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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 8, 2018 21:13:07 GMT
Mistress (1992) -- An amateurish production all the way through. Only Robert De Niro is acting like a professional here. 3/10Baxter (1989) -- A fun little black comedy. The two most important characters are sociopaths, so emotional engagement is limited. Good for laughs, so long as you know what you're getting into. 7/10Once Upon a Time in the West (1968 rewatch) -- Still a classic. I wrote a long, rambling and fairly embarrassing "review" here. I don't feel like rewriting it. 10/10Blue Valentine (2010) -- So apparently someone made a movie about my brother and his girlfriend. I'd have to ask him what he thought of this biopic, but for me I have the same thoughts on this movie as I do for the two of them: "What do you expect, you're both assholes and you deserve all the shit you get." 7/10Being Julia (2004) -- It's fine. The sort of light Oscar bait fluff that was so popular during the mid 00's. 6/10
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:33:37 GMT
Close-Up - 7/10
The Trial of Joan of Arc - 6/10
Little Miss Sunshine - 3/10
Ichi the Killer - 9/10
Frozen (2010) - 4/10
Brawl in Cell Block 99 - 7.5/10
Army of Shadows - 8/10
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 3.5/10
Bad Lieutenant - 8.5/10
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:41:13 GMT
This is an incredible movie. I had a pretty damn good week. Here's my ranking of what I saw: 1. Melancholia (2008, Lav Diaz) - 8 2. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker) - 8 3. My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin) - 7 4. The Phantom Carriage (1921, Victor Sjostrom) - 7 5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh) - 6 6. The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo Del Toro) - 6 7. Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni) - 6 The top two are great and borderline 9's, and the bottom three are all solid despite having aspects about them I didn't like. Sally Hawkins was great in The Shape of Water (she was by far the best part of the movie, IMO), and I'm rooting for her over McDormand and Ronan now.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 9, 2018 0:18:02 GMT
Coco Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Call Me By Your Name (re-watch)
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 9, 2018 0:18:27 GMT
A Brilliant Young Mind - 7 / 10 Big Night - 7 / 10 The Benefactor - 5 / 10 Gold - 6 / 10 Molly's Game - 8 / 10 Atonement - 7.5 / 10 Allied - 7 / 10
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Post by speeders on Jan 9, 2018 0:35:48 GMT
Rams (2015; 3rd viewing) - 8.5/10 The Disaster Artist (2017) - 4.5/10 Call Me By Your Name (2017) - 7.5/10 The Battle of the Sexes (2017) - 5.5/10 The Florida Project (2017) - 8.5/10 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - 8.5/10 The Shape of Water (2017) - 7/10
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Post by Film Socialism on Jan 9, 2018 1:04:56 GMT
This is an incredible movie. I had a pretty damn good week. Here's my ranking of what I saw: 1. Melancholia (2008, Lav Diaz) - 8 2. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker) - 8 3. My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin) - 7 4. The Phantom Carriage (1921, Victor Sjostrom) - 7 5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh) - 6 6. The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo Del Toro) - 6 7. Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni) - 6 The top two are great and borderline 9's, and the bottom three are all solid despite having aspects about them I didn't like. Sally Hawkins was great in The Shape of Water (she was by far the best part of the movie, IMO), and I'm rooting for her over McDormand and Ronan now. Melancholia aaaa anywho i saw Youth which was great best of the year stuff and Quick Billy which was also great experimental filmmaking and Angel City, which was an essay film slash film noir and very groovy and Return of Suspicion, which was a decent experimental feature which ultimately is not structurally interesting enough to me and Diwan, which is a more lyrical structural film but unfortunately that isn't quite interesting enough for a feature to me
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 9, 2018 1:10:26 GMT
This is It Stronger The Angry Birds Movie Boss Baby
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Post by Drish on Jan 9, 2018 2:00:12 GMT
All* I did last week was watch movies, so I saw a looot..
Black Mirror: Hang the DJ - Really liked the concept and the leads had great chemistry. 8/10
Pan's Labyrinth - Excellent in every aspect and GDT's tale of fairytale + harsh reality is such an achievement. 10/10
Lucky - Harry Dean Stanton challenging a young man for a fight and David Lynch crying over his lost tortoise. What's not to like? 7/10
Blood Simple. - I didn't love it but it was solid thriller with a great cast. That haunting score is still fresh in my mind though. 7/10
Miss Sloane - One of the most overlooked movies of this decade with an astonishing Chastain performance. 9/10
No Way Out - So tense and so entertaining. Loved Hackman's crazy performance. Hated Young. 8/10
Manorama 6 feet under - Indian version of Chinatown and I'm glad they didn't totally do its rip-off. Solid, nail biter with some really good performance. That said, I don't think I'd ever warm up to Abhay Deol's mediocrity as an actor. 8/10
Ugly and Black Friday - Dear Anurag Kashyap, we don't deserve you. Two of the best Indian films in a long long time. Love how Kashyap never shies away from showing the reality of the situation in a crudest manner without ever suger-coating anything. Ugly, for one is one of the movies where every character is so despicable and yet, it manages to keep you invested on their lives. Black Friday, on the other hand presents the terrorists' side of the story and you can't help but sympathize with some of them. It's such a bold move to humanize people who were responsible for the bomb blasts rather than making them straight up monsters. Both the movies could've been trimmed a bit though. Solid 9/10 for both.
Chinatown rewatch, which really helped. Loved the whole eerie atmosphere of the film and Nicholson and Dunaway are aces. 9/10.
CITIZEN KANE, which totally lived up to its hype. Welles was WOW! And the entire story of Charlie's rise and eventual fall was both entertaining and profound. Instant favorite. 10/10
The Insider - I wish I'd liked it more than I did but really loved the performances (esp Crowe and Pacino) and that beautiful ending. 7.5/10
Dark City - Super-entertaining. 7.5/10
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 9, 2018 4:46:12 GMT
The French Way (1945) 7 >> featherlight, fairly clever, charming… featuring one of the most positive african-american portrayals I’ve ever seen.
Person to Person (2017) 7 >> self and vocation both betraying the ideal with quiet mortification; minor crises heightened with rhythms of slapstick; overly intellectualized dialogue, candor evincing goofy sincerity; soft Safdie flavor, glib, and pseudo-sweet; but great music; with an unforgettable purple shirt.
Super Dark Times (2017) 7-7.5 >> remarkable very-low-budget debut; a Stephen King reduction; atmospheric and well-shot, with a great lead performance by Owen Campbell; flawed third act that flattens the textured psychological complexity of the film and doesn’t follow thru on its haunting intriguing premise.
Manifesto (2017) >> difficult to rate; formally experimental; a sophisticated discourse of the arts rammed into elaborate sarcastic situations; cinematically a surprise, rather visually stunning from the set design, the locations, the framing; an exciting performance exercise from Blanchett.
The Strange Ones (2017) 6.5-7 >> a somewhat effectively haunting, existential tone poem; anamorphic lenses, bronze-green palette, slow zooms, great flute score; Tarkovsky must’ve been an influence; questionably creepy premise with vague/messy notions of perspective and liability.
Blame (2018) 7 >> 20 year old maverick Quinn Shephard wrote, produced, directed, and stars in this semi-autobiographical high-school update on The Crucible; she also financed the film for under 250k; all things considered, really an impressive effort despite a half-baked protagonist (under her subpar performance) and some narrative contrivances; an entertaining, daring, complicated look at competitive youth and sexuality.
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Post by Pavan on Jan 9, 2018 6:46:14 GMT
The Greatest Showman (2017)- 6/10 The Big Sick (2017)- 7.5/10 Great Expectations (1946)- 7.5/10 The Circle (2017)- 5.5/10 All the Money in the World (2017)- 6.5/10 Personal Shopper (2017)- 7/10 Loving Vincent (2017)- 7/10
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Post by pickpocket on Jan 9, 2018 8:46:12 GMT
Played catch up with 2017 releases:
The Meyerowitz Stories - Great ensemble. Dialogue was on point. Strong exploration of how upbringing shapes adulthood. The acting is great across the board, but Ben Stiller's poster child was the highlight for me - he could easily have been the least sympathetic of the kids, but he really brought out the facets of his character.
Mudbound - Could have done without the narration. Struggles to balance the different plots and disparaging characters into one cohesive structure. Returning GIs and their burgeoning friendship is the heartbeat, the rest is a bit meandering. Covers fascinating point in history, but lacks development.
Call Me By Your Name - Lush and sensuous. Ignites the senses on all cylinders. It evokes the idleness of summer like few others. Chalamet pinpoints the uncertainty, desire/vulnerability and ultimately, pain/loneliness, of his character so astutely. Can't stop marveling at this film. One of the most evocative and empathetic films I've seen in a long time.
The Disaster Artist - Can't remember the last time I laughed this hard. Seeing it with a substantial audience helped heighten the experience. Definitely crowd pleasing. James Franco is MVP, somehow managing to convey the distinctive markers of his character without whittling him down to a caricature.
Three Billboards - It's refreshing to see a film so blatantly disregard morality, and defy clearly delineated characterisation. Life itself is messy. I had a few issues though, mostly with the score (some of the more poignant scenes didn't need it - though I'll coincide the rousing music in the fired-up scenes were effective, as was Dixon's perfectly timed penchant for classical music). Also the Woody Harrelson side plot slowed things down and struggled to match the tone of the rest of the film. Otherwise it was definitely memorable, provocative and emotionally charged.
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