Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Tang shan da di zhen [Aftershock] (Xiaogang Feng, 2010)
Has it's faults but effective enough and the sheer magnitude is devastating

The Seventh Cross (1944)

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I liked this much more than I was expecting. Even though I'm a big fan of Japanese cinema, those are mostly older movies. The more modern movies with the over the top style like with the crazy blood spray always seem to turn me off. Even Kill Bill, which I understand was partly inspired by this movie, is my least favorite of all the Quentin Tarantino films. This particular movie was just super cool and a lot of fun. The visuals were awesome as well.

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

I agree with you, Matt. I thought the writing was aces. I thought Newman was great delivering them, too. Like when Diane Cilento was changing out of her underskirts in that abandoned room and Newman said, "Lady, if you don't stop I'm gonna know all there is to know about you."
She stops and says, "You could have at least cleared your throat."
He rejoins with "I would have but my heart was in it."

And Boone and Newman:
Boone: "Well now, what do you suppose hell's gonna look like?"
Newman: "Man's gotta die sometime. Just a question of when." I loved the dialogue in this movie. One of my favorite Westerns.

I learned from a friend today that Clancy also does the voice of Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquareParts! I couldn't believe it.

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

For me, Brown’s Luthor is as iconic as Conroy and Hamill’s Batman and Joker.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

That's by far my favourite of the Korean Action films i've seen: Oldboy, The Man From Nowhere & I Saw The Devil.

Toni Erdmann (2016)

Naked Brunch

tentative rating

Awesome! Glad you liked. Lee Byung-hun is such a great actor, I really love the guy.
The director Kim Jee-woon had directed lots of great films. 'I Saw the Devil', 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird', 'A Tale of Two Sisters', ' The Age of Shadows'... he's one of the bests directors working today imo, by the way, did you have seen "The Chaser" (2008) directed by Na Hong-Jin?

Two films with Choi Min-sik (Oldboy and I Saw The Devil) and two films with Lee Byung-hun (A Bittersweet Life and I Saw the Devil). Both of them are incredible actors!

I'd go

1. I Saw the Devil
2. A Bittersweet Life
3. The Man from Nowhere
4. The Chaser
5. Oldboy

Oldboy is the only one I didn't really like but I plan on watching again.

What a creepy, intense, involving masterpiece. It blew my mind out.
(I feel like Shakira now - I can't stop shaking)
This movie is better than any Hitchcock's movie (what is a huge compliment coz I like Hitchcock a lot).
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were absolutelly outstanding. The atmoshere in this movie is so tense, that I could bearly sit calm in my chair.
I've read about relationship between two main actress, which was far from correct, and about jokes their did to each other. All this adds the spice to the movie.
Sorry for my ecxitement, but where else I can show my excitation about movies, if not here?

Not at all. I watched in one sitting no problem and it didn't feel anywhere near that length. I really see you liking these Matt. I'm going to watch second one tonight hopefully.

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Classe Tous Risques (1960) – 8/10

I Kill Giants (A-): Based on the graphic novel by Joe Kelly (who also wrote the screenplay) and Ken Niimura, this is the story of Barbara Thorson, a teenage girl who suffers from both bullying at school to some serious issues at home. She delves herself into a fantasy world and the lines between her world and reality soon begin to not only affect her, but those close to her. I spoke with Kelly about the film and he said the story was drawn from some personal experiences and the way director Anders Walter executes the story, it shows and it also helps that Madison Wolfe may have just found her breakout role in the central of the troubled Barbara. It makes me want to get the graphic novel.

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Yellow Cargo aka Sinful Cargo (Crane Wilbur, 1936)
Navy Spy (Joseph H. Lewis & Crane Wilbur, 1937)
The Gold Racket (Louis J. Gasnier & Joseph H. Lewis, 1937)
Bank Alarm (Louis J. Gasnier, 1937) +

The Thin Man on a diet

Rewatched again last night:


Unrealistic portrait of trauma and taboos.
The film deals with controversial themes (what else do you expect from Paul Verhoeven?). A mix of great ideas with a provocative unfolding. The problem is in the way all the content was put together. Recently I watched Antiporno (Sion Sono), a film that also deals with taboos and discusses quite a bit the limits of shame.
"Shame isn't a strong enough emotion to stop us from doing anything at all."
The unreal portrait of the themes is dealt with inconsistently in Elle, in Antiporno, at least Sion Sono was aware of the dimension of the subject discussed and narrates the story in a surreal way. Elle tries to be a drama that deals with these themes in a real way. The trauma of the main character seems to me totally inhuman.

a few well known flicks I've seen in the last couple of weeks:




(REWATCH) The Godfather II (1974) Having watched the first for The Best Picture HOF (seen countless times) there was talk of the rest of the trilogy and, having seen this, maybe, about 2 to 3 times, and with it on Netflix right now, it was definitely time to revisit.
For me, the first still remains my favorite though I can easily see how this could be a favorite for others as the Corleone family continues forward under Micheal's reign, we also get to see the beginnings of his father, Vito's early life.




Blade Runner 2049 Very impressed with this sequel. They retained both the enigmatic elements as well as the visual brilliance of the original and this was an excellent continuation storyline.




Dunkirk Seen a few so-so feelings toward this but I thoroughly enjoyed this. It was an intriguing departure from the normal philosophical, introspective dialogue that is the staple of war films and minimized it to a more, I suppose, realistic atmosphere of being scared sh1tless, being SO CLOSE to home and just wanting to get the f@ck off that beach. I applaud it for that.
Also enjoyed Tom Hardy's little Steve McQueen scene




Justice League They really could have tried bringing something a little more than what has been the norm for DC and Marvel, and that is copy/paste, blatantly rip off what the other was doing. . . who knows, if this came out first I may have enjoyed it more, maybe not.
It is fun popcorn fodder, don't get me wrong and I'll continue watching them, but MY GOD I am SOOO dreading that dorky, geeky Lex Luthor's return in the next one. Don't even get me started on that miserable abomination of, what was, a formidable nemesis to Superman. You stupid f@ckin @ss-wipes

VERY HAPPY that Cricket enjoyed Bittersweet Life and will happily echo both of these statements.
HUGE fan of both the actor and the director. The Good, The Bad, and The Weird was my introduction to both of them.
Have not seen Age of Shadows or A Tale of Two Sisters but have seen The Chaser - VERY intense film