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

[Idris2002]

The Killers. Classic noir with Burt Lancaster in his first screen role and a young Ava Gardner as the beautiful but double-crossing dame he falls in love with.

Based on a Hemingway story, and you can tell.

 

[Ranbay]

Black Monday. 10 parter starring Don Cheadle. Wolf of Wall Street meets Caddyshack. Daft, highly offensive. 7/10

Thanks, loving this

 

[Chz]

Incredibles 2
I mean, it was fine. Good, even. But it seems like Pixar lost the magic along with John Lasseter.

 

[Orang Utan]

Incredibles 2
I mean, it was fine. Good, even. But it seems like Pixar lost the magic along with John Lasseter.

Along with the creepy hugs

 

[The Octagon]

Bohemian Rhapsody

Great central performance from Rami Malek, but the rest felt a bit sanitised (yeah, sure the rest of the band didn't join in with the parties and debauchery at all ).

Good decision to finish it with Live Aid, and they recreated it well, would have rather seen the Sacha Baron Cohen version though.

7/10 (mainly for Malek and the music)


Dracula 1972 A.D.

My girlfriend watched this when she was younger and wanted to see it again.

Jesus it's awful, but has enough to take the piss out of that it wasn't a complete waste of time.

Both Lee and Cushing looked embarrassed to be there

3/10


Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Sort of mockumentary following a budding serial killer / boogeyman as he goes about his business.

A few laughs and decent send up of the genre, but pretty formulaic and a crap ending.

Reminded me of the Belgian film Man Bites Dog (which is well worth watching), but played for sporadic laughs.

Passable 5/10

 

[Virtual Blue]

Hereditary - very fun and similar to The Witch.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched Waterworld the Ulysses cut the other night. I've always had time for the film, even though its much derided, its mad max on water and its a lt better than earlier mm2 knock offs like Steel Dawn. This cut adds in anther 40 mins that didn't make it to the big screen but apparently did make it into some tv version (with the brief nudity of the cinema realase cut). Dennis Hopper is still great as Deacon.

 

[Chz]

While I enjoyed Waterworld, I didn't come away from it thinking "this needs to be another 40 minutes longer"

 

[trabuquera]

West 11 (1953) - grubby, seedy, sleazy hybrid of true-crime and tabloid-sanctimony and yellow paperbacks, set in crumbly, racist, post-WWII austerity Notting Hill, following aimless driftings of a nihilist young drifter through bedsit-land and into a possible murder-for-hire plot which ends up not really happening. Directed - bizarrely - by the heinous Michael Winner, and nothing stylish about it; notable for some jolly good 50s-period character types (bounders, slappers, fake military 'veterans', racist politicians) and an interestingly blowsy role for Diana Dors. It's all a bit mean-spirited and (goes without saying really) highly misogynist; but worth a look for a sense of the feel of the time, and for fascinating images of how London looked then.

 

[Part 2]

Incendies - A woman dies in Canada and her twin children are sent to Palestine to look for their father and brother.

A solid 8/10, excellent story told well and great performances.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Sort of mockumentary following a budding serial killer / boogeyman as he goes about his business.

A few laughs and decent send up of the genre, but pretty formulaic and a crap ending.

Reminded me of the Belgian film Man Bites Dog (which is well worth watching), but played for sporadic laughs.

Passable 5/10

I remember that, not great but definitely watchable

 

[cybershot]

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Admittedly a 4K version of the film, which may have helped, but wow. Personally think this is the most stunning animated film I have ever seen. The water as it went down into the hole to all intents and purposes was water. I couldn’t tell the difference. To mimic the physics and colour of of things like moving water is quite an achievement. The grass, the hair, the outfits, the sunset skies, fire and the colours of the hidden world. The whole thing is just stunning.

It helps the film isn't that bad either. 7/10

 

[Part 2]

Just watched Detainment. Nominated for best short film at this years Oscars, it's about John Venables and Robert Thompson and derived from the transcripts of the police interviews with both following the abduction and murder of James Bulger.

Needless to say it's not an easy watch and anyone who's read anything about the case probably won't learn anything new. It didn't win the Oscar and I'd question whether it's such an amazing film that it should be nominated. Having said that...I'm not sure how you get young kids to play such parts but the two actors playing the boys were very good, particularly the lad who played Venables.

It's easy enough to find on Youtube for anyone who wants to see it.

 

[Part 2]

Eighth Grade.

I'm not a teenage girl and have little expereince of them but this appeared to me to be a solid representation of someone steering her way through adolescence. Social media features heavily and from the off we see her making videos about her experiences. She's very introverted; the videos are cringeworthy and I felt really uncomfortable for her and on her side throughout the film. It's a great performance and a great debut from the director.

As coming of age films go it's definitely up there. Highly recommended.

 

[cybershot]

The Lego movie 2.

Not as good as the first one. Alright though.

 

[Idris2002]

The Millionairess.

Sophia Loren in the title role, and Peter Sellers as the Indian doctor she falls for (this character was Egyptian in the original Shaw play).

Very "of its time" which was 1960. Felt almost like a transitional piece bridging the gap between Ealing and Swinging London.

 

[cybershot]

Arctic

Survival film following story of man who has already crashed (we don't know how) and has to deal with the elements while doing whatever he can to try and be noticed to be rescued. Which obviously, doesn't go to plan.

 

[Orang Utan]

Arctic

Survival film following story of man who has already crashed (we don't know how) and has to deal with the elements while doing whatever he can to try and be noticed to be rescued. Which obviously, doesn't go to plan.

Saw this last year. Thought it was brilliant. Lonely job for Mikkelsen though.

 

[Part 2]

Dog Soldiers. I needed something mindless today and a friend recommended this.

It's non-stop action with the kind of ridiculous storyline and stupidity Jed Mercurio probably wishes he could slot into the next series of Line of Duty. I loved it.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Threads.

Been a few years since I watched this, but fuck me - I forgot just how bleak this film is.

 

[krtek a houby]

Season 3 of Fear the Walking Dead. Best yet.

 

[Part 2]

Threads.

Been a few years since I watched this, but fuck me - I forgot just how bleak this film is.

My first response when anyone asks, 'Recommend me a scary film'.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Wandering Earth

this is the big chinese sci fi blckbuster based on a work by Cixin Lui (his Three Body Problem trilogy was translated to english some years back and is really good). It was pretty good as an effects vehicle, it actually felt like a big disaster film with big sci fi ideas to drive the set pieces. It as dubbed, which I hate, but so be it.

 

[hot air baboon]

Dracula 1972 A.D.

My girlfriend watched this when she was younger and wanted to see it again.

Jesus it's awful, but has enough to take the piss out of that it wasn't a complete waste of time.

Both Lee and Cushing looked embarrassed to be there

3/10

yeah - its Satanic Rites of Dracula you'll be wanting

 

[hot air baboon]

just picked up the Deer Hunter DVD for £3 in Sainsbury's. I only went in for some milk but had watched a DVD of Apocalypse Now Redux over the Bank Hol which I bought years ago & had never got round to watching & was pretty underwhelmed tbh. The synth soundtrack is oddly dated. That's not a major fault - the fault was that I was sufficiently uninvolved to notice it in the first place. Anyway the DH was the "other" Vietnam film that came out around the same time so hoping this holds up better

 

[Orang Utan]

The Wandering Earth

this is the big chinese sci fi blckbuster based on a work by Cixin Lui (his Three Body Problem trilogy was translated to english some years back and is really good). It was pretty good as an effects vehicle, it actually felt like a big disaster film with big sci fi ideas to drive the set pieces. It as dubbed, which I hate, but so be it.

You can watch it subtitled in Mandarin on Netflix

 

[DotCommunist]

You can watch it subtitled in Mandarin on Netflix

my download had dubbing 'baked in' (coded in maybe, whatever). It's not dialogue heavy tbf, bar the odd speech or voice over exposition dump.

 

[T & P]

SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse

Wow. I'd heard it was good and obviously it won the Animated Oscar too, but it far exceeded what I was expecting.

Possibly the best animated film I've seen, inventive with the medium, pitched perfectly to appeal to both superfans and casuals, and with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness (some fairly dark and heavy themes for a 'kid's film' throughout).

As much as I love the MCU take on Spidey, they lean a little too heavily on him being a Stark fanboy and almost sidekick, whereas the guys making this film seem to get the character more than any other I've seen, and the various alternate versions were all distinct but still shared the same characteristics.

The voice acting is great (Nicholas Cage as SpiderNoir was inspired casting, to pick out just one example) and the visuals are fantastic, there's desktop wallpapers for days throughout

Brilliant soundtrack too.

Requires a second viewing just for all the references and quick cut moments I think, not to mention the best Stan Lee cameo of the lot

Watch right to the end of the credits, it's worth it

9/10

Couldn’t agree more. I can take or leave superhero films and have been getting increasingly tired of them as they seem to devour everything in their path with every passing year. When I heard there was a new Spidey animation film coming out last year I dismissed it as a kiddie film, so I was surprised when it started to get glowing reviews. Finally watched it this weekend and it is superb, just superb.

 

[cybershot]

Vice

About US Vice President Dick Cherney. Very Liberal type film, which plants Cherney as some cartoon type villain, and a villain he is, but you feel far too much is glanced over here in order to point blame for September 11 aftermath. Not sure the comedy aspects of it were well placed either. Overall it's not as bad as I'm making out and worth a watch if you're into American politics or 'the war on terror'

 

[DexterTCN]

Couldn’t agree more. I can take or leave superhero films and have been getting increasingly tired of them as they seem to devour everything in their path with every passing year. When I heard there was a new Spidey animation film coming out last year I dismissed it as a kiddie film, so I was surprised when it started to get glowing reviews. Finally watched it this weekend and it is superb, just superb.