General thread here, what have people been watching recently then?
I'm currently working my way through the "Hammer House of Horror" '80s TV series. Seen most of the good ones, just working my way through the dross now.
Also had a watch of "Night of the Demon" yesterday morning (woke up at 6am and had nothing else to do for two hours), 'cos I love it. I also watched "The Projected Man" the other day, 'cos I prefer odd sci fi tales over the "war film/western in space" style of science fiction.
Not sure what to watch this weekend. Pete Walkers "The Comeback" is looking due for a view, as I've only seen it the once. Outstanding beginning, and Bill Owen (yes, that one) is bloody terrifying in it. I've also managed to get a copy of Hammers "The Maniac" from 1963 to watch at some point.
Oh, and I'm in the mood to give "The Damned" another whirl - paranoid cold war '60s sci fi, set in a seaside town. Great stuff.
I was thinking of catching Legally Blond, Clueless.... erm... wrong forum.... you saw nothing...
*throws down a smoke bomb and flees*
Watched "In Bruges" again the other day... love it, others seem to hate it!. Also feel that the two greatest films ever will get an outing this weekend, Blues Brothers and Tremors.
Watched the Omen the other night, Good movie and Gregory Peck isnt as wooden as normal in it!
Quote from: StarDragonFTW on May 28, 2009, 11:08:02 am
Watched the Omen the other night, Good movie and Gregory Peck isnt as wooden as normal in it!
My office is 5 mins from the park & church where Pat Troughton met Peck, then got chased into the churchyard and spiked.
Quote from: Mike on May 28, 2009, 10:30:44 am
Watched "In Bruges" again the other day... love it
Cracking film, watched twice in 2 days when we first rented it, since then must have watched another 3-4 times when showing it to other's for the first time..
I am working my way through old TV shows before I start on new ones, last season of 6 Feet Under, 3 season of Enterprise and the 2nd season of deadwood.
And I just watched the recently released 'Joy Division' Documentary, very good indeed it was..
3rd season of enterprise....
And I used to think you were cool Ol.... for shame.
Quote from: Mike on May 28, 2009, 11:31:19 am
3rd season of enterprise....
And I used to think you were cool Ol.... for shame.
Great series, really gets going in season 3 ....I'm a Trekkie, what can I say.... :thumbsup:
i've recently been watching snatch and monty python, makes for a good mix!
Quote from: maelzch on May 28, 2009, 11:43:32 pm
i've recently been watching snatch
Curse that I have the power to put that in any thread........
Watched one called "The Brighton Strangler" the other night, very good film. I'd forgotten how much I like these B&W oddities from the '40s & '50s. Recorded a film noir that was on last week, so I'll try to get around to that at some point.
Also stuck Can Film on, as I never tire of watching it.
I have caught snippets of channel 4's afternoon Bogey season.
The Barefoot Contessa, The Caine Mutiny.... shame I only get to see tiny bits, but I have seen them before and they are always a good distraction. If they put on The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon I'm afraid I might be cancelling a few meetings! :wink;m::
Quote from: Veldemere on June 04, 2009, 08:41:52 am
I have caught snippets of channel 4's afternoon Bogey season.
The Barefoot Contessa, The Caine Mutiny.... shame I only get to see tiny bits, but I have seen them before and they are always a good distraction. If they put on The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon I'm afraid I might be cancelling a few meetings! :wink;m::
About ten years ago, I went through a spell of watching loads of Bogie films. Maltese Falcon is a cracker, and there was another one (Noir) about an ex paratrooper trying to find out what has happened to his mate. Can't remember the name. Oh, and I once saw a strange one where he played an artist who's best work is produced when he murders people - very odd little film. Bogie is miscast, but still good.
Casablanca is always a good watch too - I enjoyed watching that, followed by Citizen Kane on a long plane journey last year.
I watched Iron Man last night, umm yeah.... :rant;2:
I liked Iron man. Thought it was a good film.
Been cinema a lot recently. Saw Wolverine Origins, Star Trek, Angels and Deamons, amoungst others.
Wolverkine and Star Trek were very good I thought.
Angels and Deamons - if your going to do a film of a book, at least stick to the plot of the book for SOME of the film.....seriously. :bash;m:
Quote from: fatolaf on June 04, 2009, 11:38:41 am
I watched Iron Man last night, umm yeah.... :rant;2:
What didn't you like about iron man Ol?
I'll have it known on record that i like that film (but then I am a bit of a marvel comics fanboy :thumsup;m:
Quote from: maelzch on June 05, 2009, 11:50:59 am
What didn't you like about iron man Ol?
I'll have it known on record that i like that film (but then I am a bit of a marvel comics fanboy :thumsup;m:
I am a huge comic book fanboy and a fan of Iron Man, but the film was just ok imho. I know they wanted to bring it up to date to fit in with the modern political climate, but there were a number of performances just phoned in. Also there was little of the essence of Iron Man, it was like a batman film, they just changed the costume. I suppose my feeling was, could do better!
Not my favourite character anyway, some of the acting was hooey, not good at all, typical marvel film really... :thumbsdown:
Oh I dunno... I loved Iron Man, despite the fact that I absolutely hate the comicbook character. Mr Downy Jnr even made me like Tony Stark... something I thought would never happen.
Unfortunately Iron Man suffered from being released just after The Dark Knight, so expectations were sky high, when in reality I think its one of the most successful (adaptation-wise) Marvel films so far.
Hulk, both of them, was "meh", I like the X-Men films but I'm a mutant fanboy so I recognise the bias (except Wolverine, that was a pile of steaming ****), I don't hate Daredevil (sue me), Elektra is just awful (but I think it'll make a so-bad-its-good list one day) and the two Fantastic Four offerings were a complete waste of time (The Incredibles did it better)...
I could go on... but I shan't. :)
I just watched Sir Henry at Rawlinson End...
I would try and explain the plot etc, but it's so out there I think you'd better just watch the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vLrKGwfnNo
It is just brilliant.
Quote from: Darian on June 06, 2009, 01:58:57 pm
Oh I dunno... I loved Iron Man, despite the fact that I absolutely hate the comicbook character. Mr Downy Jnr even made me like Tony Stark... something I thought would never happen.
Unfortunately Iron Man suffered from being released just after The Dark Knight, so expectations were sky high, when in reality I think its one of the most successful (adaptation-wise) Marvel films so far.
Hulk, both of them, was "meh", I like the X-Men films but I'm a mutant fanboy so I recognise the bias (except Wolverine, that was a pile of steaming ****), I don't hate Daredevil (sue me), Elektra is just awful (but I think it'll make a so-bad-its-good list one day) and the two Fantastic Four offerings were a complete waste of time (The Incredibles did it better)...
Our opinions on many of these seem to differ!
Iron man, downey jr was perfect casting, good film.
not seen the edward norton hulk yet, so no comment.
really liked wolverine, i liked the xmen films less as they went on though (mostly cos X3 tried to cram too much in)
daredevil and elektra were a waste of time
FF1 was crud, far too much set up, whereas i thought the second one was good, straight into the main story, yay! (and silver surfer woo!)
Looking forwards to the next 4-5 years for marvel films:
Iron man 2+3
Captain america
Thor
Nick fury (with Sam L Jackson)
Magneto (methinks could be a meh)
Ultimates/avengers (possibly 2+3)
FF3
Spidey 4,5,6
Silver surfer/galatcus
Doctor Strange
there's probs some more that ive missed, but yay!
Doc Strange was a big fave of mine, but very difficult to make into a film as there was little genuine 'action' and it was a little more cerebral (as comics go) the last version of Strange was cack and if anyone has a copy they should help save the world and burn it!
Silver Surfer / Galacticus would make a great film, fantastic backstory! :thumbsup:
Do you mean the animated Doc Strange film? A bit too removed from the source to be a great translation really... has anyone seen the animated Wonder Woman film? She decapitates people with her tiara... its pretty hardcore for a cartoon.
Quote from: Darian on June 07, 2009, 11:04:03 pm
Do you mean the animated Doc Strange film? A bit too removed from the source to be a great translation really... has anyone seen the animated Wonder Woman film? She decapitates people with her tiara... its pretty hardcore for a cartoon.
No I meant that there's gonna be a Doctor Strange film (non animated) at some point n the mext few years
Quote from: Darian on June 07, 2009, 11:04:03 pm
Do you mean the animated Doc Strange film? A bit too removed from the source to be a great translation really... has anyone seen the animated Wonder Woman film? She decapitates people with her tiara... its pretty hardcore for a cartoon.
No, I meant the 1978 TV movie with Peter Hooten as the good Doctor, bobbins! :bash;m:
I tend to pretend Marvel superhero movies pre-2000 don't really exist, they're never usually much cop.
Quote from: Darian on June 08, 2009, 10:37:06 am
I tend to pretend Marvel superhero movies pre-2000 don't really exist, they're never usually much cop.
True
Even thought I loved the 70's Spiderman TV movies....
I still have not watched 'The watchmen' yet, only been waiting 20 years for this..Big big fan of the novel..
Has anyone watched the watchmen yet... What did you think?
Quote from: fatolaf on June 08, 2009, 07:24:03 pm
Even thought I loved the 70's Spiderman TV movies....
I still have not watched 'The watchmen' yet, only been waiting 20 years for this..Big big fan of the novel..
Has anyone watched the watchmen yet... What did you think?
Mate, you know I am as big a fan as you and I have to say, don't bother.
I know this may be shocking, some things they have got right are;
The chap playing Kovacs, spot on looks and just about right temperament
most of the production design
And some bad things:
Despite being overlong they miss plot nuances
It is a blooming action film, why!
Cheap gags
Just my thoughts, not discussed with anyone though so what do others think?
Quote from: BeigeJacket on June 06, 2009, 08:41:52 pm
I just watched Sir Henry at Rawlinson End...
I would try and explain the plot etc, but it's so out there I think you'd better just watch the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vLrKGwfnNo
It is just brilliant.
Good man. Vivian Stanshall is one of my all time heroes, and the film is a cracker. Not quite up to the original album, but close.
I watched "Captain Kronos" the other day - great film, then sat through "The Lost Continent". One of the
most bizarre flicks I have ever seen. I've read the book too, many years ago.
In a rare break with tradition, I actually made it through a weekend without watching a film. Although I did watch a rather horrible interview with John Frusicante.
I watched
Black Rain
Wall Street
Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen
The Mummy 3 : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Wall Streets great. I love that film, although the story is an old one.
Found my old Hanzo the Razor DVDs hiding in a box of old CDs.
If the 70s Samurai films you've seen thus far don't have enough sex, penis jokes or wah-wah guitar soundtrack for your tastes then this series may be for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCmbNATnt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQbNB7ELbw
Erik, you seen these before?
No, I haven't seen Hanzo before. The only ones like this that I've watched are the Lone Wolf and Cub series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WZ2UR9roKw&feature=related
Also, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VZ-6LwOKE
Quote from: Funkadelic Erik on July 06, 2009, 04:47:24 pm
Wall Streets great. I love that film
Suprised yet pleased to hear you say that sir.
I love my 80's movies, this being one of my faves..
Along with the Sherman high movies (Ferris Buller, Breakfast club etc), the Brat Pack movies (St Elmo's fire, It happened last night etc), Wall street, Platoon, Ghostbusters etc...
Not so happy about the proposed Wall Street 2 however...
Watched "The Shout" on Friday. Actually had the DVD for about two years, and only just thought to watch it. Late '70s oddity with Alan Bates and John Hurt. Bloody good, although a bit of a head scratcher. I'd put it as a horror film, but theres no blood, violence, ghosts or anything really. Atmosphere in spades though, and a superb looking film.
When Bates came out with "I learnt how to do the Terror Shout. It took me 18 years to perfect and I can kill with it", I was pretty nonplussed - how scary can a podgy, sweaty, booze filled Alan Bates standing there shouting be?
Bloody terrifying, thats what!
Well recommended.
sounds great mate, you must do me a lend...
Big Rob and I are off on one of our irregular excursions to see Villain at the NFT tonight - a cracking early '70s gangster flick with Richard Burton as a psychotic, mother fixated, homosexual (his bit of fluff is Ian Macshane - yes, Lovejoy!), London crime lord who stages a heist.
Haven't seen it for about ten years, but its a belter - good music, proper car chases (they make a getaway in a Jag Mk2), sharp suits, some great London pubs and superbly nasty bits of gang violence "You've been a naughty boy Danny......*cut away to dolly bird in the kitchen making a cup o' tea and overhearing some razor blade induced cries*
On DVD, I think - one I intended to pick up a while back, as my videos went out the door a while back.
Also watched Make Mine Mink, as I hadn't seen it for a couple of years. Fairly standard 1960 comedy, enlivened by Terry Thomas playing a bored ex Army Major who takes to stealing furs around London. T-T is the best about it really (isn't he always?), and theres a great Third Man parody as he tries to offload the stolen goods.
Quote from: Funkadelic Erik on August 26, 2009, 02:42:39 pm
Big Rob and I are off on one of our irregular excursions to see Villain at the NFT tonight - a cracking early '70s gangster flick with Richard Burton as a psychotic, mother fixated, homosexual (his bit of fluff is Ian Macshane - yes, Lovejoy!), London crime lord who stages a heist.
Haven't seen it for about ten years, but its a belter - good music, proper car chases (they make a getaway in a Jag Mk2), sharp suits, some great London pubs and superbly nasty bits of gang violence "You've been a naughty boy Danny......*cut away to dolly bird in the kitchen making a cup o' tea and overhearing some razor blade induced cries*
On DVD, I think - one I intended to pick up a while back, as my videos went out the door a while back.
Also watched Make Mine Mink, as I hadn't seen it for a couple of years. Fairly standard 1960 comedy, enlivened by Terry Thomas playing a bored ex Army Major who takes to stealing furs around London. T-T is the best about it really (isn't he always?), and theres a great Third Man parody as he tries to offload the stolen goods.
Aah, that Dickie Burton film sounds pretty awesome. The NFT site has some interesting stuff coming up, Nagisa Oshima system next month including a Ninja film which I've never heard of (Band of Ninja)
Plus Ian MacShane will always be Al Swearengen to me...
I'm picking up a brochure for the Nihon season tonight. The wife will have a peruse and see if theres anything she fancies. The ICA had a Japan season recently too - must be something in the water.
Recently watched my brand new copy of "Man of Violence", a Pete Walker gangster flick from 1970 - looks great, as I only had a dodgy bootleg version before. It also comes with another film as an extra - The Big Switch. Walker summed that one up best with the description "Sixties Naff"
Also had a watch of "Kamome Shokudo" (Seagull Diner in English) - a Japanese comedy about a Japanese group in Finland. Pretty good, as is "Megane" (Glasses) a film by the same team.
As I was up watching stuff on Saturday, I also had another viewing of the BBC Arena doc about heavy metal from 1989 or thereabouts. I've seen it so many times, but it has me in stitches every time - especially the montage scene intercutting Steppenwolf playing "Born to Be Wild" with people bombing about in crappy Cortinas and standing around drinking outside of the pub. It's on youtube and probably one of the funniest hours you'll ever spend. Especially the bit with Steve Harris going about his hearing. From memory:
"I have my hearing tested every year, for insurance reasons. Theres nothing wrong with it, or the rest of the bands, which shows that hearing damage from loud music isn't true.
Mind you, Bruces hearing is a bit dodgy..........."
Had the following over thee weekend:
Silver Streak - Superb, not seen it for a good ten years or so.
Rocky IV - el crappo. Not a patch on III.
The Innocents - Sublime. Should have watched at Christmas, really. BBC4 are doing a version for this years Chrimbo story.
Privates Progress - Long a favourite at Chateau Dunn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_malUGxNloo&feature=related
I also watched a documentary about John Wyndham, one of my favourite writers.
Quote from: Funkadelic Erik on October 12, 2009, 12:03:28 pm
I also watched a documentary about John Wyndham, one of my favourite writers.
And mine!
Damm, missed it was it on the BBC so I can i-Player it?
It's on youtube, which is where I saw it.
bit of a ressurection for this thread.
Went to see Sherlock Holmes last night, t'was a good film. Don't expect a cinematic masterpiece, but it's a good fun sorta film.
being a Guy Ritchie film, its definately very different to previous versions of the detecitve's adventures and I'll be interested to see if they will carry it on into a franchise, as it definately set up that way.
I saw "Surrogates" on the plane, which wasn't quite the pile of excrement I expected it to be. Followed it with Rocky I & II.
Also watched "The Hovering Blade" whilst over there, which was damned good.
I went to see Avatar 3D last night, really is the film version of Lady Gaga, looks new and unusual at first but you soon realise there is no depth and just a lot a predictable guff....
I hate to say though I quite like Lady Gaga......and Avatar, really wouldn't care less if it was 2D though.
Quote from: Veldemere on January 14, 2010, 03:09:05 pm
I quite like Lady Gaga
Wanting to pork and 'like' are two separate things.
I enjoyed Avatar, Although I agree the 3D didn't make much of a difference and if anything took me away from the film as I was looking at some of the effects. Nice touch but definately not needed.
Quote from: Veldemere on January 14, 2010, 03:09:05 pm
I went to see Avatar 3D last night, really is the film version of Lady Gaga, looks new and unusual at first but you soon realise there is no depth and just a lot a predictable guff....
I thought that might be the case...
Finally got round to watching the new Star Trek a couple of night ago on dvd.
Excellent, bring on the sequel.....nuff said.
Quote from: fatolaf on January 14, 2010, 04:57:56 pm
Excellent, bring on the sequel.....nuff said.
I agree
Saw Law Abiding Citizen the other day, very good film and not a poor action film that I expected. In fact it reminded me a lot of Seven, well worth a watch.
Also Fantastic Mr Fox was great, based on the Roald Dahl book, an easy watching film.
I really recommend District 9 if you havn't seen it yet, thought it was fantastic, and has some great action scenes in it.
I'd heard good things about Avatar so hoping to watch it this weekend, not for the plot, just the visuals.
Law Abiding Citizen was good, felt like the Dark Knight (Same cinematography and same sense of Good versus Evil)
On Avatar; the film does not exist without 3d. If you are looking for any traces of a script there, you will be disappointed. Of course it's a predictable heap of poo. But the 3d is awesome in my humble opinion. It's head and shoulders above the previous '3d' stuff where things were jumping out at you from a 2d background.
I finally watched The Big Lebowski the other day and I am a devout now. Dude.
Quote from: Peter S on January 14, 2010, 08:10:16 pm
I really recommend District 9 if you havn't seen it yet, thought it was fantastic, and has some great action scenes in it.
Just bought that on dvd, looking forward to it....
Watched Rising Sun last night. Good movie by Crichton, plot kept me interested and Tia Carrera was looking hot in it!
Erik, is this one of your horror films?
http://www.christianfilms.com/pamelasprayertrailer.html (http://www.christianfilms.com/pamelasprayertrailer.html)
:moonwalker: -p
Quote from: Veldemere on February 04, 2010, 11:05:04 pm
Erik, is this one of your horror films?
http://www.christianfilms.com/pamelasprayertrailer.html (http://www.christianfilms.com/pamelasprayertrailer.html)
:moonwalker: -p
Not quite. Although it looks pretty horrible.
Been rocking this recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTyBJrPPBy4
From 21.00 onwards, Lee's birthday has come early:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2010/03/05
Of all the programmes shown, the Sabbath rock family tree is the don't miss. Saw it when it was first on, and it's great.
that's me sorted next friday!
If the main event - Metal Britannia - is up to the standards of the others in the series, it'll be an evening well spent.
cheers for pointing this out erik! an evening well spent, currently watching maiden live show on bbc4, most excellent :thumbsup:
all good fun :)
Chris Morris' Jihadi comedy finally comes out this week.
http://www.four-lions.co.uk/
Watch the trailer then go see.
Season 1 of the A-Team and Carlito's Way were last Weekend's viewings by me
Chez Dunn has recently been showing the following:
Nobody Knows - Japanese film, right bloody downer.
Cobra Verde - Herzog does a western in Africa. Great stuff. Kinski chucks a mental at least five times, and shows the correct way of dealing with a local dispute.......by charging a fortress with 200 topless tribeswomen and waving a sword about, of course. "In my country they called me the The Snake". Hooray!
Taste of Fear - Their trying to drive me maaaaad! Good twisty one from Hammer, and another one off the list.
The Comeback - Don't open that box Jack...... Jack Jones sings and adds a certain crappy charm to a charmingly crappy film, containing bad songs, good cars and the fastest decomposition in cinema (not counting the "vampire in the sunlight" ones, or Ming the Merciless). Bill Owen (yes, that one) causes major "soil yer trousers" moment.
Dracula AD 1972 - Peter Cushing running full pelt down the Kings Road in a sharp suit, accompanied by a rollocking funk soundtrack - !@%$#%@ yeah! Shame about the rest of the film.
Death Wish 3 - How do you improve a franchise that is already absurdly over the top? Why, dear reader, by handing it a machine gun! Bronson dishes out the pain to various unscary, slightly homoerotic, hoodlums in New York. The last 30mins is possibly the best action movie filmed in the '80s. Everyone should see this. At least one person receives business end of a rocket launcher from about six feet away.
Death Wish 4 - Don't bother, even Michael Winner turned it down. When did Bronson become an expert in the chop socky stakes?
Quote from: BeigeJacket on May 04, 2010, 09:25:15 pm
Chris Morris' Jihadi comedy finally comes out this week.
http://www.four-lions.co.uk/
Watch the trailer then go see.
Went to see it last week, you should all see this film! Very dark but very funny.
Is the new Werner Herzhog film 'Bad lieutenant' a re-make of the Harvey Keitel 90's film?
Quote from: fatolaf on May 19, 2010, 04:33:00 pm
Is the new Werner Herzhog film 'Bad lieutenant' a re-make of the Harvey Keitel 90's film?
I believe its a different film, but in the same series. If that makes sense. Not a sequel, or remake, but a relocation of the main character. Herzog claims to have not seen the Ferrera one, or even heard of Ferrera (which I suspect is him being sarky).
To be honest, he is Werner Herzog, which means he can do whatever he wants.
Yeah, but Herzog's previous re-imagining of Nosferatu left me feeling a little hollow.
Quote from: Veldemere on May 21, 2010, 09:53:55 am
Yeah, but Herzog's previous re-imagining of Nosferatu left me feeling a little hollow.
Thats on telly this Friday, with Fitzcarraldo (my pick, along with Aguirre) on the Saturday.
Good to hear as the original was a classic, if somewhat moribund..
Might watch this new one, only as Werner is involved, guy is a legend!