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Post by theravenking on Jan 1, 2023 16:31:09 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 FILM VIEWING
Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)blu rayA good film noir which takes place mostly at a border town which is a nice sub-genre, the border-noir. Has a good cast and is well made but the writing is pretty basic. 7/1021 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk)Solid crime film starring the solid but somewhat overrated Chadwick Boseman. 6-6.5/10Abandoned (1949, Joseph M. Newman)
blu raySolid enough but also forgettable film noir. 6/10Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)This is some weak ass writing with thinly written characters. Overstylised with razzle dazzle to make up for the lack of heart. Some of the recreations are astonishing and Austin Butler is great with the material he has to work with. Style over substance… classic Luhrmann. 6/10Deported (1950, Robert Siodmak)
blu rayAn American crime romance drama film set in Italy that feels rather laboured and the unlikable lead charctebdoes it no favours. The on location shots are nice though. 5.5/10REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
4K UHD discThe holiday action classic, never disappoints. A Star turning performance from Bruce Willis and one of the great villains ever put to film with Hans Gruber. 8.5/10Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)
4K UHD discThis holiday comedy is always a treat. A Star turning performance from Macaulay Culkin and a great supporting cast all round. 8/10Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
blu rayOut of all his films that I like, this one has gone the longest without a rewatch. It held up really well and in fact many of the things that bothered me years ago were not as bothersome this time around. Sure it’s still a little bloated but it’s a fun ride all the same. 8/10The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser)
4K UHD discSure it’s cheap, poorly written and Arnie isn’t very good in it but it’s a lot of fun and Richard Dawson makes a great villain. 6.5/10FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
The White Lotus (2022, Season Two)A darker season two sees us at another White Lotus hotel, this time in Italy. On par with the quality of the first season. Maybe with better writing for characters but anoitece slower overall. Good TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Die Hard BEST ACTOR: Bruce Willis - Die Hard BEST ACTRESS: Gale Storm - Abandoned BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Rickman - Die Hard (a lot of competition for this one) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Catherine O’Hara - Home Alone BEST EDITING: Fred Raskin - Django Unchained BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson - Django Unchained BEST SCORE: Michael Kamen - Die Hard BEST SCRIPT: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained BEST DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained YEAR END ROUND UP1. Fourth of July 7.5
2. Hustle
3. The Fabelmans 7
4. Farha
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. The Batman
7. Watcher
8. Kimi
9. Tar
10. Emily the Criminal 6.5
11. The Banshees of Inisherin 12. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers 13. After Yang 14. Prey 15. Top Gun: Maverick 16. Confess Fletch 6 17. Deep Water 18. Blonde 19. The Stranger 20. Windfall 21. Elvis 22. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 5.5 23. The Phantom of the Open 24. Barbarian 25. Lightyear 26. Men 27. Jackass Forever 28. Christmas bloody Christmas 29. Everything Everywhere All at Once 4.5 30. Clerks III 4 31. Halloween Ends 32. Don’t Worry Darling 33. The Northman 34. X 3 35. Clean 36 The Infernal Machine 37. Black Phone 38. Scream 39. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 40. Nope 2 41. Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEAR END FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Fourth of July BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Tar BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Batman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans BEST EDITING: Sven Budelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Fabelmans BEST SCRIPT: Louis CK, Joe List - Fourth of July BEST DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans 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 Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) I watched this too last week and agree with your rating. 8.5/10 Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) Another fun Christmas classic.
8/10 Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) Haven't seen this since watching this at the cinema. It's not my favourite Tarantino, but entertaining enough.
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Post by theravenking on Jan 1, 2023 16:38:32 GMT
Die Hard - 9/10 Home Alone - 7.5/10 Django Unchained - Glad to see it go up for you. 9/10 The Running Man - 7/10 First Time Viewings: Time After Time (1979, Nicholas Meyer) - 7.5/10Strange World (2022, Don Hall) - 6/10American Animals (2018, Bart Layton) - 8/10She Said (2022, Maria Schrader) - 7/10Zandy's Bride (1974, Jan Troell) - 7/10Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund) - 8/10Repeat Viewings: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick) - 8/10Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese) - 9.5/10Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) - 10/10The Sixth Sense (1999, M. Night Shyamalan) - 9/10Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan) - 8.5/10Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan) - 8/10Glass (2019, M. Night Shyamalan) - 7/10Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese) - 8/10Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) - 8.5/10Magnum Force (1973, Ted Post) - 8/10Movie Awards: BEST FILM: GoodfellasBEST ACTOR: James McAvoy - SplitBEST ACTRESS: Anya Taylor-Joy - SplitBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Joe Pesci - GoodfellasBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sharon Stone - CasinoBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eduardo Serra - UnbreakableBEST SCORE: Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before ChristmasBEST SCRIPT: M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth SenseBEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese - GoodfellasYear End Roundup:Everything Everywhere All at Once - 9/10 All Quiet on the Western Front - 9/10 The Banshees of Inisherin - 9/10 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - 8.5/10 Official Competition - 8.5/10 On the Count of Three - 8.5/10 The Wonder - 8/10 The Fabelmans - 8/10 Decision to Leave - 8/10 Triangle of Sadness - 8/10 Top Gun: Maverick - 8/10 The Northman - 7.5/10 Hatching - 7.5/10 Mad God - 7.5/10 The Survivor - 7.5/10 Aftersun - 7.5/10 Dual - 7.5/10 The Fallout - 7.5/10 Nope - 7.5/10 The Batman - 7.5/10 Fresh - 7.5/10 X - 7.5/10 Pearl - 7.5/10 Barbarian - 7.5/10 TAR - 7/10 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - 7/10 Watcher - 7/10 Apollo 101/2 : A Space Age Childhood - 7/10 Scream - 7/10 Bodies Bodies Bodies - 7/10 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 7/10 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande - 7/10 To Leslie - 7/10 See How They Run - 7/10 Men - 7/10 She Said - 7/10 Doctor Strange in the Mutiverse of Madness - 7/10 Hustle - 7/10 After Yang - 7/10 Turning Red - 7/10 Crimes of the Future - 7/10 Causeway - 7/10 Windfall - 7/10 Sundown - 7/10 Not Okay - 7/10 As They Made Us - 7/10 Prey - 6.5/10 Don't Worry Darling - 6.5/10 Do Revenge - 6.5/10 Blonde - 6.5/10 Lightyear - 6.5/10 Thor: Love and Thunder - 6.5/10 The Lost City - 6.5/10 The Black Phone - 6.5/10 Kimi - 6.5/10 Deep Water - 6/10 Orphan: First Kill - 6/10 Strange World - 6/10 The Bad Guys - 6/10 No Exit - 6/10 Hotel Transylvania: Transformania - 5.5/10 Pinocchio - 5.5/10 Jurassic World Dominion - 5.5/10 Disenchanted - 5.5/10 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - 5.5/10 A Christmas Story Christmas - 5/10 Death on the Nile - 5/10 Halloween Ends - 4.5/10 Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 4.5/10 The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild - 4/10 Year End Movie Awards: BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST ACTOR: Ben Foster - The SurvivorBEST ACTRESS: Andrea Riseborough - To LeslieBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of InisherinBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Candice Bergen - As They Made UsBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Friend - All Quiet on the Western FrontBEST SCORE: Michael Giacchino - The BatmanBEST SCRIPT: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST DIRECTOR: Edward Berger - All Quiet on the Western FrontThe Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick) - I love Coraline, but could never really get into this one. - 4/10 Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese) - It's been too long, but I remember liking it. - 8/10 Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) - 8/10 The Sixth Sense (1999, M. Night Shyamalan) - 8.5/10 Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan) - 8.5/10 Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan) - I appreciate the overall concept, but McAvoy's performance just didn't work for me. - 4/10 Glass (2019, M. Night Shyamalan) - 3/10 Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) - 7/10 |
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Post by theravenking on Jan 1, 2023 16:48:03 GMT
Die Hard - 8/10 Home Alone - 8/10 Djano Unchained - 8/10 The Running Man - 7/10 First Time Viewings: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022, Clay Kaytis) – TV 7/10Scrooged (1988, Richard Donner) – DVD 7/10Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, Joel Crawford) – Theatres 8/10Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma) – DVD 7/10Mission: Impossible 2 (2000, John Woo) – DVD 7/10Mission: Impossible III (2006, J. J. Abrams) – DVD 7.5/10Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird) – DVD 7.5/10Repeat Viewings: Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 8/10Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 7/10A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark) – DVD 8/10Year End Round Up1. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2. The Batman 3. Barbarian 4. X 5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 6. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 7. The Black Phone 8. Prey 9. Turning Red 10. Orphan: First Kill 11. Nope 12. Scream 13. A Christmas Story Christmas 14. Thor: Love and Thunder 15. Hocus Pocus 2 16. DC League of Super-Pets 17. Lightyear 18. Minions: The Rise of Gru 19. The Gray Man 20. Disenchanted 21. Samaritan 22. Halloween Ends 23. Uncharted 24. Black Adam 25. Jurassic World Dominion 26. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 27. Morbius 28. Texas Chainsaw Massacre Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma) – DVD 8/10 Mission: Impossible 2 (2000, John Woo) – DVD 5/10 Mission: Impossible III (2006, J. J. Abrams) – DVD 5.5/10 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird) – DVD 7.5/10 Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 8/10 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 7/10 |
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Post by theravenking on Jan 1, 2023 16:54:21 GMT
First Time Viewing
The Basketball Diaries (1995; Scott Kalvert) - A young Leonardo Di Caprio is excellent in this drug drama, but it would've benefited from some better direction and tighter pacing.
5/10
Love Eternal (1943; Jean Delannoy) - This modern re-telling of the Tristan and Isolde fable has some exquisite cinematography and a great dreamlike mood, but is also rather deliberately paced and you have to buy into the fairy-tale-like story.
6.5/10
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972; Umberto Lenzi) - Solid giallo which could almost serve as a blueprint for the genre as it has all the typical tropes you can expect.
6.5/10
Repeat Viewing
The Perfect Host (2010; Nick Tomnay) - Fun indie comedy-thriller with a great turn by David Hyde Pierce.
7.5/10
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Post by James on Jan 1, 2023 17:11:04 GMT
First Time Viewing
The Basketball Diaries (1995; Scott Kalvert) - A young Leonardo Di Caprio is excellent in this drug drama, but it would've benefited from some better direction and tighter pacing. 5/10
Love Eternal (1943; Jean Delannoy) - This modern re-telling of the Tristan and Isolde fable has some exquisite cinematography and a great dreamlike mood, but is also rather deliberately paced and you have to buy into the fairy-tale-like story. 6.5/10
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972; Umberto Lenzi) - Solid giallo which could almost serve as a blueprint for the genre as it has all the typical tropes you can expect. 6.5/10 Repeat Viewing
The Perfect Host (2010; Nick Tomnay) - Fun indie comedy-thriller with a great turn by David Hyde Pierce. 7.5/10 Not seen any of yours. |
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jan 1, 2023 17:39:37 GMT
First Time Viewing
The Basketball Diaries (1995; Scott Kalvert) - A young Leonardo Di Caprio is excellent in this drug drama, but it would've benefited from some better direction and tighter pacing. 5/10
Love Eternal (1943; Jean Delannoy) - This modern re-telling of the Tristan and Isolde fable has some exquisite cinematography and a great dreamlike mood, but is also rather deliberately paced and you have to buy into the fairy-tale-like story. 6.5/10
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972; Umberto Lenzi) - Solid giallo which could almost serve as a blueprint for the genre as it has all the typical tropes you can expect. 6.5/10 Repeat Viewing
The Perfect Host (2010; Nick Tomnay) - Fun indie comedy-thriller with a great turn by David Hyde Pierce. 7.5/10 I’ve not seen basketball diaries since it was a new release vhs. I remember it being kinda gross but well enough acted, not sure what I’d rate it now but then it was probably a 6/10 |
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Post by jcush on Jan 1, 2023 21:26:00 GMT
Die Hard - 8/10 Home Alone - 8/10 Djano Unchained - 8/10 The Running Man - 7/10 First Time Viewings: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022, Clay Kaytis) – TV 7/10Scrooged (1988, Richard Donner) – DVD 7/10Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, Joel Crawford) – Theatres 8/10Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma) – DVD 7/10Mission: Impossible 2 (2000, John Woo) – DVD 7/10Mission: Impossible III (2006, J. J. Abrams) – DVD 7.5/10Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird) – DVD 7.5/10Repeat Viewings: Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 8/10Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992, Chris Columbus) – Disney+ 7/10A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark) – DVD 8/10Year End Round Up1. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2. The Batman 3. Barbarian 4. X 5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 6. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 7. The Black Phone 8. Prey 9. Turning Red 10. Orphan: First Kill 11. Nope 12. Scream 13. A Christmas Story Christmas 14. Thor: Love and Thunder 15. Hocus Pocus 2 16. DC League of Super-Pets 17. Lightyear 18. Minions: The Rise of Gru 19. The Gray Man 20. Disenchanted 21. Samaritan 22. Halloween Ends 23. Uncharted 24. Black Adam 25. Jurassic World Dominion 26. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 27. Morbius 28. Texas Chainsaw Massacre A Christmas Story Christmas - 5/10 Scrooged - Would like to give this another shot. 5.5/10 Mission: Impossible - 7.5/10 Mission: Impossible II - 7/10 Mission: Impossible III - 7.5/10 Ghost Protocol - 7.5/10 Home Alone - 7.5/10 Home Alone 2 - 6.5/10 A Christmas Story - 7.5/10 |
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Post by jcush on Jan 1, 2023 21:26:52 GMT
First Viewings: Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) 2/10 Married Life (2007) 5/10 Ambush (1950) 4/10 Background to Danger (1943) 7/10 Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) 4/10 Albuquerque (1948) 5/10 Emily the Criminal (2022) 6/10 Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) 5/10 Easter Sunday (2022) 4/10 Tarzan Escapes (1936) 6/10 Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022) 5/10 The Hitch-hiker (1953) 6/10 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 8/10 Killer Klowns from Outer Space - 5.5/10 The Hitch-hiker - 7/10 Glass Onion - 8.5/10 |
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Post by jcush on Jan 1, 2023 21:28:43 GMT
First Time Viewing
The Basketball Diaries (1995; Scott Kalvert) - A young Leonardo Di Caprio is excellent in this drug drama, but it would've benefited from some better direction and tighter pacing. 5/10
Love Eternal (1943; Jean Delannoy) - This modern re-telling of the Tristan and Isolde fable has some exquisite cinematography and a great dreamlike mood, but is also rather deliberately paced and you have to buy into the fairy-tale-like story. 6.5/10
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972; Umberto Lenzi) - Solid giallo which could almost serve as a blueprint for the genre as it has all the typical tropes you can expect. 6.5/10 Repeat Viewing
The Perfect Host (2010; Nick Tomnay) - Fun indie comedy-thriller with a great turn by David Hyde Pierce. 7.5/10 The Basketball Diaries - The acting carries it, especially DiCaprio. 7/10 |
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Post by sjg on Jan 2, 2023 10:53:10 GMT
Hey Dark,
Happy new year!
Yours:
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) 9/10
Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) 7/10
Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) 9/10
The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 7/10
Mine:
1) Apollo Astronauts: Training NASA's Moon Men 2015 (6/10)
2) Run Fatboy Run 2007 (6/10)
3) L'ours (The Bear) 1988 (2/10)
4) Half Nelson 2006 (4/10)
5) Junebug 2005 (4/10)
6) Klute 1971 (6/10)
7) Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion 2008 (7/10)
TV Series Viewings:
1) Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 1995 (6/10)
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jan 2, 2023 12:02:22 GMT
Hey Dark, Happy new year! Yours: Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) 9/10 Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) 7/10 Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) 9/10 The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 7/10 Mine: 1) Apollo Astronauts: Training NASA's Moon Men 2015 (6/10) 2) Run Fatboy Run 2007 (6/10) 3) L'ours (The Bear) 1988 (2/10) 4) Half Nelson 2006 (4/10) 5) Junebug 2005 (4/10) 6) Klute 1971 (6/10) 7) Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion 2008 (7/10) TV Series Viewings: 1) Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 1995 (6/10) Hey SJG  Happy new year. Just one of yours this week. Half Nelson - hood, sad film 6.5/10 |
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Post by william123 on Jan 2, 2023 14:48:31 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 FILM VIEWING
Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)blu rayA good film noir which takes place mostly at a border town which is a nice sub-genre, the border-noir. Has a good cast and is well made but the writing is pretty basic. 7/1021 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk)Solid crime film starring the solid but somewhat overrated Chadwick Boseman. 6-6.5/10Abandoned (1949, Joseph M. Newman)
blu raySolid enough but also forgettable film noir. 6/10Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)This is some weak ass writing with thinly written characters. Overstylised with razzle dazzle to make up for the lack of heart. Some of the recreations are astonishing and Austin Butler is great with the material he has to work with. Style over substance… classic Luhrmann. 6/10Deported (1950, Robert Siodmak)
blu rayAn American crime romance drama film set in Italy that feels rather laboured and the unlikable lead charctebdoes it no favours. The on location shots are nice though. 5.5/10REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
4K UHD discThe holiday action classic, never disappoints. A Star turning performance from Bruce Willis and one of the great villains ever put to film with Hans Gruber. 8.5/10Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)
4K UHD discThis holiday comedy is always a treat. A Star turning performance from Macaulay Culkin and a great supporting cast all round. 8/10Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
blu rayOut of all his films that I like, this one has gone the longest without a rewatch. It held up really well and in fact many of the things that bothered me years ago were not as bothersome this time around. Sure it’s still a little bloated but it’s a fun ride all the same. 8/10The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser)
4K UHD discSure it’s cheap, poorly written and Arnie isn’t very good in it but it’s a lot of fun and Richard Dawson makes a great villain. 6.5/10FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
The White Lotus (2022, Season Two)A darker season two sees us at another White Lotus hotel, this time in Italy. On par with the quality of the first season. Maybe with better writing for characters but anoitece slower overall. Good TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Die Hard BEST ACTOR: Bruce Willis - Die Hard BEST ACTRESS: Gale Storm - Abandoned BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Rickman - Die Hard (a lot of competition for this one) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Catherine O’Hara - Home Alone BEST EDITING: Fred Raskin - Django Unchained BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson - Django Unchained BEST SCORE: Michael Kamen - Die Hard BEST SCRIPT: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained BEST DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained YEAR END ROUND UP1. Fourth of July 7.5
2. Hustle
3. The Fabelmans 7
4. Farha
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. The Batman
7. Watcher
8. Kimi
9. Tar
10. Emily the Criminal 6.5
11. The Banshees of Inisherin 12. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers 13. After Yang 14. Prey 15. Top Gun: Maverick 16. Confess Fletch 6 17. Deep Water 18. Blonde 19. The Stranger 20. Windfall 21. Elvis 22. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 5.5 23. The Phantom of the Open 24. Barbarian 25. Lightyear 26. Men 27. Jackass Forever 28. Christmas bloody Christmas 29. Everything Everywhere All at Once 4.5 30. Clerks III 4 31. Halloween Ends 32. Don’t Worry Darling 33. The Northman 34. X 3 35. Clean 36 The Infernal Machine 37. Black Phone 38. Scream 39. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 40. Nope 2 41. Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEAR END FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Fourth of July BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Tar BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Batman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans BEST EDITING: Sven Budelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Fabelmans BEST SCRIPT: Louis CK, Joe List - Fourth of July BEST DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans 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 Hi, Dark.  Happy New Year (a bit late).  My favourite movie of 20222 is Tar (so far, at least).  Yours: Naked Alibi 6/10 I like Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame, I thought this was so-so though. Elvis 8/10 I liked it a lot. I'm usually not a big fan of Baz Luhrmann's style, it worked for me on this though.  Austin Butler was great. I actually liked Tom Hanks too. Die Hard 9/10 Yep. Classic. Home Alone 7/10 I haven't seen it in ages. I remember thinking it was O.K., but a bit overrated. Django Unchained 8.5/10 Loved it. I haven't seen it since it came out, but yeah... The Running Man 8/10 I like it actually. It's really fun. It holds up for me. Also, I like that it actually prediced a lot fo stuff (CGI and deep fake technology too, in a way... ) Mine: Avatar: The Way of the Water 7.5/10 O.K., I enjoyed it. It does feel too long, and it drags a bit, in the first half, IMO. But I thought a lot of parts were really great, moving too. And the final battle is really incredible. I really liked Sigourney Weaver, she plays a teen basically, she really nails it, IMO. The Landlord 9/10 It's a Hal Ashby movie, with Beau Bridges. It's about a rich guy who decides to buy a building in the ghetto, to re-structure it and move there, but he hasn't considered the actual tenants in his plan. Loved it, I thought it was really great, a real blast. It changes a lot, pretty abruptly, near the end, it really worked for me. Loved Diana Sands, she's the actress who plays a tenant who has an affair with Beau Bridges' character. I really liked Lee Grant too, she plays his mother, she's really funny. Point Blank 8.5/10 John Boorman movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. It's about a robber, betrayed and left for dead by his partner, who starts to hunt him down to get revenge and his cut of the heist. Love it, it holds up for me. It's beautiful visually. I like the style, especially at the beginning. Lee Marvin is really good. Nostalgia 8/10 It's an Italian movie, Mario Martone directed it, it's about a man who goes back to his old neighbourhhod in Naples, after he had to leave the country as a teen, because of a crime he was involved in. He tries to re-adapt to it and finds that his old best friend is now the powerful Camorra boss who runs it. It took me a while to get into it, then I did. I liked it. The lead actor, Pierfrancesco Favino, is really good. |
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jan 2, 2023 16:52:49 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 FILM VIEWING
Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)blu rayA good film noir which takes place mostly at a border town which is a nice sub-genre, the border-noir. Has a good cast and is well made but the writing is pretty basic. 7/1021 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk)Solid crime film starring the solid but somewhat overrated Chadwick Boseman. 6-6.5/10Abandoned (1949, Joseph M. Newman)
blu raySolid enough but also forgettable film noir. 6/10Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)This is some weak ass writing with thinly written characters. Overstylised with razzle dazzle to make up for the lack of heart. Some of the recreations are astonishing and Austin Butler is great with the material he has to work with. Style over substance… classic Luhrmann. 6/10Deported (1950, Robert Siodmak)
blu rayAn American crime romance drama film set in Italy that feels rather laboured and the unlikable lead charctebdoes it no favours. The on location shots are nice though. 5.5/10REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
4K UHD discThe holiday action classic, never disappoints. A Star turning performance from Bruce Willis and one of the great villains ever put to film with Hans Gruber. 8.5/10Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)
4K UHD discThis holiday comedy is always a treat. A Star turning performance from Macaulay Culkin and a great supporting cast all round. 8/10Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
blu rayOut of all his films that I like, this one has gone the longest without a rewatch. It held up really well and in fact many of the things that bothered me years ago were not as bothersome this time around. Sure it’s still a little bloated but it’s a fun ride all the same. 8/10The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser)
4K UHD discSure it’s cheap, poorly written and Arnie isn’t very good in it but it’s a lot of fun and Richard Dawson makes a great villain. 6.5/10FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
The White Lotus (2022, Season Two)A darker season two sees us at another White Lotus hotel, this time in Italy. On par with the quality of the first season. Maybe with better writing for characters but anoitece slower overall. Good TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Die Hard BEST ACTOR: Bruce Willis - Die Hard BEST ACTRESS: Gale Storm - Abandoned BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Rickman - Die Hard (a lot of competition for this one) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Catherine O’Hara - Home Alone BEST EDITING: Fred Raskin - Django Unchained BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson - Django Unchained BEST SCORE: Michael Kamen - Die Hard BEST SCRIPT: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained BEST DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained YEAR END ROUND UP1. Fourth of July 7.5
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6. The Batman
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11. The Banshees of Inisherin 12. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers 13. After Yang 14. Prey 15. Top Gun: Maverick 16. Confess Fletch 6 17. Deep Water 18. Blonde 19. The Stranger 20. Windfall 21. Elvis 22. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 5.5 23. The Phantom of the Open 24. Barbarian 25. Lightyear 26. Men 27. Jackass Forever 28. Christmas bloody Christmas 29. Everything Everywhere All at Once 4.5 30. Clerks III 4 31. Halloween Ends 32. Don’t Worry Darling 33. The Northman 34. X 3 35. Clean 36 The Infernal Machine 37. Black Phone 38. Scream 39. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 40. Nope 2 41. Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEAR END FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Fourth of July BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Tar BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Batman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans BEST EDITING: Sven Budelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Fabelmans BEST SCRIPT: Louis CK, Joe List - Fourth of July BEST DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans 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 Hi, Dark. Happy New Year (a bit late). My favourite movie of 20222 is Tar (so far, at least). Yours: Naked Alibi 6/10 I like Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame, I thought this was so-so though. Elvis 8/10 I liked it a lot. I'm usually not a big fan of Baz Luhrmann's style, it worked for me on this though. Austin Butler was great. I actually liked Tom Hanks too. Die Hard 9/10 Yep. Classic. Home Alone 7/10 I haven't seen it in ages. I remember thinking it was O.K., but a bit overrated. Django Unchained 8.5/10 Loved it. I haven't seen it since it came out, but yeah... The Running Man 8/10 I like it actually. It's really fun. It holds up for me. Also, I like that it actually prediced a lot fo stuff (CGI and deep fake technology too, in a way... ) Mine: Avatar: The Way of the Water 7.5/10 O.K., I enjoyed it. It does feel too long, and it drags a bit, in the first half, IMO. But I thought a lot of parts were really great, moving too. And the final battle is really incredible. I really liked Sigourney Weaver, she plays a teen basically, she really nails it, IMO. The Landlord 9/10 It's a Hal Ashby movie, with Beau Bridges. It's about a rich guy who decides to buy a building in the ghetto, to re-structure it and move there, but he hasn't considered the actual tenants in his plan. Loved it, I thought it was really great, a real blast. It changes a lot, pretty abruptly, near the end, it really worked for me. Loved Diana Sands, she's the actress who plays a tenant who has an affair with Beau Bridges' character. I really liked Lee Grant too, she plays his mother, she's really funny. Point Blank 8.5/10 John Boorman movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. It's about a robber, betrayed and left for dead by his partner, who starts to hunt him down to get revenge and his cut of the heist. Love it, it holds up for me. It's beautiful visually. I like the style, especially at the beginning. Lee Marvin is really good. Nostalgia 8/10 It's an Italian movie, Mario Martone directed it, it's about a man who goes back to his old neighbourhhod in Naples, after he had to leave the country as a teen, because of a crime he was involved in. He tries to re-adapt to it and finds that his old best friend is now the powerful Camorra boss who runs it. It took me a while to get into it, then I did. I liked it. The lead actor, Pierfrancesco Favino, is really good. Hey Billy Happy new year My partner wants to see the new avatar but the length has put us off for now. I’m easy either way. Yours Point Blank - yeah great style , I’m a big fan 8/10 |
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Post by william123 on Jan 2, 2023 19:00:00 GMT
Hi, Dark. Happy New Year (a bit late). My favourite movie of 20222 is Tar (so far, at least). Yours: Naked Alibi 6/10 I like Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame, I thought this was so-so though. Elvis 8/10 I liked it a lot. I'm usually not a big fan of Baz Luhrmann's style, it worked for me on this though. Austin Butler was great. I actually liked Tom Hanks too. Die Hard 9/10 Yep. Classic. Home Alone 7/10 I haven't seen it in ages. I remember thinking it was O.K., but a bit overrated. Django Unchained 8.5/10 Loved it. I haven't seen it since it came out, but yeah... The Running Man 8/10 I like it actually. It's really fun. It holds up for me. Also, I like that it actually prediced a lot fo stuff (CGI and deep fake technology too, in a way... ) Mine: Avatar: The Way of the Water 7.5/10 O.K., I enjoyed it. It does feel too long, and it drags a bit, in the first half, IMO. But I thought a lot of parts were really great, moving too. And the final battle is really incredible. I really liked Sigourney Weaver, she plays a teen basically, she really nails it, IMO. The Landlord 9/10 It's a Hal Ashby movie, with Beau Bridges. It's about a rich guy who decides to buy a building in the ghetto, to re-structure it and move there, but he hasn't considered the actual tenants in his plan. Loved it, I thought it was really great, a real blast. It changes a lot, pretty abruptly, near the end, it really worked for me. Loved Diana Sands, she's the actress who plays a tenant who has an affair with Beau Bridges' character. I really liked Lee Grant too, she plays his mother, she's really funny. Point Blank 8.5/10 John Boorman movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. It's about a robber, betrayed and left for dead by his partner, who starts to hunt him down to get revenge and his cut of the heist. Love it, it holds up for me. It's beautiful visually. I like the style, especially at the beginning. Lee Marvin is really good. Nostalgia 8/10 It's an Italian movie, Mario Martone directed it, it's about a man who goes back to his old neighbourhhod in Naples, after he had to leave the country as a teen, because of a crime he was involved in. He tries to re-adapt to it and finds that his old best friend is now the powerful Camorra boss who runs it. It took me a while to get into it, then I did. I liked it. The lead actor, Pierfrancesco Favino, is really good. Hey Billy Happy new year My partner wants to see the new avatar but the length has put us off for now. I’m easy either way. Yours Point Blank - yeah great style , I’m a big fan 8/10 Well, I didn't find Avatar 2 boring though, even in the parts I thought dragged a bit. Although, yes, it's more than 3 hours long, so I guess it's subjective, it depends on how people relate to that length. It's also absolutely worthy to watch in a theatre, IMO. Actually, I have no idea how it would hold up on a small screen. I guess, it would still be fun, but still... Yeah, I really liked the almost experimental vibe in Point Blank, especially in the beginning. |
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Post by jcush on Jan 2, 2023 19:47:56 GMT
Hey Dark, Happy new year! Yours: Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) 9/10 Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) 7/10 Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) 9/10 The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 7/10 Mine: 1) Apollo Astronauts: Training NASA's Moon Men 2015 (6/10) 2) Run Fatboy Run 2007 (6/10) 3) L'ours (The Bear) 1988 (2/10) 4) Half Nelson 2006 (4/10) 5) Junebug 2005 (4/10) 6) Klute 1971 (6/10) 7) Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion 2008 (7/10) TV Series Viewings: 1) Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 1995 (6/10) Half Nelson - 6/10 Junebug - 6/10 Klute - 7/10 |
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Post by jcush on Jan 2, 2023 19:50:39 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 FILM VIEWING
Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)blu rayA good film noir which takes place mostly at a border town which is a nice sub-genre, the border-noir. Has a good cast and is well made but the writing is pretty basic. 7/1021 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk)Solid crime film starring the solid but somewhat overrated Chadwick Boseman. 6-6.5/10Abandoned (1949, Joseph M. Newman)
blu raySolid enough but also forgettable film noir. 6/10Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)This is some weak ass writing with thinly written characters. Overstylised with razzle dazzle to make up for the lack of heart. Some of the recreations are astonishing and Austin Butler is great with the material he has to work with. Style over substance… classic Luhrmann. 6/10Deported (1950, Robert Siodmak)
blu rayAn American crime romance drama film set in Italy that feels rather laboured and the unlikable lead charctebdoes it no favours. The on location shots are nice though. 5.5/10REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
4K UHD discThe holiday action classic, never disappoints. A Star turning performance from Bruce Willis and one of the great villains ever put to film with Hans Gruber. 8.5/10Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)
4K UHD discThis holiday comedy is always a treat. A Star turning performance from Macaulay Culkin and a great supporting cast all round. 8/10Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
blu rayOut of all his films that I like, this one has gone the longest without a rewatch. It held up really well and in fact many of the things that bothered me years ago were not as bothersome this time around. Sure it’s still a little bloated but it’s a fun ride all the same. 8/10The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser)
4K UHD discSure it’s cheap, poorly written and Arnie isn’t very good in it but it’s a lot of fun and Richard Dawson makes a great villain. 6.5/10FIRST TIME TV VIEWING
The White Lotus (2022, Season Two)A darker season two sees us at another White Lotus hotel, this time in Italy. On par with the quality of the first season. Maybe with better writing for characters but anoitece slower overall. Good TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Die Hard BEST ACTOR: Bruce Willis - Die Hard BEST ACTRESS: Gale Storm - Abandoned BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Rickman - Die Hard (a lot of competition for this one) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Catherine O’Hara - Home Alone BEST EDITING: Fred Raskin - Django Unchained BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson - Django Unchained BEST SCORE: Michael Kamen - Die Hard BEST SCRIPT: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained BEST DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained YEAR END ROUND UP1. Fourth of July 7.5
2. Hustle
3. The Fabelmans 7
4. Farha
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. The Batman
7. Watcher
8. Kimi
9. Tar
10. Emily the Criminal 6.5
11. The Banshees of Inisherin 12. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers 13. After Yang 14. Prey 15. Top Gun: Maverick 16. Confess Fletch 6 17. Deep Water 18. Blonde 19. The Stranger 20. Windfall 21. Elvis 22. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 5.5 23. The Phantom of the Open 24. Barbarian 25. Lightyear 26. Men 27. Jackass Forever 28. Christmas bloody Christmas 29. Everything Everywhere All at Once 4.5 30. Clerks III 4 31. Halloween Ends 32. Don’t Worry Darling 33. The Northman 34. X 3 35. Clean 36 The Infernal Machine 37. Black Phone 38. Scream 39. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness 40. Nope 2 41. Texas Chainsaw Massacre YEAR END FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: Fourth of July BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Tar BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Colin Farrell - The Batman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans BEST EDITING: Sven Budelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Fabelmans BEST SCRIPT: Louis CK, Joe List - Fourth of July BEST DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans 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 Hi, Dark. Happy New Year (a bit late). My favourite movie of 20222 is Tar (so far, at least). Yours: Naked Alibi 6/10 I like Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame, I thought this was so-so though. Elvis 8/10 I liked it a lot. I'm usually not a big fan of Baz Luhrmann's style, it worked for me on this though. Austin Butler was great. I actually liked Tom Hanks too. Die Hard 9/10 Yep. Classic. Home Alone 7/10 I haven't seen it in ages. I remember thinking it was O.K., but a bit overrated. Django Unchained 8.5/10 Loved it. I haven't seen it since it came out, but yeah... The Running Man 8/10 I like it actually. It's really fun. It holds up for me. Also, I like that it actually prediced a lot fo stuff (CGI and deep fake technology too, in a way... ) Mine: Avatar: The Way of the Water 7.5/10 O.K., I enjoyed it. It does feel too long, and it drags a bit, in the first half, IMO. But I thought a lot of parts were really great, moving too. And the final battle is really incredible. I really liked Sigourney Weaver, she plays a teen basically, she really nails it, IMO. The Landlord 9/10 It's a Hal Ashby movie, with Beau Bridges. It's about a rich guy who decides to buy a building in the ghetto, to re-structure it and move there, but he hasn't considered the actual tenants in his plan. Loved it, I thought it was really great, a real blast. It changes a lot, pretty abruptly, near the end, it really worked for me. Loved Diana Sands, she's the actress who plays a tenant who has an affair with Beau Bridges' character. I really liked Lee Grant too, she plays his mother, she's really funny. Point Blank 8.5/10 John Boorman movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. It's about a robber, betrayed and left for dead by his partner, who starts to hunt him down to get revenge and his cut of the heist. Love it, it holds up for me. It's beautiful visually. I like the style, especially at the beginning. Lee Marvin is really good. Nostalgia 8/10 It's an Italian movie, Mario Martone directed it, it's about a man who goes back to his old neighbourhhod in Naples, after he had to leave the country as a teen, because of a crime he was involved in. He tries to re-adapt to it and finds that his old best friend is now the powerful Camorra boss who runs it. It took me a while to get into it, then I did. I liked it. The lead actor, Pierfrancesco Favino, is really good. Point Blank - Pretty good, but I actually liked Payback with Mel Gibson more. 7/10 |
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Post by william123 on Jan 2, 2023 20:17:17 GMT
Hi, Dark. Happy New Year (a bit late). My favourite movie of 20222 is Tar (so far, at least). Yours: Naked Alibi 6/10 I like Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame, I thought this was so-so though. Elvis 8/10 I liked it a lot. I'm usually not a big fan of Baz Luhrmann's style, it worked for me on this though. Austin Butler was great. I actually liked Tom Hanks too. Die Hard 9/10 Yep. Classic. Home Alone 7/10 I haven't seen it in ages. I remember thinking it was O.K., but a bit overrated. Django Unchained 8.5/10 Loved it. I haven't seen it since it came out, but yeah... The Running Man 8/10 I like it actually. It's really fun. It holds up for me. Also, I like that it actually prediced a lot fo stuff (CGI and deep fake technology too, in a way... ) Mine: Avatar: The Way of the Water 7.5/10 O.K., I enjoyed it. It does feel too long, and it drags a bit, in the first half, IMO. But I thought a lot of parts were really great, moving too. And the final battle is really incredible. I really liked Sigourney Weaver, she plays a teen basically, she really nails it, IMO. The Landlord 9/10 It's a Hal Ashby movie, with Beau Bridges. It's about a rich guy who decides to buy a building in the ghetto, to re-structure it and move there, but he hasn't considered the actual tenants in his plan. Loved it, I thought it was really great, a real blast. It changes a lot, pretty abruptly, near the end, it really worked for me. Loved Diana Sands, she's the actress who plays a tenant who has an affair with Beau Bridges' character. I really liked Lee Grant too, she plays his mother, she's really funny. Point Blank 8.5/10 John Boorman movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. It's about a robber, betrayed and left for dead by his partner, who starts to hunt him down to get revenge and his cut of the heist. Love it, it holds up for me. It's beautiful visually. I like the style, especially at the beginning. Lee Marvin is really good. Nostalgia 8/10 It's an Italian movie, Mario Martone directed it, it's about a man who goes back to his old neighbourhhod in Naples, after he had to leave the country as a teen, because of a crime he was involved in. He tries to re-adapt to it and finds that his old best friend is now the powerful Camorra boss who runs it. It took me a while to get into it, then I did. I liked it. The lead actor, Pierfrancesco Favino, is really good. Point Blank - Pretty good, but I actually liked Payback with Mel Gibson more. 7/10 I like Payback. The director's cut too. But I prefer Point Blank, myself. |
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jan 2, 2023 21:20:11 GMT
Hey Billy Happy new year My partner wants to see the new avatar but the length has put us off for now. I’m easy either way. Yours Point Blank - yeah great style , I’m a big fan 8/10 Well, I didn't find Avatar 2 boring though, even in the parts I thought dragged a bit. Although, yes, it's more than 3 hours long, so I guess it's subjective, it depends on how people relate to that length. It's also absolutely worthy to watch in a theatre, IMO. Actually, I have no idea how it would hold up on a small screen. I guess, it would still be fun, but still... Yeah, I really liked the almost experimental vibe in Point Blank, especially in the beginning. Yeah the beginning of point blank is always the bit I remember about the film first |
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jan 2, 2023 21:21:21 GMT
Hey Dark, Happy new year! Yours: Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) 9/10 Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus) 7/10 Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino) 9/10 The Running Man (1987, Paul Michael Glaser) 7/10 Mine: 1) Apollo Astronauts: Training NASA's Moon Men 2015 (6/10) 2) Run Fatboy Run 2007 (6/10) 3) L'ours (The Bear) 1988 (2/10) 4) Half Nelson 2006 (4/10) 5) Junebug 2005 (4/10) 6) Klute 1971 (6/10) 7) Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion 2008 (7/10) TV Series Viewings: 1) Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 1995 (6/10) Oops, somehow missed Klute from your list 5/10 |
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Post by william123 on Jan 2, 2023 23:30:04 GMT
Well, I didn't find Avatar 2 boring though, even in the parts I thought dragged a bit. Although, yes, it's more than 3 hours long, so I guess it's subjective, it depends on how people relate to that length. It's also absolutely worthy to watch in a theatre, IMO. Actually, I have no idea how it would hold up on a small screen. I guess, it would still be fun, but still... Yeah, I really liked the almost experimental vibe in Point Blank, especially in the beginning. Yeah the beginning of point blank is always the bit I remember about the film first Yeah, the whole part with the wife, I love it. |
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