Rate The Last Movie You Saw

I agree with Mr Minio but both are up their as top tier movies imo

I give Fight Club +

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I watched Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012) and need some time to wrap my head around it. Did you see it, TokeZa?

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

I havent seen it nor heard about it, but i looked it up on criticker and from the description it looks like my kind of movie

It's like Holy Motors in its modernist senseless approach, but I enjoyed it much more than Carax film.

Then it looks like a must watch for me

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre --- 4/5

This is a fascinating film to me. For all intents and purposes, the film should be abysmal, and at times it is. There are moments in the film where it seems Tobe Hooper can't make up his mind on where he wants to set up the shot, or how to edit between these shots he's haphazardly connecting together. "Dead space" is what I call it, wherein a film has a lot of dots connected together but the dots don't really amount to a real "impact".

(It's like taking a "0 + 0" and it equaling another "0" set up).

But then about 40 minutes in, the imagery, and scenario of the situation become so utterly visceral, (when they first go up to the house with Leatherface), that all of a sudden the collection of images leading up to this are rightly forgotten, but this image remains implanted on the brain. I haven't seen this film and years and I still managed to remember every detail of that particular sequence. Which really gets me to thinking... why? Is it the grotesqueness of the sequence that plays in my mind so vividly? Maybe, but why do I also remember sequences of sadness, romance, etc. in films as well so vividly? This movie maybe a bit on the "poor" side of things, at least in overall construction... but what it does do is have my gears going as to the questions of "What makes a memorable sequence? And how does it function?"

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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

-Stan Brakhage

You gotta watch it, yeah. It's a good movie, yeah. I liked it more than Holy Motors, yeah. To know, yeah, what, yeah, I, yeah, mean, by, yeah, this, yeah, watch the movie, yeah.

So does Lang:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_s_6F5hCc

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Mubi

I need to see M again. It's been so long that I don't remember all of it. I remember what it's about but still need to re-watch it. I had the chance to see his Fury (1936) the other night but didn't realize he'd directed it. I should have recorded it anyway, as Spencer Tracy is in it and I like him quite a bit.

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

"M" is on YouTube if you want to watch it again:

Splice: There's a longer review of this on my website, seen in the signature, but other-wise, I'll simply summarize my thoughts. I really liked this movie. I think it was very well-acted, with solid special effects, and the story was ambitious, even if I believe that it didn't do all of the things that it could have.


The Squid and the Whale: The same as I said in my last one. I liked this movie. I thought it had a certain charm about it. It was funny in a drier and more unique way than a lot of others, and it's a movie that I would recommend. There are some flaws, but ultimately, considering how invested I got in the characters in around eighty minutes, I'd consider it a success.



Ratings:
Splice: 7.4/10.0
The Squid and the Whale: 7.0/10.0

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Brilliant noir and such an amazing plot. Sam Spade is easily one of the slickest characters ive seen in a long time.





The Exterminator (1980)

low budget vigalante film. Pretty dumb but an easy film if you're bored. Plenty of violence.




A man for all seasons (1966)

I didnt really enjoy this. A bit too religiousy for me.

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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I hear this was supposed to be a 90 minute film but was cut down. I would have loved to see those cuts.

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Fear and Loathing in MoFo... The Gunslinger 45's Top 50 Favorite Films

In the 10 Ring: Gunslinger45's reviews

A Man for All Seasons was a crashing bore...getting through that one was work. I also hate that the film and its star, Paul Scofield, stole Oscars from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Richard Burton.

Totally agree with you regarding Who Framed Roger Rabbit? For my money, Robert Zemeckis' best film.

Cool Hand Luke

" My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs."

Now this is groovy.

Cool Hand Luke is a prison tale of friendship, hope and one man's inability to conform. Paul Newman is the man, and he plays one of the coolest film characters ever. They don't call him "Cool Hand Luke" for no reason. I can think of a million things I love about this movie, but I'll only show two.



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MICHAEL JORDAN TO THE MAX (2000)

have had basketball on the mind in light of the Spurs dominating the Miami Heat and LeBron in the NBA Finals

Rating: 8.0 / 10

They Live 4/5

The Holy Mountain

Very weird and psychedelic experience. One of the most creative films I've ever seen, and quite possibly the weirdest too. Repulsive, yet somewhat beautiful. Its a journey that was worth taking, but i'm not sure its one I would want to take again. Nonetheless, I did enjoy it and I doubt I'll be getting it's vivid imagery out of my head anytime soon.

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I love "The Holy Mountain" as well as "El Topo".. both hold symbolic meanings to them. If you havent seen "El Topo" you should. They are very cool Avant Garde films.