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Miss Vicky

12-03-15, 01:19 AM

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The Resident Bitch's Movie Log

I had intended to wait to start this thread until after the first of the year, but what the hell. There's no time like the present, right? Right. So in this thread I will post a rating for each film that I watch and maybe write a little about each of them as well. I've been in a bit of a movie watching slump lately and I'm hoping that starting this thread might prompt me to watch more films.

A Note About My Rating System: I'm not super strict about what a film must accomplish in order to get a high rating from me. I mostly take into account my overall enjoyment of the film, how the finished piece compared to my expectations, and how well I connected to the story and its characters. I may add or subtract a half a popcorn box or two for more specific things like performances and cinematography if there was something that stood out as particularly good or particularly bad about a movie.

A rating of 3.5 or higher means I liked the film. Anything above that is a measure of how much I liked it. A rating of 3 means I was fairly apathetic to it, and anything below that is just a measure of how much I disliked it.

Sanjay's Super Team / The Good Dinosaur (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1418055#post1418055)
Whiplash (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1418973#post1418973)
The Warriors (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1421584#post1421584)
Tokyo Godfathers (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1424151#post1424151)
Minions (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1428063#post1428063)
The Nut Job (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1429122#post1429122)
Mad Max: Fury Road (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1429258#post1429258)
Home (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1430199#post1430199)
Guardians of the Galaxy (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1432110#post1432110)
The Hateful Eight (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1432424#post1432424)
The Revenant (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1436286#post1436286)
Irrational Man (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1439243#post1439243)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1439407#post1439407)
Overboard (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1439664#post1439664)
Love & Mercy (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1439937#post1439937)
Wrinkles (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1440851#post1440851)
A Letter to Momo (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1443661#post1443661)
The Quick and the Dead (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1446326#post1446326)
The Times of Harvey Milk (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1446609#post1446609)
The Reckoning (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1449869#post1449869)
The 24th Day (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1453374#post1453374)
Quills (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1454660#post1454660)
Locke (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1455844#post1455844)
Charlie's Angels (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1456893#post1456893)
Mean Girls (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1464678#post1464678)
Gladiator (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1465190#post1465190)
The Third Man (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1466733#post1466733)
It's All About Love (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1467774#post1467774)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1468279#post1468279)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1469400#post1469400)
Legend (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1470383#post1470383)
Zootopia (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1473188#post1473188)
Wreck-It Ralph (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1481578#post1481578)
Inside Out (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1482442#post1482442)
Bolt (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1482816#post1482816)
Lilo & Stitch (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1487153#post1487153)
Silver Linings Playbook (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1490968#post1490968)
Room (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1491917#post1491917)
This Means War (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1492253#post1492253)
Sweet Sixteen (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1496767#post1496767)
Her (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1502770#post1502770)
Anomalisa (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1503589#post1503589)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1504279#post1504279)
Mr. Holmes (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1507966#post1507966)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1509130#post1509130)
Escape From New York (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1510653#post1510653)
Centurion (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1512904#post1512904)
Maps to the Stars (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1513155#post1513155)
Caveman (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1513366#post1513366)
Deadpool (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1513575#post1513575)
The Imitation Game (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1518369#post1518369)
Dances With Wolves (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1519001#post1519001)
The Nice Guys (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1519218#post1519218)
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1519871#post1519871)
Bubba Ho-Tep (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1520829#post1520829)
Conspiracy Theory (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1521825#post1521825)
Cinderella (1950) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1524209#post1524209)
8MM (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1524308#post1524308)
Not Cool (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1531148#post1531148)
A Streetcar Named Desire (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1531268#post1531268)
Peter Pan (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1532169#post1532169)
Piper / Finding Dory (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1534112#post1534112)
Internet Famous (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1536516#post1536516)
The Big Short (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1543882#post1543882)
Mower Minions / The Secret Life of Pets (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1544668#post1544668)
Wild Strawberries (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1550173#post1550173)
Written On the Wind (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1551203#post1551203)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1551679#post1551679)
Androcles and the Lion (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1551788#post1551788)
The Seventh Seal (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1553251#post1553251)
Seven Samurai (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1553444#post1553444)
12 Angry Men (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1554073#post1554073)
Rebel Without A Cause (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1554831#post1554831)
Smiles of a Summer Night (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1555147#post1555147)
Brink of Life (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1555168#post1555168)
Room at the Top (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1555603#post1555603)
Witness for the Prosecution (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1556040#post1556040)
Throne of Blood (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1556200#post1556200)
East of Eden (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1556486#post1556486)
On the Waterfront (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1556737#post1556737)
Mary and Max. (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1560496#post1560496)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1560691#post1560691)
Rocky (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1564825#post1564825)
The Blob (1958) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1568887#post1568887)
Lifted / Ratatouille (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1569615#post1569615)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1579947#post1579947)
The Dead Girl (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1580034#post1580034)
Samurai Rebellion (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1580468#post1580468)
Embrace of the Serpent (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1580752#post1580752)
Moonrise Kingdom (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1581492#post1581492)
Good Bye Lenin! (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1582542#post1582542)
Bringing Up Baby (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1582990#post1582990)
Ronin (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1585466#post1585466)
Ida (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1585878#post1585878)
The Flowers of War (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1586380#post1586380)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1587110#post1587110)
Fire in the Sky (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1590223#post1590223)
Le Cercle Rouge (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1592284#post1592284)
Fathers and Daughters (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1592787#post1592787)
Ghostbusters (2016) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1593786#post1593786)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1597776#post1597776)
Over the Hedge (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1598980#post1598980)
Jurassic World (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1599610#post1599610)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1599765#post1599765)
Ernest & Celestine (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1599919#post1599919)
Dark City (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1600294#post1600294)
The Wolf of Wall Street (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1600610#post1600610)
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A’s (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1601183#post1601183)
WALL•E (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1601502#post1601502)
The Secret of NIMH (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1602056#post1602056)
The Last Unicorn (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1602373#post1602373)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1602591#post1602591)
Treasure Planet (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1603076#post1603076)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1603511#post1603511)
Waltz With Bashir (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1603848#post1603848)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1604737#post1604737)
Tokyo Godfathers (New Review) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1605187#post1605187)
The Castle of Cagliostro (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1605814#post1605814)
The Land Before Time (http://www.movieforums.com/community/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=43738)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1610842#post1610842)
The House of Small Cubes / How the Grinch Stole Christmas (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1614055#post1614055)
The Incredibles (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1614378#post1614378)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1616205#post1616205)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1617727#post1617727)
Inner Workings / Moana (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1617818#post1617818)
The Ref (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1619654#post1619654)
Strange Days (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1620671#post1620671)
Kubo and the Two Strings (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1621243#post1621243)

January
The Rescuers (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1621869#post1621869)
Face/Off (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1622982#post1622982)
Y Tu Mamá También (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1625066#post1625066)
U Turn (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1625694#post1625694)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1626751#post1626751)
Romper Stomper (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1627232#post1627232)
Barbara (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1628076#post1628076)
The Sword in the Stone (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1629283#post1629283)
From Up On Poppy Hill (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1630277#post1630277)
Withnail & I (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1631118#post1631118)
American History X (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1631992#post1631992)
Fritz the Cat (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1632440#post1632440)
Batman: Year One (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1632730#post1632730)
The Man From Nowhere (2010) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1632733#post1632733)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1634512#post1634512)
Rock & Rule (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1635653#post1635653)
February
The City of Lost Children (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1636489#post1636489)
Joe (1970) (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1637475#post1637475)
Never Let Me Go (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1642105#post1642105)
Casablanca (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1648298#post1648298)
Midnight Run (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1650421#post1650421)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1653122#post1653122)
Perfect Blue (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1655183#post1655183)
Sanshiro Sugata (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1656557#post1656557)
March
Sausage Party (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1663470#post1663470)
Pinocchio (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1670560#post1670560)
Cameraman's Revenge (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1672470#post1672470)
Untamed Heart (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1679915#post1679915)
April
Grosse Pointe Blank (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1683328#post1683328)
RocknRolla (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1683329#post1683329)
Leap of Faith (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1686676#post1686676)
Cliffhanger (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1686691#post1686691)
Pulp Fiction (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1686800#post1686800)
Captain Fantastic (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1687018#post1687018)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1687633#post1687633)
The Great Dictator (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1688019#post1688019)
Wings of Desire (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1688397#post1688397)
Buffalo '66 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1688865#post1688865)
The Quiet Earth (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1689450#post1689450)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1690031#post1690031)
The Three Musketeers (1973) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1690947#post1690947)
Forbidden Games (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1691665#post1691665)
The Hunt (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1692398#post1692398)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1693575#post1693575)
Dead Poets Society (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1695815#post1695815)
May
Flesh + Blood (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1696764#post1696764)
Nightmare Alley (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1698473#post1698473)
Manchester By the Sea (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1698964#post1698964)
The Aristocats (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1701825#post1701825)
Sing (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1702818#post1702818)
Robots (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1702825#post1702825)
Dances With Wolves (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1703048#post1703048) (New Review)
Toy Story (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1705497#post1705497)
Bronson (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1705950#post1705950)
Mandingo / Drum (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1708495#post1708495)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1709723#post1709723)
June
Beauty and the Beast (2017) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1716151#post1716151)
The Mummy (2017) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1717929#post1717929)
The Lego Batman Movie (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1720186#post1720186)
Lou / Cars 3 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1728901#post1728901)
July
Lady Macbeth (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1740438#post1740438)
Intruders (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1740455#post1740455)
August
The Sandlot (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1752445#post1752445)
The Help (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1761072#post1761072)
The Hurricane (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1761327#post1761327)
Barton Fink (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1764731#post1764731)
Black Snake Moan (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1765381#post1765381)
September
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1768939#post1768939)
Empire of Passion (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1769501#post1769501)
M (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1770042#post1770042)
Passengers (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1772158#post1772158)
Lone Star (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1774188#post1774188)
Mommy (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1775630#post1775630)
Night On Earth (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1783298#post1783298)
Time of the Gypsies (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1785221#post1785221)
Paranorman (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1785568#post1785568)
October
La Grande Illusion (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1796086#post1796086)
Contratiempo (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1821689#post1821689)
November
The Frozen Ground (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1825417#post1825417)
Olaf's Frozen Adventure / Coco (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1829900#post1829900)
December
The Boss Baby (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1836647#post1836647)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1836650#post1836650)
Army of Darkness (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1842123#post1842123)
Fido (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1853951#post1853951)
Brief thoughts on: Your Name, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Despicable Me 3, Tokyo Godfathers, Die Hard, Love Actually, The Help, School of Rock, and In This Corner of the World (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1849780#post1849780)

Movies Watched - 2018
January
12 Years a Slave (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1849854#post1849854)
Moonlight (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1850468#post1850468)
Mutiny On the Bounty (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1850818#post1850818)
Argo (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1851238#post1851238)
Forrest Gump (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1851649#post1851649)
The Godfather (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1852084#post1852084)
Rocky (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1852580#post1852580) (New Review)
The Silence of the Lambs (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1852887#post1852887)
All the King's Men (1949) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1853020#post1853020)
On the Waterfront (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1853535#post1853535) (New Review)
A Beautiful Mind (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1853937#post1853937)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1854467#post1854467)
Gladiator (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1855517#post1855517) (New Review)
February
Glory (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1867681#post1867681)
Out of the Blue (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1868086#post1868086)
Shallow Grave (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1868451#post1868451)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1869271#post1869271)
The Station Agent (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1869543#post1869543)
American Graffiti (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1870223#post1870223)
The Elephant Man (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1871340#post1871340)
In the Mood for Love (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1872444#post1872444)
Rebecca (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1873721#post1873721)
March
L'Avventura (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1875000#post1875000)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1882154#post1882154)
The Emoji Movie (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1884066#post1884066)
April
Ferdinand (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1887125#post1887125)
Call Me By Your Name (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1889913#post1889913)
Big (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1892356#post1892356)
You Were Never Really Here (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1893312#post1893312)
May
Waterloo Bridge (1931) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1900674#post1900674)
Frances Ha (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1901292#post1901292)
The Breadwinner (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1901718#post1901718)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1901977#post1901977)
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1902156#post1902156) (New Review)
Poison for the Fairies (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1903635#post1903635)
Wait Until Dark (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1904278#post1904278)
Naked (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1905181#post1905181)
Mr Freedom (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1905994#post1905994)
June
Three Monkeys (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1907409#post1907409)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1910254#post1910254)
Call Me By Your Name (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1911052#post1911052) (New Review)
Bao / Incredibles 2 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1923172#post1923172)
July
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1923173#post1923173)
The Bodyguard (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1934892#post1934892)
Amos & Andrew (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1934898#post1934898)
August
*No films watched in August*
September
The Dressmaker (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1950003#post1950003)
Amélie (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1950897#post1950897)
Day for Night (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1951188#post1951188)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1951238#post1951238)
Lean On Pete (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1951503#post1951503)
The Libertine (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1952779#post1952779)
The Innocents (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953054#post1953054)
Pixote (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953133#post1953133)
Let the Right One In (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953289#post1953289)
Rush (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953310#post1953310)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953546#post1953546)
Ghostwatch (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1953905#post1953905)
Incendies (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1954323#post1954323)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1954997#post1954997)
October
The Aviator (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1956180#post1956180)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1959236#post1959236)
The Sisters Brothers (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1966343#post1966343)
November
Gremlins (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1967544#post1967544)
Gremlins (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1970656#post1970656) (Yes, again)
Surf's Up (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1971166#post1971166)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1971275#post1971275)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1971406#post1971406)
December
An American Crime (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1972494#post1972494)
Boy Erased (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1974322#post1974322)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1975047#post1975047)
Love, Actually (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1975694#post1975694)
Arachnophobia (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1975695#post1975695)
The Ref (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1976701#post1976701)
Isle of Dogs (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1977105#post1977105)
Early Man (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1977891#post1977891)

Movies Watched - 2019
January
Wolf (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1979589#post1979589)
The Skin I Live In (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1979810#post1979810)
Interview With the Vampire (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1983457#post1983457)
Abandon Ship (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1986267#post1986267) (a.k.a. Seven Days From Now)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1986662#post1986662)
February
Split (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1987363#post1987363) (1989)
Road to Perdition (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1987565#post1987565)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1987805#post1987805)
The King of Comedy (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1988011#post1988011)
Perfect Blue (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1988488#post1988488)
The Kid Who Would Be King (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1989205#post1989205)
The Florida Project (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1990386#post1990386)
Brimstone (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1990813#post1990813)
The Square (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1992142#post1992142)
The Little Stranger (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1992400#post1992400)
Bubba Ho-Tep (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1992495#post1992495)
March
A Bug's Life (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1993572#post1993572)
Coco (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1993582#post1993582)
Finding Nemo (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1993774#post1993774)
The Incredibles (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1994043#post1994043)
Monsters University (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1994241#post1994241)
Ratatouille (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1994825#post1994825)
Toy Story (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=43738&page=68)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1995549#post1995549)
Up (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1996442#post1996442)
April
Mary Magdelene (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2006256#post2006256)
May
Big Hero 6 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2014108#post2014108)
The Professor (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2014109#post2014109)
Tombstone (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2014312#post2014312)
Open Range (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2014491#post2014491)
Raging Bull (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2014803#post2014803)
Gaslight (1940) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2015479#post2015479)
June
Gaslight (1944) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2015604#post2015604)
Safety Last! (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2015709#post2015709)
The Godfather (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2015745#post2015745)
The Virgin Spring (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2016201#post2016201)
Angel Face (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2016678#post2016678)
Cinema Paradiso (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2017101#post2017101)
Pulp Fiction (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2017265#post2017265)
Return to Paradise (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2017281#post2017281)
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2018152#post2018152)
July
Diary of a Lost Girl (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2023262#post2023262)
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2023358#post2023358)
The Wind in the Willows (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2024501#post2024501) (1983)
Meet the Robinsons (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2024796#post2024796)
Wizards (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2024861#post2024861)
The Sword in the Stone (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2025402#post2025402)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2025851#post2025851)
Spirited Away (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2026140#post2026140)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2026501#post2026501)
August
Your Name. (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2027477#post2027477)
Tower (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2027556#post2027556)
Ernest & Celestine (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2027573#post2027573)
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2027772#post2027772)
Burn After Reading (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2028177#post2028177)
Troy (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2028865#post2028865)
A Town Called Panic (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2032919#post2032919)
The Dark Knight (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2033325#post2033325)
September
Lilo & Stitch (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2033437#post2033437)
October
Joker (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2039578#post2039578)
The Squid and the Whale (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2039882#post2039882)
High Noon (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2039957#post2039957)
We Own the Night (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2039988#post2039988)
Ghostbusters (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2040196#post2040196) (1984)
Inventing the Abbotts (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2040383#post2040383)
Monsters, Inc. (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2040841#post2040841)
Rear Window (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2041436#post2041436)
The Music Man (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2042009#post2042009)
Phantom Thread (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2042600#post2042600)
Blood Simple (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2042626#post2042626)
The Sisters Brothers (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2042737#post2042737)
Cool Hand Luke (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2042804#post2042804)
Elmer Gantry (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2043352#post2043352)
Signs (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2043837#post2043837)
Brother Bear (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2044737#post2044737)
Ladder 49 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2044741#post2044741)
Clay Pigeons (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045092#post2045092)
November
Joker (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045224#post2045224)
You Were Never Really Here (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045274#post2045274)
Hotel Rwanda (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045377#post2045377)
The Yards (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045546#post2045546)
Toy Story 4 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2045926#post2045926)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046157#post2046157)
Inherent Vice (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046594#post2046594)
The Master (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046700#post2046700)
Walk the Line (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046729#post2046729)
U Turn (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046795#post2046795)
8MM (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2046816#post2046816)
The Immigrant (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2047078#post2047078)
To Die For (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2047968#post2047968)
Buffalo Soldiers (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2047981#post2047981)
Two Lovers (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2048046#post2048046)
I'm Still Here (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2048107#post2048107)
It's All About Love (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2048300#post2048300)
Reservation Road (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2048464#post2048464)
The Village (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2048657#post2048657)
The Appaloosa (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2049086#post2049086) (1966)
Shane (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2049152#post2049152)
The Hanging Tree (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2049159#post2049159)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2049498#post2049498)
The Man From Snowy River (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2049648#post2049648)
The Big Country (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2050007#post2050007)
The Quick and the Dead (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2050091#post2050091)
December
Hombre (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2050292#post2050292)
Sukiyaki Western Django (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2050377#post2050377)
One-Eyed Jacks (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2050991#post2050991)
Hostiles (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2052100#post2052100)

Miss Vicky

12-03-15, 01:27 AM

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Sanjay’s Super Team (Sanjay Patel, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4661600/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 11/29/15
Cinema or Home: Cinema (with Funny Face)
Reason For Watching: It’s Pixar
Rewatch: No

This is the short that appears before The Good Dinosaur. Like the feature that follows it, Sanjay’s Super Team is entertaining and at times quite touching, but there’s nothing particularly original in its premise or themes.

3.5

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The Good Dinosaur (Peter Sohn, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979388/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 11/29/15
Cinema or Home: Cinema (with Funny Face)
Reason For Watching: It’s Pixar
Rewatch: No

Ever since seeing the trailer for this film, I’ve had my reservations about it. The scenery in the film is hyper-realistic and breathtakingly gorgeous, but the characters – particularly the main dinosaur Arlo – are very cartoonish in design. I found this clash of styles to be rather distracting. The film also suffers from a rather uninspired story and clichéd plot devices (orphaned protagonists, anyone?). Still, there’s enough humor and enough heart here to make for a very watchable but not especially memorable film.

3.5

Swan

12-03-15, 01:30 AM

I'm expecting a lot of bitchiness in this thread, or I will be sorely disappointed. :)

Zotis

12-03-15, 01:32 AM

-Pokes in-

I'm curious to see what you'll tend to watch leading into the new year.

Camo

12-03-15, 08:10 AM

That's pretty much what i've been hearing about The Good Dinosaur, looks great but has an uninspired story. Still looking forward to it though.

Iroquois

12-03-15, 08:18 AM

I'm expecting a lot of bitchiness in this thread, or I will be sorely disappointed. :)

I can hardly wait.

seanc

12-03-15, 08:29 AM

Glad your doing this MV, I enjoy the movie logs. I expect a have dose of PTA in here. ;)

Kind of wish I had went to Good Dinosaur like I planned last weekend because everything I am hearing is saying skip it.

Gatsby

12-03-15, 08:54 AM

Oh *****, now I'm the one who has never a done a log before.

Good luck MV. :)

False Writer

12-03-15, 09:49 AM

The Resident Bitch's Movie Log

Oh *****, now I'm the one who has never a done a log before.

Such rude language in this thread!!! :mad:

Miss Vicky

12-03-15, 10:57 AM

Such rude language in this thread!!! :mad:

What the **** are you talking about, man?

http://www.angelfire.com/music6/walteregan/MovieLog/thedude.jpg

Miss Vicky

12-03-15, 11:15 AM

Kind of wish I had went to Good Dinosaur like I planned last weekend because everything I am hearing is saying skip it.

It's a good movie, it's just nowhere near as good as what I know Pixar is capable of producing. Funny Face and I both had a fun time with it.

honeykid

12-03-15, 05:56 PM

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. It'd be nice to have you around the place a little more, MV. :)

christine

12-03-15, 06:14 PM

Good to see you MV, looking forward to reading your thoughts :)

SilentVamp

12-03-15, 06:18 PM

Oh *****, now I'm the one who has never a done a log before.
I haven't, obviously, done one either. I contemplated it for awhile. I figured I would start in January, but I can't say that I have been very faithful with my movie-watching this year. Who knows if I will be any better with it next year? So I don't think it would be worthwhile for me to even begin one.

MV, it is good to see that you've started one, though, and I will be following along.

Miss Vicky

12-05-15, 03:51 AM

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Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 12/04/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It was available on Starz Play
Rewatch: No

I'd heard nothing but great things about this film and, in particular, about the performance of J.K. Simmons. There's no doubt that Simmons deserves this praise. His performance is phenomenal. Fletcher's intensity and volcanic temper are riveting. He's so unlikable that he's almost likable.

Andrew Neiman, on the other hand, I found totally unlikable and because of this, I struggled to connect with the film. I suppose I was meant to respect his drive, but he was far too self centered and arrogant for me to care. Still, there's more than enough in what Simmons has to offer to make for a compelling and very watchable film. I just don't know if it's something I'll revisit.

4-

Zotis

12-05-15, 06:46 AM

I'm surprised you gave Whiplash 4 stars even with that criticism of the main character. I'm glad you liked it though.

honeykid

12-05-15, 10:37 AM

Like Zotis I'm surprised you've rated it so well given what you've written about the film. Not that I think you've under or over rated it, I've not seen it,

Miss Vicky

12-05-15, 10:57 AM

Simmons was just that good.

honeykid

12-05-15, 11:07 AM

That's kind of what I figured.

seanc

12-05-15, 11:11 AM

I gave it the same rating MV, one of the best from last year. It's picking at gnats, but I think you are supposed to geel exactly the way you did about Nieman. So whether that is a strike against or not is up to the viewer. Empathy can't always be our entry point.

Miss Vicky

12-05-15, 11:19 AM

Empathy can't always be our entry point.

I'm not necessarily looking to empathize with a character, though. Hatred or respect work just as well to help me connect, but I felt neither for Andrew - which made certain scenes lose a lot of their potential impact for me.

seanc

12-05-15, 11:28 AM

I'm not necessarily looking to empathize with a character, though. Hatred or respect work just as well to help me connect, but I felt neither for Andrew - which made certain scenes lose a lot of their potential impact for me.

I get you. He is an arrogant jerk. I think the dilemma of the character is whether he is going to allow himself to become Fletcher or not. Glad you enjoyed it. I have watched it twice now and think highly of it.

Gideon58

12-05-15, 12:02 PM

Zotis

12-06-15, 06:38 AM

Personally I liked Andrew and felt that I could relate a lot to him. After I watched it, I got the urge to put everything I have into my own passions. It was a really inspiring movie. It's pretty amazing what a person can accomplish if they really give it their all. And it's possibly my favorite J.K. Simmons performance. He is such a beast the way he pulled off all that intensity.

Zotis

12-10-15, 01:59 AM

Hey, when's the next update? :p

Miss Vicky

12-10-15, 02:10 AM

Hey, when's the next update? :p

Whenever I watch another movie. :laugh:

Zotis

12-10-15, 02:18 AM

You mean you haven't watch a movie for four days? :O

Miss Vicky

12-10-15, 02:19 AM

You mean you haven't watch a movie for four days? :O

I've been busy with other things. Maybe I'll watch something tomorrow.

Iroquois

12-10-15, 02:29 AM

You mean you haven't watch a movie for four days? :O

Not everyone is me.

Zotis

12-10-15, 03:22 AM

I've been busy with other things. Maybe I'll watch something tomorrow.

Oh no... I think you get banned from movieforums.com if you go 5 days without watching a movie...

Cole416

12-10-15, 08:37 AM

Every morning I get on and my day gets gradually worse after I find out there's no update to your thread.

So basically it's been sh*tty for the past 3 days. :p

Update this pls!

Gatsby

12-10-15, 07:30 PM

Empathy can't always be our entry point.
I think this is what I keep telling you whenever disagree with one of my favs. Have you finally learned? :D

Obviously I liked the movie way better than Miss Vicky did but I'm giving her a thumbs up because she didn't give it a bad rating at all.

Miss Vicky

12-10-15, 10:00 PM

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The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 12/10/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It seems to be popular on MoFo
Rewatch: No

This was a good bit of stupid fun. The acting was pretty terrible and the story was near non-existent but it had a cool soundtrack and was an entertaining watch. I did find the costume design a bit distracting and laughable though. Am I really meant to buy that these effeminate looking dudes in matching outfits are tough street gangs and not just people with s***ty fashion sense? Because they look more like poorly dressed dance troupes on their way to a competition than anybody to be feared.

3.5+

Zotis

12-11-15, 01:14 AM

The Warriors, classic. :up:

I pretty much agree with you about the acting and story. It's a fairly unique movie, so I liked it for that.

honeykid

12-11-15, 08:08 AM

The Warriors is brilliant. I love that film so much. It's a huge part of my childhood.

I was looking at when you watched it and wondered how the hell you managed to watch it tomorrow, considering that you're on the wrong side of the planet for that to be the case. Then I realised that you all put the date the wrong way around. :D

Iroquois

12-11-15, 03:26 PM

All things considered, I find these "you haven't updated your thread in days" posts rather amusing.

Meanwhile, as much as I love The Warriors, I am not surprised to see people think of it as just good.

rauldc14

12-11-15, 04:09 PM

The Warriors is a decent flick, I suppose.

Thursday Next

12-11-15, 04:43 PM

I did find the costume design a bit distracting and laughable though. Am I really meant to buy that these effeminate looking dudes in matching outfits are tough street gangs and not just people with s***ty fashion sense?

This is what I like most about this film. :)

mark f

12-11-15, 05:00 PM

The Warriors is good for a few laughs, nothing more. Actually, the best thing about this trailer is the Tangerine Dream music from Sorcerer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhIRuAsiFQQ

Camo

12-11-15, 06:50 PM

This is what I like most about this film. :)

Same. I'm not even a big fan of the film, but their outfits are brilliant. Miss Vicky, it is basically West Side Story without the Musical element and with more repressed dancing outbursts :D

cricket

12-12-15, 09:14 AM

Glad you enjoyed The Warriors, one of my favorites. As far as them not looking like tough street gang types, don't forget that this was before everyone wanted to bulk up and cover themselves in tattoos. People just looked like people back then, with the exception commonly being with the clothes they wore. Even how regular people a few years later in the 80's dressed and wore their hair can look funny now.

edarsenal

12-15-15, 02:46 PM

I love the smell of bitchiness in the morning!

Great start!!

Citizen Rules

12-15-15, 02:54 PM

Love The Warriors, all the gangs were 'dressed up' because they were wearing their special 'colors' to attend a huge gang rally. We're not suppose to believe they always looked like this.

The director has also said the film is set in a semi-dystopian near-future, and is a parable of Homer's Odysssey, so this is not about real gang members.

You guys who are dissing this film as just cheesy fun, really need to dig deeper. There's a lot more to this film.

Miss Vicky

12-15-15, 03:03 PM

You guys who are dissing this film as just cheesy fun, really need to dig deeper. There's a lot more to this film.

Enlighten us.

Citizen Rules

12-15-15, 03:04 PM

I thought I just did;)

Miss Vicky

12-15-15, 03:07 PM

I thought I just did;)

What then was the moral or spiritual lesson the viewer is supposed to glean from this?

Citizen Rules

12-15-15, 03:21 PM

Not all great movies have moral or spiritual lessons. The Warriors works as a journey adventure, that the viewer undertakes as we enter the world of The Warriors and try to make it back through hostile terrain to a safe shore. It might be more of a film that guys can relate to. But the character of Mercy has got to be one of the most self deprecating characters I've seen on film. The actresses did a bang up job (pun intended), seriously a very memorable character study. Some of the main characters in the movie are archetypes for Greek mythos. Ajax was a character in the Odyssey.

On top of all that it was one helluva tense action movie for it's time. I seen it first run at the movie theaters. I left the theater feeling pumped and ready to battle (but instead my parents drove me home in their old 4 door car;))

Swan

12-15-15, 03:26 PM

The Warriors is good for a few laughs, nothing more. Actually, the best thing about this trailer is the Tangerine Dream music from Sorcerer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhIRuAsiFQQ

Tangerine Dream is usually the best thing about anything.

Miss Vicky

12-15-15, 03:33 PM

Not all great movies have moral or spiritual lessons.[I]

I never said they did. You said it was intended as a parable of The Odyssey.

"Parable" is defined as a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. I see no lesson here.

Citizen Rules

12-15-15, 03:40 PM

Did I say parable? I must have meant parallel;)

The lesson was survival or better yet, don't trust chicks packin' heat who invite you in to party.

BTW, did you see the original version or the lesser Director's Cut with the silly comic book scene wipes?

honeykid

12-15-15, 03:47 PM

Tangerine Dream is usually the best thing about anything.
A, no. And, B, definitely not in the case of The Warriors.

I'm almost certain she saw the directors cut as its' the only one available on dvd.

Swan

12-15-15, 03:49 PM

A, no.

Yes yes and more yes! Phaedra for the win!

Citizen Rules

12-15-15, 03:53 PM

I'm almost certain she saw the directors cut as its' the only one available on dvd. Ahh, see that's too bad that cut is out there, it makes the film look silly with the comic book crap added in. If I had a first watching now of that I might not think so highly of the film as I do.

Miss Vicky

12-15-15, 04:00 PM

I saw whichever version is on Netflix. I don't remember any "comic book crap" but it certainly didn't need that to look silly. ;)

Also, I don't see much of a parallel to The Odyssey, unless you count being attacked by weird looking creatures.

The fact that they trusted The Lizzies and didn't suspect the obvious trap only adds to my not buying them as tough street fighters.

mark f

12-15-15, 04:02 PM

But the original is what they show on cable, in the U.S. anyway. Go The Wanderers!

honeykid

12-15-15, 04:58 PM

Ah, if she watched it on Netflix, then it may well be the proper version.

Do they have this song in the US version? Because it's not on the Directors Cut over here, which is the worst crime about that cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK4iHgEnKJo

AboveTheClouds

12-15-15, 05:16 PM

I bought the original warriors ten years ago on DVD without the Special Edition, that came out a few years later with the comic book transitions and the behind the scenes interviews and stuff. You can still get the original version, and Netflix last time I checked (In Canada anyway) had the original version without the comic book transitions.

http://www.ascully.com/images/bluray/thewarriors/cover.jpg
Collectors Edition

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JG4BY42PL._SY300_.jpg
Original Edition (Without Comic book Transitions)

Camo

12-15-15, 05:44 PM

The Netflix one is the original.

Iroquois

12-16-15, 07:46 AM

Though The Warriors does have Odyssey-like elements to it (the most obvious example being the Siren-like Lizzies), the core narrative is based off a different Greek historical text known as Xenophon's Anabasis, which chronicles a Greek army fighting their way through hostile territory following the death of a Persian general called Cyrus. I've seen it about twenty times by this point and I reckon that, if there's a deeper meaning to this film, then it's not really that much deeper than its gaudy action-packed surface. You get the odd humanising moment but that's about it.

Also, the Director's Cut is a cinematic abomination.

honeykid

12-16-15, 09:18 AM

No, there's nothing 'deep' about The Warriors. Being based on ancient texts/storyine/fairytales/myths/whatever is not the same as deep.

Now, if you want to analyse something and find stuff to support a hypothesis or something, that's a different matter.

Miss Vicky

12-16-15, 05:41 PM

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Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon and Shôgo Furuya, 2003)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q=tokyo+godfathers&s=all)

Date Watched: 12/16/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It's a Christmas movie
Rewatch: Yes

I watched this for the first time back in June after really enjoying Kon's other three features. I didn't know that it was a Christmas movie at the time which may have slightly affected my enjoyment of it. So I decided to revisit it now.

Like most Christmas movies, it does suffer from being overly sentimental at times and some of the events are difficult to believe, with the film expecting you to accept them as Christmas miracles. Still, I find this tale of a misfit surrogate family of homeless people hiding from their pasts - a drunken middle aged man, a transsexual, a teenaged runaway and an abandoned baby - to be really endearing and quite funny.

4+

cricket

12-16-15, 05:43 PM

I seem to remember Kon being the director of a couple movies I really liked. I might try that.

Camo

12-16-15, 06:00 PM

That's the only Kon i haven't watched yet.

Zotis

12-17-15, 03:04 AM

I haven't seen it, but I hear great things about it. And I love Kon. Glad you liked it Vicky, especially since it's Anime. XD

Miss Vicky

12-17-15, 03:10 AM

I haven't seen it, but I hear great things about it. And I love Kon. Glad you liked it Vicky, especially since it's Anime. XD

I don't hate Anime, I've just been mostly indifferent to what I've seen. Kon is the only Anime director that has truly impressed me and I've added all four of his movies to my collection. I will say though that Tokyo Godfathers is stylistically different than the other Kon films in that the surrealistic elements are very minimal.

Zotis

12-17-15, 03:25 AM

I'd recommend Perfect Blue the most. That's my favorite of his.

Have you seen anything by Masaaki Yuasa?

Miss Vicky

12-17-15, 04:00 AM

I liked Paprika the most, but Perfect Blue is excellent too.

I don't think I've seen anything by Yuasa. Most of the anime I've seen has been from Studio Ghibli.

Zotis

12-17-15, 06:21 AM

Check out the movie Jin Roh. It's a psychological thriller/drama with a bit of a futuristic little red riding hood story.

Miss Vicky

12-25-15, 01:04 PM

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Minions (Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2293640/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 12/24/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I received the bluray for Christmas
Rewatch: No

Sequels and prequels often fail to measure up to original films and spin-offs of secondary characters are nearly always much, much worse (I’m looking at you, Puss In Boots!). So when I heard about Minions, I had a lot of reservations and ended up skipping it at the theater.

There’s no doubt that this is a far cry from Despicable Me, which is one of my all time favorite animated films, but it was still a very watchable movie and even had a few laugh out loud moments. The fact that Bob befriends a rat didn’t hurt anything, either. That said, the laughs and premise are stretched a bit thin and I feel like this would’ve worked better as a short than as a feature.

3+

Camo

12-25-15, 01:44 PM

Won't even take time off on Jesus birthday, you are a dedicated MoFo i'm so proudb :bawling: . I didn't like Minions at all tbh, Despicable Me was pretty good (haven't seen the second one), i mostly liked Grus relationship with the kids the minions were funny and cute at first but they have became incredibly annoying now IMO.

Merry Christmas MV :)

PS: There are rumours going around that i am drunk, i will neither confirm or deny.

Miss Vicky

12-25-15, 01:46 PM

Merry Christmas MV :)

Merry Christmas, Drunkard.

Camo

12-25-15, 02:10 PM

Only my mother gets to call me that :coleman:

Miss Vicky

12-27-15, 09:25 PM

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The Nut Job (Peter Lepeniotis, 2014)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 12/27/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I was bored and it was on Netflix
Rewatch: No

Discount Over the Hedge... with fart jokes. And a soundtrack that features "Gangnam Style." :facepalm:

1.5

gbgoodies

12-27-15, 09:29 PM

Cole416

12-27-15, 09:35 PM

That reminds me that I need to watch "Over the Hedge" again.

Miss Vicky

12-28-15, 03:59 AM

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Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 12/27/15
Cinema or Home: Friend's House
Reason For Watching: I bought the bluray as a gift for a friend and we watched it together
Rewatch: Yes

I'm not sure how many times I've seen this movie now, but tonight was at least the sixth viewing. I still love it. I love the explosions. I love the ridiculous cars. I love the ridiculous costumes. I love the crazy stunts. I love the over the top villains. I love dirty Tom Hardy in chains and a muzzle. I love it all.

The friend I bought it for hadn't seen it before. She loved it, too.

5

Camo

12-28-15, 04:04 AM

He looks like Spud from Trainspotting :laugh:

edarsenal

12-28-15, 12:58 PM

Been wanting to see Tokyo Fathers, really need to.

Loved Minions and a huge fan of Despicable I & II

Didn't last past the first 15 min of Nut Job

and fully agree about how much fun it is to watch Fury Road

cricket

12-28-15, 01:06 PM

Wow, 6th time seeing Fury Road already? I could barely get through once.

Miss Vicky

12-30-15, 01:48 AM

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Home (Tim Johnson, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2224026/?ref_=nv_sr_6)

Date Watched: 12/26/15-12/29/15
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I was bored and it was on Netflix
Rewatch: No

Some of these scenes might actually have been touching if I didn't hate these obnoxious characters so damn much. Uninspired and annoying. It took me three attempts (or was it four?) to get through it. Come on Dreamworks, you're better than this.

:mad:

1.5-

Sexy Celebrity

12-30-15, 03:28 AM

I saw something earlier -- apparently Fury Road is Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie of the year.

Miss Vicky

12-30-15, 03:41 AM

I saw something earlier -- apparently Fury Road is Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie of the year.

That's not surprising. It's a fun action flick. Seems like it'd be right up his alley.

Miss Vicky

01-02-16, 01:09 PM

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Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/?ref_=nv_sr_3)

Date Watched: 12/31/15
Cinema or Home: Funny Face's House
Reason For Watching: Funny Face wanted to watch it
Rewatch: No

I know Guardians of the Galaxy is well loved by many on the forum, but I was rather unimpressed with it. It had a few funny moments and few touching ones, but it was just way too Sci Fi for my tastes. It also relied far too heavily on CG effects - so much so that it pretty much qualifies as a hybrid animation/live action film. And while that style of film can work quite well, it just didn’t really work for me here and I found all that CG more distracting than anything else.

Also, a nitpicky side note – Raccoons are not rodents.

3

Funny Face

01-02-16, 03:09 PM

At least the best part wasn't CG. Just CP.
https://media.giphy.com/media/57ef1vFDgoGhq/giphy.gif

Miss Vicky

01-02-16, 11:54 PM

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The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 1/2/16
Cinema or Home: Cinema, with Funny Face
Reason For Watching: It's a Tarantino film. Also I love Samuel L. Jackson.
Rewatch: No

Tarantino is a director who knows how to have fun and keep an audience entertained. He's also a man who knows how to build tension. He has a ball doing both in this flick. If you want a serious period piece, look elsewhere. If you want a solemn character study or some sort of fable about nobility or honor, look elsewhere. This is not a standard Western. This is Tarantino. What you're going to get is a lot of colorful characters, colorful language, violence, and blood. That's exactly what I wanted from this movie and he delivered. I didn't love it as much as Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds, but I certainly had a good time with it.

4+

cricket

01-02-16, 11:59 PM

That's a good way to look at The Hateful Eight, rather than dissecting it looking for faults.

Citizen Rules

01-03-16, 12:10 AM

I'm going to rep that review of The Hateful Eight, I'm sure I will hate that film, but you wrote a good review that told it like it was.

JayDee

01-03-16, 04:12 PM

Nice to see you appear to be keeping this going MV. :up: Got to say though that I don't agree with a whole lot of what you have to say! :p

Glad you somewhat enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy. While I certainly liked it more than you that is probably more generous than I'd have predicted from you. Hateful Eight I watched and wasn't really a fan of I've got to say. And then your feelings on Minions and Home I'd pretty much swap around entirely. Minions was largely what I expected/feared from a spin-off for some comic relief characters whose vocabulary only stretches to about two words. One or two mini laughs aside I found it quite a slog to get through. Home however I quite enjoyed, certainly a lot more than I thought I would. Just a shame that Rihanna's presence significantly dragged it down or I could really have liked it.

The fact that Bob befriends a rat didn’t hurt anything, either.

As soon as that happened I instantly thought of you. :D

Miss Vicky

01-03-16, 04:19 PM

Hateful Eight I watched and wasn't really a fan of I've got to say.

Not enough walking, talking trees and anthropomorphic raccoons for you? :p

honeykid

01-03-16, 05:22 PM

I keep seeing people who like Hateful Eight saying they liked it, but not as much as Django and IB. I don't know whether to be encouraged by that or not. :D

JayDee

01-03-16, 09:26 PM

Not enough walking, talking trees and anthropomorphic raccoons for you? :p

I know you're being sarcastic but if Groot had been there it would almost certainly have been a better film!

Miss Vicky

01-03-16, 09:27 PM

I know you're being sarcastic but if Groot had been there it would almost certainly have been a better film!

I actually found Groot a little irritating. He doesn't make anything better.

honeykid

01-04-16, 10:10 AM

Groot is rubbish. Sorry, JD, but after watching that film my biggest feeling was "how did that become a thing?"

JayDee

01-04-16, 10:57 AM

:eek: How dare you two!!! That's a disgrace! :furious:

Although I've changed my mind MV, Groot wouldn't have made Hateful Eight better. Groot is too grounded a character for QT's world of silly, over-the-top caricatures and stereotypes. He just wouldn't have fitted in.

Oh yeah, and Groot for President bitches!!!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Groot%20President_zpssmkbh4cm.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Groot%20President_zpssmkbh4cm.jpg.html)

Miss Vicky

01-04-16, 11:02 AM

QT's world of silly, over-the-top caricatures and stereotypes.

Right, because there's so much depth to a wooden character that says nothing but "I am Groot." Or something. :skeptical:

honeykid

01-04-16, 11:06 AM

Without wishing to tread on toes, I think that was kind of the point. ;)

Omnizoa

01-04-16, 11:17 AM

Groot is rubbish. Sorry, JD, but after watching that film my biggest feeling was "how did that become a thing?"
Other than knowing Rocket Raccoon was in the movie, the only thing I ever heard about GotG was people giggling over the "I am Groot" line. I asked people what was so funny about it and they just looked at me.

Righteously turned me off of seeing it.

Miss Vicky

01-09-16, 10:57 PM

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The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu , 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663202/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 1/9/16
Cinema or Home: Cinema, with Funny Face and her friend
Reason For Watching: Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy
Rewatch: No

Visually, this is one of the most gorgeous films I've seen. The cinematography is absolutely breathtaking. It is a spectacular showcase of the beauty and savagery of nature and of man. The film is full of tension and dread and both DiCaprio and, perhaps especially, Hardy excel in their roles.

Sadly, the animators that rendered the CG in this film did not excel. The infamous bear and some wolves seen later in the film look and move in a way that is jarringly unnatural. The film is also a bit longer than it needed to be, but these are relatively minor complaints and the strengths of this film far outweigh its weaknesses.

4+

Sexy Celebrity

01-09-16, 10:58 PM

Right, because there's so much depth to a wooden character that says nothing but "I am Groot." Or something. :skeptical:
You love Honeykid and he/she doesn't say much that's really funny.

seanc

01-09-16, 11:05 PM

Swan

01-09-16, 11:06 PM

I don't really care about how good CG looks, personally. So I'm still hyped af.

Miss Vicky

01-09-16, 11:11 PM

The cinematography really is amazing. I thought the bear was pretty damn impressive. 24 hours and I already don't remember the wolf. Remind me where it is. Glad you liked it MV. Very impressive experience for me.

The wolves were seen hunting buffalo and then again before DiCaprio's character meets the Pawnee man with the spotted horse.

seanc

01-09-16, 11:16 PM

The wolves were seen hunting buffalo and then again before DiCaprio's character meets the Pawnee man with the spotted horse.

That's right. They were pretty covered up by shadow so I didn't notice but like I said, I liked the bear, so I probably wouldn't have noticed anyway. I don't have a good eye for that kind of stuff.

seanc

01-09-16, 11:21 PM

Hey MV

How quick did you figure out he was faking dead on the horse?

Miss Vicky

01-09-16, 11:24 PM

@seanc

I knew something was up as soon as "he" fell off the horse. I didn't figure out how he had faked it until Hardy's character did, but something seemed off to me immediately.

Swan

01-09-16, 11:25 PM

@Swan

You still need to see this movie, you dipsh*t.

seanc

01-09-16, 11:29 PM

@seanc

I knew something was up as soon as "he" fell off the horse. I didn't figure out how he had faked it until Hardy's character did, but something seemed off to me immediately.

I wondered what he was doing with the branch but as soon as they flipped to Hardy on the cliff I knew what he did. Pretty cool. I told my dad I knew they weren't letting us end this movie with Hardy getting shot. That fight was brutal.

Miss Vicky

01-09-16, 11:31 PM

Yeah the ending pretty much had me acting like my avatar. Loved it.

mark f

01-09-16, 11:37 PM

Hey MV

How quick did you figure out he was faking dead on the horse?

@seanc

I knew something was up as soon as "he" fell off the horse. I didn't figure out how he had faked it until Hardy's character did, but something seemed off to me immediately.

@Swan

You still need to see this movie, you dipsh*t.

WTF?

seanc

01-09-16, 11:40 PM

WTF?

I think Swan is high

The Gunslinger45

01-11-16, 12:22 AM

I am glad you liked The Revenant! I am seeing it tomorrow!

Miss Vicky

01-14-16, 05:27 PM

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Irrational Man (Woody Allen, 2015)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715320/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 1/14/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Originally watched for Phoenix, just got the blu ray
Rewatch: Yes

This is the third Allen film I've seen (or at least the third one I've seen all the way through) and I can't say I'm a fan of his work. I am, however, a fan of this tale of a depressed, alcoholic philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix) who finds his will to live in an unexpected way. And no, that will to live is not found in his affair with his lovestruck student, played by Emma Stone. He finds it in his plan and execution of the perfect crime, reveling in the thrill and danger of it all.

I normally find narration and voiceovers irritating, but in this film it works perfectly as the audience watches Lucas's world spiral out of control while his mind races with absurdly excited thoughts. And the deeper in he gets the more comical it becomes.

It's been asked of me if I think I would have enjoyed this movie as much had the lead been played by someone else and that's a question I can't answer. In all likelihood, I'd never have watched it had it starred another actor. I can say though that I loved everything about Phoenix's character and performance. I really enjoyed Emma Stone as well.

4+

Miss Vicky

01-14-16, 09:17 PM

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds, 1991)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

Date Watched: 1/14/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It's my favorite Alan Rickman performance and an all time favorite movie.
Rewatch: Yes

Is this movie over-the-top to the point of being silly? You betcha. Is this movie full of cliches and hammy performances? Yep. Does that bother me? Not one damn bit. This is one hell of a fun adventure flick and is largely responsible for my love of movies. It's been a favorite of mine for 25 years now and I don't see that ever changing.

Besides starring the two biggest celebrity crushes of my childhood - Kevin Costner and Christian Slater - it also features my all time favorite movie villain in Alan Rickman's deliciously evil Sheriff of Nottingham. He chews up the screen and has a blast and I'm right there having a great time with him even after all these years. And even more so with this viewing of the extended edition, with much of the additional footage featuring Nottingham.

I spent the whole movie with one big grin on my face.

4.5+

seanc

01-14-16, 09:32 PM

edarsenal

01-14-16, 09:39 PM

didn't care too much for Home either,

Enjoy Guardians and really looking forward to Hateful Eight and would truly love to make the time to see Revenant in the theater from everything i keep hearing of it.

THANKS for posting!

honeykid

01-14-16, 09:40 PM

The worst thing about him dying is that bloody film will be on again.

Miss Vicky

01-14-16, 09:48 PM

The worst thing about him dying is that bloody film will be on again.
:rolleyes:

Yet again you make me wonder why I like you.

honeykid

01-14-16, 10:02 PM

:laugh: I did a trade with my now g/f back in the late 90's. I'd not seen Robin Hood and she'd not seen Reservoir Dogs. Both of us think the other got the best end of that swap. :D

edarsenal

01-14-16, 10:07 PM

CRAP, didn't see these two posts: saw the trailer for Irrational Man a few nights and like you not a big Allen fan but definitely want to see this

and COMPLETELY agree about Rickman and how much fun Prince of Thieves is.

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Miss Vicky

01-15-16, 02:56 AM

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Overboard (Garry Marshall, 1987)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093693/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 1/14/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Iro's review got me thinking about it
Rewatch: Yes

Fun with kidnapping and enslavement!

Okay, so - like pretty much every romantic comedy ever made - this movie has a really absurd premise: A spoiled, rich woman hires a carpenter to remodel the closet on her yacht, then refuses to pay when his work doesn't meet her expectations. Later she falls off the boat and is rescued, but has amnesia and can't remember who she is. Meanwhile her husband, seeing the opportunity to rid himself of her, flees and the carpenter (who is a widower) decides to get a little payback by posing as her husband so that he can get her to work off what she owes him.

He brings her to his house where she is made to cook, clean, look after his dogs and his four unruly children, and wait on him hand and foot. Eventually he and his sons grow fond of her and she, believing them to be her real family, grows to love them too and even has sex with the man she's been tricked into believing is her husband.

Sounds more like a horror movie than a romance, right? Well it actually has a certain sweet charm to it and real life couple Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have more than enough chemistry to make you believe it. It also has nostalgia on its side, at least for me, since I grew up watching it. I do have to wonder though how a movie like this would fair if it were released in today's ultra P.C., feminist environment.

4

Iroquois

01-15-16, 03:10 AM

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Miss Vicky

01-15-16, 03:13 AM

Zotis

01-15-16, 03:29 AM

I haven't watched Overboard in years. I saw it several times growing up.

honeykid

01-15-16, 08:30 AM

I do have to wonder though how a movie like this would fair if it were released in today's ultra P.C., feminist environment.
I just don't think it gets made today and I don't think it would've for a long, long time.

Miss Vicky

01-15-16, 06:01 PM

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Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2014)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903657/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

Date Watched: 1/15/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: John Cusack, Swan's recommendation
Rewatch: No

When I first heard about this film, I had my reservations about the casting choices. I really don't like Paul Dano. He's got the right look for the part, but in nearly every movie I've seen him in he overacts and irritates me to the point of taking me out of the film. John Cusack, on the other hand, I love but he doesn't look anything like Brian Wilson.

I was wrong to have reservations on both counts. Dano did a shockingly great job with this performance, bringing to vivid life the tortured mind of a musical genius. It turns out the guy might actually be able to act after all. We'll see if he can do it again. With his performance, John Cusack gave me a startling reminder of why I love him. He still looks nothing like Wilson, but he has an innate vulnerability and a damaged quality that works so perfectly in this film as he portrays the broken shell of a man that remained from years of abuse at the hands of a psychologist that had misdiagnosed him, over medicated him, manipulated him, and isolated him from friends and family. And on that note, Paul Giamatti should be commended as well. His turn as that manipulative monster Dr. Eugene Landy was nothing short of terrifying.

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All in all this was a really well constructed and memorable film.

4+

Swan

01-15-16, 06:06 PM

Really glad you liked it. Despite the difference in the looks department, I still love Cusack's performance for his depiction of someone battling mental illness. He did a great job. He never came off as "crazy," but more realistically vulnerable and docile. Great stuff.

Miss Vicky

01-15-16, 06:24 PM

No, I haven't seen that. I hated him in There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine and especially 12 Years a Slave though. He was mostly okay in Ruby Sparks but not impressive.

Camo

01-15-16, 08:09 PM

Haven't seen Overboard in years either used to really like it though. It is one of my Sisters favourite movies, her favourite actress is Goldie Hawn so she used to watch this and Death Becomes Her quite a bit.

seanc

01-15-16, 08:16 PM

Glad you liked it MV. Good stuff.

Citizen Rules

01-15-16, 08:20 PM

Good review of Love & Mercy. I had a somewhat different reaction to the overall film, but I agree with you that Cussak and Dano both did an awesome job. I thought Paul Dano was also effective in Meek's Cutoff (2010).

JayDee

01-16-16, 02:11 PM

Great to see that you really appear to be getting into this Victoria. :up: The films keep coming and you write-ups are becoming more detailed. Not bad for someone who told me she could never write anything resembling a review as she never knows what to say! :p

Anyway I also really like Overboard even with its ludicrous and rather worrying premise. I'd say Goldie Hawn is one of the best ever when it comes to romantic comedies like that, and she has great chemistry with Kurt Russell; admittedly not surprising given their real life relationship. Prince of Thieves is one of those films I was a fan of as a kid but that I've not seen in years and years and am actually kind of scared to. I wonder if it's one of those films best left to my childhood memories of it. Sometimes you go back, discover something is crap and it's really disappointing. And Love and Mercy I've not seen but would like to at some point

Miss Vicky

01-17-16, 02:29 AM

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Wrinkles (Arrugas) (Ignacia Ferraras, 2011)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 1/16/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I remembered reading about it before the animation countdown and found it to stream on Amazon Prime
Rewatch: No

I don't recall who it was that had recommended this film in the time leading up to the Animation Countdown, but ever since reading that MoFo's write up on it, I've wanted to see this.

This is a bittersweet and beautiful tale of an elderly man named Emilio who is sent to live in an old folks home and of the friendships he forges while there. It deals with the subjects of love, abandonment, loss, loyalty, the desire for independence, and the harsh realities of old age and sickness. It casts a sad gaze on the way the elderly are abandoned and forgotten in today's society, but it's not really an indictment of the elderly care industry.

It's really a story about people in the last days of their life trying to hold onto their humanity. It shows their fear of the "upstairs" - the place where those who are too far gone are taken and forgotten. It's not physical death but the loss of their minds and of their identities that they dread. Among the residents, we see a wife, still possessed of her faculties, who has essentially given up her freedom to remain by the side of her husband, who has Alzheimer's and doesn't speak. We see a woman who wanders the halls in search of a phone, desperate to call her sons to pick her up because she's "all better now" - if only she could find the reception desk to make that call or remember why she's looking for it in the first place.

But there's plenty of humor here too - especially in the form of Miguel, Emilio's roommate, who spends his days conning the other residents out of their money little by little while boasting about how he's never needed anybody. He scolds the other residents for yearning for visits from their families or for clinging on to their past lives and to those they've loved, and yet he has a little secret that is revealed as the film draws to a conclusion.

On a more technical note, the style of the film is quite striking. Done in traditional 2D animation, the artwork is crisp and beautiful. It's not as highly detailed as some other animated films I've seen, but it does well to evoke the viewer's emotions.

This is a quiet and poignantly funny film that I highly recommend. I can't say that I would've voted for it had I seen it before the countdown, but I do think it's a shame that this missed the final cut.

4+

seanc

01-17-16, 10:02 AM

I need to check out Wrinkles for sure.

cricket

01-17-16, 10:02 AM

Glad you liked Wrinkles! I also remember it being recommended before the animation countdown, and that's why I watched it. I am very sure the recommendation came from either Mateo or Mojofilter. Anyway, I ended up having it somewhere in the 20's on my list.

Miss Vicky

01-21-16, 01:19 AM

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A Letter to Momo (Momo e no tegami) (Hiroyuki Okiura, 2011)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853614/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 1/20/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I remembered Funny Face talking about it before the animation countdown and found it to stream on Amazon Prime
Rewatch: No

I'm not even sure what to say about this thing. The animation was beautiful, but the story and the characters left me cold and rolling my eyes. For two hours. But not all at once. It took me like five tries to get through this.

The film was also way, way too heavy on the fantastical elements with its goblins and weird made up creatures. I might as well have been watching a Miyazaki movie - but with fart jokes (Really? Really?!).

On that note, I think I was supposed to find those stupid goblins funny and endearing, but they were just creepy and annoying. And Momo herself struck me as irritatingly one dimensional and devoid of personality. I completely failed to connect with her. I also couldn't fathom why Yota gave a damn about this weird girl he barely knew and didn't buy his dedication to her.

I'll rate it a very generous 2, and that's for the animation alone.

honeykid

01-21-16, 09:12 AM

What do you mean when you say the animation was beautiful? Because that gif looks awful. I literally like nothing about it.

Miss Vicky

01-21-16, 11:01 AM

That particular scene takes place in a darkened attic so it probably isn't the best example. I thought the human characters were well drawn as were the background scenes. It's a bit tough to find good examples of this online though, since most of the images seem to be of those stupid goblins.

Here's one example:

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Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not saying it's truly great. It's not like it's something from Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second, Garden of Words) or anything, but it was the only thing I found worthwhile about it.

Miss Vicky

01-24-16, 10:44 PM

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The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114214/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 1/23/16
Cinema or Home: Funny Face's House
Reason For Watching: We decided to watch a movie and I wanted something with a hot guy
Rewatch: Yes

Sam Raimi (the man behind the Evil Dead trilogy) seems an odd choice to direct a Western, but he brings a sense of over-the-top style to this tale of a woman out for revenge who joins a quick draw competition to bring down the outlaw who ruined her life.

Plot and character development take a back seat to pure entertainment in this film but there’s still plenty to love in the performances. Star Sharon Stone isn’t exactly memorable but is more than passable. Gene Hackman sinks his teeth into his role of John Herod, the tyrannical outlaw who runs the town of Redemption and sponsors the competition. A young Leonardo DiCaprio brings a playful sense of fun as Herod’s cocky son, known only as “Kid,” who has something to prove. And a then little known Russell Crowe injects the film with pathos as Herod’s ex-partner in crime, now a preacher being held prisoner and forced to compete in the gun fights.

If you’re wanting a serious drama, this isn’t the movie for you. If you’re looking to have a good time, you could do much worse than this movie. It’s been a personal favorite of mine for many years.

4.5

seanc

01-24-16, 10:46 PM

I always liked that western. Been years since I have watched it.

Miss Vicky

01-25-16, 04:53 AM

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The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein, 1984)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 1/24/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I've been meaning to see this ever since I watched Milk
Rewatch: No

Before 2008, I was unaware of the story of Harvey Milk. That really shouldn't have been the case, given the time and place of his story (I was born in the 80s, not long after his "times" and have spent my whole life in Northern California) and my support of gay rights, but I knew nothing about him. And then Milk was released amid the tension and debate that surrounded California's Proposition 8 - the measure that sought to legally define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Milk - was timely and moving and it immediately became a personal favorite.

Since that time, I've had it in my mind that I should watch this film and get a better picture of Harvey Milk the man and the real story behind him. I'm not sure why it took me so long to actually do that, but I'm glad I did. For Milk, Hollywood did as Hollywood does and portrayed Harvey Milk as a loving and selfless man - which he may very well have been - but put blinders on to the temper his friends and associates describe in this documentary. Hollywood's version also ends with the solemn and peaceful candlelight march, while conveniently omitting the riots and violence that actually followed. This film offers a more complete version of the tale.

Either way, both films leave me with a sense of sorrow and disgust - at the tragic loss of life and the travesty of justice that followed but also a great sense of hope and the satisfaction of knowing how far things have come since then.

4

honeykid

01-25-16, 12:45 PM

I've always really enjoyed The Quick And The Dead. I know how much you love it, so it's nice to see you watch it again.

NedStark09

01-25-16, 01:08 PM

Miss Vicky

01-25-16, 01:25 PM

Now thats a movie Is Quick and The Dead and I dont care if people hated it and Sam masked it as a chick flick. Its one of my favorite movies. But too badd Crows Priest and and Stones character did not hook up.

They actually did, depending on which release you've seen. I've read that in some versions there's a brothel scene where Cort is being harassed by the prostitutes and The
Lady pulls him away and goes down on him.

I'm actually glad that the version I've seen has some sexual tension, but no love story or sex scenes between them. I prefer the relationship of mutual respect.

Citizen Rules

01-25-16, 01:35 PM

I loved the Quick and the Dead and I never thought of it as a chick flick? It's just a really good, exciting western, with a good story premise and great characters.

Miss Vicky

01-30-16, 08:48 PM

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The Reckoning (Paul McGuigan, 2002)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258816/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_13)

Date Watched: 1/30/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I was reminded of it after looking at Tom Hardy's IMDb page.
Rewatch: Yes

Part costume drama, part murder mystery, this is the tale of a 14th century English priest with a shady past who joins a troupe of traveling actors. By chance they stumble into a town and happen upon the end of a murder trial. Desperate for money, the actors decide to play out the facts of the trial on stage - only to discover that the information they have is not fact at all.

I first saw this film as a blind buy about nine years ago. I recall being pretty impressed with it, but somehow I'd largely forgotten it since then. It's a very engaging story that touches on issues of morality, faith, and redemption - brought to life by a superb cast that includes Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Vincent Cassel, and Tom Hardy.

The cinematography is beautiful and the costuming excellent. You almost feel like you can smell the people. But the film is not without its flaws. There are some editing issues - mouths at times move without sound or don't move with it. The pacing is also rather slow. This is not a film for people with deficient attention spans, though it clocks in under two hours. It's meditative and quiet. There are scenes that serve no obvious purpose. There's little action and a lot of atmosphere.

But I think it's a film that is well worth watching.

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4+

Miss Vicky

02-05-16, 12:04 AM

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The 24th Day (Tony Piccirillo, 2004)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246404/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 02/04/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: James Marsden came up in a recent conversation with Funny Face and it got me thinking about this movie again
Rewatch: Yes

(Warning: Possible Spoilers Ahead)
The Premise: Reeling from the death of his wife (who died in a car accident immediately after being diagnosed with AIDS) and from the recent discovery that he too is HIV positive, Tom (Scott Speedman) seeks revenge on the person who he believes ruined his life and is responsible for his wife's death - Dan (James Marsden), a man that Tom had a one night stand with five years earlier. Twenty-four days after finding out he has HIV, Tom lures Dan into his apartment, overpowers him, binds him to a chair and draws a sample of blood to be sent out for an HIV test that he believes will confirm Dan's guilt. If the test is positive, Tom will kill Dan. If the test is negative, he will let Dan go. But it will take two days to get the result.

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Based on a stage play of the same name, The 24th Day is a film that examines sexual responsibility and the consequences of unsafe behavior. It questions who is really at fault when things go wrong, but it never gives any answers and leaves the audience to find the solution for themselves. Did Dan infect Tom? Did he wear a condom that night? Is Tom telling the truth that he was only ever unfaithful to his wife that night with Dan? Was Tom's wife faithful? Is Dan HIV positive? If so, how do we know that Dan didn't contract the virus sometime in the five years between the one night stand and his abduction by Tom? Or that Tom didn't give it to Dan? We get no concrete answers.

I've seen some people accuse The 24th Day of homophobia - of villainizing gay men and portraying the "straight" man as the victim in this scenario. But I don't think this is either the intention of the filmmaker or the result of the completed film. Dan is smooth talking and promiscuous. He says whatever he thinks will get him what he wants. He lives in a state of denial about the dangers of his behavior. He lies about how many men he's been with. He lies about whether he's ever been tested for HIV.

But Tom is no less in denial about what he has done and accepts little responsibility for his own reckless behavior. Tom remembers that Dan had a condom on the night they were together - but neither man can recall whether it was actually used. Both had been drinking that night and Tom had taken Dan to his grandfather's old apartment to satisfy his urges and curiosity.

But though the film centers around sex, it contains none. What we get instead is a film thick with tension and heartbreak. Speedman and especially Marsden deliver terrific performances as we watch both men share their stories while they wait for the test result. We learn about broken dreams and hopelessness and we watch as each man begins to see the humanity in the other. We see Dan fight for freedom, plead for it, lie to get it. We see him get angry, we see his fear, and we see his resignation. We feel for his plight. But we feel for Tom, too. We hear him talk about having to repress his true self - and not just sexually but in many things. And we feel the love that he had for his wife and his grief in losing her. Neither man is portrayed as a monster, only as a flawed person.

As to the more technical aspects of the film, there are no frills here. The score is sparse. The cinematography is dark and gritty - which is probably just as much a result of the film's low budget as it is of any stylistic choice, but it is effective just the same. This isn't a film about cool camera angles or effects. It's a performance piece and one that I strongly recommend.

This is a film that was once in my personal top 50, but somehow had been all but forgotten. Tonight was one hell of a reminder.

4.5-

Sexy Celebrity

02-05-16, 12:08 AM

That sounds like something I should see. I've never heard of it before.

Miss Vicky

02-05-16, 12:14 AM

That sounds like something I should see. I've never heard of it before.

I definitely think you should give it a shot.

And yeah, it's not a well known movie at all. I don't think I've ever seen anybody talk about it here. I'm not even entirely sure how I found out about it.

edarsenal

02-05-16, 08:18 PM

put wrinkles, irrational man and Love & Mercy on request at my library. Haven't ever heard of Wrinkles but ya got me VERY curious about that one.
Gonna have to go searching for The Reckoning, love a lot of the actors in that one.

You're getting a great lil roll with your reviews. Very effin nice work!

cricket

02-05-16, 08:28 PM

I don't ever remember hearing of that movie. Perhaps a future HoF nom?

Gatsby

02-05-16, 08:36 PM

Don't know if you noticed it or not, but your reviews are getting better. I haven't seen The 24th Day, but +1 for the write-up.

Miss Vicky

02-05-16, 08:38 PM

I don't ever remember hearing of that movie. Perhaps a future HoF nom?

First I have to get rid of the bad taste all the BS with the Comedy HOF left in my mouth.
No promises.

JayDee

02-05-16, 08:57 PM

Not seen, or even heard of the last two movies there but both sound quite interesting. And I said it before but you really do seem to be getting into this reviewing lark despite what you said in the past? Are you surprising yourself?

Miss Vicky

02-05-16, 09:00 PM

And I said it before but you really do seem to be getting into this reviewing lark despite what you said in the past? Are you surprising yourself?

A little, yeah. Though it's actually becoming something of a distraction when I'm watching movies. Instead of just watching a film and enjoying it for what it is, there's this little voice in my head trying to figure out what to say about it.

Sexy Celebrity

02-05-16, 09:01 PM

JayDee

02-05-16, 09:04 PM

A little, yeah. Though it's actually becoming something of a distraction when I'm watching movies. Instead of just watching a film and enjoying it for what it is, there's this little voice in my head trying to figure out what to say about it.

Oh I know that voice. :yup: Sometimes I can have the whole review planned out in my head before the end credits have even started rolling

Miss Vicky

02-07-16, 02:44 AM

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Quills (Philip Kaufman, 2000)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180073/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 02/06/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: One does not need a reason to watch Quills
Rewatch: Yes
Previous Write-Ups: The MoFo Millennium Top 100 (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=846122#post846122), The Fifth Hall of Fame (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1199427#post1199427)

Warning: This Review May Contain Spoilers

From 1801 until his death in 1814, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned at Charenton Asylum - a place known for its humane treatment of psychiatric patients (an unusual thing in that era) under the direction of the Abbé de Coulmier. This is about the only shred of actual fact that you will find in this film. Sticklers for historical accuracy need look elsewhere. This is not a bio-pic. This is not a history lesson.

This is a film about the clash of art, science, and religion. It is a film about corruption and hypocrisy. It is a film about the effect that art has on those who produce it, those who consume it, and those who seek to suppress it. This isn't a film about de Sade the man. Instead it is a love letter to de Sade the idea - a libertine who wrote of "the great eternal truths that bind together all mankind the whole world over. We eat, we s---, we f---, we kill, and we die."

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Whiling away his time in the asylum, de Sade (Geoffrey Rush, in an Oscar Nominated performance) smuggles his pornographic manuscripts to a publisher with the help of a virginal chambermaid (Kate Winslet). Oblivious to the leak, the naïve and trusting Abbé de Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix, in the role that made me love him) encourages the Marquis to write for "curative purposes" and allows de Sade to direct theatrical plays with the asylum’s other inmates, seeing therapeutic value in the arts and personal expression.

But it's not long before Napolean catches wind of de Sade's activities and he dispatches the "staunchly moral" man of science, Dr. Royer-Collard (Michael Caine) to oversee Charenton. Collard brings with him his "calming chair," whips, restraints, and an assortment of other barbaric devices meant to cure "God's tiny blunders." He also delivers the Abbé an ultimatum: Silence the Marquis or Charenton will be shut down.

Desperate to save his life's work and under pressure from Collard, de Coulmier enacts increasingly cruel measures to stop de Sade and the audience is left to watch as a once benevolent man of the cloth devolves into a depraved madman who is perhaps more sadistic than the man whose name is the root of that very word. And in the face of this abuse, de Sade pushes back - engaging the Abbé in a game of power and inventing new and increasingly bizarre ways to express himself. And it's this struggle for dominance that produces one of the film's most potent scenes: After writing his latest work with his own blood on his clothes, de Sade is punished by de Coulmier by being forced to strip completely naked. But the Marquis turns this power play into a lesson in humiliation for the Abbé, refusing to let the priest look away and taunting him with each article of clothing, piece of jewelry, and finally his blood stained wig.

But where the two men share common ground is in their love for Madeleine, the chambermaid who abets de Sade’s crimes of rebellion. And it is the love of this girl that ultimately brings their worlds crashing down around them.

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Quills the movie is based on a stage play of the same name and, owing to its theater roots and the nature of its subject, the acting and dialogue are a bit over-ripe. It’s very theatrical and sometimes borders on camp. The words are thick with innuendo and jabs at organized religion and the images are often erotic, violent, shocking, and unforgettably disturbing, making for a film that is not for the prudish or easily offended.

The performances here are universally strong. Geoffrey Rush tackles his role as de Sade with an impressive combination of glee and confidence. He embodies the film’s libertine ideals – taunting and mocking those who seek to silence him, refusing to be cowed no matter what the cost, standing proud as the sneering, incorruptible soul of the story. Michael Caine has a lot of fun too in his role as the villainous Royer-Collard, driving the once humane priest to madness and barbarity, all while sitting back and watching the destruction with a smug grin. Kate Winslet brings a sweet sense of innocence, mischief, and curiosity to her role as Madeleine. A then teenaged Amelia Warner is impressive too as Collard’s wife, evolving from naïve child to cunning seductress. But of course it is Joaquin Phoenix who makes the movie for me. The Abbé has relatively little dialogue, but Phoenix conveys those words with passion and conviction. He also brings to the role a certain fragility and in his face we watch as de Coulmier is transformed from wide-eyed innocence to wild-eyed depravity.

As to the film’s more technical aspects, the score is minimal but effective. Much of the cinematography in the early scenes has a misty, dream-like haze to it that gives way to increasing darkness and sickly shades of yellow and gold. The result leaves the viewer to feel as if they too are trapped in the dank walls of the asylum as order gives way to chaos and madness.

This is a film that seems tailor-made for me. It’s funny, irreverent, erotic, character and dialogue driven, and highly emotional. It also touches on subjects that, as someone who has written erotic fiction, are very dear to my heart. Fifteen years ago, it became an instant favorite and after watching it again tonight, I can say with complete confidence that my love for it has not waned.

Oh, and Phoenix has never looked sexier than in this role. He makes me think really, really dirty thoughts. :randy:

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"In each of us there is such beauty and such abomination. No man is exempt."

5

cricket

02-07-16, 02:50 AM

Wow look at you with the big review, very impressive!

Miss Vicky

02-07-16, 02:52 AM

Wow look at you with the big review, very impressive!

Eh, I think I prefer my Millennium Countdown write up (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=846122#post846122) over this, but I was trying to not just copy what I've said before.

cricket

02-07-16, 02:57 AM

I missed that countdown

Miss Vicky

02-09-16, 12:53 AM

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Locke (Steven Knight, 2013)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2692904/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

Date Watched: 02/08/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Tom Hardy
Rewatch: No

I'm kind of at a loss for what to say about this one. Character studies are not my usual fare and that little voice in my head that tells me what to write was all but silent for this film. Here goes nothing.

Plot and story for this movie are virtually non-existent. The premise is this: On the eve of the biggest event of his career, Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) receives a phone call that will turn his life upside down. Bound by a sense of honor and responsibility, Locke takes an unplanned drive and risks everything he holds dear.

The entire film takes place inside Locke's car. We see the face of no one else, we only hear their voices as Locke receives phone call after phone call - from family, from colleagues, and from a hospital - as he is forced to juggle several personal and professional crises.

Tom Hardy does well to carry what might otherwise be a bore of a film. We watch him run the gamut of emotions - anger, frustration, guilt, defeat, desperation, and maybe even a little joy. Through each conversation, we get to know a different part of Locke. We meet Locke, the man dedicated to his job even when it's taken from him. We meet Locke, the caring husband who seriously ****ed up and is trying to come clean and atone for what he did. We meet Locke, the loving father of two boys who adore him. And we meet Locke, the man who was born a bastard with no father to raise him determined not to let that happen to his own offspring. It's a riveting performance and one that reaffirms my admiration for Hardy the actor, though I have doubts as to whether this is something I'll ever have any desire to revisit.

4-

JayDee

02-09-16, 09:06 PM

I was really surprised by how much I liked Locke. If you just looked at the ingredients on paper then it seems like it should be just about the dullest film of all time. It basically stars a single character (Hardy's Locke) in a single location that is amongst the most boring you could imagine (the interior of a car), driving along a motorway talking on the phone. And one of the main story threads is that of a concrete pour at a construction site; how exciting! And yet as a result of Hardy's incredible performance it was somehow a captivating experience. He really should have picked up a number of nominations at the big awards shows for that.

cricket

02-09-16, 09:15 PM

I think Hardy is brilliant but thought Locke was just ok.

Iroquois

02-10-16, 09:45 AM

I covered Locke a while back and thought pretty much the same thing, though I naturally gave it a lower rating. A solid enough piece of minimalism and Hardy is good at carrying the film even through some of its weaker parts, but it doesn't feel like it has a lot of replay value or any serious staying power.

TheUsualSuspect

02-10-16, 09:49 AM

Sam Raimi (the man behind the Evil Dead trilogy) seems an odd choice to direct a Western, but he brings a sense of over-the-top style to this tale of a woman out for revenge who joins a quick draw competition to bring down the outlaw who ruined her life.
4.5

Glad to see some love for an over the top western, something people rarely see. Raimi is an underrated director when given a limited budget. I'd like to see him go back to those films and stay away from fare like Oz.

Miss Vicky

02-11-16, 01:12 AM

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Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160127/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 02/10/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: I guess because I sometimes have masochistic tendencies?
Rewatch: Not really. I tried watching it once before but ended up dozing off for most of it.

Besides pubescent boys and honeykids, I'm not sure who would find this ***** appealing (or why) and I'm baffled as to why this vapid crap ever got a sequel. The story's pretty much non existent. The acting is atrocious. The dialogue's inane and the stunts are laughable (and not in a good way). This "movie" (I use this word loosely) is nothing but an excuse for Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Lui to wear ridiculous costumes, flaunt their cleavage, shake their asses, and grin like idiots - which is not to say that I was expecting more from this. I wasn't. I was maybe just hoping it had some scrap of something worthwhile to offer. It doesn't.

:| :rolleyes: :bored: :rolleyes: :bored: :rolleyes: :bored: :rolleyes: :|

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Zotis

02-11-16, 01:25 AM

Yeah well, no one understands Honeykid's taste, not even him.

Gatsby

02-11-16, 01:31 AM

honeykids
Why use add an s at the end when there's only one Honeykid in the entire universe.

I kinda do understand why HK likes Charlie Angels though - if one of the angels were Emma Watson, I'd give it a way higher rating.

Miss Vicky

02-11-16, 01:32 AM

There could be more than one. We don't know.

Swan

02-11-16, 01:34 AM

If it was Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hardy, and Leonardo DiCaprio in those three roles, in the exact same film, you'd rate it 5. :D

Sexy Celebrity

02-11-16, 01:38 AM

If it was Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hardy, and Leonardo DiCaprio in those three roles, in the exact same film, you'd rate it 5. :D
And she'd nominate it for a Hall of Fame, speak endlessly about it and shame everyone who didn't like it, telling us all that we're wasting our time with animal abuse movies.

Camo

02-11-16, 01:58 AM

Great Quills review as usual :up:. I must say i really didn't like Locke much at all and actually thought about turning it off a few times, but i agree Hardy was very good. And yeah Charlies Angels is awful, definitely one of the worst films i've ever seen.

Zotis

02-11-16, 05:51 AM

MV, have you seen Stupider Ascending yet? Er... I mean Jupiter Ascending...

Miss Vicky

02-11-16, 10:48 AM

MV, have you seen Stupider Ascending yet? Er... I mean Jupiter Ascending...

I have not.

honeykid

02-11-16, 06:23 PM

I genuinely think Charlie's Angels is a good, fun popcorn movie. That's not why I love it, of course, but I do think it is.

nothing but an excuse for Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Lui to wear ridiculous costumes, flaunt their cleavage, shake their asses, and grin like idiots
That's reason enough for any film to exist. Frankly, I could live in a world where that what every film was. :D

Camo

02-11-16, 06:29 PM

I genuinely think Charlie's Angels is a good, fun popcorn movie. That's not why I love it, of course, but I do think it is.

That is great :up:. I honestly thought you thought it was really bad too but just didn't care since you love it.

Terrible film though, also not fun :p

cricket

02-11-16, 06:30 PM

I genuinely think Charlie's Angels is a good, fun popcorn movie. That's not why I love it, of course, but I do think it is.

That's reason enough for any film to exist. Frankly, I could live in a world where that what every film was. :D

Yep

edarsenal

02-14-16, 02:02 PM

very well-spoken and in-depth review of Quills. AMAZING film!

And full agree about Locke. If someone else did it instead of Hardy I would have passed it up and Hardy did to an amazing job carrying the film

Captain Spaulding

02-16-16, 01:33 PM

I read through this thread the other day and dished out a bunch of +rep, but I forgot to say anything, so I'll say it now: Great thread you've got going here, Miss Resident Bitch. I've mostly just seen you post ratings for movies without going into details, so it's a delight to finally get a chance to read your thoughts. As others have noted, the write-ups have steadily improved and gotten longer and more detailed. Turns out you're pretty good at this reviewing thing.

I've added Wrinkles, The 24th Day and The Reckoning to my watchlist. Never heard of any of those three before you logged them, but they sound interesting. Pleased to see how much you like Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant and The Hateful Eight. Those are easily my favorite movies from 2015 so far. Irrational Man sounds more interesting than the typical Woody Allen film, so I'll be bumping it up a little higher on my Netflix queue. I don't think I'd ever heard of Quills before joining the forum, and I've still yet to muster enough desire to check it out, but I promise to watch it one day.

By the way, you should totally make audio-recordings of that erotic fiction you say you've written and send them my way. Make sure you breathe heavily and moan my name from time to time. :randy:

Miss Vicky

02-16-16, 06:11 PM

By the way, you should totally make audio-recordings of that erotic fiction you say you've written and send them my way. Make sure you breathe heavily and moan my name from time to time. :randy:

I guess I should mention that it's pretty much M4M fiction. :laugh:

Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 02:10 AM

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Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Date Watched: 02/22/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Because Omnizoa seems to think this is a much better movie than Being John Malkovich
Rewatch: No

Like pretty much every high school movie ever made, Mean Girls deals with stereotypes, specifically those involving the power plays, backstabbing, and cruelty surrounding cliques and the ridiculous things people will do to fit in. The trouble is that it doesn't do a very good job of it.

The characters are universally one dimensional (though I suppose one could argue that there's not a whole lot of dimension to most high school girls anyway) and never gain any depth as the movie progresses. The "Plastics" stay plastic. The nerds stay nerdy. The token gay guy stays the token gay guy. The artsy goth chick that people think is a lesbian stays the artsy goth chick that people think is a lesbian. None of them become anything more and yet the viewer is expected to buy the film's heavy handed and overly sentimental finale anyway.

It doesn't work for me. Which is not to say that I hated the movie. It was okay. I even chuckled a time or two. It just treads the same ground as countless other movies before it and in doing so offers nothing fresh, original, or particularly memorable.

2.5-

Iroquois

02-23-16, 02:15 AM

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Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 02:25 AM

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I cannot believe you rate this thing a 4.

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Actually given our history of differing opinions, I can believe it. I just don't want to.

:tsk:

Sexy Celebrity

02-23-16, 02:28 AM

I can believe it. Easily.

Iroquois

02-23-16, 02:41 AM

In fairness, I didn't like it the first couple of times that I saw it but it eventually grew on me like The Big Lebowski or even Anchorman did.

Tugg

02-23-16, 03:38 AM

I rate "Mean Girls" rating_5. Plastics had to change and the many interesting characters that stay the same a very clearly, ironically and cleverly defined. :)

Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 04:13 AM

Plastics had to change

The Plastics became less bitchy, but didn't gain any depth that I could see. :shrug:

Gatsby

02-23-16, 04:23 AM

Cliche after cliche after cliche is not what I'd call a recipe for a great comedy. I guess Mean Girls is a cult film because it has a handful of exaggerated off-beat moments, but they fail to generate laughter, or even appreciate the effort put in.

Tugg

02-23-16, 05:06 AM

"Mean Girls" isn't necessarily funny, because it is an ironic movie.

Iroquois

02-23-16, 05:51 AM

The Plastics became less bitchy, but didn't gain any depth that I could see. :shrug:

Who said anything about gaining depth? Not every character has to get a generic redemptive arc, especially when it wouldn't make sense for the character. Out of the three Plastics, Regina is the only one to get such an arc as she eventually makes the shift from inexplicably popular queen bitch to a star athlete who actually earns the admiration and respect of other students rather than arbitrarily gain it. In short, it's about her using the same sense of, well, meanness that originally defined her and involves her putting it to good use. Gretchen and Karen are a bit more limited, but they aren't seen as out-and-out antagonistic like Regina and so they have less of a change to make. Given Gretchen's primary characterisation as an insecure toady, it ultimately makes sense for her to latch onto another clique after the dissolution of the Plastics (and to have it be the all-Asian clique just lends it extra absurdity). Karen, meanwhile, is supposed to be too much of a ditz to be truly malicious and so her conclusion is just a left-field brick joke that sees her completely absurd ability to predict the weather using her breasts and allows her to become a weather reporter because of it.

Cliche after cliche after cliche is not what I'd call a recipe for a great comedy. I guess Mean Girls is a cult film because it has a handful of exaggerated off-beat moments, but they fail to generate laughter, or even appreciate the effort put in.

Might I ask what you would consider a recipe for a great comedy? Your criticism of Mean Girls does feed into my comments about it being an acquired taste on par with Anchorman or The Big Lebowski.

"Mean Girls" isn't necessarily funny, because it is an ironic movie.

You're going to have to elaborate further on this.

neiba

02-23-16, 07:48 AM

Ok, you sold me Quills, going to check it out! :)

Tugg

02-23-16, 10:15 AM

Cliche after cliche after cliche is not what I'd call a recipe for a great comedy.
Yes, "Mean Girls" uses clichés, but in a creative way and rather mockingly. Also, it doesn't get stuck on few clichés that get repeated over and over so they don't seem overbearing.

My increased appreciation for the movie is due to lack of crude drugs, sex, fart and toilet jokes. And if they are used, they are only a side note to main point instead of being the point.

You're going to have to elaborate further on this.
For me, comedy in "Mean Girls" doesn't come from especially clever punch lines, but from fast paced delivery of absurd and ironic scenes that manage to reveal many aspects of school society and individual characters. I said it was an ironic movie because of how trivial the concerns of all characters are. Neither does it stop to show viewers some pointless tragedy and for good. It would be more cliché if it tried to be any deeper than it is. Even the ending is rather light hearted.

That's my take on it.

Omnizoa

02-23-16, 10:49 AM

Who said anything about gaining depth? Not every character has to get a generic redemptive arc, especially when it wouldn't make sense for the character. Out of the three Plastics, Regina is the only one to get such an arc as she eventually makes the shift from inexplicably popular queen bitch to a star athlete who actually earns the admiration and respect of other students rather than arbitrarily gain it. In short, it's about her using the same sense of, well, meanness that originally defined her and involves her putting it to good use. Gretchen and Karen are a bit more limited, but they aren't seen as out-and-out antagonistic like Regina and so they have less of a change to make. Given Gretchen's primary characterisation as an insecure toady, it ultimately makes sense for her to latch onto another clique after the dissolution of the Plastics (and to have it be the all-Asian clique just lends it extra absurdity). Karen, meanwhile, is supposed to be too much of a ditz to be truly malicious and so her conclusion is just a left-field brick joke that sees her completely absurd ability to predict the weather using her breasts and allows her to become a weather reporter because of it.
This.

My increased appreciation for the movie is due to lack of crude drugs, sex, fart and toilet jokes.
There's one fart joke.

And if they are used, they are only a side note to main point instead of being the point.
True enough. Drugs and sex bother me in teen/school movies too.

Omnizoa

02-23-16, 10:54 AM

Reason For Watching: Because Omnizoa seems to think this is a much better movie than Being John Malkovich
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In my defense, I didn't spend the entirety of Mean Girls waiting for a payoff that never came.

rauldc14

02-23-16, 11:02 AM

Rating for Mean Girls is way too low

Camo

02-23-16, 11:18 AM

Mean Girls is quite good but i think i have seen it enough for this lifetime having somehow managed to accidentally see it at the cinema four times.

Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 11:36 AM

Who said anything about gaining depth? Not every character has to get a generic redemptive arc, especially when it wouldn't make sense for the character.

Not every character needs it, no, but I'm not necessarily looking for redemption, just something to make these people seem more human and less caricature.

Citizen Rules

02-23-16, 12:56 PM

How would you compare Mean Girls to Heathers?

Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 01:00 PM

How would you compare Mean Girls to Heathers?

Oh I love Heathers. It's one of my all time favorite movies.

But Heathers doesn't present the audience with one dimensional characters and then slap them with some overly sentimental moral to the story. It's got dark humor and sex appeal on its side.

cricket

02-23-16, 07:32 PM

I'm in no rush to see Mean Girls, even though I have the feeling I'd like it.

Gatsby

02-23-16, 07:34 PM

I'm in no rush to see Mean Girls, even though I have the feeling I'd like it.
...I don't think you'll like it.

cricket

02-23-16, 07:41 PM

...I don't think you'll like it.

They don't have sex with and shoot each other?

Gatsby

02-23-16, 07:45 PM

They don't have sex with and shoot each other?
No dammit, I was expecting exactly that, but nothing exciting happens.

cricket

02-23-16, 07:46 PM

No dammit, I was expecting exactly that, but nothing exciting happens.

Lame

Iroquois

02-23-16, 09:05 PM

Not every character needs it, no, but I'm not necessarily looking for redemption, just something to make these people seem more human and less caricature.

I was mainly using redemption as an example given the Plastics' antagonistic nature (as I pointed out, only one of them actually fits into such a narrative framework). How much humanity do these characters really need, though?

I'm in no rush to see Mean Girls, even though I have the feeling I'd like it.

If I think it's great, how bad can it really be?

Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 10:12 PM

I was mainly using redemption as an example given the Plastics' antagonistic nature (as I pointed out, only one of them actually fits into such a narrative framework). How much humanity do these characters really need, though?

Given that the filmmakers expect me to buy this as a tale with a moral to the story (and that moral being that we need to accept and support each other), they need more dimension than they had.

Omnizoa

02-23-16, 11:13 PM

Given that the filmmakers expect me to buy this as a tale with a moral to the story (and that moral being that we need to accept and support each other), they need more dimension than they had.
Mean Girls feels a lot more like an extreme parody to me. I've met "plastics" at school before, and I hated them for good reason. Mean Girls is like those people on their worst day at all times which sustains my irritation and delivers catharsis with their downfall. It's a revenge story.

It's not a terribly powerful revenge story, but then again this isn't Hell Girl.

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Miss Vicky

02-23-16, 11:19 PM

It's a revenge story.

It hardly counts as a revenge story (especially given that Regina's comeuppance was an accident). It's way too touchy feely at the end but doesn't provide sympathetic characters for me to get touchy feely about. It just falls flat for me. If it had been a real revenge story I might've liked it better.

I think I'll just stick with classic teen flicks like The Breakfast Club and Heathers, tyvm.

Tugg

02-24-16, 12:37 AM

I think I'll just stick with classic teen flicks like The Breakfast Club and Heathers, tyvm.
"The Breakfast Club" rating_3 is a bit sentimental for me. It feeds into teenager's common idea of self importance.

Miss Vicky

02-24-16, 01:07 AM

"The Breakfast Club" rating_3 is a bit sentimental for me. It feeds into teenager's common idea of self importance.

And Mean Girls doesn't feed into the idea of self importance? Okay.

The Breakfast Club is sentimental, sure, but that sentimentality is justified by presenting its characters as real people that the audience can relate to. We don't just spend the whole movie watching a bunch of exaggerated, phony bitches be catty to each other and then are expected to embrace the message of acceptance because one of those bitches makes an "inspirational" speech at a school function.

The finale of Mean Girls just felt slapped together and lazy to me. It was like the writers or director decided at the last minute to attempt to give the story some deeper meaning that it neither needed nor earned.

Omnizoa

02-24-16, 01:12 AM

It hardly counts as a revenge story (especially given that Regina's comeuppance was an accident).
Not all comeuppance needs to be intentional to work, otherwise I wouldn't like My Name is Earl as much as I do (it was karma that pushed her!).

It's way too touchy feely at the end but doesn't provide sympathetic characters for me to get touchy feely about. It just falls flat for me.
That's fine, I didn't think the ending as all that great either. For the record, my ratings are pretty broad. BJM just barely hinges on [Just... Bad] territory for me while Mean Girls similarly ventures very slightly into [Pretty Good]. Both are fairly [Meh...] to me in the grand scheme of things.

I think I'll just stick with classic teen flicks like The Breakfast Club
I did NOT like The Breakfast Club for many years, but after watching it again recently I think my attitude towards it has changed.

Guaporense

02-24-16, 01:35 AM

Miss Vicky

02-24-16, 04:47 AM

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Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 02/23/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It's Gladiator.
Rewatch: I've seen it more times than I can count.

When I first saw this movie, I didn't know the names Russell Crowe or Joaquin Phoenix. I knew only that I had a fondness for the old swords-and-sandals epics (particularly The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators). I was excited to see a modern version that would feature more nuanced acting,effects that were more sophisticated than a guy rolling around in the sand with a stuffed tiger, and a story that would do away with the religious overtones of those old classics.

What I got was all that and more. This movie is the epitome of many of the things that make me love movies. The costumes, sets, and effects are breathtaking. The score hits just the right emotional notes. The battle scenes are thrilling. There's a hero that you can really get behind. He's handsome. He's noble. He's loyal. He's charismatic. He's strong. He refuses to be broken no matter what is taken from him and yet there's just a little vulnerability to him. Just enough to make him seem human.

And as that hero, Russell Crowe is quite impressive. His imposing physique makes for a believable warrior, yet his eyes and face masterfully convey the inner battle of emotions as Maximus struggles to keep himself together, navigate the devastating realities of his existence, and find a way to avenge those he has lost.

He's matched by a villain who is ruthless, brutal, and unsettling to watch. Joaquin Phoenix brings a frightening level of intensity to Commodus, the sniveling, incestuous and dangerous creep who will stop at nothing to realize his grand visions for himself. Phoenix embodies this character so completely and so convincingly that my initial impression was that he'd never make it as a leading man because he was too damn creepy (which was a shame because he was so damn good).

Ultimately, the two are pitted in a one on one battle that is at once thrilling, heartbreaking and satisfying.

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Since this film's release, I've read and heard many complaints. The film plays pretty loosely with history. The dialogue is exaggerated and theatrical. Some of the CGI is obvious. There are some discrepancies between things that are said and things that happen in the film. Rubber prop swords can be seen to bend during battle. A compressed air canister used to flip a chariot is visible. I'll allow that Gladiator is not a flawless movie. However none of these flaws matter to me and it remains a flawless movie watching experience. After sixteen years and countless viewings, I remain just as enthralled by the movie today as I was the first time.

5

Iroquois

02-24-16, 05:32 AM

Given that the filmmakers expect me to buy this as a tale with a moral to the story (and that moral being that we need to accept and support each other), they need more dimension than they had.

Heathers arguably had the same moral (though J.D.'s methods of achieving it were naturally too extreme), yet the Heathers are hardly the most multi-dimensional characters. Heather Chandler is an arrogant bitch, Heather McNamara is a sycophant, and Heather Duke is a resentful social-climber (she's like Cady from Mean Girls but without the redeeming qualities). They have their odd little moments of characterisation, but I wouldn't say that they have that much more depth than their Mean Girls counterparts. Heathers is just a bit more honest as to how the story uses characters as pawns rather than as human beings (why else do you think the writer wanted Kubrick to direct it?)

It hardly counts as a revenge story (especially given that Regina's comeuppance was an accident). It's way too touchy feely at the end but doesn't provide sympathetic characters for me to get touchy feely about. It just falls flat for me. If it had been a real revenge story I might've liked it better.

I think I'll just stick with classic teen flicks like The Breakfast Club and Heathers, tyvm.

Well, Mean Girls 2 tried going with a straightforward revenge story and it is way worse than the original, so I can't imagine you'd like it any better. The touchy-feely stuff happens by necessity since the third act is about Cady redeeming herself for becoming a genuine Plastic and isolating everyone in the process, so she actually works to make things right. She's supposed to be the sympathetic character and her big prom speech is supposed to be the end of her personal journey.

And Mean Girls doesn't feed into the idea of self importance? Okay.

The Breakfast Club is sentimental, sure, but that sentimentality is justified by presenting its characters as real people that the audience can relate to. We don't just spend the whole movie watching a bunch of exaggerated, phony bitches be catty to each other and then are expected to embrace the message of acceptance because one of those bitches makes an "inspirational" speech at a school function.

The finale of Mean Girls just felt slapped together and lazy to me. It was like the writers or director decided at the last minute to attempt to give the story some deeper meaning that it neither needed nor earned.

If Mean Girls is about a bunch of phony bitches being catty to each other, then The Breakfast Club is about a rude jackass who wants to piss off his equally stereotypical classmates. As far as unjustified sentimentality goes, I think that Alison being made up to look like a princess and winning over Andy in the process outdoes anything that Mean Girls has to offer, and Brian's essay at the end is no better than Cady's prom speech.

Also, I'd say that the deeper meaning was at least somewhat needed/earned. The film is about Cady's journey. She starts off as a kind person who is treated like an outsider at high school, so she goes along with her fellow outsiders' plan to sabotage the popular clique from within. However, she gets so caught up in the plan that she starts to become just as bad as they do (if not worse), and so when things come to a head she realises just how wrong she was to do so. To this end, she makes up with both sets of friends and embraces her true self by joining the Mathletes and winning the competition. Considering how the school was almost torn apart by the students being mean to one another, it makes sense that the climatic moments involved a public demonstration of altruism on Cady's part. It's not a sudden last-minute thing so much as a cohesive conclusion that builds upon what has come before.

Omnizoa

02-24-16, 07:50 AM

The dialogue is exaggerated and theatrical.
It's a Greek/Rome epic. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't.

Iroquois

02-24-16, 07:58 AM

I'll say this about Gladiator - it's two-thirds of a great film.

honeykid

02-24-16, 08:17 AM

I'll say this about Gladiator - it's two-thirds of a great film.
Really? Which one? :D

I genuinely think Charlie's Angels is a good, fun popcorn movie. That's not why I love it, of course, but I do think it is.

Its better than most Hitchcock's output.
Quoted for truth.

Omnizoa

02-24-16, 08:28 AM

If Mean Girls is about a bunch of phony bitches being catty to each other, then The Breakfast Club is about a rude jackass who wants to piss off his equally stereotypical classmates. As far as unjustified sentimentality goes, I think that Alison being made up to look like a princess and winning over Andy in the process outdoes anything that Mean Girls has to offer,
THANK YOU!

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Alison was way more likable being unique and quirky than friggen' Barbie doll. It shouldn't have been the SOLE REASON Andy changes his attitude about her.

Plus, I don't get how that movie is supposed to "break stereotypes" when resident plastic Claire nonsensically falls for a bad boy and Brian just ends up doing everyone else's work and remaining the figurative virgin.

I'll say this about Gladiator - it's two-thirds of a great film.
What third lost you?

Iroquois

02-24-16, 08:30 AM

It really starts to drag after the whole "my name is Maximus" bit.

Omnizoa

02-24-16, 08:44 AM

It really starts to drag after the whole "my name is Maximus" bit.
I... don't remember that bit. It's been a while.

rauldc14

02-24-16, 11:37 AM

Charlie's Angels is better than most of Hitchcock's works? I can no longer believe a thing you say.

Miss Vicky

02-24-16, 12:57 PM

Heathers arguably had the same moral (though J.D.'s methods of achieving it were naturally too extreme), yet the Heathers are hardly the most multi-dimensional characters.

When did I say that the characters in Heathers had depth? I said Heathers has dark humor and sex appeal, two things that Mean Girls lacks. It also doesn't lay on the sentimentality in the end like Mean Girls does.

The Breakfast Club lays on the sentimentality, which I fully admit, but it does so with much more human characters that allow me to buy into it. Each character embodies a different stereotype, but we get a glimpse into what drives each of these people so that they aren't just caricatures of jocks, nerds, popular girls, etc. And as each character reveals more about his or herself, they are all able to empathize and identify with each other and form the bond that makes the movie.

And I'll agree that the part of Allison's makeover is the weak point of The Breakfast Club, but not weak enough to drag the movie down. It does however give Claire a chance to show her kinder side even if her actions would ultimately be misguided IRL.

I also fail to see why Cady even likes The Plastics, if she really is this "genuinely kind" person we're meant to believe. Regina in particular never shows any qualities that would make any reasonable person want to spend time with her, which to me cheapens Cady's journey.

But, as usual, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Really? Which one? :D

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neiba

02-24-16, 01:06 PM

Its better than most Hitchcock's output.

Quoted for truth.

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Citizen Rules

02-24-16, 01:07 PM

Wow, this is a very popular review thread! I totally agree with MV on Heathers, I love that film, I didn't think I would like it, but Heathers was freshly different with it's dark humor that went places I didn't expect. I probably won't be watching Mean Girls, anytime soon.

Omnizoa

02-24-16, 02:10 PM

I also fail to see why Cady even likes The Plastics, if she really is this "genuinely kind" person we're meant to believe. Regina in particular never shows any qualities that would make any reasonable person want to spend time with her,
That part of the movie is very brief, and however brief it is still significant, so I can definitely agree it's not explored very well, but there are two rationalizations:

1.) The Plastics' "girl world" is a new and interesting experience for her. They also live luxuriously and reflect a sense of importance that flexes their egos.

2.) Cady becomes so entrenched in her facade that it becomes habit (this bit is made pretty explicit in the movie).

As soon as Cady begins acting like this "for reals" I immediately start disliking her, but karma also whips out like a rattlesnake and cracks her across the knuckles mere minutes after that happens. Immediately she puts off Aaron and Janis calls her out with the "P" word.

She doesn't do it again and her then revealed conspiracy against Regina sets them firmly at odds.

honeykid

02-24-16, 03:41 PM

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Well that's not very PG-13, is it? :p

edarsenal

02-24-16, 03:54 PM

serious reps for Gladiator. Yes, there are flaws, BUT, like you, they do not matter in the least. A great, engaging flick.

Miss Vicky

02-24-16, 04:37 PM

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Well that's not very PG-13, is it? :p
No but then neither am I.

Gatsby

02-24-16, 05:50 PM

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Well that's not very PG-13, is it? :p
No but then neither am I.
Yeah Yoda should have censored you by now.

Btw great review of Gladiator. Unlike others, I think the film aged well.

Citizen Rules

02-24-16, 05:54 PM

I haven't seen Gladiator since I seen it at the theater. But it must be a great film because I do think about some of the scenes from time to time. And I hardly ever do that with other films. One of these days I'll watch it again.

cricket

02-24-16, 06:14 PM

I really need to see Gladiator again to give it a fair shot. I saw it at the movies around the time I started hating going to the movies. While I didn't dislike it, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Miss Vicky

02-24-16, 06:37 PM

Btw great review of Gladiator. Unlike others, I think the film aged well.

I really don't get the backlash this film seems to get these days. I think it has aged very well. It still gets my blood pumping.

I really need to see Gladiator again to give it a fair shot. I saw it at the movies around the time I started hating going to the movies. While I didn't dislike it, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

I saw it at the theater the first time and couldn't wait to see it again. Which I did, four more times before the end of its theatrical run. No idea how many times I've seen it between the VHS copy, the two DVD copies and the Blu Ray I've bought since then.

Iroquois

02-25-16, 07:45 AM

When did I say that the characters in Heathers had depth? I said Heathers has dark humor and sex appeal, two things that Mean Girls lacks. It also doesn't lay on the sentimentality in the end like Mean Girls does.

You were the one saying that the characters needed more dimension for you to care about them, and if your main concerns are dark humour and sex appeal, then you shouldn't have made such a big deal about the characters' dimensions (or lack thereof) in the first place.

The Breakfast Club lays on the sentimentality, which I fully admit, but it does so with much more human characters that allow me to buy into it. Each character embodies a different stereotype, but we get a glimpse into what drives each of these people so that they aren't just caricatures of jocks, nerds, popular girls, etc. And as each character reveals more about his or herself, they are all able to empathize and identify with each other and form the bond that makes the movie.

I'd argue that the scene in Mean Girls where the principal calls an emergency assembly with every female student and staff member is comparable to the scene where the Breakfast Club sit around in a circle and open up about why they got detention in the first place. Both scenes are about vastly different high-school stereotypes being forced to realise that they are fundamentally similar underneath their superficial differences and both scenes ultimately concludes with a mutual outpouring of empathy for one another. This also feeds into my comparison between Brian's letter and Cady's prom speech - unearned bouts of sentiment on their own, sure, but they build off these previous scenes of group activity and make for more fundamentally organic conclusions.

And I'll agree that the part of Allison's makeover is the weak point of The Breakfast Club, but not weak enough to drag the movie down. It does however give Claire a chance to show her kinder side even if her actions would ultimately be misguided IRL.

Yeah, the impact is alleviated somewhat by the knowledge that things are liable to return to normal on Monday morning (and one of the characters points that out if I recall correctly), but the film definitely seems to leaning a bit too hard on this being a superficially satisfactory conclusion.

I also fail to see why Cady even likes The Plastics, if she really is this "genuinely kind" person we're meant to believe. Regina in particular never shows any qualities that would make any reasonable person want to spend time with her, which to me cheapens Cady's journey.

Omnizoa already covered this pretty well, but yeah, Cady's initial reason for joining the Plastics was to get revenge for Janis and nothing else but, being a sheltered home-schooled kid with few social skills, she gradually ends up being seduced by the temptations of the Plastic lifestyle even as she works to sabotage Regina (especially considering how her motives shift from helping Janis get back at Regina to taking over Regina's spot at the top of the high-school food chain).

But, as usual, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Yuuup.

I really don't get the backlash this film seems to get these days. I think it has aged very well. It still gets my blood pumping.

First off, it's a Best Picture winner. Backlash is inevitable regardless of the film's actual quality or lack thereof. Second of all, I get why Gladiator in particular gets a backlash - because, for all its Ridley Scott professionalism and star turns from Crowe and Phoenix, it's a fundamentally hollow film that never truly earns its status as an epic. The simple revenge plot that drives the film is obscured by convoluted political sub-plots and, as I've stated already, the film loses some serious momentum following its dramatic reveal. The action scenes are generally decent and you've got some decent performers in the mix, but it doesn't feel like it needs to be two-and-a-half hours. There's a similar sort of backlash that's surrounding The Revenant at the moment, which is unsurprising considering how both films are historical epics where the main character is an experienced soldier who is left for dead and wants to get revenge on the man responsible for murdering his family.

Omnizoa

02-25-16, 09:16 AM

I'd argue that the scene in Mean Girls where the principal calls an emergency assembly with every female student and staff member is comparable to the scene where the Breakfast Club sit around in a circle and open up about why they got detention in the first place. Both scenes are about vastly different high-school stereotypes being forced to realise that they are fundamentally similar underneath their superficial differences and both scenes ultimately concludes with a mutual outpouring of empathy for one another.
I prefer The Breakfast Club in this regard.

Yeah, the impact is alleviated somewhat by the knowledge that things are liable to return to normal on Monday morning (and one of the characters points that out if I recall correctly),http://i.imgur.com/opi8Ykp.gif

Omnizoa already covered this pretty well, but yeah, Cady's initial reason for joining the Plastics was to get revenge for Janis and nothing else but, being a sheltered home-schooled kid with few social skills, she gradually ends up being seduced by the temptations of the Plastic lifestyle even as she works to sabotage Regina (especially considering how her motives shift from helping Janis get back at Regina to taking over Regina's spot at the top of the high-school food chain).
Unless I'm remembering it incorrectly, I don't think her motivations really shift then, the focus then seems to be on Regina's minions and how they basically can't function without a "Queen Bee". Becoming a plastic is certainly a plot point, but taking over the plastics, I don't think so.

Tugg

02-25-16, 09:55 AM

Unless I'm remembering it incorrectly, I don't think her motivations really shift then, the focus then seems to be on Regina's minions and how they basically can't function without a "Queen Bee". Becoming a plastic is certainly a plot point, but taking over the plastics, I don't think so.
She didn't seek to take over the plastics, but she did become plastic queen.

"Mean Girls" doesn't dwell on any aspects of the story for more than a minute. It's all about fast pace. If it was slower, the movie would loose it's effectiveness.

Miss Vicky

02-25-16, 11:14 AM

it's a fundamentally hollow film that never truly earns its status as an epic.

How is it any more hollow than any other epic?

The simple revenge plot that drives the film is obscured by convoluted political sub-plots

Um, okay. I'm not sure how they obscure anything. Maximus needed a way to get to Commodus. The political subplots gave Maximus a much more likely way to get to him, even if the result was not what he'd hoped for. Once Maximus's identity was known to Commodus, he wasn't going to get another chance to get close to him without help.

and, as I've stated already, the film loses some serious momentum following its dramatic reveal.

To me, that's when it really starts to pick up.

The action scenes are generally decent and you've got some decent performers in the mix, but it doesn't feel like it needs to be two-and-a-half hours.

Did it need to be two and a half hours? Maybe not, but this isn't a film where I ever find myself checking the time. It doesn't feel bloated to me like some other lengthy films do.

Miss Vicky

02-26-16, 01:56 AM

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The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 2/25/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It was the only film in Camo's top ten that I'd not yet watched
Rewatch: No

The Third Man has a reputation for being among the best in film history - and were I to judge it solely on cinematography and overall technical strength, I would agree. Its strange angles, odd vantage points and creative use of objects and light make for stunning imagery. It's among the most interesting films to look at that I've ever seen.

It also has an interesting use of music. At first the score seemed out of place to me. However, as I settled into the film more, I found that the strangely upbeat tunes lent a sense of playfulness and a lingering thought that things weren't what they seemed. So on a technical level, I have no complaints.

As to the story, at its core it's a pretty basic tale of a man finding his illusions shattered when confronted with the truth about someone he had admired. The script is pretty solid, but didn't strike me as anything particularly special - whether that's a result of imitation from films that have followed it I don't know, but I was not overly impressed.

The characters and performances too left a bit to be desired. I won't deny that Harry Lime himself had a certain charisma and charm, but the others were rather forgettable. Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in particular fell flat. He had little personality and in the rare moment when I felt anything for him, it was annoyance.

Still, the film's technical strengths outweigh its weaknesses and the result was a very watchable film. It's also one that I may revisit and perhaps my opinions will shift more favorably then. But at this point I find it to be a good but not great film.

3.5+

Camo

02-26-16, 02:44 AM

Thanks a lot for watching it Victoria i have a few things i want to say but will have to get back to you :)

Gatsby

02-26-16, 08:16 PM

Hey cool, MV liked The Third Man. Hope your rating for the film goes up in the future.

Iroquois

02-27-16, 08:19 AM

How is it any more hollow than any other epic?

To copy a line from another Best Picture-winning Hollywood epic, the trick is not minding that it's hollow.

Um, okay. I'm not sure how they obscure anything. Maximus needed a way to get to Commodus. The political subplots gave Maximus a much more likely way to get to him, even if the result was not what he'd hoped for. Once Maximus's identity was known to Commodus, he wasn't going to get another chance to get close to him without help.

To me, that's when it really starts to pick up.

They might be relevant to the plot, perhaps, but they do serve to over-extend the film and throw off the momentum it's built up over its first two acts. Maximus' reveal is played for significant drama, sure, but then...what? A bunch of stuff happens to fill out the last hour, punctuated with scenes of action and violence to keep things interesting. I find it hard to engage with anything else.

Did it need to be two and a half hours? Maybe not, but this isn't a film where I ever find myself checking the time. It doesn't feel bloated to me like some other lengthy films do.

I guess this is another one of those agree-to-disagree deals. I find it pretty watchable for the most part, but it struggles to keep my interest as it heads towards the end.

Omnizoa

02-27-16, 09:14 AM

I guess this is another one of those agree-to-disagree deals. I find it pretty watchable for the most part, but it struggles to keep my interest as it heads towards the end.
Do you guys really need to disagree on engagement?

It's not exactly something you can really argue over.

"This movie bored me to sleep."

"I disagree, it did not bore you."

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

edarsenal

02-27-16, 03:22 PM

Third Man is one I mean to check out but still haven't, great review.

JayDee

02-27-16, 04:22 PM

Wow this seems like the place to be, this is where it's all happening. I'm definitely not jealous about that at all. :bored:

:D No I'm very glad to see you've gotten so into it and that you're getting a good response. As for your recent films, Mean Girls I've only seen once or twice and not for a good 10 years probably but I remember really enjoying it. I'll need to give it another watch at some point soon perhaps.

As I've said to you before I used to love Gladiator but hadn't seen it in so long that I wasn't sure anymore. I finally rewatched it last year at some point, and while I still liked it it's not one I love anymore, certainly not based on that viewing anyway. The stuff about Rome, the backstage drama and the politics, I found to be a bit of a drag. For me the film didn't really get going until Maximus found himself in chains. The scenes in the fighting pits and at the Coliseum are still great theatre however, as are the face-offs between Maximus and Commodus.

Oh and I agreed pretty much entirely with what you said about The Third Man. I loved the look of it in terms of its angles, lighting, use of shadows etc but didn't engage as much with the story and characters. Also like you though it's one I want to revisit at some point

honeykid

02-27-16, 04:29 PM

Citizen Rules

02-27-16, 04:43 PM

Well, I liked everything about The Third Man, except for the score, hated the zither.

Miss Vicky

02-28-16, 04:37 AM

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It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg, 2003)
Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273689/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Date Watched: 02/27/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: It's the only Phoenix movie I hadn't seen (disregarding the films he did as a child)
Rewatch: No, although I've attempted it once or twice before

The Premise: In the near future, a man flies to New York to get his wife - a world renowned figure skater - to sign divorce papers. All around him, strange things are happening. People are dropping dead in the streets. Temperatures around the world are plummeting. Gravity has lost its hold in some places and people are "flying." And there is a conspiracy to murder his wife.

Dead people are ignored and stepped over in the street or tossed into the garbage. The news reports thousands are freezing to death worldwide, reporters interview people who plead that they don't want to fly like angels, there's talk of a "freshwater freeze" that will be instant but last only about two minutes. There are encounters with girls who look identical to the man's wife. And the man's older brother - once terrified of flying - now cannot stay on the ground, switching from one airplane to another as he rants on his cell phone about life and love.

I'm gonna come right out and say it: I did not understand this movie at all. I know that it's meant to be a metaphor for something. Perhaps a comment on moral decay, selfishness, and greed? I'm not sure. What I do know is that the film - despite its gorgeous images and capable cast - seems to stumble on its abundance of ideas and lack of focus. Nothing is given a satisfactory explanation and the motivations of its characters and the reasons for its events are muddled at best. The title may say that it's all about love, but for me it was all about confusion.

2.5

MovieMeditation

02-28-16, 04:54 AM

Gladiator is great, but it's been a long time. I should probably rewatch it soon.

I wasn't a fan of The Third Man. I loved the last chase and the visuals were fun and uniqie. Didn't feel the music though and the story only got interesting once Harry showed up

Good write-ups. :up:

neiba

02-28-16, 08:37 AM

Glad you liked The Third Man! :) It's All About Love seems interesting and I like Vinterberg so I'm adding it to my watchlist!

edarsenal

02-28-16, 01:18 PM

wow, all about love sounds like a crazy mushroom adventure. . . in a good way

Thursday Next

02-28-16, 01:51 PM

Added It's All About Love straight to my watchlist.