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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 31, 2018 23:59:43 GMT
Girl Walk: All Day (2011 rewatch) -- I didn't mean to watch this, but I found out that it is now available in its entirety on the film's website. It used to be that the only way you could watch it was broken into chapters. Unfortunately, I am incapable of stopping this movie once I start it. A blast of pure fun and one of the most deliriously enjoyable films ever made. 10/10Black Swan (2010 rewatch) -- This movie has nothing more on its mind than being freaky, and congrats on pulling that off. 8/10Go (1999) -- On Christmas, I watched a Christmas-themed Pulp Fiction! Pretty enjoyable, lots of fun dialogue. 7/10Son of the White Mare (1981) -- Trippy. As. Fuck. 7/10I Saw the Devil (2010) -- I can't get behind a movie saying "vengeance is bad" and then reveling in every sadistic piece of vengeance the protagonist takes. Some fun bits early on, but then this just gets disgusting. 3/10Lean on Pete (2017) -- This movie does nothing original, but does it all quite well. 7/10The Social Network (2010 rewatch) -- Has there ever been/ever will be a more accurate depiction of the Internet Generation? 10/10
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 1, 2019 0:50:47 GMT
A Simple Favor
Warrior
8 Mile
Vice
Bird Box
The Sisters Brothers
The Old Man and the Gun
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 1, 2019 1:48:54 GMT
Cold War (2018) - 8/10
Return of the Jedi (1983 rewatch) - yeah by most standards this is still total garbage. Even beyond the whole ewok/Jabba's Palace thing, the acting from the entire ensemble (minus McDiarmid maybe) is wooden as hell and there are several things in the story that just don't make sense. It's a pretty awful movie if you divorce it from the nostalgia and franchise good will. Has a couple great moments buried in a bunch of terrible ones. 5/10
Shadow (2018) - Zhang Yimou's latest. Striking color palette and cinematography, mildly interesting court intrigue and some pretty odd action pieces. It's fine. 7/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) - charming af. Awkwafina is funny, y'all. 8/10
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) - 7.5/10
First Reformed (2018) - still can't wrap my head around it, especially the ending. Hawke is exceptional, Schrader's screenplay dense and rich. 8/10
Whitney (2018) - excellent documentary. Fans of Amy should check it out. 8/10
The Scalphunters (1968) - a western comic romp with some interesting social commentary that unfortunately gets lost in dull narrative beats in a bland setting. Features strong performances from Ossie Davis (younger than ever) and Shelley Winters (always delightful). 6/10
The Swimmer (1968) - wasn't ready for this. Very odd and symbolic film that doesn't start to make much sense until the back half. 7.5/10
Light Sleeper (1992) - loved it. New favorite Schrader. Sarandon is immaculate. 8/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 rewatch) - still perfect 10/10
The Marquise of O (1976) - total snoozer 6/10
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jan 1, 2019 9:03:16 GMT
First week in a long time I've seen more than 1 or 2 movies.
The Plague of the Zombies (1966) - Mediocre B movie, but the zombies look really striking. Almost ready for the 60s advancement in horror. Remember the early 60s was still Hitchcock's B stuff looking laughable. 6
Live Free or Die Hard - Only thing I remember is that Justin Long bit about old rock sucking. "Just because it's old doesn't mean it didn't suck then, so still sucks now." 5
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) - Mediocre, but there is that bunch of people in the old haunted house horror trope. I wouldn't say there's really too much to see here though. 6
Three Landscapes (2013) - Not bad, but fairly light stuff in the wavelength/avant-stato genre. Nothing bad, not "nice try, but fail" or anything. I might call 24 Frames that, or maybe rather not. I think both are just nothing really stand out, but 24 Frames did have its moments if not consistently spectacular enough. 7
Solar Walk (2018) - OMG, fucking amazing. Reka Bucsi is a goddess. The surrealism. Knock me off my heel. Such animation talent is not present in every one. I think my favorite film of 2018 is already set, and I've seen like... my 4th film. MUST SEE. 9
Leave No Trace (2018) - Liked it. I can see Reichardt, even though unlike Reichardt's exploration of society and social nature, Granik leans a more humanist side to her films. I think the reason this is so under-the-radar is because of the lack of a Jennifer Lawrence. Not saying Thomasin McKenzie > J. Law, but you can tell who has the movie star look. Anyways, it's a good small independent film that seeks to make a small impact on a small thread. 7.5
La La Land - I've wrote about it already. A legitimate great film, and the impact is still reverberating days after watching. Such a soulful la la romance with a superb setting. A human sympathy side and down-to-earth characters....... I found it all real. My .... #4? of 2016. 8
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 1, 2019 9:29:40 GMT
Home Alone
Steve Jobs (re-watch)
Vice
Swiss Army Man
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Post by JangoB on Jan 1, 2019 11:31:12 GMT
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Good animation, good fun. Nothing all that special, particularly from a story or humor point of view.
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc - A Bruno Dumont rock musical about the childhood of Joan of Arc. If that sounds like your cup of tea then go for it, otherwise I'd advise to stay away. An interesting little experiment which I sort of dug. Pretty hilarious at some points.
The Sisters Brothers - A low-key delight. It doesn't quite jump out at you to hit you with greatness because Audiard's approach is very reserved but the script, I think, is pretty great and the film's always enjoyable. The mixture of humor and melancholia does its job rather well leaving a nice emotional mark.
The Garden of Allah - Silly and overcooked but somewhat enjoyable Selznick production the main facets of entertainment of which are the cinematography and Marlene Dietrich. The dialogue she and Charles Boyer have to deliver is sometimes remarkably bad and watching them get through it is a perverse form of fun too.
Hitchcock/Truffaut - A superficial and all-too-short documentary about the great Truffaut book (which often veers into a 'let's listen to some filmmakers talk about Hitchcock's famous movies' mode when I wish it explored the relationship between him and Truffaut more deeply) which is nonetheless a nice watch because of the great people it's about. Read the book. And then maybe watch it, putting any high expectations away. And you can actually listen to a lot of Hitch/Truffaut conversations used for the book on Youtube which is a great discovery!
The Man Who Knew Too Much - The 1956 version. Awesome entertainment. I can't help but marvel at Hitchcock's expert handling of complicated setpieces and his uniquely cinematic ideas.
The Wild Pear Tree - Aside from a momentum-breaking and slightly dull 15-minute dialogue scene between three young people which starts out the last hour of the film, this was pretty great. A full and rather compelling portrait of a young man's inner journey to find his place in life, whether in terms of professional ambitions or personal relationships with his family.
Notorious - REWATCH. A wonderful example of Hitchcock's masterful and endlessly inventive filmmaking. And what a performance by Ingrid Bergman!
Green Book - It's fluff but at least it doesn't really have a strong air of self-proclaimed 'importance' to it. Farrelly mostly made a sweet road comedy (which we know he can) about friendship and as such it works. The strength of the chemistry between Mortensen (who is a total chameleon and is amazing here) and Ali is so great that even Farrelly's slips into phoniness don't break it. And this chemistry is the core of the film. Sure it does have those sappy scenes of banal life lessons and sure it's far from a complex examination of racial problems of the 60s but the main goal here is to make an enjoyable breezy buddy movie and as such it works. Nothing great but pretty decent, with two awesome performances at its centre.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 1, 2019 22:08:49 GMT
Paddington 2 - An absolute delight, possibly even better then the first. All of the prisoners scene were a riot, and I loved all of Paddington's slapstick endeavors, particularly the barber sequence. Hugh Grant was also brilliant. - 9 / 10
Pacific Rim: Uprising - Really just bland. Entertaining enough I suppose, and the special effects are decent for what they are, plus Boyega's is a fine lead, but it lacks del toro's style and craft of the first. Eh, it's an okay background watch at best. - 5 / 10
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse - Excellent. The best Spider-Man film since Spider-Man 2. The animation is gorgeous, particularly with the variety of different styles, and I really love the way they handle the character of Miles Morales and his power. Also Nic Cage and John Mulaney really killed it as Spider-Noir and Spider-Ham respectively. Probably my favorite parts of the entire film. Stan Lee's cameo also got me emotional, it was so perfect. - 9.5 / 10
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