Post by darksidebeadle on Apr 11, 2022 23:44:52 GMT
FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING
Somewhere in the Night (1946, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Solid enough amnesiac crime film with a solid cast. It gets pretty convoluted story wise but it’s good enough watching.
6/10
2 Days in The Valley (1996, John Herzfeld)
In the wake of Pulp Fiction a lot of films like this got pumped out with intermingling stories in one town with criminal activity. This one has a great cast and a lot of good individual scenes just not a good enough through line to link them in a good enough story.
6/10
Brightburn (2019, David Yarovesky)
Netflix
This was better than expected and was a fairly well done riff on the super man mythos gone wrong. Unfortunately the film just kind of stops before it can say anything interesting but it was entertaining enough up til then.
6/10
REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING
Obsession (1996, Brian De Palma)
blu ray
This film self admittedly started off as a riff on Vertigo by De Palma and Paul Schrader and it is very evident when viewing the film that this is the case however I think the story of Obsession is much stronger but even though the visuals and direction are very good it doesn’t hold a candle to the visuals in Vertigo. I hope to revisit Vertigo soon also.
7/10
A Fish Called Wanda (1988, Charles Crichton)
This revered comedy crime caper holds up pretty well. The cast are good and it is still pretty funny but I do think it could’ve been cut down to 90 minutes and been a better film.
6.5/10
The Public Eye (1992, Howard Franklin)
I had been wanting to rewatch this neo-noir set in the classic film noir period for a while. It was more low key than I remembered and takes a while to get going but still feels like a classy film throughout.
6/10
Die Hard 2 (1990, Renny Harlin)
blu ray
I first saw this in the theatre and had a blast but since then I had either seen it on TV of DVD and it was always a pretty bad audio/ video transfer compared to the other films. This time I wanted it on blu ray and the A/V was much better but it only mildly helped this rather weak entry in the franchise. On the positive side it is set at Xmas again, Bruce Willis is great in the role again and we have the return of his wife as well as Reginald Veljohnson (albeit in a shrunken capacity). However the direction is nowhere to the standard of the first film and the action is not even as close to exciting. The writing is pretty bad in general and the villain feels like he’s from a different movie and genre entirely. It still has a few cool scenes and it’s fun to spend time with John McClane again.
5.5-6/10
Panic Room (2002, David Fincher)
Netflix
After some much larger scope films Fincher returned with a single location film and visually went to town as much as he could. Unfortunately I didn’t care about anything that was happening at almost any stage.
5/10
FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022, Luke Sewell)
Netflix
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there’s more to his death than meets the eye.
Solid
FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
Australian Survivor (2022, Season Nine)
Another great season of the best version of the great show.
Great TV
Jimmy Savile: a British Horror Story (2022, Docu-series)
Netflix
A fairly well done two part documentary about Britain’s most prolific celebrity pedophile.
Good TV
WEEKLY FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM: Obsession
BEST ACTOR: Cliff Robertson - Obsession
BEST ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Barbara Hershey - The Public Eye
BEST EDITING: Paul Hirsch - Obsession
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vilmos Zsigmond - Obsession
BEST SCORE: Bernard Herrmann - Obsession
BEST SCRIPT: Paul Schrader, Brian De Palma - Obsession
BEST DIRECTOR: Brian De Palma - Obsession
10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
8/10 - 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:
2 Days in the Valley 7.5/10
I remember enjoying it.
Obsesion 9/10
I thought it was great, loved the over the top feel.
I thought Genevieve Bujold was great. A Fish Called Wanda 8.5/10
Loved it. I thought it was really fun. KJevin Kline was fantastic, John Cleese too.
The Public Eye 7.5/10
I enjoyed it. I liked Joe Pesci.
Die Hard 2 7.5/10
Haven't seen it in ages, I remember thinking it was fun.
Panic Room 8/10
This too, I haven't seen in ages. I remember liking it though.
Mine:
Munich: The Edge of War 8/10
It's a movie with Jeremy Irons, it's about a secretary of the English PM Chamberlain, during the peace talks with Hitler, just before WW2. He gets sent to Germany to get a secret document that proves Hitler actually has plans to take over all of Europe. I liked it, it's really well made and tense, sad too. The cast is good. Jeremy Irons plays Chamberlain.
The Dead Zone 9/10
It's David Cronenberg movie, with Christopher Walken, about a guy waking up from a long coma after a car accident, who discovers now he has psychic abilities. Loved it, it holds up to me. Loved Christopher Walken.
The Lost Daughter 8/10
It's Maggie Gyllenhaal movie, with Olivia Colman, it's about a writer, who's on vacation on a Greek island, and she becomes kind of obsessioned with a big, shady, NY family, who goes to the same beach as her,. I liked it, at the beginning I found it a bit hard to get into it, then it gets pretty intense. Loved the cast. I thought Jessie Buckley was really great, she plays young Oliva Colman in the flashbacks. I liked Peter Sarsgaard too.
I might get to the Munich film some time
The Dead Zone - I love two Cronenberg films, this is one of them. 8/10
The Lost Daughter - some amazing performances 6.5/10
