Rate The Last Movie You Saw

This was absolutely everything i expected to hate it for: corny, overly sentimental, manipulative, features big meanies who have no reason to be big meanies like the high school teacher at the start who literally crushed dream(er)s with his speech, that or they just don't believe in the little guy. I have absolutely nothing to complain about though, it worked for what it is it manipulated me into caring somewhat and to be fair it's seen as an inspirational American classic for a reason; it pulls off its corny BS really well. I mean looking at the cast this could have easily have become a forgotten direct to video film if there was nothing there, Ned Beatty at the time was the biggest name and despite being talented he's never exactly been a big draw for the general public, Sean Astin is the lead and this was his first adult role; he was known as the kid from The Goonies at this time just think of all the awful/unnoticed child star to adult transitions there's been; they're always some film similar to this as well which makes it more amazing that this stuck with the public. What i think worked was the filmmaker's did something very obvious: got someone who looked like he'd never be able to make it as a Football player and made him a Football player, to be fair to Astin he did a great job pulling off his silly 'dreamer that's never gonna make it' role. Another thing was that they withheld football from us for the majority of the film, most of it is him going to Holy Cross trying to get his grades up to get into Notre Dame. They made his dream meaningful in the corniest way possible and it worked. I honestly think i greatly respect this film for doing something that i'm extremely annoyed by that well that even though i didn't love it i also didn't hate it, and this was without avoiding any of the cliches; it was just as embarrassing as plenty of other similar films i hate. Most films like this illicit a mixture of laughter and annoyance from me this i definitely laughed at but for the most part it avoided the annoyance which is a big achievment for a film like this that i didn't watch as a child. Saying that i definitely would have loved this as a child, it would have been one of those films that i'd be terrified of revisiting in case of destroying my childhood memories with an adult eye.

So yeah i can't rate this very high because i did think it was pretty horrible but i totally get the love for it anyway. For the record the janitor was the best character, love how he withheld his background until the exact perfect moment

Had mixed reactions to Bergman so far, before this Wild Strawberries was the only one i loved of the four i watched. This was very good though, wasn't into it at all until after the play. Max Von Sydow and Harriet Andersson were fantastic especially the latter, i'd still say Gena Rowlands gave the best portrayal of mental illness i've seen but this came close.

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The Invitation (2015)