Downfall is good, but I'm not sure I would watch it enough to justify a DVD (would love it if someone compiled all the parodies on DVD).
' Downfall ' is excellent. The actor playing Hitler died recently. His potrayal of Hitler may be the best one of the dozens throughout the years. Someone mentioned the parody videos on YouTube. If you haven't seen them , watch the movie first and then watch them . Some of them are hysterical.
Yes, I’m familiar with those. I thought “Ah, that’s the film all the parodies came from.” At 50p, surely almost anything good justifies a DVD? Yep, see above. I recall one in which they were arguing about The Fall, of all things.
All of them use the same scene from the movie which in itself is great but there's a very funny one where Hitler finds out Dylan is going electric and he diesn't like it.
• Black Hawk Down — 50p 4/10 • Cowboys and Aliens — 99p 4/10 • Downfall — 50p 9/10 • In the Heart of the Sea — 50p N/A
Picked up some DVDs from charity shop today. Not seen any of them before* First Man Another Year Suburbicon Adventureland The Lost City Of Z Diner Victoria Revenge Lost Highway [*saw this years ago but remember nothing] Also picked up Dekalog 6-10 but it has the wrong discs in the box...
Thanks for the ratings. Very curious to see them, even if they disappoint. Diner is great, assuming it’s the Barry Levinson film. A very long time since I saw it though.
Black Hawk Down: I'm not a fan of Ridley Scott's movies, so it may just be me. Cowboys & Aliens I watched with my 2 young nephews way back when. I thought it was too violent for kids so made me feel a bit uncomfortable. It wasn't my cup of tea anyway. Downfall is excellent.
Half expecting Cowboys & Aliens to be awful, but I do like both Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig so it has to be worth a look...
Black Hawk Down is a terrific telling of a brutal snafu in US military involvement (redundant thought that may sound). Downfall is also excellent despite critics who complained that it portrayed Hitler in an overly sympathetic light (I didn't agree but maybe just me).
It may help to read Mark Bowden's book of the same title. (YMMV of course). The film did a very good job portraying the salient elements of the Battle of Mogadishu covered so well in Bowden's book. My only complaint about the film was that the second helicopter crash was portrayed as having taken place in a fairly large streetscape whereas in the book I recall it being a far narrower street--almost an alley by way of Bowden's description.
As long as we're talking movies, I just got back from 1917. Save your money. The writing was typical Hollywood tripe. (Though the filming and the effects were generally good.)
I agree with you on that... I still haven't watched most of the DVDs I picked up last spring, summer, and fall, but for the prices I bought them for, they were worth buying blindly*... You can't rent a movie for the prices, and if it turns out to be something really good, you then have it for your collection... If you don't like it, you can always re-donate it to the shop from which it came... * Not every DVD I bought was a blind purchase, some of them were movies/TV series I liked in the past so I thought I'd buy them for my collection.
Picked up the (French) Blu-Ray of French Lieutenant’s Woman yesterday (‘La Maitresse Du Lieutenant Francais”), still in shrink-wrapped. £1.00. When I try to play it, I discover it’s bronzed.
It was lousy. And ' Covenant ' wasn't much better. They should just abandon the whole idea of these ' prequels ' being linked to 'Alien' and get on with making some good sci-fi horror with thsee creatures. Who cares if the stories are linked ?
Watched Cowboys & Aliens and enjoyed it a great deal. A really refreshing film, free of cliché. Surprised it wasn’t more popular.
