What Films did You Watch Last Week (24/01 - 30/01) CLOSED

Yours:

The Great Escape - 6.5/10
The Big Clock - 7/10
A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy - 7/10
This Gun for Hire - 6.5/10
They Live by Night - 7/10

Mine:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - I have to assume the people who love this movie first saw it as kids, which I understand.  But as an adult seeing it for the first time, it was made too much for kids for me to really enjoy.  I liked the premise, just not the content.  6/10

Parker - Enjoyable little action thriller starring Jason Statham.  7/10

Wyatt Earp - This first hour is slow and boring, but the 2nd act is better than the 1st, and the 3rd act is better than the 2nd and saves the movie.  I liked it overall, it just didn’t need to be 3 hrs and 11 minutes long.  7/10

Last Night in Soho - Huge let down for me.  4/10

Better Watch Out - Crazy comedy-horror movie, but kept me entertained. Could have had a better ending.  7/10

Rider on the Rain - Unusual, but interesting 1970 Bronson movie.  It’s a bit confusing at the beginning, but gradually you begin to understand what’s going on.  I’m surprised it’s so unknown, it’s actually a pretty good flick.  7/10

Chaos - Another Jason Statham crime action thriller.  Good movie with a great twist at the end.  7.5/10

Queen Bee - I enjoyed this Joan Crawford melodrama.  Overdramatic, but fun.  7/10

Body of Lies - I’d heard this was boring.  It’s not.  Good movie.  7.5/10

Shanghai (2010) - The 1st half is slow and dull, but if you stay with it, it gets better as it goes along. Decent movie overall.  7/10

1922 - I didn’t think I would like this one based on the plot description.  But Stephen King is such a good writer, and the movie is so well done, I was involved from start to finish, despite the unpleasantness of the story, which is the only thing keeping me from giving it a 7.5.  7/10

Sweetie - Yikes!  I watched this because Jane Campion directed it.  But it’s so boring and gross, with characters that range from weird to annoying as hell.  The movie has its fans, but I really hated it. 5/10

Django (1966) - Considered a classic, but it came across to me as a 2nd rate ripoff of The Dollars Trilogy.  I liked the middle part of the movie, but that was about it.  6/10

I Care a Lot - This was so disappointing.  4/10

Interesting seeing you here.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - 7/10

I did watch TMNT when I was a kid, but honestly think I would like it if I watched it for the first time as an adult. The sequels, not so much. I loved TMNT 2 when I was a kid and now find it quite bad. I also am a fan of the 1980's cartoon and re-watched many episodes last year. Had a lot of fun still. I love the Ninja Turtles.

Wyatt Earp - 7.5/10

Parker - 6.5/10 Better than I expected. 

Chaos - 4.5/10 Generic crap imo.

Last Night in Soho - I really like the first half, but the second half misses the mark and the last act is just bad. 6/10

Better Watch Out - One of the most unpleasant movies I have ever seen. Hate it. 3.5/10.

1922 - Interesting Stephen King movie. 7/10

Body of Lies - I agree. 7/10

Shanghai - Is this that John Cusack movie? Completely forgettable, though watchable. 5.5/10

I Care a Lot - It is like we were watching a different movie. I never once thought the movie was asking me to sympathize with the main character and was in fact wanting me to do the opposite. She is an interesting immoral and cold character and Pike is very good at portraying that kind of character. 7/10.

I saw the movie as very dark satire about capitalism and the legal system. The movie is saying, this is how the system is and it usually wins. That is why she needed to die in the last act. I will admit that the movie is pulling in different directions at times and the movie did fall from an 8.5/10 to 7/10 in the second half. So maybe I did somewhat see what you are talking about, but still found the movie to be clever, compelling, disturbing and very well made for the most part. It is definitely a movie that has stayed with me.

If she had lived I would have had a different reaction.

Lamb - 7/10

The Awful Truth - 8/10

Pi - 5/10

Don't ask why I haven't watched Pusher III yet. 

The answer is, because I haven't.

I also just forgot about watching it.

Yeah, I noticed that about lead actress. I watched 5 this week. I try to watch at least 3 movies with a lead actress per week. This week I watched 5.

Grandview U.S.A. has a good cast of C. Thomas Howell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Jason Leigh and John Cusack in a very minor role. Curtis is good, Swayze is good. Jennifer Jason Leigh is not good. Her worst performance.

 The main issue you have with Better Watch Out is the one issue I don't have with the movie.


I think the kid is very convincing, but the movie is dumb, extremely off-putting and boring to me. There are a lot of movies that I find dumb and off-putting that aren't boring, so that just made the movie more frustrating. I just don't care about anything that is happening in the movie.