What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)

I was persuaded to watch this film again before seeing Mother, whenever that comes out on DVD. I am still puzzled by the film but have gone beyond my initial hostility to it as a lame performance of Swan Lake. I think it is now clear that the film itself is a re-enactment of the ballet, which is why the characters have dual names -Nina/Swan Queen; Lily/Black Swan, Leroy/The Gentleman. I think however that the choregrapher Leroy may be viewed as Rothbart who, in the ballet, has cast a spell on Odette who must live as a swan during the day and only revert to being human by night, unless a man declare true love for her in which case the spell will be broken and she will live free again.
The argument may thus be a sort of reversal of the ballet -Nina is a ballet dancer living with her mother and pale and sexually repressed, but is given her 'freedom' to dance the Swan by night. The rival to Odette, Odile, is the black swan who in the ballet is the means whereby Rothbart deceives the prince Siegfried and shatters Odette's hopes of freedom. Because the two swans in the film represent sexual repression and sexual freedom Nina can only dance both roles effectively by imagining herself a destructive agent to get in touch with the 'dark side' of Odile, but takes this so far that she ends up destroying herself.
The source of the ballet has never explained why Rothbart casts a spell on Odette but while there are contrasts to be made between day and night, freedom and oppression, marriage and celibacy, purity and experience, I think the problem is that Aronofsky lacks the skill to pull it off, so there is no subtlety in the film, and maybe all he is saying is that women should liberate themselves and have as much sex as they want or be left on the shelf, repressed and unhappy. It could also claim to argue that the best art emerges from a mix of the positive and the negative, the bright and the dark side of life. It doesn't go much deeper than that, and as for the ballet scenes, they bear such little resemblance to the real thing as to be of secondary importance, not least because at the end of ballet, Siegfried also jumps to his death, but not in this film.

[slave2u]

Max steel - not really worth it, more suited to a TV series.

[Stavros]

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

I have seen one film by Greek director Lanthimos before, Kinetta (2005) -ill-conceived, badly written, and badly acted it looked and sounded like the film a first-year undergraduate might make. Given the relatively positive reviews of his latest film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, I thought I would give him another chance in the hope he has grown up and learned how to make films.

The Lobster succeeds in establishing itself in a dystopian future that doesn't work properly, where people who are single must spend 45 days in a hotel or be turned into the animal of their choice (hence the Lobster, the choice of the main character) and be turned into the wild. The cute twist in the film is that while most in the Hotel struggle to engage with their feelings, when they rebel and go into the wild they find love. There are some amusing moments, but again there are severe problems with the script and the overall theme of the film is superficial and lacking in interest. A diversion of sorts, but a failure. I paid £3.50 for it, and that is as much as it is worth.

[hamdasl]

Maltese Falcon.

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[Torris]

Blade Runner 2049. Done by the same guy who did Arrival. Slow paced st times but the last half hour with Harrison Ford was a great payoff. How they did the effect with Sean Young’s replicant character is beyond me.

Great moody techno soundtrack too

[Fahrenheit451]

Underworld: Blood Wars ... I fell asleep. Always a sign franchise needs to end.

[sukumvit boy]

Blade Runner 2049. Done by the same guy who did Arrival. Slow paced st times but the last half hour with Harrison Ford was a great payoff. How they did the effect with Sean Young’s replicant character is beyond me.

Great moody techno soundtrack too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNKT2StC2c

[slave2u]

John wick - not as high octane as I remember.

[slave2u]

Return of the seven. Not a patch on the original. Yul may look as cool as fuck, he is still pretty wooden.

[slave2u]

'a christmas horror story' - and very good it was. worth it alone for the william shatner segment.

[bryanferryfan2]

Thor Ragnarok

[Vladimir Putin]

"The Last Jedi."

[buttslinger]

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[slave2u]

bright. decent attempt at the urban fantasy genre.

[trish]

Four Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Stars Mildred Hayes (of Fargo fame), Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinkage. There are no purely good guys or purely bad. It’s about people behaving, sometimes badly and sometimes well in their attempts to deal with the shit life has handed them. Best movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. I recommend it highly.

[broncofan]

Four Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Stars Mildred Hayes (of Fargo fame), Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinkage. There are no purely good guys or purely bad. It’s about people behaving, sometimes badly and sometimes well in their attempts to deal with the shit life has handed them. Best movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. I recommend it highly.
I wanted to see it because I like the screenwriter Martin Mcdonagh a lot. His films aren't for everyone but he has an off-beat sensibility. What he does is simply different and often highly entertaining. I'm gonna go see this soon.

[Stavros]

The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, 2016)

Another brilliant film from the director of A Separation (2011) and About Elly (2009). Farhadi works within the limitations imposed on cinema in Iran, but uses this to focus on intense personal dramas, which in this case concerns two actors who have to move into temporary accommodation when their own building suffers structural damage due to construction work next door. Their new apartment contains a secret which exposes fault-lines in Iranian society and the relationship between men and women, but also contains oblique references to the Miller play Death of a Salesman, in which the two actors are appearing at the time, with themes of deception, betrayal and broken illusions threaded through play and film.
Farhadi was banned from entering the USA in 2016 and was therefore unable to collect his Oscar for Foreign Movie in person.

[Cuchulain]

TCM had the classic 'Forbidden Planet on the other night. They also showed the lesser-known 'The Invisible Boy' which also featured Robbie the robot.

[slave2u]

Guardians of the galaxy 2. A jolly romp.

[MrFanti]

'The Last Jedi'

[SusanMichelleBlessington]

The Fog (1980)

[josehip]

2017:

JANEIRO
1 Seven Men from Now 1956 Directed by Budd Boetticher 4/5
2 The Accountant 2016 Directed by Gavin O’Connor 5/5
3 The Birth of a Nation 2016 Directed by Nate Parker 3/5
4 Maggie’s Plan 2015 Directed by Rebecca Miller 4/5
5 Snowden 2016 Directed by Oliver Stone 4/5
6 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 2016 Directed by Edward Zwick 4/5
7 The Girl on the Train 2016 Directed by Tate Taylor 3/5
8 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016 Directed by Michael Bay 4/5
9 Don’t Think Twice 2016 Directed by Mike Birbiglia 5/5
10 Keanu 2016 Directed by Peter Atencio 3/5
11 Justice League Dark 2017 Directed by Jay Oliva 5/5
12 Loving 2016 Directed by Jeff Nichols 4/5
13 American Honey 2016 Directed by Andrea Arnold 5/5
14 Margin Call 2011 Directed by J.C. Chandor 5/5
15 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 2016 Directed by Ang Lee 4/5
16 Pumping Iron 1977 Directed by George Butler, Robert Fiore 3/5

FEVEREIRO
17 Bigger Stronger Faster* Directed by Chris Bell 3/5
18 Arrival 2016 Directed by Denis Villeneuve 5/5
19 Torn Curtain 1966 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 2/5
20 The Boss 2016 Directed by Ben Falcone 2/5
21 Signs 2002 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 3/5
22 Nocturnal Animals 2016 Directed by Tom Ford 5/5
23 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 Directed by Mel Gibson 5/5
24 Manchester by the Sea 2016 Directed by Kenneth Lonergan 2/5
25 Doctor Strange 2016 Directed by Scott Derrickson 3/5
26 Allied 2016 Directed by Robert Zemeckis 2/5
27 Lion 2016 Directed by Garth Davis 3/5
28 Julieta 2016 Directed by Pedro Almodóvar 2/5
29 Things to Come 2016 ‘L'avenir’ Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve 3/5
30 Elle 2016 Directed by Paul Verhoeven 4/5
31 Under the Shadow 2016 ‘??? ????’ Directed by Babak Anvari 3/5
32 The Salesman 2016 ‘???????’ Directed by Asghar Farhad 5/5
33 Jackie 2016 Directed by Pablo Larraín 4/5
34 Fences 2016 Directed by Denzel Washington 4/5
35 San Francisco 1936 Directed by W.S. Van Dyke 5/5
36 20th Century Women 2016 Directed by Mike Mills 4/5
37 La La Land 2016 Directed by Damien Chazelle 2/5
38 Holiday Inn 1942 Directed by Mark Sandrich 3/5
39 Idiot’s Delight 1939 Directed by Clarence Brown 3/5
40 Moonlight 2016 Directed by Barry Jenkins 5/5
41 Ladies in Retirement 1941 Directed by Charles Vidor 4/5
42 Bullets or Ballots 1936 Directed by William Keighley 4/5
43 20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1932 Directed by Michael Curtiz 3/5
44 The Talk of the Town 1942 Directed by George Stevens 3/5

MARÇO
45 Passage to Marseille 1944 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
46 The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 Directed by Sam Wood 4/5
47 Chase a Crooked Shadow 1958 Directed by Michael Anderson 5/5
48 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Directed by Josef von Sternberg 2/5
49 Wife vs. Secretary 1936 Directed by Clarence Brown 4/5
50 Little Women 1933 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
51 Sylvia Scarlett 1935 Directed by George Cukor 4/5
52 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Directed by William Wyler 5/5
53 Daisy Kenyon 1947 Directed by Otto Preminge 4/5
54 Live by Night 2016 Directed by Ben Affleck 3/5
55 Speedy 1928 Directed by Ted Wilde 3/5
56 It’s Always Fair Weather 1955 Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 4/5
57 Miss Sloane 2016 Directed by John Madden 5/5
58 Girl Crazy 1943 Directed by Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley 4/5
59 Broadway Melody of 1940 1940 Directed by Norman Taurog 5/5
60 Has Anybody Seen My Gal? 1952 Directed by Douglas Sirk 5/5
61 Don’t Bother To Knock 1952 Directed by Roy Ward Baker 4/5
62 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 Directed by Gareth Edwards 4/5
63 The Great Wall 2016 Directed by Zhang Yimou 4/5
64 Headshot 2016 Directed by Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto 4/5
65 Safety Last! 1923 Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor 4/5
66 Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin 2017 Directed by Stan Lathan 2/5
67 Hidden Figures 2016 Directed by Theodore Melfi 5/5
68 Paterson 2016 Directed by Jim Jarmusch 5/5
69 The Man Who Never Was 1956 Directed by Ronald Neame 5/5
70 Blithe Spirit 1945 Directed by David Lean 5/5
71 Amy Schumer: The Leather Special 2017 Directed by Amy Schumer 4/5
72 The Skeleton Dance 1929 Directed by Walt Disney 5/5
73 The Mad Doctor 1933 Directed by David Hand 4/5
74 Spooks 1931 Directed by Ub Iwerks 3/5
75 Funny Face 1932 Directed by Ub Iwerks 3/5
76 Kiss Me, Stupid 1964 Directed by Billy Wilder 4/5

ABRIL
77 We’re No Angels 1955 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
78 The Sound of Music 1965 Directed by Robert Wise 5/5
79 A Woman’s Face 1941 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
80 Possessed 1947 Directed by Curtis Bernhardt 4/5
81 Humoresque 1946 Directed by Jean Negulesco 5/5
82 Flamingo Road 1949 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
83 This Woman Is Dangerous 1952 Directed by Felix Feist 4/5
84 Deadline - U.S.A. 1952 Directed by Richard Brooks 5/5
85 Louis C.K. 2017 2017 Directed by Louis C.K. 4/5
86 Split 2016 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5
87 Indiscreet 1958 Directed by Stanley Donen 5/5
88 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Directed by Frank Lloyd 5/5
89 Cimarron 1960 Directed by Anthony Mann 5/5
90 Personal Shopper 2016 Directed by Olivier Assayas 5/5
91 Woman of the Year 1942 Directed by George Stevens 2/5

MAIO
92 Wattstax 1973 Directed by Mel Stuart 5/5
93 Fist Fight 2017 Directed by Richie Keen 3/5
94 Get Out 2017 Directed by Jordan Peele 5/5
95 The Fate of the Furious 2017 Directed by F. Gary Gray 5/5
96 Logan 2017 Directed by James Mangold 4/5
97 Office Christmas Party 2016 Directed by Josh Gordon, Will Speck 2/5
98 Central Intelligence 2016 Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber 3/5
99 John Wick: Chapter 2 2017 Directed by Chad Stahelski 3/5
100 Colossal 2016 Directed by Nacho Vigalondo 4/5
101 PlayTime 1967 Directed by Jacques Tati 2/5

JUNHO
102 Alvarez Kelly 1966 Directed by Edward Dmytryk 4/5
103 The Unfaithful 1947 Directed by Vincent Sherman 4/5
104 Song to Song 2017 Directed by Terence Malick 3/5
105 I Was a Male War Bride 1949 Directed by Howard Hawks 3/5
106 Johnny Guitar 1954 Directed by Nicholas Ray 5/5
107 Nightmare Alley 1947 Directed by Edmund Goulding 4/5
108 Woman on the Run 1950 Directed by Norman Foster 4/5

JULHO
109 Wonder Woman 2017 Directed by Patty Jenkins 4/5
110 House of Strangers 1949 Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz 3/5
111 Ace in the Hole 1951 Directed by Billy Wilder 4/5
112 The 39 Steps 1935 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 5/5
113 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 Directed by David Lynch 4/5
114 The Incredible Jessica James 2017 Directed by Jim Strouse 3/5
115 - Mulholland Drive 2001 Directed by David Lynch 5/5

AGOSTO

116 Alien Covenant 2017 Directed by Ridley Scott 3/5
117 - The Mummy 2017 Directed by Alex Kurtzman 3/5
118 Everything, Everything 2017 Directed by Stella Meghie 4/5
119 In a Heartbeat 2017 Directed by Beth David, Esteban Bravo 5/5
120 Wonder Woman 2017 Directed by Patty Jenkins 5/5
121 Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising 2016 Directed by Nicholas Stoller 3/5
121 Pitch Perfect 2 2015 Directed by Elizabeth Banks 2/5
122 Pitch Perfect 2012 Directed by Jason Moore 3/5
123 Grimsby 2016 Directed by Louis Leterrier 3/5
124 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates 2016 Directed by Jake Szymanski 4/5
125 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 Directed by James Gunn 2/5
126 - Dirty Grandpa 2016 Directed by Dan Mazer 3/5
127 The To Do List 2013 Directed by Maggie Carey 4/5
128 Easy Living 1937 Directed by Mitchell Leisen 3/5
129 - Kong: Skull Island 2017 Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts 4/5
130 - Ghost in the Shell 2017 Directed by Rupert Sanders 2/5
131 - Hands Across the Table 1935 Directed by Mitchell Leisen 3/5
132 - Love Before Breakfast 1936 Directed by Walter Lang 1/5
133 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Directed by Frank Capra 2/5
134 - Possessed 1931 Directed by Clarence Brown 5/5
135 - Libeled Lady 1936 Directed by Jack Conway 5/5
136 Morning Glory 1933 Directed by Lowell Sherman 4/5
137 Kong: Skull Island 2017 Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts 4/5
138 Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 Directed by George B. Seitz 4/5
139 Rough Night 2017 Directed by Lucia Aniello 3/5
140 Batman and Harley Quinn 2017 Directed by Sam Liu 1/5
141 My Cousin Rachel 2017 Directed by Roger Michell 3;5
142 My Cousin Rachel 1952 Directed by Henry Koster 4/5
143 The Secret Six 1931 Directed by George W. Hill 4/5
144 Strange Cargo 1940 Directed by Frank Borzage 4/5
145 Liberty 1929 Directed by Leo McCarey 2/5
146 Suzy 1936 Directed by George Fitzmaurice 5/5
147 Free Fire 2016 Directed by Ben Wheatley 5/5
148 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 Directed by William Keighley 5/5
149 Boom Town 1940 Directed by Jack Conway 4/5
150 Out of Sight 1998 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 4/5
151 The Hitman’s Bodyguard 2017 Directed by Patrick Hughes 4/5
152 The Front Page 1974 Directed by Billy Wilder 1/5
153 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Directed by Tobe Hooper 1/5
154 All This, and Heaven Too 1940 Directed by Anatole Litvak 4/5
155 Three on a Match 1932 Directed by Mervyn LeRoy 5/5

SETEMBRO
156 Fashions of 1934 1934 Directed by William Dieterle 3/5
157 Marked Woman 1937 Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz 5/5
158 Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949 Directed by Busby Berkeley 3/5
159 Battle Royale 2000 Directed by Kinji Fukasaku 5/5
196 Starship Troopers 1997 Directed by Paul Verhoeven 4/5
197 Basic Instinct 1992 Directed by Paul Verhoeven 4/5
198 The Last Seduction 1994 Directed by John Dahl 4/5
199 Red Rock West 1993 Directed by John Dahl 4/5
200 Wonder Woman 2017 Directed by Patty Jenkins 5/5
201 Baby Driver 2017 Directed by Edgar Wright 5/5
202 Shadowless Sword 2005 ‘???’ Directed by Kim Young-jun 5/5
203 Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey 2016 Directed by Terrence Malick 3/5
204 The Room 2003 Directed by Tommy Wiseau 5/5
205 Margaret 2011 Directed by Kenneth Lonergan 5/5
206 Free Fire 2016 Directed by Ben Wheatley 5/5
207 The Little Hours 2017 Directed by Jeff Baena 3/5
208 Keeping Up with the Joneses 2016 Directed by Greg Mottola 3/5
209 Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017 Directed by Jon Watts 2/5
210 The Beguiled 2017 Directed by Sofia Coppola 3/5
211 The Big Sick 2017 Directed by Michael Showalter 4/5
212 The House 2017 Directed by Andrew J. Cohen 4/5
213 A Quiet Passion 2016 Directed by Terence Davies 5/5
214 Lady Macbeth 2016 Directed by William Oldroyd 4/5
215 A Ghost Story 2017 Directed by David Lowery 4/5

OUTUBRO
216 Dinner at Eight 1933 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
217 Girls Trip 2017 Directed by Malcolm D. Lee 4/5
218 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 2011 Directed by Göran Olsson 5/5
219 The Conjuring 2 2016 Directed by James Wan 5/5
220 The Conjuring 2 2016 Directed by James Wan 5/5
221 Una 2016 Directed by Benedict Andrews 3/5
222 Jerry Before Seinfeld 2017 Directed by Michael Bonfiglio 4/5
223 Lust, Caution 2007 ‘???’ Directed by Ang Lee 5/5
224 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 Directed by Matt Reeves 4/5
225 War for the Planet of the Apes 2017 Directed by Matt Reeves 3/5
226 Wind River 2017 Directed by Taylor Sheridan 5/5
227 Atomic Blonde 2017 Directed by David Leitch 4/5
228 The Meyerowitz Stories 2017 Directed by Noah Baumbach 5/5
229 Zodiac 2007 Directed by David Fincher 5/5
230 Ingrid Goes West 2017 Directed by Matt Spicer 4/5
231 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 4/5
232 It 2017 Directed by Andy Muschietti 4/5

NOVEMBRO
233 On the Beach at Night Alone 2017 ‘?? ???? ??’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 5/5
234 The Grandmaster 2013 ‘????’ Directed by Wong Kar-wai 5/5
235 The Evil Dead 1981 Directed by Sam Raimi 2/5
236 Right Now Wrong Then 2015 ‘???????????’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 5/5
237 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon 2013 ‘??? ?? ?? ??’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
238 Good Time 2017 Directed by Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie 5/5
239 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 2000 ‘?! ??’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
240 Blade of the Immortal Directed by Takashi Miike 3/5
241 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017 Directed by Luc Besson 3/5
242 The Lost City of Z 2016 Directed by James Gray 3/5
243 The Day He Arrives 2011 ‘????’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
244 Logan Lucky 2017 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 4/5
245 The Replacement Killers 1998 Directed by Antoine Fuqua 4/5
246 Woodshock 2017 Directed by Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy 4/5
247 American Made 2017 Directed by Doug Liman 2/5
248 Speed Racer 2008 Directed by Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski 5/5
249 The Villainess 2017 ‘??’ Directed by Jung Byung-gil 5/5
250 Ninja Assassin 2009 Directed by James McTeigue 2/5
251 Kingsman: The Golden Circle 2017 Directed by Matthew Vaughn 1/5
252 The Lone Ranger 2013 Directed by Gore Verbinski 4/5

DEZEMBRO
253 Dunkirk 2017 Directed by Christopher Nolan 1/5
254 mother! 2017 Directed by Darren Aronofsky 2/5
255 Columbus 2017 Directed by Kogonada 5/5
256 Bridge of Spies 2015 Directed by Steven Spielberg 2/5
257 Thelma 2017 Directed by Joachim Trier 5/5
258 Okja 2017 Directed by Bong Joon-ho 4/5
259 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos 5/5
260 Nocturama 2016 Directed by Bertrand Bonello 5/5
261 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999 Directed by George Lucas 3/5
262 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 Directed by George Lucas 4/5
263 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 Directed by George Lucas 2/5
264 The Foreigner 2017 Directed by Martin Campbell 4/5
265 Mudbound 2017 Directed by Dee Rees 5/5
256 First They Killed My Father 2017 Directed by Angelina Jolie 5/5
257 Battle of the Sexes 2017 Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris 4/5
258 Justice League 2017 Directed by Zack Snyder 2/5
259 Bright 2017 Directed by David Ayer 2/5
260 The Snowman 2017 Directed by Tomas Alfredson 2/5
261 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016 Directed by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa 3/5
262 Princess Cyd 2017 Directed by Stephen Cone 5/5
263 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Directed by Frank Capra 5/5
264 Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Directed by Ridley Scott 5/5
265 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Directed by Denis Villeneuve 1/5
266 Loveless 2017 ‘????????’ Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev 3/5
267 The Day After 2017 ‘? ?’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 5/5
268 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Directed by Denis Villeneuve 1/5
269 Blade Runner 1982 Directed by Ridley Scott 5/5
270 Patti Cake$ 2017 Directed by Geremy Jasper 5/5
271 Raw 2016 ‘Grave’ Directed by Julia Ducournau 5/5
272 A Fantastic Woman 2017 ‘Una mujer fantástica’ Directed by Sebastián Lelio 5/5
273 Robin Hood 2010 Directed by Ridley Scott 3/5

[josehip]

Sorry

[Stavros]

Sorry

What did you do when you were not watching films? And why would you see The Conjuring (219, 220) twice?

[josehip]

What did you do when you were not watching films? And why would you see The Conjuring (219, 220) twice?

work 9 to 5.
working out (home gym) 6:30 to 8.
1 movie a day before bed.
4-5 movies on weekends.
I watched the conjuring alone and a day after my little brother came and I had to watch with him (I was scared)

[Stavros]

I watched the conjuring alone and a day after my little brother came and I had to watch with him (I was scared)

You were scared by The Conjuring? Seriously?

[josehip]

You were scared by The Conjuring? Seriously?

oops, sorry. HE WAS SCARED. I am a old cat.

[buttslinger]

I remember a time as a kid when every Saturday afternoon was spent at the movies, for a brief period I went up and down every aisle after the show and picked up loose change, I walked out with more money than I walked in with!!
I remember many movies had a great impact on me and my friends.
I haven't seen a movie in quite some time that I didn't forget two seconds after it was over.
Maybe Movie Producers don't shell out their cash to impress old guys. Who remember a time before Multiplexes. And eight dollar popcorn.
I'm pretty sure Movie Theatres make all their money at the concession stand.
I will give a shout out to Brawl in Cell Block 99 just because it was so different. BRIGHT and even BLADERUNNER 2049 I felt like I had seen a hundred times before.

[broncofan]

work 9 to 5.
working out (home gym) 6:30 to 8.
1 movie a day before bed.
4-5 movies on weekends.
I watched the conjuring alone and a day after my little brother came and I had to watch with him (I was scared)
It's certainly doable. The hard part is finding movies you're motivated to see. I was watching a movie a night a few years ago but then I found it would take me a half hour or more to find something I wanted to see.

An interesting list. I agree with quite a few of your ratings. I liked Wind River and I also liked Good Time, though the latter not enough for five. I was a bit surprised by how poorly Bridge of Spies did on your list, since you have it rated lower than John Wick. Maybe you were disappointed by Bridge of Spies but thought Wick wasn't bad given what is was billed as?? I mean I had fun watching John Wick,,,,but at the same time there were about three or four times during the movie where I thought "wow this sucks, pretend it doesn't suck."

[josehip]

It's certainly doable. The hard part is finding movies you're motivated to see. I was watching a movie a night a few years ago but then I found it would take me a half hour or more to find something I wanted to see.

An interesting list. I agree with quite a few of your ratings. I liked Wind River and I also liked Good Time, though the latter not enough for five. I was a bit surprised by how poorly Bridge of Spies did on your list, since you have it rated lower than John Wick. Maybe you were disappointed by Bridge of Spies but thought Wick wasn't bad given what is was billed as?? I mean I had fun watching John Wick,,,,but at the same time there were about three or four times during the movie where I thought "wow this sucks, pretend it doesn't suck."

"then I found it would take me a half hour or more to find something I wanted to see." <--- Yeah, I am just like that. To me this is the worst part.
I love good time, but I am prob bias because I dig the way they direct their movies - Heavens Know What was a hard, very abrasive movie. And Good Time I love because of the soundtrack, Rob Pattinson (check The Lost City of Z, Map to The Stars, and The Rover, if you have not seen them yet.) and it's an intense nightmare that keeps getting more claustrophobic. The film literally does not breathe between scenes.
and Birdge of Spies, man... I don't know. Usually I am not a Spielberg kind of a guy. There's something about that movie that did not got me. Spielberg is not usually a subtle guy when it comes to sentimentality (the horrible scene comes to mind in the end when he's coming back to the US and Spielberg not only shows a scene with a wall, but also puts kids jumping over the wall in a pretty rhyme cliché with the scene that shows a wall in the middle of the film. That's why.
And John Wick, I love the first one, but the new one was kinda silly IMO.

[broncofan]

and Birdge of Spies, man... I don't know. Usually I am not a Spielberg kind of a guy. There's something about that movie that did not got me. Spielberg is not usually a subtle guy when it comes to sentimentality (the horrible scene comes to mind in the end when he's coming back to the US and Spielberg not only shows a scene with a wall, but also puts kids jumping over the wall in a pretty rhyme cliché with the scene that shows a wall in the middle of the film. That's why.
I understand what you mean. Even in his best movies he lays it on way too thick with the sentimentality, like he needs to editorialize an important moment instead of just letting the viewer get it him or herself. The soundtrack of Good Time was good and the movie (I might watch it again), and I also liked the soundtrack of Atomic Blonde but not the movie so much. Thanks for the list..I will look at a few of them soon.

[josehip]

I understand what you mean. Even in his best movies he lays it on way too thick with the sentimentality, like he needs to editorialize an important moment instead of just letting the viewer get it him or herself. The soundtrack of Good Time was good and the movie (I might watch it again), and I also liked the soundtrack of Atomic Blonde but not the movie so much. Thanks for the list..I will look at a few of them soon.

yeah, Atomic blonde was a nice ride. In a perfect world a crossover with John Wick and Lorraine would be nice to watch.

To be honest I am 'old hollywood movie guy'. I pretty much watch more movies from 30's to 55's-ish, even tho those movies are pretty terrible with race and gender.
Do you have a top 10 list of favorite movies of last year? If so, please share.

[broncofan]

yeah, Atomic blonde was a nice ride. In a perfect world a crossover with John Wick and Lorraine would be nice to watch.

To be honest I am 'old hollywood movie guy'. I pretty much watch more movies from 30's to 55's-ish, even tho those movies are pretty terrible with race and gender.
Do you have a top 10 list of favorite movies of last year? If so, please share.
To be honest, I only watched a handful of movies last year. I've gotten back into reading fiction, mostly pulp fiction authors of 40-50 years ago. But when I watched older hollywood movies I tend to enjoy film noir. Double Indemnity, The Killing, Touch of Evil, Out of the Past. In fact, I probably want to revisit some of those.

[Torris]

Molly’s Game. Love poker movies

[rodinuk]

Two rather different sorts of sci-fi movie!!


Coneheads - a total chuckle from start to finish, light-hearted relief from the everyday with great performances from Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin

Valerian - the first ten minutes are superb but by the end I felt the graphics and fashion design had got a bit too much along with the many nods to other sci-fi classics and his past offerings but enjoyable nonetheless.

[josehip]

Molly’s Game. Love poker movies

I need that one. Sorkin's dialogue is always flames. And Jessica Chastain is a goddess

[josehip]

To be honest, I only watched a handful of movies last year. I've gotten back into reading fiction, mostly pulp fiction authors of 40-50 years ago. But when I watched older hollywood movies I tend to enjoy film noir. Double Indemnity, The Killing, Touch of Evil, Out of the Past. In fact, I probably want to revisit some of those.

I miss rewatch those. Barbara is flames in Billy Wilder's hands, and Touch of Evil (the directors cut) é my favorite Noir of all time. (tho my favorite Orson Welles' movie is Magnificent Ambersons.

Speaking about Noir movies, love watch some B-noirs, You know? You can find real masterpieces of trully overlooked movies from that genre. Some exemples if you allow me to say: The Letter (Bette Davis, directed by Wyler), They Drive by Night (Bogart, Raft, Ann Sheridan and Ida Lupino. Directed by Raoul Walsh), Ladies in Retirement (Ida Lupino, tho this is more like a victorian gothic tale), The Glass Key and This Gun For Hire (Both with Veronica Lake and Allan Ladd), Fallen Angel (with the great Dana Andrews), The Spiral Staircase (Brent), Dragowyck (Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and Vincent Price. directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Crossfire (with Gloria Grahame), Dark Passage (with Bogart and Bacall), The Big Clock (Charles Laughton), and FINALLY Flamingo Road (with Joan Crawford)

Sorry Abt the long ass text.

[buttslinger]

..Touch of Evil (the directors cut)... This Gun For Hire (Both with Veronica Lake and Allan Ladd), Dark Passage (with Bogart and Bacall), ....

Kiss me Deadly
DOA
The Night of the Hunter
The Naked City
The Asphalt Jungle
The Killers
I watch my "cinema" on my desktop 25 inch monitor, I guess if I had a 70 inch flatscreen I might see things differently when I watch a new movie.
I pretty much agree with the ratings of the critics, but I give sci-fi and horror an extra 10 percent.
Many of josehip's movies I have never heard of.

[josehip]

Kiss me Deadly
DOA
The Night of the Hunter
The Naked City
The Asphalt Jungle
The Killers
I watch my "cinema" on my desktop 25 inch monitor, I guess if I had a 70 inch flatscreen I might see things differently when I watch a new movie.
I pretty much agree with the ratings of the critics, but I give sci-fi and horror an extra 10 percent.
Many of josehip's movies I have never heard of.

those are pretty much A++ classics. I was think more like B or even C-noirs.

[Cerberus]

Cell Block 99. Never seen Vince Vaughn in that kinda role before.

[buttslinger]

those are pretty much A++ classics. I was think more like B or even C-noirs.

I am a bit timid about listing some odd film that I really like, because people might actually go rent the thing and odds are they'll agree with the majority of people that it's a stinker. When I post music, I know at best people are just going to sample a taste. If every critic says that a movie is a B or C, I usually agree.
But yeah, when you find a little jewel nobody else knows about, that makes it special.
There's a movie called "The Thirteenth Floor" about a Mega-Computer Project that transports passengers back to a virtual 1937 Los Angeles in a super-real video game, of course, it doesn't turn out well. The black and white film medium was perfect for noir.

[Stavros]

Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017)

About half-way through this film I asked myself, what is this film about and who is it made for? We know Churchill was the greatest man of the day, he told us so himself, and there is no shortage of book after book after book that repeats his self-invented greatness. It is true that he became aware the of the threat posed by Hitler in the early 1930s as did Clement Attlee and both had accepted by the time of the Anschluss in 1938 that war was inevitable, and it is true that he made some remarkable speeches during the war.
It is also the case that Attlee supported Churchill as a replacement for Chamberlain, but did not give the speech in the Commons that opens the film, in fact Chamberlain's nemesis was on his own side, the MP Leo Amery who is remembered for the invocation to the Prime Minister at the height of the crisis in Norway (a campaign supported by Churchill) 'In the name of God, go!
Again, because Attlee had a superior war record in France Churchill was always respectful to him, which is why the remark Churchill makes of Attlee 'a sheep in sheep's clothing' has never been verified and is probably not Churchill's.

The problem with the film is that is takes place at a time when Brexit Britain is about to embark on a journey without a map and without knowing its destination. The leader who created this mess, David Cameron, has been replaced by a dull, uninspiring woman who almost lost the election she was supposed to win with a landslide.

This may not be the UK's 'darkest hour', but the film presents itself as a hymn to some mythical spirit of the plucky Brits succeeding when all is against them, and as such can be dismissed as Brexit propaganda.

The acting in the film is average, the script is decent with one brilliant line at the end from Halifax, most of the film is shot in semi-darkness, some scenes, such as that on the Underground are made up. I think it is worth 3/10 for effort. And I only saw it in the cinema because on a Monday they charge £3.99 a ticket and as the cinema was half-empty I sat in the VIP seat at the back in the middle.

For those interested in what the film gets right and wrong, there is an informative overview here-
http://www.slate.com/culture/2018/01/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2018-sag-awards.html

[slave2u]

john wick 2 - pretty much the same as 1, but that was why i was watching it. sets up 3.

now you see me 2. just because it was there. the set pieces are elaborate and nonsense. whole film is nonsense - but to a level that makes you go whaaaat?

[bryanferryfan2]

The Last Jedi. I loved it !

[Stavros]

Mother! (Darren Arronofsky, 2017)

More a case of Oh Dear! rather than Auteur! But let's face it, if you want pretentious rubbish, Aronofsky is the main man. A waste of Jennifer Lawrence. Even if I were to explain the movie, it would not be worth watching. Hard to believe they spent three months in a warehouse in Brooklyn working on the 'script' if that is what it is called. Maybe they spent three months trying to work out what Aronofsky wanted to say and reached an agreement to go with what they had even though nobody knew what it was. There is a claim by some that this is a 'horror' movie but the only horrifying thing is the money it cost to make.
The homeless deserve more.

[slave2u]

Acts of vengeance - Antonio banderas does a philosophical version of death wish, which is neither as bad or as good as that sounds.

[josehip]

so, just for the funsies I will post the movies I watched over the year and the rattings here. Feel free to talk shit, learn about new films that maybe you never knew about, or just call my an asshole because I hated your favorite movie, or loved a movie you hate.

(oh, and a top 5 of favorite movies seen for the first time each month in BOLD)

JANUARY

1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Directed by Lewis Milestone 5/5
2 Call Northside 777 1948 Directed by Henry Hathaway 4/5
3 Wonderstruck 2017 Directed by Todd Haynes 5/5
4 Topper 1937 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod 4/5
5 Notting Hill 1999 Directed by Roger Michell 5/5
6 Oz: The Great and Powerful 2013 Directed by Sam Raimi 4/5
7 Take This Waltz 2011 Directed by Sarah Polley 5/5
8 Terror by Night 1946 Directed by Roy William Neill 3/5
9 Merrily We Go to Hell 1932 Directed by Dorothy Arzner 3/5
10 Dick 1999 Directed by Andrew Fleming 3/5
11 Christine 2016 Directed by Antonio Campos 5/5
12 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Directed by Guy Hamilton 3/5
13 Victor/Victoria 1982 Directed by Blake Edwards 4/5
14 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Directed by Taika Waititi 4/5
15 That One Day 2016 Directed by Crystal Moselle 5/5
16 What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Directed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi 2/5
17 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Directed by John Huston 3/5
18 The Limey 1999 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
19 Frontier Marshal 1939 Directed by Allan Dwan 3/5
20 The Girlfriend Experience 2009 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
21 The Florida Project 2017 Directed by Sean Baker 2/5
22 Hour of the Gun 1967 Directed by John Sturges 3/5

FEBRUARY
23 Lady in the Water 2006 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 4/5

[youngblood61]

Blade Runner 2049, it was ok.

[smalltownguy]

Taken 3 is 2014 english language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert

[fab]

https://e3.365dm.com/18/01/1096x616/skynews-vicky-krieps_4217406.jpg?20180129132043 (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwji5I_7wInZAhUlJsAKHb0ACqEQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fphantom-thread-co-star-vicky-krieps-american-society-is-numb-11227744&psig=AOvVaw3qMmgt1nOovrt6uYsuXwLh&ust=1517739090936107)

[slave2u]

first kill - bruce willis. part of that group of films where bruce is providing the star name to get the finance for the movie. not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
it is ok.

[correoelx]

Jus watched A Fantastic Woman, a beautiful story about a transwoman in Chile.

[smalltownguy]

Jus watched A Fantastic Woman, a beautiful story about a transwoman in Chile.

nice movie ..but hard to find in english

[holzz]

Dunkirk. Shit, compared to many other WWII movies.

[josehip]

nice movie ..but hard to find in english

how about subtitles? woah

[smalltownguy]

how about subtitles? woah

yeah i see subtitles in english ..but while watching movie i should focus on enjoying it not reading subtitles...:wiggle:

[josehip]

yeah i see subtitles in english ..but while watching movie i should focus on enjoying it not reading subtitles...:wiggle:

damn can't you do both at the same time? at some point both things turn into one. I am from brazil and I watch foreign movies with subs since I was a kid. Is something very natural over here.

[trish]

The Post: Even though I knew the story, I found it tense, suspenseful and moving.

Hostiles: a story of the American west in 1892. Horrifying and monotone in its grim depiction of emotional and moral reality.

[smalltownguy]

damn can't you do both at the same time? at some point both things turn into one. I am from brazil and I watch foreign movies with subs since I was a kid. Is something very natural over here.

hahha! ..letme start trying doing both..👍

[slave2u]

running man. pretty much of its time. love the fact that three of the stalkers are fat blokes.
despite the message - it is a very throwaway film, but still better than the last couple of arnie vehicles.

[pantybulge69]

Goodfellas, an ole school martin Schorhese Mob classic !

[Stavros]

Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)

I missed this film on its release in the UK in 2016 and so watched it on tv last night. It is in almost every respect a sensitive and well-written film with an astonishing performance from Jacob Tremblay as the boy who at the age of 5 has never stepped outside the shed in which he and his mother are held captive. The film is in two parts, their life in the shed and the life outside, both of which are problematic and traumatic for both. The central weakness to me was the character of 'Old Nick' who imprisons a teenager he raped and the child she then bore. From what we know of other incarcerations, he seems to me too bland to be true, I would expect a significantly more aggressive, even violent man using the threat of violence to extract obedience as well as sexual favours. Nevertheless, this aside, the film has some well observed moments, the most poignant being the farewell to the shed at the end.

[slave2u]

sin city - a dame to kill for.
not as slick or as polished as the original. reminds you how good the original was.
at least it is not as bad as 'the spirit'.

[william.howl]

The Post. Excellent movie.

[Stavros]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)

With such a fine roster of actors, it is hard to know what the purpose is of this dreary confusion of a film. The basic premise that a grieving mother has a moral purpose in renting three advertising billboards is repeatedly undermined by her actions throughout the film as far as its dud conclusion, a conclusion that is as lost as the film, which begins with a conventional drive but loses its way until it has no sense of direction at all.
Along the way all but one of the major character also finds themselves morally compromised, and in the case of the one who seeks redemption, his actual disregard for morality and the law makes his conversion irrelevant, if not hypocritical. It could be that this is just another tedious film about that 'other America' -some describe it as 'flyover' America- where even the cops have no interest in the rule of law, but if so then this film, actually filmed in North Carolina, has no real connection to the Missouri that was at the apex of the fur trapping that did so much to open up the northern area of what is now the US and Canada to trade, in the process undermining the lives of the first nations that populated the area who subsequently saw their lives ebbing away to sustained violence and greed.
The film wins awards, but is a flop as it cannot answer its own moral questions, as we never really know if the film attacks anarchy, or recommends it.

[josehip]

so, just for the funsies I will post the movies I watched over the year and the rattings here. Feel free to talk shit, learn about new films that maybe you never knew about, or just call my an asshole because I hated your favorite movie, or loved a movie you hate.

(oh, and a top 5 of favorite movies seen for the first time each month in BOLD)

JANUARY

1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Directed by Lewis Milestone 5/5
2 Call Northside 777 1948 Directed by Henry Hathaway 4/5
3 Wonderstruck 2017 Directed by Todd Haynes 5/5
4 Topper 1937 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod 4/5
5 Notting Hill 1999 Directed by Roger Michell 5/5
6 Oz: The Great and Powerful 2013 Directed by Sam Raimi 4/5
7 Take This Waltz 2011 Directed by Sarah Polley 5/5
8 Terror by Night 1946 Directed by Roy William Neill 3/5
9 Merrily We Go to Hell 1932 Directed by Dorothy Arzner 3/5
10 Dick 1999 Directed by Andrew Fleming 3/5
11 Christine 2016 Directed by Antonio Campos 5/5
12 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Directed by Guy Hamilton 3/5
13 Victor/Victoria 1982 Directed by Blake Edwards 4/5
14 Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Directed by Taika Waititi 4/5
15 That One Day 2016 Directed by Crystal Moselle 5/5
16 What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Directed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi 2/5
17 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Directed by John Huston 3/5
18 The Limey 1999 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
19 Frontier Marshal 1939 Directed by Allan Dwan 3/5
20 The Girlfriend Experience 2009 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 3/5
21 The Florida Project 2017 Directed by Sean Baker 2/5
22 Hour of the Gun 1967 Directed by John Sturges 3/5

FEBRUARY
23 Lady in the Water 2006 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 4/5

CONT: FEBRUARY
24 Wyatt Earp 1994 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan 5/5
25 ‎The Cloverfield Paradox 2018 directed by Julius Onah 4/5
26 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 Directed by Dan Trachtenberg 4/5
27 Darkest Hour 2017 Directed by Joe Wright 3/5
28 Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2018 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
29 Seventeen Ninja 1963 ‘十七人の忍者’ Directed by Yasuto Hasegawa 3/5
30 The Empire of Desire 1981 ‘O Império do Desejo’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 5/5
31 A Frente Fria Que a Chuva Traz 2016 Directed by Neville de Almeida 5/5
32 ‘L'amant d'un jour’ 2017 Directed by Philippe Garrel 4/5
33 The Isle of Forbidden Pleasures 1979 ‘A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 2/5
34 Lady Bird 2017 Directed by Greta Gerwig 2/5
35 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Directed by Martin McDonagh 5/5
36 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
37 Viridiana 1961 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
38 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
39 Marie Antoinette 2006 Directed by Sofia Coppola 3/5
40 The Disaster Artist 2017 Directed by James Franco 5/5
41 ‘Le Redoutable’ 2017 Directed by Michel Hazanavicius 5/5
42 Wonder Wheel 2017 Directed by Woody Allen 2/5
43 Mechanic: Resurrection 2016 Directed by Dennis Gansel 2/5
44 The Death of Stalin 2017 Directed by Armando Iannucci 3/5
45 The Mechanic 1972 Directed by Michael Winner 3/5
46 The Mechanic 2011 Directed by Simon West 3/5
47 Mute 2018 Directed by Duncan Jones 1/5

[sukumvit boy]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh 2017)

With such a fine roster of actors, it is hard to know what the purpose is of this dreary confusion of a film. The basic premise that a grieving mother has a moral purpose in renting three advertising billboards is repeatedly undermined by her actions throughout the film as far as its dud conclusion, a conclusion that is as lost as the film, which begins with a conventional drive but loses its way until it has no sense of direction at all.
Along the way all but one of the major character also finds themselves morally compromised, and in the case of the one who seeks redemption, his actual disregard for morality and the law makes his conversion irrelevant, if not hypocritical. It could be that this is just another tedious film about that 'other America' -some describe it as 'flyover' America- where even the cops have no interest in the rule of law, but if so then this film, actually filmed in North Carolina, has no real connection to the Missouri that was at the apex of the fur trapping that did so much to open up the northern area of what is now the US and Canada to trade, in the process undermining the lives of the first nations that populated the area who subsequently saw their lives ebbing away to sustained violence and greed.
The film wins awards, but is a flop as it cannot answer its own moral questions, as we never really know if the film attacks anarchy, or recommends it.
Frances McDormand is simply amazing, as usual. But I think you are right about the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefD7UOhLCo

[Karev]

Dunkirk

[Cerberus]

Renegades.

Okay with a beer a snacks.
I watched a lot worse.

[slave2u]

zombisaurus - aka jurassic dead.
as good as the title suggests.

[Fahrenheit451]

I, Tonya ... wasn't at all bad.

[slave2u]

'the mummy' (2017) not the car crash i was led to believe it would be. some of the comedy sits awkwardly with the action, there isn't as much horror as you would expect.
it did set some ground work for the dark universe - but perhaps they should have revealed the extended universe concept after 'the mummy' had played out.
i think i would've liked a darker ending.

mr. crowe seemed to enjoy his role as henry jekyll.

[BlüeKarma]

Downsizing
Molly's Game
Mute

[fab]

http://img.youtube.com/vi/vwEGx6_iliI/0.jpg (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiP4b6E4s_ZAhWmCMAKHScVApMQjRx6BAgAEAY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxmovies.com%2Fmovies%2Fthe-revenant&psig=AOvVaw0tTqjwRV61D88Rfi-_xXLm&ust=1520153170075050)

Outstanding

[josehip]

Downsizing
Molly's Game
Mute

need to check both molly and the alexander payne flic. Mute was a huge piece of crap.

[joesocalif]

I haven’t watched it yet, but I tried like hell to find “Samurai Cat”. From what I have seen from the trailer, the movie is a must see.

[slave2u]

don't kill it - a dolph lundgren sf/horror gorefest throwback.
not to be taken seriously and quite enjoyable in a cheesy way.

[josehip]

CONT: FEBRUARY
24 Wyatt Earp 1994 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan 5/5
25 ‎The Cloverfield Paradox 2018 directed by Julius Onah 4/5
26 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 Directed by Dan Trachtenberg 4/5
27 Darkest Hour 2017 Directed by Joe Wright 3/5
28 Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2018 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
29 Seventeen Ninja 1963 ‘十七人の忍者’ Directed by Yasuto Hasegawa 3/5
30 The Empire of Desire 1981 ‘O Império do Desejo’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 5/5
31 A Frente Fria Que a Chuva Traz 2016 Directed by Neville de Almeida 5/5
32 ‘L'amant d'un jour’ 2017 Directed by Philippe Garrel 4/5
33 The Isle of Forbidden Pleasures 1979 ‘A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos’ Directed by Carlos Reichenbach 2/5
34 Lady Bird 2017 Directed by Greta Gerwig 2/5
35 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Directed by Martin McDonagh 5/5
36 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
37 Viridiana 1961 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
38 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
39 Marie Antoinette 2006 Directed by Sofia Coppola 3/5
40 The Disaster Artist 2017 Directed by James Franco 5/5
41 ‘Le Redoutable’ 2017 Directed by Michel Hazanavicius 5/5
42 Wonder Wheel 2017 Directed by Woody Allen 2/5
43 Mechanic: Resurrection 2016 Directed by Dennis Gansel 2/5
44 The Death of Stalin 2017 Directed by Armando Iannucci 3/5
45 The Mechanic 1972 Directed by Michael Winner 3/5
46 The Mechanic 2011 Directed by Simon West 3/5
47 Mute 2018 Directed by Duncan Jones 1/5

cont:
48 The Shape of Water 2017 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 5/5
49 The Square 2017 Directed by Ruben Östlund 5/5
MARCH
50 Assassins 1995 Directed by Richard Donner 4/5
51 Hellboy 2004 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5

[slave2u]

kill command - a decent sf actoiner with the message of ai is bad for us.

[josehip]

cont:
48 The Shape of Water 2017 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 5/5
49 The Square 2017 Directed by Ruben Östlund 5/5
MARCH
50 Assassins 1995 Directed by Richard Donner 4/5
51 Hellboy 2004 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5

cont
52 Hellboy Golden Army 2008 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5
53 Blade 1998 Directed by Stephen Norrington 4/5

[slave2u]

patriot (aka rising fear) - give it a miss

[slave2u]

scouts guide to the zombie apocalypse.
entertaining.

[slave2u]

bushwick - interesting idea, oddly executed.not what i was expecting, slightly disappointed.

[BlüeKarma]

I just watched the Shape of Water... I haven't stopped crying yet.

[josehip]

I just watched the Shape of Water... I haven't stopped crying yet.

when that black and white dancing scene started my heart stopped.
Plus is a even more important piece of art of its time because is a movie with a gang of outsiders heroes (a black -and fat- woman, a mute woman, a gay and a communist against a white hetero cis trash, racist, homophobic who loves guns).
So is basic all minorities taking a huge dump on the orange president.

[slave2u]

Death wish 2

[josehip]

cont
52 Hellboy Golden Army 2008 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 4/5
53 Blade 1998 Directed by Stephen Norrington 4/5

cont
54 Blade II 2002 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 3/5
55 Downsizing 2017 Directed by Alexander Payne 4/5
56 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Directed by Jake Kasdan 4/5
57 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 Directed by Rian Johnson 5/5
58 Annihilation 2018 Directed by Alex Garland 5/5

[slave2u]

quigley down under.
tom selleck - showing his star quality, that never really took off on the big screen. alan rickman's turn as the bad guy going from menacing to camp and back again (think sherriff hans gruber).

[josehip]

cont
54 Blade II 2002 Directed by Guillermo del Toro 3/5
55 Downsizing 2017 Directed by Alexander Payne 4/5
56 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Directed by Jake Kasdan 4/5
57 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 Directed by Rian Johnson 5/5
58 Annihilation 2018 Directed by Alex Garland 5/5

cont
59 Annihilation 2018 Directed by Alex Garland 5/5 (again!) WHAT A MOVIE!

[BlüeKarma]

Jumanji 2, Dwayne Johnson is so awesome, in anything.

[josehip]

Jumanji 2, Dwayne Johnson is so awesome, in anything.

that is a funny movie indeed. Hes awesome, kevin hart too. But my surprise was jack black; I'm not a fan, but he is so funny.

[Redballs]

Red Sparrow. JLaw shows her titties. Nice.

[josehip]

Red Sparrow. JLaw shows her titties. Nice.

ugh.
that woman is the worst!

[Stavros]

Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)

As you would expect for a sum of around $200 million, Black Panther is a visually stunning film. It is also the latest tedious example of the fascist garbage that Hollywood has been producing since Birth of a Nation in 1915. That this is a confused film becomes evident when one encounters the African Kingdom of Wakanda, part of it comprised of semi-nomadic herders, part of it the most advanced modern state in history due to a precious mineral called Vibranium. If this is not a contradiction, then the proposition that this is the most advanced society in the world that selects its rulers by armed combat seems to confirm it as such.

But the point of these and the Marvel franchise is to ridicule democracy and the rule of law, and replace it with some form of hero-worship based on violence as power. In our real world, heroes and heroines are usually people who put their life at risk -may even sacrifice it- to save others, but who do so at the time because they believe it is the best thing to do, and if they survive ask for no reward. The 'Super-Hero' not only has physical powers endowed by magic or a special metal, they appear either as a Messiah figure who will save the world from destruction, or as a Fuhrer who will lead his people to a new and successful time. Crucially, the enemy is destroyed with violence, because democracy is a feeble form of rule, whereas Monarchy is wise, virtuous and endures -unless of course the monarch is greedy and over-ambitious. But that is not supposed to happen in the advanced Kingdom of Wakanda though it does, and can you believe that in his utterly phoney 'Black Power' extravaganza, the man who prevents the Vibranium from being exported to destroy London, New York and Hong Kong is not only a Cracker, but a CIA Cracker? But the film is crackers, with its ridiculous African chants, its bizarre sets that fuse Game of Thrones with Blade Runner and Star Wars. And the only other white guy of importance is a villain with a Suffafrican accent, get it?

On the other hand, there is Letitia Wright, who can visit me anytime, even if this thin damsel is in need of pizza and ice cream, and rather a lot of my domestic vibranium.

[blackchubby38]

Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)

As you would expect for a sum of around $200 million, Black Panther is a visually stunning film. It is also the latest tedious example of the fascist garbage that Hollywood has been producing since Birth of a Nation in 1915. That this is a confused film becomes evident when one encounters the African Kingdom of Wakanda, part of it comprised of semi-nomadic herders, part of it the most advanced modern state in history due to a precious mineral called Vibranium. If this is not a contradiction, then the proposition that this is the most advanced society in the world that selects its rulers by armed combat seems to confirm it as such.

But the point of these and the Marvel franchise is to ridicule democracy and the rule of law, and replace it with some form of hero-worship based on violence as power. In our real world, heroes and heroines are usually people who put their life at risk -may even sacrifice it- to save others, but who do so at the time because they believe it is the best thing to do, and if they survive ask for no reward. The 'Super-Hero' not only has physical powers endowed by magic or a special metal, they appear either as a Messiah figure who will save the world from destruction, or as a Fuhrer who will lead his people to a new and successful time. Crucially, the enemy is destroyed with violence, because democracy is a feeble form of rule, whereas Monarchy is wise, virtuous and endures -unless of course the monarch is greedy and over-ambitious. But that is not supposed to happen in the advanced Kingdom of Wakanda though it does, and can you believe that in his utterly phoney 'Black Power' extravaganza, the man who prevents the Vibranium from being exported to destroy London, New York and Hong Kong is not only a Cracker, but a CIA Cracker? But the film is crackers, with its ridiculous African chants, its bizarre sets that fuse Game of Thrones with Blade Runner and Star Wars. And the only other white guy of importance is a villain with a Suffafrican accent, get it?

On the other hand, there is Letitia Wright, who can visit me anytime, even if this thin damsel is in need of pizza and ice cream, and rather a lot of my domestic vibranium.

Or on the other hand, its just a comic book movie.

[slave2u]

Annihilation - pretentious drivel. Not sure who was more bored me or the leads, who mostly phoned their performances in.

So I thought I'd follow it by some mindless fun, ended up with terminus which turned out to be quite dull to.

[josehip]

cont
59 Annihilation 2018 Directed by Alex Garland 5/5 (again!) WHAT A MOVIE!

cont
60 Paddington 2014 Directed by Paul King 5/5
61 The Paradine Case 1947 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 3/5
62 The Law and Jake Wade 1958 Directed by John Sturges 4/5
63 Fighting Man of the Plains 1949 Directed by Edwin L. Marin 4/5
64 78/52 2017 Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe 4/5
65 Of Human Bondage 1934 Directed by John Cromwell 5/5
66 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Directed by Otto Preminger 5/5

[josehip]

cont
60 Paddington 2014 Directed by Paul King 5/5
61 The Paradine Case 1947 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 3/5
62 The Law and Jake Wade 1958 Directed by John Sturges 4/5
63 Fighting Man of the Plains 1949 Directed by Edwin L. Marin 4/5
64 78/52 2017 Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe 4/5
65 Of Human Bondage 1934 Directed by John Cromwell 5/5
66 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Directed by Otto Preminger 5/5

cont
67 The Greatest Showman 2017 Directed by Michael Gracey 5/5
68 Along Came Jones 1945 Directed by Stuart Heisler 5/5
69 Chainsaw 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 1/5
70 SENTiNEL 2017 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
71 Ghost House 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 1/5
72 High Fall 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
73 Bar Brawl 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 4/5
74 Foot Chase 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
75 Hall Fight 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 3/5
78 All The Money in The World 2017 Directed by Ridley Scott 5/5
77 The Farmer’s Daughter 1947 Directed by H. C. Potter 5/5
78 The Quiet Man 1952 Directed by John Ford 2/5

[josehip]

cont
67 The Greatest Showman 2017 Directed by Michael Gracey 5/5
68 Along Came Jones 1945 Directed by Stuart Heisler 5/5
69 Chainsaw 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 1/5
70 SENTiNEL 2017 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
71 Ghost House 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 1/5
72 High Fall 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
73 Bar Brawl 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 4/5
74 Foot Chase 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 2/5
75 Hall Fight 2016 Directed by Ryan Connolly 3/5
78 All The Money in The World 2017 Directed by Ridley Scott 5/5
77 The Farmer’s Daughter 1947 Directed by H. C. Potter 5/5
78 The Quiet Man 1952 Directed by John Ford 2/5

cont

79 Albuquerque 1948 Directed by Ray Enright 4/5
80 The Big Combo 1955 Directed by Joseph H. Lewis 5/5
81 Sleep, My Love 1948 Directed by Douglas Sirk 5/5
82 St. Martin’s Lane 1938 Directed by Tim Whelan 5/5
83 When the Daltons Rode 1940 Directed by George Marshall 5/5
84 Dishonored Lady 1947 Directed by Robert Stevenson 3/5
85 Woman Chases Man 1937 Directed by John G. Blystone 5/5
86 The Old Dark House 1932 Directed by James Whale 3/5
86 Phantom Thread 2017 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 3/5
87 The Strange Woman 1946 Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 5/5

[Anon011212]

Or on the other hand, its just a comic book movie.

I hated how it became something more than a comic book movie.

[josehip]

I hated how it became something more than a comic book movie.

this is stupid. every comic book, like any piece of art, is a political act of the era. comics were never JUST A COMIC BOOK.

[Stavros]

Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

I 'get' the race angles, but this is like most so-called 'horror movies' - anything but. Apart from not seeing the point of being scared when I see a film, there are several plot holes one of which is crucial to the development of the plot but is plain daft. I rate it 4/10.

[tgirllover1]

glengarry glen ross

[josehip]

cont

79 Albuquerque 1948 Directed by Ray Enright 4/5
80 The Big Combo 1955 Directed by Joseph H. Lewis 5/5
81 Sleep, My Love 1948 Directed by Douglas Sirk 5/5
82 St. Martin’s Lane 1938 Directed by Tim Whelan 5/5
83 When the Daltons Rode 1940 Directed by George Marshall 5/5
84 Dishonored Lady 1947 Directed by Robert Stevenson 3/5
85 Woman Chases Man 1937 Directed by John G. Blystone 5/5
86 The Old Dark House 1932 Directed by James Whale 3/5
86 Phantom Thread 2017 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 3/5
87 The Strange Woman 1946 Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 5/5

Cont

88 Molly's Game 2017 Aaron Sorkin 3/5
89 The Dark Mirror 1946 Robert Siodmak 5/5
90 He Walked by Night 1948 Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann 3/5
91 My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 Directed by Joseph H. Lewis 3/5
92 A Stolen Life 1946 Directed by Curtis Bernhardt 4/5

APRIL
93 Kansas City Confidential 1952 Directed by Phil Karlson 4/5
94 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 Directed by Robert Montgomery 3/5
95 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Directed by Dick Richards 5/5
96 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Directed by Edward Dmytry 5/5
97 In This Our Life 1942 Directed by John Huston 5/5
98 Rings on Her Fingers 1942 Directed by Rouben Mamoulian 4/5
99 On the Riviera 1951 Directed by Walter Lang 4/5
100 The Post 2017 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
101 The Joyless Street 1925 ‘Die freudlose Gasse’ Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst 5/5
102 Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 Directed by Richard Brooks 5/5
103 Baby Doll 1956 Directed by Elia Kazan 5/5
104 The Night of the Iguana 1964 Directed by John Huston 4/5
105 Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 Directed by John Huston 3/5
106 A Bullet for Joey 1955 Directed by Lewis Allen 3/5
107 You Were Never Really Here 2017 Directed by Lynne Ramsay 5/5
108 Hostiles 2017 Directed by Scott Cooper 5/5
109 China 9, Liberty 37 1978 ‘Amore, piombo e furore’ Directed by Monte Hellman 5/5
110 The Wild One 1953 Directed by László Benedek 3/5

[Fitzcarraldo]

78 The Quiet Man 1952 Directed by John Ford 2/5

Only 2? Why? John Wayne actually acts in that movie.

[josehip]

Only 2? Why? John Wayne actually acts in that movie.

Yeah, He quite good in that one, BUT, the movie is pure trash after the first 60 minutes.
-Kate, a free, strong and progressive woman allows herself to be dragged for 8 miles by her husband? Okay, right.

1070801

and then this old lady shows up and gives the middle finger to the feminist movement.
1070802

this
1070803

and then the whole thing was getting stupid, and stupid, and stupid, and then it happens that long, cringe-worthy scene with John fighting with her father...

[Stavros]

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2017)

This coming of age film is more subtle than at first it seems. At critical moments, the main character who suffers from a terrible emotional isolation appears to be alone in Miami, alone on what should be if not crowded, a late night beach with others in the vicinity, and later on driving alone on a road where there ought to be sight of another vehicle. If this captures the character's sense of self as unique but not connected to others, it succeeds, but I felt the transition from teenager to adult lacked credibility so I understood it but was not totally wired into it. Some fine acting throughout but a musical score that often seemed unrelated to the film.

[Cereal Escapist]

i just watched War for Planet of the Apes. It wasn't the best of the new trilogy but it is still better than the Marky Mark version!

[slave2u]

Only 2? Why? John Wayne actually acts in that movie.

he acts in more movies than he is given credit for.

[slave2u]

this is stupid. every comic book, like any piece of art, is a political act of the era. comics were never JUST A COMIC BOOK.

there is a case to be made that many comics were just comic books, that the creators of them were just churning out work for hire with little thought of them as being anything other than throw away pieces of entertainment. it is only later half of comics history that fans have come to see them as collectable and as art.
much of the 'politics' that appears in them being little more than reflections of the norms of the time.

[slave2u]

'god of war' (2017) starring wehzhou zhao

[josehip]

he acts in more movies than he is given credit for.

True. People say same thing about Bogart as well. (in both cases they are 100% wrong)

[josehip]

Cont

88 Molly's Game 2017 Aaron Sorkin 3/5
89 The Dark Mirror 1946 Robert Siodmak 5/5
90 He Walked by Night 1948 Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann 3/5
91 My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 Directed by Joseph H. Lewis 3/5
92 A Stolen Life 1946 Directed by Curtis Bernhardt 4/5

APRIL
93 Kansas City Confidential 1952 Directed by Phil Karlson 4/5
94 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 Directed by Robert Montgomery 3/5
95 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Directed by Dick Richards 5/5
96 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Directed by Edward Dmytry 5/5
97 In This Our Life 1942 Directed by John Huston 5/5
98 Rings on Her Fingers 1942 Directed by Rouben Mamoulian 4/5
99 On the Riviera 1951 Directed by Walter Lang 4/5
100 The Post 2017 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
101 The Joyless Street 1925 ‘Die freudlose Gasse’ Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst 5/5
102 Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 Directed by Richard Brooks 5/5
103 Baby Doll 1956 Directed by Elia Kazan 5/5
104 The Night of the Iguana 1964 Directed by John Huston 4/5
105 Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 Directed by John Huston 3/5
106 A Bullet for Joey 1955 Directed by Lewis Allen 3/5
107 You Were Never Really Here 2017 Directed by Lynne Ramsay 5/5
108 Hostiles 2017 Directed by Scott Cooper 5/5
109 China 9, Liberty 37 1978 ‘Amore, piombo e furore’ Directed by Monte Hellman 5/5
110 The Wild One 1953 Directed by László Benedek 3/5

cont
111 From the Terrace 1960 Directed by Mark Robson 5/5
112 Batman Ninja 2018 Directed by Junpei Mizusaki 4/5
113 Dirty Computer 2018 Directed by Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE

[slave2u]

marine 5: battleground.
the miz in die hard in a fun fair car park. about as good as it sounds. shame as the miz is a decent enough actor and actioner.

[josehip]

cont
111 From the Terrace 1960 Directed by Mark Robson 5/5
112 Batman Ninja 2018 Directed by Junpei Mizusaki 4/5
113 Dirty Computer 2018 Directed by Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE

cont

114 The Crowd Roars 1932 Directed by Howard Hawks 4/5
115 Coroner Creek 1948 Directed by Ray Enright 4/5

May
116 The Lawless Breed, 1953 Directed by Raoul Walsh 4/5
117 Black Panther 2018 Directed by Ryan Coogler 3/5
118 ManHunt 2017 ‘追捕’ Directed by John Woo 3/5
119 Westworld 1973 Directed by Michael Crichton 2/5
120 Seminole 1953 Directed by Budd Boetticher 4/5

[slave2u]

national treasure 2 - which is pretty much the same as national treasure, but with added helen mirren.

[Stavros]

Slow West (John Maclean, 2015)

I had not heard of this western before seeing it on Film 4 last night. It is beautiful to look at, but like most 1870 westerns based on the hunting/search/redemption theme combines cliches with plot holes. The gang that is following the two lead characters -one is a bounty hunter the other a young immigrant from Scotland searching for his childhood sweetheart- has a charismatic leader but as in most westerns the rest of the gang are thick as two short planks and not very good with guns, even though that is the the only reason they live. The two leads travel for days with the same horses that never seem to eat or drink, yet the horses live. For once the log cabin in the wild is bright and airy -unlike the grim timber style one normally sees- and its builder, and dad to the sweetheart, Rory McCann ('The Hound' in Game of Thrones) for once doesn't have a plate full of chickens...

A pleasant film to sit through, but there is not so much a moral punch at the end as a gentle slap on the wrist.

[Cereal Escapist]

Just watched Swiss Army Man again since my wife had not seen it yet.

[Stavros]

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)

I had not seen this film since the early 80s and bought the set which has the original, longer version so I was seeing this for the first time. Cassavetes was making films in the style of Godard before Godard, and doing it better too, lacking the pretentiousness of the latter. His realist style of film-making, hand-held cameras, long takes, appearance of improvised dialogue, no conventional narrative meant his films were never going to appeal to the majority of film goers, but with some exceptions his films are innovative and I suspect too many American directors don't have the courage Cassavetes had. In this film, which actually has a story -night-club owner has to pay off a gambling debt to the mob by killing a Chinese bookie- all the usual Cassavetes tactics are there but a lot of the film was actually rehearsed and written down. It is actually in a way an amateurish even tacky attempt at melodrama, only the story line itself is just a maguffin for Cassavetes to comment on his own relationship to film: the films he gambles on paid for by appearing in other people's films (Rosemary's Baby, for example) who then arrange to have him bumped off -ie, ignored. A cynical attitude maybe, but it is ironic that he originally developed the idea for the film with Martin Scorsese who was significantly more successful and richer from the films he made.
One oddity in the commentary by producer Al Ruban (who also acts the character Marty at the start of the film) is that Ruban claims the black actress in the film (Azizi Johari -a professional actor as the other girls in the film were strippers in LA night-clubs), was married to Robert de Niro at the time, whereas I see no evidence of this, and that de Niro married Diahann Caroll in the year Bookie was released.

[josehip]

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)

I had not seen this film since the early 80s and bought the set which has the original, longer version so I was seeing this for the first time. Cassavetes was making films in the style of Godard before Godard, and doing it better too, lacking the pretentiousness of the latter. His realist style of film-making, hand-held cameras, long takes, appearance of improvised dialogue, no conventional narrative meant his films were never going to appeal to the majority of film goers, but with some exceptions his films are innovative and I suspect too many American directors don't have the courage Cassavetes had. In this film, which actually has a story -night-club owner has to pay off a gambling debt to the mob by killing a Chinese bookie- all the usual Cassavetes tactics are there but a lot of the film was actually rehearsed and written down. It is actually in a way an amateurish even tacky attempt at melodrama, only the story line itself is just a maguffin for Cassavetes to comment on his own relationship to film: the films he gambles on paid for by appearing in other people's films (Rosemary's Baby, for example) who then arrange to have him bumped off -ie, ignored. A cynical attitude maybe, but it is ironic that he originally developed the idea for the film with Martin Scorsese who was significantly more successful and richer from the films he made.
One oddity in the commentary by producer Al Ruban (who also acts the character Marty at the start of the film) is that Ruban claims the black actress in the film (Azizi Johari -a professional actor as the other girls in the film were strippers in LA night-clubs), was married to Robert de Niro at the time, whereas I see no evidence of this, and that de Niro married Diahann Caroll in the year Bookie was released.

this is my favorite Cassavetes. I just love the whole thing.

[bryanferryfan2]

Black Panther

[sukumvit boy]

Amelie , delightful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie
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[josehip]

cont

114 The Crowd Roars 1932 Directed by Howard Hawks 4/5
115 Coroner Creek 1948 Directed by Ray Enright 4/5

May
116 The Lawless Breed, 1953 Directed by Raoul Walsh 4/5
117 Black Panther 2018 Directed by Ryan Coogler 3/5
118 ManHunt 2017 ‘追捕’ Directed by John Woo 3/5
119 Westworld 1973 Directed by Michael Crichton 2/5
120 Seminole 1953 Directed by Budd Boetticher 4/5

cont

121 Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018 Directed by Steven S. DeKnight 4/5
122 She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Directed by Spike Lee 3/5
123 Basquiat: Rage to Riches 2017 Directed by David Shulman 5/5
124 Basquiat 1996 Directed by Julian Schnabel 5/5
125 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 2010 Directed by Tamra Davis 5/5
126 A Wrinkle in Time 2018 Directed by Ava DuVernay 3/5
127 Unsane 2018 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 5/5
128 Tomb Raider 2018 Directed by Roar Uthaug 3/5

[Cereal Escapist]

cont

121 Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018 Directed by Steven S. DeKnight 4/5
122 She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Directed by Spike Lee 3/5
123 Basquiat: Rage to Riches 2017 Directed by David Shulman 5/5
124 Basquiat 1996 Directed by Julian Schnabel 5/5
125 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 2010 Directed by Tamra Davis 5/5
126 A Wrinkle in Time 2018 Directed by Ava DuVernay 3/5
127 Unsane 2018 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 5/5
128 Tomb Raider 2018 Directed by Roar Uthaug 3/5

That is remarkably generous, IMHO. This movie was one of the worst adaptations I have seen in a while.

[josehip]

That is remarkably generous, IMHO. This movie was one of the worst adaptations I have seen in a while.

well since I didn't read the book I don't have any background to say anything bad about the adaptation. And to be honest, when a movie is only 3/5 to me I feel more like I just wasted two hours of my life.

[Cereal Escapist]

well since I didn't read the book I don't have any background to say anything bad about the adaptation. And to be honest, when a movie is only 3/5 to me I feel more like I just wasted two hours of my life.

so what happens if a movie is a 2 or a 1? do you want to punch a kitten? That's how I felt after watching the last jedi. no pussy was safe!

1077621

[josehip]

so what happens if a movie is a 2 or a 1? do you want to punch a kitten? That's how I felt after watching the last jedi. no pussy was safe!

1077621

Ha! I love The Last Jedi.
About 1/5 and 2/5 movies: We can kind of feel/tell when a movie is going to be so bad that we don't even need to finish it. When
that happens I quit the movie right after realizing how shitty it will be.
A current example: Ibiza (that new netflix movie). like, I know that normally (with a few exceptions: Mudbound, Okja, Meyerowitz Stories, First They Killed My Father) netflix's original movies are always a piece of crap, so I was not even expecting much. I just wanted a cool movie for a Friday night. And besides, I really like the three female protagonists.
But that movie was so so bad that I knew I would not need to watch the whole thing to find out. And that is a bad thing too because I just lost 30 or 40 minutes of my life when I could be watching a good movie.

[BostonBad]

so what happens if a movie is a 2 or a 1? do you want to punch a kitten? That's how I felt after watching the last jedi. no pussy was safe!

1077621

Box busting is very funny. Do u have any links?

[josehip]

cont

121 Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018 Directed by Steven S. DeKnight 4/5
122 She’s Gotta Have It 1986 Directed by Spike Lee 3/5
123 Basquiat: Rage to Riches 2017 Directed by David Shulman 5/5
124 Basquiat 1996 Directed by Julian Schnabel 5/5
125 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 2010 Directed by Tamra Davis 5/5
126 A Wrinkle in Time 2018 Directed by Ava DuVernay 3/5
127 Unsane 2018 Directed by Steven Soderbergh 5/5
128 Tomb Raider 2018 Directed by Roar Uthaug 3/5

cont
June
129 The Love Witch 2016 Directed by Anna Biller 3/5
130 Viva 2007 Directed by Anna Biller 5/5
131 Love, Simon 2018 Directed by Greg Berlanti 5/5

[Stavros]

Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)

Lights, camera, Action! Drama! Romance! Spectacle! A cast of thousands! In the days when Epics were marketed as 'Blockbusters' are today, even though the word blockbuster has no relation to film, the film was a major event, very expensive, very grand, and very long. Hollywood has been pumping out fascist or crypto-fascist garbage since cinema started, from Birth of a Nation to Black Panther, but the Epics which were so lauded in their time -Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur now look dated, their set pieces hard to compare to contemporary CGi. The scripts were poor, the acting wooden, the tedium to be endured now hard to take.

I had not seen the 1959 Ben-Hur for more years than I care to count, and wonder how I managed to sit through nearly 4 hours of this tosh. I agree the 10 minute chariot race still looks good, and doubt even Tom Cruise would do it in today's environment, and it is one of the best 10 minutes in 4 hours if only because we are spared the garish audio misery of Miklos Rosza's horrible score. As a vehicle for Christian propaganda, in which the Jew who became the Son of God is eventually admired by the Jew who rebelled against Rome -the Jews are an ambiguous bunch in this movie- the film fails. It fails at just about everything.

Compare those old biblical and classical Epics to the long form film with outstanding scripts, superb acting, fabulous photogaphy and a director capable of creating the architecture for a 3 or 4 hour film where every scene has meaning -I refer to David Lean and his trio of masterpieces, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr Zhivago (1965).

If you are going to spend 4 hours of your life watching a film, make it Lean rather than epic.

[Stavros]

Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)

Payne, who was born in Nebraska, makes well crafted films that focus on the everyday lives of people who often limit themselves, or go beyond what they are capable of. In this superbly photographed film, a father and son leave their Montana home en route to Lincoln, Nebraska where the father believes he will receive a million dollars from a lottery ticket that is in fact a scam. The pair stop off in the family homes in Nebraska where most of the relatives, like the father are of rural, farming origin, rarely say more than two or three words, and appear to have no emotions. Needless to say the films charts the attempt by the son to connect to the father, which sort of happens at the end, but without any emotional fulfillment at all, a weakness that affects Payne's other films such as Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), though there is some gentle feeling at the close of About Schmidt (2002).

For all its faults, which are few, Payne makes films with excellent scripts and actors, and are always worth seeing.

[josehip]

cont
June
129 The Love Witch 2016 Directed by Anna Biller 3/5
130 Viva 2007 Directed by Anna Biller 5/5
131 Love, Simon 2018 Directed by Greg Berlanti 5/5

cont

132 The Edge of Seventeen 2016 Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig 3/5
133 The Boy Downstairs 2017 Directed by Sophie Brooks 3/5
133 The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson 2017 Directed by David France 5/5
134 A Kid Like Jake 2018 Directed by Silas Howard 4/5
135 Tragedy Girls 2017 Directed by Tyler MacIntyre 2/5
135 Halloween 1978 Directed by John Carpenter 5/5
136 Blue Steel 1990 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 3/5
137 Thoroughbreds 2017 Directed by Cory Finley 1/5
138 Halloween II 1981 Directed by Rick Rosenthal 2/5
139 The Lure 2015 ‘Córki dancingu’ Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska 5/5
139 Alex Strangelove 2018 Directed by Craig Johnson 2/5
140 Women Who Kill 2016 Directed by Ingrid Jungermann 5/5
141 Fahrenheit 451 1966 Directed by François Truffaut 5/5
142 Ready Player One 2018 Directed by Steven Spielberg 5/5

JULY
143 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Directed by D.W. Griffith 5/5
144 Mazurka 1935 Directed by Willi Forst 5/5
145 I Feel Pretty 2018 Directed by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein 3/5
146 Sumurun 1920 Directed by Ernst Lubitsch 4/5
147 Way Down East 1920 Directed by D.W. Griffith 4/5
148 Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5
149 Ghostbusters 1984 Directed by Ivan Reitman 2/5
150 Unbreakable 2000 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5

[Stavros]

cont
150 Unbreakable 2000 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5


I watched M Night Shyamalan's The Visit (2015) on tv last night.

Although I thought the plot twist was well done, it didn't matter because we have seen all this before. The House in the Woods far from any neighbours; the basement that contains unimaginable terrors; creaking doors; things -or people- that go 'bump' -or worse- in the night. The film within a film, the innocence of childhood violated by selfish, uncaring adults, etc etc. When the soupy music from homely 1940s/50s musicals capped the last scene I wasn't sure whether to laugh with derision or just shake my head. I did the obvious: turned off the tv. Shyamalan is basically a fraud.

[josehip]

I watched M Night Shyamalan's The Visit (2015) on tv last night.

Although I thought the plot twist was well done, it didn't matter because we have seen all this before. The House in the Woods far from any neighbours; the basement that contains unimaginable terrors; creaking doors; things -or people- that go 'bump' -or worse- in the night. The film within a film, the innocence of childhood violated by selfish, uncaring adults, etc etc. When the soupy music from homely 1940s/50s musicals capped the last scene I wasn't sure whether to laugh with derision or just shake my head. I did the obvious: turned off the tv. Shyamalan is basically a fraud.

yeah the last movie from him that I REALLY like was The Village.

[vivid]

The Walk
IT
No Escape
Boy in Striped Pajamas
Shape of Water


I think I enjoyed The Walk the most, so many scenes in that made me nervous.

[darkrose2000]

I watched Thirteen Days (2000) last night.

Not so bad (quite long movie as well)

[pantybulge69]

last 3 movies:
Equalizer 2 , not near as good as original , just Ok
Richochet, another Denzel thriller.
Raid 2, .. just an absolute very bloody, bad ass martial arts kick-ass film. .! can't wait til raid 3 comes out.

[blackchubby38]

About 1/5 and 2/5 movies: We can kind of feel/tell when a movie is going to be so bad that we don't even need to finish it. When
that happens I quit the movie right after realizing how shitty it will be.


Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5
Ghostbusters 1984 Directed by Ivan Reitman 2/5

How the hell could you think that the original Ghostbusters was bad, yet say the remake was better?

[dc_guy_75]

Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5
Ghostbusters 1984 Directed by Ivan Reitman 2/5

How the hell could you think that the original Ghostbusters was bad, yet say the remake was better?

Yes! That's bullshit! Granted, the 1984 version didn't age very well, its difficult to watch. Venkman was obviously a sexual predator.

Its not funny, at all. Can anyone name a scene that was funny?

And this, wtf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZhBUXNwzw

[josehip]

Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5
Ghostbusters 1984 Directed by Ivan Reitman 2/5

How the hell could you think that the original Ghostbusters was bad, yet say the remake was better?

The only time I laughed during the whole movie was when bill murray says "It sounds like you've got at least two or three people in there already."

[Stavros]

Red Sparrow (Francis Lawrence,201 eight) [why is there always a smiley face instead of the digit eight?]

The good news first: if you like seeing Jennifer Lawrence's arse, unwrapped, this film will occasionally satisfy your hunger, or fetish, or whatever the attraction is for you.

The bad news: the film is rubbish, and lasts for more than two hours by which time you should have identified the Mole at the heart of Russian intelligence, but if you did not, it really does not matter. According to IMDB Red Sparrow is the first of a trilogy of spy thrillers written by a retired CIA agent, one can only hope there isn't a follow up to this drivel.

The director -no relation to Jennifer- directed the Hunger Games films except the first one, but has mostly directed rock/music videos. The script is dire and the acting so muted from the very start it is hard if not impossible to engage with the characters who never seem excited in their roles, and rarely express any emotion. If this was meant to give Lawrence the 'ice cool' persona of a ruthless agent, it failed, as it is just cold, as in -dead, lifeless, comatose.

There are numerous daft scenes -Lawrence is a star of the Bolshoi ballet, a fact which would suggest a reasonable degree of world fame making her the last person to choose as an undercover spy unless her fame is the cover. He ballet career ends when she is injured in an 'accident' so absurd it is actually offensive to anyone who knows anything about ballet. Needless to say, as with Black Swan, this is a hugely successful dancer who doesn't have a boyfriend, let alone girlfriends and lives in a modest flat with her mum. One could find numerous other idiocies in the film, some in the IMDB, but this is as far as it goes. As in, nowhere.

[Stavros]

In my review of Red Sparrow above, I forgot to mention an extraordinary sex scene in which Jennifer Lawrence climbs onto Joel Edgerton's cock. I timed the whole manoeuvre from insertion to ejaculation at 29 seconds. Is this a record? I have not previously timed sex scenes in films to draw up a list of the fastest and the slowest, it may prove to be an interesting exercise if anyone wants to do it.

As for the best sex scene in film, I have no idea what it might be. Any suggestions?

[blackchubby38]

Yes! That's bullshit! Granted, the 1984 version didn't age very well, its difficult to watch. Venkman was obviously a sexual predator.

Its not funny, at all. Can anyone name a scene that was funny?

And this, wtf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZhBUXNwzw

I really hope you're joking. Just hitting on a woman doesn't make a guy a sexual predator.

I watched it about a month ago and the movie still holds up.

Ray was having a wet dream about getting a blowjob from a ghost. What's so hard to understand about that.

[decastro]

I watched M Night Shyamalan's The Visit (2015) on tv last night.

Although I thought the plot twist was well done, it didn't matter because we have seen all this before. The House in the Woods far from any neighbours; the basement that contains unimaginable terrors; creaking doors; things -or people- that go 'bump' -or worse- in the night. The film within a film, the innocence of childhood violated by selfish, uncaring adults, etc etc. When the soupy music from homely 1940s/50s musicals capped the last scene I wasn't sure whether to laugh with derision or just shake my head. I did the obvious: turned off the tv. Shyamalan is basically a fraud.
Lol i watched this movie recently too, I thought it was hilarious. Old lady chasing the kids around under the house screaming im gonna eat you then gets up casually with her ass hangin out. That scene was bugged out. I think in his recent movies hes been exploring mental health issues, dramatizing what they can do to people, but if you've ever experienced it yourself or know/work with people, it really can be terrifying. Way scarier than some off brand villain shit because you're not in control. That disease the old woman had? the thing where she gets crazy at night, sounds like a stupid plot twist but its a very real and common affliction. So yea, you definitely know whats going to happen for the most part but i appreciated the movie. Its worth saying, I was bored as fuck.

[Stavros]

Lol i watched this movie recently too, I thought it was hilarious. Old lady chasing the kids around under the house screaming im gonna eat you then gets up casually with her ass hangin out. That scene was bugged out. I think in his recent movies hes been exploring mental health issues, dramatizing what they can do to people, but if you've ever experienced it yourself or know/work with people, it really can be terrifying. Way scarier than some off brand villain shit because you're not in control. That disease the old woman had? the thing where she gets crazy at night, sounds like a stupid plot twist but its a very real and common affliction. So yea, you definitely know whats going to happen for the most part but i appreciated the movie. Its worth saying, I was bored as fuck.

I am not sure a distressing mental condition should be used solely for the purposes of entertainment (we have had it before with autism), but the strength or weakness of Shyamalan's films depends on the plot twist on which his films pivot. Although I had worked out the twist in The Sixth Sense before the great reveal I thought he handled it well and it remains, of those I have seen, his best film, whereas with The Visit the plot twist did not have the impact the film needed, and the subsequent descent into violence made a poor situation worse. The more obvious problem is that if a director creates a reputation around a cinematic device, like a plot twist which emerges just before the end, you expect it in his other films and look for it, so the tension does not have its desired effect. I also find much of his films visually boring, he could do more with what he has.

[slave2u]

twisted - starring ashley judd, part of that run where she played kick arse characters. unfortunately she looks cute and playing a drunken sot who gets drugged a lot is a bit beyond her. not helped by the fact she is as good at action as ben affleck is.
all in all not bad, would be interesting to see the story made with a less photogenic actress.

also worth it for the moments of sam l jackson (with hair) and andy garcia over acting.

[decastro]

I am not sure a distressing mental condition should be used solely for the purposes of entertainment (we have had it before with autism), but the strength or weakness of Shyamalan's films depends on the plot twist on which his films pivot. Although I had worked out the twist in The Sixth Sense before the great reveal I thought he handled it well and it remains, of those I have seen, his best film, whereas with The Visit the plot twist did not have the impact the film needed, and the subsequent descent into violence made a poor situation worse. The more obvious problem is that if a director creates a reputation around a cinematic device, like a plot twist which emerges just before the end, you expect it in his other films and look for it, so the tension does not have its desired effect. I also find much of his films visually boring, he could do more with what he has.

yea definitely shouldnt be used solely for entertainment purposes but unfortunately a lot of these mental health issues dont get talked about any other way. I've worked with people who have mental health issues and like many things in life, it can be equal parts terrifying, hilarious, and serious. I think the movie hit on that, as well as how awkward it can be when you dont know whether to laugh, to be scared, or maybe to alert somebody. Because of the ambiguity of these issues in our society most people arent really coached on how to deal with them, until you experience it. I dont know if that was his intent but thats what i picked up. You might also be surprised by how many special needs individuals, regardless of age, have violent tendencies.
Idk, I understand your point about the plot twist but I think that was something he became known for, I dont think its something he needs to be a good writer/director. Signs was good on its own merit, i liked unbreakable, split, and even that weird movie he did lady in the water. I guess it also depends on how u define plot twist. in the Visit, i know what part you're referring to but I didnt see it as a plot twist that the film pivots around. I mean, regardless, we knew those kids were in danger right? lol. I'm not a big shamalayan fan like i sound, definitely dont watch this movie unless you have nothin else to do, but for my part I enjoyed it.

[Stavros]

The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011)
I saw this on tv last night, having heard it was not the usual kind of 'horror/slasher' film, a genre I usually avoid (though I have Dario Argento's Suspiria on my DVD pile). It gets a 7 rating on IMDB which is way above most other better films.

Yes, it is quite different, but is loaded with references to other films, from Carrie to The Hunger Games and many more, but other than that the script is bad, the acting is bad, and the meaning of the film in the reveal at the end ludicrous in its own apocalyptic way, with no explanation for the sudden appearance of Ripley, the Gods, or the end of the world. I was just glad to get to the end of the film.

[Stavros]

Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper, 2013)
Saw this on tv last night.
Another grim film about decline in an industrial town. The father lies dying, the eldest son works in a steel mill earmarked for closure, the younger son keeps going and coming from tours of duty in Iraq. Then the eldest son is imprisoned for a fatal accident that was not his fault (but he had been drinking), and on release discovers he has lost his girlfriend, and his brother is making money from bare-knuckle fights in a world of loan sharks and drug dealers. Gloom and doom pile onto each other in a society where the law is ineffective and the gun or the fist the first and the last word. There are echoes of The Deer Hunter in the film which don't work, and while the photography is good and the script better than average, it makes one wonder if the 'two Americas' are ever going to be reconciled when the citizens have so little respect for the law, and the law has such little respect for them. Even if it explains the outcome of the 2016 Election, it does not explain what a great America would look like, and one fears that for these people, it will just be more of the same.

[josehip]

cont

132 The Edge of Seventeen 2016 Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig 3/5
133 The Boy Downstairs 2017 Directed by Sophie Brooks 3/5
133 The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson 2017 Directed by David France 5/5
134 A Kid Like Jake 2018 Directed by Silas Howard 4/5
135 Tragedy Girls 2017 Directed by Tyler MacIntyre 2/5
135 Halloween 1978 Directed by John Carpenter 5/5
136 Blue Steel 1990 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 3/5
137 Thoroughbreds 2017 Directed by Cory Finley 1/5
138 Halloween II 1981 Directed by Rick Rosenthal 2/5
139 The Lure 2015 ‘Córki dancingu’ Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska 5/5
139 Alex Strangelove 2018 Directed by Craig Johnson 2/5
140 Women Who Kill 2016 Directed by Ingrid Jungermann 5/5
141 Fahrenheit 451 1966 Directed by François Truffaut 5/5
142 Ready Player One 2018 Directed by Steven Spielberg 5/5

JULY
143 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Directed by D.W. Griffith 5/5
144 Mazurka 1935 Directed by Willi Forst 5/5
145 I Feel Pretty 2018 Directed by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein 3/5
146 Sumurun 1920 Directed by Ernst Lubitsch 4/5
147 Way Down East 1920 Directed by D.W. Griffith 4/5
148 Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5
149 Ghostbusters 1984 Directed by Ivan Reitman 2/5
150 Unbreakable 2000 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5

cont

151 The Fifth Element 1997 Directed by Luc Besson 3/5
152 Metropolis 1927 Directed by Fritz Lang 5/5
153 The Last Airbender 2010 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5
154 Gattaca 1997 Directed by Andrew Niccol 1/5
155 Frau Im Mond 1927 Directed by Fritz Lang 4/5
156 Minority Report 2002 Directed by Steven Spielberg 4/5
157 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Directed by Stanley Kubrick 2/5
158 ‎Destiny 1921 Directed by Fritz Lang 4/5
159 Shockproof 1949 Directed by Douglas Sirk 4/5
160 Charley Varrick 1973 Directed by Don Siegel 2/5
161 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Directed by Peter Yates 2/5

AUGUST
162 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 Directed by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo 4/5
164 He Did and He Didn’t 1916 Directed by Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle 2/5
165 Wished on Mabel 1915 Directed by Mabel Normand 3/5
166 Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 2018 Directed by Madeleine Parry, Jon Olb 5/5
167 Princess Mononoke 1997 ‘もののけ姫’ Directed by Hayao Miyazaki 4/5
168 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 Directed by Rian Johnson 5/5
169 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015 Directed by J.J. Abrams 5/5

[slave2u]

Thunderbirds are go. Filming pacing was different back then, but so was the pace of life. While not as exciting or as thrilling as my boyhood memories of it I have to admit I was more engaged with than I was with the last act of justice league.

[Stavros]

Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

Although I saw this cult classic decades ago, I did not recall much of it. The DVD I have has to be watched with zapper in hand as the music is pitched at about 100 decibels above the dialogue which was so inaudible I had to switch to headphones, though it didn't matter as the script is poor. The film has its cult status because it broke rules on narrative, music, and mise en scene but for all that remains a silly film about witches in which pretty girls get slashed to ribbons, with the heroine an innocent American who uncovers the 'terrible secret' about a dance academy in Germany. Some enthusiasts for the Giallo genre will love it, I ended up completely uninterested, never scared or taken by surprise as so many of the tropes have been repeated you can see the horror coming minutes before it does.
Incredibly, there is an American re-make which will premiere this November, having gone through numerous versions, and actors.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/?ref_=tt_trv_cnn

Argento's later film, with the transgendered Italian actor Eva Robins -Tenebrae (1982)- is superior to Suspiria and worth seeing.

[joesocalif]

“Death of a Nation”

[morim]

A TS porn movie!

[Stavros]

“Death of a Nation”

Controversial film, any opinions you want to share with us?

[DrinksMcGee]

Threads
An 80s BBC (just to clarify, British TV) movie about a nuclear attack in Sheffield and the aftereffects. Not a feel good movie.

[slave2u]

gorky park, which left me pondering several questions. such as is william hurt a good actor? where else has the james horner score been used? why haven't more of dennis potter's scripts been remade?

all in all not a bad film, very much of its time.

[Stavros]

Manglehorn (David Gordon Green, 2014)

I bought this for £5 in my local independent shop where it was in the World Cinema section even though the film was shot in Texas.
Manglehorn is an ageing and grumpy locksmith who pines for the woman he loved but did not marry, but is sort of attracted to the bank teller -Dawn- he sees every Friday. The film traces the journey out of the rut he has settled into to suggest that after a messed up date with Dawn he can erase his past and start anew. The film is so low-key as to be soporific, though there are supposed to be 'deep' and profound moments that give depth to the characters, but fail, even with Al Pacino and Holly Hunter trying not to mangle the script. At one point she claims to love watching water emerging from the faucet in the bath and invites grumpy man to share a bath, the kind of sexual symbolism that one would expect from a film school graduate and not much of an improvement on the cat that swallows the key to the safe where Manglehorn keeps the only letter he ever got from his long lost love. And guess what, when a surgeon extracts the key, it opens a whole new chapter in the locksmith's life....yawn....ah well, it was only £5, though Tesco sell a very drinkable Riesling for that sum, and I know which I prefer.

[slave2u]

unlocked (which shares the same director as gorky park - but not planned by me) a very watchable spy actioner, with the usual twisty double cross nothing is as it seems story. noomi rapace steps up to the action hero plate very well. decent turns from orlando bloom, michael douglas and john malkovich.

that a large chunk of it was filmed on the streets of my local area helped my pleasure in the film.

it isn't anything special - it is enjoyable.

[Stavros]

Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)

Another superb action movie which, though it has flaws, is one of the longest so far in the MI franchise, even if it has a scenario -Ethan Hunt and the team must save the world from nuclear fallout- that has been done before. The obvious difference with James Bond is that Bond is too much of a wanker to even attempt the stunts Tom Cruise does (but then the Bond films these days only appeal to wankers so they are all in good company), and they are as usual well done with one great shot on a rooftop in London, and though some of the scenes were filmed in the Nubra Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, the astonishing helicopter scenes were filmed in Norway.
The main flaw in the film is Henry Cavill, who can't decide if he is American or Irish, so atrocious is his acting, so hopeless his attempts at accents. He was born in the Channel Islands where his father was a stockbroker. Perhaps he can return to Jersey and retire on the money he has made as a so-called 'actor' and give someone else with talent a chance to make movies. He is a waste of space.
I know one can only go so far with action films, but when you think of the dross that has been dished up in the past by Schwarzenegger, Stallone and the utterly absurd Seagal, you can be lucky to be alive to see the Jason Statham portfolio expose what infantile cowards those aforementioned were, and add Ethan Hunt to the brigade of dazzling film heroes, even if we don't really need them.

[josehip]

Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)

Another superb action movie which, though it has flaws, is one of the longest so far in the MI franchise, even if it has a scenario -Ethan Hunt and the team must save the world from nuclear fallout- that has been done before. The obvious difference with James Bond is that Bond is too much of a wanker to even attempt the stunts Tom Cruise does (but then the Bond films these days only appeal to wankers so they are all in good company), and they are as usual well done with one great shot on a rooftop in London, and though some of the scenes were filmed in the Nubra Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, the astonishing helicopter scenes were filmed in Norway.
The main flaw in the film is Henry Cavill, who can't decide if he is American or Irish, so atrocious is his acting, so hopeless his attempts at accents. He was born in the Channel Islands where his father was a stockbroker. Perhaps he can return to Jersey and retire on the money he has made as a so-called 'actor' and give someone else with talent a chance to make movies. He is a waste of space.
I know one can only go so far with action films, but when you think of the dross that has been dished up in the past by Schwarzenegger, Stallone and the utterly absurd Seagal, you can be lucky to be alive to see the Jason Statham portfolio expose what infantile cowards those aforementioned were, and add Ethan Hunt to the brigade of dazzling film heroes, even if we don't really need them.

i'm dying to watch this one. saddly here on my city (in brazil) the movie is playing ONLY in dubbed.

[josehip]

cont

151 The Fifth Element 1997 Directed by Luc Besson 3/5
152 Metropolis 1927 Directed by Fritz Lang 5/5
153 The Last Airbender 2010 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan 2/5
154 Gattaca 1997 Directed by Andrew Niccol 1/5
155 Frau Im Mond 1927 Directed by Fritz Lang 4/5
156 Minority Report 2002 Directed by Steven Spielberg 4/5
157 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Directed by Stanley Kubrick 2/5
158 ‎Destiny 1921 Directed by Fritz Lang 4/5
159 Shockproof 1949 Directed by Douglas Sirk 4/5
160 Charley Varrick 1973 Directed by Don Siegel 2/5
161 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Directed by Peter Yates 2/5

AUGUST
162 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 Directed by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo 4/5
164 He Did and He Didn’t 1916 Directed by Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle 2/5
165 Wished on Mabel 1915 Directed by Mabel Normand 3/5
166 Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 2018 Directed by Madeleine Parry, Jon Olb 5/5
167 Princess Mononoke 1997 ‘もののけ姫’ Directed by Hayao Miyazaki 4/5
168 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 Directed by Rian Johnson 5/5
169 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015 Directed by J.J. Abrams 5/5

CONT
170 Deadpool 2 2018 Directed by David Leitch 2/5
171 Laerte-se 2017 Directed by Lygia Barbosa da Silva, Eliane Brum
172 Pitch Perfect 3 2017 Directed by Trish Sie 3/5
173 Gemini 2017 Directed by Aaron Katz 3/5
174 Tom Papa: Live in New York City 2011 Directed by Rob Zombie 4/5
175 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 Directed by Gareth Edwards 5/5
176 Point Break 1991 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 4/5

[slave2u]

Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)

Another superb action movie which, though it has flaws, is one of the longest so far in the MI franchise, even if it has a scenario -Ethan Hunt and the team must save the world from nuclear fallout- that has been done before. The obvious difference with James Bond is that Bond is too much of a wanker to even attempt the stunts Tom Cruise does (but then the Bond films these days only appeal to wankers so they are all in good company), and they are as usual well done with one great shot on a rooftop in London, and though some of the scenes were filmed in the Nubra Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, the astonishing helicopter scenes were filmed in Norway.
The main flaw in the film is Henry Cavill, who can't decide if he is American or Irish, so atrocious is his acting, so hopeless his attempts at accents. He was born in the Channel Islands where his father was a stockbroker. Perhaps he can return to Jersey and retire on the money he has made as a so-called 'actor' and give someone else with talent a chance to make movies. He is a waste of space.
I know one can only go so far with action films, but when you think of the dross that has been dished up in the past by Schwarzenegger, Stallone and the utterly absurd Seagal, you can be lucky to be alive to see the Jason Statham portfolio expose what infantile cowards those aforementioned were, and add Ethan Hunt to the brigade of dazzling film heroes, even if we don't really need them.

you might be right about the later fat period of seagal. however his earliest and moving into beginning podgy phase are good low to mid budget action films.

[slave2u]

kill ratio - a low budget actioner in which fledging east european democracy is saved by a special operative posing as an events consultant (or something like that). has a great little 'freedom' speech. oddly a mostly british/irish cast and director.
dumb fun.

legend of the fist - return of chen zen. donnie yen reprises the role he played in the tv series based on the bruce lee movie 'fist of fury'. chen zen has returned from world war 1 france and is once again in a struggle against the japanese. not as action packed as i would have wanted (the opening stunts do put to shame many of the superhero movies), it looks lush. all in all a decent movie.

[Stavros]

you might be right about the later fat period of seagal. however his earliest and moving into beginning podgy phase are good low to mid budget action films.

Sorry mate , I can't share your enthusiasm for the earlier Seagal, largely because of the absence of any plot worth following, and the lack of any depth of character in the man himself, who in reality was good at Aikido and a trainer with no acting experience before he made his first film, rather like Schwarzenegger, another embarrassment without riches as far as films go. Mission Impossible succeeds because it creates tension around time-related events which must be met to push the narrative along. And, while there is a degree of violence it most often functions to close a chapter rather than to make a point, like the fascist garbage Hollywood tends to present where democracy and the rule of law are cast as feeble and useless with the gun the key factor in the resolution of disputes. No humanity would be shown in such films as happens with the wounded policewoman in MI: Fallout. Also, compared to the womanising lush that Bond is, Ethan Hunt rarely engages his female companions/enemies in a sexual way, and does not drink for pleasure, if at all. Indeed, the weakest MI, the second in the franchise, has precisely the sexual component the series does not need or benefit from, even if the sexual element does not concern Hunt but the villain, played by the truly dismal pseudo-actor Dougray Scott.

The question must be, what makes a good action movie? I can accept an unrealistic plot -typically a megalomaniac wants to destroy something, be it a country or the whole world- but what it needs is characters with enough depth to be believed in, on both sides, and for the action to look good in cinematic terms involving complex movement set in a framework of tension-release. The classic car chases in Walter Hill's Driver (1978) substitute cars for people -the people have no names in the film- just as the chases in Bullit (1968) and The French Connection (1971) have become the template for all others, with only the Jason Bourne films and Transporter films coming close to their dexterity if not always their excitement. Indeed, it is precisely the tedious predictability of car chases in the Bond films and most other action films that renders them also-rans in the catalogue, just as the need for female nudity in the Bond films and the Seagal catalogue pits them at the level of American Pie for grown-up wankers. I suggest the absence of sex and nudity in the MI franchise, which may or may not have something to do with Tom Cruise, is part of its wide appeal.

[slave2u]

Sorry mate , I can't share your enthusiasm for the earlier Seagal, largely because of the absence of any plot worth following, and the lack of any depth of character in the man himself, who in reality was good at Aikido and a trainer with no acting experience before he made his first film, rather like Schwarzenegger, another embarrassment without riches as far as films go. Mission Impossible succeeds because it creates tension around time-related events which must be met to push the narrative along. And, while there is a degree of violence it most often functions to close a chapter rather than to make a point, like the fascist garbage Hollywood tends to present where democracy and the rule of law are cast as feeble and useless with the gun the key factor in the resolution of disputes. No humanity would be shown in such films as happens with the wounded policewoman in MI: Fallout. Also, compared to the womanising lush that Bond is, Ethan Hunt rarely engages his female companions/enemies in a sexual way, and does not drink for pleasure, if at all. Indeed, the weakest MI, the second in the franchise, has precisely the sexual component the series does not need or benefit from, even if the sexual element does not concern Hunt but the villain, played by the truly dismal pseudo-actor Dougray Scott.

The question must be, what makes a good action movie? I can accept an unrealistic plot -typically a megalomaniac wants to destroy something, be it a country or the whole world- but what it needs is characters with enough depth to be believed in, on both sides, and for the action to look good in cinematic terms involving complex movement set in a framework of tension-release. The classic car chases in Walter Hill's Driver (1978) substitute cars for people -the people have no names in the film- just as the chases in Bullit (1968) and The French Connection (1971) have become the template for all others, with only the Jason Bourne films and Transporter films coming close to their dexterity if not always their excitement. Indeed, it is precisely the tedious predictability of car chases in the Bond films and most other action films that renders them also-rans in the catalogue, just as the need for female nudity in the Bond films and the Seagal catalogue pits them at the level of American Pie for grown-up wankers. I suggest the absence of sex and nudity in the MI franchise, which may or may not have something to do with Tom Cruise, is part of its wide appeal.

we'll have to agree to disagree.
though i am curious about the female nudity in seagal films as aside from background tittilation shots in club scenes i am struggling to remember any significant nudity in them. (though in black dawn - the seagal movie i watched today - there is a male bum on display). my recollection of his characters in films is either of a family man or as someone trying to be a white knight.

you could be right about mission impossible's appeal - though i would argue more to do with cruise and the set pieces. but that also got me thinking about cruise and women in his action movies and they do seem to be very sexless. so you are probably onto something.
however that does also mean that you can argue that part of the wide appeal of bond is the promise of sex and nudity - even if it is very revealing.

[slave2u]

black dawn - seagal thwarts a terrorist attack that he sort of sets up in the first place. ah teh murky world of the cia at work again.

[Stavros]

we'll have to agree to disagree.
though i am curious about the female nudity in seagal films as aside from background tittilation shots in club scenes i am struggling to remember any significant nudity in them. (though in black dawn - the seagal movie i watched today - there is a male bum on display). my recollection of his characters in films is either of a family man or as someone trying to be a white knight.


There is a later Seagal film in which a secret code or something like that is written in ink or tattooed on a woman's breasts, but there is also a Ladyboy in that film and I can't remember if it is the same character. I am not sure he actually has sex with women in his films but there is more flesh in them than the MI series. Apparently Cruise is a complete control freak, I have read an account -no idea of its veracity- of a relationship he tried to developed with an actress who was either in Homeland or The Americans, and I think 'selected' for him by some psychos in his Scientology 'church' and it is scary. But he is at least an actor, whereas Seagal is just in reality a martial arts instructor who got lucky. I just need more depth in films, even action ones.

[slave2u]

after enjoying star wars: the last jedi (and i am still unsure quite why the fanboys were so upset by it) i decided to go back to several of my secret movie pleasures: bad movies and silly shark movies, so step up to the plate 'shark exorcist'. it runs 'waspnado' as the worst film i have watched this year.

[josehip]

CONT
170 Deadpool 2 2018 Directed by David Leitch 2/5
171 Laerte-se 2017 Directed by Lygia Barbosa da Silva, Eliane Brum
172 Pitch Perfect 3 2017 Directed by Trish Sie 3/5
173 Gemini 2017 Directed by Aaron Katz 3/5
174 Tom Papa: Live in New York City 2011 Directed by Rob Zombie 4/5
175 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 Directed by Gareth Edwards 5/5
176 Point Break 1991 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 4/5

cont
177 Near Dark 1987 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 2/5
178 The Rider 2017 Directed by Chloé Zhao 5/5
179 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 2018 Directed by Susan Johnson 4/5
180 Jaws 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
181 Adrift 2018 Directed by Baltasar Kormákur 3/5
182 American Animals 2018 Directed by Bart Layton 4/5
183 The Breaking Point 1950 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
184 AWOL 2016 Directed by Deb Shoval 4/5
185 Free the Nipple 2014 Directed by Lina Esco 4/5
186 Ocean’s Eight 2018 Directed by Gary Ross
187 Hereditary 2018 Directed by Ari Aster 4/5
188 Tully 2018 Directed by Jason Reitman 4/5

[Stavros]

cont
180 Jaws 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5

186 Ocean’s Eight 2018 Directed by Gary Ross


3/5 for Jaws? Spielberg at his best is a great storyteller and Jaws is one of his best films and retains its power. You did not rate Oceans's Eight, was it that bad?

[Stavros]

Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995)

I had never seen this film before this week, and found it a good example of a real-life event turned into a well-crafted story with a good script and fine acting. This is a tense and gripping account which, from what I have read, is fairly close to what happened as much as a film can be. Is it a classic? I am not sure, but it does make me wonder if Tom Hanks is the most reliable actor in American film, has he ever been in a bad film? I am not a 100% fan of Saving Private Ryan largely because of the treacle tears Spielberg loads it with at the start and finish, but Hanks is constantly watchable.

[Cereal Escapist]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

It is an adequate movie but I don't understand why it was so celebrated. I would say it is worth watching if nothing better is on.

[josehip]

3/5 for Jaws? Spielberg at his best is a great storyteller and Jaws is one of his best films and retains its power. You did not rate Oceans's Eight, was it that bad?

The thing with Jaws is that it did not worked for me. Yeah, I know its a huge blockbuster, a true classic and people love it. I tried to liked too, but nope. I have this thing with Spielberg movies. I like some of them (tin tin, private ryan, minority report, ready player one, some parts of bridge of spies) and I HATE some of them (the post, close encounters...). Spielberg is hit or miss to me.

About Oceans, my bad It was late when I watched I just forgot to rate it. i like that one. its a solid 4/5. Its a fun movie, a nice way to turn the 'macho' around. All of them are funny as hell. The only thing missing is "the Soderbergh touch". The movie made a lot of money so I hope they will make another one.

[BJ4TS]

Deadpool 2...the only bad thing about it is that you have to watch it several times to catch all of the missed jokes.

[josehip]

Deadpool 2...the only bad thing about it is that you have to watch it several times to catch all of the missed jokes.

DEADPOOL 2 was just okay to me. Zazie Beetz was the best thing and she's only a few scenes. Hope her part gets way bigger in the next movie.

[Dudedude12345]

That god awful Death Wish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYY6itFstkQ

Even the Charles Bronson ones is just straight up garbage

[BlüeKarma]

Oceans Eight, it was ok but I'm a fan of heist movies so I could be slightly biased.

[Stavros]

Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018)

A film that cost over $175 million to make and looks fantastic should be much better than this. A quest film in which a virtual reality player called Parzival (as in the Holy Fool of legend who recovered the Holy Grail) must solve three puzzles to liberate the world from the bad guys, which he does and that is about it. The film is loaded with references to video games, films and characters but cannot get beyond any of this to engage anyone over the age of 14. And if they are over 14, I suspect they need to 'get a life'.
$175 million can do so much better in this world than waste two hours of your life.

[buttslinger]

I went to the movies for the first time in a long time to see Mission Impossible: Whatever yesterday. It cost thirtyfive bucks; sixteen for the movie, sixteen for the medium popcorn and coke, and three bucks for the candy I smuggled in. I walked two blocks to avoid the eight dollar parking fee. It was a good summer movie.

[Stavros]

I went to the movies for the first time in a long time to see Mission Impossible: Whatever yesterday. It cost thirtyfive bucks; sixteen for the movie, sixteen for the medium popcorn and coke, and three bucks for the candy I smuggled in. I walked two blocks to avoid the eight dollar parking fee. It was a good summer movie.

Blimey, guv. I went to my local cinema, a five minute walk away, and it cost me £5.99 or $7.7. I don't waste money on rubbish like popcorn.

[Stavros]

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 2018)

Taking Fantastic Mr Fox to a new level, this is a wonderful example of the elaborate fantasy Anderson does so well, one is inclined to call it a 'shaggy dog' story but it is much more than that, and on a technical level may be superior to the techno-wizardy of Spielberg in Ready Player One. This is a triumph of film-making, and a joy to watch.

[josehip]

cont
177 Near Dark 1987 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 2/5
178 The Rider 2017 Directed by Chloé Zhao 5/5
179 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 2018 Directed by Susan Johnson 4/5
180 Jaws 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
181 Adrift 2018 Directed by Baltasar Kormákur 3/5
182 American Animals 2018 Directed by Bart Layton 4/5
183 The Breaking Point 1950 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
184 AWOL 2016 Directed by Deb Shoval 4/5
185 Free the Nipple 2014 Directed by Lina Esco 4/5
186 Ocean’s Eight 2018 Directed by Gary Ross
187 Hereditary 2018 Directed by Ari Aster 4/5
188 Tully 2018 Directed by Jason Reitman 4/5

cont

189 Always Shine 2016 Directed by Sophia Takal 4/5
190 First Reformed 2017 Directed by Paul Schrader 4/5
191 Other People 2016 Directed by Chris Kelly 4/5
192 SuperFly 2018 Directed by Director X 3/5
193 The Hunt for Red October 1990 Directed by John McTiernan 4/5
194 Patriot Games 1992 Directed by Phillip Noyce 3/5
195 Transwomen who loves Ciswomen: Sexual Orientation X Gender Identity 2018 Directed by Rosa Luz 5/5
196 ‎Support the Girls (2018) directed by Andrew Bujalski 4/5
197 Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis 2018 Director: Joel Gallen 3/5
198 A Bigger Splash 2015 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 3/5
199 The Matrix 1999 Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 4/5

[vivid]

199 The Matrix 1999 Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 4/5

Am I reading this right; you haven't seen The Matrix until now?!

[Stavros]

The American actor Burton Reynolds has died at the age of 82. He has over 180 credits in the IMDB but many are the tv appearances he made before he became more regularly cast in feature films. Although he showed a lot or promise in films like The Mean Machine (1974) and probably his finest dramatic role, Deliverance (1972) he preferred to specialise in light comedies or Hero films like Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), Gator (1976) and many others. They were not my kind of films but successful at the box office. They are for the most part films in which the mythical pioneer of early America re-appears as a marginal but morally sound figure in a corrupt world. I think he wanted to be revered as a 'serious actor' and claimed to love the UK because the sense of humour has a self-deprecating irony most Americans seem unable to comprehend. Whatever the judgement, he made many entertaining films and a few great ones, and that is something to be proud of.

[Stavros]

Does anyone know how to write the digit eight without it appearing as an emoji?

[josehip]

Am I reading this right; you haven't seen The Matrix until now?!

Nah, breh. Just a rewatch after I read an essay (about THE MATRIX AND FIGHT CLUB) on how stupid homophobic bros love those movies YET got everything wrong about it.
THE MATRIX: about the struggles of coming out written by two trans women. Plus, Agent Smith spends the entire movie refusing to refer to Neo by his preferred name. Morpheus and "The Red Pill" = the same colour as estrogen pills back in the day.

When I watched The Matrix back in 2000 I was just a kid who had no ideia about trans, gay, gender, race, non binary and other stuff. Plus I had no intelligence to deal with multiple layers of meaning.

FIGHT CLUB: about a critique of toxic masculinity written by a gay man.

[slave2u]

acts of violence - a so so 'serious' action movie dealing (sort of) with human trafficing. features an extended cameo from bruce willis, probably the only thing that made me watch it.

i am omega - another trip to the richard matheson "i am legend". not entirely successful and very much a waste of mark dacasos who may not be the greatest, but i've always enjoyed him when i've seen him.

killing gunther - not as funny as it thinks it is, but has the distinction of being one of the better of arnie's second half movie career.

[Stavros]

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2014)

So, even Utopia has its problems.
The problem with M Night Shyamalan's films is that you know you are being set up in the first half of the film with a pivotal reveal to conclude the film that should have you gasping at his skill. It means you are constantly looking for clues and I guess once I worked out what the function of the monsters was, the rest fell into place, though the temporal shift at the end was not expected and well done if not sensational. The film is carried by a wonderful perfrmance from Bryce Dallas Howard, though what, in a manner of speaking, she sees in Joaquin Phoenix, a morose, dreary man we shall never know or care.

[Stavros]

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016)

It is night, and the animals are roaming free. In a fictional night, it means intiimidation, rape and murder. In the real world it means Amy Adams c40 years old, weaing a body hugging designer dress with an open cleavage, seated at the table of a Japanese restaurant waiting for her her ex-husband -the author of the fictional film-within-the-film to arrive for their dinner date. At various times she has the most lustrous red hair, cascading down one side of her lovely face, designed to appeal. And does she appeal!

And that's about it, as pretty much everything that happens is boring and predictable. It gets a rating of 7.5 starts on IMDB which doesn't make sense, while the DVD cost me £5 in the shop, which doesn't make sense either as I bought The Village for £2 and it is a better film.

[slave2u]

Johnny come lately - James Cagney.

[Cereal Escapist]

I was forced to sit through Ocean's 8 again yesterday.

[josehip]

cont

189 Always Shine 2016 Directed by Sophia Takal 4/5
190 First Reformed 2017 Directed by Paul Schrader 4/5
191 Other People 2016 Directed by Chris Kelly 4/5
192 SuperFly 2018 Directed by Director X 3/5
193 The Hunt for Red October 1990 Directed by John McTiernan 4/5
194 Patriot Games 1992 Directed by Phillip Noyce 3/5
195 Transwomen who loves Ciswomen: Sexual Orientation X Gender Identity 2018 Directed by Rosa Luz 5/5
196 ‎Support the Girls (2018) directed by Andrew Bujalski 4/5
197 Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis 2018 Director: Joel Gallen 3/5
198 A Bigger Splash 2015 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 3/5
199 The Matrix 1999 Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 4/5

Cont

200 Sierra Burgess Is a Loser 2018 Directed by Ian Samuels 4/5
201 Sixteen Candles 1984 Directed by John Hughes 3/5
202 The Breakfast Club 1985 Directed by John Hughes 4/5
203 Clear and Present Danger 1994 Directed by Phillip Noyce 3/5
204 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 Directed by Ron Howard 5/5
205 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
206 Mission: Impossible 1996 Directed by Brian De Palma 3/5
206 Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018 Directed by Stefano Sollima 2/5
207 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1983 Directed by Lamont Johnson 3/5
208 Hearts Beat Loud 2018 Directed by Brett Haley 5/5
209 Mandy 2018 Directed by Panos Cosmatos 3/5
210 The Fugitive 1993 Directed by Andrew Davis 4/5

[Jericho]

Minions!
I am amused!

[slave2u]

rogue agent (aka - 'newcomer' or 'the operative') twisty thriller about a new team member who screwed up and got his team killed ...or did he?
not bad.

[MrFanti]

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2014)

So, even Utopia has its problems.
The problem with M Night Shyamalan's films is that you know you are being set up in the first half of the film with a pivotal reveal to conclude the film that should have you gasping at his skill. It means you are constantly looking for clues and I guess once I worked out what the function of the monsters was, the rest fell into place, though the temporal shift at the end was not expected and well done if not sensational. The film is carried by a wonderful perfrmance from Bryce Dallas Howard, though what, in a manner of speaking, she sees in Joaquin Phoenix, a morose, dreary man we shall never know or care.


Awesome movie!

[slave2u]

Rubber.
An odd movie about a murderous rubber tyre.
A tad too long for the material.
Includes the least wings Hauser wings Hauser appearance.

[slave2u]

Those magnificent men in their flying machines.
Loved the fact the dvd included the intermission.
(An brought back memories of single screen cinemas, ushers, kiora orange drink, the thrill of the big curtain opening to herald the start of the programme......)

[hardiron4u]

A Simple Favor

A very interesting movie with unexpected events. Keeps your attention. Worth watching.

[slave2u]

dredd (2012)
watched in honour of judge dredd megazine reaching issue 400 and 2000ad about to reach issue 2100.
karl urban is great, lena headey is great. film is pretty good - suffers from comparisions with 'the raid'.

if i can find my copy of the stallone "judge dredd' i'll give that a watch as well.

[josehip]

A Simple Favor

A very interesting movie with unexpected events. Keeps your attention. Worth watching.

this is the one directed by paul feig? with anna kendrick? I neet to watch this one

[morim]

Rambo.
The original from 1982.
Great great movie!

[Stavros]

Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott,2017)

Ridley Scott is without doubt one of the best directors the UK has produced, but I doubt this garbage will be used to endorse that claim.
The very first Alien (1979) was well-written, well-acted and well-made, even if it is often remembered for inspiring more oral sex fantasies than film-goers had previously been aware of, courtesy of Sigourney Weaver in her spotlessly clean strip-me-and-lick-me underwear.

As with all the others in this whacked-out 'series', an insect has invaded human space because humans are incubators for its own generation. In reality, to take one example, mosquitoes drill into human flesh and in the process of sucking up our nutritious blood for their meal release thousands of spirochetes that head straight to the liver to thrive, and you don't even need to be a whisky man to send them clues. But they don't breed and burst out of a chest or a back, they just inflict malaria on the poor infected person, most commonly a child.

But, while Prometheus and Covenant pursue the 'origins of life' theory, I wonder if it so much more crude, and that the 'aliens' are stand-ins for immigrants, and that this whole enterprise has played on the 'fear of the other' where the 'other' is not a space alien, but a real person moving into a condo near you very soon. Whatever, the film is garbage, and as I assume Michael Fassbender did it for the money, I assume the nobodies in the rest of the cast were just relieved to get a job, even if they do only have two or three lines. Hell, for that kind of money I would do it.

[josehip]

Cont

200 Sierra Burgess Is a Loser 2018 Directed by Ian Samuels 4/5
201 Sixteen Candles 1984 Directed by John Hughes 3/5
202 The Breakfast Club 1985 Directed by John Hughes 4/5
203 Clear and Present Danger 1994 Directed by Phillip Noyce 3/5
204 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 Directed by Ron Howard 5/5
205 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
206 Mission: Impossible 1996 Directed by Brian De Palma 3/5
206 Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018 Directed by Stefano Sollima 2/5
207 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1983 Directed by Lamont Johnson 3/5
208 Hearts Beat Loud 2018 Directed by Brett Haley 5/5
209 Mandy 2018 Directed by Panos Cosmatos 3/5
210 The Fugitive 1993 Directed by Andrew Davis 4/5

Cont

211 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 3/5
212 A Star Is Born 1937 Directed by William A. Wellman 3/5
213 A Star Is Born 1954 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
214 Nappily Ever After 2018 Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour 4/5
215 A Star Is Born 1976 Directed by Frank Pierson 5/5

[slave2u]

jack reacher - never go back. solid thriller
(i think the tom cruise size reacher is more believable than the book version. reacher of the novels is a slightly less bronzed and more grizzled version of doc savage. he is the sort of bloke you see and think 'shit he is a bit of a big bloke and i bet he is handy - let's leave him alone. except in the books they don't. at least with tom cruise version you can see why people might want to mess with reacher).

captain america: winter soldier. thoroughly enjoyable. after the first wave of marvel films i stopped watching for a long period and now i am going back to them in no particular order (almost like collecting back issues). knowing what comes next it is interesting to see how they seed some ideas for a movie a few years down the line.
just wish the chaps in control of dc film properties would steal from marvel films and the bods doing dc tv series - because they are all doing it better than the dc films

both movies linked by cobie smulders.

[bluesoul]

1098160

earthquake bird is based on a book i still have not read and is scheduled for release next year. got to see it last week thought and was kinda blown away- well- its like a sataoshi kon film done pure (i.e. not anime). really loved the paranoia and the earthquakey stuff-

girl doing translations in .jp hated the japanese dude (supposed to) loved the main girl (i'd fuck her) what else? music was good too. i think they'll change stuff around though.

anyone in san sebastian know of some good 2nd hand book stores? give me a shout!

[Stavros]

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)

I am not a fan of del Toro's films, and this may be his worst, it doesn't matter. I paid £12 for it on blue ray and it is straight off to the charity shop next time I am in town, someone might like this pathetic fairy tale.

[josehip]

Cont

211 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 3/5
212 A Star Is Born 1937 Directed by William A. Wellman 3/5
213 A Star Is Born 1954 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
214 Nappily Ever After 2018 Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour 4/5
215 A Star Is Born 1976 Directed by Frank Pierson 5/5

Cont:

216 The Tree of Life 2011 (Extended Cut) Directed by Terrence Malick 5/5
217 Eighth Grade 2018 Directed by Bo Burnham 4/5
218 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
219 His Trysting Place 1914 Directed by Charlie Chaplin 4/5
220 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 Directed by Travis Knight 4/5
220 Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town 2017 Directed by Christian Papierniak 4/5
221 West Side Story 1961 Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 3/5
222 Wings 1927 Directed by William A. Wellman 5/5

OCTOBER
223 Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018 Directed by Peyton Reed 4/5
224 Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways 2004 Directed by Victory Tischler-Blue 4/5
225 Prince of Foxes 1949 Directed by Henry King 2/5
226 Damsel 2018 Directed by David Zellner, Nathan Zellner 5/5
227 Sorry to Bother You 2018 Directed by Boots Riley 4/5
228 Crosby Stills Nash & Young - VH1 Legends Documentary 5/5
229 Union Pacific 1939 Directed by Cecil B. DeMille 4/5
230 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 ‘Tagebuch einer Verlorenen’ Directed by G.W. Pabst 5/5
231 The Spy Who Dumped Me 2018 Directed by Susanna Fogel 4/5
232 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
233 The Night Comes For Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5
234 The Night Comes for Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5

[slave2u]

zombies.
not very good, but does have an ending much like 'the mist' which gets them some kudos.

[Stavros]

A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2019)

This is a tepid remake of a remake of a remake...I had heard of Lady Gaga before this but had never heard her sing, which as far as it goes is standard pop, the songs being pretty monotonous if also monotonously pretty, and her acting is sound as is that of Cooper. There are some unusually long takes for a film of this kind, so credit to Cooper for being brave with that, and also not loading the soundtrack with background music.

The problem is that the relationship between Jack and Ally does not follow the trajectory that was in the original, in which the capable manager who discovers raw talent becomes ever more possessive and jealous as his protege grows in popularity, attempting to transfer his self-destructive behaviour in a vindictive manner to her -forcing her to break free of his malign influence on her career.

In this film, Jakson is just another drink and drugs rock singer though he does't have an entourage that helps fuel his binges, just as he doesn't have any groupies in tow which is what we assume that kind of lifestyle to include. It means the central dynamic of the relationship lacks tension, confrontation, rage and violence, indeed Ally continues to love her man through to the end, with his own destruction to my mind lacking credibility. The film is also at least 20 minutes if not half an hour too long, but it is an ok experience otherwise, I would rate it 6/10. At least having heard Lady Gaga sing, I can ignore that part of her career for the rest of my life.

[blackchubby38]

A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2019)

This is a tepid remake of a remake of a remake...I had heard of Lady Gaga before this but had never heard her sing, which as far as it goes is standard pop, the songs being pretty monotonous if also monotonously pretty, and her acting is sound as is that of Cooper. There are some unusually long takes for a film of this kind, so credit to Cooper for being brave with that, and also not loading the soundtrack with background music.

The problem is that the relationship between Jack and Ally does not follow the trajectory that was in the original, in which the capable manager who discovers raw talent becomes ever more possessive and jealous as his protege grows in popularity, attempting to transfer his self-destructive behaviour in a vindictive manner to her -forcing her to break free of his malign influence on her career.

In this film, Jakson is just another drink and drugs rock singer though he does't have an entourage that helps fuel his binges, just as he doesn't have any groupies in tow which is what we assume that kind of lifestyle to include. It means the central dynamic of the relationship lacks tension, confrontation, rage and violence, indeed Ally continues to love her man through to the end, with his own destruction to my mind lacking credibility. The film is also at least 20 minutes if not half an hour too long, but it is an ok experience otherwise, I would rate it 6/10. At least having heard Lady Gaga sing, I can ignore that part of her career for the rest of my life.

I have seen the 1954 version of A Star is Born. The relationship between Norman and Vicki followed a similar trajectory to the one you're talking about. But while Norman may have been a little jealous of Vicki, he never became possessive of her and he never transferred his self destructive behavior to her. Vicki also continues to love Norman until the end. There is this great scene where she is having a breakdown and she talks about love not being enough. But when its time to start filming again, she becomes the consummate professional and goes back to work as if nothing has happened.

This video talks about the differences between the four films. From what I can tell, the relationship is about the same in 3 out of the 4 movies. The Streisand-Kristofferson being the lone exception.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akaPSGMi03k

[Stavros]

I have seen the 1954 version of A Star is Born. The relationship between Norman and Vicki followed a similar trajectory to the one you're talking about. But while Norman may have been a little jealous of Vicki, he never became possessive of her and he never transferred his self destructive behavior to her. Vicki also continues to love Norman until the end. There is this great scene where she is having a breakdown and she talks about love not being enough. But when its time to start filming again, she becomes the consummate professional and goes back to work as if nothing has happened.


A fair post and I stand corrected, I was going on my memory of the version with Judy Garland which is clearly at fault. It doesn't change my view of this version, perhaps the harshest moment is when Ally is in the bathtub and Jack tells her she is ugly. I am just not convinced by Jack's character.

[african1]

First Man..the moon landing by itself was worth it. It gave me chills.

[josehip]

Cont:

216 The Tree of Life 2011 (Extended Cut) Directed by Terrence Malick 5/5
217 Eighth Grade 2018 Directed by Bo Burnham 4/5
218 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
219 His Trysting Place 1914 Directed by Charlie Chaplin 4/5
220 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 Directed by Travis Knight 4/5
220 Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town 2017 Directed by Christian Papierniak 4/5
221 West Side Story 1961 Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 3/5
222 Wings 1927 Directed by William A. Wellman 5/5

OCTOBER
223 Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018 Directed by Peyton Reed 4/5
224 Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways 2004 Directed by Victory Tischler-Blue 4/5
225 Prince of Foxes 1949 Directed by Henry King 2/5
226 Damsel 2018 Directed by David Zellner, Nathan Zellner 5/5
227 Sorry to Bother You 2018 Directed by Boots Riley 4/5
228 Crosby Stills Nash & Young - VH1 Legends Documentary 5/5
229 Union Pacific 1939 Directed by Cecil B. DeMille 4/5
230 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 ‘Tagebuch einer Verlorenen’ Directed by G.W. Pabst 5/5
231 The Spy Who Dumped Me 2018 Directed by Susanna Fogel 4/5
232 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
233 The Night Comes For Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5
234 The Night Comes for Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5

back on my bs

Cont:
235 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016 Directed by Zack Snyder 4/5
236 Mile 22 2018 Directed by Peter Berg 2/5
237 BlacKkKlansman 2018 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
238 Malcolm X 1992 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
239 25th Hour 2002 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
240 Juliet, Naked 2018 Directed by Jesse Peretz 5/5
241 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 4/5
242 ‎Madeline's Madeline (2018) directed by Josephine Decker 4/5
243 The Other Side of the Wind 2018 Directed by Orson Welles 5/5
244 They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead 2018 Directed by Morgan Neville 5/5
245 Easy Rider 1969 Directed by Dennis Hopper 3/5
246 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Directed by John Ford 4/5
247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5
249 Sheba, Baby 1975 Directed by William Girdler 3/5
250 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
251 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015 Directed by Stanley Nelson
252 Outlaw King 2018 Directed by David Mackenzie 2/5
253 Munich 2005 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
254 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
255 Mission: Impossible III 2006 Directed by J.J. Abrams 4/5
256 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 Directed by Brad Bird 5/5
257 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 3/5
258 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 Directed by Jon M. Chu 2/5
259 The Happytime Murders 2018 Directed by Brian Henson 3/5
260 Peppermint 2018 Directed by Pierre Morel 4/5
261 ‎The Deadly Affair (1966) directed by Sidney Lumet 4/5
262 Venom 2018 Directed by Ruben Fleischer 4/5

[Stavros]

247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5


-Seriously? 4/5 for pretentious rubbish from Antonioni, 2/5 for a film with one of the best car chase sequenes on film! French Connection 1 is one of the best films ever made.

[josehip]

247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5


-Seriously? 4/5 for pretentious rubbish from Antonioni, 2/5 for a film with one of the best car chase sequenes on film! French Connection 1 is one of the best films ever made.

sorry bra. Ive seen like 30 movies with better car chase sequences than that crap.

[Torris]

Bohemian Rhapsody. Terrific performance by Rami Malek but I thought it had more of a Disney tragic feel good bio pic. They definitely skirted around his down low lifestyle to attract a wider audience

[blackchubby38]

sorry bra. Ive seen like 30 movies with better car chase sequences than that crap.

Name at least 5 of them so I can see if I disagree with you.

[Janet77]

Free Solo, the documentary about Alex Honnold, the man who climbed El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope. It is literally terrifying, the most exciting, scariest movie i have ever seen. You will want to hold your breath for the entire length of the movie. See it!

[Cereal Escapist]

Bohemian Rhapsody. Terrific performance by Rami Malek but I thought it had more of a Disney tragic feel good bio pic. They definitely skirted around his down low lifestyle to attract a wider audience

since most of the movie was made up and brian may is an asshole that thinks he matters and that anyone really gives a fuck him, I couldn't stand this movie.

i weep to think what we missed out on with SBC in the role and an actual movie.

In his last days, Freddie is reported to have said to his manager, Jim Beach, “Do anything you want with my music dear, but never make me boring!” and unfortunately, that is exactly what this supposed biopic does.

[Stavros]

sorry bra. Ive seen like 30 movies with better car chase sequences than that crap.

30? Go on then, list them, but please don't bother with the Fast and Furious crap. Three to consider: Bullit, The French Connection 1, and Driver, because in all three the chase sequences are not just chases for the sake of some spectacular driving, but fit with the story, with the added factor of the stunt driver in The French Connection being the driver of the 'other car' in Bullit. Driver has the merit of being superbly edited and photographed with a stunning sequence in the warehouse at the end where the cars do what humans do in films set in similar locations. There are some fine sequences in the Bourne trilogy too -but 30 better? Hmmm.

[WendyWilliams]

I just watched Love, Simon last night and it was so good.

[josehip]

30? Go on then, list them, but please don't bother with the Fast and Furious crap. Three to consider: Bullit, The French Connection 1, and Driver, because in all three the chase sequences are not just chases for the sake of some spectacular driving, but fit with the story, with the added factor of the stunt driver in The French Connection being the driver of the 'other car' in Bullit. Driver has the merit of being superbly edited and photographed with a stunning sequence in the warehouse at the end where the cars do what humans do in films set in similar locations. There are some fine sequences in the Bourne trilogy too -but 30 better? Hmmm.

Fast and Furious? Ew. Are you crazy?

[josehip]

Name at least 5 of them so I can see if I disagree with you.

only five?
The Driver (1978)
Mad Max
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Vanishing Point
The Getaway

[josehip]

30? Go on then, list them, but please don't bother with the Fast and Furious crap. Three to consider: Bullit, The French Connection 1, and Driver, because in all three the chase sequences are not just chases for the sake of some spectacular driving, but fit with the story, with the added factor of the stunt driver in The French Connection being the driver of the 'other car' in Bullit. Driver has the merit of being superbly edited and photographed with a stunning sequence in the warehouse at the end where the cars do what humans do in films set in similar locations. There are some fine sequences in the Bourne trilogy too -but 30 better? Hmmm.

The Driver (1978)
Mad Max
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Vanishing Point
The Getaway
Death Proof
Bullit
To Live and to day in LA
What's Up, Doc?
The Seven Ups
The original Gone in 60 Seconds
Ronin
Mad Max Fury Road
Jack Reacher
Mission Impossible Fallout
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Duel
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Smokey and Bandit.

These are some of the top of my head. I'm sure if I keep thinking I will remember more than 30.

[Stavros]

Mad Max (and all in the 'franchise'), Smokey and the Bandit, Death Proof - three films that can be dismissed as the rubbish that they are. To elevate such dross to the status of film would be to assassinate culture iteself.

Again, I come back to my point: why is there a car chase sequence, does it add to the narrative of the film or is it just as excuse to show off someone's driving skills? When you think of that you will understand why Bullit and Driver are in the top quartile and why some of the films on your list don't make the cut at all.

[josehip]

back on my bs

Cont:
235 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016 Directed by Zack Snyder 4/5
236 Mile 22 2018 Directed by Peter Berg 2/5
237 BlacKkKlansman 2018 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
238 Malcolm X 1992 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
239 25th Hour 2002 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
240 Juliet, Naked 2018 Directed by Jesse Peretz 5/5
241 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 4/5
242 ‎Madeline's Madeline (2018) directed by Josephine Decker 4/5
243 The Other Side of the Wind 2018 Directed by Orson Welles 5/5
244 They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead 2018 Directed by Morgan Neville 5/5
245 Easy Rider 1969 Directed by Dennis Hopper 3/5
246 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Directed by John Ford 4/5
247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5
249 Sheba, Baby 1975 Directed by William Girdler 3/5
250 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
251 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015 Directed by Stanley Nelson
252 Outlaw King 2018 Directed by David Mackenzie 2/5
253 Munich 2005 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
254 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
255 Mission: Impossible III 2006 Directed by J.J. Abrams 4/5
256 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 Directed by Brad Bird 5/5
257 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 3/5
258 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 Directed by Jon M. Chu 2/5
259 The Happytime Murders 2018 Directed by Brian Henson 3/5
260 Peppermint 2018 Directed by Pierre Morel 4/5
261 ‎The Deadly Affair (1966) directed by Sidney Lumet 4/5
262 Venom 2018 Directed by Ruben Fleischer 4/5

Cont

263 Halloween 2018 Directed by David Gordon Green 2/5
264 The Predator 2018 Directed by Shane Black 4/5
265 Skate Kitchen 2018 Directed by Crystal Moselle 3/5
266 The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2018 Directed by Desiree Akhavan 4/5
267 Disobedience 2017 Directed by Sebastián Lelio 4/5
268 But I’m a Cheerleader 1999 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
269 The Intervention 2016 Directed by Clea DuVall 5/5
270 Green Room 2015 Directed by Jeremy Saulnier 5/5
271 Addicted to Fresno 2015 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
271 Duck Butter 2018 Directed by Miguel Arteta 4/5
272 Everybody Knows 2018 Directed by Asghar Farhadi 4/5
273 Assassination Nation 2018 Directed by Sam Levinson 5/5
274 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Directed by John Carpenter 3/5
275 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Directed by Joseph Sargent 2/5
276 Friday Foster 1975 Directed by Arthur Marks 4/5
277 Gimme Danger 2016 Directed by Jim Jarmusch 4/5
278 Training Day 2001 Directed by Antoine Fuqua 3/5
279 A Simple Favor 2018 Directed by Paul Feig 5/5
280 Night School 2018 Directed by Malcolm D. Lee 2/5
281 Lizzie 2018 Directed by Craig Macneill 5/5
281 First Man 2018 Directed by Damien Chazelle 1/5
283 The House That Jack Built 2018 Directed by Lars von Trier 5/5
284 Private Life 2018 Directed by Tamara Jenkins 4/5
284 Bad Moms 2016 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 4/5
285 A Bad Moms Christmas 2017 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 3/5
286 Bird Box 2018 Directed by Susanne Bier 4/5
287 Captain Fantastic 2016 Directed by Matt Ross 3/5
288 Under the Silver Lake 2018 Directed by David Robert Mitchell 4/5
289 The Sisters Brothers 2018 Directed by Jacques Audiard 4/5
290 Bayonetta: Bloody Fate 2013 Directed by Fuminori Kizaki 3/5

[sukumvit boy]

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. New from the Coen brothers ,Premiering on Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2PyxzSH1HM

[Stavros]

BlackkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Spike Lee has turned a real life story into a feeble attempt to link events from the 1970s to contemporary America. He would have been better advised either to film the story, or make a documentary, in fact I think he could make an incendiary documentary that would get people talking in a positive way.
The script is poor, the acting laughable, both from the wooden Adam Driver to the cartoon Klansmen who are mostly either retarded or unhinged. Spike Lee is such an irritating director, loads of talent, but often lacking in focus, or too obsessed with his subject.

[Budweiser]

Spike Lee is a fucking moron and an anti-white racist.

[Stavros]

Spike Lee is a fucking moron and an anti-white racist.

A view that tells us more about you than it does about Spike Lee.

I like some of his films, not others, but he is clearly a gifted director so to call him a 'moron' is juvenile. The issue of race cannot be ignored, neither in the UK nor the US, and if Spike Lee makes provocative films, that is his choice, but perhaps he needs to if these issues are to be discussed, as indeed happened with his film Do the Right Thing (1989) which remains one his best. By offering a black view on race, he is not making films to make you or anyone else comfortable, though he has also made light-hearted films too. And if he is an 'anti-white racist' why has he made so many films with established white actors?

[bruce_willy]

I watched Three Identical Strangers the other day. Very powerful and well made documentary, but quite disturbing.

https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video128/v4/65/3c/f1/653cf176-5059-e18f-bd53-b1afa8145440/pr_source.lsr/268x0w.png

[josehip]

Lol lol

[josehip]

Cont

263 Halloween 2018 Directed by David Gordon Green 2/5
264 The Predator 2018 Directed by Shane Black 4/5
265 Skate Kitchen 2018 Directed by Crystal Moselle 3/5
266 The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2018 Directed by Desiree Akhavan 4/5
267 Disobedience 2017 Directed by Sebastián Lelio 4/5
268 But I’m a Cheerleader 1999 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
269 The Intervention 2016 Directed by Clea DuVall 5/5
270 Green Room 2015 Directed by Jeremy Saulnier 5/5
271 Addicted to Fresno 2015 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
271 Duck Butter 2018 Directed by Miguel Arteta 4/5
272 Everybody Knows 2018 Directed by Asghar Farhadi 4/5
273 Assassination Nation 2018 Directed by Sam Levinson 5/5
274 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Directed by John Carpenter 3/5
275 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Directed by Joseph Sargent 2/5
276 Friday Foster 1975 Directed by Arthur Marks 4/5
277 Gimme Danger 2016 Directed by Jim Jarmusch 4/5
278 Training Day 2001 Directed by Antoine Fuqua 3/5
279 A Simple Favor 2018 Directed by Paul Feig 5/5
280 Night School 2018 Directed by Malcolm D. Lee 2/5
281 Lizzie 2018 Directed by Craig Macneill 5/5
281 First Man 2018 Directed by Damien Chazelle 1/5
283 The House That Jack Built 2018 Directed by Lars von Trier 5/5
284 Private Life 2018 Directed by Tamara Jenkins 4/5
284 Bad Moms 2016 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 4/5
285 A Bad Moms Christmas 2017 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 3/5
286 Bird Box 2018 Directed by Susanne Bier 4/5
287 Captain Fantastic 2016 Directed by Matt Ross 3/5
288 Under the Silver Lake 2018 Directed by David Robert Mitchell 4/5
289 The Sisters Brothers 2018 Directed by Jacques Audiard 4/5
290 Bayonetta: Bloody Fate 2013 Directed by Fuminori Kizaki 3/5

cont
291 Bad Times at the El Royale 2018 Directed by Drew Goddard 4/5
292 Mid90s 2018 Directed by Jonah Hill 3/5
293 Paddington 2 2017 Directed by Paul King 4/5
294 Claire’s Camera 2017 ‘La caméra de Claire’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
295 The Cabin in the Woods 2012 Directed by Drew Goddard 4/5
296 Black Christmas 1974 Directed by Bob Clark 5/5
297 Yourself and Yours 2016 ‘당신자신과 당신의 것’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 5/5
298 First Man 2018 Directed by Damien Chazelle 4/5
299 Toni Erdmann 2016 Directed by Maren Ade 5/5
300 Transformer 2018 Directed by Michael Del Monte 4/5
301 Oki’s Movie 2010 Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
302 Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc 2017 ‘Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 5/5
303 The Trial of Joan of Arc 1962 ‘Procès de Jeanne d'Arc’ Directed by Robert Bresson 5/5
305 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 1999 ‘Joan of Arc’ Directed by Luc Besson 5/5
306 Saint Joan 1957 Directed by Otto Preminger 2/5
306 Breathless 1960 ‘À bout de souffle’ Directed by Jean-Luc Godard 5/5
307 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 ‘Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
308 The Old Man & the Gun 2018 Directed by David Lowery 4/5
309 Let the Sunshine In 2017 ‘Un beau soleil intérieur’ Directed by Claire Denis 4/5
310 The Apartment 1960 Directed by Billy Wilder 3/5

(FINISHED LAST YEAR WITH 310 MOVIES)

cont

Janeiro, 2019
1 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 ‘Le fantôme de la liberté’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 4/5
2 Un Chien Andalou 1929 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
3 Paris Belongs to Us 1961 ‘Paris nous appartient’ Directed by Jacques Rivette 5/5
4 L’Age d’Or 1930 ‘L'âge d'or’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 4/5
5 Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Directed by Jacques Rivette 5/5
6 Runaway 2018 Directed by Maja Vrvilo 4/5
7 Calypso 2018 Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi 5/5
8 The Brightest Star 2018 Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski 3/5
9 The Escape Artist 2018 Directed by Rainn Wilson 5/5
10 Antoine and Colette 1962 ‘Antoine et Colette’ Directed by François Truffaut 3/5
11 Wildlife 2018 Directed by Paul Dano 4/5
12 Leave No Trace 2018 Directed by Debra Granik
13 Reign of the Supermen 2019 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
14 The Death of Superman 2018 Directed by Jake Castorena, Sam Liu 2/5
15 Minding the Gap 2018 Directed by Bing Liu 4/5
16 The Girl in the Spider’s Web 2018 Directed by Fede Alvarez 3/5
17 Suspiria 2018 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
18 Tig Notaro: Happy To Be Here 2018 Directed by Tig Notaro 4/5
19 Widows 2018 Directed by Steve McQueen 3/5
20 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 Directed by Bryan Singer 4/5
21 Aquaman 2018 Directed by James Wan 4/5
22 A Star Is Born 2018 Directed by Bradley Cooper 2/5
23 Cold War 2018 ‘Zimna wojna’ Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski 5/5
24 Climax 2018 Directed by Gaspar Noé 5/5

[Stavros]

cont

5 Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Directed by Jacques Rivette 5/5


Did you watch all 12 hours+ in one session?

[Stavros]

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
This nice, gentle film is about a 17-18 year old girl in Sacramento who negotiates the route out of her High School and Family to university in New York, even though she shows little aptitude for academic work of any kind. It is a nice film with flawless acting from Laurie Metcalf (one of the original members of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago) and Saoirse Ronan, and really nice is all one can say, though not nice enough for Australia which censored the film because of bad language (in Australia!).

[MrFanti]

NETFLIX's "IO"..

[josehip]

Did you watch all 12 hours+ in one session?

I WISH! Did you? I watched 2-2-1-3. I love the whole thing.

[LilyRox]

Velvet Buzzsaw. Disappointing movie. Jake Gyllenhaal's great performance couldn't even save it.

[Stavros]

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)

This film was broadcast on Film 4 last night, and I didn't think I would last more than five minutes with its ghastly screaming queens, but ended up, in a manner of speaking, hooked to the end. I don't know if this is an accurate depiction of the chaotic, feral life many young transgenders live, the taxi driver with an obsession is probably closer to true life than many men would admit, and it does no favours to that part of West Hollywood I assume it was shot in -some of it on an Apple iPhone. One could attempt to insert morals, but the film does not, preferring to state matters of fact rather than hint at any judgement of the characters involved, all of whom are believabe. I understand a tangerine is a gift Americans give to each other on Christmas Eve -? never heard of this before- and while there is no tangerine in the film (unless it is on the dinner tabe in the taxi driver's aparment), in a touching moment at the end of the film when the two main characters are done arguing with each other, one offers the other the loan of her wig. The absurd made rational, the cold reality of life on the streets given, perhaps temporary, warmth.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3824458/technical?ref_=tt_dt_spec

[Gillian]

Alita: Battle Angel in 3D at my local IMAX and it was AMAZING ... :cool:

Not only is Alita's animation a technical tour de force but she's an interesting character to boot.

https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/Alita-Battle-Angel-early-buzz.jpg

[crazyeditor]

I watched this over the weekend for about the 10th
time. If you havn't seen it I highly recommend it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zJLlXq11L._SS500_.jpg

Great movie

[crazyeditor]

Body Double
1134227

[josehip]

Alita: Battle Angel in 3D at my local IMAX and it was AMAZING ... :cool:

Not only is Alita's animation a technical tour de force but she's an interesting character to boot.

https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/Alita-Battle-Angel-early-buzz.jpg

i need to watch that

[brooksglass]

Four Lions

[Stavros]

A Simple Favour (Paul Feig, 2018 )

Anna Kendrick is one of those women with whom you might want to settle down and have children, and a house in, well...Connecticut. It would certainly be more challenging, entertaining and worthwhile than this empty, convoluted tale of crazy women. On the other hand, I might try one of those martinis...

[Stavros]

The Hate You Give (George Tillman Jr, 2018 )

This is a frustrating film that contains two intense scenes which will resonate for some time, and scenes that either stretch the boundaries of credulity, or appear too morally righteous and idealistic in their appeal to unity and peace. The two outstanding scenes are the murder around on which the film pivots, and the scene toward the end when the policeman uncle of the witness walks her through the question and answer session that exposes the unjust means whereby a white policeman killing a black man will walk free from the crime. I was not convinced by the white school the girl and her younger brother go to, definitely not her white boyfriend (though in real life Sternberg's father is Danish) just as I felt the way their mother was made up to look like Michelle Obama was unnecessary, not least when some of the older black women in the film were vulgar stereotypes. Indeed, there are too many cardboard black and white people, especially the menacing drug lords inflicting pain and division 'on their own community' -whatever else this is, this ain't The Wire.
At least there is an impressive performance from Amandla Sternberg, previously the young black girl Rue whose death in The Hunger Games prompts that iconic moment when Jennifer Lawrence turns to the camera knowing everyone can see her, and makes a gesture of defiance that changes the trajectory of that film. It is a pity I can't give this film a better review, but it is too flawed if fascinating to watch -and it's not as if the murder of unarmed black men by law enforcement does not happen in the UK with more or less the same consequences. It does. And we await a film that will tell that story.

[Stevie.Thomas]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Genuinely one of the best super hero movies out beautifully animated, great characters and story.

[Budweiser]

American Sniper.

[Stavros]

Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed, 2019)

This two part dcumentary aired on the UK's Channel 4 this week. The film consists of interviews with two men who claim they were seuxally abused by Michael Jackson, with additional comments from their mothers, and in the case of one man, his sister and elder brother. The film has caused controversy because there is no comment from the Jackson family, friends and associates of his or the Jackson Estate. The two men have been accused of being liars, of using the film to make the money they failed to make from the Jackson estate, and that their testimony is copied from the testimony of other abused children to give it authenticity.

The problem with the critics, is that the two men offer graphic and compelling detail of the way in which Jackson first groomed them and their families, gradually deepening the relationship until it became sexual, details that can be found in the cases of child abuse we know from other cases, including priests in the Roman Catholic Church. Though this suggests there is a 'repertoire' of accusations that can be made, drawn from other cases and repeated by two men acting rather than telling the truth, one wonders why two men with wives and children would put themselves through this ordeal. And, while they may make money from this film, the Jackson Estate is also attempting to make money by suing HBO for $100 million.

I first saw Jackson when I think he was 10 and appeared on the Diana Ross Show, I thought he was a freak at the time and never had cause to change my mind in succeeding years, though I don't listen to that sort of music anyway and consider most of it is rubbish. I have also seen other children attempting to be pop stars in the age range of 10-14 and in most cases the voice is very loud, the singers can mimic well but the voice is raw, it has no colour or depth and above all, the children cannot sing properly. Indeed, many pop singers do not sing properly and damage themselves. For example, the singer Adele is just over 30 but has already had two operations to repair the damage she has caused to her vocal chords, while other singers such as Elton John, Justin Timberlake, and Björk have also had the operation. There has been a claim that Michael Jackson was 'surgically castrated' by being given regular and large doses of cyproterone to combat his acne, but a drug that also arrests puberty. This is nonsense, as Michael Jackson had a man's voice, and according to one coach could reach as deep as a bass when singing, if he wanted to.

Jackson's falsetto voice and women's make-up were all part of an act. The claim he never had a childhood is a weird one as it is clear that he did, and spent most of it with his brothers. That he may have been abused as a child could be important, but what cannot be denied is that he had some kind of aversion to women -it is claimed he never had sexual intercourse with his wife, and certainly did not with the mother of his two children. The evidence that Jackson was a serial abuser of boys to me seems impossible to deny, even if over many years 'only' five boys made allegatinos of molestation -should it have been more? Jackson spent most of his professional life with mature adults, but appears to have spent most of his leisure time with young boys.

Does it make any difference to the music? I cannot really say, as his music means nothing to me, and those who like it must make that decision. I have been listening to Wagner's music for more than 40 years even though I am aware of the nauseating things he said about Jews, tempered by the fact his writings are mostly garbage anyway, and he never harmed Jews, recruiting them as musicians in his orchestra at Bayreuth, and employing them as conductors of his music. He was unfaithful to both his wives, and in contemporary terms was probably a fraud having sold the rights to his Ring cycle to more than one person claiming their right was exlusive. Jackson, it seems to me, is a criminal on a different level, because he harmed people, because his interest in children was not natural.

Evidence can be found here:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/10-undeniable-facts-about-the-michael-jackson-sexual-abuse-allegations