What Films did You Watch Last Week (01/10 - 07/10) CLOSED

What Films did You Watch Last Week (01/10 - 07/10) CLOSED Oct 8, 2018 3:32:15 GMT

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Post by william on Oct 8, 2018 3:32:15 GMT

Oct 7, 2018 5:44:31 GMT darksidebeadle said:

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.

Was travelling this week so only got to two films.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

American Animals (2018, Bart Layton)
In flight Entertainment
After his hit documentary The Imposter (2012), Bart Layton has give his attention to another true story. This time about four young men who mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Most of the film is an actual film and not a documentary bit there are small portions where they cut to the real people surrounding the case and it is done very effectively. This film is well structured and acted with an interesting story to boot.
7-7.5/10

Hold the Dark (2018, David Saulnier)
Netflix
This dark and foreboding film with thick atmosphere starts after the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate the wolves in the Alaskan wilderness.
The whole thrust of the story is up to interpretation in a good way, I am not sure how I felt about the ending but the film was pretty damned good. I expected it to be a much slower film for some reason but this has some great action.
6.5-7/10

WEEKLY AWARDS

BEST FILM: American Animals
BEST ACTOR: Evan Peters - American Animals
BEST ACTRESS: Riley Keough - Hold the Dark
BEST SCRIPT: Bart Layton - American Animals
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck - Hold the Dark
BEST SCORE: Brook and Will Blair - Hold the Dark
BEST DIRECTOR: Bart Layton - American Animals

10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too

Hi, Dark.

None of yours, this week.

Mine:

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 6/10

Terry Gilliam's new movie. Didn't like it much, I mean, it's beautiful visually, but it's really a bit messy. Also, I think Adam Driver is miscast. I wonder how Johnny Depp would have been in the role.

The Barefoot Contessa 8/10

Joseph Mankiewicz movie, with Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart, about a director who meets a dancer and turns her into a big star. I like it, it's a big soap opera basically, but it's really well made, I really enjoyed. Ava and Humphrey Bogart are good.

Red Heat 6.5/10

The Walter Hill movie with Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi. It's not bad, it's not one of Walter Hill's best, though, IMO. Jim Belushi is also kind of weak in the role.