What Films did You Watch Last Week (11/02 - 17/02) CLOSED

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.


FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

The Company You Keep (2012, Robert Redford)
blu ray
Redford (The Sting) stars in this political thriller about a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist (Shia LeBeouf) who has discovered his identity.
I like these kind of stories regardless so I am predisposed to be interested in this film. It is pulled off well enough and has a great cast through and through.
7/10

High Flying Bird (2019, Steven Soderbergh)
Netflix
This low budget film, shot on an iPhone (again)  is about a sports agent who  pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business opportunity during a lockout.
The film does not look great with its filtered over sharpened look and the direction is not that great either, however the writing and performances make it very watchable.
6/10

Don't Say a Word (2001, Gary Fleder)
dvd
This Michael Douglas thriller has a very convoluted story with a mixed bag of performances and is quite a drop from his heyday of 90's thrillers.
3/10

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019, Dan Gilroy)
Writer/Director Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler) once again brings in Jake Gyllenhall and Rene Russo who he used in Nightcrawler for this film set in the art world. Instantly its comments on the art world make it feel like a film from 10-15 years ago but for the most part the first 45 minutes was intriguing enough. Then the horror begins and its laughable in every way, what a terrible film.
3/10

I Know Who Killed Me (2007, Chris Silverston)
This film was a complete bomb at the box office and with the critics when it came out but has managed to  gain a small cult following since, so I decided to give it a chance. In short.. it is terrible but I can see the blended elements of student film Lynchian touches combined with torture porn and unusual visual choices perhaps fooling people into thinking there is more going on here. It is terribly written and acted combined with being just a mess of a film.
2/10

WEEKLY AWARDS

BEST FILM: The Company You Keep
BEST ACTOR: Robert Redford - The Company You Keep
BEST ACTRESS: Zazie Beets - High Flying Bird
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Brendan Gleeson - The Company You Keep
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Susan Sarandon - The Company You Keep
BEST SCRIPT: Tarell Alvin McCraney - High Flying Bird
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Adriano Goldman - The Company You Keep
BEST SCORE: Cliff Martinez - The Company You Keep
BEST DIRECTOR: Robert Redford - The Company You Keep





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