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

[DotCommunist]

I watched it a few days ago myself. It resembled Land and Freedom in some ways. And with the counter-insurgency, the swaggering Black and Tan thugs came across as two-dimensional Baddies. Looks real pretty, though.

Yeah, same visual feel in some ways despite the differing landscape. The one bit where the B&T's were not 2-d baddies was where the red brother was arguing with that english captain who was saying 'my boys waded through vomit and mud at the somme etc' and red brother was 'Get out of my country!'

other than that they were simply shouting bastards.

 

[Belushi]

Isn't it odd how you can go on and off actors? I used to like Hoffman but I now only like him in Midnight Cowboy.

I still like him in Tootsie

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Yeah, same visual feel in some ways despite the differing landscape. The one bit where the B&T's were not 2-d baddies was where the red brother was arguing with that english captain who was saying 'my boys waded through vomit and mud at the somme etc' and red brother was 'Get out of my country!'

other than that they were simply shouting bastards.

'What do you fucking expect? These men fought at the Somme, up to their necks in vomit, filthy trenches ...'

With regard to Land and Freedom, I meant the arguments about reform, compromise and socialism.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ah right, similar yes- I suppose the visual feel/filmic style I was recognizing was due to that being loaches style in general. I've only seen those two by him. In some ways that camera as observer thing reminded me a bit of This is England, weirdly enough, though that one was shane meadows.

I agree on pretty though. The scenery when they led the english bastard and the collaborator out for execution was lovely.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

The poor lad killed as a traitor was that simple-minded farm labourer intimidated by the aforementioned army officer and that English landowner. There was that young English soldier who deserts the army, too.

 

[DotCommunist]

couldn't even write, but asked not to be buried next to the english landowner. Yes it did go a bit beyond baddies and goodies.

 

[DotCommunist]

That was another thing about it, the 'give me your letters' thing. When facing execution you wrote letters and your executioners would see them delivered. Nasty thought, that the practise was so common as to have observed form

 

[Captain Hurrah]

The differences between the Free Staters and the other republicans/socialists was a bit simplistic, but elsewhere (the court scene about the businessman exploiting an old women but supplying arms to the rebels), it was more complex on their side. Then you had 'You fucking Sow! Shut up boy! Fuck off Paddy! Filthy Irish bastard!'

 

[Belushi]

The Circle. Iranian film from 2000 following a series of women trying to get by outside the system. Very good, still banned in Iran.

 

[butchersapron]

The Circle. Iranian film from 2000 following a series of women trying to get by outside the system. Very good, still banned in Iran.

It's worse than that, the director has been given 6 years by the theocracy.

 

[Belushi]

It's worse than that, the director has been given 6 years by the theocracy.

Fuck, for this film or other work?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Daydream Nation. It's about high school kids. They take drugs. One of them fucks the teacher. Drama ensues.

There's also a serial killer.

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck, for this film or other work?

For that and others - they also banned him from making or writing films for 20 years.

 

[Autochthonous1]

Baise Moi. Later found out this translates to 'rape me'. Which was what it was all about in a girl-kick-arse kind of way-ish. I liked it. One thing that bugged me though was the music, totally wrong throughout, immensely bad. I would love to do a re-make of this film, with music that compliments or amplifies the scenes.

 

[Autochthonous1]

And you totally sold Daydream Nation to me.

 

[Orang Utan]

it doesn't translate as 'rape me', it translates as 'kiss me' or 'fuck me'

 

[Belushi]

Rope, a Hitchcock I'd never seen loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb case.

Enjoyed it despite the miscasting of Jimmy Stewart; cleverly edited by Hitch to make it look as if it was shot in one continuous take.

 

[The Octagon]

The first 2 epsiodes (or at least I think they were, see below) of Battlestar Galactica (the newer one).

This is kind of my problem, where does it begin? My flatmate and I watched '33' first, but we both got the impression we'd missed something, and the "previously on..." for episode 2 showed stuff we hadn't seen in Ep 1

I know there were some mini-series', what's the correct order for watching everything associated with the new Galactica?

 

[Mapped]

The tree of life. It's amazing if you're tripping. I'll reserve comment on whether it's a good film or not for when I've watched it straight

 

[Mapped]

I know there were some mini-series', what's the correct order for watching everything associated with the new Galactica?

You need to watch the mini series first. Definitely.

It's also very, very good until the last series

 

[The Octagon]

You need to watch the mini series first. Definitely.

It's also very, very good until the last series

Which mini-series though, it looks like there are 3 or 4!

No spoilers please.

 

[Garcia Lorca]

Which mini-series though, it looks like there are 3 or 4!

No spoilers please.

its the best start ever to a series

i am sure theres two 1 and half hour starters before the series, that have to be watched.

 

[Mapped]

This one is the one you need for now

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979/

Razor fits in between seasons 3 and 4 IIRC

 

[Garcia Lorca]

i finished the pusher trilogy last night,

first one was good, second so so and number 3 i couldnt wait for it to finish.

i am surprised that attack the block has been getting the worth watching nod from a few, i thought it was the worst film ihave seen this year. the aliens look alright, after that bad stereotype acting.

 

[Mapped]

Probably the wrong thread, but what's this all about? 'Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704292/ Are we getting more?

 

[The Octagon]

Ah right, cheers. Better stop watching S1 for the moment while I find a decent download!

 

[belboid]

Probably the wrong thread, but what's this all about? 'Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704292/ Are we getting more?

its been rumoured for a while, I imagined it got dumped alongside Caprica, but maybe not. 'The adventures of young William Adama in the First Cylon War.' Apparently.

I finished watching Season 3 of Breaking Bad last night. Which had an ending I hadn't been expecting at all. Will have to fight the urge to download S4 immediately

 

[starfish]

Been watching series 1 of The Big Bang Theory on on demand. It does make me laugh. The episode where they buy the Time Machine is hilarious.

 

[Belushi]

The Piano Teacher. Michael Haneke film from 2001 about sex, power and desperation. Isabelle Huppert gives a superb performance in the lead.

 

[little_legs]

Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

I liked Drive a lot, especially how the extreme violence and subtle tenderness are mixed throughout the film.

Ryan Gosling is pretty convincing as a quiet hero and a criminal, although most of the emotional things he does in Drive I've already seen him do in Blue Valentine. Having said that, the combination of ruthlessness and aloofness he maintains during the getaway/car chasing and gory scenes is pretty awesome. I thought Albert Brooks whose character becomes scary as fuck as the film progresses stood out too.

I liked Refn's little touches: self-deprecating 'they thought my films were too European' lamenting by Bernie, the ending of a murder scene shown as a battle of the shades, the 80's inspired soundtrack, Gosling's scorpio jacket, and even the pink Mistral font from Dirty Dancing.