"What Movie Did You Watch?" - 2020 Edition

[Black Sabbath]

The Disaster Artist 4/5

The ridiculousness and hilarity of the story itself is what drives the movie, in my opinion; Not necessarily Franco's performance, which was good, albeit a little much sometimes in the "trying-too-hard department".

 

Downsizing 2/5

First half felt like it had a direction and some meaning. Then the second half swoops in and it's like a whole different person wrote it with a different idea in mind. Pretty bad.

 

The Shape of Water 4.5/5

Didn't quite land in my Top 5 of the year, but it's in the Top 10. Mildly-original story with fantastic performances and great production.

Edited February 1, 2018 by Black Sabbath

[F*ck Fear]

Thor Ragnarok

I almost didn't watch this because the first two were terrible.

Having Taika Waititi direct this was a great choice.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

I have this new cable channel called Buzz r and it's been showing all the older game shows.

One of my favorites was Supermarket Sweep and they are showing it everynight. lol God this show is so dated looking, but I love when the people go shopping through the supermarket to win money.

I just love supermarkets! lol

15 hours ago, F*ck Fear said:

Thor Ragnarok

I almost didn't watch this because the first two were terrible.

Having Taika Waititi direct this was a great choice.

Missed it in the theatre, but I'm anxious to watch it. I will most likely buy the blue ray. Love Loki.

On ‎1‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 5:43 AM, Oldest Goat said:

Mom and Dad

1.9/5

God! Glad I didn't buy this blue ray and I love Nick Cage. lol

[-W.A.R-]

Eyes Wide Shut - 10/10

The cinematography of this film is gorgeous. It impresses me every time. I can only imagine how great this looked in theaters.

[MillionsOfSpiders]

2 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

The Wolf of Wall Street

1.1/5

Yeah, I don't get what the big deal is with this movie either.

 

[-W.A.R-]

I thought it was awesome.

Scorsese is my favorite director though. 

[-W.A.R-]

9 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said:

Taxi Driver is a 5/5 masterpiece and one of my favourite films. 

Have you seen Hugo though? I give that 0.9/5

Thats one i haven't seen. Doesn't interest me much. I'll probably watch it one day just to see his take on a kids film.

Have you ever seen After Hours?

[DieselDaisy]

I didn't care for Wolf of Wall Street but Hugo is a charming film. 

[Amir]

On 02/02/2018 at 6:21 PM, -W.A.R- said:

Eyes Wide Shut - 10/10

The cinematography of this film is gorgeous. It impresses me every time. I can only imagine how great this looked in theaters.

What’s interesting about EWS and Full Metal Jacket is that they were shot in 4:3 ratio as Kubrick did not want home video viewers to have panned and scanned images, and the films would then be cropped to 1.85:1 for the cinema. There was debate about how they should be presented on DVD, and they were initially in 4:3 format. Later DVD and Blu-Ray releases have them in the 1.85:1 ratio of the cinema versions.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

On ‎2‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 11:36 AM, MillionsOfSpiders said:

Yeah, I don't get what the big deal is with this movie either.

 

I thought Leo was so funny. I thought the movie was good.

I watched:

My Death Birthday

It's rated PG 13 so no gory killings, which sucks for a horror film. It was okay. No well known actors in it at all.

 

[Amir]

Ingrid Goes West: Aubrey Plaza makes an unhinged obsessive stalker surprisingly sympathetic. Watched this on a flight back-to-back with Wind River (which I thought was decent but too slight); Elizabeth Olsen really is a great actress. She managed to even bring warmth to her almost non-role in Godzilla.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

Gifted with Chris Evans

[Sosso]

Jackie Brown 

 

[-W.A.R-]

On 2/6/2018 at 3:16 PM, Sosso said:

Jackie Brown

Maybe his most underappreciated.

Classic film & soundtrack.

 

[Sosso]

5 minutes ago, -W.A.R- said:

Maybe his most underappreciated.

Classic film & soundtrack.

 

It's actually my favourite film from Quentin Tarantino. It's probably my favourite film overall.

I'm listening to the soundtrack at least a couple of times per week.

Edited February 8, 2018 by Sosso

[DieselDaisy]

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

I hadn't seen this before but have just recently read the book so thought I should look at the film. Probably one of the more faithful cinematic adaptations. Beyond a bit of tightening-up, and lessing of ambiguity, this follows the novel very closely. It has been filmed then animated over and you forget it is animated at times. I would reiterate my review of the book, that it is a window on druggies. The science-fiction is so minimal to be almost undetectable. If you are too lazy to read it, then watch this. Downy Jr doing his classic verbose overacting haha. 4/5

The Gold Rush (1925)

Classic Chaplin 5/5.

 

[Amir]

On 2/4/2018 at 11:51 PM, Oldest Goat said:

Barry Lyndon

4.9/5

 

Saw Lady Bird at the cinema last night. Was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it, a lot of the time I was the only one laughing in a pretty full cinema. I did feel like it could have been longer, especially towards the end where the pacing felt a little rushed, but the actors and the writing made characters who could have been boring cliches feel fresh and alive and wonderful. Would be interested to see if Gerwig's original 350-page script is ever released.

Ranking the Best Pic nominees that I've seen (only one I haven't seen is Darkest Hour but it doesn't grab my interest):

1= Call Me By Your Name
1= Phantom Thread
3. Dunkirk
4. Lady Bird
5. The Shape Of Water
6. Three Billboards
7. Get Out

And then a big drop off with The Post, which was the only film out of the lot which left me bored and unmoved.

[DieselDaisy]

Barry Lyndon is clearly 10/5. How dare there be a .5 deducted!!

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

Victor Crowley

The bye bye man

[Len Cnut]

Natural Born Killers (1994)  Probably the best American film of the 90s.  Era defining.  Underrated, too much hype about the content and not enough respect for its superior cinematic qualities.

[Black Sabbath]

18 hours ago, Amir said:

 

Saw Lady Bird at the cinema last night. Was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it, a lot of the time I was the only one laughing in a pretty full cinema. I did feel like it could have been longer, especially towards the end where the pacing felt a little rushed, but the actors and the writing made characters who could have been boring cliches feel fresh and alive and wonderful. Would be interested to see if Gerwig's original 350-page script is ever released.

Ranking the Best Pic nominees that I've seen (only one I haven't seen is Darkest Hour but it doesn't grab my interest):

1= Call Me By Your Name
1= Phantom Thread
3. Dunkirk
4. Lady Bird
5. The Shape Of Water
6. Three Billboards
7. Get Out

And then a big drop off with The Post, which was the only film out of the lot which left me bored and unmoved.

I didn't have much particular interest in Darkest Hour either, but I did watch it mainly for Oldman's performance. His performance, albeit great, is also a bit overshadowed by the character being fairly unlikable. Overall, certainly nowhere near Best Picture winner, and I'm somewhat surprised it's even nominated, but it was good.

I still have to watch Lady Bird.

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

The Mummy with Tom Cruise

Wonder woman

Boo! A Madea Halloween

[DieselDaisy]

I didn't like Natural Born Killers - albeit maybe it is worth a re-watch as I've not actually seen it since the 1990s. I remember it being a ''video nasty'' here in Britain, cue the obligatory mate buying a VHS copy in Orlando and bringing it back (in a cardboard slip sleeve as I recall). We were all a bit disappointed. Weirdly Channel 5, then a nascent channel, managed to get permission soon after; I remember taping it and my copy had the snow from a poor reception which was Channel 5 in those days. I remember the film being up its own arse.  

Best film of the 1990s? Hana-bi.

PS

Caligula (1979)

I hadn't seen this since I was a horny teenager and it was basically, pre-Pornhub, our porn. It is a shame as there is a great 'Shakespearean' film there about the corruptibility of power; there is also an all-star cast present, Gielgud, Helen Mirren (getting her babs it goes without saying) out, Peter O'Toole as Tiberius (who was permanently sozzled on set apparently) and Malcolm McDowell who is stupendous, however Bob Gruccione, he of Penthouse fame, was sneaking into the studio at night and filming hardcore porn scenes. So it is a mess. The director and writer withdrew their names in disgust. It cries out for a director's cut, but I doubt anyone cares enough now. It still has a suitable level of shlock and bad taste to make me like the thing. 3/5.

We as kids always used to laugh at the scene where Caligula sticks his hand up someone's arse (after raping his newly betrothed virgin wife). Yes, it is not for those of tender dispositions.

Satyricon (1969)

One of my favourites of Fellini (second only to I Vitelloni), his baroque fantastical adaptation of Petronius. Strange. Disorienting. Debauched. A masterpiece. 5/5 

Edited February 12, 2018 by DieselDaisy

[Len Cnut]

4 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

Best film of the 90's?! That's a bold statement. I found it incredibly pretentious and cheap also thought that about Memento which many people also love. Maybe I'll give them both another shot.

Never seen Memento but NBK is a cracking observation of the times, junk food culture, the brain destroying qualities of TV, the whole fascination with criminals, I mean that shit was a thing back then, all these interviews with serial killers, Geraldo doing Manson, the predatory nature of the media, the nature of fame and celebrity culture.  Its wonderfully filmed and photographed too I thought, to me its like a Clockwork Orange for the 90s.  Its amazing to see such a insanely filmed movie that was like, a mainstream thing.  And everybody was just brilliant in their role, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Robert Downey Jnr was fantastic in it...and Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Rodney Dangerfield as the abusive Dad, that whole sitcom sequence, I just thought it was brilliant, always have.  I really like Oliver Stone, on his day he's quite brilliant and this is probably my favourite film of his.  At its heart its actually a really dark comedy that takes a shot at like...looking at the culture we've created around ourselves.  The central characters actually have a great deal of depth, its just the film refuses to exploit that fact, which is a brave movie by a filmmaker.  At its heart Mickey and Mallory are these abused kids.

I really don't mind if a films pretentious, I don't think thats necessarily a bad thing.  Its the motives that govern whether something like that is good or bad and I don't think NBK comes from a dishonest place, its kind of a morality tale.

Edited February 12, 2018 by Len Cnut

[James Bond]

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

The Queen (2006)

Had a movie weekend. All A+ titles from different genres.