butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's a remake of an all time Korean classic - and a pretty well done one if i remember right.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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pianissimo
a gradient of grey
I thought it wasn't bad. But the ending is a bit anti-climax, for me.
Zabo
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I just thought it need some extra editing pianissimo. I had had enough after an hour. Long, long takes of the marble floor and then the nonsense of two clicks of the pepper grinder and the ultra slow walk to take 'The Master' his breakfast while he's doing a Beethoven riff. Oh FFS! Give me a break.
It didn't engage me at all unlike Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter which did.
It didn't engage me at all unlike Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter which did.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
Been watching the first series of Luther again and am really enjoying it. Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson are both brilliant as is the plotting and writing. The second series was a bit of a letdown in comparison, I think, although I'll probably give that a another go, too.
rekil
to menny cranks
The Black Pimpernel. Dapper diplomat Harald Edelstam rescuing loads of people after the coup in Chile. Some great scenes and performances but let down by sporadically clunky dialogue and shoddy direction. Made in 2007 but feels very dated. Wasted opportunity really.
The Anarchist's Wife. Spanish civil war drama about a Madrid anarchist radio geezer with a fash brother who scarpers to France before the city falls, leaving his lovely missus behind. Conflicts on the republican side are ignored. It's mostly about what a shower of nasty thieving murdering cunts the other lot were/are. Somewhat inconveniently, the subs stopped halfway through.
Assembly. Chinese bloke fucks up an attack in the civil war and as punishment is ordered to hold off the nationalists, hordes of the fuckers, with the remains of his company until the main force withdraws. Brilliant fillum.
A Man Escaped. Bresson's beautifully shot prison escape caper. The nazis are a bit shit.
The Anarchist's Wife. Spanish civil war drama about a Madrid anarchist radio geezer with a fash brother who scarpers to France before the city falls, leaving his lovely missus behind. Conflicts on the republican side are ignored. It's mostly about what a shower of nasty thieving murdering cunts the other lot were/are. Somewhat inconveniently, the subs stopped halfway through.
Assembly. Chinese bloke fucks up an attack in the civil war and as punishment is ordered to hold off the nationalists, hordes of the fuckers, with the remains of his company until the main force withdraws. Brilliant fillum.
A Man Escaped. Bresson's beautifully shot prison escape caper. The nazis are a bit shit.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Bridesmaids which I thought was very funny....shame its marketed as a chick flick because I reckon some men wouldn't want to see this film on the basis of its packaging. I also watched Inside Job which made my blood boil.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Just finished the excellent German mini-series In The Face of the Crime about east-european criminal gangs in Berlin. Directed by Dominik Graf (a proper film director).
Reno
The In Kraut
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Milk - Oscar winning turn by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk.
sleaterkinney
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Another Earth, I thought it would have more quantum mechanics / sci-fi in there, but it's about relationships and finding yourself etc. Despite that it's a good movie, the pace is glacial but the tension builds up and is almost unbearable at times.
They messed up the ending[/spolier]
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Priest. An adaptation froma korean comic book with brad dourif and some other cunt. In the far future makind has one weapon against the vampire race, the Priests. Well shit, but the action sequences are good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Steel Dawn. My word. Patrick Swayze stars as a nomad wandering a post apocalypse landscape fighting with his sword. Incredibly bad. Ham fisted oveloud score, leaden direction, plot holes, dialouge that just has to be heard to be believed. Baddies who look like hair metal band members.
it makes Mad Max look like citizen kane
one of the baddies:
it makes Mad Max look like citizen kane
one of the baddies:
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Steel Dawn. My word. Patrick Swayze stars as a nomad wandering a post apocalypse landscape fighting with his sword. Incredibly bad. Ham fisted oveloud score, leaden direction, plot holes, dialouge that just has to be heard to be believed. Baddies who look like hair metal band members.
it makes Mad Max look like citizen kane
one of the baddies:
That sounds fucking cool.
pianissimo
a gradient of grey
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes - good one. Lots of believable emotions, though how every ape is capable of breaking through glass window with no harm is rather hilarious.
Super 8 - over-hyped. Kids romance is just a little too... eww for me.
Super 8 - over-hyped. Kids romance is just a little too... eww for me.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Fright Night (remake) - another childhood memory destroyed. 
Reno
The In Kraut
Fright Night (remake) - another childhood memory destroyed.
The original was hardly a great film. Have you watched it lately ? I actually thought this was the rare successful remake and it was a lot more fun. It takes everything that had promise in the original and improved on it by being much better directed and acted by a far better cast. It's still no masterpiece, but a nice enough time waster.
Zabo
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Repentance - Tenghiz Abuladze
A remarkable semi-allegorical tale of the evils of Stalinism by way of a dead body constantly being dug up and placed in various locations. I'm glad I read Brian Moynahan's book on Russia before I watched the film. It filled in a lot of what otherwise would have been missing spaces.
Technically it looked dated - too much sepia - and for some strange reason the opening scenes were confined to extreme close-ups. Nevertheless a brave attempt at dramatising a time in Russian history.
The last scene has an old woman saying: "What good is a road if it doesn't lead to a church?"
A remarkable semi-allegorical tale of the evils of Stalinism by way of a dead body constantly being dug up and placed in various locations. I'm glad I read Brian Moynahan's book on Russia before I watched the film. It filled in a lot of what otherwise would have been missing spaces.
Technically it looked dated - too much sepia - and for some strange reason the opening scenes were confined to extreme close-ups. Nevertheless a brave attempt at dramatising a time in Russian history.
The last scene has an old woman saying: "What good is a road if it doesn't lead to a church?"
rekil
to menny cranks
There Be Dragons. Big budget hagiography of Opus Dei founder cunt which tries to whitewash the church's role in the spanish civil war and bangs on about 'forgiveness' and useless sentimental bollocks like that. Laughable.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
I'd say that Farrell saves the film with his sinister take on Gerry, without him it would could had been the halloween edition of 90210. Oh, and David Tennant was good too.
I saw the original 6 years ago and unlike the Lost Boys I couldn't watch it.
Unfortunately, it's well dated - the hair, fashion, music, edit, score were very typical of B production from that 'era...
I prefer to remember it the first time I saw it (through the eyes of an 11 year old child) and not the way it is now.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
didn't the sidekick from fright night end up doing gay porn?
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
What Evil Ed? Or Brewster?
You're wrecking my childhood memories now
googles for answer
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Black Moon - surreal 70s film. VERY odd but beautiful to watch and enough weirdness to keep it interesting.
Reno
The In Kraut
What Evil Ed? Or Brewster?
You're wrecking my childhood memories now
googles for answer
People keep beeing just a tad too precious about their childhood memories these days
What Evil Ed? Or Brewster?
You're wrecking my childhood memories now
googles for answer
What's wrong with gay porn ?
That said, his was quite a sad story, total meth burn out.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm really having a shitty run of film luck atm
Immortals. 300 in style, badly retelling the tale of perseus and the bow. Titans are in it. Zeus is way too young. Only stuck with it cos I liked the battle scenes
Immortals. 300 in style, badly retelling the tale of perseus and the bow. Titans are in it. Zeus is way too young. Only stuck with it cos I liked the battle scenes
You might like this, for a little detailed background info.
Kobakhidze was the son of another prominent film director, and the escapade the article refers to was an attempt to defect from the USSR. He took part in the failed hijacking of a plane bound for Turkey, and after being later convicted, was shot.
Zabo
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Captain Hurrah. Many Thanks.
Watching the above has prompted me to read up on Nestor Makhno. I see there is a Russian t.v. series but nowhere to be found is there one with English subs, more's the pity.
Watching the above has prompted me to read up on Nestor Makhno. I see there is a Russian t.v. series but nowhere to be found is there one with English subs, more's the pity.
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