patriot (aka rising fear) - give it a miss
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patriot (aka rising fear) - give it a miss
scouts guide to the zombie apocalypse.
entertaining.
bushwick - interesting idea, oddly executed.not what i was expecting, slightly disappointed.
I just watched the Shape of Water... I haven't stopped crying yet.
when that black and white dancing scene started my heart stopped.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlüeKarma
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.
Death wish 2
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Originally Posted by josehip
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
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).
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59 Annihilation 2018 Directed by Alex Garland 5/5 (again!) WHAT A MOVIE!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlüeKarma
Red Sparrow. JLaw shows her titties. Nice.
ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redballs
that woman is the worst!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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.
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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
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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
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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
I hated how it became something more than a comic book movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackchubby38
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anon011212
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.
glengarry glen ross
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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
Only 2? Why? John Wayne actually acts in that movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by josehip
Yeah, He quite good in that one, BUT, the movie is pure trash after the first 60 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
-Kate, a free, strong and progressive woman allows herself to be dragged for 8 miles by her husband? Okay, right.
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and then this old lady shows up and gives the middle finger to the feminist movement.
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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...
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.
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!
he acts in more movies than he is given credit for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by josehip
much of the 'politics' that appears in them being little more than reflections of the norms of the time.
'god of war' (2017) starring wehzhou zhao
True. People say same thing about Bogart as well. (in both cases they are 100% wrong)Quote:
Originally Posted by slave2u
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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
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.
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114 The Crowd Roars 1932 Directed by Howard Hawks 4/5
115 Coroner Creek 1948 Directed by Ray Enright 4/5
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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
national treasure 2 - which is pretty much the same as national treasure, but with added helen mirren.
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.
Just watched Swiss Army Man again since my wife had not seen it yet.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros