Lovefilm are trying to make me miserable.
Film // Jim // 2nd August 2006
While I am a big fan of the whole DVD's in the post thing I am starting to worry that Lovefilm are attempting to make me suicidal by only sending the really miserable films on my rental queue. I've got a list of 80-something films, all different sorts of stuff, but for some reason they are trying to keep me on a compete downer. Check out the films they have sent me in the last couple of weeks, to be honest if I wasn't such a naturally happy-go-lucky person (stop laughing at the back) I'd have probably thrown myself off a bridge by now...
The Assasination of Richard Nixon Very good but almost entirely depressing and miserable all the way through, ending is horrible.
21 Grams Dead kids, terminal illness and morbid guilt - admittedly Naomi Watts getting her kit off does enliven proceedings a bit, I am aware of how shallow that sounds.
American Buffalo David Mamet play, adapted for the screen. Gruff, sweary and fairly tragic in the end.
Bus 174 Brazilian documentary about a homeless man hijacking a bus, total nightmare and extremely sobering stuff about the plight of the street people in Rio.
Serpico The old Al Pacino biopic which basically says: The entire Police force in New York is corrupt, don't rock the boat or you might end up shot in the face.
The Conversation Seventies paranoid thriller, the ending is so bleak it hurts.
Dancer In The Dark Compelling and involving but really quite upsetting indeed. The musical interludes just make it worse. Fairly devastating by the end. In short: Hard work.
The Virgin Suicides Stop it, it just isn't funny anymore.
Comments
You’re damn right. We’ve been sent in the last month:
Wolf Creek
Threads (we watched it all Steve without stopping, but it was in the day and yes, it is horrific)
The Ordeal
The warriors (silly but dark and comedy violent)
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Amongst others. Where have my Laurel and Hardy DVD’s gone? I ordered them ages ago.
neil and helen : 03/08/2006 14:53:23
Jesus, I could’ve warned you about The Conversation.
We just watched “The Descent” and “Wolf Creek”, two nights running.
stevepaperjam : 03/08/2006 18:06:05