Movie Tab II [Archive] - Page 98

mark f

04-18-16, 06:44 PM

Treachery Rides the Range (Frank McDonald, 1936) 2
Craig Ferguson: Does This Need to Be Said? (Keith Truesdell, 2011) 3
On Dress Parade (William Clemens, 1939) 2+
Burning Bush (Agnieska Holland, 2013) 2.5+ 237 min.
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In 1969, Prague student Jan Palach sets himself on fire to protest the repressive communist-occupying regime which, in return, starts the police to search for what they’re certain are fellow protesters.
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (Crane Wilbur, 1951) 2.5
Love Is on the Air (Nick Grinde, 1937) 2
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (Natalie Kalmus [Technicolor Director], 1935) 2.5
Victor Frankensein (Paul McGuigan, 2015) 2.5
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Medical student James McAvoy shows his experiment to hunchback circus clown Daniel Radcliffe who suggests some improvements on wiring the optic nerves.
Bubbles (Roy Mack, 1930) 2
The True Story of Lynn Stuart (Lewis Seiler, 1958) 2.5-
Tomahawk Trail (Lesley Selander, 1957) 2
Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson, 1963) 3+
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Baptist handyman Sidney Poitier teaches the East European Catholic nuns who have transplanted themselves to the Arizonan desert English by TPR and a song; against his better judgment, he agrees to build them a chapel.
Cold Comes the Night (Tze Chun, 2013) 2
Wild Rose (Sun Yu, 1932) 2.5 83 min.
The Valachi Papers (Terence Young, 1972) 2
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (Rüdiger Suchsland, 2015) 3.5-
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Documentary posits that the rise of Nazism may be traced in German film is dubious but contains great footage, for example Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.
A Pig Across Paris aka Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956) 2.5
Shooting Fish (Stefan Schwartz, 1997) 2
Father (José María de Orbe, 2010) 2.5-
Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015) 3.5
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Harrowing depiction of Hell on Earth at the crematoriums of Auschwitz follows one Sonderkommando (Géza Röhrig), whose own time is about up, and who attempts to bury a murdered boy with a rabbi reciting Kaddish.

Mr Minio

04-19-16, 09:47 AM

Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015) rating_3_5

Well, it's a great movie, but many people simply don't get it. I heard some guys complaining about the main protagonist's acting. They said it was wooden and his face didn't show any emotion.
For me this is one of the points of the movie. The hero is such a bressonian character and it's even justified, not like in Bresson's films, in which people are emotionless mannequins, just because it's Bresson's style. Saul shows no emotions, because war and the hell of the camp have completely bleached him of these emotions. He's not devoid of emotions per se, it's just that, you know, all this camp stuff does no longer 'impress' him. He knows he will die, so he makes up this quest of burying his alleged son. He is almost like a living dead, like Dante taking a walk in Hell. And it's until the very end of the movie, when he escapes the camp and then sitting in this little hut sees a child and then smiles. In this very moment he restores his humanity and even though he didn't succeed in burying the child, he still won. His main goal, although by different means had been reached, and so he could die in peace.

People probably expected something like The Chekist (which is a masterpiece btw) with disturbing in-your-face violence that will shock them quite literally, but got Bresson directing Come and See with Gus van Sant as the cinematographer (the movie's camera work reminded me of Elephant - the camera constantly following the protagonist).

mark f

04-19-16, 02:25 PM

I thought Röhrig was awesome the entire movie, although it probably helped that I never thought of Bresson or Elephant once. :cool:

NextScorsese

04-19-16, 02:28 PM

Pan's Labyrinth is his only good work. It's a very good movie, but I would not go so far as to call it a masterpiece.

Del Toro has made good movies besides Pans Labyrinth, like the Hellboy movies, and Pacific Rim.

Camo

04-19-16, 02:31 PM

The Valachi Papers (Terence Young, 1972)

That movie is terrible. Easily the worst mafia movie i've ever seen and i've seen a bunch of crappy Gotti TV Movies haha. It's based on a really interesting and important book to US mafia history as well.

mark f

04-19-16, 02:40 PM

Bronson and Lino Ventura aren't bad, the castration scene is memorable and I liked what the actual Valachi Papers turned out to be, but yep, it's pretty blah.

Camo

04-19-16, 02:46 PM

Yeah, i agree those are the better things the movie has going for it. Although the castration scene is not in the book. Neither is quite a bit of it but that is the most notable thing. The book had plenty of material to make a good movie that i don't think adding stuff like that was even necessary.

seanc

04-19-16, 09:53 PM

Distant
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3.5

My third Ceylan film. I really like this guy despite him not seeming like my kind of director. I love dialogue and often Ceylan uses little. However, when he does use dialogue, it is pointed and engrossing. I also love the way he unrolls a story. He gives you nuggets of where he is going with his characters which makes the quiet times quite compelling. His visuals are also excellent. Frames of old ships and cars driving down winding roads are artistic paintings in his hands. Ceylan is 3/3 with me so far.

mark f

04-19-16, 10:33 PM

He's 0/4 for me but I haven't seen that one.

seanc

04-19-16, 10:41 PM

He's 0/4 for me but I haven't seen that one.

Your 0/5 ;)

mark f

04-20-16, 07:09 AM

Crest of the Wave aka Seagulls Over Sorrento (Boulting Bros., 1954) 2
Monsignor (Frank Perry, 1982) 2.5
L (Babis Makridis, 2012) 2-
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (Raoul Walsh, 1956) 2.5
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Prostitute Jane Russell gets kicked out of San Francisco at the start of WWII, migrates to Hawaii, and falls in love with writer Richard Egan who gets drafted. Later, she finds the old life calling her back, and gets mixed up with a man (Michael Pate) who takes advantage of her.
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio, 2013) 2.5
The Extraordinary Seaman (John Frankenheimer, 1969) 2
Crocodile Dundee II (John Cornell, 1988) 2.5
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (Anthony M. Lanza, 1971) 1
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Mad scientist Bruce Dern(!) transplants the head of drooling psycho killer Albert Cole on his simpleton neighbor John Bloom. Why? So they could make another craptastic epic.
Gambling on the High Seas (George Amy, 1940) 2
Just Suppose (David Barclay, 1948) 2.5
Underwater! (John Sturges, 1955) 2
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Elina Psikou, 2014) 2.5
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One (Christos Stergioglou) of Greece’s favorite TV personalities stages his own kidnapping to help pay his taxes, but until he gets the money, he has to keep his story in the news.
Vamperifica (Bruce Ornstein, 2012) 1.5
Around the World Under the Sea (Andrew Marton, 1966) 2
The Decks Ran Red (Andrew L. Stone, 1958) 2.5
Lamb (Ross Partridge, 2016) 2
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Middle-aged Lamb (Ross Partridge) tries to overcome his recent personal losses by helping a lonely 11-year-old girl (Oona Laurance) come to appreciate nature on a “secret” trip to the Rocky Mountains, but how appropriate is their relationship?
Calendar (Atom Egoyan, 1993) 2.5
Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman, 2000) 2
Birds of a Feather (Burt Gillett, 1931) 2.5
Executive Action (David Miller, 1973) 3
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President JFK in the assassin’s sight, but it wasn’t Oswald - who was a patsy - in this conspiracy thriller.

seanc

04-20-16, 08:08 PM

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2.5

Not a bad doc but I think I might be Steve Jobs-ed out. Besides the stuff with his daughter, which is all too common in our society anyway, there is nothing here to make me think Jobs is much different than most CEOs. Overseas tax havens, not mind blowing. Stock manipulation, you don't say. Maybe I'm too numb to fiscal corruption, I don't know.

I also think I'm dull when it comes to these geniuses of technology. I am glad for all the amazing engineers we have in this world. However, it feels like just that, a group effort. All this stuff feels inevitable to me. Each new gadget seems to transition into the next. It just feels like if it wasn't Steve Jobs, it would be someone else.

So yeah, this doc made me realize how jaded I am.

Camo

04-20-16, 08:19 PM

It just feels like if it wasn't Steve Jobs, it would be someone else.

Steve didn't do that much anyway. RIP, great man and all but he seemed like more of a personality behind other peoples work throughout his career starting with Wozniak who actually was pretty impressive but most who have heard of Jobs would have no idea who he is.

JayDee

04-20-16, 09:25 PM

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (Anthony M. Lanza, 1971) rating_1
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linespalsy

04-21-16, 04:47 PM

The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012) 4.5
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) 4+
Spooky Buddies (Robert Vince, 2011) 1.5+
Air Bud 3: World Pup (Bill Bannerman, 2012) 1.5

Iroquois

04-22-16, 05:03 AM

Why'd you rate Rises higher?

linespalsy

04-22-16, 11:52 AM

For a number of reasons that mostly boil down to Bane and Catwoman. Those are easily my two favorite characters/performances of the series (The Joker is a not too distant third).

In fact, while I have some big problems with the franchise as a whole -- particularly its attempts at world-building and assumptions about society (which are just baked into the Superhero genre) -- I was so drawn in by the monumentally charismatic villains that I found just about any problems easy to forgive. That's less true of Batman Begins, the fatal flaw of which is that it wastes the first 45 minutes on dreary, unimaginative back-story and orientalist tropes. With 'Rises', Nolan wisely put the questionable call-backs to that stuff in the middle of the movie, by which point I'm already pretty invested in the plot, to the extent that I can even start to slightly appreciate the Ra's al Ghul stuff that left me completely cold in 'Begins'.

mark f

04-22-16, 08:01 PM

Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin, 1995) 2.5
The Blonde from Brooklyn (Del Lord, 1945) 2+
The Pride of St. Louis (Harmon Jones, 1952) 2.5
Run Boy Run (Pepe Danquart, 2014) 3
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Durimg WWII, a Jewish boy (Andrzej/Kamil Tkacz) escapes the Warsaw ghetto, hides in the forest and then stays with a woman who teaches him to pass as a Catholic to escape the Nazis.
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998) 2.5
From Hand to Mouth (Alf. Goulding, 1919) 3
Darkness (Jaume Balaguero, 2002) 2
Dune (David Lynch, 1984) 2.5
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A Third Stage Guild Navigator has evolved from being a normal human by excessive exposure to the spice Mélange which enables him to fold space and safely guide starships on intergalactic travel.
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1972) 2.5
Blonde Inspiration (Busby Berkeley, 1941) 2
Vice Versa (Brian Gilbert, 1988) 2.5
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016) 3
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Father Michael Shannon takes his special son Jaeden Lieberher to a locale where something unusual but important will happen.
Beta House (Andrew Waller, 2007) 2
Smoke (Wayne Wang, 1995) 2.5
Blond Cheat (Joseph Santley, 1938) 2
A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) 3.5
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Jo (Rita Tushingham) in her more innocent days before having to deal with the tough choices and heartbreaks of “grown-up” life.
Don’t Bet on Blondes (Robert Florey, 1935) 2.5
The Return of the Cisco Kid (Herbert I. Leeds, 1939) 2
The Whistleblower (Larysa Kondracki, 2011) 2.5
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) 3
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After a series of crazy mix-ups, an incompetent products tester (Woody Allen) becomes the President of a Banana Republic and returns to the U.S. to score with the radical activist (Louise Lasser) who earlier dumped him.

linespalsy

04-23-16, 09:56 AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) 4
Black Sun (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1964) 3+
Spectre (Sam Mendes, 2015) 2

seanc

04-23-16, 10:15 AM

So jealous you have seen Midnight Special Mark. I have been waiting weeks for it to come near me. How do you rate it compared to Nichols other films?

mark f

04-23-16, 01:02 PM

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I rate Midnight Special, Mud and Shotgun Stories 3 and Take Shelter 3.5. Midnight Special is a slow-burner, as are all Nichols' films, but this one starts off as if the first half hour was cut out, so the mystery aspect is played up while the relationships and recent activities of everyone are played down. The bursts of action and violence are very well-done. What it ultimately means is open to the individual viewer. It's heavily influenced by sci-fi movies of the past, but it seems to use them to tell a completely different kind of story, so some people will like to dig for what's underneath, while others well be ultimately disappointed by the lack of concrete answers to a few basic questions.

mark f

04-23-16, 10:11 PM

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) 3.5

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Harrowing, beguiling, ultimately uplifting true-life story of French Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) who suffers a catastrophic stroke and retains the sharpness of his mind while being unable to communicate his thoughts to others because all he can physically do is blink one eye. Eventually, his caregivers find a way to communicate with him, and he writes a book about his experiences from a place which no other human has ever been able to describe before. While watching this one-of-a-kind film, you'll probably experience emotions which you may have groped to express before but couldn't quite find the way, but this film should truly get your attention and make you realize how much the average person just takes for granted.
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Some of my favorite parts of the film are when you hear "Jean Do" thinking, fully aware of his situation and plainly pissed at it, but all the onlookers only hear the silence coming from him. He is equally exasperated when he begins to try to use the method which has been developed for him to talk with this "normal" world since it is so painstakingly boring and time-consuming. The fact that the man could overcome everything and write such a poetic, life-affirming homage to his family and friends is truly awe-inspiring. This, combined with the fact that he loved women so much and is basically surrounded by attractive women at his hospital and can do nothing about it, only adds to the power of the film's brutal honesty. The techniques developed by Schnabel, scripter Ronald Harwood and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski to tell this story almost seem to be as significant as those of Jean Do since the film was shot on the actual locations he lived in France after his stroke and the entire film is also all done in French. Don't let any of that dissuade anyone from watching this amazing film. I'm not a fan of Schnabel's earlier Basqiat and Before Night Falls, but this film completely disarmed me and pretty much blew me away.
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Camo

04-23-16, 10:19 PM

I didn't read your second paragraph after the first sentence because i haven't seen it yet. Did you watch it again tonight and that was why you mentioned it in my thread, or did you decide to write about it after reading my comment about it? I know it is probably the former i was just curious.

Must say i find myself enjoying what you have to say about a film more than the film a lot of the time but i do want to watch that now.

mark f

04-23-16, 10:57 PM

Go ahead and read the second paragraph - there are no spoilers. :cool: Your thread made me think about one I had written that included TDBatB here (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=581270#post581270). Then I found an earlier review I hadn't submitted as an "official" review, tweaked it and that's the one above.

linespalsy

04-24-16, 05:11 PM

The Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) 4
Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez, 2001) 3.5-
Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, 2010) 2.5
Snow Buddies (Robert Vince, 2008) 0.5

mark f

04-25-16, 07:45 PM

The Last Ride aka F.T.W. (Michael Karbelnikoff, 1994) 2
Scream Blacula Scream (Bob Kelljan, 1973) 2
Boss of Lonely Valley (Sam Taylor, 1937) 2
From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman, 1980) 2.5+
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A weak, repressed man (Robert Atzorn) murders his much-stronger wife (Christine Buchegger) in a dream he relates to his ineffectual psychiatrist (Martin Benrath).
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Tibor Takacs, 1996) 2
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Philip Kaufman, 1972) 2.5
The Lord’s of Flatbush (Stephen F. Verona & Martin Davidson, 1974) 2-
Crime Wave (André De Toth, 1954) 2.5
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Tough LAPD homicide detective Sterling Hayden chews away at his toothpick – a cigarette substitute – while putting the screws on innocent parolee Gene Nelson to give up what he knows about a murder.
Blue in the Face (Wayne Wang & Paul Auster, 1995) 2
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946) 2.5
Revenge (Tony Scott, 1990) 2+
Night Passage (James Neilson, 1957) 2.5+
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Young Brandon de Wilde is rescued by railroad employee James Stewart, and the two become embroiled with a gang of railroad payroll robbers.
The Vatican Tapes (Mark Neveldine, 2015) 2
Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950) 2.5
Solarbabies (Alan Johnson, 1986) 2
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) 3
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Mute Jean-Louis Trintignant and widow Vonetta McGee both want bounty hunter Klaus Kinski dead, and sheriff Frank Wolff thinks it's probably a good idea too.
Just Another Day (Peter Spirer, 2010) 1.5
Hell Is for Heroes (Donald Siegel, 1962) 2.5+
Poet on a Business Trip (Ju Anqi, 2015) 2
Fragment 53 (Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli & Federico Lodoli, 2016) 2.5
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Interviews with seven warriors in Liberia: ”War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.” – Heraclitus, Fragment 53

linespalsy

04-26-16, 11:43 AM

Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter, 1996) 3-
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Tsui Hark, 2013) 2.5+
Sabotage (David Ayer, 2014) 2.5+
Kangaroo Jack (David McNally, 2003) 1.5

mark f

04-27-16, 06:03 AM

Night Flight (Clarence Brown, 1933) 2.5
Home Sweet Hell (Anthony Burns, 2015) 2
Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933) 2.5
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Bernard Girard, 1966) 3
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Conman James Coburn arranges a complicated holdup at LAX Airport, and part of it involves using bellhop Harrison Ford (in his debut).
Hold 'Em Jail (Norman Taurog, 1932) 2.5
On Football (Sergio Oksman, 2016) 2
Arsène Lupin Returns (Geo Fitzmaurice, 1938) 2.5
Arsène Lupin (Jack Conway, 1932) 3
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Police inspector Lionel Barrymore is certain that nobleman John Barrymore is the nefarious jewel thief Arsène Lupin, but he can seem to find any proof.
Cell 2455, Death Row (Fred F. Sears, 1955) 2.5-
Band Camp (Steve Rash, 2005) 1.5+
The Naked Mile (Joe Nussbaum, 2006) 2
My Dream Is Yours (Michael Curtiz, 1949) 2.5
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When his best client (Lee Bowman) dumps him, agent Jack Carson hears single mom Doris Day sing over an instrumental 78 record and decides to try to turn her into the next big thing. Her friend Sandra Gould looks on here.
Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites (Jack Scholl, 1948) 2.5-
Rock Rock Rock! (Will Price, 1956) 2
Because They're Young (Paul Wendkos, 1960) 2
A Very Brady Sequel (Arlene Sanford, 1996) 2.5
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The Brady Kids sing and dance a production nunber
Wrong Direction (Alf Goulding, 1934) 2.5+
Kennedy the Great (Charles E. Roberts, 1939) 2+
Poisoned Ivory (Alf Goulding, 1934) 2.5-
The Big Beef (Charles E. Roberts, 1945) 2.5
Drafted in the Depot (Lloyd French, 1940) 2+
What, No Cigarettes? (Hal Yates, 1945) 2.5+
It’s Your Move (Hal Yates, 1945) 2.5
Radio Rampage (Charles E. Roberts, 1944) 3
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Edgar KeUZDFunnedy finds out his radio isn’t working because the internal antenna isn’t properly connected, so to save money, he decides to fix it himself, which ends up costing him a lot more.

linespalsy

04-28-16, 10:18 AM

The Swordsman (Siu-Tung Ching, 1990) 3.5+
Space Buddies (Robert Vince, 2009) 1
God's Not Dead (Harold Cronk, 2014) 0

Gatsby

04-28-16, 10:18 AM

God's Not Dead (Harold Cronk, 2014) 0
:lol:

Iroquois

04-28-16, 10:21 AM

Spoiler title.

mark f

04-29-16, 08:20 AM

Tight Spot (Phil Karlson, 1955) 2.5
How to Play Baseball (Jack Kinney, 1942) 3+
The Crime Doctor's Courage (George Sherman, 1945) 2
Il solengo (Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis, 2016) 2.5
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A hermit lived in a cave near Rome for 60 years, and his “legend” has been kept alive by the members of a hunting community who still share his stories through oral tradition.
Never Let Go (John Guillermin, 1960) 2.5
Burn-E (Angus MacLane, 2008) 3
The Millerson Case (George Archainbaud, 1947) 2
The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra, 1931) 2.5
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Evangelist Barbara Stanwyck feels guilty towards her late preacher father for using her faith to make money. To make sure you realize this is a Pre-Code film, an employee gives his boss the finger through a door.
Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood, 1983) 2.5
The Crime Doctor's Diary (Seymour Friedman, 1949) 2
Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour (Russell Thomas, 2015) 2.5
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) 3
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After the retreating Iraqis set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields in Operation Desert Storm, an ecological and clean-up disaster ensues.
Buffalo Bill (William A. Wellman, 1944) 2.5
The Crime Doctor's Gamble (William Castle, 1947) 2
Jade (William Friedkin, 1995) 2.5
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) 3+
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The Kid (Steve McQueen) stares down The Man (Edward G. Robinson) before he makes an important bet in a big poker game.
The Priest’s Wife (Dino Risi, 1970) 2.5-
More Than a Miracle (Francesco Rosi, 1967) 2.5-
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (John Carl Buechler, 1988) 2
The 3 Penny Opera (G.W. Pabst, 1931) 2.5
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Scumbag Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster) ”marries” the daughter (Carola Neher) of London’s King of Beggars (Fritz Rasp) which irritates him and Mackie’s former lover Lotte Lenya.

matt72582

04-29-16, 07:11 PM

Is there a difference between this thread and the "Rate The Last Movie You've Seen"? and would it be alright to post the same in both threads?

linespalsy

04-30-16, 12:21 AM

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Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986) 5
Swordsman II (Siu-Tung Ching and Stanley Tong, 1992) (2x) 4.5+
Swordsman III: The East is Red (Siu-Tung Ching and Raymond Lee, 1993) 3

linespalsy

04-30-16, 12:40 AM

Is there a difference between this thread and the "Rate The Last Movie You've Seen"? and would it be alright to post the same in both threads?

It's alright to post in both, but the Rate the Last Movie You've Seen thread is redundant, as even its creator has said more than once, and no matter how many times people try to argue that one is "for" single-movie posts and this one is "for" multiple-movie posts.

Movie Tab II 4 ever.

Iroquois

04-30-16, 05:53 AM

I've said this before, but I maintain that the Rate the Last Movie You Saw thread serves as a necessary evil that exists to prevent inexperienced users from starting up their own such threads because (to be fair) they probably wouldn't notice Movie Tab II as it has a relatively vague title and is located in the "Games and Tabs" sub-forum that's further down the page than "General Movie Discussion".

seanc

04-30-16, 10:39 AM

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Mon Oncle
3.5

Not as great as Playtime, but super endearing and enjoyable. I really like Tati a lot, which kind of surprises me. This has a good chance of making my 50's list. I love it when I am watching a movie and the themes remind me that we are not the first generation to experience the things we think we are. This movie was made in 1958 and is essentially all about how technology is disconnecting us from reality. Not ashamed to say that the moment at the end between the man and his son made me well up just a bit.

rauldc14

04-30-16, 10:48 AM

Picture not working for me. What's the movie?

seanc

04-30-16, 11:03 AM

Picture not working for me. What's the movie?

Mon Oncle, Is it still not working? I will add the title.

Nemanja

04-30-16, 04:04 PM

Vertigo (1958) 5
North by Northwest (1959) 3.5
Little Fugitive (1953) 4
The 400 Blows (1959) 4.5
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) 3
Heartlands (2002) 3
Midnight Special (2016) 2.5
Executive Action (1973) 4
Mistress America (2015) 3.5
Too Bad She's Bad (1954) 3.5

rauldc14

04-30-16, 04:34 PM

It's on there now Sean. Meanwhile I went to Barnes today to look at criterion's. I quickly decided that I will not pay double price and will wait until July.

honeykid

04-30-16, 06:23 PM

Nemanja, I'd love to see a few words on Let's Scare Jessica to Death from you. :)

seanc

04-30-16, 06:31 PM

It's on there now Sean. Meanwhile I went to Barnes today to look at criterion's. I quickly decided that I will not pay double price and will wait until July.

Good decision. Have you seen In A Lonely Place yet? Hits Criterion May 10. Can't wait.

Mr Minio

04-30-16, 07:24 PM

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Mon Oncle
rating_3_5 Tati's films (this and Playtime) are outstanding audiovisually, but they leave me cold and are wearisome.

Citizen Rules

04-30-16, 07:29 PM

We watched Mon Oncle for the ill fated Comedy Hof, I loved it. I think I know what Minio means by being cold. The film studies the older uncle and his relation with his family members from afar. Sort of like watching a dream.

seanc

04-30-16, 07:33 PM

Tati's films (this and Playtime) are outstanding audiovisually, but they leave me cold and are wearisome.

I find a lot of warmth in his films. I have said this about others, including my favorite Wes Anderson, but I am glad not everyone works in their style becauseit is so unique. If everyone did it, something would certainly be lost.

Miss Vicky

05-01-16, 01:41 AM

Everything I watched In April
(Thoughts posted in my Movie Log (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=43738))

Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012) 3+
Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) 4.5
This Means War (McG, 2012) 1.5-
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, 2002) 4+
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) (Rewatch) 5
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, 2015) 4
The Good Dinosaur (Peter Sohn, 2015) (Rewatch) 3.5
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984) (Rewatch) 4.5+

cricket

05-01-16, 01:42 AM

April, 2016 movies watched-

Spotlight (2015) 4- So well done to the point that I got into a story that I originally wasn't interested in hearing again.

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) 3.5 *Terrific biographical film about Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, but I wish they could have juiced it up a little.

Blackfish (2013) 3 Good documentary, and an unflattering look at Seaworld.

The Big Country (1958) 4.5 Epic film with a great cast.

I Saw the Devil (2010) Repeat viewing 4.5 One of the most chilling villains ever put on screen.

Rififi (1955) 4.5- Maybe my favorite noir so far.

The Ballad of Narayama (1958) 2+ Kabuki Kabuki Kabuki

Shane (1953) Repeat viewing 4.5 A childhood favorite that was much better than I ever realized.

An Affair to Remember (1957) 4.5 I shed many tears watching while watching this movie.

Time Lapse (2014) 2.5+ Not what I would call a quality movie, but I enjoyed the story quite a bit.

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) 3 Short and right to the point, it's a good watch.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 3- Great cast and a good flick, but a little on the disappointing side.

The Lives of Others (2006) 3.5+ While I certainly enjoyed it and will think highly of it, it's not going to be a personal favorite.

On Dangerous Ground (1951) 3 Appealingly dismal
Noir with a nice showing by Robert Ryan.

Rancho Notorious (1952) 3+ Above average Western with Marlene Dietrich and Mel Ferrer.

Death of a Cyclist (1955) 2.5- Solid movie that just didn't do much for me.

Beat the Devil (1953) 2 A huge dud from my point of view.

Hobson's Choice (1954) 3.5 Charming and endearing.

The Bravados (1958) 3.5 Beautiful to look at, and Gregory Peck is fantastic.

Strangers on a Train (1951) Repeat viewing 3.5- Very good Hitchcock, but I'm struggling to find one of his that I still love.

Detective Story (1951) 4 Hard hitting for it's time, and another great one from director Wyler.

Young Guns (1988) 2.5 I enjoyed it for a little 80's fun, but not so much as a Western.

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 3.5 Although I think this movie didn't reach it's potential, I would call this best picture winner underrated.

Brooklyn (2015) 3.5+ Not my type at all but it won me over. Such good work all around.

The Killing (1956) 3.5 Cool characters and a very fun watch.

Wagon Master (1950) 3.5 I was awfully close to really loving this Western.

Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) 2+ Amusing, but that's about it for me.

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) 4 Pretty unique movie with beauty and power.

Harvey (1950) 3.5 A very nice movie that's humorous and endearing.

Total April viewings-29
Total 2016 viewings-125

Nope1172

05-01-16, 02:25 AM

April Viewings:

Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Bill Wilder) - 4+

Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) - 3.5

Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) - 4.5

The General (1926, Buster Keaton) - 3.5

Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey) - 3.5

The Hitch-Hiker (1953,Ida Lupino) - 4.5

Dial M For Murder (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) - 4.5-

For A Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone) - 4+

Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder) - 4

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) - 4

(Rewatch)Yellow Submarine (1968, George Dunning) - 4.5-

Nemanja

05-01-16, 12:55 PM

Nemanja, I'd love to see a few words on Let's Scare Jessica to Death from you. :)

"Let's Scare Jessica to Death" is another tale of supernatural horror, as one of the finest horror pictures of the 70's. Madness or sanity!? The film keeps us in continual suspense about who or what is responsible for Jessica’s renewed sense of fear and paranoia. Its autumnal light casts dark shadows and the rural farmhouse location becomes secondary to the inner landscape of a mentally unstable mind. So if you are a fan of old-fashioned spooky horror films it will likely be of interest for fans of the genre.

linespalsy

05-01-16, 10:18 PM

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) 3.5+
The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Tsui Hark, 2014) 3-
Renaissance Man (Penny Marshall, 1994) 1

mark f

05-02-16, 05:44 AM

Blast (Anthony Hickox, 2004) 2
The Dentist (Leslie Pearce, 1932) 2.5+
Private Resort (George Bowers, 1985) 2
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann, 1957) 3
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Sheriff-turned-bounty-hunter Henry Fonda agrees to help callow Anthony Perkins learn the ropes about his temporary new lawman job.
Passport to Suez (André De Toth, 1943) 2
Blues Busters (William Beaudine, 1950) 2.5-
Creative Control (Benjamin Dickinson, 2016) 2
She-Devil (Susan Seidelman, 1989) 3
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Clumsy, overweight housewife Roseanne Barr goes ballistic when her husband (Ed Begley Jr.) starts an affair with successful romance novelist Meryl Streep and concocts an elaborate scheme of revenge.
Category 7: The End of the World (Dick Lowry, 2005) 2
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) 2.5
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (Bradford May, 1996) 2
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) 2.5
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Facing hatred and prejudice wherever he tries to live and work in the Deep South, Ivan Dixon finds it difficult to take care of his teacher wife (Abbey Lincoln) or even find enough dignity to call himself a man.
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976) 2.5
The Anomaly (Noel Clarke, 2014) 2
Mr. Holmes (Bill Condon, 2015) 2.5+
Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1998) 3
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A blend of reality, dreams, the past and the present, with a hope for the future, follows Greek poet Bruno Ganz, diagnosed with a terminal illness, who tries to aid a boy (Achileas Skevis) to get home to Albania. Here he dances with his wife (Isabelle Renaud), although she’s in the past and he’s in the present.
The Godless Girl (Cecil B. DeMille, 1929) 2.5+
Girl Happy (Boris Sagal, 1965) 2
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) 2.5
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark (Jon Brewer, 2014) 3
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”The Nat King Cole Show” was the first national TV show hosted by an African-American, but the jazz legend’s show was cancelled in 1957 after a year, due to protests from the South which cost the show its sponsor.

Mr Minio

05-02-16, 05:52 AM

Rep for Eternity and a Day!

honeykid

05-02-16, 12:36 PM

I only saw it once and it was on its video release, but I can't fathom how you give 3/5 to She-Devil, mark. Maybe it's because I compared it to the, rather good, TV adaptation, but I remember it just being awful. I don't remember anyone liking it.

Monkeypunch

05-02-16, 07:46 PM

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition) - Time has definitely improved my opinion on this film. I didn't love it the first time around, but then through repeated viewings I've come to realize what an achievement in film it is, how rich the world it creates is, and how memorable the characters are. It's an epic, and the extended version is doubly so. 5

gbgoodies

05-03-16, 12:33 AM

Mr. Holmes (Bill Condon, 2015) 2.5+

It's kind of sad to see Mr. Holmes rated so low. I haven't seen it yet, but it's on my watchlist, and I've been looking forward to it.

mark f

05-03-16, 02:31 AM

It's not bad but it's got too many plot threads which tend to diminish the overall effectiveness. The acting is fine even when the film is sluggish.

gbgoodies

05-03-16, 02:40 AM

It's not bad but it's got too many plot threads which tend to diminish the overall effectiveness. The acting is fine even when the film is sluggish.

I'm still planning to watch it, but I'm just not as hyped about it as I was before.

Sedai

05-04-16, 11:06 AM

The Invasion
(Hirschbiegel, 2007)

2

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I am usually a sucker for a body snatcher film, but this was a dud. Sort of a lifeless, half-assed remake of the 1978 remake of the 1956 original. Sadly, this film had neither the grim earnestness of the original, nor the spooky grittiness of the 1978 version (probably my favorite of the bunch).

Christine
(Carpenter, 1983)

2_5

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I used to like this flick when I was a kid, and there is still some nostalgia in play these days, but this is kind of a bore. This was made during the era of Stephen King overload in film, and I believe there were no less than 4 film adaptations of King books the year this was made. This was certainly not the best, as that honor goes to The Dead Zone, but it wasn't the worst, either. The worst would be...

Firestarter
(Lester, 1984)

1_5

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Blimey. Another one I remembered fondly from my younger days. Days during which I clearly had no idea what the difference was between good films and very, very bad films. Firestarter fails on almost every level. The acting is bad across the board, despite the cast consisting of people like Martin Sheen, Art Carney and George C. Scott. The story is inconsistent and senseless, and the special effects, which are relied on heavily to deliver the thrills, are poorly executed. Barrymore had just done E.T., in which she pulled off the cute little kid role perfectly, pulling the world's heartstrings with her earnest histrionics. She goes for the same method here, but it's a bad fit for the sci-fi/horror premise of the film. She was required to do more actual acting here, and she wasn't up to the task. I gave it 1.5 boxes of popcorn due to some great unintentional comedy during the film's third act, like this gem at the 1:00 mark here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRzks3eR-M
Hilarious stuff.

mark f

05-04-16, 02:02 PM

Silent Hill (Christophe Gans, 2006) 2.5
Sex Kittens Go to College (Albert Zugsmith, 1960) 1.5
Day of Anger (Tonino Valerii, 1967) 2.5 114m Italian
You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967) 3
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007 (Sean Connery) takes the mini-helicopter gunship Little Nellie on a test flight and is attacked by four SPECTRE gunships.
In Old Caliente (Joseph Kane, 1939) 2
Replikator (G. Philip Jackson, 1994) 1.5
Beau Brummel (Harry Beaumont, 1924) 2.5
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (Karen Thomas, 2009) 3.5 117m
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The documentary successfully argues that film noir, that most American of genres, came about due to the massive influx of European actors, directors, writers, cinematographers and composers fleeing Nazi Germany and bringing German Expressionism with them. Here are Marlene Dietrich and Billy Wilder on the set of A Foreign Affair and Fritz Lang chatting with Dietrich.
The Lash (Frank Lloyd, 1930) 2
A Successful Calamity (John G. Adolfi, 1932) 3-
The Sin Ship (Louis Wolheim, 1931) 2
Other Men’s Women (William A. Wellman, 1931) 2.5
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Two friends (Grant Withers & Regis Toomey) who work for the railroad love the same woman (Mary Astor). Their friend (James Cagney) is a dancin’ fool.
Smart Woman (Gregory La Cava, 1931) 2.5-
The Runaway Bride (Donald Crisp, 1930) 2
Men of Chance (George Archainbraud, 1931) 2.5
All Through the Night (Vincent Sherman, 1941) 2.5+
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Broadway gambler Humphrey Bogart gets the drop on Nazi spies Conrad Veidt and Judith Anderson (as well as getting a bit kinky).
Wild Waves (Burt Gillett, 1929) 2.5+
Ride Clear of Diablo (Jesse Hibbs, 1954) 2.5
The Rookie (George O’Hanlon, 1959) 1.5
Valdez Is Coming (Edwin Sherin, 1971) 2.5
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After aging lawman Burt Lancaster is humiliated and injured by rancher Jon Cypher and his men, he recovers and uses his former expertise as an Indian fighter and marksman to gain revenge.

matt72582

05-04-16, 02:16 PM

Mark, how many movies do you watch a week? I wish I could watch one every day.. I usually have the time, but usually distracted by something else.

linespalsy

05-06-16, 12:56 PM

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A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009) 4.5
A Chinese Ghost Story (Siu-Tung Ching, 1987) 3.5+
Air Bud (Charles Martin Smith, 1997) 2

Gatsby

05-06-16, 07:08 PM

Mark, how many movies do you watch a week? I wish I could watch one every day.. I usually have the time, but usually distracted by something else.
Mark has a dozen eyes that help him see a lot of films at once. It's also the reason why he's so good at finding the errors in our posts. :D

rauldc14

05-06-16, 07:28 PM

Good decision. Have you seen In A Lonely Place yet? Hits Criterion May 10. Can't wait.

Just saw this post. Haven't seen it, but I do like blind buying for Criterion sales, so there's that.

mark f

05-06-16, 07:54 PM

Deuces Wild (Scott Kalvert, 2002) 2
Coming Back Home (Greg Carson, 2002) 3
It's in the Blood (Scooter Downey, 2012) 2
A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948) 3
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After WWII in Berlin, American congresswoman Jean Arthur and cabaret torch singer Marlene Dietrich, a Nazi collaborator, compete for the same soldier (John Lund).
Hal Ashby: A Man Out of Time (Greg Carson, 2002) 2.5
The Beast with a Million Eyes (David Kramarsky & Roger Corman, 1955) 1.5-
Sometimes They Come Back (Tom McLoughlin, 1991) 2
The Beguiled (Donald Siegel, 1971) 4-
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In this gothic horror western set during the Civil War, an injured Union soldier (Clint Eastwood) finds himself recuperating in a Southern all-girl school. Here he meets Pamelyn Ferdin, the youngest female there.
At War with the Army (Hal Walker, 1950) 2
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (S. Sylvan Simon, 1945) 2.5+
Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear (5 Directors, 2014) 2
Blotto (James Parrott, 1930) 3-
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During Prohibition, Laurel & Hardy are having a great time at a club drinking some booze Stan stole from his bossy wife (Anita Garvin) who, unbeknownst to them, knows everything they’re doing.
The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (William Hole, 1959) 2-
Elegance (Virpi Suutari, 2016) 2.5
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (Robert Day, 1966) 2+
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer, 1964) 3.5
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Four-star General Burt Lancaster appears before the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces to tell them the President (Fredric March) is acting irresponsibly for signing a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets.
Man in the Shadow (Jack Arnold, 1957) 2+
Madhouse (Jim Clark, 1974) 2.5-
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (Duncan McLachlan, 2007) 2
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (David Zucker, 1991) 2.5
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Police Squad’s chief moron Leslie Nielsen rekindles his affair with former flame Priscilla Presley.

Swan

05-06-16, 10:39 PM

Great rating for The Beguiled, Mark! Awesome movie.

BlueLion

05-07-16, 12:29 AM

Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015) 4-

I can't believe it...

mark f

05-07-16, 12:40 AM

I can't either.

Swan

05-07-16, 02:23 AM

I can't believe it...

How dare you insult Mark like that. :p

Iroquois

05-07-16, 03:53 AM

I can't either.

Well, damn, now I really have to give it a second chance. Is it the same version of the film that you originally watched? I've heard about a possible director's cut that changes things a bit.

mark f

05-07-16, 04:04 AM

Warning: BlueLion's quote of me is obviously bogus.

Gatsby

05-07-16, 04:07 AM

Bluelion had me fooled for a minute. :p

Iroquois

05-07-16, 04:08 AM

Warning: BlueLion's quote of me is obviously bogus.

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neiba

05-07-16, 04:56 AM

April

Giovanni’s Island (2014) rating_4
No Man’s Land (2001) rating_3_5
Spellbound (1945) rating_3 +
Dead Man Walking (1995) rating_4
Adaptation. (2002) rating_4 +
The Descendants (2001) rating_3 +
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) rating_2_5
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) rating_4_5
Time Lapse (2014) rating_3_5 -
Quantum of Solace (2008) rating_1
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo (2011) rating_3 -
Skyfall (2012) rating_3_5
Spectre (2015) rating_2
The Defiant Ones (1958) rating_3
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) rating_4_5
Thunderball (1965) rating_3 +
You Only Live Twice (1967) rating_2_5
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) rating_2 +

Month Count 18/0
Year Count 80/4

linespalsy

05-08-16, 03:18 AM

Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) 3.5-
The Beautiful Country (Hans Petter Moland, 2004) 3
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta) 2.5-

Lucas

05-08-16, 01:01 PM

I'm still processing the crushing disappointment that Mark didn't actually give Blackhat a 4-.

:(

Holden Pike

05-09-16, 12:20 PM

I don't really have time to write little reviews for everything I see, anymore, but here are some general thoughts about what I have seen theatrically, thus far in 2016. Including this past weekend, I have seen Jane Got a Gun, Hail, Caesar!, Deadpool, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Witch, Zootopia, Knight of Cups, Demolition, Hello My Name is Doris, Midnight Special, Everybody Wants Some, Miles Ahead, Born to Be Blue, The Jungle Book, Green Room, Sing Street, Elvis & Nixon, The Meddler, Keanu, and Captain America: Civil War.

After four full months, my favorite movie thus far is Midnight Special. Jeff Nichols has become one of my favorite filmmakers in recent years (Take Shelter, Mud, Shotgun Stories), and his foray into the Sci-Fi genre is a triumph. Starring Michael Shannon, no surprise, as the father of a boy with mysterious powers who he tries to spirit away from the religious cult that has grown around his abilities, while being pursued by both the cult members and the authorities. It's kind of Starman and ultimately Tommorwland mixed together, but with Nichols' eye for character and at a more subdued tone than this kind of thriller material is usually is played at, which for me made it much more engrossing and the bursts of noise and action, when they came, jarring and effective.

I liked both of the competing legendary Jazz trumpeter biopics, being Miles Ahead with Don Cheadle as Miles Davis and Born to Be Blue with Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker. I thought Miles Ahead, which Cheadle also directed, was the stronger of the two, but Miles was a much more extreme and outrageous character so that sort of makes sense. Neither film was a masterpiece or anything, and for me Eastwood's Bird (1988) with Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker remains the benchmark for narrative Jazz biopics, but I liked them both. I have not had a chance to catch the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light.

I am not generally a Horror guy, but The Witch was very effective and Green Room was a frickin' blast! I may have to go see Green Room again, take an unsuspecting victim, I mean audience member, with me.

About 180 degrees from the carnage the band in Green Room faces is Sing Street. It's another winner from writer/director John Carney, who's Once and Begin Again are two of the very best movies about musicians. This one is a period piece coming-of-ager about dorky teens in early '80s Dublin who form a band and start writing music. Lovely fable about love and the power of music, great original tunes. I don't like it quite as much as Once or Begin Again, but it is wonderful. Another '80s coming-of-age movie, this one from Richard Linklater, is Everybody Wants Some. A sort of unofficial companion piece to his Dazed & Confused, this time moving from the '70s and suburban High School to the '80s and mid-level college. I generally like Linklater, but frankly I have never gotten what the big fat hairy deal about Dazed & Confused is, and I feel much the same about Everybody Wants Some. Great eye for detail of the period, some amusing scenes, but overall....meh. And I am usually a sucker for coming-of age flicks.

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Michael Shannon is one of my favorite actors, I find him compelling even when he's in junk or only has a handful of small scenes, as in last year's The Night Before where he is hysterical as a mysterious drug dealer. He is in all of Jeff Nichols' movies to date, so as I said he was terrific in Midnight Special. But if you know him and his on-screen persona, he probably wouldn't be on your short list of working actors to play Elvis Aron Presley. But that's exactly what director Liza Johnson did for Elvis & Nixon. And though he really looks nothing like The King, even the early-'70s version of the man portrayed here, his quiet intensity and bemused presence really work for the by-then weary rock & roll icon who hadn't quite slipped into the overweight recluse who would be dead six years later. This slight but amusing movie imagines what transpired during the real-life White House meeting of these two figures, which took place just before Tricky Dick started recording everything that went on in the Oval Office. That gives the script leeway to imagine, and Kevin Spacey is excellent trading in his fictional President from Netflix to play Nixon as a gruff, paranoid, petty, and yet still charming man. Lots to like about this one.

If not for having a niece and nephew who are still prime viewing age for such things, I probably wouldn't have seen Zootopia in the theaters, but I'm glad I did because it was clever and fun. Given some of the talent involved I likely would have gotten around to The Jungle Book eventually, but because of my niece and nephew I saw it opening weekend and almost couldn't believe how much damn fun it was. Bill Murray just about steals the whole thing as Baloo, of course, but every voice was well cast, the kid playing Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is fantastic, and Jon Favreau managed to craft a fun and funny adventure film that follows the basic plotline of the Disney cartoon, pays homage to it perfectly, while also diverting slightly. And since I hadn't paid attention to who was doing the voices beyond the big stars in the main roles, I was pleasantly surprised to hear the recently departed Garry Shandling as one of the first animal voices in the flick!

Terrence Malick's movies are must-sees on the big screen, and Knight of Cups is beautiful to look at. But like To the Wonder it feels like a meditative first draft and not as compelling, thoughtful, or stunning as his best works are, to me. Still glad I saw it,as Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography and Hanan Townshend's score aiding Malick's vision is what cinema is all about, Man. Knight of Cups is disappointing compared to his own filmography, and that is very much how I felt about Ethan & Joel Coen's Hail, Ceasar!, which had so many elements I loved and a perfect cast, but I felt didn't do anything especially well. For me it is far, far short of their masterpieces, but as with Malick, even a "bad" Coen Brothers film is a damn sight better than 90% of the stuff out there. I did like it a little better the second time I saw it, and I would watch it in a loop for a week solid before suffering through Ride Along 2 or Dirty Grandpa, but by that low bar just about everything clears.

Two from my list of have-seens that had decent promotion and recognizable stars but faded before much of anyone got to see them are Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Demolition. Tina Fey and company were all quite strong in WTF, and the movie is more of a drama than the trailer and ads might have led one to believe. There is nothing particularly "new" in this story of a reporter thrown in over her head in a warzone, but it is all done very well, and compared to last year's Bill Murray vehicle Rock the Kasbah which had a similar milieu and hoped to stake out dark comedy territory, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is much, much more successful, even if nobody there, including Fey, is as mighty a presence nor as funny as Billy Murray. Jake Gyllenhaal is magnetic as ever in Demoiltion, but judging by the box office returns nobody gave it a chance. Too bad, and again maybe it was sold too much on its comic elements? The story of a young man who's wife dies in a car crash in the opening scene and then slowly and oddly comes to terms with his grief was excellent. It reminds me of Peter Weir's Fearless with Jeff Bridges in many ways, and again while not startling original material, the performances and care taken elevate it. Two good movies, maybe a little tough to market them, some mixed reviews, minor box office ripples, but both are worth tracking down when you can stream/rent/buy them.

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Now for the indie comedies. Hello, My Name is Doris starring Sally Field and directed and co-written by Michael Showalter. Showalter you may know in front of the camera from "The State", "Stella", Wet Hot American Summer, or any number of comedy projects, and he starred in and directed The Baxter. Here he stays behind the camera, and Sally Field has a ball playing the title character, an oddball office drone who has a crush on a new, much younger co-worker (Max Greenfield, Schmidt from "New Girl). It has been decades since Sally, now sixty-nine, has gotten to headline a movie, and the two-time Oscar winner can still charm and make you feel for her character. Less successful, though no fault of its star, is The Meddler with Susan Sarandon as a widow who focuses too much on her daughter and then, after her daughter bolts from the smothering saved by a work commitment, a series of needy strangers who become the recipients of her misplaced time, affection, and money. Meanders a bit much for my taste, but the romantic subplot with J.K. Simmons is nice, would have liked a whole movie just about them, more. I really loved Lorene Scafaria's debut, the high-concept Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but with less ambitious material here I found it somehow also less emotionally involving. The Meddler is not a bad movie, just not very a memorable one, and it doesn't have the charms of Hello, My Name is Doris.

I did not get to see Sasha Baron Cohen's The Brothers Grimsby because it disappeared from theaters too quickly, which is too bad because I do like action comedies. But happily I did get to see Key & Peele's Keanu, which was a laught riot. So much fun, glad to see they were able to take their talent from their sketch show and find a viable feature-length vehicle for their sensibilities and comic mayhem, which is often a difficult transition to make, when you look at examples from the fairly recent past like the teams from "Tenacious D", "Mr. Show with Bob and David" and even going back to "The Kids in the Hall", all of whom made feature films that were decent and had moments of inspired brilliance but all disappointed compared to the sketch form. Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key pulled it off!

As for the superhero movies, I don't think you need my words to hear about them, but Deadpool was the kick-ass, bloody, profanity-fueled ride I hoped it would be, and Captain America is a good, fun blockbuster much closer to the highs of Winter Soldier than the too-much-going on of Avengers: Age of Ultron. And no, I didn't forget to list Batman vs. Superman vs. the Audience in my list, as I didn't bother to see the damn thing. I have such little respect for Zack Snyder, and from every professional and non-professional review I have bothered to pay attention to, sounds like Dawn of Justice fails to do exactly what Civil War does seemingly effortlessly, which is juggle a bunch of characters, inhabit the same world as the previous films, and keep expanding it while throwing in fun action sequences and sprinkling with humor.

And that only leaves Jane Got a Gun from my first four months of 2016. You guys know I love Westerns, and there were a bunch of good ones last year, but despite having Natalie Portman in a non-Thor role (she hasn't had many since winning the Oscar for Black Swan), the material is tired and obvious and honestly as much as I like Ewan McGregor he is miscast and pretty lousy as the heavy.

I also enjoyed some revivals in the past few months on the big screen, including Blade Runner, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Chimes at Midnight, Hausu, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and probably something else I am forgetting. The newly remastered RAN hasn't made its way here yet, but I can hardly wait!

Of those new movies, my favorites so far...

1. Midnight Special
2. Sing Street
3. Deadpool
4. Green Room
5. Demolition

And I don't do those popcorn box ratings, so just deal.

Eight months of 2016 to go! :D

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Swan

05-09-16, 01:05 PM

Happy to see such high praise for Midnight Special. I'm a big Nichols fan as well, and am looking forward to it!

mark f

05-09-16, 08:30 PM

Primeval (Michael Katelman, 2007) 2
The Notorious Lone Wolf (D. Ross Lederman, 1946) 2
Venusia (Louise Carrin, 2015) 2
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen, 1941) 4.5
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Dumbo is rocked to sleep by his Mom who’s locked up because she couldn’t take the other elephants making fun of his big ears.
The Samaritan (David Weaver, 2012) 2
In Her Skin (Simone North, 2009) 2.5
The Day Before the End (Lav Diaz, 2016) 2-
Mockery (Benjamin Christensen, 1927) 2.5
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During the Russian Revolution, simple Siberian Lon Chaney helps and follows a beauty (Barbara Bedford) who turns out to be a countess wanted by the Reds.
Snow (Richard Dinter, 2016) 2.5+
Howl (Paul Hyett, 2015) 2
Can-Can (Walter Lang, 1960) 2.5
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson, 1986) 2.5+
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Demonic Preacher Kane (Julian Beck) still has his sights set on the Freeling’s daughter Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke).
Young Billy Young (Burt Kennedy, 1969) 2
Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan, 2000) 2.5
Bait (Kimble Rendall, 2012) 2
The Scarecrow (“Buster” Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1920) 3.5
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Farmhand Buster Keaton gets chased by a dog (Luke) and eventually destroys his clothes which forces him to wear those of the farm’s scarecrow.
The Contractor (Joseph Rusnak, 2007) 2+
Six-Gun Gold (David Howard, 1941) 2.5
Lawless Valley (David Howard, 1938) 2.5
Nomad: The Warrior (Sergey Bodrov & Ivan Passer, 2005) 2.5
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Kazakh wise man Jason Scott Lee wanders Mongolia looking for the child prophesied to unite his people just as Genghis Khan did before.

Camo

05-09-16, 08:38 PM

That's higher than i thought you'd give Poltergeist 2 :up:. I don't care i love that film, which is mostly due to Kane terrifying me as a child.

Sedai

05-11-16, 05:21 PM

10 Cloverfield Lane
(Trachtenburg, 2016)

4

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Excellent thriller that is sort of a spiritual successor to Cloverfield. John Goodman knocks it out of the park.

The Life of Pi
(Lee, 2012)

5

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One of my favorite films of all time. An emotional journey at sea with Richard Parker the tiger. I had a couple friends that hadn't seen it, and it had been a while since I watched it, so it was time to pop it in, getting lost at sea, once again. I just adore this film in so many ways. I am always moved by certain scenes and the visuals are breathtaking and mesmerizing. Excellent sound design, as well. Love it!

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05-11-16, 05:25 PM

Sedai

05-11-16, 05:32 PM

Agreed, which is why I listed it as a spiritual successor (JJ Abrams' words in an interview). He claimed it was in the same universe, but not really a direct sequel, per se.

Mr Minio

05-11-16, 07:19 PM

I'm back. It's been so much time since I posted here the last time, so I apparently watched hundreds of films since then, but of course I'm not going to revise them all. Let me gust give you a glimpse into my movie watching of today and yesterday. As always with my descriptions of films, they're not reviews, but loose observations, descriptions of my emotional and psychological reactions to them.

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Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält [Mark of the Devil] (1970) - rating_4 (An exploitation film that depicts the witch trials very vividly. It bluntly shows various tortures the alleged witches and sorcerers had to endure if they didn't want to admit their connections with the devil. I never was against exploitation films, but in this case one could say that the graphic images are justified by the sheer fact that these things really took place. The violence hits strong even by today's standards. It's also the ruthlessness and hypocrisy of the witch hunter that certainly hits the nerve of the viewer and even though all of this may seem manipulative, it never crosses the line. Of course, the movie has a plot involving handsomely young Udo Kier falling in love with a woman accused of witchcraft and some other meandering subplots. All in all, a great watch for anybody not afraid of exploitation take on history. If you don't like this kind of films, you better stick with Dreyer's Day of Wrath.)
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - rating_4 (An amazing late film noir with an unusual threesome (foursome?!) and just as unusual femme fatale. Burt Lancaster plays a honcho not afraid to tell the truth to some of the most important people, but at the same time has a certain weakness. That leads to a certain plot that shall be performed with the help of Tony Curtis. Being as spoilerfree as possible, let me only tell you that the movie is striking thematically just as it is striking visually. There's also that jazzy soundtrack. What I noticed with this movie is a certain freedom. Of acting. Of shooting the movie. May have been a huge influence on Cassavetes when he was directing his Shadows in 1959.)
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The Last of England (1987) - rating_4_5 I've only seen Derek Jarman's Caravaggio before and thought of it extremely highly, so I approached this experimental feature with very high expectations and it's sufficient to say that they were met if not surpassed. I don't think that the movie really follows any coherent plotline throughout its duration time, but it's still packed with symbolism and separate scenes with a lot of meaning (or just industrial no wave dance with pulsating music and colours, it has this, too). I'm still not sure if some scenes were talking about then contemporary sociopolitical situation in the UK, or were supposed to be haunting prophecies of the future, with a group of people in balaclavas with guns apparently causing some mayhem in town and even shooting a man to death in what seemed like a military platoon execution only that the man didn't look like a military, but like a civil. Then we have a cult of fire, reminescent of Nazi party rallies of the 30's and at some point we even have some German talking and the name "Hitler" mentioned repeatedly. The movie is practically wordless, the narrator speaks in a beautiful poetic way maybe twice or three times through the whole 90 minutes long film. There's also a scene of Tilda Swinton in a wedding dress and two gays having sex on British flag. The editing is daring, harsh, fast. The movie's colours were saturized or tinted to a hauntingly beautiful effect that compared with the grainy quality of the reel resulted in some of the most visually striking moments I've seen in cinema lately.)
You really expect me to post a screen from Blue? Besides, how do I know whether it's a screencap from the movie or just a Paint-coloured canvas?
Blue (1993) - rating_4 (Now that is the last will of a dying filmmaker left on celluloid. Derek Jarman has always been an experimental filmmaker and this time he reaches cinema's limits by entirely stripping it off its visual flare. Even more a controversial decision as he always was a master of vision. A sensible step since his own vision has been taken away by the illness and trying to relate his art to himself, he also made the film lack in seeing. Since we literally have a static blue image for the whole movie, the sound plays the most important part. The beautiful, poem-like descriptions of the blueness of the universe, as one might call it, are juxtaposed to incredibly rough, down-to-earth, punch-in-the-face descriptions of his suffering with heart-wrenching details. A very sublime work that even if you hate filmmaking-wise you are still forced to respect as it is essentially the artistic testament of an artist. I like to imagine Jarman laying on his deadbed just like Caravaggio is in his movie, although I know the reality might've been way less beautiful. A terribly depressing movie.)
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In Cold Blood (1967) - rating_4 (The black'n'white cinematography is so lavish, polished and outstandingly good that it wasn't so apparent whether or not the other aspects of the film will match it. Thankfully, they do. One thing that immediately caught my attention was the flawless editing. The action oftenly goes on even though a cut has been made. This way the movie seems continuous even though it jumps between scenes in different place or even time. The movie is realised in cold blood just like the protagonists commit their crime. The finale is free of moral plays, but not really rid of subjectivity. A terrific last scene.)
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雁 [Wild Geese] (1953) - rating_4_5 (Okay, so let's get it straight. It is a melodrama/romance movie, but made in Japanese spirit and with Japanese heart. Japanese melodramas compared to their counterparts of the time from America are fairly superior. Let's take a movie like All That Heaven Allows. Sure, the colours are beautiful and the deer is adorable, but the harlquinesque plot is almost unbearable. Wild Geese just like all Japanese melodramas of the time I've seen are different. It's poignant, but never maudlin. It never feels artificial or pretentious. It has Hideko Takamine and that gigantic close-up on her face in the scene when she meets the student for the first time. A moment to remember. I never witnessed a moment of this kind in All That Heaven Allows (but the deer in the snow scene makes it up a little bit). Maybe I'm overrating it due to my Japanophilia, due to my love for the actress Hideko Takamine, due to the Japanese approach that I find way more effective and close to my heart than the Hollywood approach of All That Heaven Allows. But does it matter? After all movie-watching is subjective. )

PS: Never again. It took me like 2 hours.

mark f

05-11-16, 08:06 PM

Trouble in Sundown (David Howard, 1939) 2.5-
The Youngest Profession (Edward Buzzell, 1943) 2+
Soldiers Three (Tay Garnett, 1951) 2.5
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones, 2015) 3
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Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock about every single one of his films for his iconic book, but they still had time to smoke their cigars.
Yellowstone Park: Nature's Playground (James H. Smith, 1936) 2.5+
Fall Time (Paul Warner, 1995) 2
Thousands Cheer (George Sidney, 1943) 2.5+
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016) 3
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Strange occurrences are happening in the barn to the kids (Anya Taylor-Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw & Ellie Grainger) of a cast-out Puritan family, and don't forget their goat, Black William.
Roberta (William A. Seiter, 1935) 2.5+
Destination Gobi (Robert Wise, 1953) 2.5
The Park Is Mine (Steven Hilliard Stern, 1985) 2.5
Eisenstein in Guanajuito (Peter Greenaway, 2015) 2.5
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Soviet film wunderkind Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) comes to Mexico to make a series of Pro-Communist films and begins an affair with his guide (Luis Alberti).
Scenic Grandeur (James A. FitzPatrick, 1941) 3
I'll Be Home for Christmas (Arlene Sanford, 1998) 2
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley, 1990) 2.5
Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001) 2
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Beautiful opening scene introduces the lead character, played by Shu Qi, who wanders around Taiwan and Japan in a perpetual state of ennui.
Bon Voyage! (James Neilson, 1962) 2.5
The Last Fall (Matthew A. Cherry, 2012) 2
Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1943) 3-
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994) 2.5
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Bum Larry Fessenden and housewife Lisa Bowman are the “two loneliest people” in Florida and are connected by a gunshot.

seanc

05-11-16, 08:09 PM

Hey Mark, how did you watch Hitchcock/Truffaut?

mark f

05-11-16, 08:14 PM

Putlocker.

Nemanja

05-12-16, 03:27 PM

La strada (1954) 4
Separate Tables (1958) 3.5
Senso (1954) 3.5
Donatella (1956) 2.5
The Angry Birds Movie (2016) 3

linespalsy

05-13-16, 04:52 PM

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Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) 5
Hairspray (John Waters, 1988) 3
Air Bud: Spikes Back (Mike Southon, 2003) 0.5

Camo

05-13-16, 05:19 PM

How many Air Bud movies are there? :laugh:

linespalsy

05-13-16, 06:43 PM

There are five in total (I'm down to only the football one that I haven't seen, but we just got it in the mail). That's not including the Air Buddies spin-off series, which is even longer.

The baseball iteration is probably the most fun and strikes me as having some knowing camp. And oddly enough, the first one has pretty good cinematography (particularly the lighting). What's weird is the same cinematographer also did 'Spikes Back', which is pretty average looking. I guess they didn't have as much time and budget to spend on setups and filming everything at twilight for the straight-to-video sequels. Other than that, I don't know what to say for myself -- the dogs are cute but nothing you can't find by a google image/video search (which has the added benefit of maybe being less exploitative). I guess I just like to watch crap sometimes*.

*a lot of the time, actually.

re93animator

05-14-16, 12:02 PM

The Incident (1967) – 2_5
Thriller about two maniacal scumbags tormenting passengers on a train. I feel like this movie isn’t really meant to entertain as much as it’s meant to aggravate the viewer (imagining themselves in the same situation). So, I guess if you like things that frustrate you, this is bueno.

The dark and gritty urban setting reminds me of the no wave exploitation films that Richard Kern would later make in the 80s, which is cool. I just kind of wish it was utilized on a different story.

Clockwise (1986) – 3
A pretty funny film about a man going through great lengths to arrive on time. The plot isn’t really important though. The reason to watch is to see John Cleese dealing with arbitrary shenanigans, which is always fun. Cleese is so long though, he always makes me think there’s something wrong with my aspect ratio.

Razorback (1984) – 3_5
Re-watch of an old favorite. A giant razorback boar roams the outback, chomping on a few people along the way. It’s a campy monster movie at heart, but the gorgeous outback cinematography is no joke.

honeykid

05-14-16, 12:46 PM

Not seen re93 for a while. Nice to see you back round the place. :up:

re93animator

05-14-16, 02:55 PM

Not seen re93 for a while. Nice to see you back round the place. :up:

Thanks! Hard to believe it's been almost three years.

matt72582

05-14-16, 03:27 PM

The Incident (1967) – rating_2_5
Thriller about two maniacal scumbags tormenting passengers on a train. I feel like this movie isn’t really meant to entertain as much as it’s meant to aggravate the viewer (imagining themselves in the same situation). So, I guess if you like things that frustrate you, this is bueno.

The dark and gritty urban setting reminds me of the no wave exploitation films that Richard Kern would later make in the 80s, which is cool. I just kind of wish it was utilized on a different story.

Clockwise (1986) – rating_3
A pretty funny film about a man going through great lengths to arrive on time. The plot isn’t really important though. The reason to watch is to see John Cleese dealing with arbitrary shenanigans, which is always fun. Cleese is so long though, he always makes me think there’s something wrong with my aspect ratio.

Razorback (1984) – rating_3_5
Re-watch of an old favorite. A giant razorback boar roams the outback, chomping on a few people along the way. It’s a campy monster movie at heart, but the gorgeous outback cinematography is no joke.

The Incident was a great movie! I love how they have their personal problems away from the train, but when they get in, how they handle it. Notice the black couple (the man) who were humiliated earlier by someone else - well the man relishes in it on the train, and wants revenge vicariously..

Instead of each "group" working together and getting rid of 2 hoodlums, some insist "It's none of my business" - that is, until it affects them, like life.

re93animator

05-14-16, 04:07 PM

The Incident was a great movie! I love how they have their personal problems away from the train, but when they get in, how they handle it. Notice the black couple (the man) who were humiliated earlier by someone else - well the man relishes in it on the train, and wants revenge vicariously..

Instead of each "group" working together and getting rid of 2 hoodlums, some insist "It's none of my business" - that is, until it affects them, like life.

I can appreciate that it gave all of the characters some development, but none of them really interested me much apart from the black couple. It is a scenario that makes you think about human nature in the face of dangerous confrontation, but I guess the end result just didn't click with me.

Citizen Rules

05-14-16, 04:11 PM

I haven't seen The Incident (1967)
But I do know what you mean by this:
Thriller about two maniacal scumbags tormenting passengers on a train. I feel like this movie isn’t really meant to entertain as much as it’s meant to aggravate the viewer (imagining themselves in the same situation). I don't know if people enjoy experiencing the emotions of: helplessness, fear, injustices and anger that a movie like this can evoke.

But I don't like feeling that way for two hours, regardless if the movie is a masterpiece or not...The feelings such a film can dredge up in me, is not what I wish to experience for the evening.

Do other people enjoy having these emotions? Or do they not experience them?

seanc

05-14-16, 04:16 PM

Amadeus (1984)
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4

Alien3 (1992)
1.5

Captain America: Civil War (2016)
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3.5

The Killing (1956)
2.5

The Squid And The Whale (2005)
4

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
http://i.imgur.com/cAaodoX.jpg
4

Che: Part One (2008)
3

Welcome To Leith (2015)
2

Money Monster (2016)
http://i.imgur.com/DRLeXEw.jpg
1.5

The Big Country (1958)
3.5

In A Lonely Place (1950)
http://i.imgur.com/HUoQHWW.jpg
5

re93animator

05-14-16, 05:13 PM

I haven't seen The Incident (1967)
But I do know what you mean by this:
I don't know if people enjoy experiencing the emotions of: helplessness, fear, injustices and anger that a movie like this can evoke.

But I don't like feeling that way for two hours, regardless if the movie is a masterpiece or not...The feelings such a film can dredge up in me, is not what I wish to experience for the evening.

Do other people enjoy having these emotions? Or do they not experience them?
For me, I suppose it depends on the movie, as well as what mood I'm in. The Incident may not have hit home with me, but there are films dominated by negative emotions that I've thought were great. Come and See comes to mind. When I’m in the mood for it, I can really appreciate films that focus on the dark side of life, particularly depression.

One thing that The Incident uniquely instilled in me was frustration. I didn’t mind it, but it didn’t make me like the film any more either. I feel like I should have refrained from rating it now. I can admire its merits, and my mediocre score wasn’t from a lack of taste. I just… didn’t really like it that much.

matt72582

05-14-16, 07:31 PM

CR, the first time I saw it, it was toward the end, and I hated that feeling. It is very dark, but this time I was so interested in how everything started, my interest was more than general.

There's the two soldiers. The guy who is from the area says to the apologizes to Beau Bridges' character. Beau replies, "Doesn't bother me none, it's not my town." - but isn't his job to protect as a member of the U.S. military.

The older couple, the somewhat attractive middle-aged woman chastises her husband for not making more money, constantly. In the second scene, the camera shows his face, and only her legs. Seemed like she married him for his money, but times are tough, and in their social circle (the dinner) they are surrounded by more "successful".. When the hoodlums start on her, verbally and sexually the husband very slowly walks toward the action.. Finally, she yells at her husband saying "Are you gonna let them talk to me like that?" He says "You started this" and then suggests that she wants them sexually.. She slaps her husband a few times, and the husband slaps her back.. They all start fighting each other, but not the perpetrators.

McMahon and his wife have their problems; he thinks he's losing his job, and notice he has a very little girl, so her future is in jeopardy without income.

You have the young homosexual who is cruising, but on the train, is harassed. When he's trying to run, he's "outed".

Some resistance is met by the Jewish man (whose wife is Thelma Ritter, or Mrs. Beckerman in the movie) said he'll call the police, and he gets angry, even though his wife is scared. But still, he yells out the hot shot trying to have sex with the blonde. "You are his age, do something.. "Self, self, you only think like animals" then it goes back to them, the new distraction. The main hoodlum (not Martin Sheen) asks the guy "Is that your girlfriend?" - he doesn't answer. Then he asks her if that's her boyfriend, she doesn't answer, and you see them trying to expose the situation.. "How is she like in the sack?"

I didn't mention that the black couple didn't agree; the woman wants to leave at the stop, but the man (who was humiliated) says "I want to watch" - before that line, you could see when he smiled, taking out his frustration from others before, and having sadistic pleasure simply because the oppressed where white.

Remember the people; each one could have been interpreted as a group of people, their personality was very well-defined... You had one guy who was trying to shame a girl until she gave in to his advances, almost to the point of abuse. But when faced with someone more powerful, his personality changed immediately.

You have the drunk man whose being bothered by the two guys, and

Didn't you find it interesting the only one to stand up was a guy with only one arm (his other arm was broken)....

I would type more, but I think I wanna watch this movie again :)

linespalsy

05-15-16, 12:41 AM

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 3
A Chinese Ghost Story II (Siu-Tung Ching, 1990) 2.5+
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Richard Martin, 1998) 1

Sedai

05-15-16, 10:19 AM

Krampus
(Dougherty, 2015)

3

http://mauitime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/krampus-movieweb.jpg

Fairy decent flick in the spirit of Gremlins. The cast elevates this one a bit, but it wasn't as fun as the Dante classic.

You're Next
(WIngard, 2011)

3_5

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/youre-next-killer-lamb-mask-movie-review.jpg

Final girl thriller with one of the best final girls in the sub-genre. I enjoyed this one.

Crimson Peak
(Del Toro, 2015)

3_5

http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9jrehb643.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/CrimsonPeakChastain.jpg

Del Toro is hit and miss for me, but Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and some cool Gothic production design made this one a hit.

Deadpool
(Miller, 2016)

4

http://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news.tops/NE0vrnpVHLVT45_2_b.jpg

My second viewing. Lots of fun with plenty of great comedy and some bad ass action scenes.

mark f

05-16-16, 03:41 AM

Beat (Gary Walkow, 2000) 2+
Intolerable Cruelty (Coen Bros., 2003) 2.5+
Secret World (Robert Freeman & Paul Feyder, 1969) 2
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) 3.5
http://38.media.tumblr.com/cc40150ebbc37cac0b22d25de3c6966c/tumblr_ml2bfv0FSb1qgvdf9o1_500.gif
In the film’s prologue, we see why C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) got divorced.
The Las Vegas Story (Robert Stevenson, 1952) 2.5
Hunger (Steven Hentges, 2009) 1.5
Waterloo (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1970) 2.5
Don Quixote (Grigori Kozintsev, 1957) 3
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Squire Sancho Panza (Yuriy Tolubeev) tries to guide an old man (Nikolay Cherkasov) who believes himself to be the knight Don Quixote.
Under the Gun (Stephanie Soechtig, 2016) 2.5+
Gambling House (Ted Tetzlaff, 1950) 2+
American Ultra (Nima Nourizadeh, 2015) 2.5
The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991) 3
http://blog-imgs-54.fc2.com/h/i/m/himaginek/pn2.jpg
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Two homeless people living on Paris’s Point Neuf Bridge – a young woman (Juliette Binoche) going blind and a young male addict (Denis Levant) see their miserable lives as something spectacularly beautiful.
Battle Stations (Lewis Seiler, 1956) 2
Michael Ian Black: Noted Expert (Ryan Polito, 2016) 3
Fighting Mad aka Death Force (Cirio H. Santiago, 1978) 1.5
All in a Nutshell (Jack Hannah, 1949) 3
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Donald Duck sells nut butter from his giant walnut store, but Chip and Dale [the latter shown] break in and run amok.
Clay Pigeon (Tom Stern & Lane Slate, 1971) 2
Fatty's Tintype Tangle (Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, 1915) 2.5+
R.F.D. Greenwich Village (No Director Listed, 1969) 2
High-Rise (Ben Wheatley, 2016) 2.5
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Doctor Tim Hiddleston is invited to a party at his new high-rise apartment but is embarrassed to find it a costume party thrown by the snobby wife of architect Jeremy Irons.

Sedai

05-16-16, 10:47 AM

The Witch
(Eggers, 2015)

4

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/witch5.jpg?w=670&h=377&crop=1

Superbly crafted New England folk tale about a devout Christian family whose infant son goes missing while under the care of their eldest daughter in the early 1600s. Tense and well-played, while drawing on actual dialogue from the folk tales of the time. This is a slow burner that increases tension as it goes along until it reaches its chilling conclusion.

honeykid

05-16-16, 12:23 PM

Any chance of a few words on High Rise, mark? I remember reading the book in my teens and I've thought about taking a look at it.

mark f

05-16-16, 04:18 PM

High-Rise starts at the ending where we get a look at what's been caused by whatever breakdown in society has occurred in the past few months. It basically follows the doctor but also follows a "lower-class" family and the family that lives in the penthouse. We sense a strangeness about the "perfect" society depicted, and that perfection is quickly thwarted by various actions but it's not readily clear what's causing it. Sometimes it sorta has a Stepford Wives vibe, but not exactly. You've read the Ballard book and I haven't, but it does seem to be Ben Wheatley-type material. It's also overlong considering I can see different viewers thinking it's too obvious or too muddled or both (which is where I fell). Wheatley throws in some of his trademark style, but I would have liked to see more of it, which is best exemplified in the film's bookends.

Sedai

05-17-16, 10:47 AM

Inherent Vice
(Anderson, 2015)

2_5

http://cdn4.thr.com/sites/default/files/2014/09/inherent_a.jpg

I can usually enjoy a PT Anderson film due at least to its ambitious structure, even if his directing and content can be derivative. This time around, to coin a phrase from the era represented in the film, was just a drag, man! Easily his worst film to date, I found this overlong and boring, with only flashes of the creativity he has shown in the past. Once again he lifted from Altman (The Long Goodbye) and the Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), adding in a generous helping of incoherence. Phoenix was good, but couldn't save this one on his performance alone.

Miss Vicky

05-17-16, 11:08 AM

Inherent Vice is the only PTA film I like. :shrug:

matt72582

05-17-16, 11:31 AM

Inherent Vice
(Anderson, 2015)

rating_2_5

http://cdn4.thr.com/sites/default/files/2014/09/inherent_a.jpg

I can usually enjoy a PT Anderson film due at least to its ambitious structure, even if his directing and content can be derivative. This time around, to coin a phrase from the era represented in the film, was just a drag, man! Easily his worst film to date, I found this overlong and boring, with only flashes of the creativity he has shown in the past. Once again he lifted from Altman (The Long Goodbye) and the Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), adding in a generous helping of incoherence. Phoenix was good, but couldn't save this one on his performance alone.

The Long Goodbye - Inherent Vice
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - There Will Be Blood
Nashville - Magnolia

Even uses the same actors (Henry Gibson for example)

re93animator

05-17-16, 08:39 PM

Road Games (1981) – 3_5
A sort of all-purpose thriller about a truck driver that may or may not have stumbled upon a serial killer along his route. It thankfully keeps the mystery elements fresh until the very end, and the action scenes are directed with an impressive attention to detail. Definitely recommended for something entertaining and suspenseful.

No Way Out (1950) – 3_5
A surprisingly candid statement about racism for 1950. Really good acting from Widmark and Poitier, and a pretty noteworthy score that builds on the tension well.

Dead Poets Society – 4
Made me feel like I could do stuff with my life. Now I just need to figure out how to incorporate that into spending hours a day on the computer.

Fierce Creatures (1997) – 3
The leads from A Fish Called Wanda (all playing somewhat familiar characters) attempt to tastelessly commercialize a zoo. Sure it doesn’t live up to A Fish Called Wanda, and the humor tends to get a little juvenile, but it still has moments.

mark f

05-18-16, 12:27 AM

Paris, Je T'aime (numerous directors, 2006) 2.5

http://pradt.net/imgs/cap/c-parisjetaime.jpg

First off, I feel a little bit mean (say what?) not rating this at least 3. When I first watched it, I thought there wasn't that much of a quality differential to the stories, so it seemed like a fair rating, but having rewatched it, taking notes, and rating each episode individually, I'm going to stick with my lower rating. However contradictory this sounds, I still recommend the film for viewing for the better episodes, but I'm just warning you that there will be some which leave you cold, and they're probably not the same ones that I thought were of lesser quality.

http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/paris%20je%20t'aime%201.jpg

Paris, Je T'aime is a "collective film", consisting of 18 self-contained episodes, all set in the City of Light and Love, and all filmed by different directors. Most all of the episodes are five to six minutes long; some try to tell a story, while others are just slices of life. One other thing they all have in common is that the directors each had two days to shoot their entire episode. I don't think that any of the films are downright horrible, but I find some far more interesting and entertaining than others. The episodes are separated by some scenes of the dailly and night life of Paris, but basically, they all flow one into the other with only a quick title and director listed to show you where each one begins.

http://i16.tinypic.com/2q1sxds.jpg

The episodes which meant the most to me included the Coen Brothers' humorous tale of vacationer Steve Buscemi whose happiness is destroyed when he makes eye contact with a lovemaking couple, even though his travel guide highly recommends against it; Alexander Payne's wonderful finale about an American female postal worker (Margo Martindale) who narrates her own story in the best French she can muster (it contains the biggest laugh and the most-poignant moment for me); the first two episodes, which both show how a male with no positive experiences with the opposite sex can actually relate to a female by simply caring enough to help them when they need it; Tom Tykwer's wildly-stylistic tale of the love affair between an actress (Natalie Portman) and a blind man (Melchior Belsion); and, perhaps against my better judgment, I actually found the tale of the mimes meeting each other in jail and finding true love to be one of the more creative parts of the film.

http://images.fandango.com/ImageRenderer/375/250/nox.jpg/102844/images/masterrepository/tms/59545/59545_bm.jpg

There are many other actors/directors I haven't mentioned, and some do worthwhile work. Among those would be Nick Nolte, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Juliette Binoche, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Miranda Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gérard Depardieu, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Gus Van Sant, Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven, etc. This film is far superior to a similar film made about 20 years ago called Aria, which I might just put into my 10 Worst Art House Films list. This one is a pretty good omnibus film, considering the constraints under which it was made. That's the main reason I think it's worth checking out, especially if you love Paris.

Iroquois

05-18-16, 09:59 AM

The Long Goodbye - Inherent Vice
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - There Will Be Blood
Nashville - Magnolia

Even uses the same actors (Henry Gibson for example)

Interesting how you compare McCabe and Mrs. Miller with There Will Be Blood because that's probably the only one of the three pairs where Anderson's films seems to be offering a deconstructive response to Altman's film instead of a straightforward homage/plagiarism.

Cobpyth

05-18-16, 10:15 AM

Magnolia should be paired with Short Cuts. Not Nashville.

Even when some PTA films are quite similar to Altman's on the surface or description-wise, I wouldn't say there's ever a question of plagiarism, by the way. PTA always gives his films a peculiar touch. They're very different from Altman's films in tone.

PTA's most original work, The Master, is his most interesting film to date, though.

Sedai

05-18-16, 10:32 AM

To me, Magnolia seems to lift a ton from Short Cuts.

matt72582

05-18-16, 11:14 AM

Paris, Je T'aime (numerous directors, 2006) rating_2_5

http://pradt.net/imgs/cap/c-parisjetaime.jpg

First off, I feel a little bit mean (say what?) not rating this at least rating_3. When I first watched it, I thought there wasn't that much of a quality differential to the stories, so it seemed like a fair rating, but having rewatched it, taking notes, and rating each episode individually, I'm going to stick with my lower rating. However contradictory this sounds, I still recommend the film for viewing for the better episodes, but I'm just warning you that there will be some which leave you cold, and they're probably not the same ones that I thought were of lesser quality.

http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/paris%20je%20t'aime%201.jpg

Paris, Je T'aime is a "collective film", consisting of 18 self-contained episodes, all set in the City of Light and Love, and all filmed by different directors. Most all of the episodes are five to six minutes long; some try to tell a story, while others are just slices of life. One other thing they all have in common is that the directors each had two days to shoot their entire episode. I don't think that any of the films are downright horrible, but I find some far more interesting and entertaining than others. The episodes are separated by some scenes of the dailly and night life of Paris, but basically, they all flow one into the other with only a quick title and director listed to show you where each one begins.

http://i16.tinypic.com/2q1sxds.jpg

The episodes which meant the most to me included the Coen Brothers' humorous tale of vacationer Steve Buscemi whose happiness is destroyed when he makes eye contact with a lovemaking couple, even though his travel guide highly recommends against it; Alexander Payne's wonderful finale about an American female postal worker (Margo Martindale) who narrates her own story in the best French she can muster (it contains the biggest laugh and the most-poignant moment for me); the first two episodes, which both show how a male with no positive experiences with the opposite sex can actually relate to a female by simply caring enough to help them when they need it; Tom Tykwer's wildly-stylistic tale of the love affair between an actress (Natalie Portman) and a blind man (Melchior Belsion); and, perhaps against my better judgment, I actually found the tale of the mimes meeting each other in jail and finding true love to be one of the more creative parts of the film.

http://images.fandango.com/ImageRenderer/375/250/nox.jpg/102844/images/masterrepository/tms/59545/59545_bm.jpg

There are many other actors/directors I haven't mentioned, and some do worthwhile work. Among those would be Nick Nolte, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Juliette Binoche, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Miranda Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gérard Depardieu, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Gus Van Sant, Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven, etc. This film is far superior to a similar film made about 20 years ago called Aria, which I might just put into my 10 Worst Art House Films list. This one is a pretty good omnibus film, considering the constraints under which it was made. That's the main reason I think it's worth checking out, especially if you love Paris.

I saw "Aria" and yeah it was awful.. I remember Altman had a piece in it, and I don't think I finished it.

Holden Pike

05-18-16, 12:19 PM

The Long Goodbye - Inherent Vice
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - There Will Be Blood
Nashville - Magnolia

And the entire emotional centerpiece that Punch-Drunk Love builds to his running to her in Hawaii and the song "He Needs Me" finally playing fully through (pieces of it have been playing nearly the entire film). "He Needs Me" is probably Henry Nilssen's best song in Altman's Popeye. Not that anything else about PDL is taken from Popey, but it is striking to me that even there he felt compelled to link to something Altman. He even used the original recording with Shelley Duvall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFgj8mqPk0

donniedarko

05-19-16, 02:08 AM

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/53/94/539453df3607c5ee37ecd122848ade00.jpg?itok=bVx91x-u
Goodnight Mommy- A disturbing mix of Babadook, The Woman, and Fight Club

Recent Watches (Ranked):
Goodnight Mommy (Fiala & Franz, 2014)- 3.5
Captain America: Civil War (Russo,2016)- 3
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (Wilmott, 2004)- 3-
Room (Abrahamson, 2015)- 2.5
Hardcore Henry (Naishuller, 2015)- 2.5-

mark f

05-19-16, 04:19 AM

Romance of the West (Robert Emmett, 1946) 2
White Peril (Don Horter, 1956) 2.5
Wild Child (Nick Moore, 2008) 2
The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau, 2016) 3
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Panther Bagheera (Voice of Ben Kingsley) defends Mowgli (Neel Sethi) from tiger Shere Khan (Voice of Idris Elba).
Casual Sex? (Geneviève Robert, 1988) 2
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue, 2014) 2.5
The Voice of Bugle Ann (Richard Thorpe, 1936) 2
Twelve Chairs (Leonid Gayday, 1971) 2.5+ 161m
http://u.livelib.ru/reader/Shishkodryomov/r/bpbg7qmp/bpbg7qmp-r.jpg
Con man Archil Gomiashvili and former aristocrat Sergey Filippov search throughout Russia for his family’s diamonds which were hidden in 12 dining chairs.
Slightly Dangerous (Wesley Ruggles, 1943) 2+
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (Nancy Buirski, 2014) 3
Are These Our Children (Wesley Ruggles, 1932) 2+
Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) 2.5
http://cdn29.us1.fansshare.com/pictures/maggiecheung/clean-maggie-cheung-clean-103416561.jpg
After she loses her aging rock star husband (James Johnston) to a drug overdose, “manager” Maggie Cheung also loses the custody of her son to her in-laws and eventually tries to clean up her act enough to get him back at some point.
The Sea Bat (Wesley Ruggles, 1930) 2
Another Face (Christy Cabanne, 1935) 2.5
A Feast at Midnight (Justin Hardy, 1995) 2+
David Ortiz: In the Moment (Anthony Puzzo, 2014) 3
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Red Sox hero ”Big Papi” David Ortiz speaks to the Fenway Park crowd to try to console them after the Patriots’ Day Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2013) 2.5
I’ll Take Romance (Edward H. Griffith, 1937) 2+
Dangerous (Alfred E. Green, 1935) 2.5
Flowers and Trees (Burt Gillett, 1932) 3
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-emfQ6NqoyLA/Vu5ITiJ-y7I/AAAAAAAAo28/CiUie1MzX5IQWjtsp-uQmd7jwRmOuHweQ/s400/flowersandtreesgif.gif
As a boy tree serenades a girl tree with a homemade harp, a scary monster tree tries to take her as his own.

linespalsy

05-19-16, 10:04 AM

Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (Pressman, 1991) 2
Air Bud: Golden Reciever (Martin) 1

Saw Ran on the big screen. Same place I saw The Chimes at Midnight a few weeks back.

Mäx

05-21-16, 07:06 AM

Oktyabr October - Ten Days that Shocked the World (Sergei Eisenstein/Grigori Aleksandrov, 1928) - rating_3_5+
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) - rating_3_5
El abrazo de la serpiente Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015) - rating_3+
Thunderball (Terence Young, 1965) - rating_3+
The Rundown (Peter Berg, 2003) - rating_2+

And now, stone me:

Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) - rating_2
Week End Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - rating_1

re93animator

05-21-16, 12:02 PM

And now, stone me:

Week End Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - rating_1
If it's any consolation, I didn't really care for Week End either. I'm not big on Godard apart from Alphaville and Contempt though.

Mr Minio

05-21-16, 01:02 PM

And now, stone me:

Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) - rating_2
Week End Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - rating_1

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http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_macsktX4XG1rwktko.gif

You, Sir, just got totally Stone'd.

Gatsby

05-21-16, 09:08 PM

Week End Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - rating_1
http://i.imgur.com/qW1DvJC.jpg

SIdenote: Emma Stone is hot.

Camo

05-21-16, 09:13 PM

Why is there a question mark in Max's name when you quote him? I tried it and it doesn't come up with me.

MovieMeditation

05-21-16, 09:30 PM

Why is there a question mark in Max's name when you quote him? I tried it and it doesn't come up with me.
Because his computer perhaps cannot read the ä letter.

Wasn't it Gatsby who posted those reviews with all kinds of symbols too? Your computer done f*cked up, Gats! :laugh:

linespalsy

05-22-16, 11:42 AM

Sisters (Jason Moore, 2015) 3-
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (Stuart Gilliard, 1993) 1
MXP: Most Xtreme Primate (Robert Vince, 2004) 0

mark f

05-22-16, 02:33 PM

That minus for Sisters should be very large. What's the fascination with dogs, turtles and chimps?

Gatsby

05-22-16, 08:11 PM

Because his computer perhaps cannot read the � letter.

Wasn't it Gatsby who posted those reviews with all kinds of symbols too? Your computer done f*cked up, Gats! :laugh:
Eh, I think I fixed that problem. ;)

Derek Vinyard

05-22-16, 08:20 PM

Inherent Vice is the only PTA film I like. :shrug:

Hard Eight and Magnolia are fantastic and I'm not the biggest PTA fan far from it.

Camo

05-22-16, 08:25 PM

Hard Eight is his weakest. still pretty good though. Magnolia is amazing. How many have you seen Derek?

Camo

05-22-16, 08:26 PM

Eh, I think I fixed that problem. ;)

I'm not even sure if that weird question mark in MM's post was deliberate, really hope it wasn't though.

linespalsy

05-22-16, 10:49 PM

That minus for Sisters should be very large. What's the fascination with dogs, turtles and chimps?

We put Sisters on in the background while we ate the dinner I made, drank a couple of beers and talked on and off about our respective days Friday. In that context, I laughed maybe more than I expected, but whether or not I laughed more than I should have? I wasn't really watching it with a critical eye.

I don't have a particular fascination right now with animal movies so much as with general thematic and iterative sets (I've also been checking out various Wuxia series, as you may have noticed). I like retrievers and get a kick out of crap, but really the weird bad kid-movie thing belongs more to Rebecca. I think it's of a piece with her Divine/John Waters obsession -- just a different, more saccharine kind of vulgarity.

Nemanja

05-23-16, 11:27 AM

Bellissima (1952) 4
The Tarnished Angels (1957) 3.5
Umberto D. (1952) 4.5
La grande guerra (1959) 4
Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) 4.5 Vadim's masterpiece, hidden gem!

Sedai

05-23-16, 12:13 PM

Upstream Color
Carruth, 2013

4

http://static.filmmakermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Upstream-Color-628x348-628x348.jpg

Equal parts cryptic and mesmerizing, this film was right up my alley. A dreamy trip that involves a herd of pigs, strangers that become lovers, orchids, and a worm parasite. It's much cooler than it sounds. ;)

The Gift
Edgerton, 2015

3

http://www.fangoria.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GIFT2015REVFEAT.jpg

Effective thriller that builds tension throughout. Telegraphs its twist a bit too much, but is otherwise well done and played.

The Guest
Wingard, 2014

3

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I have been enjoying Adam Wingard's (VHS, You're Next) stuff recently, and The Guest is no exception. An off-beat B-Movie with a fun lead played by Dan Stevens. Entertaining and fun.

Attack the Block
Cornish, 2011

3_5

http://www.vectorsigma.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/attack-the-block-movie-photo-620x25011.jpg

This is my block, bruv. Trust! No way some Gorilla Wolf-headed MoFos are takin this block down, believe! ;)

Unfriended
(Greaves, 2015)

2_5

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This looked pretty terrible when we first fired it up, but in the end, I guess I sort of enjoyed the novelty of it. It definitely wore out its welcome by the end, but all the characters were totally believable as sort of mean-under-the-surface millennials whose online antics came back to haunt them. I wouldn't want to see a sequel, but for a one-off, it was actually kind of engaging in its own way.

The Dark Half
(Romero, 1993)

3

http://www.notcoming.com/images/reviews/l/thedarkhalf.jpg

Hutton gives a couple of fun performances as Thad Beaumont and George Stark. Other than that, this is a somewhat dry affair. Typical Stephen King movie of the time, really.

Lucy
Besson, 2014

2_5

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I had seen this before and was underwhelmed. Again I felt it was too short, too light, and had too abrupt of an ending. That said, it has several sections I enjoy thoroughly, especially the sequence during which Lucy sort of sifts through time and space. This could have been a lot better/deeper than it was, though.

I Am Legend
Lawrence, 2007

3_5

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Lonely post-apocalyptic fare centered around Will Smith's struggle to survive in a mutant ravaged New York city while attempting to find a cure for a virus that has decimated most of the Earth's population. I have heard there are a couple of different endings to this one - not sure if the one I saw is the original or the alternate.

Cube
Natali, 1997

3_5

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Low-budget, cerebral sci-fi about several people who wake up trapped in a massive, trap-filled structure from which they need to escape. A little rough acting here and there, but otherwise an engaging and interesting film. I have always liked this one.

The Woman in Black
Watkins, 2012

2_5

http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/the-woman-in-black-2-angel-of-death-2015/hero_TheWomanInBlack2AngelOfDeath_2015_1.jpg

Run-of-the-mill haunted house horror starring Daniel Radcliff. Not much new here, and none of the stylistic flourishes of other recent films in the genre such as Del Toro's Crimson Peak. Some decent Gothic imagery, but wasn't very entertaining or thrilling.

Ghost World
Zwigoff, 2002

4

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I have always adored this dark comedy. Thora Birch is great as Enid, a recent high-school graduate that befriends an awkward, older record collector after playing a cruel prank on him. A young Scarlett Johansson plays her best friend Rebecca, both girls trying to decide what to do next after leaving the safe confines of high-school. Just my type of comedy.

mark f

05-23-16, 02:56 PM

The Man Who Makes the Difference (No Director Listed, 1968) 2.5
The Last Frontier (Anthony Mann, 1955) 2+
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Leonid Gayday, 1973) 2.5+
Matinee (Joe Dante, 1993) 3
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At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, B movie producer John Goodman releases his latest gimmick production.
The Moviemakers (Ronald Saland, 1968) 2.5
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Norman Taurog, 1965) 2
Three in the Attic (Richard Wilson, 1968) 2.5
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003) 3-
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Jellyfish are released into the Tokyo water supply while an almost indescribable relationship surrealistically plays out.
The People Under the Stairs (Wes Craven, 1991) 2.5+
Let's Go Navy! (William Beaudine, 1951) 2
Matthew Barney: No Restraint (Alison Chernick, 2006) 2.5
They Fought for Their Country (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1975) 3.5
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During WWII, the remnants of a battered Soviet Army regiment try to hold the area around the Don River against advancing German Panzer tank divisions before the Battle of Stalingrad.
Time Table (Mark Stevens, 1956) 2+
Jim Norton: American Degenerate (Shannon Hartman, 2013) 3
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Leonid Gayday, 1967) 2+
The Last Man on the Moon (Mark Craig, 2016) 3
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Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, was the last man (out of only 12) who walked on the Moon on December 14, 1972, and it's a lonely feeling, especially considering the price in human lives.
Of Stars and Men (John Hubley, 1962) 2.5
Desert Nights (William Nigh, 1929) 2
The Shoes of the Fisherman (No Director Listed, 1968) 2.5+ Doc Short
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992) 3
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On board an ocean liner, strait-laced Englishman Hugh Grant, travelling with his wife Kristin Scott Thomas, meets crippled American writer Peter Coyote who relates the kinky, sexy story involving his love-hate relationship with his French wife Emmanuelle Seigner.

linespalsy

05-23-16, 03:27 PM

Deadly Melody (Min Kan Ng, 1994) 3
Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998) 1
Super Buddies (Robert Vince, 2013) 0

MovieMeditation

05-23-16, 05:43 PM

Room (Abrahamson, 2015)- 2.5
Hardcore Henry (Naishuller, 2015)- 2.5-
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........

honeykid

05-23-16, 07:17 PM

Nice to see Bitter Moon there. Another that's long overdue for a rewatch.

Sedai

05-24-16, 05:03 PM

Inherent Vice is the only PTA film I like. :shrug:

I enjoyed Phoenix's performance well enough, as he clearly did a good job, but the flick was just a bunch of jive turkey, ya dig? Jump back! ;)

Sedai

05-24-16, 10:24 PM

Coherence
Byrkit, 2014

4

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I loved this one! Made with almost no money, this mind-bender slowly wraps the viewer up in a puzzle-like plot. Highly recommended.

As Above, So Below
Dowdle, 2014

3

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mq7pnTlxxYc/maxresdefault.jpg

Gritty found-footage flick set in the Paris catacombs. I rate it too highly, I think, but I was in the mood for a trash flick, and this fit the bill. I am a sucker for these flicks, so this is probably only for fans of the genre.

Topsy

05-24-16, 10:35 PM

i was also surpised by coherence!

MovieMeditation

05-25-16, 02:46 AM

i was also surpised by coherence!
Me too.

Glad to see it get some love on the forums lately. :up:

Sedai

05-25-16, 12:30 PM

Yea, I can't get Coherence out of my head today. I see another viewing in my near future.

Or, do I?? ;)

MovieMeditation

05-25-16, 02:04 PM

But why all the love now? It's seems like everybody's watching it at the moment...

I saw it a year ago or so. Not that it matters when you watched it, but it was just a thought. I think I'll rewatch it soon - it's just my type of film! :up:

honeykid

05-25-16, 05:21 PM

It's probably on Netflix or something.

Sedai

05-25-16, 05:24 PM

Mäx

05-26-16, 07:26 AM

Adaption. (Spike Jonze, 2002) - 4
Solyaris Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) - 3.5+
You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967) - 3
That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch, 1941) - 2
Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) - 2

Swan

05-26-16, 07:45 AM

I don't have Netflix, so I didn't see it there. After seeing Upstream Color over the weekend, I looked up lists of films that were along the same lines (lower budget, sci-fi-ish etc.) and Coherence appeared on a list or two. I would have watched it sooner, but I simply didn't know about it.

Did it fit the bill? I've always wanted something similar to Upstream Color but could never find anything that was. It's so singular in it's identity, even Carruth's other film Primer is very different.

Sedai

05-26-16, 09:46 AM

Did it fit the bill? I've always wanted something similar to Upstream Color but could never find anything that was. It's so singular in it's identity, even Carruth's other film Primer is very different.

I guess I would say it doesn't fit the bill. I loved both films, but as you said, Upstream Color is very unique.

mark f

05-26-16, 09:05 PM

Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (Roland Mesa, 1992) 2-
Promise (Glenn Jordan, 1986) 3-
Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island (Mack V. Wright & Ray Taylor, 1966) 2 – edited from serial Robinson Crusoe on Clipper Island (1936)
George Wallace (John Frankenheimer, 1997) 3
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During his 1972 Presidential campaign, Alabama Governor George Wallace (Gary Sinese) is shot five times by an assassin in front of his wife Cornelia (Angelina Jolie) and left paralyzed below the waist.
Occidente (Ana Vaz, 2016) 2
The China Shop (Wilfred Jackson, 1934) 3
The Man from Monterey (Mack V. Wright, 1933) 2
Viy (Konstantin Ershov & Georgiy Kropachyov, 1967) 3-
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A young monk (Leonid Kuravlyov) must withstand assaults from evil forces for three days when he attends alone the wake of a possible witch (Natalya Varley).
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin, 1964) 2+
The Two Sights (Katherin McInnis, 2015) 2.5
Freetown (Garrett Batty, 2015) 2
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes, 1936) 3.5
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At the whim of the gods, ordinary Englishman Roland Young finds he can perform all sorts of miracles – to the point that he could rule the world.
Dug's Special Mission (Ronnie Del Carmen, 2009) 3
Different Fortunes (Lonid Lukov, 1956) 2.5
Neither God Nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón, 2015) 1.5
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002) 3
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Preacher Mel Gibson, who has lost his faith, is concerned for his family when crop circles, and then someone or something, shows up in his corn fields.
This Christmas (Preston A. Whitmore II, 2007) 2.5
The Horn Blows at Midnight (Raoul Walsh, 1945) 3
A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers, 2015) 1.5+
Farewell (Elem Klimov, 1983) 2.5+
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A Russian island is going to be flooded to make way for a hydroelectric dam, and the inhabitants must choose to move or disappear with their homes and customs. Here, in this Russian variation on Kazan’s Wild River, a local spiritual landmark is symbolically burned.

Holden Pike

05-27-16, 09:51 AM

A few more to add to my tally for this year. I'll probably wind up seeing three or four more this holiday weekend (though zero of them will be X-Men or Alice), but from last weekend...

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=25583&stc=1&d=1464353379

The Nice Guys was probably my most anticipated movie of the year, and I enjoyed the heck out of it, even though by the time the sixth trailer was released there was very little left that felt like I hadn't seen. Shane Black returns to similar territory as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with a mismatched pair of detectives bumbling their way through Los Angeles trying to unravel a conspiracy leaving bodies in its wake, this time being a period piece set in 1977. I'm not really that big a Russell Crowe fan, but he was effective enough as a sort of funhouse mirror version of his character in L.A. Confidential (Kim Basinger is along again, too), but this movie is really all about winding up Ryan Gosling and watching him go as a drunken, incompetent, cowardly private eye who screams like a girl but somehow manages to brush himself off and keep going.

The period details are fun and Gosling is a hoot and a half, but sadly the one ingredient that is lacking is an interesting plot. Here the story feels almost like an afterthought, a really bare genre construction, which is a shame because a tight, twisty plot would have made it all perfect. Still a lot of fun, and I wish this thing would make a ton of money so that we could see a sequel with these characters...but that ain't gonna happen. It could have been marvelous as TV series, a "Rockford Files" for the 21st century set in the same time period as the Jim Garner show, though then you wouldn't have had Gosling and Crowe. Oh, well. But I'm definitely going back before it leaves the theaters to see The Nice Guys again. Too much fun.

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=25584&stc=1&d=1464353431

Love & Friendship. I am a huge Whit Stillman fan, and he's back with only his second movie of the 2000s, five years after Damsels in Distress. For the first time Whit adapts material that isn't his own, and also does a period piece that is set longer ago than a nebulous recent past as his Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco had been. Love & Friendship is a Jane Austen piece. Not one of the five novels she is most famous for and that have been adapted for the big screen, small screen, and stage seemingly dozens of times each but instead an early novella, Lady Susan. Yes, it is another comedy of manners and worrying about who should marry who, but especially when filtered through Stillman's own senses and sensibilities it has some sharper edges of wit and deadpan laughs than are sometimes wrought from Austen adaptations.

Kate Beckinsale is wonderful as the manipulative Lady Susan, who after her elderly husband has died is attaching herself to relatives with a scheme of marrying a rich and impressionable younger man. Her machinations are effective, even after some of the bewigged people in her wake begin to grow distrustful of her, but it is all thrown out of whack when her own daughter enters the picture and begins drawing affection naturally and without intent. Some big laughs throughout, and for material that might not have sounded suitable for Whit on first flush, it is a perfect marriage. How downright Austen.

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The Lobster I have been wanting to see since it premiered at LAST YEAR'S Cannes Film Festival, where Yorgos Lanthimos won the Jury Prize. Greek filmmaker Lanthimos broke through a few years back with the twisted and mesmerizing Dogtooth. This time he has an all-star international cast, including Colin Farrell, John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Léa Seydoux, and Rachel Weisz. Set in a slightly Sci-Fi-ish near future where society has taken speed dating to an extreme. Adults who are single, either by being widowed or simply being too weird to pair up with anybody, are taken to a resort type place where they are given thirty days to find a suitable match. If after the allotted time you have not found somebody to marry, you are taken to a special room and have your organs (at least the ones that will fit) transferred into an animal of your choosing. Sort of instant reincarnation, by way of Josef Mengele. If you pair up, you return to the city, and if you try to escape before you can be transformed you live in the woods and are hunted for sport.

That's the basic premise, and we follow Colin Ferrell's pudgy David through his journey. Very high concept, obviously, and very dark and funny. It's almost impossible not to compare such a movie to the work of Charlie Kaufman, and while mostly that comparison is a favorable one I would say that ultimately Yorgos Lanthimos is less hopeful a world view than Kaufman, which for me is the genius of Kaufman, that his dark, elaborate fantasies have a current of love and genuine affection running through them, no matter how convoluted and insane the narrative is. Those who have seen Dogtooth will not be surprised to find Yorgos is darker.

Three very good movies, all worth seeing. That was a good weekend.

.

Mäx

05-28-16, 02:17 PM

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011) - 4.5
Pusher (Nicolas Winding Refn, 1996) - 3
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969) - 2+

seanc

05-28-16, 04:43 PM

The Steel Helmet (1951)
2.5

Margot At The Wedding (2007)
3.5

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
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3

Mr. Jealousy (1997)
3

I Am Road Comic (2014)
2.5

Wings Of Desire (1987)
3.5

8 1/2 (1963)
http://i.imgur.com/dFE1IqB.gif
4.5

There Will Be Blood (2007)
5

Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
3.5

Citizenfour (2014)
http://i.imgur.com/X06gWff.jpg
4

Been through all of Noah Baumbach's films now. Definitely a director I respond very positively to and will look forward to whatever he has coming next. He has that mixture of humor and brokenness in his characters that I absolutely love. Squid And The Whale Frances Ha and Mistress America would be my three favorite thus far.

Camo

05-28-16, 04:52 PM

For some reason i thought you hated 8 1/2, so i was a bit taken aback by the avatar. Must have mixed you up with someone else. :up: one of my favourite films, TWBB too of course.

seanc

05-28-16, 05:00 PM

For some reason i thought you hated 8 1/2, so i was a bit taken aback by the avatar. Must have mixed you up with someone else. :up: one of my favourite films, TWBB too of course.

Wasn't me, Rauldc hates it. I gave it a 3.5 for the HOF, so it did go up quite a bit. Really never left my mind though so I knew I had underrated it.

Camo

05-28-16, 05:03 PM

Probably was Raul then.

Mr Minio

05-28-16, 07:50 PM

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
http://i.imgur.com/FJTEBVs.jpg
rating_3

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

seanc

05-28-16, 07:58 PM

Camo

05-28-16, 08:07 PM

Ordet was good i thought. Always wanted to see Joan of Arc. Should soon as i've still only seen three silent films.

seanc

05-28-16, 08:09 PM

I didn't love Ordet but there were things I responded strongly to. I'm going to watch it again soon.

linespalsy

05-28-16, 08:32 PM

Mr. Vampire (Ricky Lau, 1987) 3.5
The Legend of Drunken Master (Lau Kar-Leung, 1994) 3.5
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967) 3.5

Mr Minio

05-28-16, 08:48 PM

You know, I enjoyed Joan of Arc much more then I expected to. It really is very good visually. Let's faces it though, the first half is dialogue driven and we are only getting 10% of the dialogue. Just one pleebs opinion. http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/72/72d8b0c7c410c04cc44e6531d30ef80cd82745f57bcafe3882e6eff88890bf8d.jpg

Nemanja

05-29-16, 05:04 AM

@seanc

Noah Baumbach's 1997 Highball, was one of the most underrated comedies of the '90s, name replaced by a pseudonym (as Ernie Fusco)
Filmed over the course of six days, it has the rough-hewn feel of a student film. It's a brillIantly funny movie, with excellent music Dean Wareham's "Everybody Felix"

https://youtu.be/ArZyOXNRcn4

linespalsy

05-29-16, 11:01 AM

The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980) 2.5
New Dragon Gate Inn (Raymond Lee, 1992) 2.5
Double Team (Tsui Hark, 1997) 2

Mäx

05-29-16, 03:20 PM

Fail-safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964) - rating_4_5

This movie blew me away! The direction is perfect, the acting great and the movie itself incredibly intense. Loved it!

Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987) - rating_4
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) - rating_3_5+
Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans, 2007) - rating_2

Daniel M

05-29-16, 03:23 PM

Repping a post that rates Lethal Weapon higher than City Lights was one of the most difficult things I've done on this forum :p

Mäx

05-29-16, 03:42 PM

:D

City Lights was a first watch. It may go up the next time. ;)

honeykid

05-29-16, 04:27 PM

I recommend watching Chaplin. It's about all the Chaplin you ever need (or would want) to watch. :p

re93animator

05-29-16, 06:13 PM

The Name of the Rose (1986) - 4
Sean Connery plays medieval Sherlock Holmes investigating murders among an abbey of monks (many of whom seem to have been hired for their… ummm… facial attributes). The eerie atmosphere wouldn’t be out of place in any horror movie. The sound people really outdid themselves too; this is the creakiest movie I’ve ever seen.

Brother/Brat (1997) – 4
Cool Russian crime film from the director of the under-acknowledged Of Freaks and Men. Awesome soundtrack too. The violent plot coupled with a sort of drab, deadpan style may appeal to Tarantino or Jarmusch fans.

Blackadder Back & Forth (1999) – 3_5
Baldrick accidentally creates a time machine. Only half an hour long, but it still feels cinematic and less like an additional episode of the show (partially due to the absence of a laugh track). Funny and clever dialogue as always.

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) – 3

Sedai

05-30-16, 09:54 AM

Time Lapse
Kaiser, 2014

3_5

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The temporal tricks perhaps don't stand up to scrutiny as well as they should, but this was still a fun little low-budget science fiction.

Spring
Benson/Morehead, 2014

4

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A rare horror film with a heart, this one was all class. Great camera and sound design, as well.

Primer
Carruth, 2004

3

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Ridiculously complex and bold in its refusal to dumb itself down for its audience, this film is fascinating. I am just not sure that makes it a good movie. It lacks the elegance to bring it all together without reading an article that helps to understand the structure. I admire the fact that this was made for $7000, which is less than I paid for my car, but I found it pretty cold and lifeless in some ways. I will give it another shot at some point, which may send the rating either up or down. This one might be too smart for its own good.

mark f

05-30-16, 03:40 PM

Soul in Cinema: Filming Shaft on Location (Hugh A. Robertson, 1971) 2
Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, 2015) 2.5-
Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 1972) 2
Captain America: Civil War (Russo Bros., 2016) 3.5+
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What’s this? What’s this? Spider-Boy?
Mr. Right (Paco Cabezas, 2016) 2.5
Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño, 2015) 2
Variety Lights (Alberto Lattuada & Federico Fellini, 1950) 2.5+
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) 3
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Germany, the mid-1950s. Lola (Barbara Sukowa) is a singer, whore and mistress of a corrupt builder (Mario Adorf), but she also attracts the eye of the strait-laced new building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl) who meets her as a single mother and daughter of his landlady (Karin Baal).
Lolly-Madonna XXX (Richard C. Sarafian, 1973) 2.5+
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (Lee H. Katzin, 1987) 2
Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961) 2.5
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016) 3
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When Mary Elizabeth Winstead finally gets outside the bunker she’s being held either against her will or for her own safety, she does find some strange happenings.
Pack Up Your Troubles (George Marshall & Raymond McCarey, 1931) 2+
How to Be Single (Christian Ditter, 2016) 2.5
The Boy (William Brent Bell, 2016) 2+
Remember (Atom Egoyan, 2015) 3-
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After his wife dies, eightysomething Christopher Plummer, suffering from dementia, consults with a fellow Auschwitz survivor (Martin Landau) who guides him to escape their nursing home and find the Nazi who killed their families.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend (William Sullivan, 2016) 2.5
Marine Raiders (Harold Schuster, 1944) 2
Murph: The Protector (Scott Mactavish, 2013) 2.5
Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970) 3+
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WWII bombardier Yossarian (Alan Arkin) can’t face the insanity of war, but since he knows that, he’s forced to stay in the middle of it – he’s trapped in a catch-22.

Sedai

05-31-16, 10:59 AM

Predestination
Spierig, 2014

3_5

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Another twisty time film. Pretty cool chain of events in this one.

The One I Love
McDowell, 2014

2_5

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Cool idea, and some nice insights on love and relationships, but ultimately comes apart at the seams due to lack of context.

Honeymoon
Janiak, 2014

3_5

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Ack!! This one builds tension slowly and very effectively. I don't think I would ever watch it again, though. Some disturbing body horror that had me crawling the walls. Beware!

House of the Devil
West, 2009

2_5

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Retro-style suspense film in the spirit of the late 70s slow-burners. I liked the approach, but found it a bit boring at times.

honeykid

05-31-16, 11:05 AM

Have you seen Togetherness, Seds? The One I Love sounds similar and it stars Mark Duplass.

Sedai

05-31-16, 11:21 AM

I have not - I will add it to the list! Thanks for the rec...

Miss Vicky

06-01-16, 02:31 AM

Everything I watched In May
(Thoughts posted in my Movie Log (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=43738))

Mr. Holmes (Bill Condon, 2015) 4-
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cottrell, David Hand, et al., 1937) (Rewatch) 3.5
Escape From New York (John Carpenter, 1981, 2015) 3.5-
Centurion (Neil Marshall, 2010) 2-
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014) 3.5+
Caveman (Carl Gottlieb, 1981) (Rewatch) 3.5+
Deadpool (Tim Miller, 2016) 3.5-
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014) 4
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990) (Rewatch) 5
The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016) 4+
3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007) (Rewatch) 4.5+
Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002) (Rewatch) 5
Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner, 1997) (Rewatch) 4
Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1950) (Rewatch) 3+
8MM (Joel Schumacher, 1999) (Rewatch) 3.5

Also watched (but did not review because it's TV):

Sherlock: The Case of the Abominable Bride 3.5

Struuck

06-01-16, 07:47 AM

I was watching some type of Ancient Rome, gladiator, middle ages movie.

Chypmunk

06-01-16, 07:59 AM

My May highlights:

High And Low 4.5
Once Were Warriors 4+
Night Of The Living Dead 3.5+
Five (Deadly) Venoms 3.5+
Dawn Of The Dead 1978 4+
Frailty 4
Dawn Of The Dead 2004 3.5
Days Of Glory 3.5+
Women On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown 3.5+
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 4.5+
Gothika 3.5
Gion Festival Music 4
Spring Breakers 3.5
Rango 3.5
Falling Down 4+
Nikita 4+
Elegy 3.5+
Stoker 4
The Master 4.5
Sunset Blvd. 4.5+
Bound 4
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 3.5
Sansho The Bailiff 4.5
Anatomy Of A Murder 4.5
Ballad Of A Soldier 4

Nope1172

06-01-16, 08:39 AM

May Viewings:
Due to finals, I wasn't able to watch much this month, but here is what I saw.

Captain America: Civil War (1957) - 3.5-
On The Waterfront (1954) - 4+
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 4+
Rififi (1955) - 4+
The Steel Helmet (1975) - 3.5+
Jaws (1975) - 4.5
Seven Samurai (1954) - 5
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) - [rating3.5[/rating]
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) - 4-
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) - 4
Mon Oncle (1958) - 3.5
I Vitelloni (1953) - 3-
(Rewatch)Horrible Bosses (2008) - 4-

cricket

06-01-16, 08:44 AM

May, 2016 movies watched-

The Ladykillers (1955) 3+ I thought the old lady made this film what it is.

Stagecoach (1939) 3.5- Not a favorite Western for me, but enough for me to understand it's classic status.

On the Beach (1959) 2.5+ Good movie that should have been so much more.

Baby Doll (1956) 3 I thought it was more funny than salacious.

All About Eve (1950) Repeat viewing 4.5- A load of great performances and dialogue.

El Topo (1970) Repeat viewing 2 With not liking weird movies or having interest in symbolism, I'm not left with much else.

He Ran All the Way (1951) 3.5 Less than 80 minute crime noir that I thoroughly enjoyed.

I Vitelloni (1953) 3 A good flick, but I'm not going to remember much about it.

Ugetsu (1953) 4 I didn't want the story to go in the direction it did, but the results were superb.

The Last Wagon (1956) 3 Richard Widmark turns an average western into a good one.

Pickup on South Street (1953) 3.5 I didn't think it was the most entertaining noir, but it packs a punch.

The Court Jester (1956) 2.5 Not my type of comedy but at least amusing.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 3- Worth watching for Newman and Taylor.

Dead Man (1995) Repeat viewing 1.5 I dislike this movie, due in large part to how it looks and the musical score.

Born Yesterday (1950) 3+ Good mix of comedy and drama, and very good performances.

Dial M for Murder (1954) Repeat viewing 4.5 Right now, I'll call this my favorite Hitchcock.

The VVitch (2015) 3- An original setting and time period is what made this above average for me.

Across the Wide Missouri (1951) 2+ An ok western, but nothing about it stands out.

The Changeling (1980) 3 Not a big fan of ghost stories, but this is a very good one.

I Live in Fear (1955) 4 A lesser known Kurosawa that I thought had very strong and powerful elements.

The Seventh Seal (1957) 3.5 I had a lot of mixed feelings. I know it's good, but I need to watch it again.

Picnic (1955) 2 Mediocre in every way.

Man of the West (1958) 3.5- There's a nice edge to this western with Gary Cooper.

The Revenant (2015) 4.5 As great looking as advertised to go along with engrossing and exciting.

The Law and Jake Wade (1958) 2.5 Not bad, not good, it's average.

The Life of Oharu (1952) 3.5 It felt long, but it's a great, powerful story.

The Seven Year Itch (1955) 2 I love to watch Marilyn but this movie didn't do much for me.

Total May viewings-27
Total 2016 viewings-152

Mäx

06-01-16, 11:43 AM

Rififi (1926, Buster Keaton)
Something went wrong here ... :suspicious:

Camo

06-01-16, 12:06 PM

Since everyone else is doing it. All of the movies i posted about it RTLMYS in May, i watched others but i'd just get annoyed trying to think of them. Will try to keep a record for June.:

The Good Dinosaur - 3
Frailty - 2.5+
Trick r Treat - 4
Capturing The Friedmans - 4.5-
The Babadook - 3.5+
The House of the Devil - 4
Wolf Creek - 2.5
The Descent - 4+
The Descent Part 2 - 2.5
Session 9 - 3
The Fly - 4.5
Videodrome - 4
The Breakfast Club - 5 (rewatch)
A Place In The Sun - 4.5
The Thing From Another World - 3
Creepshow - 3+
Singing In The Rain - 4-
Talk To Her - 4.5-
Christine - 3+
The Night of the Hunter - 3.5+
Breaking The Waves - No Rating
Bubba Ho-Tep 3.5
Freaks - 3.5+
Othello (1952) - 4
The Hitcher - 3.5-

matt72582

06-01-16, 12:25 PM

Something went wrong here ... :suspicious:

I'm planning on watching the Jules Dassin version, though I'm not really into capers.

Nemanja

06-01-16, 12:34 PM

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 3.5
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) 2.5
The Silent Partner (1978) 3.5
Some Like It Hot (1959) 4.5
The Jerk (1979) 3

Mäx

06-01-16, 04:23 PM

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) - 4.5
J'ai tué ma mère I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan, 2009) - 4
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007) - 3+

Nope1172

06-01-16, 05:14 PM

Something went wrong here ... :suspicious:
My bad... fixed it.

mark f

06-02-16, 11:14 PM

Arrowhead (Charles Marquis Warren, 1953) 2
Quay (Christopher Nolan, 2015) 3
Crashing Las Vegas (Jean Yarbrough, 1956) 2
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986) 2.5+
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Ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his lover Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) are strung out on heroin, oblivious to the fire in their room at NYC's Chelsea Hotel.
Superdad (Vincent McEveety, 1973) 2
Perri (N. Paul Kenworthy Jr. & Ralph Wright, 1957) 3
Nina (Cynthia Mort, 2016) 2
The Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee,1972) 2.5
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Chuck Norris on the offensive (temporarily) against Bruce Lee in Rome's Colosseum.
Love Nest (Joseph Newman, 1951) 2+
Let’s Make Love (George Cukor, 1960) 2.5
Iron Eagle IV (Sidney J. Furie, 1995) 2
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) 3-
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A group of partygoers get a first-hand view of the monster rampaging through Manhattan.
High Tide at Noon (Philip Leacock, 1957) 2.5
Momentum (Stephen S. Campanelli, 2015) 2
In & Out (Frank Oz, 1997) 3-
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993) 2.5
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Wonder Woman (Anita Mui), Invisible Woman (Michelle Khan [Yeoh]) and mercenary Thief Catcher (Maggie Cheung) team up to battle Evil Master (Shi-Kwan Yen).
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, 2004) 2.5
The Devil's Mask (Henry Levin, 1946) 2+
Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield, 1957) 2.5+
Spring on Zarechnaya Street (Marlen Kutsiyev & Feliks Mironov, 1956) 3
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Factory worker Nikolai Rybnikov is attracted to his Russian literature night school teacher (Nina Ivanova), but she doesn’t think she should date a student.

Swan

06-02-16, 11:59 PM

Thoughts on Quay, Mark?

mark f

06-03-16, 12:31 AM

Have you watched it? It's short and pretty basic, but you get to hear them talk and see their workshop/studio. Their puppets (the ones they show) seem to really have a major influence on modern horror films.

Swan

06-03-16, 03:39 AM

I haven't, but I want to. :)

Mr Minio

06-03-16, 08:06 AM

Swan

06-03-16, 09:35 AM

Quay is a documentary about the Quay Brothers, Minio. :)

Mr Minio

06-03-16, 11:13 AM

Yeah, I know that. That's why I wrote about Quay Brothers films I've seen.

re93animator

06-04-16, 01:26 AM

They got quite a lot of cool shorts and that Institute Benjamenta flick with that Fassbinder's actor in it, Gottfried John. The movie plays like a dream, so it doesn't make much sense, but it's quite beautiful visually and fairly atmospheric. Also, they draw from the best in their flicks. I've seen Poe in Benjamenta and Carroll & Schulz in some of these shorts.

I love the Quays. Benjamenta is great. If you like that style, The PianoTurner of Earthquakes is even more visually appealing and dreamlike IMO.

Also, if anyone is a fan of their short films: the films of Jiri Barta and Jan Svankmajer are a must.

Mäx

06-04-16, 03:20 PM

Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner, 1989) - rating_3_5
The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo, 1920) - rating_3
Les amours imaginaires Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan, 2010) - rating_2

Nostromo87

06-04-16, 03:40 PM

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Hold That Ghost (1941)

Bud Abbott as Chuck and Lou Costello as Ferdie are fired (https://media.giphy.com/media/OINR3CjCDm2xW/giphy.gif) from their job as waiters at a fancy-shmancy nightclub, so they return to work as lowly gas station attendants and get kidnapped by notorious gangster "Moose" Mattson on the run from authorities. Shots are exchanged during the chase, Moose is killed by gunfire, and through a bizarre clause in his last will and testament Chuck and Ferdie inherit the gangster's will, which includes Moose's haunted tavern. What'dya know, a horror movie haunted resort (http://www.the-filmreel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hold_ghost_03.jpg) before the Bates Motel. Dames Joan Davis and Evelyn Ankers accompany Chuck and Ferdie to the place, along with a corny scientist nerd.

Rating: 3.5 7.0 / 10

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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Have watched this two or three times over the last six months and it's become one of my favorite comedies. Lawrence Talbot aka the Wolf Man telephones baggage clerks Chuck and Wilbur to warn them of a shipment heading their way which includes the remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, to be displayed in McDougal's House of Horrors. This was also the only other time Bela Lugosi reprised his role he created in Dracula (1931), he played other vampires in other movies, but this was the only other time he played Dracula as a sustained role on film.

Rating: 4+ 8.5 / 10

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Sons of the Desert (1933)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy show up late to a big meeting at the fraternal lodge of the sons of the desert, and all members take an oath to go to the annual convention in Chicago the next week. Although what happens isn't necessarily as important as Lauren and Hardy's natural comedic acting talent. Was also charmed when Ollie said 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.'

Rating: 4 8.0 / 10

donniedarko

06-04-16, 03:42 PM

Youth (Sorrentino, 2015)
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Youth is a film that I have anticipated prior to the trailer even being released. The original premise of two aging friends contemplating their careers in the alps would make it sound like a straight forward narrative, a European The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. However this being directed by Sorrentino Youth is quite far from a straight forward narrative. The most common analogy brought out for Youth is a 2015 version of Fellini, Sorrentino certainly drives parallels between 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita throughout. I'd argue that Youth is an even more grandiose and avant-garde film watching experience than either of those films though. The first twenty minutes felt Lynchian. The tone and scenery draw parallels to Altman's Three Women. Despite having elegant and charming scenes the film is extremely sexual and surreal. Many scenes are as indescribable as those from Mullholland Drive while others feel like a luxurious euro melo-drama.

The film is a sensory treat. Amazing cinematography, beautiful scenery, and a 5 star score. Sorrentino does create a true treat for the eyes and ears, what wasn't stimulated in my experience was the mind or heart. While the take on aging in the film is extremely unique, the message is fairly simple. Even when the film focuses on the individual motives of the characters, it's nearly impossible to make an emotional connection with how splashy the film attempts to be for the better part of itself. With how much effort is put into the deepness of the dialogue nothing said stood out to me. The film is just far to egotistical and pretentious to deliver the humanist message it's going for. That's not to say I disliked the film, I'll likely revisit it for the laughs and the visual aspects have inspired me to watch more from Sorrentino. The acting is great- especially by Caine- and the film looks beautiful, but Youth fails with its own techniques from delivering the desired message.

2+

re93animator

06-04-16, 07:02 PM

Hold That Ghost (1941)
Rating: 3.5 7.0 / 10

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Rating: 4+ 8.5 / 10

Awesome! I grew up on A&C movies; they helped me foray into classic Hollywood. You gotta watch The Time of Their Lives if you haven't seen it already. I think that's their best and most charming.

linespalsy

06-05-16, 03:36 PM

Riding Giants (Stacy Peralta, 2004) 3.5
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003) 2
The Yank (Sean Lackey, 2014) 0

neiba

06-06-16, 08:22 AM

May

Jamaica Inn (1939) rating_1_5 -
Diamonds are Forever (1971) rating_1_5
Under Capricorn (1949) rating_3_5 -
Live and Let Die (1973) rating_3
Love Actually (2003) rating_3_5
The Man with the Golden Gun rating_2 -
Ghost (1990) rating_2_5
Detective’s Story (1951) rating_4 +
The Steel Helmet (1951) rating_4
When Marnie was There (2014) rating_4 -
Trois Coleurs: Rouge (1994) rating_3_5 +
The Band Wagon (1953) rating_2_5 -
The Big Country rating_4
La regle du Jeu rating_4_5 -
Month Count: 14/0
Year Count: 94/4

Busy month, and the next one promises to be even worse... :/

Camo

06-06-16, 08:52 AM

What is the 4? Short films?

neiba

06-06-16, 08:55 AM

yup :)

Sedai

06-06-16, 11:45 AM

Paprika
(Kon, 2006)

4

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Really creative anime. Dreamy, trippy reality twisting abounds.

Mr. Nobody
Dormael, 2009

4

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Sort of a flawed masterpiece, I adored this film. Not without its flaws, but they were easily overlooked due to the sheer ambition of this work. A fantastic, emotional look at time, choice and love. I see a few more viewings of this gem in my future.

Resolution
Benson, 2013

2_5

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Indy horror/thriller that is a fun little self-aware examination of stories and film. Pretty clever, but slightly uneventful. Still worth a watch.

The World's End
Wright, 2013

3_5

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A fun romp with Edgar Wright and Pegg, once again. This time it's a sci-fi/comedy blend that takes shots at the "Starbucking" of our society. Contains several laugh-out-loud sequences.

The Life of Pi
Lee, 2011

5

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Richard Parker! :)

Mäx

06-06-16, 01:26 PM

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 4
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) - 3.5+
Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1944) - 2.5

mark f

06-06-16, 04:10 PM

First Sunday (David E. Talbert, 2008) 2
Brass Target (John Hough, 1978) 2.5
Egypt Speaks (James A. Fitzpatrick, 1951) 2
The Quare Fellow (Arthur Dreifuss, 1962) 2.5+
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A new guard (Patrick McGoohan) at an Irish prison begins an affair with the wife (Sylvia Syms) of a condemned man (or "quare fellow") and starts to see his superior’s side of things that repetitive capital punishment serves no positive purpose and brutalizes those who carry it out.
On Your Toes (Ray Enright, 1939) 2
Something for the Boys (Lewis Seiler, 1944) 2.5-
Fender Bender (Mark Pavia, 2016) 2+
The Flying Mouse (David Hand, 1934) 3-
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A mouse builds himself some wings, but they don’t work and he feels estranged from other mice and the bats who now resemble him.
Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit, 2008) 2+
Cairo “City of Contrast” (James A. FitzPatrick, 1938) 2.5
Cross-Country Romance (Frank Woodruff, 1940) 2+
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974) 3
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A unusual young man (Bruno S.) is brought to Nuremburg in 1828 by a mysterious man who leaves him with a note. Although he spent his early years chained in a cellar, he later demonstrates an ability for abstract thinking, prophetic dreams and music appreciation.
The Avenger (Roy Neill, 1931) 2
Modern Guatemala City (James A. FitzPatrick, 1945) 2.5
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (Gregory Plotkin, 2015) 2
Fillmore (Richard T. Heffron, 1972) 2.5+
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Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead were among San Francisco’s and Bill Graham’s Fillmore West final acts in the Summer of 1971.
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947) 2.5+
Confessions of Boston Blackie (Edward Dmytryk, 1941) 2+
Operation Raintree (No Director Listed, 1957) 2.5
Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961) 3.5
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While the citizens of his town watch La Dolce Vita, nobleman Marcello Mastroianni attempts to carry out his plan to kill his wife (Daniela Rocca) so he can marry his beautiful young cousin (Stefania Sandrelli).

Camo

06-06-16, 04:14 PM

That's higher than i expected DIvorce Italian Style to be for you. I watched it for one of the hall of fames here and really liked it.

mark f

06-06-16, 04:20 PM

Well, the rating has actually dropped since the forty or so years since I first watched it, but I still think it's one of the best Italian films and one of the best black comedies I've seen.

Captain Spaulding

06-08-16, 07:16 PM

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Troll
(John Carl Buechler, 1986)
0.5
Not as incompetent as its infamous, unrelated sequel -- at least here the set design and FX look somewhat professional, and the performances, while generally poor, resemble that of human beings, which can't be said for Troll 2 -- yet in many ways Troll is even worse than the "best worst movie" it preceded. Maybe it's my fault for watching the movie sober and alone. (I watched Troll 2 a couple months ago with a buddy of mine and we were both pretty inebriated at the time, which I'm sure enhanced the enjoyment factor.) Yet I don't think any substance would've made this viewing experience more tolerable. Simply put, Troll sucks -- and not in a so-bad-it's-good way. There's an early scene in the film where the main family is introduced to the other tenants while an alarm blares incessantly, forcing all the characters to shout at each other in order to be heard. I don't know how long that scene lasts, but it feels like a god damn eternity, and it's indicative of the obnoxious, is-this-*****-ever-going-to-end? torture that the rest of the film entails. There's plenty of what-the-f*ckery, like Sonny Bono as a pervert and random dance scenes and anthropomorphic mushrooms, that sound like they could provide unintentional enjoyment in the vein of Troll 2, but all of it is too irritating to even mock in good humor. The closest the film comes to so-bad-it's-good delight is when Julia Louis-Dreyfus (in a role she probably excludes from every résumé) spouts from a pod in a leaf bikini and briefly frolics about a forest . . . where I'm hoping a troll gangbang occurs off camera shortly afterwards. Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.

Freeway
(Matthew Bright, 1996)
3.5
Delectably perverse comedy/thriller that transports Little Red Riding Hood to a 90's trailer park populated with mother prostitutes, anatomy-grabbing stepfathers and a disfigured, serial-killing, necrophilia-loving Kiefer Sutherland pretending to be grandma. The film packs a lot into a short running time, including a stop at a women’s prison where heroin-addicted Brittany Murphy swaps spit with Reese Witherspoon. And speaking of Reese, she gives arguably her best performance as the feisty, foul-mouthed, white-trash protagonist. The explicit dialogue is frequently hilarious and the film’s satirical edge makes it smarter than the sleazy, lowbrow exploitation it appears to be at first glance. Above all else, though, the film is simply a lot of fun. Who doesn’t get claustrophobic sucking strange d*ck?

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
(Jonathan Levine, 2006/2013)
2
All the boys want to f*ck Amber Heard, even though she's not that hot and her character here has the personality and screen presence of a dishcloth. For a slasher, there's not a lot of slashing. The characterization is flat, so spending time with these characters is a chore. Plus the manner in which the few murders play out doesn't leave much room for suspense, thrills, or even cheap jump scares. On the plus side, the film is well shot, drawing comparisons to Badlands/Days of Heaven-era Malick, but I personally prefer my horror to be unpolished and rough around the edges, so even the film's biggest positive is a negative for me. I saw the twist ending coming, yet the last ten minutes still played out differently than I expected, ending the film on a strong note. Johnny Depp's cameo where he shows up to give Heard a black eye is weirdly prescient.

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Game of Death
(Robert Clouse, 1978)
1.5
I was aware that Bruce Lee died before completing the film, but I didn’t realize just how little of the film he had actually completed. Instead of getting Lee’s swan song with a few scenes of stand-ins, I got a Brucesploitation film with maybe 8-10 minutes of the man himself. Seeing the ways in which the film tries to hide the stand-in’s face, along with the stand-out-like-a-sore-thumb archival footage of Lee’s past roles awkwardly edited into the film as reaction shots and a “head transplant” that makes my Captain Spaulding photoshops look like a million dollars, is amusing for awhile, but the lame plot, atrocious acting and the lack of exciting action quickly turns the film into a bore. The only scenes in Game of Death worth watching, not surprisingly, are Lee’s fight scenes – especially his iconic encounter with 7-footer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, those few moments aren’t enough to redeem an ugly, lumbering, tasteless film that feels more like an insult to the martial-arts legend than a film which honors him.

No Way Out
(Roger Donaldson, 1987)
3.5
I wasn't enjoying this at all for the first thirty minutes or so, but once the plot finally kicks into gear this becomes quite the edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle, sphincter-clenching thriller. The three leads -- Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton -- are perfect for their respective roles. With the relentless pace and all the twists and turns, it's hard enough to catch your breath as a viewer, let alone worry about having your suspension of disbelief broken by thinking too hard about miraculous coincidences that keep the tension rolling. Not yet sure how I feel about the twist-ending that feels a little too tacked on after the fact. Sean Young has a few sexy scenes, but it's impossible for me to see her without thinking of the tuck job in Ace Ventura.

The Ballad of Narayama
(Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
2.5
Love the fascinating premise (a poor, rural village has a long-standing tradition where anyone 70 years of age or older is abandoned at the top of a mountain). Love the film's meditation on mortality and the treatment of the elderly. Love the film's evocative nature. I even love the film's gorgeous artificial sets and obvious backdrops. But the kabuki-style presentation, with its annoying narration delivered via a warbling, where's-the-f*cking-mute-button-when-I-need-it? singing voice, got tiresome pretty fast. I'm disappointed in myself that I let one individual element negatively impact my appreciation and enjoyment for what's clearly a visually-striking, unique, heartbreaking film. I also think the comic exaggeration of key dramatic moments played a part in my emotional disconnect. Hopefully the acclaimed 1983 remake will have a stronger impact on me whenever I get around to watching it.

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The Blob
(Chuck Russell, 1988)
3
Just as good, if not better, than the 1958 original -- although years have passed since I watched the Steve McQueen version so take that statement with a grain of salt. This remake is well paced, surprisingly gory, features some very impressive creature effects and just the right amount of camp. Me enjoyed it.

Abar, the First Black Superman
(Frank Packard, 1977)
1.5
A blaxploitation film about a black man with superpowers fighting racists and neighborhood Nazis sounds like a cheesy, campy good time, but unfortunately Abar, the First Black Superman takes itself way too seriously. A sense of self-awareness and a brisker pace would’ve done wonders for the film. The movie’s biggest sin (besides draining all the power from MLK’s words by playing them ad-nauseam) is waiting an eternity before bringing the “first black superman” into the mix. I was hoping for dodgy FX-driven showdowns between Black Superman and the KKK. Instead I got extreme close-ups of Black Superman’s face while he transforms a priest’s gaudy car into a horse and carriage, makes a python magically appear in a white woman’s bed (not a euphemism), then blows the racists out of town by shrinking the frame. I can deal with the atrocious acting and the amateurish direction, but it’s a shame seeing a silly premise with guilty-pleasure potential try to pass itself off as a philosophical, thinking-man’s film.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
(Alan Metter, 1985)
2
Vacuous and shallow even by 80's standards, yet still possessing just enough of the decade's "Material Girl" charm to make it watchable. Highlight of the film: a nun performs a gymnastic's routine on a pommel horse. Disappointment of the film: the producers were apparently too cheap to acquire the rights to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," so instead we have to settle for a copycat cover of the titular song.

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The Cranes Are Flying
(Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
4
Cinematography so masterful it threatens to overshadow both the film's emotional poignancy and its potent anti-war message. It's rare for me to pay more attention to how the camera is filming something as opposed to what the camera is filming, but I was in constant awe of the cinematographer's virtuosity -- from the effortless way the camera glides above crowds without losing track of our leading lady, to the fluidity of the long handheld takes, to the gorgeous usage of shadows and light, to the striking juxtaposition between foregrounds and backgrounds, and, in particular, the manner in which the cinematography so candidly mirrors and accentuates the inner turmoil of the characters. The composition in each and every scene is utter perfection. If I was an aspiring filmmaker and not a serial-killing clown, this is a film I would study and absorb. Also, from what little I've read online, the cultural and historical significance of the film can't be exaggerated. The Cranes Are Flying is one of the first Russian films (maybe the first?) to capture the honest, brutal ramifications of World War II. Director Mikhail Kalatozov, finally free of Stalin's artistic suffocation, put forth onto celluloid the bruised, naked, resilient soul of a war-ravaged nation grieving more casualties than any other country. And who better to give a face to that unbearable grief than the gorgeous, sturdy Tatiana Samoilova (who, in my opinion, bears a slight resemblance to Audrey Hepburn, except with a fuller face and greater sex appeal), whose eyes alone convey an endless depth of emotions. The Cranes Are Flying is a stunning achievement on many levels, possessing a masterpiece of cinematography and an all-time great performance by a leading lady, that explores war less as its subject than as its primary theme. A powerful film. An important film. A beautiful film.

The Savage Five
(Chang Cheh, 1974)
2.5
The more Shaw Brothers films I watch, the more they all blend together, so I give The Savage Five props for setting itself aside from the pack by being a kung-fu western. The marriage of such disparate genres should automatically carry with it a sense of novelty, yet everything about this east-meets-west story feels like a rerun. The plot -- evil bandits wreak havoc in a town of pacifists until a group of individuals rise up to defeat them -- is well-trodden territory. The music is borrowed from other spaghetti westerns. The gunplay feels awkward and neutered compared to other westerns, and it sadly comes at the sacrifice of the excellent fight choreography I've come to expect from Shaw Brothers productions. None of the villains stand out. The same can be said for our heroes, with the exception of David Chiang as the Thief With a Heart of Gold. All of this results in a film that's both a lackluster western and a lackluster kung-fu film.

Riddick
(David Twohy, 2013)
2
I wasn't crazy about Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick, finding both pretty average, but this third entry in the series is the first one I would label a bad film. Riddick is basically just a rehash of Pitch Black. Vin Diesel pretends to be macho and battles a bunch of poorly-rendered CGI creatures before befriending an alien dog (the only likable character in the film, by the way). Then a bunch of mercenaries show up and the film drags hard as we spend most of the next hour with a ragtag group of unlikable, disposable, easily forgettable stock characters spouting cliché after cliché. Things improve a bit in the last act when a new threat forces everyone to combine forces in order to survive. This new threat -- think raptors with scorpion tails -- is scarier looking than the pterodactyl-like creatures in Pitch Black, but the script squanders any potential stakes or tension with its anti-climactic dispatching methods. Add to that the film's ugly orange-brown aesthetic and Riddick becomes a tedious bore.

seanc

06-08-16, 07:21 PM

Glsd to see you posting Captain, unfortunately I haven't seen any of those to comment. I have seen bits of No Way Out but never was interested in giving it my full attention for some reason. I like both the actors a lot.

Camo

06-08-16, 07:26 PM

Great post Spaulding :up:. Plenty of brilliant Spauldingisms there so i want quote them all. The only one i've seen is Game of Death. The first thing i ever saw from that was the Kareem fight so i couldn't wait to see it and yeah pretty much what you said. The Bruce Lee sensei-ghost from No Retreat No Surrender is less insulting than this.

Also the first thing i thought when i saw your post was: damn is Elaine in Troll? haha.

cricket

06-08-16, 08:52 PM

Alright Captain! I'm with you on Freeway, No Way Out, The Ballad of Narayama, The Blob, and The Cranes are Flying!

gbgoodies

06-09-16, 01:47 AM

No Way Out
(Roger Donaldson, 1987)
3.5
I wasn't enjoying this at all for the first thirty minutes or so, but once the plot finally kicks into gear this becomes quite the edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle, sphincter-clenching thriller. The three leads -- Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton -- are perfect for their respective roles. With the relentless pace and all the twists and turns, it's hard enough to catch your breath as a viewer, let alone worry about having your suspension of disbelief broken by thinking too hard about miraculous coincidences that keep the tension rolling. Not yet sure how I feel about the twist-ending that feels a little too tacked on after the fact. Sean Young has a few sexy scenes, but it's impossible for me to see her without thinking of the tuck job in Ace Ventura.

I think No Way Out is a very underrated movie. If you haven't seen it, you should watch the movie The Big Clock (1948) with Ray Milland. No Way Out is a remake of The Big Clock, and as much as I like No Way Out, I think The Big Clock is a much better movie.

The Blob
(Chuck Russell, 1988)
3
Just as good, if not better, than the 1958 original -- although years have passed since I watched the Steve McQueen version so take that statement with a grain of salt. This remake is well paced, surprisingly gory, features some very impressive creature effects and just the right amount of camp. Me enjoyed it.

I didn't really care much for The Blob remake, but I doubt that would surprise anyone who knows my taste in movies. (I only watched it because I went to junior high school with someone who was in the movie, so it piqued my curiosity.)

Captain Spaulding

06-09-16, 03:27 AM

I think No Way Out is a very underrated movie. If you haven't seen it, you should watch the movie The Big Clock (1948) with Ray Milland. No Way Out is a remake of The Big Clock, and as much as I like No Way Out, I think The Big Clock is a much better movie.

I'll keep an eye out for The Big Clock if it ever airs on TCM. I'm curious to see how the story would play out in such a different era, especially with how much technology plays a role in the remake.

I didn't really care much for The Blob remake, but I doubt that would surprise anyone who knows my taste in movies. (I only watched it because I went to junior high school with someone who was in the movie, so it piqued my curiosity.)

Someone in the cast or just an extra? Pretty cool, regardless.

gbgoodies

06-09-16, 03:52 AM

I didn't really care much for The Blob remake, but I doubt that would surprise anyone who knows my taste in movies. (I only watched it because I went to junior high school with someone who was in the movie, so it piqued my curiosity.)

Someone in the cast or just an extra? Pretty cool, regardless.

Ricky Paull Goldin. It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but if I remember correctly, he played a friend of one of the main characters.

MovieMeditation

06-09-16, 04:42 AM

SPAULDING!!!!!!!!!!!

honeykid

06-09-16, 11:06 AM

Nice to see you back, Captain. :) I'm with you on Freeway. It's a lovely little 90's gem.

mark f

06-10-16, 03:42 AM

The Clock Store (Wilfred Jackson, 1931) 2.5+
The Hollywood Revue (Charles F. Reisner, 1929) 2
Heartburn (Mike Nichols, 1986) 2.5+
Dig! (Ondi Timoner, 2004) 3
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Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols and Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre are best friends and indie rock rivals going in different directions.
The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont, 1929) 2.5-
Chef Donald (Jack King, 1941) 3
Supercross (Steve Boyum, 2005) 1.5+
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982) 3-
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The leader (Jeremy Irons) of a Polish work team, who has come to London to work cheap on a home remodeling job, learns that his homeland has been taken over by the military and doesn’t inform the other men who don’t understand English.
Blue State (Marshall Lewy, 2008) 2.5
Cave Explorers (Heinz Scheiderbauer, 1957) 2.5
The Abominable Crime (Micah Fink, 2013) 2.5
It All Came True (Lewis Seiler, 1940) 2.5
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Nightclub owner/killer Humphrey Bogart hides out at the boarding home of the mother (Jessie Busley) of his piano player/fall guy (Jeffrey Lynn), and while there, he feigns illness and gets fed chicken soup by the co-owner (Una O’Connor), the mother of a singer (Ann Sheridan) who once worked for the killer.
Krampus (Michael Dougherty, 2015) 2.5
Out in the Night (Blair Doroshwalther, 2015) 3-
An Eye for an Eye (Michael Moore, 1966) 2
Dr. Wai in the Scriptures with No Words (Ching Siu-Tung, 1997) 2.5-
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The “Adventure King” (Jet Li) battles numerous enemies, some supernatural, in his search for a mythical scripture.
Pimpin' Pee Wee (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 2009) 2
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1977) 2.5
Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm (Ivan Lukinsky, 1959) 2+
Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush, 2016) 3.5+ Maybe higher
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Zootopia’s first rabbit policemammal, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), and her foxy buddy Nick (Justin Bateman) investigate the disappearance of a missing otter who may be a key in a larger criminal conspiracy.

meatwadsprite

06-10-16, 02:53 PM

The Jungle Book

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Not anywhere near as smart or weird as the original, and there's some really lame ideas in there, but still an enjoyable flick. Worth the price of admission to see Christopher Walken sing "I Wanna Be Like You".

3

Captain America : Winter Soldier

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Feels like Dark Knight without the balls. Starts out excellent and then kind of drudges on forever until I've completely lost interest. I like the premise, but Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are so damn boring. They're practically robots, you could just CGI them out of the movie completely.

2.5

Captain America : Civil War

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Captain America is just one dude in a big superhero ensemble here, which is how I prefer it. Civil War pits Marvel's most exicting character (Iron Man) against it's most boring (Captain America) and tries to find an excuse to get their whole cast of characters to beat the crap out of each other. They bring in a 10 year old as Spiderman, they bring in dudes I forgot even existed from Avengers 2, they bring in Paul Rudd from the horrible Ant Man movie and he's amazing in this.

Again this movie is too afraid to take the story somewhere truly dramatic, but it's hugely entertaining anyway.

3.5

Deadpool

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Deadpool pretty much equates to watching old people who think they're being really cool.
Good popcorn movie fun.

3

The Conjuring

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The story is pretty dimwitted and flimsy, the real quality is in the execution. James Wan has a huge talent for real scares. There's a lot of effectively creepy moments, even though the movie jumps from one to the next with no downtime in between.

Unintentionally funny, creepy, and intense. Pretty much all you can ask for from a horror movie.

3

Frost/Nixon

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Frank Langella gives an incredible portrayal of Nixon in this surprisingly sympathetic biopic.

3

Going Clear : Scientology and the Prison of Belief

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Weirder than it's fictional counter-part, PTA's The Master. Out of all the religions out there, scientology is definitely the funniest. This documentary expands on that goofy image scientology occupies in the public concious to reveal a slimey, villainous core.

3.5

Malcom X

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This is actually two disparate films merged into one. The first half is excessively cartoony and stupid. I understand what Spike Lee hoped to acomplish with the first hour and half but it pretty much fails on every front. The second half is a huge improvement and really involving, although there's still a surplus of weird decisions that don't quite work.

Malcom X ends up being presented as a valiant, but confused man, whose values are constantly morphing. Which isn't real of course, this dude was one of the strongest voices of his time. Despite the films shortcomings, Denzel Washington gives an incredible performance here. The scene where he drives to his last speech while Sam Cooke plays in the background is stunning.

3

Gatsby

06-10-16, 09:08 PM

Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush, 2016) 3.5+ Maybe higher
Glad to see you liked it a lot Mark. :up:

Cobpyth

06-11-16, 06:38 AM

Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush, 2016) 3.5+ Maybe higher
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Zootopia’s first rabbit policemammal, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), and her foxy buddy Nick (Justin Bateman) investigate the disappearance of a missing otter who may be a key in a larger criminal conspiracy.

Watched this last night. Indeed a very good flick! :up:

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 07:30 PM

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I guess I just became the king of laziness.

If you have any questions about these films, or woud like me to elaborate on any of these, feel free to ask!

Camo

06-11-16, 07:34 PM

Really glad you like A Streetcar Named Desire so much, hopefully it will make your 50's list. Suprised how high you rated Scum, i like it but i don't actually think it is a good film. I really didn't like Wings when i saw it but that was about 5 years ago i should revisit it.

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 08:02 PM

Well, to be honest, I myself am a little bit surprised by how much I loved A Streetcar Named Desire. I mean, in 2014 I saw On the Waterfront, a movie that is widely recognized as Kazan's masterpiece, and although I thought it's very good, it didn't really strike me as masterpiece, or anything of the sort. A Streetcar Named Desire on the other hand I wholeheartedly loved and I think I even liked (more or less) all the characters, even though none of them were faultless. I especially sympathized with Vivien Leigh. Frankly, my dear (pun intended), her performance in Gone with the Wind kind of flew over my head and I didn't really think much about her as an actress, but here she really amazed me. It may be due to the fact that as juxtaposed to Brando's method acting, her performance was very old-school, mannered, even lackadaisical, but at the same time it suited her character very well. On meta-level, the film is a little bit of a goodbye to this old-school Hollywood acting style and a welcome to all these Strasberg disciples. I don't know what more to say, if you asked the day I watched the movie, I probably would have way more to tell you.

Scum was my second Alan Clarke film (just after that meticulous, almost structural masterwork - Elephant) and it really hit a note with me. Its unadulterated brutality with a visible reason for it (or at least what led to it, in Elephant we only have the executions), the cunning protester (the shoeless one), the British surroundings and the reality of reformatory. All of this composed very nicely into what I can call a fulfilled film. Looking forward to Made in Britain now.

Wings is awesome. The aerial battle scenes were done with such prowess that I doubt they could make them that good today. From what I read, the cameras were placed on the planes and every actor piloting the plane had to also keep track of the camera to make sure it records everything properly. I also read that at least one of the actors had to learn flying. The cinematography is pretty good, with some breathtaking shots. My favourite would be the one, in which the camera hovers above many tables to eventually stop before the table with the protagonists. The swing one at the beginning is pretty swell, too. There's that typical melodrama/romance/war plot you can find in many movies, but back then it was still fresh and if it feels outdated or cliche it's only because so many movies AFTER Wings used this scheme. I really like the use of symbols, that although pretty obvious, really do their job well.

Camo

06-11-16, 08:07 PM

Frankly, my dear (pun intended), her performance in Gone with the Wind kind of flew over my head

That's too bad. That is actually my favourite female performance i think.

mark f

06-11-16, 08:18 PM

Although I think that Wings is better, you should watch Hell's Angels for the absolutely crazy-good dogfight and zeppelin scenes.

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 08:20 PM

Yeah, I remember that scene with her standing in a sunset (???) and saying she will never give up (or something along these lines). I believe this took place just before the intermission. That was something. Pretty powerful. But other than that she was just okay. It's not like she's Gena Rowlands that amazes me with every second of her performance. Then again, Vivien was tremendously good in Streetcar, so I don't really know.

Camo

06-11-16, 08:22 PM

Rowlands in A Woman Under The Influence would probably make my top 5 even though i'm not the biggest fan of the film. She is really amazing.

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 08:27 PM

Although I think that Wings is better, you should watch Hell's Angels for the absolutely crazy-good dogfight and zeppelin scenes. Never heard about it. A quick search proves you may be right about the aerial scenes. Thanks for the recommendation!

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 08:40 PM

Rowlands in A Woman Under The Influence would probably make my top 5 even though i'm not the biggest fan of the film. She is really amazing. Yeah, I thought really hard whether or not I should grant A Woman Under the Influence 5 stars. Her performance there is beyond words, but then again she was pretty dope in every Cassavetes I've seen (Opening Night!!!, Love Streams!!!, Faces!!! etc.) and she did a great job in that Bergman-esque Woody Allen movie (she being in this film is the reason why it's best Allen film :P). I guess she's my favourite American actress of all time, closely followed by Sasha Grey, oh wait... Sasha sucks. :)

(about Napoleon) I really think this film is meant to be seen at cinema, if only for its incredible three-screen finale, but I decided that the chance of me seeing it at cinema just like it's supposed to be seen in the nearest future equals zero, and eventually watched it on my 40'' TV. It was totally amazing with some rapid-fire montage that would put Soviet Montage experts to shame (Gance already used this kind of montage in La Roue to achieve an astonishing effect), Albert Dieudonné is a little bit monothematic with his pose of proud Napoleon lookin' far, far away into his bright future, but he fits the movie's pean-esque form perfectly. I still think that J'accuse! is Gance's magnum opus, but Napoleon comes very close. A French Impressionist Cinema masterpiece to behold.

Camo

06-11-16, 08:45 PM

Bergman-esque Woody Allen movie

Another Woman? I had to look that up haven't seen it or heard much about it.

I guess she's my favourite American actress of all time, closely followed by Sasha Grey

:laugh:

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 08:51 PM

Another Woman? I had to look that up haven't seen it or heard much about it. Yeah, that's the one. It's a simple Bergman worship film, but it works much better than films that are simple Allen movies. Well, at least to me. I don't get Allen.
:laugh: Sasha's alright. She loves Jean-Luc Godard.

mark f

06-11-16, 09:11 PM

For Allen, I recommend War and Peace ...um, Love and Death and Manhattan Murder Mystery, and also the adaptation of his play, Play It Again, Sam.

Mr Minio

06-11-16, 09:22 PM

Yeah, I wanted to watch Love and Death for quite a long time, but many disappointments with his other films have successfully stopped me from watching it.

Camo

06-11-16, 09:22 PM

Manhattan Murder Mystery is not one of my favorite Allen films, it was a lot of fun though. My favourite Allen film is actually Take The Money and Run. It is probably his most silly that i've seen but i find it hilarious.

matt72582

06-12-16, 09:38 AM

I love Annie Hall and Manhattan, but I'd like to see "Another Woman" - maybe I can find it now?

Also, whoever hasn't seen "A Woman Under The Influence" should.. Even after 4-5 times, I still find these; Cassavetes doesn't spoon feed, so you have to pay attention!

Zelig was a little funny too.. I did like Bananas, and Take the Money and Run..

Mr Minio

06-12-16, 12:32 PM

I rate both Manhattan and Annie Hall 2.5

banality

06-12-16, 01:27 PM

Woody Allen made another Bergmanesque film, Interiors, and it was horrible. Crimes and Misdemeanors is my favourite from him.

Sasha's alright. She loves Jean-Luc Godard.

Apparently she was gonna use Anna Karina as her stage name, porn stars are the most ****ed up people lmao

Mr Minio

06-12-16, 04:13 PM

Apparently she was gonna use Anna Karina as her stage name, porn stars are the most ****ed up people lmao That would be Swan's dreams come true. Sort of.

Sedai

06-13-16, 01:24 PM

Midnight Special
Nichols, 2016

4

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Subtle sci-fi with Michael Shannon turning in a great, underplayed performance. Liked this one a lot.

Weird Science
Hughes, 1985

3

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I rate this the way I do due to nostalgia, really. One of the weaker Hughes films overall, but still have some great moments. This one hasn't aged very well.

Fantastic Four
Trank, 2015

1_5

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Shite. Far too much build-up to a garbage climax. This is a complete misfire from Marvel.

Schindler's List[/header[
Spielberg, 1993

4_5

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After Fantastic Four, I wanted to watch something with meaning, and that wasn't put together in a computer. Spielberg's World War II epic fit the bill. Harsh and incredibly well-made. Spielberg at the top of his game.

[header]Take Shelter
Nichols, 2011

4

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Another moody piece from Nichols, again featuring a great performance by Michael Shannon. Social/Community anxiety is explored using the theme of a terrible storm that may or may not be real. Michael Shannon's character becomes obsessed with building a storm shelter for his family as his mental health begins to deteriorate. Chastaine also dials up a great turn here.

Enemy
Villeneuve, 2013

2

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This one fell flat for me. Interesting premise that gets lost in the films murky plotting and is hamstrung by an obtuse ending. Not a big fan of this one.

Source Code
Jones, 2011

3

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Deja Vu
Scott, 2006

2_5

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Great police procedural first half that crashes and burns in the second half with time travel concept that just doesn't make much sense. Denzel is strong, but not strong enough to save this one.

Swimming Pool
Ozon, 2003

3_5

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Risque little flick about a stodgy writer that heads out to the French countryside to work on her next book. Her publishers free-spirited daughter shows up, and then murder is afoot! Some nice scenery in this one. ;)