Movies: Last Movie You Watched and Rate It | Part#: Some High Number +2

[OzzyFan]

Ford v Ferrari
3.00 out of 4stars

Very fun and makes you want to get behind the wheel of a race/sports car and let loose. Very charismatic racing movie that's well shot and highly entertaining without being too cheery (probably thanks to it's realism, as stated above). And of course Bale and Damon make the wheels spin even faster.

Twelve O'Clock High
3.25 out of 4stars

Gregory Peck WW2 air force movie. Excellent showcase of the mental and emotional struggles one goes through during war times from the top of the ranks all the way to the bottom, along with how the military "treats/sees" and uses their soldiers. The real life World War 2 footage makes some scenes hit you harder than they would if they were "faked".

Gerald's Game
2.70 out of 4stars

Exceeded expectations. I know it's been talked about above, but this is one where you don't want to ruin anything so you enjoy the trip to the fullest. Shortly and spoiler free, it's got great twists and it uses it's situational circumstances to the fullest.

 

[Sentinel]

???

If there is anyone who knows a thing or two about trying to perform legitimate and established masterpiece songs in a world where nobody knows them, it's me.

 

[ORRFForever]

Charlie's Angels BOMBED this weekend. $8.6M - as per Box Office Mojo.

That is shockingly LOW. Nice to see.

Home - Box Office Mojo

 

[NyQuil]

That is shockingly LOW. Nice to see.

Why is it nice that it bombed?

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Just watched Overlord again and it’s still one of the most adrenaline packed starts to a movie I’ve ever seen.

It’s one of those movies I may never get tired of re-watching. Think I enjoyed it even more the second time around.

 

[ORRFForever]

Why is it nice that it bombed?

Same old Hollywood preachy crap that we don't need - supposedly it is beyond "woke".

 

[nameless1]

I thought the second one was easily the worst. Things felt convoluted and the flow wasn't quite as good as in the first one. I also fell asleep a couple of times during the rave/party segments. 3rd is easily the most ridiculous when it comes to unrealistic action scenes but they're the ones in the franchise. Plot does get even crazier but there's some semblance of a clear plot thread detectable. First one was the easiest to follow plotwise.

That is fair. I think it helped that I went in with zero expectations, because I just wanted to see something fun, and it hits all the right spots. It also reminds me a lot of Japanese manga, something I grew up with, so there is also this nostalgia factor for me.

 

[Supermassive]

I really enjoyed a small movie either called Steel Country or A Dark Place, depending on where it was released, I guess. An autistic garbageman searches for the killer of a boy who lived along his route. Andrew Scott (you’ve seen him in the Black Mirror episode where he kidnaps who he thinks is an executive at a tech firm, and as Moriarty in Sherlock) leads. Fairly simple plot and 2D supporting characters, but the meat of the movie is in his performance. I genuinely prefer movies like this to drawn out series with tangential subplots and filler. Great little movie.

7/10.

 

[sr edler]

Free Solo (2018) by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – 6.5/10

This was a pretty nice okay film/documentary, but it never really thrilled me that much, and it never felt it brought me to any actual interesting or special places (on a mental level). Much of that probably had to do with the concept/structure being so predictable. The main focus of the film, climber Alex Honnold, also seemed so indifferent towards the fact of the high consequences (falling off the cliff) that it kinda spilled over on me. I knew he wouldn't fall, but still felt like "why would I even care if he did if he don't even seem to care about it that much himself".

Very nice views though, but sometimes everything felt a little bit too pretty, a little bit too nice and a little bit too polished. I got to think of what Andrey Tarkovsky said once about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddysey, calling it "cold and sterile", and when he made Solaris he attempted to make it a bit more gritty with cables and shit. I think if Tarkovsky had been in a position to shoot a Soviet version of Free Solo he probably would have done it on a rusty crane outside of Norilsk with Erland Josephson doing the voice over.

(I probably wouldn't attempt that, I'm relatively scared of heights)

 

[ORRFForever]

Free Solo (2018) by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – 6.5/10

This was a pretty nice okay film/documentary, but it never really thrilled me that much, and it never felt it brought me to any actual interesting or special places (on a mental level). Much of that probably had to do with the concept/structure being so predictable. The main focus of the film, climber Alex Honnold, also seemed so indifferent towards the fact of the high consequences (falling off the cliff) that it kinda spilled over on me. I knew he wouldn't fall, but still felt like "why would I even care if he did if he don't even seem to care about it that much himself".

Very nice views though, but sometimes everything felt a little bit too pretty, a little bit too nice and a little bit too polished. I got to think of what Andrey Tarkovsky said once about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddysey, calling it "cold and sterile", and when he made Solaris he attempted to make it a bit more gritty with cables and ****. I think if Tarkovsky had been in a position to shoot a Soviet version of Free Solo he probably would have done it on a rusty crane outside of Norilsk with Erland Josephson doing the voice over.

(I probably wouldn't attempt that, I'm relatively scared of heights)

I thought the dynamic between Alex and his gf was fascinating.

Anyway, after he dies (and I assume he will eventually die from this), no tears should be shed. He has chosen this life and he knows the consequences.

 

[kihei]

I thought the dynamic between Alex and his gf was fascinating.

Anyway, after he dies (and I assume he will eventually die from this), no tears should be shed. He has chosen this life and he knows the consequences.

I don't think sorrow often allows for such neat distinctions.

 

[ORRFForever]

I don't think sorrow often allows for such neat distinctions.

That's true.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Bad Times At The El Royale (2018) - 7/10
A bit too self-indulgent with certain scenes drawing out but enjoyable. The Hateful Eight comparisons were somewhat apt but Hateful 8 did a better job of building up and feeling like a mystery, plus its violence felt a lot more destructive and it felt like more of a crescendo. I really liked the acting by most in this film, especially a certain character that unfortunately gets stuffed early on.

Room At The Top (1959) - 7/10
It was fine, started off well, got a bit too melodramatic and repetitive once the 'do you love me?' scenes started. It was quite verbally explicit for an old British black & white film but also is considered one of the first films in the 'British new wave' so it makes sense, I guess.

 

[Jussi]

Why is it nice that it bombed?

More importantly, what the hell does that have anything to do with this thread when the movie has it's own one?

 

[ORRFForever]

I'm still looking forward to seeing The Irishman. Wish it would either come to my area or find its way online.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

I'm still looking forward to seeing The Irishman. Wish it would either come to my area or find its way online.

Just a week away from it’s Netflix release.

 

[Arizonan God]

Annoying how after months of there being nothing I want to see in theatres, there are now like 6 movies I wanna go see all at once.

 

[Savi]

Very nice views though, but sometimes everything felt a little bit too pretty, a little bit too nice and a little bit too polished. I got to think of what Andrey Tarkovsky said once about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddysey, calling it "cold and sterile", and when he made Solaris he attempted to make it a bit more gritty with cables and ****. I think if Tarkovsky had been in a position to shoot a Soviet version of Free Solo he probably would have done it on a rusty crane outside of Norilsk with Erland Josephson doing the voice over.

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

Bit of an Australian kick lately:

Wake in Fright. A teacher on holiday gets pulled into a bender-from-hell of gambling, drinking, debauchery and ... kangaroo fighting. Probably not embraced by the Australian Tourism Board given the portrayal of its citizens as drunken, brawling louts (wait, or maybe they WOULD). Fairly gripping, though I have to admit the very real kangaroo violence was tough for me to stomach as a softie on animals. There's a great malevolent Donald Pleasance performance here.

Breaker Morant. Top-notch military/legal drama about the real life court martial of three Australian soldiers during the Boer War. It hits all the notes you expect about truth, responsibility, duty and where the buck stops in such a hierarchy. I don't know if he's ever cited it as a direct influence, but it's hard not to imagine Aaron Sorkin having seen this a few times before he sat down to write A Few Good Men.

Long Weekend. It's like The Happening plus Deliverance with the slightest dash of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. That's maybe a more thrilling formula than what's on screen exactly, but I think my math checks out. Sets a tone really well. It's a man vs. nature story where you definitely root for nature. I LOL'ed quite genuinely and hard at the final scene of the film.

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

I'll group these two 2019 releases as well: Dolemite is My Name and Doctor Sleep. Might seem like an odd pairing, but I lump them together in part, sure, because I saw both recently, but also because I feel like I have almost nothing of note or interest to say about either. Both were remarkably ... ok. Not bad. Not great. I can't muster much of anything to say positive or negative about either. Here, I'll try ... Eddie Murphy's performance is a tad overrated, but if you like him already, he's fine. Rebecca Ferguson is quite fetching and makes for an interesting villain. There, something resembling substance. At least minorly. My life will be impacted in no way if I do or do not see either one of these movies ever again.

 

[kihei]

K's reviews got me thinking. For what it's worth, here's my favourite Australian films:

1) Walkabout
2) Man of Flowers
3) Mad Max: Road Warrior
4)Picnic at Hanging Rock
5) Animal Kingdom
6) The Proposition
7) Breaker Morant
8) The Last Wave
9) Gallipoli
10) My Brillliant Career

HM: Lonely Hearts; A Woman's Tale; A Little Death; Somersault; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; A Rabbit-Proof Fence

Paul Cox, director of Man of Flowers, Lonely Hearts and A Woman's Tale, is among my favourite directors.

 

[Osprey]

Breaker Morant. Top-notch military/legal drama about the real life court martial of three Australian soldiers during the Boer War. It hits all the notes you expect about truth, responsibility, duty and where the buck stops in such a hierarchy. I don't know if he's ever cited it as a direct influence, but it's hard not to imagine Aaron Sorkin having seen this a few times before he sat down to write A Few Good Men.

Years ago, the synopsis sounded interesting, so I watched it, thinking that I hadn't seen it (especially because I haven't seen too many Aussie films). It seemed familiar in a way that I couldn't pinpoint until, eventually, I had a "Eureka!" moment when I realized that it was a movie that I was shown in high school history class a long, long time ago. I liked it just as much the second time as the first. In fact, I made the same observation that you did that it felt like it might've been an inspiration for A Few Good Men. It's a good movie and I second your recommendation.

K's reviews got me thinking. For what it's worth, here's my favourite Australian films:

1) Walkabout

Oddly enough, that's another movie that I watched recently (just a few months ago, actually), thinking that I'd never seen it, and eventually realized that I had seen it as a kid or teen. Unlike Breaker Morant, though, nothing seemed familiar until, suddenly, near the end, the scene with the aboriginal boy acting strangely triggered a memory. It's funny how you can forget everything else about a film, but a single scene stays with you.

 

[kihei]

Australia is lot like Canada in terms of movies. I never think of it as any kind of movie mecca, but the country has produced a lot of damn good movies (as we have, though we mostly have Quebec to thank for that). You have to dig a little sometimes, but they are there.

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

Australia is lot like Canada in terms of movies. I never think of it as any kind of movie mecca, but the country has produced a lot of damn good movies (as we have, though we mostly have Quebec to thank for that). You have to dig a little sometimes, but they are there.

I haven't followed up on your Paul Cox recommendation yet but I will.

Picnic at Hanging Rock remains my favorite Aussie export.

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

Finally saw Midsommar.

I hate to charge in here so hot, but boy was that a laughable overrated piece of garbage. Ari Aster has a good eye. I’ll give him that. I was all-in on Hereditary, which was an unsettling, evocative and disturbing experience. One of the best horror movies of the past decade with an awards worthy performance from Toni Collette. He goes back to the exact same personal guilt + cults well here and it’s just silly. Not even remotely as effective as his last movie. Wicker Man cosplay. Too long. Too predictable. Self-indulgent. Tedious. Absolutely laughable climax. Ooooh naked old people are SOOOO scary. Wrinkles and fat rolls and groans oh my!!

This is poised to take the crown from It Follows as the thoughtful movie goer’s “I don’t watch horror, but, like, wow, man” way of acting like they’re well rounded. They’re not. It’s a shit movie aiming to appeal to people who don’t know better.