What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I find much of his work hectoring and arrogant but the two early ones The War Game and Culloden are well worth the time - the latter making esp great use of limited resources.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Ta BA I'll check them out
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Remade by Jacques Audiard as The Beat That My Heart Skipped which i didn't get on with at all but i know a number here did. Really liked the original.
Mephitic
It's not easy having a good time
- Chocolate - incredible stunts, with the outtakes at the end confirming how painful several of them were. The rooftop / ledge fighting scene was stunning.
- Smiley Faces - A day in the life of the most stoned girl in the world, some good bits some not so good, got a bit boring after a while
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
What is 'the power of autism'?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its a special need where you specially need to kick some ass. apparently
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Season 1 of Breaking Bad on Netflix while I was in the States, Game of Thrones (just starting S1) on return & last night Los Acacias - lovely gem of a road trip movie, sparse dialogue, an adorable baby and a feel good factor without being insipidly mushy.
Mephitic
It's not easy having a good time
Yep, no wires, no stuntmen, says the blurb, with the film film crew saying 'Hi' to the guy in a hospital bed wearing a neck brace during the end credits. Looks sore....
The plot is dreadful, and best ignored.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
JimW
支那暗杀团
Just watched a documentary on the Domesday Book, which was OK but really only mentioning it here because I learned there's a bloke in it splendidly named Humphrey Goldenbollocks: http://domesdaymap.co.uk/name/299750/humphrey-goldenbollocks/
AverageJoe
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Kill List.
Fuck me. What a grim film. Like Mike Leigh doing Wicker Man.
Fuck me. What a grim film. Like Mike Leigh doing Wicker Man.
I thought it was top.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Assault on Precinct 13" - the remake. Not bad, enjoyable undemanding fare which was exactly what I wanted.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Missed that when i watched it recently. I did think some of the fight scenes looked very real.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Figures In A Landscape 1970 film with Robert Shaw & Malcolm McDowell as two escaped prisoners running about the barren countryside of some un-named South American country while being pursued by a helicopter. Very enjoyable.
I had to sack The War Game off after about 18 minutes
Couldn't watch any more after that little kid got his eyes burnt
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
what is? Fingers? I enjoyed The Beat... will deffo have to check the original ,didnt realise there was one.
Rewatched Whisky Galore! yet again, still bloody good. Just read the book, so interesting to compare. Both have their merits, book (unsuprisingly) much richer, interesting extra characters, but at least the film has a proper ending.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Got a big bag of DVD's from my Mum that someone gave her, full of stuff I might watch once/again but wouldn't have bought/rented.
This week we have watched the first DVd of the 1980 series Shogun, which I last saw when I was 10 in 1980. It still looks exactly as I rememember it, not bad at all. Mrs R is off to Fujiyama tonight for food, and I have instructed her to shout Hai and Konichiwa Torinaga san at everyone.
This week we have watched the first DVd of the 1980 series Shogun, which I last saw when I was 10 in 1980. It still looks exactly as I rememember it, not bad at all. Mrs R is off to Fujiyama tonight for food, and I have instructed her to shout Hai and Konichiwa Torinaga san at everyone.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep, fingers.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Thora Hird toting a machine gun
That scene is realy shocking. Watched it again last Christmas and had forgotten how strong it was.
Reno
The In Kraut
I watched Beyond the Black Rainbow and The Pact.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is an almost two hour semi-experimental film, taking as its point of reference sci-fi flicks from the 70s and 80s, especially Kubrick, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Silent Running, The Andromeda Strain, Cronenberg and Carpenter. Whatever story there is concerns a young woman who is held captive in in a retro-futuristic underground laboratory/commune by a very creepy man, who may or may not be human. Though made on a tiny budget, it looks and sounds exquisite in a trippy, retro modernist way and it has a gorgeous 80s style electronic soundtrack. On the other hand the pace is exasperatingly slow. In the last half hour, when the girl escapes, some sort of plot finally kicks in and the film comes up with some genuinely creepy imagery and in the last ten minutes it rather bewilderingly turns into a slasher film. I'm not sure what to make of this one. I was caught between admiring its vision and the temptation to hit the fast forward button. It reminded mea little of Amer, the surrealist, giallo inspired, similarly almost non-narrative film from two years ago which I loved, though that had more going on under the hood. Maybe if I let it settle for a while, I may come to like it after all, because certain images really stuck with me
The Pact is a haunted house film which from the trailer I thought would be rubbish.While it doesn't do anything particularly new in terms of plot (in many ways its similar to Stir of Echoes), it is beautifully directed. It isn't one of these OTT ghost train style haunted houses like The Woman in Black with cobwebs and the customary creepy dolls, this one is a realistic modern house in a run down US blue collar neighbourhood, where things are just slightly off. Here the obligatory psychic gets recruited from the local crack den. I thought it was quite creepy and tense and I appreciated that this is a director who knows the importance of small details and where to put a camera. No lazy jumps scares here, instead the film slowly builds up an escalating sense of dread. Great sound design too and a good performance from the lead actress, who I'd never heard of before.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is an almost two hour semi-experimental film, taking as its point of reference sci-fi flicks from the 70s and 80s, especially Kubrick, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Silent Running, The Andromeda Strain, Cronenberg and Carpenter. Whatever story there is concerns a young woman who is held captive in in a retro-futuristic underground laboratory/commune by a very creepy man, who may or may not be human. Though made on a tiny budget, it looks and sounds exquisite in a trippy, retro modernist way and it has a gorgeous 80s style electronic soundtrack. On the other hand the pace is exasperatingly slow. In the last half hour, when the girl escapes, some sort of plot finally kicks in and the film comes up with some genuinely creepy imagery and in the last ten minutes it rather bewilderingly turns into a slasher film. I'm not sure what to make of this one. I was caught between admiring its vision and the temptation to hit the fast forward button. It reminded mea little of Amer, the surrealist, giallo inspired, similarly almost non-narrative film from two years ago which I loved, though that had more going on under the hood. Maybe if I let it settle for a while, I may come to like it after all, because certain images really stuck with me
The Pact is a haunted house film which from the trailer I thought would be rubbish.While it doesn't do anything particularly new in terms of plot (in many ways its similar to Stir of Echoes), it is beautifully directed. It isn't one of these OTT ghost train style haunted houses like The Woman in Black with cobwebs and the customary creepy dolls, this one is a realistic modern house in a run down US blue collar neighbourhood, where things are just slightly off. Here the obligatory psychic gets recruited from the local crack den. I thought it was quite creepy and tense and I appreciated that this is a director who knows the importance of small details and where to put a camera. No lazy jumps scares here, instead the film slowly builds up an escalating sense of dread. Great sound design too and a good performance from the lead actress, who I'd never heard of before.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
I watched Beynd The Black Rainbow the other day and agree with you, it looked and sounded great even though it took me four attempts to watch it all without falling asleep (due to the slow pace and constant throbbing droney soundtrack). The end spoilt it slighty as it snapped you out of the hypnotic state the film had induced you into.
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