What Films did You Watch Last Week (14/11 - 20/11) CLOSED

 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 FILM VIEWING

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Edward Berger)
Netflix
Another remake of the 1930 classic ww1 movie that I have only seen sections of. It is very well made and acted but quite relentlessly grim which given the subject matter is fitting but might be too much for some. The score was very in the trend of scores for a lot of elevated horror films and took me out of the film from time to time but this is a mild complaint. One of the best films of the year.
7.5/10

New York Confidential (1955, Russell Rouse)
Pretty tough film noir about the crime families in New York. Could’ve been leaner but had a good finale.
6/10

Arabesque (1966, Stanley Donnen)
A colourful next offering from the director after his hit film Charade. It’s silly and I can’t help think it would’ve been better with Cary Grant however Peck has a few good moments.
6/10

Air Force One (1997, Wolfgang Peterson)
Disney+
Well this is Die Hard on a plane but not in the same class at all and made in a naive time when you could sell an American  president as a hero. It pretty lazily steals a lot f beats from Die Hard but doesn’t execute them well. Also Harrison Ford doesn’t have that much to do for a lot of the run time and has little presence. Gary Oldman as the villain holds centrar stage and he’s the best part of the film but it’s pretty lopsided between protagonist and antagonist from a storytelling point of view.
4.5/10

Nobody’s Fool (1994, Robert Benton)
This film has a good cast, is well acted but is so thin that it barely feels like a movie.
4/10

REPEAT FILM VIEWING

None this week.

FIRST TIME TV VIEWING

Derry Girls (2022, Season Three)
Netflix
Good final season of this funny Irish show.
Good TV

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST ACTOR: Felix Kammerer - All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST ACTRESS: Sophia Loren - Arabesque 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Richard Conte - New York Confidential
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Melanie Griffith - Nobody’s Fool
BEST EDITING: Sven Budelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Friend - All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST SCORE: Henry Mancini - Arabesque 
BEST SCRIPT: Edward Berger - All Quiet on the Western Front
BEST DIRECTOR: Edward Berger - All Quiet on the Western Front

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