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Post by dsbeadle on Jul 22, 2024 0:41:00 GMT
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 8.5/10 36 Hours (1953) - 5 Man Afraid (1957) - 6.5 Pushover (1954) - 7 The Scarlet Hour (1954) - 6.5 The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) - 5.75 Lonelyhearts (1959) - 6.75 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 9/10 Pushover (1954) - 7 The Scarlet Hour (1954) - 6
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Post by dsbeadle on Jul 22, 2024 0:42:08 GMT
yours: THe Empire Strikes back - 8/10 True Lies - 7/10 Mine: The Bikeriders (Dir. JEff Nichols) via GoMovies Starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, IMDB Rating: 7/10 Unruled Paper [Kaghaz-e Bikhat] (Dir. Nasser Taghavi) (Farsiland) IMDB RAting: 6.8 8/10 Fresh Kills (Dir. Jennifer Esposito). via GoMovies. Starring IMDB: 5.8 6/10 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Dir. Radu Jude ) via Mubi IMDB Rating: 7.5 8/10 Twisters via Theatre 6/10
TV: Collateral Season 1, Episode 3 - 8/10 Mayor of Kingstown Season 1, Episode 2 - 8.5/10 Industry - TV (Hbo Max) 7.2 Season 2 Episode 1-4 -9/10 Full Circle - Max Season 1, Episode 1 - 8/10 Actor Season 1, Episode 13 - 8.5/10 The Big Door Prize Season 1, Episode 4 - 7.5/10 The Bikeriders - I reviewed last week 6.5
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Post by bill71 on Jul 22, 2024 1:51:56 GMT
Welcome to the weekly watch thread hosted by me, post your weeks viewing, rate other peoples viewing, have conversations but be respectful. FIRST TIME VIEWINGHorizon: An American Saga - Part One (2024, Kevin Costner)This epic independent Western film is the first of four 3 hour films. Overall there is a little more story than most would have you believe. It just doesn’t have the structure of a movie, it just ends after one of the story strands has a scene. It’s interesting that it’s beautifully shot with great set pieces but there is no focus on character or story yet that the tense scenes don’t mean as much as they could’ve otherwise. Despite this I still found many parts powerful and have this as my favorite film of the year so far. 7.5/10Vanished into the Night (2024, Renato De Maria)NetflixThis Low budget thriller follows a father who is immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarking on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house. It is a passable enough time waster but it’s not good. 4.5/10REPEAT VIEWINGThe Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)4K UHDThe standard bearer for Star Wars. 9.5/10True Lies (1994, James Cameron)blu ray Fun overblown action comedy with a great cast. 7.5-8/10FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWINGCapturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki) YoutubeDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Good Documentary FIRST TIME TV VIEWING Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion (2005)YouTube A much better and more heartfelt version of the 1992 Reunion Special Good TVThe Acolyte (2024, Season One)Disney+Well this is a show robust with bad writing, a misunderstanding of the universe they were writing in and mostly bad acting bar a few characters. Garbage TVREPEAT TV VIEWINGHappy Days Reunion Special (1992)YouTube The cast of the hit ABC-TV series Happy Days (1974) reunites to talk about their memories of the show and how it affected their personal and professional lives. The show's producer, Garry Marshall, is also interviewed, and clips from past episodes are shown, along with outtakes that never made it into the show. Average TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTOR: Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bill Paxton - True lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Abbey Lee - Horizon BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: J. Michael Muro - Horizon BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back BEST EDITING: Paul Hirsch, George Lucas- The Empire Strikes Back BEST WRITING: George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan - The Empire Strikes Back BEST DIRECTOR: Irvin Kershner - The Empire Strikes Back Hi, Dark. Yours: Horizon: An American Saga - Part One 7.5/10 Glad you liked it. Probably a bit more than me. I did enjoy it though, I liked the old school western vibre. Who knows when it will be possible to see Part 2 though. The Empire Strikes Back 8.5/10 I do prefer A New Hope actually, but I love this one too. True Lies 7.5/10 I remember enjoying it, but I haven't seen it in ages. Mine: Les Miserables (2019) 9/10 It's Ladj Ly movie, about a cop squad assigned to a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Paris. A new guy has joined them as they go patrol and they're pretty abusive to the people living there, but also have ties with the main gangs who control the place. Then, the balance gets broken after a lion cub gets stolen from a local circus ran by a gang and things get out of control fast. It's a fantastic movie, IMO, it's incredibly tense and powerful, human too. The ending is maybe take it or leave it, but I loved it, I have to say. It's kind of perfect probably. The acting is great, I really liked the actor who plays the more hot-headed, abusive cop, Alexis Manenti. He co-wrote the movie too. S.O.B. 7.5/10 It's a Blake Edwards movie, with Julie Andrews and William Holden, it's about a top movie producer, who, for the first time in his life, made a major flop, with both critics and audiences. He has a nervous breakdown and the studio he works for and everybody around him try to deal with the fall out. I enjoyed it, it's not my favourite Blake Edwards movie, but it's fun and it actually gets pretty dark and melancholic too. It reminded me a bit of The Player, actually, I wasn't expecting that. I loved the cast, there's Shelley Winters, Robert Loggia, young Rosanna Arquette... William Holden is great. I really loved Robert Preston too, he plays a doctor, who enjoys parties and booze a lot, he's really funny. The lead actor, Richard Mulligan, is a bit over the top, maybe. Everybody Wins 6/10 It's a movie with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, Karel Reisz directed it, it's about a private detective who gets hired by a woman to investigate on the murder of her lover. The cops arrested a teen for it, but she believes he's innocent. It's so-so, IMO, Nick Nolte and Debra Winger are good, I did find it a bit dull though.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 22, 2024 2:05:11 GMT
The Empire Strikes Back - 9/10
True Lies - 9/10
Mine:
The Living Daylights (1987) - 9/10 Entertaining Bond film thats gets better with each re watch.
Lockout (2012) - 5/10 Really dumb sci fi action film with some really bad effects, however its pretty entertaining.
Angel Eyes (2001) - 4/10 Awkward and kinda cringey love story with Jennifer Lopez. Still despite all of its flaws its well acted.
Tarot (2024) - 3/10 Pretty lame and not very scary PG-13 horror film.
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Post by dsbeadle on Jul 22, 2024 3:04:41 GMT
Welcome to the weekly watch thread hosted by me, post your weeks viewing, rate other peoples viewing, have conversations but be respectful. FIRST TIME VIEWINGHorizon: An American Saga - Part One (2024, Kevin Costner)This epic independent Western film is the first of four 3 hour films. Overall there is a little more story than most would have you believe. It just doesn’t have the structure of a movie, it just ends after one of the story strands has a scene. It’s interesting that it’s beautifully shot with great set pieces but there is no focus on character or story yet that the tense scenes don’t mean as much as they could’ve otherwise. Despite this I still found many parts powerful and have this as my favorite film of the year so far. 7.5/10Vanished into the Night (2024, Renato De Maria)NetflixThis Low budget thriller follows a father who is immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarking on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house. It is a passable enough time waster but it’s not good. 4.5/10REPEAT VIEWINGThe Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)4K UHDThe standard bearer for Star Wars. 9.5/10True Lies (1994, James Cameron)blu ray Fun overblown action comedy with a great cast. 7.5-8/10FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWINGCapturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki) YoutubeDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Good Documentary FIRST TIME TV VIEWING Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion (2005)YouTube A much better and more heartfelt version of the 1992 Reunion Special Good TVThe Acolyte (2024, Season One)Disney+Well this is a show robust with bad writing, a misunderstanding of the universe they were writing in and mostly bad acting bar a few characters. Garbage TVREPEAT TV VIEWINGHappy Days Reunion Special (1992)YouTube The cast of the hit ABC-TV series Happy Days (1974) reunites to talk about their memories of the show and how it affected their personal and professional lives. The show's producer, Garry Marshall, is also interviewed, and clips from past episodes are shown, along with outtakes that never made it into the show. Average TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTOR: Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bill Paxton - True lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Abbey Lee - Horizon BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: J. Michael Muro - Horizon BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back BEST EDITING: Paul Hirsch, George Lucas- The Empire Strikes Back BEST WRITING: George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan - The Empire Strikes Back BEST DIRECTOR: Irvin Kershner - The Empire Strikes Back Hi, Dark. Yours: Horizon: An American Saga - Part One 7.5/10 Glad you liked it. Probably a bit more than me. I did enjoy it though, I liked the old school western vibre. Who knows when it will be possible to see Part 2 though. The Empire Strikes Back 8.5/10 I do prefer A New Hope actually, but I love this one too. True Lies 7.5/10 I remember enjoying it, but I haven't seen it in ages. Mine: Les Miserables (2019) 9/10 It's Ladj Ly movie, about a cop squad assigned to a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Paris. A new guy has joined them as they go patrol and they're pretty abusive to the people living there, but also have ties with the main gangs who control the place. Then, the balance gets broken after a lion cub gets stolen from a local circus ran by a gang and things get out of control fast. It's a fantastic movie, IMO, it's incredibly tense and powerful, human too. The ending is maybe take it or leave it, but I loved it, I have to say. It's kind of perfect probably. The acting is great, I really liked the actor who plays the more hot-headed, abusive cop, Alexis Manenti. He co-wrote the movie too. S.O.B. 7.5/10 It's a Blake Edwards movie, with Julie Andrews and William Holden, it's about a top movie producer, who for the first time in his life, made a major flop, with both critics and audiences, he has a nervous breakdown and the studio he works for and everybody around him try to deal with the fall out. I enjoyed it, it's not my favourite Blake Edwards movie, but it's fun and it actually gets pretty dark and melancholic too. It reminded me a bit of The Player, actually, I wasn't expecting that. I loved the cast, there's Shelley Winters, Robert Loggia, young Rosanna Arquette... William Holden is great. I really loved Robert Preston too, he plays a doctor, who enjoys parties and booze a lot, he's really funny. The lead actor, Richard Mulligan, is a bit over the top, maybe. Everybody Wins 6/10 It's a movie with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, Karel Reisz directed it, it's about a private detective who gets hired by a woman to investigate on the murder of her lover. The cops arrested a teen for it, but she believes he's innocent. It's so-so, IMO, Nick Nolte and Debra Winger are good, I did find it a bit dull though. Hey Billy :) None of yours this week. S.O.B. Has been on my watchlist for a while hadnt heard of Everybody wins, doesn’t sound good but is the kind of film I’d probably check out regardless
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Post by dsbeadle on Jul 22, 2024 3:05:32 GMT
The Empire Strikes Back - 9/10 True Lies - 9/10 Mine: The Living Daylights (1987) - 9/10Entertaining Bond film thats gets better with each re watch. Lockout (2012) - 5/10Really dumb sci fi action film with some really bad effects, however its pretty entertaining. Angel Eyes (2001) - 4/10Awkward and kinda cringey love story with Jennifer Lopez. Still despite all of its flaws its well acted. Tarot (2024) - 3/10Pretty lame and not very scary PG-13 horror film. The Living Daylights (1987) - underrated bond flick imo 7/10
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Post by Teleadm on Jul 22, 2024 5:29:36 GMT
The Empire Strikes Back - 10/10 True Lies - 9/10 First Time Viewings:Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996, Sarah Jacobson) - 7/10Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024, Mark Molloy) - 6/10Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024, Rhys Frake-Waterfield) - 4.5/10The Bikeriders (2023, Jeff Nichols) - 7.5/10Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024, Adam Wingard) - 5.5/10West of Zanzibar (1928, Tod Browning) - 7.5/10Daddy Day Care (2003, Steve Carr) - 5.5/10The Dead Don't Hurt (2023, Viggo Mortensen) - 7/10The Water Horse (2007, Jay Russell) - 6/10Repeat Viewings:Beverly Hills Cop (1984, Martin Brest) - 7.5/10Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, Tony Scott) - 7/10Beverly Hills Cop III (1994, John Landis) - 6/10The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) - 10/10Movie Awards:BEST FILM: The Good, the Bad and the UglyBEST ACTOR: Eli Wallach - The Good, the Bad and the UglyBEST ACTRESS: Jodie Comer - The BikeridersBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Judge Reinhold - Beverly Hills CopBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mary Nolan - West of ZanzibarBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tonino Delli Colli - The Good, the Bad and the UglyBEST SCORE: Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and the UglyBEST SCRIPT: The Good, the Bad and the UglyBEST DIRECTOR: Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the UglySeen... West of Zanzibar (1928, Tod Browning) - Ought to watch a few more Lon Chaney movies. The Water Horse (2007, Jay Russell) - 6,5/10. Beverly Hills Cop (1984, Martin Brest) - 8/10. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, Tony Scott) - 5/10. The change in style really hurt this one. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994, John Landis) - 6,5/10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) - 9/10. The storyline of Daddy Day Care sounds familiar but I can't find any notes having seen it.
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Post by Teleadm on Jul 22, 2024 6:11:18 GMT
Hello again! Yours: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner) Best in the series by far. 10/10 True Lies (1994, James Cameron) Haven't seen it since it first came out. Just picked up the 4k release. May have to give it a rewatch soon to better judge it. I remember really liking it though. Mine: The Sacrament (Ti West, 2013) Easily the best of Ti West’s pre-X movies that I’ve seen. Not a big fan of it by any means, but it’s an interesting slow burn take on reporters investigating a cult. 6/10 Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay, 1995) I can in no way, shape or form call this a “good” movie. It’s dumb, the lead can be incredibly annoying, the plot is nonsensical when it actually decided to show up for a bit, the jokes fall flat half the time and Ice-T plays a mutant kangaroo. Yet goddamn, there’s something charming as hell about this trainwreck of a film. I love the stupid comic book interludes. I love the punk aesthetic that feels like it’s Mad Max’s little sister... I’ll confess, I also love the Ice-T plays a mutant kangaroo. It’s a fun movie to pop on with a group that enjoys bad movies. If you want a serious rating, I’d likely give it 2... but in terms of sheer stupid enjoyment, it gets way higher. 8/10 Patty Hearst (Paul Schrader, 1988) This is week seventeen of my examination of the films of Paul Schrader. This is not his worst film, but it's the first one that I not only regret watching, but makes me somewhat question a week eighteen. This is a hard one to rate and review. On one hand we get a wonderful lead performance from Natasha Richardson. It also is extremely well filmed early on with one of the more shocking visualizations of a person being captured and what their conditions were like from their point of view. So, those are all points in the film's favor. That said, it's such a deeply unpleasant film. It looks unpleasant, the characters are unpleasant (and sadly all too real given the circumstances) and there's something of a cynical edge to it all. It's a film that reeks of taking someone's real life horror and turning it into a picture with the sole goal of being praised for it. I found myself disliking it more and more, in part because of how harsh it is when people who lived out the film were still alive (some are to this day). I'm one of those people who can deal with a lot of horrific things in film, even if it's based on real events, but it needs to be handled with care or majorly fictionalized. I feel this one was not. I can respect aspects, but I don't like it. 4/10 Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) This is like the cinematic equivalent of a warm hug and it’s just charming from start to finish. It’s not as good or ambitious as Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s very much its own unique film. It’s short at only 73 minutes, yet it still feels like it takes its time. It never rushes, even as the seconds tick down, but that feels fitting for a film that shows how some deal with grief. Despite the subject matter, this is not a depressing film at all, rather a comforting one. It’s a lovely work and one I highly recommend. 8/10 A Chinese Torture Chamber Story (Bosco Lam, 1994) This is so damn weird. It alternates between a horrific tale of a court where two people framed for murder and adultery are being tortured (the sort of thing the title of the movie implies) and faster than you can say "tonal shift" it switches over to moments of goofy sex comedy antics, including a classic wire-fu fight where clothes come off. I mean... what the hell? Who was this even made for?!?! Apparently me, because I enjoyed the hell out of these bizarre tonal shifts. So many horrible things happen in this movie, but it's just so damn goofy, and the cast is clearly having a ball, that it just kept making me smile. It's ridiculous. It's bonkers. It shouldn't work in any way... yet somehow, I kind of loved it. I can’t recommend this to many, but if you enjoy CAT III films, well, this is CAT III at its finest. 8/10 Intrépidos Punks (Francisco Guerrero, 1988) The description for the film on Letterboxd says more about the movie than I ever could. “Punks kill people and rape people and stuff… and cops kinda do their own thing… and there’s boobs and blood and motorcycles… the end.” It sums up the entire thing. 4/10 The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman, 1975) This is an odd one. It’s a Bergman film that I like, but don’t love at all... and I think I like it in spite of Bergman’s choices rather than because of them. I get what Bergman was going for. He wanted the experience of an opera with close ups so that you can get more out of each actor’s subtle performances. He succeeds, but at the same time I find it a bit annoying. Here you have a stage, changing scenery, fake but beautiful looking costumes, and we are given constant close-ups rather than letting us see all that’s going on. Some may like this choice, but I find it frustrating. He also chooses to show the audience for an opening overture which was neat, but then decides to show only one kid’s reactions repeatedly for the rest of the movie and they cut to the kid far too many times. On the plus side, the film is very pretty when we are actually able to see more than faces and sounds amazing. The performances are also all very fun to watch... I just wish I could see more of it. 6/10 Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan, 1969) There are some movies that make you sit there wondering how the hell they managed to get made.I mean you take a movie that had to be a major audience-alienating premise in the 1960s; a western starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, but it’s a musical comedy about them sharing a wife and helping bring prostitution to a gold town. Let’s add to it. Marvin and Eastwood while solid actors (and great depending on the role) can neither be called great singers, something the film reinforces in that quite often they feel like background singers in their songs, while the actual background singers are louder than them. Let’s continue this though, very few of the songs are actually catchy (the only exceptions in my opinion are “They Call the Wind Maria,” which is easily the best performed song and “Wand'rin Star” which gets points for the sheer novelty of a grumpy Lee Marvin singing it). Finally, the film is almost three hours long. You get two hours and forty minutes of a musical where the main stars can’t sing, and if you’re expecting a good old-fashioned shootout or two in this western, again, you’ve come to the wrong place. There are wacky shenanigans aplenty, but not a shootout in sight. The fact that this film was a disaster when it came out should come as a shock to no one. I can’t imagine what they were thinking. I’m not going to lie and say I hated it, it’s actually a pretty fun movie, but only because of how bizarre it is. I can in no way, shape or form call it good without breaking down into hysterical laughter at the end of the sentence, but for sheer novelty I’m glad I watched it. Sometimes a mess can be enjoyable. 5/10 Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023) This may very well be one of the most perfect movies ever made. It's about everything and nothing all at once. It is a beautiful poem set to film. It is everything I could have asked for and more. It's about everyday life, as well as those occasional perfect moments that come along and feel like they can never quite be captured no matter how hard you try. I cannot express how good this film is, no matter how I try to explain it. I won't even try anymore. It doesn't need me to try to speak for it. 10/10 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001) I’m usually annoyed by what I think of as “teen angst” movies, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that caught the highs and lows of it as well as this. Instead of annoyed, I found myself rather enthralled by it and enjoyed it very much. 9/10 After Blue (Bertrand Mandico, 2021) A surreal French science fiction western. It’s extremely weird, but beautiful in its own way. I’d be lying if I said I could explain the damn thing, but I enjoyed it for what it was. 6/10 Sympathy for the Underdog (Kinji Fukasaku, 1971) This may be my favorite yakuza movie that Fukasaku made... and considering this is the man who made Battles Without Honor and Humanity, that says a lot. It subverts so many of the yakuza tropes we expect from him and the genre. Characters are set up to be potential allies only to not make it far at all. A character is hinted to be someone from the past, even played by the same person, only for it to quickly be revealed as a coincidence and so the closure our lead wants with that individual never comes. It sets things up that we know should happen from a traditional narrative in this genre, only to shrug and essentially say “life doesn’t work that way.” It does play some tropes straight, which makes for an even more enjoyable experience in my mind. It’s not a complete subversion of the genre, trying to act like it’s saying more than it is... no its just a more grounded yakuza film, giving people what they want from these films, while also trying to do some things different. 9/10 The VelociPastor (Brendan Steere, 2018) Casablanca, Seven Samurai, The Godfather, The Seventh Seal... and now, The VelociPastor. Truly, I will never shed such tears at pure cinema as I did when I saw "VFX: Car on fire" 10/10 ... or 1/10. It doesn’t matter which. Seen... The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman, 1975). Think they used to show this one around the Christmas and New Year seasons on Swedish TV for around ten years time, so I guess I could have seen it at some point but I have no clear memory of it. Håkan Hagegård who played Papageno became something of an odd teen idol for awhile, made young girls listening to opera. Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan, 1969). I agree with what you write. Even if the movie takes place outdoors most of the time it feels too stagebound as a whole. Oddly Lee Marvin's "Wand'rin Star" became polpular on European Hit Parades, making him something of a One Hit Wonder, many probably not knowing were it originated from. 6,5/10.
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Post by Teleadm on Jul 22, 2024 6:31:05 GMT
First Time Viewing: Intersection (1994; Mark Rydell) – Richard Gere plays an architect who comes to a crossroads in his life, having to decide whether to keep his affair with a passionate mistress going or remain faithful to his icy wife (Sharon Stone). Sleep-inducing melodrama, with the potentially interesting story told in the dullest possible fashion. As it turns out this was a remake of a probably superior 70s French movie. 4.5/10 TV Gallowglass (1993; Tim Frywell) – 3-part mini-series based on a book by Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell. The plot is rather far-fetched and the pacing very slow, so I believe it would mainly appear to fans of the author. 6/10 Repeat Viewing Oblivion (2013; Joseph Kosinski) - Visually this movie is a marvel with some incredibly stylish shots of the kind one would love to frame to hang on his wall. The depiction of the future world also holds up really well, one can tell, the filmmakers putting a lot of effort into this. I found the plot rather average though and too “small” for lack of a better word for this sort of bombastic blockbuster. It might have made for a decent 40 minutes Outer Limits episode, but there’s just not enough meat here for a feature film. 6/10 Seen... Oblivion (2013; Joseph Kosinski) - More or less agree with what you wrote, and we apparently came to the same conclusion rating it. 6/10.
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Post by jcush on Jul 22, 2024 7:06:32 GMT
yours: THe Empire Strikes back - 8/10 True Lies - 7/10 Mine: The Bikeriders (Dir. JEff Nichols) via GoMovies Starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, IMDB Rating: 7/10 Unruled Paper [Kaghaz-e Bikhat] (Dir. Nasser Taghavi) (Farsiland) IMDB RAting: 6.8 8/10 Fresh Kills (Dir. Jennifer Esposito). via GoMovies. Starring IMDB: 5.8 6/10 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Dir. Radu Jude ) via Mubi IMDB Rating: 7.5 8/10 Twisters via Theatre 6/10
TV: Collateral Season 1, Episode 3 - 8/10 Mayor of Kingstown Season 1, Episode 2 - 8.5/10 Industry - TV (Hbo Max) 7.2 Season 2 Episode 1-4 -9/10 Full Circle - Max Season 1, Episode 1 - 8/10 Actor Season 1, Episode 13 - 8.5/10 The Big Door Prize Season 1, Episode 4 - 7.5/10 The Bikeriders - I watched it this week too. 7.5/10
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Post by jcush on Jul 22, 2024 7:07:43 GMT
Welcome to the weekly watch thread hosted by me, post your weeks viewing, rate other peoples viewing, have conversations but be respectful. FIRST TIME VIEWINGHorizon: An American Saga - Part One (2024, Kevin Costner)This epic independent Western film is the first of four 3 hour films. Overall there is a little more story than most would have you believe. It just doesn’t have the structure of a movie, it just ends after one of the story strands has a scene. It’s interesting that it’s beautifully shot with great set pieces but there is no focus on character or story yet that the tense scenes don’t mean as much as they could’ve otherwise. Despite this I still found many parts powerful and have this as my favorite film of the year so far. 7.5/10Vanished into the Night (2024, Renato De Maria)NetflixThis Low budget thriller follows a father who is immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarking on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house. It is a passable enough time waster but it’s not good. 4.5/10REPEAT VIEWINGThe Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)4K UHDThe standard bearer for Star Wars. 9.5/10True Lies (1994, James Cameron)blu ray Fun overblown action comedy with a great cast. 7.5-8/10FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWINGCapturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki) YoutubeDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Good Documentary FIRST TIME TV VIEWING Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion (2005)YouTube A much better and more heartfelt version of the 1992 Reunion Special Good TVThe Acolyte (2024, Season One)Disney+Well this is a show robust with bad writing, a misunderstanding of the universe they were writing in and mostly bad acting bar a few characters. Garbage TVREPEAT TV VIEWINGHappy Days Reunion Special (1992)YouTube The cast of the hit ABC-TV series Happy Days (1974) reunites to talk about their memories of the show and how it affected their personal and professional lives. The show's producer, Garry Marshall, is also interviewed, and clips from past episodes are shown, along with outtakes that never made it into the show. Average TVWEEKLY FILM AWARDSBEST FILM: The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTOR: Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back BEST ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bill Paxton - True lies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Abbey Lee - Horizon BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: J. Michael Muro - Horizon BEST SCORE: John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back BEST EDITING: Paul Hirsch, George Lucas- The Empire Strikes Back BEST WRITING: George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan - The Empire Strikes Back BEST DIRECTOR: Irvin Kershner - The Empire Strikes Back Hi, Dark. Yours: Horizon: An American Saga - Part One 7.5/10 Glad you liked it. Probably a bit more than me. I did enjoy it though, I liked the old school western vibre. Who knows when it will be possible to see Part 2 though. The Empire Strikes Back 8.5/10 I do prefer A New Hope actually, but I love this one too. True Lies 7.5/10 I remember enjoying it, but I haven't seen it in ages. Mine: Les Miserables (2019) 9/10 It's Ladj Ly movie, about a cop squad assigned to a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Paris. A new guy has joined them as they go patrol and they're pretty abusive to the people living there, but also have ties with the main gangs who control the place. Then, the balance gets broken after a lion cub gets stolen from a local circus ran by a gang and things get out of control fast. It's a fantastic movie, IMO, it's incredibly tense and powerful, human too. The ending is maybe take it or leave it, but I loved it, I have to say. It's kind of perfect probably. The acting is great, I really liked the actor who plays the more hot-headed, abusive cop, Alexis Manenti. He co-wrote the movie too. S.O.B. 7.5/10 It's a Blake Edwards movie, with Julie Andrews and William Holden, it's about a top movie producer, who for the first time in his life, made a major flop, with both critics and audiences, he has a nervous breakdown and the studio he works for and everybody around him try to deal with the fall out. I enjoyed it, it's not my favourite Blake Edwards movie, but it's fun and it actually gets pretty dark and melancholic too. It reminded me a bit of The Player, actually, I wasn't expecting that. I loved the cast, there's Shelley Winters, Robert Loggia, young Rosanna Arquette... William Holden is great. I really loved Robert Preston too, he plays a doctor, who enjoys parties and booze a lot, he's really funny. The lead actor, Richard Mulligan, is a bit over the top, maybe. Everybody Wins 6/10 It's a movie with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, Karel Reisz directed it, it's about a private detective who gets hired by a woman to investigate on the murder of her lover. The cops arrested a teen for it, but she believes he's innocent. It's so-so, IMO, Nick Nolte and Debra Winger are good, I did find it a bit dull though. None of yours this week.
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Post by jcush on Jul 22, 2024 7:08:34 GMT
The Empire Strikes Back - 9/10 True Lies - 9/10 Mine: The Living Daylights (1987) - 9/10Entertaining Bond film thats gets better with each re watch. Lockout (2012) - 5/10Really dumb sci fi action film with some really bad effects, however its pretty entertaining. Angel Eyes (2001) - 4/10Awkward and kinda cringey love story with Jennifer Lopez. Still despite all of its flaws its well acted. Tarot (2024) - 3/10Pretty lame and not very scary PG-13 horror film. The Living Daylights - I've also found that I appreciate this one more over the years. 8/10
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Post by sjg on Jul 22, 2024 8:01:28 GMT
Hey Dark,
Just one of yours: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner) 10/10
Mine: 1) Mivtsa Yonatan (Operation Thunderbolt) 1977 (5/10)
2) Mona Lisa 1986 (6/10)
3) Modest Heroes 2018 (6/10)
4) The Molly Maguires 1970 (6/10)
5) Mogambo 1953 (4/10)
6) Molly's Game 2017 (7/10)
7) Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 (3/10)
8) Mondo cane 1962 (1/10)
9) Mondo cane n. 2 1963 (1/10)
10) Monsieur Lazhar 2011 (6/10)
11) A Monster Calls 2016 (7/10)
TV Series
1) One Foot in the Grave Season 6 2000 (3/10)
2) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Season 2 1992 (7/10)
3) Keeping Up Appearances Season 1 1990 (6/10)
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Post by bill71 on Jul 22, 2024 8:18:28 GMT
Hi, Dark. Yours: Horizon: An American Saga - Part One 7.5/10 Glad you liked it. Probably a bit more than me. I did enjoy it though, I liked the old school western vibre. Who knows when it will be possible to see Part 2 though. The Empire Strikes Back 8.5/10 I do prefer A New Hope actually, but I love this one too. True Lies 7.5/10 I remember enjoying it, but I haven't seen it in ages. Mine: Les Miserables (2019) 9/10 It's Ladj Ly movie, about a cop squad assigned to a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Paris. A new guy has joined them as they go patrol and they're pretty abusive to the people living there, but also have ties with the main gangs who control the place. Then, the balance gets broken after a lion cub gets stolen from a local circus ran by a gang and things get out of control fast. It's a fantastic movie, IMO, it's incredibly tense and powerful, human too. The ending is maybe take it or leave it, but I loved it, I have to say. It's kind of perfect probably. The acting is great, I really liked the actor who plays the more hot-headed, abusive cop, Alexis Manenti. He co-wrote the movie too. S.O.B. 7.5/10 It's a Blake Edwards movie, with Julie Andrews and William Holden, it's about a top movie producer, who, for the first time in his life, made a major flop, with both critics and audiences. He has a nervous breakdown and the studio he works for and everybody around him try to deal with the fall out. I enjoyed it, it's not my favourite Blake Edwards movie, but it's fun and it actually gets pretty dark and melancholic too. It reminded me a bit of The Player, actually, I wasn't expecting that. I loved the cast, there's Shelley Winters, Robert Loggia, young Rosanna Arquette... William Holden is great. I really loved Robert Preston too, he plays a doctor, who enjoys parties and booze a lot, he's really funny. The lead actor, Richard Mulligan, is a bit over the top, maybe. Everybody Wins 6/10 It's a movie with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, Karel Reisz directed it, it's about a private detective who gets hired by a woman to investigate on the murder of her lover. The cops arrested a teen for it, but she believes he's innocent. It's so-so, IMO, Nick Nolte and Debra Winger are good, I did find it a bit dull though. None of yours this week. I would most definitely reccommend Les Miserables. To me, it's at the level of Do the Right Thing, more or less.
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Post by dsbeadle on Jul 22, 2024 8:22:06 GMT
Hey Dark, Just one of yours: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner) 10/10 Mine: 1) Mivtsa Yonatan (Operation Thunderbolt) 1977 (5/10) 2) Mona Lisa 1986 (6/10) 3) Modest Heroes 2018 (6/10) 4) The Molly Maguires 1970 (6/10) 5) Mogambo 1953 (4/10) 6) Molly's Game 2017 (7/10) 7) Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 (3/10) 8) Mondo cane 1962 (1/10) 9) Mondo cane n. 2 1963 (1/10) 10) Monsieur Lazhar 2011 (6/10) 11) A Monster Calls 2016 (7/10) TV Series 1) One Foot in the Grave Season 6 2000 (3/10) 2) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Season 2 1992 (7/10) 3) Keeping Up Appearances Season 1 1990 (6/10) Hey SJG :) 2) Mona Lisa 1986 (5/10) 6) Molly's Game 2017 (7.5)
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