What Films did You Watch Last Week (25/02 - 03/03) 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

A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
The great Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) brings us this tale of an Arkansas drifter (Andy Griffith) who becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he be exposed as the fraud he has become?
The films great central performance might over power everything around it a little too much but it is still a fine and insightful work that still is relevant to today.
6.5/10

Serenity (2019, Steven Knight)
I purposely avoided any spoilers for what this film is about.. all I knew was it had a weird twist. However it did not really have a twist but rather a drawn out slow and obvious reveal. This is a bad film, badly conceived, acted and a weird mix of 2.5/10

WEEKLY AWARDS

BEST FILM: A Face in the Crowd
BEST ACTOR: Andy Griffith - A Face in the Crowd
BEST ACTRESS: Patricia Neal - A Face in the Crowd
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Walter Matthau - A Face in the Crowd
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lee Remick - A Face in the Crowd
BEST SCRIPT: Budd Schuleberg - A Face in the Crowd
BEST DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan - A Face in the Crowd


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