What Films did You Watch Last Week (13/02 - 19/02) CLOSED

Hey Dark,

Yours:
Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen) 4/10

Death Wish II (1982, Michael Winner) 5/10

Mine:
1) Bridesmaids 2011 (4/10)

2) Amour 2012 (7/10)

3) A Better Life 2011 (6/10)

4) Anna Karenina 2012 (4/10)

5) Dogtooth 2009 (3/10)

6) Pamela: A Love Story 2023 (6/10)

7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 2022 (4/10)

8) Battle of Dunkirk: From Disaster to Triumph 2018 (6/10)

9) Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond 2017 (5/10)



TV Series:

1) Adventure Time Season 1 2010 (6/10)

2) Bottom Season 1 1991 (7/10)

3) Paradise PD Season 1 2018 (7/10)

4) Bottom Season 2 1992 (7/10)

5) Paradise PD Season 2 2020 (7/10)

I haven't seen the Vincent Price version yet. Would you recommend it?

 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

Locked Down (2021, Doug Liman)
Netflix
This fun little pandemic heist movie has a pretty bad rep but I found it pretty charming. A good pedigree behind and in front of the cameras but maybe dropped the ball in the final act with attention to detail.
6.5-7/10

The Rapture (1991, Michael Tolkin)
This is a pretty wild movie about a woman’s con Erwin into a religious cult that think the end times are near.
6/10

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989, J Lee Thompson)
The final collaboration between this actor (Charles Bronson) and director. It is a nasty crime film that does not shy away from hot button attitudes.
5/10

M3gan (2022, Gerard Johnstone)
Poorly made, written, acted and quite a chore to get through.
3/10

REPEAT FILM VIEWING

Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen)
blu ray
A great film with great characters that are all presented by actors on top of their game.
7.5-8/10

Death Wish II (1982, Michael Winner)
Blu ray
ThIs one has grown in my estimation over the years. It transports the action from New York to Los Angeles. It isn’t a carbon copy of the original but shares many similarities. It is however a much nastier film.
6.5/10

The Train (1964, John Frankenheimer)
I gave this one another go but found it the same. It’s a great premise, well acted with gorgeous black and white cinematography but I found it hard to stay totally engaged throughout. It feels a little bloated.
6-6.5/10

The Village (2004, M Night Shyalaman)
Disney+
I had not seen this since the cinema. It is well made and pretty interesting throughout. I think the reveal at the end could have been handled better though.
6-6.5/10

FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING

Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023, Moby)
Youtube
This documentary appeals to my interests but not sure it’s for everyone. Free on YouTube.
Good Documentary 

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: Blue Jasmine
BEST ACTOR: Chiwitel Ejiafor- Locked Down
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Andrew Dice Clay - Blue Jasmine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins- Blue Jasmine
BEST EDITING: Alisa Lepselter - Blue Jasmine
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jean Tournier - The Train
BEST SCORE: James Newton Howard - The Village
BEST SCRIPT: Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
BEST DIRECTOR: Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine

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

Hey Billy,

Just one of yours this week…

Giant - it’s some pretty over wrought stuff and maybe a bit bloated but it’s ok enough 6/10

I’m not surprised, he’s had some pretty long films lately

Hi, Dark.

Here I am.

I'm curious about M3gan actually.   Apparently an unrated, gorier cut will be released. 

I want to see The Train too.

Yours:

The Rapture 7.5/10

Yeah, wild indeed. I enjoyed it. 

Blue Jasmine 7.5/10

I couldn't get quite into it, like I do with other Woody movies, but I enjoyed it. It's quite dark. Cate Blanchett was great. I liked Andrew Dice Clay too. 

Death Wish II 6.5/10

O.K., yeah, it's very trashy. I didn't think it was bad though. 

The Village 4.5/10

I didn't like it. I really didn't like the twist.


Mine:

Rich and Famous 8/10

It's a George Cukor movie, with Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen, about two writers, one who wrote a serious, critically acclaimed book, and the other who hits it big with trashy novels, and their relationship throughout the years. I hadn't heard good things about it, I liked it though, I thought it was fun, kind of soap-operish, maybe, but I like that. I loved Jacqueline Bisset, I thought she was great. I really liked the score too, It's by Georges Delerue.

Giant 8/10

It's the George Stevens movie with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, about a rich Texas family, throughout the years. I like it, it's definitely too long, but still...James Dean was really fantastic. I really liked Carroll Baker too.

I Delfini 6/10

It's an Italian movie from the 60s, with Claudia Cardinale and Tomas Milian, it's about the heirs of the rich families in an Italian town. A doctor gets invovled wiht them, and their lives, which are quite decadent, together with a local girl who dreams to enter their world. I thought it was so-so, the acting was good, but, I don't know, it felt a bit dull, IMO. Also, it's really not subtle.

Last i heard he was still editing the new one so maybe itll come down a  bit in length