Post by darksidebeadle on Mar 16, 2020 12:45:41 GMT
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 Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
Montgomery Clift (I Confess) plays a poor boy who gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women (Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor). The film feels pretty padded and takes a while to get going but has a strong third act.
6/10
The Company Men (2010, John Wells)
This corporate layoff drama is solid enough if not a little tepid, I’d skip this and watch Margin Call instead.
5/10
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
1969 still had films struggling to traverse the divide from classic and modern film making and this one is a good example of this. This is my fourth attempt to watch this film with every prior attempt switching off within the first half hour. So I pushed through this time and this is a bad bad movie. It does have some nice cinematography but the story and dialogue are poor as well as all the characters being under developed and hollow. A super big chore to finish this one and it suffers especially after watching a western from the same year that feels fresh and like it could’ve been filmed recently (Butch & Sundance).
2.5/10
REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
blu ray
Such a classic that still holds up, well directed and a great script that puts the focus on the relationship between the two lead characters. So many memorable scenes.
7.5-8
Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
Netflix
Feels like Fincher-lite in almost every way but is still a fun enough watch, although probably a half hour too long.my favourite part of the film is the relationship between Ben Affleck’s character and his twin sister Margo.
6.5/10
FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
Altered Carbon (2018, season one)
Netflix
scifi with bigger aspirations than its budget that gets a little too Kung fu at times.
Ok TV
WEEKLY FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM:Butch & Sundance
BEST ACTOR: Paul Newman - Butch & Sundance
BEST ACTRESS: Katherine Ross - Butch & Sundance
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Carrie Coon - Gone Girl
BEST EDITING: John C. Howard - Butch & Sundance
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jeff Cronenweth - Gone Girl
BEST SCRIPT: William Goldman - Butch & Sundance
BEST SCORE: Burt Bacharach - Butch & Sundance
BEST DIRECTOR: George Roy Hill - Butch & Sundance
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
Here I am.
Yours:
A Place in the Sun 8/10
I liked it, Montgomery Clift is great. I like thefilm noir vibes.
The Company Men 5/10
I don't remember it that well, just that I didn't like it much.
The Wild Bunch 10/10
Well, it's one of my favourite westerns (with Once Upon a Time in the West and High Noon). But I have to say I haven't seen it in ages.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 8/10
I like it, I did think it's bit overrated. Love Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Gone Girl 9/10
Love it actually. It's a great satire too, IMO. Loved Rosamund Pike.
Mine:
Creed II 6.5/10
The sequel, it's not bad, I found it a bit dull though, I prefer the first Creed. I didn't expect that cameo though, I liked that. Michael B. Jordan and Sly were good.
Our Daily Bread 7.5/10
It's a movie from King Vidor, the director of Gilda. It's about a couple during the Great Depression, who's about to lose their home and they decide to move to an abandoned farm, where they start building a farming community with other people hit hard by the Depression. I like it, it's not exactly subtle, but still...It's very beautiful visually, I like the ending too, it's a pretty cool scene.
The Ninth Configuration 8/10
It's William P. Blatty movie, with Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, about a military mental asylum during the Vietnam war, where a new military doctor assigned to treat the patients arrives. I really like it, it's pretty insane, especially in the second half, it's really about religion and faith. The acting is great, loved Ed Flanders. The very ending maybe is not that subtle, I still like it though.
creed 2 was a bit of letdown compared to the original and a good idea of bringing back Dolph is kinda squandered 6/19
ninth configuration is a film I’ve tried to watch and whilst interesting I never managed to finish , one day though