Django Unchained (2012, Tarantino)
Definitely going to write a full review of this soon, been meaning to do so since I've seen it. My favourite of last year, whilst it has its flaws, this film is as fun as it gets in terms of Tarantino, with all his usual enjoyable style on display, then there's also the serious and brutal slavery side and love story mixed in with it as well, with top performances from Waltz, Foxx, DiCaprio and Jackson.
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Flight (2012, Zemeckis)
Whilst I appreciate a lot of the elements involved in the film, I didn't really enjoy it as much as I would of hope. In parts the direction is great, I like the pace/feel of most of the film and some scenes are very good such as the air crash. Washington is great in the main role and is deserving of his Oscar nomination, the problem I had was that I really
hated his character and I really couldn't tell whether the film wanted us to cheer him on or hate him, and then with all the moral questions the ending seemed a bit easy to me.
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Sydney / Hard Eight (1996, P. T. Anderson)
When I noticed that Paul Thomas Anderson's first ever film was showing on TV, I had to watch it, as a massive fan of both films I had previously seen of his -
Boogie Nights and
There Will Be Blood. For a first feature film, this is as solid as they come, very well directed and acted. Philip Baker Hall is great in his father style role and the supporting performances are good enough too. The story seemed less engrossing that the aforementioned films, but a good little crime story nonetheless.
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Project X (2012, Nourizadeh)
Whilst in terms of artistic film making, this film is far from good, but it doesn't intend or pretend to be. A fun film that targets teenagers,
Project X is a decent enough film that makes for enjoyable viewing.
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, rewatch (2001-2003, Jackson)
Purchased the trilogy on blu-ray after recently watching
The Hobbit in cinema. I had seen them before of course, but it had been too long and could barely remember specific details. What a joy it was to watch them again, three equally beautiful and fantastic films, you can't help but admire the fantasy world of middle earth, epic films in every sense.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, Zeitlin)
After the recent Oscar nominations I want to check what all the fuss was about. This is a film that when you watch you can clearly see both its strengths and its flaws. I personally don't think it's Oscar worthy over some of the films that missed out, whilst it attempts to be cute and tell a lovely story about love set in a world of despair, this all seemed a bit too cliché to me and it tried to rely on the innocence of the main character, Hush Puppy, in order to make us like the film. I did enjoy it, it's ambitious and pretty well made, the hand held camera didn't bother me at all, a decent enough film but nothing special.
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Argo (2012, Affleck)
Another 2012 Oscar nominated film, I was looking forward to watching another Affleck film as I enjoyed
The Town and he comes across as a sensible and capable director. This film was very enjoyable and well made, it had strong performances and had a good mixture of scenes that came together well. Similar to
The Town, I thought the whole story came together perhaps too neatly, and suffers from that fact that we pretty much know what's going to happen, a very good and enjoyable film though.
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Seriously though, if we could somehow compile a database of all members thoughts and ratings that they've awarded to various different movies it would be really interesting to see how opinions/tastes differ and that.
