Rate The Last Movie You Saw

I always thought of this film as of a reference to WWII.

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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.

Phoenix +
Over the past few weeks I've been brushing off films that have long sat in my Netflix queue. I'm surprised I haven't gotten to this one earlier. It's a beautifully crafted film that serves as a brilliant companion piece to Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Cemetery of Splendor +
Not quite sure what to think about this one. Weerasethakul's style is hypnotic and unlike anything else out there...but the film just doesn't connect with me on a thematic level.

I thought the last 40 minutes fell a little flat, but for the most part I thought this was everything a great epic should be. There were times that this movie reminded me of why I fell in love with movies in the first place.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch -

Five popcorns forward, one popcorn back.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

The Slender Thread
Bancroft doing what she does best on-screen, a depressed and self-absorbed character under the influence. I disliked her character.

The Big Short
Layman's terms. Very good movie.

From the top 100 westerns list, and I thought the first quarter was fantastic until it got bogged down into mediocrity. Clark Gable and Robert Ryan keep the movie watchable, but Jane Russell's character as the love interest, which played a big part of the movie, was more of a distraction for me.

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

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A normal man? For me, a normal man is one who turns his head to see a beautiful woman's bottom. The point is not just to turn your head. There are five or six reasons. And he is glad to find people who are like him, his equals. That's why he likes crowded beaches, football, the bar downtown...

Zaat (1971) - 2.2/10

The lifelessness is high, but it had a few laughs and some decent underwater shots.

The Conjugal Bed (1963)
This one is a unique mix of situational comedy and social drama of the Italian middle class.
Marina Vlady won the "best actress " prize at the Festival de Cannes in 1963. Highly recommended.

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) by Richard Linklater



This draws on some of Linklater's best and worst attributes as a director but overall it's one of his better movies in his later career. This movie is so full of testosterone and male utopia and dystopias that it could almost be a Hawks film if not for the lack of any sort of strong female presence. Working with groups of archetypal characters interacting in short windows of time is pure classic Linklater and what he does best, but his POV is limited to a completely male purview. All of the women in the film are idealized objects of desire and goalposts for the highly competitive guys. This isn't necessarily an incorrect way to represent a guy's entry into college but it limits the scope and opportunities of a film that is filled to the brim with them. That's my only real gripe with the film besides Linklater's somewhat waning ability for naturalism

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From the top 100 noirs list, an ex-cop recruits a mean, racist ex-con (Robert Ryan) and a black nightclub singer with a gambling debt (Harry Belafonte) to rob a bank. The con's and the singer's dislike for one another gives an already brooding movie an added edge. Directed by Robert Wise, who has quite a resume.

AVP: Aliens vs. Predator -

I gotta stop watching bad movies.

From the Ebert list, this is the 3rd movie I've seen from director Jean Renoir after The Rules of the Game and The River. At least so far, he is not a director that suits my taste. Trying to be positive, I can say this movie is lively, cheery, and looks fantastic.

Green Room (2015) -
Ice Age:Collision Course (2016) -
Short Term 12 (2013) - +
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964) -

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Triple 9 -

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