What Films did You Watch Last Week (16/01 - 22/01) CLOSED

Hey Dark,

Just one of yours this week:
Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese) 6/10

Mine:
1) 12 2007 (6/10)

2) Across the Universe 2007 (4/10)

3) The Counterfeiters 2007 (6/10)

4) Defiance 2008 (7/10)

5) Pelé 2021 (6/10)

6) Downfall: The Case Against Boeing 2022 (6/10)

7) The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story 2019 (7/10)

8) Riding High 1981 (6/10)



Repeat Viewings:

1) Big Bang Theory Season 9

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

The Banker (2020, George Nolfi)
TV
Based on true events, set in the 1960's is this tale of two black men trying to get business done in a white mans world. It is well paced with good performances and a great jazzy score. The story beats and structure are pretty familiar but  never uninteresting.
7/10

Buffalo '66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)
Low budget quirky film with a surprisingly unlikable lead character that people seem to like. Some interesting stuff here.
6/10

Hurlyburly (1998, Anthony Drazan)
This film is based on a play and often feels like it. It is a very talky piece with a mixed bag of success despite the A list casts efforts. Still I stayed interested throughout.
5.5/10

REPEAT FILM VIEWING

Consenting Adults (1992, Alan J. Pakula)
Disney+
This thriller starts with a slow burn to set up motivations that mostly pay off later. It is well enough made and acted and a solid timepasser.
6/10

Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)
Disney+
I had not seen this Nicolas Cage led Scorsese film since the cinema. In the cinema I was underwhelmed and on rewatch it was even worse. This feels like a poor mans Scorsese film and just made me want to watch a better Scorsese film like Taxi Driver. It has a few good individual scenes, some humerous moments and picks up a bit once Cage ends up working with Tom Sizemore. In the end the story doesn't really go far and feels just like a bunch of scenes. I felt nothing at its conclusion.
4.5/10

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: The Banker
BEST ACTOR: Kevin Kline - Consenting Adults
BEST ACTRESS: Christina Ricci - Buffalo '66
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Samuel L. Jackson - The Banker
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anna Paquin - Hurlyburly
BEST EDITING: Curtiss CLayton - Buffalo '66
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Charlotte Bruus Christensen - The Banker
BEST SCORE: H. Scott Salinas - The Banker
BEST SCRIPT: Niceole R. Levy - The Banker
BEST DIRECTOR: George Nolfi - The Banker

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.

Here I am.


Yours:

Buffalo '66 7/10

I remember thinking it was O.K., I saw it ages ago though.

Hurlyburly 5/10

I remember not liking it much. The acting is great, but I thought the movie was a bit heavy-handed.

Consenting Adults 6/10

Saw it ages ago. I remember thinking it was so-so.

Bringing Out the Dead 8/10

I liked it actually. I think it's underrated.


Mine:

Babylon 8/10

It's Damien Chazelle new movie, withMargot Robbie and Brad Pitt, it's about a producer's assistant, a girl who wants to be a big star and an actual big movie star in Hollywood in the 20s, just about the time when the silent movie era begins to end and the sound changes everything. I liked it, it's quite an experience. It does fee ltoo long, but it's really insane, it's a blast and then at a certain point it becomes very dark and surreal. It's not for eevrybody, but yeah, I liked it. It stuck with me. Loved the ending too. Margot Robbie is great. Brad Pitt is really good too. Leo would have also been perfect for his role. 

Blow-Up 8.5/10

It's Michelangelo Antonioni movie, wiht David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. It's about a photographer in London who becomes convinced he photographed a murder as he was taking pictures in the park. But it's experimental, it's not really a thriller. Love it, anyway, loved the atmosphere and the general vibe. And I loved the ending, althhough that would really be quite divisive. David Hemmings was good.

Shoot the Piano Player 9/10

It's Francois Truffaut movie, with Charles aznavour, about a a former classical pianistk, who now plays in clubs. He receives a visit from his brother, who's chased by two gangsters, and he gets in trouble, together with a waitress in the club. It's really great, loved it, it's more a melo than a crime movie, it's very sweet, human and sensual, and then the ending is wow, I really didn't see it coming. Charles Aznavour was really good, and I loved the actress who played the waitress, Marie Dubois.

Fright Night 2 (1988) 5/10

It's the sequel to the original, with Roddy McDowall, about the lead characters of the first movie who now have to fight an actress who's also a vampire. I didn't like much, I prefer the first one. It's kind of dull, IMO, although the gore and the make up effects are nice.

Hey Billy

babylon - I’ll see it eventually 

blow-up - I used to really like it but on my last view of it, it dropped quite a bit. Still has its moments though 
7/10

fright night 2 - pretty sure I saw all of this as a kid but wasn’t a fan, I don’t really like the first one either 

I like Whiplash, La La Land, and First Man a lot, so I figure there's a good chance I'll enjoy Babylon.

I found the remake flawed but better than the original… mostly due to Colin Farrell who was awesome