What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It's more of a... How would you describe it in a way to "sell" it someone who doesn't already want to watch it based on cast/director/writer/etc?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Menu - another cooking film that's also another class film along with being a 'strangers' brought to a place for something to happen film.
A bunch of people I didn't really care much for go to an exclusive restaurant on an island where chef Ralph Fiennes will cook a special menu for them for the price of $1250. Contains all the stereoptypical things 'foodies' say that you could find watching Masterchef, which is much more entertaining. It's very weak.
A bunch of people I didn't really care much for go to an exclusive restaurant on an island where chef Ralph Fiennes will cook a special menu for them for the price of $1250. Contains all the stereoptypical things 'foodies' say that you could find watching Masterchef, which is much more entertaining. It's very weak.
RedRedRose
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Creepshow (1982) Five or six short horror vignetes by George Romero. The better one had Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson in it; the worst, had Stephen King, who based on this performance should never be on screen again. Very trashy and not really worth the effort.
Wrath of Silence (2017) In Northern China, the disappearance of a child converges with a story about perjury and corruption. The boy's mute father is tasked with finding the child, which adds a very interesting plot device to the proceedings. Really excellent film, spoiled by...having what feels like three different endings.
Ash is the Purest White (2018) I love Zhangke Jia's films, and its all here: terrible dancing at nightclubs, weird public spectacles, long drawn out natural conversations, relationships paralleling China's development.
A minor criminal boss and his girl are sent down, and spend the bulk of the film adjusting to life after prison and reconciling their relationship. The pacing is challenging, but somewhere in its two hour plus run-time is located a really excellent film.
Boss Level (2020) Time loop sci-fi flick. Not terrible, but not great either.
Wrath of Silence (2017) In Northern China, the disappearance of a child converges with a story about perjury and corruption. The boy's mute father is tasked with finding the child, which adds a very interesting plot device to the proceedings. Really excellent film, spoiled by...having what feels like three different endings.
Ash is the Purest White (2018) I love Zhangke Jia's films, and its all here: terrible dancing at nightclubs, weird public spectacles, long drawn out natural conversations, relationships paralleling China's development.
A minor criminal boss and his girl are sent down, and spend the bulk of the film adjusting to life after prison and reconciling their relationship. The pacing is challenging, but somewhere in its two hour plus run-time is located a really excellent film.
Boss Level (2020) Time loop sci-fi flick. Not terrible, but not great either.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Damnit, that's the DVD rental sitting on my desk for tonight.
DotCommunist
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Not sure who mentioned it on here but Les Miserables (2019), its great, I'v never seen or even read a synopsis of the original (will do later) but this is by way of the banlieue and grabbed me straight away.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I'm actually wrong, and it's Flux Gourmet that's on my desk. They just sound similar.You might like it
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Hard to stream a lot of the classics or foreign stuff. Though foreign is hugely better than it used to be.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
ah it was ye who recommended Les Miz 2019. I found it on torrents.
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This is now on Netflix..looking forward to watching it this week
seventh bullet
sovietwave
A very nice looking low-budget sci-fi called Vesper. A teen girl living, or eking out a precarious existence, in a grim post-apocalyptic future (is there any other kind?) where past bioengineering efforts to save the world from ecological collapse went wrong, rendering the natural environment near-incapable of supporting life.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
That's the one, fer sure.
T & P
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I thought it was brilliant, myself. Or at least, brilliantly entertaining and amusing
RedRedRose
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Escape from Pretoria (2020) Based on a true story, Daniel Radcliffe's character is sent to a whites-only political prison for activities supporting the ANC in 1970's South Africa. What follows is a standard prison escape vehicle. There is very little in terms of plot, character development, and even politics is fairly low in the mix, but I found it gripping and decent all the same.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Pulp Fiction, watched with my teen. Interesting to see it again after quite a long time; still lots to enjoy with plenty about it that is exciting, well executed and fun, but definitely parts that have not aged well (Tarantino's cringeworthy cameo, clearly written to give himself both the ego wank of having supercool Jules be all deferential and forelock-tugging towards him, and the opportunity to say the n word without fear of reproach) alongside those that sucked to begin with (the pointlessly rapey middle subplot, the misogyny).
seventh bullet
sovietwave
On the excuse to be edgy with the racism thing, there's also the Christopher Walken 'war watch' scene with a young Butch.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Flux Gourmet
Well, that was a thing. And I don't mean it in a bad way. It's definitely being Art as Entertainment by being about Art as Entertainment. It was loads of fun to watch, even if it is a load of nonsense. AIUI, shot on a super tight budget over a couple of weeks at some pile up in Yorkshire. If absurdist potshots at artistic wankery aren't your thing, best steer clear.
Well, that was a thing. And I don't mean it in a bad way. It's definitely being Art as Entertainment by being about Art as Entertainment. It was loads of fun to watch, even if it is a load of nonsense. AIUI, shot on a super tight budget over a couple of weeks at some pile up in Yorkshire. If absurdist potshots at artistic wankery aren't your thing, best steer clear.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Watched Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (on Netflix), Richard Linklater's latest rotoscoped/animated thing. Really liked it, made me smile a few times at the perfectly captured family dynamics. The actual plot was the weakest element, but still well worth watching, especially if you're into the 60s space race.
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