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Iro, you going soft on us? These look like Sean ratings. Any specific thoughts on Blue Jay? I have almost started it a couple times.

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Blue Jay was well acted, sweet and pretty fun. It's basically one night of nostalgia between two high school sweethearts and is sad at times too. I liked it.

How rude. Anyway, Blue Jay is alright, all things considered. It's a quick and watchable little indie where the leads are pleasant and have good chemistry but I wouldn't consider it anything special.

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If you're into the dialogue (what little there is) being spoken in quasi-English - Fernando Rey keeps calling the tournament of Quintet a "tuna mint" - and half the movie seems to be the characters walking in the snow but going nowhere(!), as well as it's got to have one of the most horribly bombastic musical scores ever, then you should watch it and tell me what you think.

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Vasermil (Mushon Salmona, 2007)

Pete & Cleo (Travis Holt Hamilton, 2010)

Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 1972)

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The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, 1974)

After a fire breaks out in the tallest building in the world, San Francisco’s Glass Tower, the chief architect (Paul Newman) and the fire chief (Steve McQueen) must find a way to rescue those celebrating at a party for the grand opening.
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (Brian Levant, 2000)

The Last Supper (Stacy Title, 1995)

Winter Passing (Adam Rapp, 2006)

Tales of the Night (Michel Ocelot, 2011)

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Computerized updating of Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette animation style is utilized to tell a six-part story involving different cultures’ prince and princess fables.
White Noise 2: The Light (Patrick Lussier, 2007)

Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)

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A Call Girl (Damjan Kozole, 2009)

Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich, 1937)

Another funny Astaire-Rogers romantic comedy with a top Gershwin song score.
Blonde Ambition (Scott Marshall, 2007)

The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (Charles Grosvenor, 2000)

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The Story on Page One (Clifford Odets, 1959)

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Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones, 1995)

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The nephew (Tim Roth) of a Scottish nobleman (John Hurt) is the biggest scumbag that highland village protector Rob Roy (Liam Neeson) must face.
In the Cut (Jane Campion, 2003)

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Bad Spaniard: Luis García Berlanga and Executioner (José Luis García Berlanga, 2016)

Oh Woe Is Me (Jean-Luc Godard, 1993)

The Executioner (Luis Gª. Berlanga, 1964)

The first set of men, including the condemned, are about to enter the garotting room, and the second set is escorting the new executioner (Nino Manfredi), about to conduct his first in this most Berlangaish human comedy.

My last three 2016 watches before the Oscars and turning in my Mofo nominations. Still loads to watch but after this I will inevitably start concentrating on 2017. Really great year in film as usual. My top ten ending up being: La La Land, Hell Or High Water, The Nice Guys, Manchester By The Sea, American Honey, The Lobster, Hunt For The Wilder People, The Infiltrator, Fences, and The Light Between Oceans




Does exactly what it sets out to do, but man is this movie dumb. I think both the leads were good but besides that I don't get what people are seeing in this.




I expected a lot more from this especially after all the great reviews. The script wasn't great and I didn't think it looked as good as expected. So much gore that it lost all its effectiveness for me. I still enjoyed much of it, see score above, I was just expecting one of the years best.




Kind of the opposite of Hacksaw. I wasn't expecting much because of how I have heard it talked about both good and bad but it exceeded my expectations even if I don't love it. The opening credits were very Lynchian and I thought I was going to hate this thing. After that it was a pretty entertaining straight forward thriller, vapid, but entertaining.

If I had to pin down exactly why I think Swiss Army Man works, it's that it's sincere about its outwardly silly gross-out premise and actually achieves a degree of thematic and emotional resonance through its existentialist tale of a young man learning to either overcome or accept his personal shortcomings through his friendship with a talking corpse. Compare it against Sausage Party and the way that it based its smutty Pixar spoofing in some shallow anti-religion subtext, which is at least as likely to work against the film as give it substance.

Anyway, Hacksaw is definitely a film that benefits from lowered expectations - I ended up giving it a as well (albeit with reservations that make me think I should knock it down), but I got to go in before the acclaim had started so...that helps? The same thing happened with Nocturnal Animals but I found a lot less to appreciate about it.

I can understand that. I think it's a well made film and I can see people responding to the main characters because they are played well. Swiss Army Man will come down to how the plot device works for you. It didn't for me, not even a little. I snickered once, I was going to remember which part, but I can't.

I was close to turning it off at the start because of the farting until While not a favourite it did work for me some most likely because of the reasons Iro mentioned. Completely get someone not liking it of course.

If it wasn't for everything I heard about it I probably wouldn't have made it past Radcliffe as jet ski.

HAVE A HEART SEAN

I didn't like it either.

Put a cork in it Swan.

In my heart? Is that what you did?

Up your butt. Paul Dano or Stanley Hudson style. Whichever you prefer.

Rude and uncalled for. I'm getting Michael.

MICHAEL!!!

Oh that's funny... Michael!

La battaglia di Algeri The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) -
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) -
Turist Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014) -

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Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) -
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February Watches: * = Rewatch

Akira - +
Silence - -
Hidden Figures - -
Ernest & Celestine - +
Hell Or High Water -
The Cameraman -
Morvern Callar -
The Kid -
Vertigo* - +
Twin Peaks: FIre Walk With Me -
My Darling Clementine - -
Out Of The Blue -

Didn't get to see much.

2017 Watches: 33