Which films did you see last week? (10.31.2021 - 11.06.2021)

Which films did you see last week? (10.31.2021 - 11.06.2021) Nov 7, 2021 7:02:44 GMT allaby and theravenking like this

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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Nov 7, 2021 7:02:44 GMT

Hello, good folks of FG. The weekly film discussion thread is back.

The topic under discussion is made clear in the title. Made-for-TV, direct-to-video, streaming, TV series/episodes, documentaries, short films can also be listed.

The minimum requirement is that a numerical rating out of 5 or 10 be provided - whichever the poster wishes to choose - and it'll be even more helpful if he/she also writes a few thoughts regarding his/her experience with the feature/documentary/short/TV series' season. This will help in starting discussions, which is one of the main intentions of this thread. I also request all those who reply here to go through the whole thread once and see if you can see some common topic to discuss with other posters.

My last week wasn't very good.

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Year of the Dragon (1985, Michael Cimino) :

God-awful. People say that this was a minor comeback for Cimino after Heaven's Gate. Now I haven't seen that film but it's hard for me to imagine it being worse than this. Each and every conceivable cliche of all the flicks where one rogue cop goes against a mafia network is thrown into this. Add to that, the racism of the main character is off the charts and the film has the gall to present it as fair. The plot is moronic, the editing is a multilevel failure and the acting is terrible with the sole exception of John Lone. The climax is filmed so poorly it reminded me of Samurai Cop.

2/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_XyRwSR70

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The Indian in the Cupboard (1995, Frank Oz) :

The concept is okay but the film hardly does anything with it. It tries to tackle with some heavy themes such as loss of innocence, awareness of death and playing with the real lives of real people. But the acting of the two children is poor and it is not entertaining. I suppose you can show it to your children but there are other better options such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and The Borrowers. I especially recommend the latter.

3/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVketPgcuE

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The Score (2001, Frank Oz) :

Quite an ordinary heist movie that doesn't do anything out of the box and anything that you cannot see coming from 5 miles away. I cannot fault the acting of the three principles De Niro, Norton and Brando but they have done a lot better work elsewhere, even in genre films. The heist sequence is exciting but the buildup to it is just passing time by dragging.

5/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiN6-UdxcbI

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Honeymoon in Vegas (1992, Andrew Bergman) :

A silly rom-com with broad caricatures. Genuine laughs are few and far between. Sarah Jessica Parker looks gorgeous, though. Now I want to watch Indecent Proposal more than before because both the films share the general story, only the treatment is different.

4/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q6r1UpNUQ

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Striptease (1996, Andrew Bergman) :

Its notoriety as "one of the worst movies ever made" -

- had geared me up to expect something a lot worse. However, I read the source novel by Carl Hiaasen right before and liked it, so I knew it was not going to be that bad. It ended up being a mediocre, forgettable comedy that had its moments and stretches but did not come together as well as the novel managed. I think that a lot of the backlash had to do with the infamous provocative poster as well as the trailers which emphasized the sleaze over the elements of comedy, the complicated plot and the back-and-forth between the ensemble cast.

5/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogp5KYh9xUA

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer) :

I had planned to watch Russ Meyer's most widely known film as my first among his works. But ended up watching Vixen! as the first. Seeing how much I enjoyed it I should have expected FPKK to be a downer in comparison. I can understand its value for film historians and analysts. But I did not find it to be as consistently entertaining as Vixen! Part of the problem is that there isn't much of a story and hence the pace often slackens. Another part is that there is almost no nudity, which is a big departure for Meyer from his usual norm. I feel no shame in admitting that I would have loved to see all these gorgeous, attractive women frolicking naked but the script was never interested in that.

6/10

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLTnzo-nd8Q

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