The Resident Bitch's Movie Log

The Resident Bitch's Movie Log

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

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

A rating of

or higher means I liked the film. Anything above that is a measure of how much I liked it. A rating of

means I was fairly apathetic to it, and anything below that is just a measure of how much I disliked it.





Movies Watched - 2018
January
12 Years a Slave
Moonlight
Mutiny On the Bounty
Argo
Forrest Gump
The Godfather
Rocky (New Review)
The Silence of the Lambs
All the King's Men (1949)
On the Waterfront (New Review)
A Beautiful Mind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Gladiator (New Review)
February
Glory
Out of the Blue
Shallow Grave
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Station Agent
American Graffiti
The Elephant Man
In the Mood for Love
Rebecca
March
L'Avventura
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
The Emoji Movie
April
Ferdinand
Call Me By Your Name
Big
You Were Never Really Here
May
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
Frances Ha
The Breadwinner
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (New Review)
Poison for the Fairies
Wait Until Dark
Naked
Mr Freedom
June
Three Monkeys
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Call Me By Your Name (New Review)
Bao / Incredibles 2
July
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The Bodyguard
Amos & Andrew
August
*No films watched in August*
September
The Dressmaker
Amélie
Day for Night
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lean On Pete
The Libertine
The Innocents
Pixote
Let the Right One In
Rush
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Ghostwatch
Incendies
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
October
The Aviator
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
The Sisters Brothers
November
Gremlins
Gremlins (Yes, again)
Surf's Up
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
December
An American Crime
Boy Erased
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Love, Actually
Arachnophobia
The Ref
Isle of Dogs
Early Man

Movies Watched - 2019
January
Wolf
The Skin I Live In
Interview With the Vampire
Abandon Ship (a.k.a. Seven Days From Now)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
February
Split (1989)
Road to Perdition
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The King of Comedy
Perfect Blue
The Kid Who Would Be King
The Florida Project
Brimstone
The Square
The Little Stranger
Bubba Ho-Tep
March
A Bug's Life
Coco
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Monsters University
Ratatouille
Toy Story
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Up
April
Mary Magdelene
May
Big Hero 6
The Professor
Tombstone
Open Range
Raging Bull
Gaslight (1940)
June
Gaslight (1944)
Safety Last!
The Godfather
The Virgin Spring
Angel Face
Cinema Paradiso
Pulp Fiction
Return to Paradise
The Secret Life of Pets 2
July
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
The Wind in the Willows (1983)
Meet the Robinsons
Wizards
The Sword in the Stone
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Spirited Away
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
August
Your Name.
Tower
Ernest & Celestine
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Burn After Reading
Troy
A Town Called Panic
The Dark Knight
September
Lilo & Stitch
October
Joker
The Squid and the Whale
High Noon
We Own the Night
Ghostbusters (1984)
Inventing the Abbotts
Monsters, Inc.
Rear Window
The Music Man
Phantom Thread
Blood Simple
The Sisters Brothers
Cool Hand Luke
Elmer Gantry
Signs
Brother Bear
Ladder 49
Clay Pigeons
November
Joker
You Were Never Really Here
Hotel Rwanda
The Yards
Toy Story 4
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
Inherent Vice
The Master
Walk the Line
U Turn
8MM
The Immigrant
To Die For
Buffalo Soldiers
Two Lovers
I'm Still Here
It's All About Love
Reservation Road
The Village
The Appaloosa (1966)
Shane
The Hanging Tree
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Man From Snowy River
The Big Country
The Quick and the Dead
December
Hombre
Sukiyaki Western Django
One-Eyed Jacks
Hostiles

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Sanjay’s Super Team (Sanjay Patel, 2015)
Imdb

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

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







The Good Dinosaur (Peter Sohn, 2015)
Imdb

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


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

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

-Pokes in-

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

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

I can hardly wait.

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

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

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“Except for markf, you’re all a disgrace to cinema.”

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

Good luck MV.

Such rude language in this thread!!!

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

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

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

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

I haven't, obviously, done one either. I contemplated it for awhile. I figured I would start in January, but I can't say that I have been very faithful with my movie-watching this year. Who knows if I will be any better with it next year? So I don't think it would be worthwhile for me to even begin one.


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

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Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
Imdb

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

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

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

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

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

Simmons was just that good.

That's kind of what I figured.

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