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

[pianissimo]

Never Let me Go

On one hand one of the most depressing film's that I have ever watched , on the other hand beautiful in its unrelenting hopelessness

I really enjoyed it. It's delivered in a quite a subtle manner. Beautiful film.

 

[belboid]

It does look good, but couldn't really ever get over the basic problem of - why dont you just fucking run away???

 

[pianissimo]

They were conditioned not to I'd have thought.

 

[belboid]

yeah, but that was never really convincing, imo. Goes against every basic animal instinct.

 

[Zabo]

Wtf are you talking about, it's a stone cold classic. One of the best commentaries on complicity and collective responsibility ever made. It's not about a 'story'.

You don't half talk bollocks - hence 81,963 posts. The collective and complicit responsibility was the narrative and it was nonetheless a story unless of course you have a unique way of defining 'story'. I note you have no rejection of the appalling technical quality.

As for classic..? Well indeed. Yet more dubious criteria. 4 totally objective Romanian reviews on IMDB and one external Romanian review. Very little elsewhere on the net.

Keep within your 81,963 post fence and talk about what you know - very little regards 'classic' films.

If you get the time between posting maybe you'd like to dig out a critique from somebody versed in classic cinema.

 

[100% masahiko]

It does look good, but couldn't really ever get over the basic problem of - why dont you just fucking run away???

Running away from 'growing up?'
(stages of life - childhood to death).

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've watched a couple. The one that sticks out is a documentary called 'Inside Job'. It's about the financial crash of 2008.

I'd call it a must-see. I think it helps people to understand their actual place in the world, which is as fodder, or product. Something of a lesser order to a Jersey milk cow penned up in a barn with vacuum pumps attached to its udders.

I knew about the easy credit, the sub prime mortgages etc. What I didn't know about was 'collateralized debt obligations', a financial instrument that allowed the big financial houses to make a profit on the failures and defaults. In other words, as things got worse, they made more money.

The big question after watching this sort of thing is, 'why are none of these Wall Street types in jail'? I suppose maybe it's naive to even entertain that as a real possibility.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Night of the Demon.

Excellent 50s british horror. Highly recommended

Yes, indeed. Great film.

 

[The Octagon]

Mission Impossible 3

Utterly forgettable, and the ending was tied up far too quickly, both main villains were dispatched rubbishly.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman did make a surprisingly threatening bad guy though.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Beneath Hill 60 - about Australians in tunnels in WWI - pretty good.
The Tunnel - about Australians in tunnels in 2011 - pretty meh, kind of similar to The Descent but with less ladies.

 

[8115]

Sean of the Dead

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Currently watching Star Trek: TOS "City on the Edge of Forever". Edith Keeler must die

 

[stethoscope]

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (cheers Ska!)

 

[100% masahiko]

Episode 20 of Fistful of Stances - TVB going mad, I'm Cantoed-out. Brain is dying...

 

[butchersapron]

Let the bullets fly - this is how action comedy drama is done. 20s warllord China , yojimbo, brains

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The French Connection again for the first time in decades.

Spoiler: the drug dealers win.

 

[8115]

Cat on a hot tin roof.

Really really good.

 

[pianissimo]

A documentary on after the nuclear experiments on Kazakhstan by the Soviet Union.

After the Apocalypse on 4OD:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/after-the-apocalypse/4od#3212191

The medical check/consulting scenes with that so-called doctor were just horrid. Lots of WTF moments on the 'genetic passport' scheme (to stop women with 'bad' genes from getting pregnant and giving births).

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Ah, yes - Polygon.

 

[jeff_leigh]

I am number four - was OK

 

[marty21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainsbourg_(Vie_héroïque)

Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)

Bio pic about Serge Gainsbourg - enjoyed it, based on a graphic novel, so not a typical bio-pic

 

[dynamicbaddog]

A Serbian Film.
Not as gross as the hype suggested but not exactly easy on the eye either

 

[100% masahiko]

Rosy Business - HK period drama. Surprisingly addictive.

 

[krtek a houby]

Tell No-one - French thriller. Magnificent.

 

[Belushi]

12.08 East of Bucharest, another good Romanian film.

 

[The39thStep]

The Adjustment Bureau- very light weight and a travesty of a Philip K Dick story

 

[The39thStep]

Tell No-one - French thriller. Magnificent.

An excellent film . I got a copy of a new French thriller 'Point Blank' last night which is supposed to be as good.

 

[ringo]

Shutter Island. OK, but not one of Scorcese's best.

 

[imposs1904]

Divorcing Jack

Piss-poor British crime film from the late 90s that only got the funds because of people's addiction to scratch cards.

Loved the book. Hated the film. Thewlis is a one-tic actor.

 

[krtek a houby]

An excellent film . I got a copy of a new French thriller 'Point Blank' last night which is supposed to be as good.

Oooh, not a remake of the remake?