Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Important film by Ousmane Sembene. Rich white French family pick up a poor girl from Senegal to work as their maid. Sembene treats the subject with alot of delicate touches then also packs some emotional punch in the last 20 minutes. Also some great cinematography.

7.9/10

Yep. I'd go more with unsettling for both. Shaky cam in Kotoko but regardless of whether it works or not, its not that out of place. You'll understand more when you see it.

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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Is this streaming anywhere? Been wanting to see it for ages

Criterion channel only I think, which we don't get. There's a copy on youtube but poor quality.

According to JustWatch.com, it's streaming free on Criterion and HBO Max, and available for rent on Amazon Prime, AppleTV, VUDU, and a couple others.

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I think these only apply to North America unfortunately.

Maybe. Where is samoan?

Northern Ireland I think.

End of the Line (2007)

Surprisingly good retro-horror resembling (and easily exceeding) Demons. Also, a rare example of a film that gets considerably better after the first 20 minutes or so. It's cheesy in a good way and quite gory too. I wonder why the director hasn't done anything in almost 14 years.

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The Wolf's Call follows a group of sailors aboard two separate submarines: the Formidable, a nuclear submarine led by Captain Grandchamp (Reda Kateb), and the Titan, led by Captain D'Orsi (Omar Sy), which will escort the Formidable to the sea, where both sides will have to face extremely challenging decisions. But the focus of the story is on Chanteraide (François Civil), a sonar expert who has "golden ears" and specializes in underwater acoustics. His hearing is so acute that he can identify boats, submarines, sea animals, based only on their sounds, which puts the safety of his fellow sailors heavily on his shoulders.

Overall, this film does a lot of good things right. The attention to detail as far as submarine operations and procedures go, seems to be on point, the tension during the attack scenes is effectively executed, and the performances from most of the cast are solid. My main issue is with Chanteraide, who is pushed as the main character. But with a bland performance from Civil and pretty much no character development for a character that frequently behaves more like an annoying and irresponsible whiner instead of a trained soldier, there's not much to hold on to.

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Full review on my Movie Loot

Yeah, it's one of my "Movies That Made Me Appreciate Cinema" movies.

I watched this in the Fall and I thought it was just really special. Really special film. I've been recommending it to everybody I can ever since.

This was a favorite film of an OG Horrorcrammer, MASSIVEminiature. I think he made everyone watch it back in the day.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972.
7/10.

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I really liked this movie. I hope people don't consider it a romcom since it's so much more. JLD and Gandolfini were so good together.

The Marksman (2021)


Oh, boy. Despite having low expectations for The Marksman, it still managed to disappoint. The anticipation was "How bad could it be? After all it's got Liam Neesom." Unfortunately it came in beneath mediocre.

A woman and her child are attempting to flee Mexico though the border fence with cutthroat cartel members chasing on her heels trying to kill her and the boy. Neesom saves them on his own side of the fence, but the mother is killed, leaving the boy with Neesom's promise to the mother that he would take care of him. Neesom initially decides to turn the boy over to ICE (where coincidentally Neesom's daughter is an agent), but he changes his mind and vows to deliver the boy to relatives in Chicago, chased by the cartel which somehow drives across the border. That's pretty much it.

Along the way we are treated to a small catalog of stale hokey confrontations, situations, reactions, and dialogue. Elements suddenly appear with no development which then stagger on to the next. In some instances it almost seems to be a satire.

The single thing going for this hackneyed picture is Neesom's well honed acting. He seems genuine in each scene despite some laughable dialogue and an achingly trite ending.

The writers need a refresher at script writing school. Director/producer/writer Robert Lorenz has had success as a producer (J. Edgar; American Sniper), but this is his first film with chief writing credit. His talent as a writer is questionable. It seems that more pictures have been harmed by having one individual as director/writer. This film is a prime example.

Doc's rating: 4/10

I really like End of the Line.

The one sour note for me is that the comic relief character was so annoying. And I like the idea behind his character . But the writing/performance dragged the film down a bit for me.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Thanks this is on amazon def gonna watch