtual Blue
ready
Rocky IV. It was shit.
...was one of the bad yet watchable films ever made.
The Cold War speech was silly.
Preferred when he goes black in number III.
Still, wanna check out Creed II.
Reno
The In Kraut
I think you have to watch Rocky IV with a fair degree of nostalgic affection to enjoy it. Yes, it is prime Reagan era kitsch, but it’s also repetitive and this time the climactic fight takes far too long, nearly a third of the movie. The training sequence is funny but the film is not as trashily enjoyable as I hoped. I thought Rocky III was more fun.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Hidden Figures. Unsubtle, but enjoyable.
Reno
The In Kraut
By all accounts, much of the film is inaccurate.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Greasy Strangler - wow. It's certainly unique.Can't wait to see Jim Hoskyn's next film, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, which i think is on Netflix
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Watched Creed 2 last night, it wasn't as good as the first one, the fight scenes weren't shot with the same energy and skill, and the plot is a bit of a retread.
Good work from Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson though, they make some otherwise corny scenes feel real.
Stallone not given as much to do this time around, but handles his moments nicely.
Also - as far as I can tell there were supposed to be subtitles for the numerous conversations in foreign languages, but my dodgy copy didn't have them, so I probably missed some plot or character building there
Good soundtrack though.
6/10
Good work from Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson though, they make some otherwise corny scenes feel real.
Stallone not given as much to do this time around, but handles his moments nicely.
Also - as far as I can tell there were supposed to be subtitles for the numerous conversations in foreign languages, but my dodgy copy didn't have them, so I probably missed some plot or character building there
Good soundtrack though.
6/10
Reno
The In Kraut
I made it through Rocky V, which apparently is the least liked of all the Rocky films. It’s bad, but I enjoyed it marginally more than the previous film. At least it breaks with the formular which stayed exactly the same for four movies and tries to tell a different story. The only supporting actor I like in this series of films was Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, who I also found to be the only likeable character. The other three are all horrible. Burt Young and Burgess Meredith overact like crazy, while Talia Shire is a wooden charisma void. Next to Ali McGraw she must be the worst lead actress of the 70s/80s.
Before that I needed a Rocky break and I watched the Swedish film Border. Based on a short story by the writer of Let the Right One In (which is in my top three films of the 21st century) this is certainly unlike anything else out there. It’s about a woman who seems to have a genetic disorder and who works at airport security because she can smell the emotions of people. Then she meets a man who appears to have the same condition. This has some wild plot turns up its sleeve and it has one of the more out there sex scenes I’ve seen. There is a subplot I found troubling though and I’m not sure the film earns going somewhere this dark. This got a Oscar nomination for best make-up this year.
Before that I needed a Rocky break and I watched the Swedish film Border. Based on a short story by the writer of Let the Right One In (which is in my top three films of the 21st century) this is certainly unlike anything else out there. It’s about a woman who seems to have a genetic disorder and who works at airport security because she can smell the emotions of people. Then she meets a man who appears to have the same condition. This has some wild plot turns up its sleeve and it has one of the more out there sex scenes I’ve seen. There is a subplot I found troubling though and I’m not sure the film earns going somewhere this dark. This got a Oscar nomination for best make-up this year.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
are you referring to the child pornography subplot? if so, i completely agree, it really troubled me too, though on reflection, it kind of makes sense within the plot. Not sure I buy it though, it just seemed in poor taste to me
Reno
The In Kraut
Yes, that’s it. Completely agree with you.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
though it seems a bit redundant to be criticising such a fucked up film as in poor taste!
Reno
The In Kraut
All the other fucked up stuff at least was the subject matter of the film.
The raping babies thing was more of a plot device and as such just felt gross and exploitative. It’s a shame because I liked the rest of it and the revelation of what she is.
The writer Lindqvist seems to have an ongoing preoccupation with paedophilia and non-gender specific characters and the film of Let the Right One In wisely left out the kid-rapey stuff from the book.
The writer Lindqvist seems to have an ongoing preoccupation with paedophilia and non-gender specific characters and the film of Let the Right One In wisely left out the kid-rapey stuff from the book.
I saw it at the LFF and completely agree. I liked it in general but... Strangely, they were doing a preview last week at my local cinema and were billing it as a Valentine's Day event...
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yeah my stream had no subtitles either. I just kept thinking they were saying 'sweep the leg!' or some such....Also - as far as I can tell there were supposed to be subtitles for the numerous conversations in foreign languages, but my dodgy copy didn't have them, so I probably missed some plot or character building there
Good soundtrack though.
6/10
Soundtrack went from rap to rock to oh brother, was excellent.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Possibly my favourite of the whole series, Stallone ups his acting game and it has just the right amount of Rocky cheese -
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Bad Times At The El Royale
Really enjoyed this, although it was probably 20-30 mins too long and could have benefitted from excising a few spoilery scenes from the trailer to increase the plot impact.
But otherwise it was fun, twisty and beautifully shot, with several long scenes filled with tension, then punctuated occasionally with realistic violence. The cinematography is stunning (neon in rain is a great look on film), and the use of the camera with static shots, mirrored compositions and shifting perspective all adds to the film.
Jeff Bridges is solidly great but Cynthia Erivo steals the show (as does another character, but that would be spoilery), hope she gets some more starring roles, great voice too.
Overall it felt like a more cohesive version of Hateful Eight, shame it flopped at the Box Office, hopefully it will be appreciated in future.
8/10
Really enjoyed this, although it was probably 20-30 mins too long and could have benefitted from excising a few spoilery scenes from the trailer to increase the plot impact.
But otherwise it was fun, twisty and beautifully shot, with several long scenes filled with tension, then punctuated occasionally with realistic violence. The cinematography is stunning (neon in rain is a great look on film), and the use of the camera with static shots, mirrored compositions and shifting perspective all adds to the film.
Jeff Bridges is solidly great but Cynthia Erivo steals the show (as does another character, but that would be spoilery), hope she gets some more starring roles, great voice too.
Overall it felt like a more cohesive version of Hateful Eight, shame it flopped at the Box Office, hopefully it will be appreciated in future.
8/10
Reno
The In Kraut
I Am a Hero, Japanese zombie movie based on a popular manga. Rather good if slightly too long at over two hours. At least it#s a zombie movie that's really gory and the make-up for the zombies (who are more rage infected than then the shuffling undead) is genuinely grotesque.
The characters are fun and they all end up at a shopping mall, which makes this a bit too similar to Dawn of the Dead (more the remake than the original). If you like that sort of thing, it's still among the better zombie movies in recent years, if not as good as Train to Busan or The Girl With all the Gifts.
The characters are fun and they all end up at a shopping mall, which makes this a bit too similar to Dawn of the Dead (more the remake than the original). If you like that sort of thing, it's still among the better zombie movies in recent years, if not as good as Train to Busan or The Girl With all the Gifts.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Slaughterhouse Rulez- looked promising : public school built over a fracking site that is actually a monsters den sort of Robert Rankine style comedy with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Well it is promising but it never really lives up to its promise, some funny parts that make you laugh and the schools rituals are good but overall very flat in places , uneven and inconsistent . If it was on TV again I'd prob either watch it again to see if I missed something or quite easily find something else. At the end I realised that it was directed and written by Crispian Mills ex Kula Shaker who obviously knows quite a lot about public schools but unfortunately not a lot about comedy.
Now Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in The Worlds End well thats a diffrent matter.
Now Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in The Worlds End well thats a diffrent matter.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Land And Freedom? This Year's Love? Loved Up? Clockwork Mice? Nothing Personal?
Land and Freedom I've seen.
As I posted above, he was in a film I now know was called ' A Boy Called Dad'. Someone I worked with at the time, her husband was involved in the making of it. It was shit. Not been able to watch anything with him in since. For me, the scene in God's Own Country was like someone pretending to be disabled like a schoolyard Joey Deacon rather than heartfelt moment others have experienced.
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