What classics did you see last week ? (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2018)

A sweet little movie about an extremely gifted girl, I was surprised by how much I liked this movie.




Heard so much about this movie so I finally watched it. Three hours long, but you never notice that because you're so involved in these characters and their story.
Adèle Exarchopoulos seems so genuinely real in her performance. At one point, she blushes. How do you make yourself blush while acting? She's crazy good. Léa Seydoux, who has less screen time, is equally up to the challenge.
Yes, some very graphic sex scenes, but everything does actually overshadow that, it's just that good.




How weird, the third Thor movie should be the best Thor movie, but it is! I snickered and cheered throughout the whole thing, all the cast gets their chance to shine and it was all very exhilarating! Lots of changes for Thor in this one, hold on tight!




John Travolta in a movie meant for Nicolas Cage. It sounds like a bad idea, but it's an okay movie about revenge, the usual plot angle for these kinds of action movies. Nice to see Rebecca DeMornay again, I'd always thought she was going to be huge, she's very talented and had several hit movies early on.




Stumbled upon this on YouTube, and it completely altered the "course" of my movie watching for the rest of the week. Looks like some harbinger of Rush Hour movies to come, but it was actually a pleasant retro-surprise. It reminded me more of Beverly Hills Cop, those late-80's cop comedies with too much saxy-pop music on the soundtrack. Which, actually, it is. More than a few laughs, not as bad as I was led to believe.




Because I watched Collision Course (1989), I simply had to locate and watch Collision Course (2012), which is not a remake but about solar flares and a plane that might crash, kinda dull but adequate and short enough.




I was determined to eradicate any and all movies with "Collision Course" in the title from my watchlist, and that included this. It's basically the TV show with acting bits scattered in and some kind of plot. For kids, probably. R.I.P. Steve Irwin, a truly crazy, lovable man.




This is the fifth, and we hope, final Ice Age movie. Scrat goes to outer space, an asteroid is coming to destroy the Earth. Way too many characters from other movies in this one, and they added more. Not bad, but enough already.




Scrat: Spaced Out was a mini-movie on the DVD of Ice Age: Collision Course, seemingly made up of all of Scrat's scenes from the movie cut together.




I wanted to relax and unwind on Saturday afternoon, so naturally I chose to rewatch Natural Born Killers, which I had not seen since it came out in the 90's. It's very inventive, Oliver Stone has a lot going on, and you can appreciate it more a second time around. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Downey Jr. both really stood out for me in absolutely gonzo performances.



I watched all 8 episodes of Slasher, season 2, on Netflix. It's a real whodunnit and the gore factor is high this year. This is a Canadian horror anthology series that airs on the Chiller network in the US. I'm proud to say I figured out the killer halfway through, watching too many movies will make you smarter, let's just say!