Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Yes, I find it mega-frustrating. To make matters worse, marketplace sellers are usually aware of out-of-print/sought after titles, so even if you can find what you're looking for be prepared to pay a small fortune for it.

Blair Witch (2016)



An new team of young people (including Heather's younger brother) goes deep, deep into Black Hills Forest hoping to discover what happened to the missing people.
What could possibly go wrong.
It's a remake disguised as a sequel, but it's like what Aliens was to Alien: bigger, louder, more spectacle and more revealing.
This becomes sort of a no-win situation because people will complain that it's too similar but also complain about the fact that it's not exactly the same atmosphere.

The shaky cam is far more noticeable than in the original and the ongoing chaos makes it difficult to stay focused all the time, but I wouldn't call this film a complete failure.
It really feels like being in a horrible situation similar to, say, the escape room horror, and for the most part I was sufficiently entertained.
All the actors are pulling their weight and that kind of enthusiasm can be the difference between a good and a bad film.



Actually the plan was to rewatch The Book Of Shadows but Prime doesn't have it.

Beauty always comes at a price, even you are trying to catch a prince.

This is the premise of the Norwegian retelling of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. This time the focus is more on the ugly stepsister trying to win the prince by many methods that were unavailable in the late 1800s, but hey, its a horror film.

The story was decent, and I was surprised at the nudity, both male and female was shown. Its definitely not a fairy tale movie to take a child too. One of my favorite things about it, it did keep one thing based on the original story.

Strawberry Mansion (2021)

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) - The strangeness of this thing starts with the title. Who is this Goodbar guy? did I miss a dialogue?

And I hated the camerawork; like why all the interiors look this dark? are you filming a rom-com or a Black Christmas bro? or was looking like this a necessity back in the 70s? it's Oscar nom for cinematography is as wrong as Boheimian Rhapsody's for best editing. Well, at least this didn't win.

Such mediocre on-screen directional decisions (I specify "on-screen" cause I liked it when I read Brooks played Bach on set so Keaton could get naked comfortably) brought a very good screenplay (it took several reactions out of me throughout) and a darned commited lead performance down for most of the running time, and then there's the final sequence which is it's own shocking thing. Almost gives the darkened cinematography discussed earlier an excuse (but just "almost").

Letterboxd nation disses the pacing but I found Keaton to be such powerhouse here that I didn't mind so much; feeling stuck between dead-ends in that character's life is kind-of the point (it's like an adult - and better - version of Ladybird). Young Richard Gere is a scene-stealler and Tom Berenger is a monster. Is the ending trashy pulp (i.e shock for the shocker value), a conservative if not out-dated warning or cleverly communicated (and foreshadowed) twist?...... I'm not sure yet but it did melt my face. 7/10

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Late Spring (1949)

I like it, but lighter than '89; are you sure about that?

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Terrifier 3 - (2024)

Damien Leone is running out of places he can take his Terrifier franchise, and the third entry in the series recycles the set-up from the second film, with the survivors of Art the Clown's (David Howard Thornton) last rampage living with the trauma of what happened. Of course, despite being decapitated Art has a way of regenerating himself, with the help of one of his prior disfigured victims, Victoria Heyes (Samantha Scaffidi), who becomes a horrifyingly ugly partner in crime. So, those traumatized victims have to deal with Art once again, along with Victoria - and of course Leone shoots for the moon as far as gore and shocking horror goes. Terrifier 3 goes hard as far as that's concerned. As far as narrative goes, the second Terrifier film showed a decent amount of imagination - here all the work has gone into the visceral shocks, and while it certainly scores on that level the formula is just starting to feel repetitive, despite the Christmas flavour shoehorned in to add a little variety. A real mixed bag all-up - but at least as hardened as I've become by being exposed to so much over the years, it still managed to widen my eyes a little. I just wish it didn't feel like it was going through the motions in how it delivered those moments.

6/10

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Baby Boom (1987) - The supreme Diane, trying to balance work in a male-dominated environment with maternal instinct towards a newly arrived, super cute babygirl.

Written by Nancy Meyers (from whom I have a few other flicks watchlisted), it comes off as honest or at least inoffensive, is mostly funny and almost passes by like a breeze..... 6.5-7/10.

Yes IMO

>Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

Now, that's a heavy movie and, while I agree with the flaws mentioned, I felt the ending was kind of the crescendo of more and more reckless behavior on her part...eventually you run into a bad seed.

>Batman Returns
>I like it, but lighter than '89; are you sure about that?

Definitely. The villains are just more cartoonish and the writing a bit more fanciful. '89 Batman still tried to be a gritty thriller for much of it. I like both films in their own ways.

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Snack Shack (2024)


First time watching. A comedy about two teenaged friends partying, getting in trouble and eventually buying a snack shack by a local pool. One of those movies that I feel suffers from "the Apatow effect" on comedies where you wish you just turned if off after the first hour. The first hour is fast, fun, and involves the two characters scheming and coming up with plans to keep themselves busy and make cash.

Then, like so many Apatow films, it felt it needed to tell us a serious story, this one about a love triangle which splits the friends up for most of the rest of the film. Not only does this separate the duo whose chemistry creates all this joy in the first half, but they toss in an unneeded tragedy at the end as a cheap way to reunite everyone. Really wanted to like the movie more (some nice cinematography and music) but, like so many modern comedies, it felt it got bored with being a comedy.

I love this movie. Keaton is amazing, it's fun to see Gere and Berenger in very early roles, and the pacing is actually genius.
The thing about this movie that people miss is that it's very slow and has very plain camerawork and languid editing in the early part of the film. But this changes as Theresa (Keaton) and her life changes. The more edgy and dangerous her decisions and actions, the more the camera starts to move, the lighting changes, the editing gets snappier, up until the final scene which seems like it's in a completely different movie than anything from the beginning. It's a very deliberate style and I thought it was just brilliant. When Theresa is supposed to be this boring wallflower who is always an afterthought to her favored sister, the movie reflects that. The more "exciting" she becomes, the more exciting the movie becomes.
Quite clever.

Sinners (2025)

Strange that I'm the first person here to review Sinners. Generally speaking I consider black films to be it's own genre something that can and should put away and judged in it's own cinematic corner thanks to the ethos of modern filmmaking. Many of the prestige films failing to even crack the top ten during the weekends first wide release. So when I say this Sinners massive box office success separates it from the field, it's a cross-over film. When I went to the Monday showing the IMAX was virtually sold out, I end up in a full theater maybe once a month on average.

So what is this movie...if I were to break it down to it's simplest form this is a Tarantino film, if Tarantino made a musical. And that is not a bad thing because Coogler meanders, develops characters, plays with pacing and gives the audience multiple endings. Michael B Jordan plays the duel roll of a pair of brothers who come home to start a business. They have a talented cousin in Miles Caton who in his debut turns in a star making performance. While Caton will get a lot of attention the casting here was exceptional Delory Lindo, Yao, and Halliee Steinfeld are all exceptional but the big standout was Wunmi Mosaku who went from crappy token roles in Loki and Wolverine and Deadpool to a meaty nuanced portrayal of a witch (of sorts). Once again much like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had a killers row of new actors I expect the same to come from this one.

Jack O'Connell plays Remmick the villain of the story and he's very different from other versions of this familiar character. The character walks a fine line between empathy and sinisterness. I can see a couple think pieces coming out about what Remmick represents to the poor.

On a technical level Sinners bounces between perfection and solid work. Coogler's film still doesn't have that perfect gloss I think mostly because of lighting. However the film has incredible set design's this feels like a real world not just a set of set pieces separate to the story. But the real star is the sound, the music the mixing each one of the musical set pieces is breathe taking.

Michael B Jordan did a great job carrying this massive ensemble you can always tell the brothers apart even when they aren't that different. He's not going to win an Oscar for this but he will get nominated. I wouldn't give the film five stars because it was predictable but that predictability was done in a way that you are okay with because it bounces between so many different genres.

That was my only issue with the film. I struggled to think of Diane Keaton as the loser type who actually had to make an effort to attract men (most men aren't very picky anyway when it comes to sex).
Considering Theresa's background it also looks like a fight for freedom (there's a little bit of feminist activism going on in the background) but without knowing how to give that freedom purpose, and in that regard she's not very different from Tony, played by Richard Gere.

The last time I watched it it was only available as a TV recording uploaded on youtube.
Has this changed? Is it on streaming or DVD now?

This is the movie that should have won Keaton the Oscar, not Annie Hall

2nd Rewatch...This lavishly produced revue from MGM features just about every star under contract to the studio at the time participating in a fantasy revue imagined in the opening scene by Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell). For this reviewer, the highlights were "Limehouse Blues", the ballet with Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer, Lena Horne's steamy rendition of "Love:, The Edward Arnold/Victor Moore sketch "Pay the Two Dollars", Judy Garland's specialty number, "The Great Lady has An Interview", Fanny Brice and Hume Cronyn in the Sweepstakes sketch, and "The Babbit and the Bromide", the only time Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly danced together oncreen (until That's Entertainment 2).

3rd rewatch...I know I'm in the minority on this, but I think Oscar winner Steven Spielberg knocked it out of the park with this remake of the 1961 Best Picture Oscar winner with the iconic score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. He improved on the '61 film by actually casting mostly Latinos as the sharks (Learned recently that David Alvarez, who plays Bernardo, is Canadian, but he looked Latino), and casting leads who could actually sing. Ariana DuBose won the film's only Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her fiery Anita, but with each rewatch, I'm finding the standout performance is by Mike Faist as the dark and dangerous Riff. The musical numbers are well staged, the only numbers that were better in '61 version were “Gee Officer Krupke" and "Cool", but I can forgive that because just about everything else here works for me. Mr. Spielberg, we're not worthy.

I agree. Or it could have been her second.

Last Breath (2025)

Apartment 1BR (2019)

They came out the same year