What is The Last Movie You Watched?

Goodfellas, an ole school martin Schorhese Mob classic !

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.

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'.

The Post. Excellent movie.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Frances McDormand is simply amazing, as usual. But I think you are right about the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefD7UOhLCo

Dunkirk

Renegades.

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

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