What movie did you watch last night? (35 Viewers)

[george mcfly]

As it happened, it wasn't too late to get through the first half (I have a dvd which splits it into two episodes, as shown on tv). Really atmospheric, there's something I love about decor of films the mid 70s and David Soul has a strong denim look. Hard to turn off even though I started watching so late and it still has some real creepy moments.

Prior to that I watched an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I've loved this show since a re-run on BBC back when I was a teenager. Watched the Ripper episode.

 

[chris d]

The Night Stalker. class, is that on dvd now?

*edit* it is! £7 used on amazon.

 

[george mcfly]

The Night Stalker. class, is that on dvd now?

*edit* it is! £7 used on amazon.

Is that for the film or the series?

 

[chris d]

The series. Further internet searching shows that it's all on youtube including the film. Score.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Duke of Burgundy

Just watched this. Thought it was grand. Better than Berberian Sound Studio which was shite

 

[george mcfly]

Just watched this. Thought it was grand. Better than Berberian Sound Studio which was shite

I loved Berberian Sound Studio!

Did you see Duke of Burgundy in the cinema? I think it's still on in the Curzon Bloomsbury. I think his films work best on the big screen

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I loved Berberian Sound Studio!

Did you see Duke of Burgundy in the cinema? I think it's still on in the Curzon Bloomsbury. I think his films work best on the big screen

didn't like berberian sound studio at all

no, i watched it at home. i was thinking to myself that it probably would have benefited from being seen on the big screen. beautiful cinematography and sound design.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Synecdoche, NY.

It has its moments but it never really fully clicks with me.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Synecdoche, NY.

It has its moments but it never really fully clicks with me.

personally, i think it's a masterpiece.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Inside Llewyn Davis. 8/10

 

[chris d]

Surprisingly deadly.

 

[jonah]

Just watched this. Thought it was grand. Better than Berberian Sound Studio which was shite

I loved Berberian Sound Studio!

I didn't like it either, and I'd been so excited for it because it sounded perfect and I love Toby Jones. The first half was so good and then it became so, so awful so fast. The sound design was incredible, it looked incredible, but it just didn't work as a movie

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I didn't like it either, and I'd been so excited for it because it sounded perfect and I love Toby Jones. The first half was so good and then it became so, so awful so fast. The sound design was incredible, it looked incredible, but it just didn't work as a movie

There was a great 20 – 25 minute short film in there, painfully stretched out to feature length.

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh my god it was SO EMOTIONAL

Really really good though. Come on Ireland

 

[Unicron]

New Avengers. Meh.

Patton Oswalt has a bit about being brought in to do punch up on movie scripts that have so much CGI in them that's already been rendered that the only thing you can do is to give characters who are off sceen funny lines. That's all over this film.

 

[jonah]

There was a great 20 – 25 minute short film in there, painfully stretched out to feature length.

Agreed. It was one really good short and two other movies tacked in, and even so it managed to be boring.

 

[george mcfly]

I didn't like it either, and I'd been so excited for it because it sounded perfect and I love Toby Jones. The first half was so good and then it became so, so awful so fast. The sound design was incredible, it looked incredible, but it just didn't work as a movie

I really liked how it unravelled into madness towards the end but maybe I was blinded by my obsession with sound design and BBC Radiophonic Workshop type stuff.

 

[jonah]

I really liked how it unravelled into madness towards the end but maybe I was blinded by my obsession with sound design and BBC Radiophonic Workshop type stuff.

Yeah all that stuff was exactly why I watched it and on that level it didn't disappoint me. But just as a movie... I dunno. Kermode agrees with you though so I'm mostdef wrong.

 

[george mcfly]

Yeah all that stuff was exactly why I watched it and on that level it didn't disappoint me. But just as a movie... I dunno. Kermode agrees with you though so I'm mostdef wrong.

Didn't he say part of the reason he liked it was because the finale resembles the madness that Italian horror films usually resolved into? That's what I liked about it, you know, like the way a lot of Argento or Fulci films usually take an inexplicably bizarre turn towards the end. I dunno though, I wouldn't hold my opinion very highly, I have a lot of love for some seriously bad films and Kermode was really into Transcendence.