What Films did You Watch Last Week (13/05 - 19/05) CLOSED

What Films did You Watch Last Week (13/05 - 19/05) CLOSED May 20, 2019 3:00:17 GMT via mobile

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Post by darksidebeadle on May 20, 2019 3:00:17 GMT

May 20, 2019 1:16:16 GMT william said:

May 19, 2019 7:38:23 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.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

The Wild One (1953, Laslo Benedek)
The original motorcycle gang film starring Brando has a plot that is pretty rough around the edges but is a great looking film for the most part with solid performances.
6/10

Under the Silver Lake (2018, David Robert Mitchell)
Just like directors before him, the director of the surprise hit 'It Follows (2014)' follows that more straight forward horror with something over packed with ideas and quite verbose in it's ambition and ripe with metaphors. In this story Andre Garfield (The Social Network) plays Sam, a twenty something without purpose who finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears and he sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre. I will give the film props for trying something different and it was pretty interesting throughout (for one viewing at least) but the film is not really that well made visually (bar a couple of key sequences) and is bloated in places. Also I am in the minority I think, but I did not overly care for Garfield's lead performance.
5/10

House of Bamboo (1955, Samuel Fuller)
This full colour Film Noir shot on location in Japan follows a U.S. Army Investigator who attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
The film does not really work, the direction could have been a lot better and it feels like it waffles at times. Kind of a waste of a great cast and a well budgeted location project.
3.5/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

None this week

FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING

Knock Down the House (2019, Rachel Lears)
Netflix
A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
Recommended

FIRST TIME TV SERIES VIEWING

True Detective (2019, Season Three, HBO)
After a dud second season, the show is back to quality writing and characters. Its a little more of a slow burner than season one but its very strong none the less. The finale might be a little flatter than the build up but this is still top shelf television.
Highly Recommended

Survivor:Edge of Extinction (2019, Season 38)
tv
Good season of the top reality show and social experiment on television.
Recommended

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: The Wild One
BEST ACTOR: Marlon Brando - The Wild One
BEST ACTRESS: Mary Murphy - The Wild One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Lee Marvin - The Wild One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Riki Lindhome - Under the Silver Lake
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hal Mohr - The Wild One (two weeks in a row for Hal)
BEST SCORE: Disasterpeace - Under the Silver Lake
BEST DIRECTOR: Laslo Benedek - The Wild One

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.

I'm interested in Under the Silver Lake. ::yes::

Yours:

The Wild One 7.5/10

I liked it. Yeah, I think it was pretty low budget. Marlon is great. I liked Lee Marvin too.

Mine:

Dolor y Gloria 8/10

It's Pedro Almodovar's new movie. It's about a director in crisis who, after he learns there will be a screening of a movie he made in the 80s that's being rediscovered, gets in touch with the lead actor, with whom he had a big fall out. Then there are a lot of twists, you kind of never know where it's going to end up. I liked it. ::yes::

I found it very human. Antonio Banderas is great, he plays the director.

Shalako 6/10

It's a Western with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, about an ex soldier who tries to save a group of European aristocrats who broke a treaty, crossing into an Indian reservation to hunt. It's so-so, IMO. I didn't mind it at start, then it kind of loses it. I like Sean and Brigitte though, so... ::biggrin::

Winter's Lights 10/10

Bergman movie. Masterpiece, IMO. I found it so intense. The acting is amazing. Also, First Reformed it's really a loose remake. I thought it was just inspired by, but, really, the set up is the same, with some changes.

The Man in the Moon 7.5/10

It's a movie with Reese Witherspoon, it's from the director of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's about a teenage girl, in the 50s, in the South, who falls in love with her neighbour's son. Only, her older sister does too. I liked it, it's well made. Some parts maybe feel a bit melodramatic, I don't mind that though. Reese Witherspoon is really good.

Hey billy

Winters light - my favourite Bergman 7.5
The Man in the Moon - don’t remember it super well but I gave it a 6/10