Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:32 pm
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:47 pm
I actually hate people who snack in the cinema. Eat before you get there, you noisy bastards.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:29 pm
Lady Bird
It's far from terrible, Saoirse Ronan gives a good performance, as does Laurie Metcalf, but I am a bit confused at the critical adulation. It's a fairly straightforward coming of age film with a couple of memorable scenes. It also has a few moments that feel contrived or at least less than genuine.
It's basically the Millennial version of "Juno". In fact, Diablo Cody is probably just five years too old to have written this movie herself.
It was good enough that I will probably see Greta Gerwig's second film, especially to find out what she can do when she moves into a slightly less auto-biographical narrative.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:57 pm
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:27 am
Salomé wrote:
Lady Bird
It's far from terrible, Saoirse Ronan gives a good performance, as does Laurie Metcalf, but I am a bit confused at the critical adulation. It's a fairly straightforward coming of age film with a couple of memorable scenes. It also has a few moments that feel contrived or at least less than genuine.
It's basically the Millennial version of "Juno". In fact, Diablo Cody is probably just five years too old to have written this movie herself.
It was good enough that I will probably see Greta Gerwig's second film, especially to find out what she can do when she moves into a slightly less auto-biographical narrative.
I feel that overall, the films nominated for Oscars this year were all serviceable, but nothing particularly Oscar-worthy. I will say I enjoyed Lady Bird, but it wasn't anything special, and the final act could have been condensed immensely. Laurie Metcalfe was the true highlight of the film.
I rewatched Last Night (dir. Massy Tadjedin) recently. I can only think the mixed reviews are because of the sensitive depiction of gender roles and infidelity.
It has a 1970s feel to it, particularly the tracking camera during the argument in the apartment near the start of the film, and the following of four characters felt like a film adaptation of a play (not as brilliant as Cat On A Hot Tin Roof or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but evocative of such films). Knightley gives one of her best performances, in fact all four leads do rather well - even Worthington, who I usually thought was the weakest link in the film.
I think Last Night will be one of those hidden gems that people will discover in later years.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:49 pm
I watched Isle of Dogs the other day, up there with Mr Fox in terms of animation. I'm not quite sure on it -but it was quite good. Better than the one-star reviews on my local Odeon page who said they walked out after 30mins. I could easily have watched it twice if it was only Jeff Goldblum in it.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:36 am
The Death of Stalin
Great production values and performances - most notably Beale, Buscemi, and Isaacs - but the whole piece felt inconsistent. The laughs were there, albeit few and far between. Black comedies should ideally provide some sort of meaningful, underlying insight amongst the uncomfortable chuckles; no such thing is to be found here by my reckoning. It truly just is blood-soaked Gulag Slapstick and I'm amazed so many reviewers thought there was a clever political satire hiding here (let me guess - it's just like Trump!). That being said, as a Python-lite take on history it's watchable and probably better than any fat chick comedy the Yanks are pumping out these days.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:38 am
Predator - this months 'cult and classic' offering from my local arthouse cinema. Fine sci-fi actioner from when the Austrian Oak was in his pomp.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:31 am
JIGSAW
This time on 4K blu-ray. Lots of twists in this one...you are left wondering how John Kramer is still around for quite some time...
She blows her own face off with a shotgun that's been configured to fire backwards.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:03 am
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:36 am
I like horror movies but I'm not big on torture porn, which is why I haven't seen any of the "Saw" series of films. That must be the sixth or seventh sequel at this point, right?
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:43 am
Small Town Crime
Not bad. A small town neo-noir about an alcoholic, disgraced former cop who goes on a redemptive crusade to find the murderer of a young prostitute he finds by the side of the road on his way home from having passed out black-out drunk the night before.
Much of what makes this movie work is the choice of casting the great John Hawkes (probably still best known as Sol Star on "Deadwood") as its unconventional lead.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:26 pm
Ghost Stories - Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's updating of the 'portmanteau' horrors of the 60s and 70s transfers successfully from stage to screen, with its unsettling atmosphere and jolting jump-scares very much intact.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 pm
Salomé wrote:
I like horror movies but I'm not big on torture porn, which is why I haven't seen any of the "Saw" series of films. That must be the sixth or seventh sequel at this point, right?
Saw 1-7 and now Jigsaw makes it 8...might spark a sequel since it did fairly well.
I got back into the franchise when I saw a nicely done boxed set of the first 7 movies and snapped it up for next to nothing (love ebay for that). Kramer's creepy little puppet mascot looks good on the shelf.
My friends are raving about The Quiet Place, adding that to my to-do list this week.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Sun Apr 15, 2018 5:48 pm
A Quiet Place - this sci-fi horror is a bit of a slow-builder, but ends up a very tense nerve-shredder.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:06 am
The Fourth Protocol aka Remington Steelevsky of the KGB
Who was it on Old MI6 who always accused Brosnan of looking gay? Lazenby. was it? Anyway, they'd get a kick out of the scene where an ill-fated homosexual gentleman assumes Steelevsky is a fellow traveller.
The movie is a good bit of 80's Cold War shenanigans that shouldn't be taken too seriously. A lot of filler in the middle could've been cut or replaced with more interesting stuff. I give it three dead-eyed Broz stares out of five.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:01 am
How'd you manage to watch that CJB? Haven't been able to find it anywhere here in Oz.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:50 am
FieldsMan wrote:
How'd you manage to watch that CJB? Haven't been able to find it anywhere here in Oz.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:01 pm
Brozzer has Bond snatched away from him at the last minute, so he goes and makes a thriller where he plays a member of 'the opposition' attempting to smuggle and detonate a nuclear device on British soil.
Those were some sour grapes .
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:47 pm
Poor Broz. Now look at him. Mamma Mia 2.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:37 pm
CJB wrote:
FieldsMan wrote:
How'd you manage to watch that CJB? Haven't been able to find it anywhere here in Oz.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:45 am
Justice League on 4k blu-ray
I didn't hate it as much as everyone else, it has some good moments but they lost a golden opportunity after Wonder Woman did so well.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:18 am
FieldsMan wrote:
Brilliant. Thanks!
No problem.
Blunt Instrument wrote:
Brozzer has Bond snatched away from him at the last minute, so he goes and makes a thriller where he plays a member of 'the opposition' attempting to smuggle and detonate a nuclear device on British soil.
Those were some sour grapes .
Heh, that angle hadn't occurred to me.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:47 am
bitchcraft wrote:
Justice League on 4k blu-ray
I didn't hate it as much as everyone else, it has some good moments but they lost a golden opportunity after Wonder Woman did so well.
I think Wonder Woman was one of the few redeeming qualities about "Justice League". At least Joss Whedon was smart enough to realize she was a star and gave her enough screentime.
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Subject: Re: Last Movie You Watched. Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:06 am
Oh gosh it's been a while. Since November:
Star Wars: The Last Jedi: It sucked, but who cares about this anymore, really? Wouldn't surprise me if Fisher was sharing her supply with the director/writer.
Breathe: I really enjoyed this, its the kind of accessible prestige picture they don't make enough of anymore. Foy and Garfunkel were good.
Call Me By Your Name: Tripe. If it was about two hetters it would have been recommended as a cure for narcolepsy.
The Florida Project: Brilliant and riveting. Thought it built suspense in a really beautiful way, the sense of dread that something bad is going to happen just stews and stews until the climax. The ending didn't quite work for me but I don't know how you end that film in a satisfactory way so I give the director props for at least doing something different.
Death of Stalin: Funny, not brilliant.
Miss Sloane: Slipped under my radar last year, but it was a solid contemporary thriller. The ending was a bit trite but I felt the film had earned the good-will to pull it off.
Haven't been wowed by anything recently. Still need to catch up with Lady Bird, I, Tonya, The Darkest Hour, and The Post.