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

[DotCommunist]

Spectre haunting the cinema and torrent sites

it was Bond, I'll say better than quantum of solace. But very by the book bond. Some great set pieces but ultimately hollow. The bloke who plays C looks like Moriarty from Sherlock but I haven't checked imdb to confirm yet.

New M is a bit of a maggot. New Q has come into his own.

 

[Orang Utan]

Spectre haunting the cinema and torrent sites

it was Bond, I'll say better than quantum of solace. But very by the book bond. Some great set pieces but ultimately hollow. The bloke who plays C looks like Moriarty from Sherlock but I haven't checked imdb to confirm yet.

New M is a bit of a maggot. New Q has come into his own.

You've been doing the same as me as I have also watched Spectre, Hateful 8 and Ash Vs Evil Dead.
Yes. Andrew Scott is in Sherlock.
Q (Ben Whishaw) is also Pingu in Nathan Barley.

 

[DotCommunist]

You've been doing the same as me as I have also watched Spectre, Hateful 8 and Ash Vs Evil Dead.
Yes. Andrew Scott is in Sherlock.
Q (Ben Whishaw) is also Pingu in Nathan Barley.

Legend next. Its going to be the cartoon version of the kray story but fuck it, I like tom hardy and we must take andvantage of screener leak season.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can't be arsed with that one. Liked the Medak film well enough.

 

[krtek a houby]

Or there's this - "the best British gangster film ever made"

 

[DotCommunist]

Can't be arsed with that one. Liked the Medak film well enough.

fell asleep halfway through. Complete tosh. At least the Kemps version had a little of the kitchen sink about it.

 

[Reno]

Count Yorga, Vampire. 1970 exploitation flick which is a sentimental favourite and which basically is Dracula set in modern LA. Still fun.



Tonight's entertainment:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Or there's this - "the best British gangster film ever made"

I was in That There Lunnon recently and saw An Actual Poster for Rise Of The Footsoldier 2

 

[Orang Utan]

fell asleep halfway through. Complete tosh. At least the Kemps version had a little of the kitchen sink about it.

Arguing with Billie Whitelaw about biscuits. Class scene.

 

[DotCommunist]

Arguing with Billie Whitelaw about biscuits. Class scene.

its her impassioned rant about being in the undergound while the bombs dropped delivering someones baby which died anyway that I semi-recall from it as striking me. Something about men didn't even know while they had their war etc. I googled for the quote but to no joy.


No I wouldn't waste your time with this new one if I were you, it looked like a good enough romp and you've double the tom hardy so why not but its without soul, cynical and the humour is niether funny nor done well. Might have to watch the end half so I can scorn it properly, but probably won't because life is too short. Tom's Ronnie sprays rather than says a lot which is distractingly rank as well.

 

[Orang Utan]

I am watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. It's two hours long and I'm only twenty minutes in. Not sure I can last much longer

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Spent the past week or so watching the first 3 seasons of Luther. It's total nonsense from start to finish, but entertaining nonsense. I shall embark on series 4 tonight.

I really don't rate Idris as an actor. He only just passed muster in The Wire. Not sure what all the fuss is.

 

[SamSav]

Know there is a separate thread dedicated to it, but Making a Murderer is a must watch series. Just coming to the end of the last episode and it has been brilliant from start to finish. Done the full 10 episodes in 2 days, couldn't help myself.

 

[sovereignb]

Halfway through Season 3 of House of Cards...its starting to loose its momentum for me.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Slow West: an excellent addition to the western genre and a brilliant directorial debut from John Maclean. Good original story and looks great....

 

[DaveCinzano]

I really don't rate Idris2002

Break his heart, why don't you

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Child 44. Shit serial killer flick set in post war Russia.

Great cast wasted on a plodding story. It was as dreary as the time and place it depicted.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Boring poop.

An action movie about global banking that was so daft I forgot to use my brain while watching it. Kiera Knightly was badly miscast as some clingy wife....Costner and Captain Kirk just played the usual. Kenneth Brannagh was hilariously bad.

I switched it off.

 

[krtek a houby]

Know there is a separate thread dedicated to it, but Making a Murderer is a must watch series. Just coming to the end of the last episode and it has been brilliant from start to finish. Done the full 10 episodes in 2 days, couldn't help myself.

Just started watching this yesterday. So far, so "good". Or bad. Very bad.

 

[Reno]

Terminator Gynysys. Not as terrible as I expected it to be, but still not very good. The film is seriously hobbled by its relentless fan service and by the miscasting of all three non-Schwarzenegger leads (Emilia Clarke as badass Sarah Connor is a sorry sight). The film's recreation of a young Arnie Terminator is impressive and the action sequences are reasonably well done, if not a patch on the first two films.

 

[sovereignb]

I watched the Amy Winehouse film on Channel 4...sad as fuck

 

[rubbershoes]

Terminator Gynysys. Not as terrible as I expected it to be, but still not very good. The film is seriously hobbled by its relentless fan service and by the miscasting of all three non-Schwarzenegger leads (Emilia Clarke as badass Sarah Connor is a sorry sight). The film's recreation of a young Arnie Terminator is impressive and the action sequences are reasonably well done, if not a patch on the first two films.

And let's hope they leave it there and don't make any more

 

[Almost There]

Transformers. Boring! I fell asleep.

 

[Reno]

And let's hope they leave it there and don't make any more

I don't care. It's not that because they don't make another Terminator sequel that means they are going to use that money to make the modern equivalent to The Godfather or Chinatown. The franchise sausage factory is where it's at in Hollywood for the foreseeable future.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Watching Making of a Murderer. A fucked up, addictive viewing, descent into chaos law and order....

 

[DaveCinzano]

Child 44. Shit serial killer flick set in post war Russia.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Boring poop.

Have you been grazing on Netflix?

Saw both of these last week, really disappointing.

About half an hour into Child 44 I found myself going 'Wait a minute, this is just the Andrei Chikatilo case dressed up', and it compared not very favourably to the leaner, tauter, and just plain better Citizen X, for all the period fifties Soviet stuff. Even the execrable Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell hamminess and all) was a less dull take on the subject. And are there no actual Russian/East European actors available? Apparently only Englishmen doing silly accents, leavened by the occasional Scot or Australian or a Lebanese.

Shadow Recruit on the other hand at least had the potential to be a silly, rollicking ridei but instead it ended up in the vein of a boring lesser mid-period Roger Moore Bond, all rubbish international plot and a haven't-we-seen-this-done-before? action set piece. Not an auspicious start to a franchise reboot.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Legend next.

I always see this as Leg End, and think of it as a remake of My Left Foot. Would probably be more enjoyable that way.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

My last late night before going back to work on Monday.

I started watching Homicide: Life on the Street from the beginning. I haven't seen this since it was bounced randomly around the TV schedules way back when. Man, it's such a great, great show.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Revenant

quite good. Di Caprio gets fucked up quite a lot.By a massive bear to start with. At one point he pulled the 'I'm so hard I cuaterise my wound with gunpowder' move which I always enjoy

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Have you been grazing on Netflix?

Saw both of these last week, really disappointing.

About half an hour into Child 44 I found myself going 'Wait a minute, this is just the Andrei Chikatilo case dressed up', and it compared not very favourably to the leaner, tauter, and just plain better Citizen X, for all the period fifties Soviet stuff. Even the execrable Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell hamminess and all) was a less dull take on the subject. And are there no actual Russian/East European actors available? Apparently only Englishmen doing silly accents, leavened by the occasional Scot or Australian or a Lebanese.

Shadow Recruit on the other hand at least had the potential to be a silly, rollicking ridei but instead it ended up in the vein of a boring lesser mid-period Roger Moore Bond, all rubbish international plot and a haven't-we-seen-this-done-before? action set piece. Not an auspicious start to a franchise reboot.

Citizen X was on my mind throughout. A much better film.

....and yes.. I have been purging on prime and netflix....