Post by darksidebeadle on Jun 24, 2019 1:10:49 GMT
My dog died yesterday so this is a great distraction today
FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING
Dragged Across Concrete (2018, S. Craig Zahler)
Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn play two overzealous cops who get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation. The film is mostly a slow burner, sometimes a little too drawn out but it’s never dull. It skirts racial politics but more just presents the world as it is, fly on the wall style.
6.5/10
The Running Man (1963, Carol Reed)
This film reminds me of The Talented Mr. Ripley/ Purple Noon with its locales, changed identities and evasions. It is not as good as those but worth watching all the same.
6/10
The Silent Partner (1978, Daryl Duke)
Elliot Gould plays a timid bank teller who anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook (Christopher Plummer) arrives. Solid enough entertainment that with a few tweaks could have been a classic.
6/10
New York, New York (1977, Francis Ford Coppola)
Large scale romantic film set just as victory comes at the end of World War II in New York. Stunningly presented and well acted but not enough meat to the story to make it worth the effort.
5.5/10
Gardens of Stone (1987, Francis Ford Coppola)
This is a Mostly forgotten Francis Ford Coppola film and probably for good reason. It has some ripe subject matter with it following the men in the army who attend to the state side funerals during the Vietnam war. However it feels like there is not enough meat on the bone of this story and is very under developed. The transitions and style of the film are not all that great either. Janes Caan, Anjelica Huston and James Earl Jones all our in good work but I’m not a fan of D.B. Sweeney and he isn’t very good here.
5/10
The Beach Bum (2019, Harmony Korine)
A few good cameos that we’re far better than the very broad and boring leads.
3/10
REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING
None this week
FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING
Edge of Democracy (2019, Petra Costa)
Netflix
A look at the low key coup in Brazil over the last few years.
Recommended
WEEKLY FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM: Dragged Across Concrete
BEST ACTOR: Mel Gibson - Dragged Across Concrete
BEST ACTRESS: Lee Remick - The Running Man
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: James Earl Jones - Gardens of Stone
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Celine Lomez - The Silent Partner
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Laszlo Kovacs - New York, New York
BEST DIRECTOR: S. Craig Zahler - Dragged Across Concrete
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
Sorry to hear about your dog.
You mean Scorsese, not Coppola for New York, New York.
I'm kind of curious to watch it.I've been meaning to catch The Silent Partner.
Yours:
Dragged Across Concrete 8/10
I liked it. Yeah, it's too long maybe, but I really liked the atmosphere. It feels very human IMO. Mel Gibson is really good.
Gardens of Stone 8/10
Watched it ages ago, I remember liking it.
Mine:
The Dead Don't Die 7.5/10
Jim Jarmush's zombie movie, it's not one of his best maybe, I enjoyed it though, I found it funny. It gets pretty dark. The cast is good.
Giulietta degli Spiriti 8.5/10
It's a Federico Fellini movie, with Giulietta Masina about a woman who begins to suspect that his husband has a mistress and after a seance she gets in touch with spirits who makes her examine her marriage and life. It's very surreal, it's wonderful visually, I found it touching too. It was autobiographical, I guess.
The Magnificent Ambersons 8/10
Orson Welles' movie. I liked it, I mean, you can tell the studio cut is a mess, it has great moments though. I liked Joseph Cotten and Anne Baxter.
Pretty Poison 8.5/10
It's a movie with Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, kind of a film noir/thriller, about a man just out of prison who likes to invent stories about himself, he meets a beautiful girl who believes in his stories, they get together and things gets pretty dark. Loved it, I wasn't expecting it to end up like that. Better to watch it without spoilers, IMO.
I thought Tuesday Weld was fantastic, loved Anthony Perkins too, they're great together. i did ondeed
will catch the Jarmusch some time
magnificent ambersons - didn’t do it for me 4.5
pretty poison - glad you liked it! 6.5-7 I had fun with it