Camo's 2018 Movie Log

If you asked me before you watched Annihilation i would've guessed you'd like Ex Machina more, who knows now though. Think Vikander's performance is the best of either film and Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina is second, acting wasn't really a strong point of Annihilation IMO. Both have their strengths and weaknesses though.

Well it was made by a film student from Harvard so it probably is interesting.

It's definitely interesting and ambitious, i just didn't really care. Would have been better in the cinema, i know you could say that about any film but this film in particular.

I'm a bit surprised at your rating for Kiss me Deadly. I enjoyed it a fair bit more than you.

I'm with you on annhihilation though, Dialogue and that particular scene just messed with the message even though it looks and sounds lovely.

Ghostwatch

I saw that as a youngstern, live on bbc. I didn't sleep for days. It was both terrifying, and on reflection awesome. There was no hint from the bbc or the presenters that it was a hoax, and it was just me and my sister watching so there were no adults there to say "Guys come on it's clearly a fake, there's no such thing as ghosts". Although by thee end I think I'd had enough and couldn't watch.

I haven't seen it since. The scariest bit from memory was when the camera panned across some curtains I think - and there was a face / head poking out, and then the camera quickly switched back to that area and there was nothing there. Have I recalled that correctly?

I would check but I'm too much of a wimp to watch it again.

I saw Ghostwatch when it was broadcast and, while I didn't know it was a scripted drama because I missed the beginning, it became obvious quite quickly that it was, despite the 'cast' (you have to remember these were regular TV presenters. Parky, in particular, carried great gravitas, while Sarah Greene and Mike Smith were a squeaky clean married couple with high BBC profiles) I was stunned the next day to hear the commotion it'd caused. I think it was one of the first times I realised there's far too many idiots out there to safely think most people aren't.

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Yeah that's it, it's more an outline of a whole body but yeah. That's probably the most blatant of the sightings, except the one where people call in and Parkinson replays and pauses the video and the Parapsychologist draws an outline of it. That would have killed me as a kid too. Like i said one of the sightings was only discovered two years ago and according to wiki there could be as many as 13 undiscovered ones Here's the list of known ones from wiki in spoilers in case anyone is planning on seeing it:




Yeah if i was a certain age i would have tippled of course. Some of the acting is quite shaky particularly the kids and there's a bunch of really perfect moments, the best part of it is definitely Parkinson i really think he played it as convincingly as he could've except him being possessed at the very end but that's before the credits that gives it away anyway. 10 or younger and i most likely would have fell for it though at least partly because i wanted to as i was really into ghosts then, also the real Presenters being involved especially Parkinson who doesn't suit that sort of thing would have made me trust it.

Urban Legend

I've not seen that in a very long time, but when it came out I really liked it and saw it a few times. True, Alicia Witt was the big draw for me, but still, a much better slasher than it's given credit for.

Ms .45

Man, crime ridden era New York is the single best movie location, right? There can't be anything better i've never been to NY crime ridden era or no so i don't have a clue what it's like but the image i've gotten from music and other films is perfected here. Then the woman taking the power back story and that dang tune that goes with her rampages make this pretty great. That's my first Ferarra watching Bad Lieutenant next week.

Let's Go With Pancho Villa:

Man i was so into this at times but then the volume on my copy would go right down so i could barely hear it and it was the most jarring thing, no idea if that's a regular thing. I find it very interesting portraying a national hero as a sh!thead though, wish we can go ahead and realize as a nation Winston Churchill was garbage but here we are with Darkest Hour...yay!

Exotica:

Spoke about this enough in the shoutbox i think. It's just incredible, most haunting film i've seen since Fire Walk With Me it is one of those films that has burrowed into my brain so much that i will never forget it and definitely not soon.



Like i've explained before i watched the trilogy out of order, it abolutely didn't affect anything for me this is by far my favourite part of it and Kiarostami so far and also i wasn't expecting this. I thought there'd be a decent amount of focus on the dude from Through The Olive Trees that is trying hard to get married (and plays a married man here) but he's only got one brief appearance and i dunno that alone was like a tonne of bricks falling on me, i imagine it's largely what happens revisiting the trilogy. The thing that did it for me more than anything was the dialogue i really don't like talking about dialogue i like because i know how easy it is to mock, but i mean the convo with the dude who played the old man with the hump has to be the most beautiful in cinema, it destroyed me and it only lasts like 3 minutes. Just in the middle of all the "life goes on" people who have lost family members and friends this dude gets in his car and suddenly matches his largely empty words with some pretty heavy things about life and death, then boom he's gone and we're back to listening to him? Nope, it's largely visual now since we've transcended him as a narrator. Sorry i'm talking so much BS, this just meant a lot to me, it's the first film to make me cry in a few years although my current state of mind obv plays a part there.


Burnstyn is unbelievable in this, after all the hype i was expecting to be disappointed by her but nah she is unreal. Otherwise i found this pretty boring, think i would have loved this when i was like 17, just left it too late i guess.

life and nothing more... is one of the greatest movies ever made

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Yeah, i thought i'd have a relieved i've seen the Koker Trilogy finally feeling (since i watched the other two out of order by accident last year) but now i just want to watch the whole thing in order again.

Also i've got Shirin ready to watch in the next couple of days which will be my 8th Kiarostami. Not sure when i'll watch Close Up finally but it's pretty nuts that it will be at least my ninth of his, i swear i keep forgetting it exists probably coz i know i should have watched it by now. The Wind Will Carry Us is always in my head as the next important one.

Also watched Ms. 45 and Exotica pretty close together for the first time. Both are fantastic films with insanely effective music.

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Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019

Yep. This song won't leave my brain:



And the song it pushed out was the Ms. 45 one haha.

As far as hauntings go Leonard Cohen was in my top two ghosts so it's all good

Glad you liked Ms. 45, I loved it. Really hope you enjoy Bad Lieutenant, I think you will. Exotica sounds great, been on my watch list for a while but will try and get to it sooner.

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Noticed that you watched Insidious, I remember I recommended it a little bit ago. Can't seem to find your thoughts on it, what did you think?

Yeah sorry, i really didn't like it. I understand why people are into horrors like that but it's not for me.