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DVDs and Films You Have Watched Recently 3 - The Final Insult


Devon Malcolm

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9 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

I can't remember the last time I saw Will Smith in something and it was good, and can't remember the last time I saw a trailer for something he was doing and thought I'd like to see it.

Spies in Disguise is legitimately and easily the best thing he's done since I, Robot. Will Smith has almost never been in anything good.

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23 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

I can't remember the last time I saw Will Smith in something and it was good, and can't remember the last time I saw a trailer for something he was doing and thought I'd like to see it.

I still maintain he did a good turn in Aladdin much to everyones surprise, but other then the aforementioned Spies in Disguise, which I thought was more fun then it had any right to be, I am struggling 

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Charley Varrick (ok.ru)

I didn't like this that much first time round but it was great on this rewatch. Joe Don Baker is on career best form as a hitman, plus Walter Matthau is just as you'd expect. A gritty big city crime story transplanted to New Mexico, one of Don Siegel's best.

SherryBaby (ok.ru)

Dull drama that seemed solely created for Maggie Gyllenhaal to get an Oscar nomination. It failed at that, even though she's great (as ever), and doesn't do much else of interest either.

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Charley Varrick is great, particularly the scene where he talks about the cows.  There’s a great 90s electro track that samples the whole thing.

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To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You (Netflix)

There have been many times that I've thought I've known fear, but not until I sat down with my 10 year old last night to watch this did I realise that everything that came before was bullshit.

Now, these films are pretty PG, and there's been nothing a well placed cough couldn't cover, and I know what I knew at 10 (probably younger), but the moment Lara-Jean is told by her friend that she needs to know "how to rev her own engine before she lets anyone under the hood" is the moment my whole soul left my body and didn't come back until it had finished. 

Surely that was Dad level 1000, and there's nothing left after it.

Still, good film, but slightly annoying that she

still ends up with Peter and not John

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Time Trap (Netflix)

Never heard of this before it dropped on to Netflix today. Expected nothing and as such enjoyed a fair bit more than I might have done otherwise. A more than decent bit of sci-fi fluff, over in 85 minutes, absolutely perfect for the evening.

Mad Dog Morgan (Dailymotion)

I've never been all that big on Dennis Hopper as an actor (or director for that matter) but he's perfectly cast in this 70s Aussie crime biopic about the legendary 1850s bushranger and outlaw. Rushes along a bit, preventing it from being as good as it could have been but it's entertaining and worth a look.

Into the Forest (Dailymotion - part 1 / part 2)

Ellen Page's career has just been on a downward spiral ever since she and @Astro Hollywood split up. She's good, as is Evan Rachel Wood (especially her dancing), but nothing else is in a depressing and pointless apocalyptic thing. Bollocks.

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Stella Does Tricks (ok.ru)

What, you never knew there was a film where James Bolam got wanked off by Kelly Macdonald? And that he plays a pimp? Now you do. Grim but really good.

Variety (YouTube)

All my fellow Luis Guzman fans on here (especially looking at @PowerButchi) will enjoy his pretty big role running a porn cinema in this otherwise really weird neo-noir. Enjoyed it a lot but one of those occasions where I don't know why.

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5 minutes ago, waters44 said:

Can somebody point me to the “good films on today” thread or whatever it’s called? I’ve tried using the search function but no luck

 

 

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The Wild Goose Lake (Amazon Prime Mubi channel)

Superb Chinese neo-noir that features the most completely unexpected dance scene since the excellent French action thriller Sleepless Night. Lots of nods to The Third Man with a lovely nighttime neon look, this is absolutely my thing and anybody else's who loves an old-fashioned crime flick.

Knives and Skin (nefarious means)

Oh look, somebody else has been watching some Nicolas Winding Refn films. And not the good pre-Drive ones either. Absolutely dreadful Twin Peaks knock-off with some of the worst dialogue I've heard for ages.

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Rewatched T2: TRAINSPOTTING yesterday for the first time since the cinema. Have to say I really enjoyed it again mainly for the actors performances. The last 20 minutes are cracking and ramp up the emotion. They were wise not to directly follow PORNO, as it is probably the weakest of Welsh's books about the characters. Liked some SkagBoys references in it (which is a cracking book) All in all, worth a watch again just to hang about with the characters.

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I really enjoyed T2 as well. Porno (Glue aside) is probably my favourite Irvine Welsh novel, but with the time passed between him writing it and the film being made, it was clear it couldn't follow the book, but they did a great job with it.

Funnily enough, I rewatched Trainspotting (4 OD) the other night and it is still such an utterly thrilling film. For me, the best British film of all time, and it still absolutely rattles along with such verve and wit. I fucking love it.

I followed this up with another film about heroin, Better Things (4 OD) about young people with nothing to do in the Cotswolds, taking drugs.

To say it's bleak is an under statement. It makes Ken Loach films look like a barrel of laughs, and whilst I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, it was a good watch.

Primary Colors last night, which I'd been meaning to watch for ages. A stellar cast (Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, Billy Bob Thornton and one of the great loves of my life Maura Tierney), it was a little too long, but really enjoyed it. Travolta's Clinton Stanton is wonderfully played.

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