Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Great movie…Russell and JT Walsh are excellent

Never heard of this movie

The Deer Hunter (1978)


I saw the thread about comparing this movie to Apocalypse Now...Deer Hunter is good, but its not on the same level.

I think I had heard it mentioned, but not much else. It's John Dahl, though, who did Red Rock West, which is a pretty cool neo-noir. He also did Rounders (which I haven't seen in a long time, but I know a lot of people love it) and Joy Ride (which is a fairly decent horror-esque thriller). He also did The Last Seduction, which I haven't seen but I think someone here is a fan (is it @Holden Pike?). I'm also finding out that he has directed episodes for a lot of shows I like/love (i.e. Breaking Bad, Justified, The Americans, among many others) and also directed two episodes of The Looming Tower, which is a really great mini-series about the events that preceded the 9/11 terrorist attacks. So bottom line, I'm intrigued. Thanks for bringing it up.

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Saw this in theaters and have loved it since.

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Heretic - (2024)

Sometimes a series of performances can cause you to really fall in love with this or that actor, and you're not quite aware it's happening until one day you consciously think about the esteem they now have in your mind. I'd put Hugh Grant front and center concerning that phenomenon for me personally. After enjoying his work in the likes of A Very English Scandal, Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, Cloud Atlas, Florence Foster Jenkins and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves I'd have to say his post-romantic comedy period has found him expanding his range, much to his benefit. In Heretic he plays Mr. Reed, an intellectual who seems to have dedicated his entire life to dissecting and examining religion - searching for the ultimate truth in both philosophical and practical terms. On the surface he's ingratiating, polite and kind - but a pair of missionaries from the Church of Latter Day Saints, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) are in for a brutal evening composed of much more than a bruising theological discussion. Reed's purpose is much more sinister and menacing, and the two young women soon find themselves rats in a theologically designed trap set to prove and disprove his theory about "the only one true religion". It's all overwhelmingly exciting and interesting stuff - both edge-of-your-seat thrilling and mentally stimulating. The ending didn't quite work for me - I was hoping for something stranger and more open to interpretation, but aside from that this was an excellent psychological horror film.

7/10


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Prospect - (2018)

Prospect is going to stick around in my memory because it was such a purely enjoyable sci-fi western to digest - successfully transforming the vastness of interplanetary prospecting into the same wild trigger-happy frontier of old that proved so successful with tales of banditry, greed, danger and lawlessness. All of the ingredients work so well together - Pedro Pascal, the intricate world building, the genre shift and sound combining to create something special. Full review here, in my watchlist thread.

8/10

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