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Post by Viced on Feb 22, 2021 2:25:51 GMT
Re-watched 12 Monkeys last night for the first time in a long time... it's really great. Maybe even more than great.
I think Gilliam's kookiness gets the best of him a few times (mainly some of the early hospital stuff), and kind of wonder what someone more sturdy like Ridley Scott would've done with this... but overall he does a pretty amazing job of putting you in Cole's fucked up headspace. Willis has a few iffy moments but it overall pretty damn good. Everyone knows Stowe and Pitt are great... but my under-the-radar MVP is David Morse. Eerily convincing with very little screentime.
Ending stretch is perfection too. Forgot just how heavy and depressingly true-to-life this is.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 22, 2021 9:46:22 GMT
Ava - a terrible John Wick wannabe... BUT every scene with Malkovic was great. It's a shame he wasn't in the Wick universe. What Wick had was it's own unique universe but this took itself WAYYYYY too seriously. Such a waste of a cast (except for John M).
Annabelle Comes Home - I loved the first Conjuring film, liked the second... but this was definitely a step down. The "scares" get nullified based on where the plot wants it to go. I don't want to spoil ,but yeah, Not a terrible waste of time but absolutely not worth watchin.
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 22, 2021 17:06:07 GMT
Othello (1951): There was some true miscasting, some real mess in this adaptation (though I confess that Othello is not among my favorite Shakespeare plays), but good god those last 30 minutes were spectacular.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 22, 2021 17:46:12 GMT
Clouds of Sils Maria - No. No. No. Almost nothing about it works. Not even Binoche, who is usually great, was sleepwalking through it 70% of the time imo. Moretz was intolerable and did Stewart actually won critics awards with this Twilight realness performance? The only thing I liked about it was the Swiss landscape and when Binoche laughed her ass off. 4/10 if I'm being generous.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 22, 2021 18:10:13 GMT
NBC TV movie double ft from director Jerry Jameson, same year, and they have a casting similarity. The Secret Night Caller (1975) 6.5/10. Having just finished playing the patriarch of The Brady Bunch, Robert Reed chose this project where he plays a successful working man and suburban father, with a daughter named Jan (!!), whose wife lays out his six vitamins for him in the morning while he complies with a newspaper-focused mhm. But this man, who we recognize, also has a twisted compulsion to make obscene phone calls and strangles the occasional gal. We never do hear him on the phone (damn NBC) but the reactions suffice. This sits right on Reed's shoulders and he conveys self-loathing nerves with a creepily quiet quality. It plays a little like Save the Tiger meets The Stepfather. I liked Sylvia Sidney's bit as his overbearing mother - she recalls her club-going days and how she "used to dance with Humphrey Bogart!" Ending, despite the violence, weirdly pats him on the back with a "What do we charge him with? Bad thoughts?" The Deadly Tower (1975) 7/10 prob higher. Recommended to me by my dad. Very grippingly done, with a lot of long lens and handheld camerawork - it isn't moodily lit and medium-closeup heavy like Secret Night Caller. Has an emergency chaos and media circus around it like Dog Day Afternoon. It also folds in racial and gun rights issues, but not overtly as the movie keeps a thrift, swift pace. Kurt Russell - finishing his ten year contract with Disney (Walt's last written words were Kurt's name, did you know?) plays the rampaging sniper. He was like Reed, looking to break their play-nice public image.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 22, 2021 21:42:19 GMT
Zero Dark Thirty. I forgot how great this was. I own this film on dvd and should definitely give it a re watch, Glad you enjoyed it.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 22, 2021 21:43:36 GMT
Actresses (2009) 7.5/10. Really wonderful gem of a movie, filmed in a mock-doc sitcom style about six famous actresses (playing themselves) during a Vogue photoshoot on Christmas Eve, applied with champagne and too much downtime what ensues is a raw and very hilarious surge on celebrity - vanity and competition and insecurity across the generations. Each actress received cowriting credit bc it's pretty much entirely improvised, picking from their own actual experiences; shot over two weeks but feels like it could've been one day. Very hard to find but worth digging for. @tyler MsMovieStar LaraQ - entirely set at a Vogue shoot, great behind the scenes stuff! Also would recommend to anyone who likes Youn Yuh-Jung (Minari) - she's a comedic revelation here as the oldest of the group, a little bit stranded among them, but no less forthright.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 23, 2021 5:25:28 GMT
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 23, 2021 13:05:17 GMT
The Trip To Bountiful: Geraldine Page
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 24, 2021 3:40:59 GMT
His Girl Friday
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 24, 2021 22:13:49 GMT
Test Pattern (2019.......2021) - ~ a little less than a 7 / 10Partially effective, schematic film - less than 90 minutes - that wants to be a feminist treatise instead of a living breathing movie.....some people who want their movies to address social justice - are going to rave this I bet. Recommended for fans of Promising Young Woman especially.....sort of a more directly sobering version than that and easier to read. Apparently this played festivals in 2019 ........go figure.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 25, 2021 2:39:50 GMT
Lady Macbeth
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 25, 2021 21:06:04 GMT
Deadly Dreams (1988) 5/10. 11% on RT and 4.8 on IMDb, only slightly better than that, it isn't good, and shamelessly lifts scenes from Elm Street and Halloween...with a villain named Norman Perkins bc the writer is sooo clever. Dialogue/acting is hilariously horrible but there's some fun in that and something about its obsessively hunting small town sort of induces an absurdist touch by accident. And the very ending twist sends this up a whole notch bc it isn't as predictable as the rest. Some of the lighting setups are interesting (Janusz Kaminski was the gaffer, though he isn't listed on IMDb).
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 25, 2021 22:27:10 GMT
Raw Deal (1948): A dark, existential, nihilistic Anthony Mann noir that unfolds quickly and successfully despite a couple of stumbles in the middle. I didn’t expect to like but it’s quite good. Top notch cinematography. Raymond Burr should have played more villains on the big screen.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 26, 2021 3:06:05 GMT
The Graduate (re-watch)
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 26, 2021 10:16:40 GMT
Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Bah. Perhaps because I'm so used to the self aware horror at this point that I'm desensitized by it... but it's not good. Even with me dismissing the whole meta. Extraordinary - Inconsistent as fuck. Some decent laughs but overall it was so all over the place that it makes those laughs get drowned by the dull moments. Forte was atrocious as well. The Invitation - I'm spoiler tagging this one because... well, it's spoiler-y... The ending of this was beyond me. Yeah, I get it that you were married but she literally orchestrated the massacre of all of your friends (as well as yourself) and you are going to give her a last wish??? No way! Especially considering the character's demeanor the entire time. Fuck off. It was okay otherwise but I wouldn't write home about it.
The Collector - Actually pretty decent. Incredibly unbelievable but it kept my attention, which is better than most of the movies in this realm. Becky - I expected to probably hate this (as I do with most horror) BUT it was actually pretty good. Lead actress was good and I was shocked by Kevin James' performance. It had a good balance of being good AND suspenseful. Some of the kills were pretty dumb and there just to add gore, but it had enough of a good BITE to it that made me appreciate it. Especially that last one.
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Post by sally on Feb 26, 2021 21:32:51 GMT
American Psycho (2000) - 7/10
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 27, 2021 5:21:31 GMT
Another Round
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 27, 2021 11:11:48 GMT
Repulsion (1965) - This doesn't do it for me. I thought it was a total slog.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 27, 2021 11:34:58 GMT
Christine (1983)
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Post by LaraQ on Feb 27, 2021 12:38:11 GMT
Monster Hunter.Which was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting given that it was directed by Paul W.S Anderson.A solid B movie.7/10.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 27, 2021 19:22:47 GMT
Delivering Milo (2001) I thought this would be badly hokey but it's actually wonderful and very moving. So much better than Soul which steals the idea. Curiously I couldn't find any critics reviews, and then I found out.... It was one of the inflight movies on United 93. Mostly taking place around NYC, it was pulled and delayed, eventually released straight-to-video in 2005. More sadness touches this movie as you have Anton Yelchin in the lead as a soul looking for a reason to live. As his host, a charming Albert Finney with spot on Brooklyn accent whose reasons to live include huge pastrami sandwiches and the casino. Interestingly lot shot handheld.... the DP had worked with Welles, Godard, Pialat (Under the Sun of Satan, etc).
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 27, 2021 19:56:18 GMT
24 Hour Party People (2002) - aka pacinoyes 's favorite movie. Biographical Winterbottom flick about the Manchester music scene from the 70s to the 90s through the eyes of producer Tony Wilson. I'll be honest, as a rock agnostic, my idea of a good time is not watching Steve Coogan drop droll asides in between grainy footage of Sex Pistols and Joy Division concerts so this was very much not my movie. It's a post-modern love letter to UK punk rock and it embodies that punchy attitude both in style and substance, so people who love those bands and that music probably love this film (or will, for those yet to discover it). You know who you are.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 27, 2021 21:51:05 GMT
Harold and Maude. First watch. I liked this way more than I had anticipated. Pretty great stuff.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 28, 2021 6:11:02 GMT
Minari
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