As well as Buffalo '66 and Ghost Dog these are the films i watched that i haven't posted about here. There's quite a few so i'll just post a rating other than the ones i posted about on Letterboxd. If anyone is curious about my thoughts on something ask.
I really should have despised this. It was pretty nonsensical and all over the place after the main event happens and the kids were pretentious a-holes
. It had a weird dreamlike feeling though that dragged me into its world. Got a feeling i'd not like this as much on a rewatch but i really digged it.
Outstanding visuals, set design and especially score. So much so that i want to give this a higher rating but the acting, dialogue and... well pretty much everything else didn't work for me. This is something i'd like to return to at a later date as i feel i could possibly grow to appreciate it, for now though it's a mixed reaction as i found alot of it jarring.
Absolutely adored the first half an hour of this. So devastating, i was close to tears during the vomiting/breakdown scene. Sadly the rest didn't live up to that, i found it mostly dull, pointless and especially too long with a few good parts sprinkled about.
I liked this quite a bit. This wasn't exactly original of course, when you get down to it it's a haunted item and an 'are these people crazy or is this actually happening' film. Them setting out to face off against the item while debating what is and isn't happening felt fairly unique though, at times it was a little dumb and/or corny but i pretty much enjoyed it throughout. Again while nothing new exactly the flashbacks were well handled i felt, the parallel timelines and obviously 'mirrored' scenes with them reliving past events kept things interesting. Mostly i liked all of the performances particularly Karen Gillan and i especially got into Kelsie and Tim trying to convince each other of their side; it did its job as it had me wondering what was and wasn't real at times. There were a few really horrifying things for me too, nails getting ripped off and glass eating are two of the very worst things for me so it's pretty funny that both were in this. Loved the ending, it was pretty much what i was expecting but it worked so well since Tim had been dragged into all of this; both the ideas that everything was real or it wasn't are equally horrifying, couldn't ask for anything more. So yeah i completely enjoyed this but i don't think it is a new horror favourite as i don't think there's anything there that would make me want to see it again.
This was nuts. Competitive Tickling is incredibly odd in itself so this was destined to be weird but that's like the least crazy thing about this. A friend told me to watch this and he made sure to tell me that i should go in completely blind, i agree with him that made it so much better so i won't talk about anything that happened. One thing i will say is that it's funny that the guy who makes the tickling fetish porn videos is fine, like any fetish you yourself don't have you of course find it really weird and as is pointed out tickling is alot less known than say a foot fetish but there's no problem as far as i'm concerned as long as it's between adults and everything is consensual then carry on. Then you of course have the main focus in the doc which i won't go into. Like most docs i doubt i'll watch this again but i have to give it a high rating as it was just so crazy and gross and wrong yet completely enthralling, i expected to be surprised but this was something else.
This was pretty great, some of it was really cheesy but who cares it was very entertaining and it's not as if it was taking itself completely seriously. That's what i liked best about it; it didn't try to be subtle or nuanced it was full of over the top music, corny dialogue, crazy action scenes and a very thin plot, exactly what this sort of film should be like and it was fun. While I really like Keanu as a person I don't think he is a good actor at all really so this sort of role is perfect for him where he just has to be a moody badass and the film is so over the top that the acting doesn't matter. One thing i liked was that John wasn't completely invincible even though he was clearly superhuman, he got beat up plenty and he was going to be killed if it wasn't for Dafoe, twice actually. Not sure if this will hold up as Action Films rarely do for me but i thoroughly enjoyed it.
Didn't know what to expect, thought it was pretty great. It was so disturbing and demented, more than anything the muffled screams creeped me out. Really good horror.
A Moment of Innocence -
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God i don't even know what to say about this, one of the best films i've seen. It was really simple yet super effective, difficult to describe it's basically a fake documentary about the making of a film that is a fictionalized account of a real event where the director stabbed a policeman during the Iranian Revolution. Basically the director directs the actor playing the young him and the policeman directs the actor playing the young him and it all connects, great stuff. The policeman is one of my favourite characters in any film.
This was pretty entertaining and the kid who played Esther was good but my god was it dumb
The twist was so ridiculous i couldn't take anything seriously after that.