Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Dead Ringers (1988)

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) - 7/10. A brilliant slapstick comedy. The film did get away with a lot of stuff that probably might have been inappropriate today. But overall it's an amazingly fun ride. And in the midst of it all there was discernible plot as well which so many comedies forget and just go for laughs and gags.

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Near Dark (1987) - 6.4/10. Very good. Kathryn Bigelow really has some talent. Her first movie and it is pretty evident. It does have some bad graphics in it. Probably budget got in the way of that. But overall enjoyable. Nothing memorable of course but good.

American Me (1992)



Edward James Olmos directed this and it has a good, authentic feel. The story of La Eme, the biggest Mexican prison gang was well told. I liked how it didn't sway into airbrushing events. The music also complemented the narrative. Hard nosed (like the main character) and interesting.

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Watched RUN FOR THE SUN (1956) with Richard Widmark, Jane Greer, Trevor Howard, and Peter van Eyck. It was an adaptation of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME and it is a very good movie that was shot in color on location in Mexico.

I liked it. A typical Stephen King movie. I never realized how much of a fan I was of his until I realized how many of his novels to film I have seen.

I enjoyed the film, and I was a huge Fischer fan back when he was beating everyone, leading up to his crushing of Spassky.

My gripe was in casting Toby Maguire as Fischer. He was almost perfectly wrong. He's too small, too mamby-pamby, and couldn't intimidate anyone. Fischer was tall, assertive, brilliant, unpredictable, and a killer. Sitting across the table from him must have been like sitting across from Satan.

Actually Schreiber would have been better playing Fischer, and they could have got someone else for Spassky.

Great film in every way. It got a perfect "10" from me.

Tom Jones (1963)

Snooze factor = Z



[Snooze Factor Ratings]:
Z = didn't nod off at all
Zz = nearly nodded off but managed to stay alert
Zzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed
Zzzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed but nodded off again at the same point and therefore needed to go back a number of times before I got through it...
Zzzzz = nodded off and missed some or the rest of the film but was not interested enough to go back over it

After all these years... still a great film.

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that's good

Last Night (1998)

Thappad (Slap) (2020) - 4.8/10. A wishy-washy movie. At the start there is a barrage of characters introduced in the first five minutes, one might get lost. Director should have introduced them slowly. 30 years on from Kramer vs Kramer and just after Marriage Story, this was not impressive. The shoving "emotion" via dialogues is a crap way of telling a story. The acting was good enough, but the rest just not up to par. Its on Prime, so its free, didn't hurt that much!

Winner of the Adam Yauch Hornblower Award at SXSW 2017. No idea what that is although I do know who that is (RiP). So, an award winning film is what I was in the mood for and that's what I found. This is a sick little flick that works for about half it's runtime then pooters out.

In the beginning we meet two recovering addicts, watch them hook up, share some herpes, get addicted to poppers (the sniffing kind not the deep fried, jalapeno, cream cheese filled delicacy), have wild, disgusting, sometimes hilarious, in your face sex, behave like total a-holes on the streets of NYC, engage in some public whoopee, puke poo and give birth to a turd demon. That's all the stuff I liked. The scenes in NYC felt like they were filmed without permits and a couple times I thought the main dude was gonna get a nice beating, which he would have truly earned. Larry Cohen would have been proud. The last half hour or so is an intervention tv show rip off that did nothing for me. Sure the main characters faces by this time have transformed into giant buttholes and fart a lot while sniffing their poppers but fart jokes, which can be excellent comedy, usually lose their power to amuse about as fast as the real thing. They are best when used in quick, unexpected bursts, not as a running gag. Not as disgusting as an early Waters film but it feels like an offspring, especially the first half.

Weekend re-watches:




1st Re-watch...Jon Favreau is terrific in the title role, but there's just a whole lot of stuff that goes on this movie that I just didn't buy...primarily, how does a guy who looks like Jon Favreau have a girlfriend who looks like Scarlett Johansson and an ex-wife who looks like Sofia Vergara?





6th re-watch...there are laughs to be had here. but this movie just feels like a rehash of the first one. Rip Torn was really funny and Leslie Nielsen was sorely missed as Dr. Rumac.