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Amelie , delightful.
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by josehip
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cereal Escapist
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!Quote:
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Ha! I love The Last Jedi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cereal Escapist
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.
Box busting is very funny. Do u have any links?Quote:
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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
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.
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.
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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
I watched M Night Shyamalan's The Visit (2015) on tv last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by josehip
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
- 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.
I watched Thirteen Days (2000) last night.
Not so bad (quite long movie as well)
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.
Ghostbusters 2016 Directed by Paul Feig 3/5Quote:
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackchubby38
Its not funny, at all. Can anyone name a scene that was funny?
And this, wtf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZhBUXNwzw
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."Quote:
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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.
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?
I really hope you're joking. Just hitting on a woman doesn't make a guy a sexual predator.Quote:
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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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by decastro
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
“Death of a Nation”
A TS porn movie!
Controversial film, any opinions you want to share with us?Quote:
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An 80s BBC (just to clarify, British TV) movie about a nuclear attack in Sheffield and the aftereffects. Not a feel good movie.
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.
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.
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.
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.