Post by bill71 on Jul 22, 2024 8:28:28 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.
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
The trailer makes it more exciting than it is, to be fair. Arthur Miller actually wrote the script, but, yeah, the movie didn't work much for me.
S.O.B is worth checking out, especially if you like Blake Edwards movies, I'd say.