Rate The Last Movie You Saw

To answer your question JoaoRodrigues I believe this is one of the public torture/executions carried out after the Chinese Boxer Revolution in the early 1900s. Happy to be proven wrong.

Eye of God (1997)



Interesting crime drama with Martha Plimpton and a host of other recognisable actors. It follows the action in a small town where a woman gets mixed up with an ex convict and the consequences all around them. It's very thoughtful and Nick Stahl is v. good in his part. the whole film has a kind of nervous inevitability about it but is portrayed at a good pace and very well done.

.

__________________
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
My IMDb page

The Gentlemen (2019)


Guy Ritchie started his career with a bang (I know @honeykid would disagree xD). "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels" and "Snatch" defined a genre. They were messy, fast, bold with great scripts and powerful performances. The man gained my respect. Enough for me to withstand every disappointment each of his films were after Snatch and keep looking forward to any new film he put out.


The Gentlemen was no exception. My expectations kept being high and I sat down expecting to watch a true Guy Ritchie film, if not as good as the first two hits, at least something that could make them justice.


I wasn't left disappointed. The film brought back many of his traits he had seemed to forgot how to use, presenting at the same time a more mature and cleaner style.
I didn't have as much fun as with Snatch, but I felt entertained and at times drawn to the world where Grant, McConaughey and Hunnam where convincingly exchanging jabs at each other in the old Guy Ritchie's style.


Very nice surprise to see the man closer to his balance!


+

The Unholy (1988)

This has all the vibes of a good 80's horror but fell flat, the opening credits was the best part of the movie.. nothing much ever happens after that, the main actor paying a priest is stiff and unlikable, I think they were going for the achetypal strong and quiet manly type but we are left with a void where there ought to be some kind of personality or vitality!! hell maybe they succeeded ...or as a priest a hint of ****ing warmth and goodness!! no this actor would be more suited to playing an evil henchman who's only job is to get killed by the hero.

__________________
Do you know what a roller pigeon is, Barney? They climb high and fast, then roll over and fall just as fast toward the earth. There are shallow rollers and deep rollers. You can’t breed two deep rollers, or their young will roll all the way down, hit, and die. Officer Starling is a deep roller, Barney. We should hope one of her parents was not.

Hook (rewatch), 8/10. It grew on me a bit on this viewing.

Dunkirk, 8/10, and 1917, 5/10.


1917 struck me as corny (especially the dialogue) and uninspired. Wasn't too impressed with the "single shot" format since it was obvious where most of the cutting happened and Mendes didn't really do anything interesting with it. There were a few good scenes towards the end but that's about it. The soundtrack was particularly irritating.


Dunkirk was a more visceral and exciting experience, and I was invested in the story throughout, even if it wasn't a very emotionL affair. The dialogue felt much more realistic and the soundtrack was great. Visual elements and sound design also were far superior to 1917.

Damn, I loved 1917, oh well to each his/her own. I need to rewatch Spectre, and will watch Road to Perdition soon, but 1917 is def one of my fave Mendes films.


Out of curiosity, is there a Mendes film that you have really liked or loved?

I am in favour of supporting this (unorthodox) reading which explores the psychological terrain as its central concern. Now that you brought it up I can see and do appreciate its highly effective use of the Kuleshov effect, and in fact I think this is where the psychological reading dovetails with the religious reading (something that I've tried to show by bringing in modern aesthetic theorists/philosophers like Bataille who have continued to draw "secular" readings from religious sources). The underlying motives for Joan's behavior might have been religious or nationalist in nature, but the emphasis on her countenance makes this film much more about immanence than about transcendence. What we witness are very much the effects on her (the immanent reading), as opposed to their causes which remain implied but never fully revealed (that's what the transcendent readings have often chosen to focus on). In this sense, the emphasis shifts away from her motives for her seemingly irrational behavior towards more humane concerns - the lived reality of her premonition.

The Kuleshov technique then reinforces such a split between effects (the main frame) and their causes (the frames which are implied/secondary).

Yeah, by no means is my take the core conceit of the film. It's just a particular avenue I was drawn to personally. Given that the transcendent material (nationalism, religion) are the prime movers, it was very easy to for me to eschew them and re-contextualize the immanent material. I actually read a fair amount about the history of the film print and it's the transcendent material that drew the ire of censors. Anti-British, blasphemous, etc. I think you're correct in that Dreyer smartly made this a very tangible and human story which is probably why it stands the test of time.

__________________
Letterboxd | ReverseShot | SlantMagazine

Coherence (2013)


I saw a couple people discussing this along with Time Trap, and I hadn't seen either of them. Coherence appears to be the more highly rated of the two, and I found this to be pretty enjoyable. The pacing is similar to Uncut Gems where it never releases, and this might be one of the most attractive ways to tell a Schrodinger's cat type of story.

I'm not going to pretend I understand a fraction of quantum theory, but I've read on the subject enough to grasp the idea. The movie definitely keeps your head spinning trying to figure things out, but in the end it's still hard to dissect (which I guess is kinda the point). Only 90 minutes, so I'd say it's worth watching once for anyone remotely interested in this kind of mind game. Not sure if I'm on board enough to watch Time Trap though.

Way too long. It's more westerny than I expected and it's not a zombie flick at all so I don't get the poster. It's a bit like the Hotel California - you can check in anytime you like but... An old couple run an Inn out in the middle of nowhere Australia and when folks check in they kill them. They use an interesting method, not sure I totally buy it though. A sheriff begins investigating missing people which leads him to the Inn and that's it. Has some decent scenery but it's not good or bad enough to get excited about.

Wow, pretty low rating for this movie, why did you dislike it so much?

I thought it was one of those fun Sunday-afternoon-it's-raining kind of films.

__________________
Rules:

When women have a poet, they want a cowboy.
When they have a cowboy, they want a poet.
They'll say "I don't care if he's a poet or cowboy, so long as he's a nice guy. But oh, I'm so attracted to that bad guy over there."

Understand this last part, and you'll get them all.

I actually really liked American Beauty. I need to watch Road to Perdition as well.

Re-watch of a classic movie. Still relevant & on topic today.

__________________
I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

Yeah I was kind of a bit iffy about my analogy in the beginning and then @this_is_the_ girl confirmed my fears.. I am sure there was a better analogy that I just can't think of, in hindsight I can say I enjoyed Coherence more.

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

__________________

[ J ] - [ S ] - [ F ]

Left Behind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A film on Netflix that I found. I didn't know what to expect, but overall I enjoyed it. Nicolas Cage plays a pilot who must try and land a plane safely after millions of people across the planet randomly vanish into thin air with no explanation. It's a good action film, with a strong concept. I felt the film did well in giving the first 30 minutes or so to set the scene, and getting us to know the characters so it didn't feel hollow once the action kicked off.

Daybreakers 2009

Been meaning to watch this for ages.. as the movie starts there is a digital billboard saying "the outbreak 10 years on" and then moves to a poster that says "it all started with a single bat" and then into a world where human beings are an extinct species, farmed for their blood by the majority, who are now vampires... some of whom still have some humanity..