Last Movie You Watched and Rate It | Part#: Some High Number +5

[ORRFForever]

my opinions are generally scoffed at. We are still best friends.

 

[ORRFForever]

You go from giving Frozen a 7.5 to Looper a 5 and Tenet even lower.

As for what you said above, I am NOT a fan of MOST time travel movies. They are just so... convoluted. People who like that stuff would rate Looper and Tenet higher.

 

[TD Charlie]

As for what you said above, I am NOT a fan of MOST time travel movies. They are just so... convoluted. People who like that stuff would rate Looper and Tenet higher.

Yeah I'm pretty big into that sorta thing. Even the garbage ones and the B movie attempts.

Looper I did legitimately enjoy though, despite the most obvious ending of all time. The concept was intriguing enough for me, as was the story.

 

[Osprey]

Yeah, My Bloody Valentine was ok, a notch below the others. April Fool's Day, if I remember correctly, was a bit second-degree, it was a pretty good one, but didn't take itself really seriously as a slasher, no? Again, I might be way off, it's been a long time.

Been a while since I've seen April Fool's Day but I think I hold it fondly because of the twist, though that may not hold up now that I'm a more discerning viewer. But it still stands out from my youthful horror watching so I give it props. Should make my way back around to it.

I watched April Fool's Day for the first time earlier this year (or maybe it was late last year) and I recall kind of liking it. It doesn't take itself very seriously, as you remember, Violenza, and has a fun twist ending, as you said, Kallio. It's not great or very memorable, except for the ending, but it's decent. Whether it would hold up to a "discerning viewer," though, I can't say .

BTW, since you two seem to like early 80s horror movies as much as me, you might care to check out Summer of 84. It's from 2018, but set in 1984. It's very much like Disturbia or The 'Burbs, but with a Stranger Things vibe (i.e. a few neighborhood kids spying on a neighbor). Actually, I guess that it's suspense rather than horror, but you might like it for the era that it evokes.

 

[Osprey]

Yeah I'm pretty big into that sorta thing. Even the garbage ones and the B movie attempts.

Looper I did legitimately enjoy though, despite the most obvious ending of all time. The concept was intriguing enough for me, as was the story.

If you haven't seen 2014's Predestination, you should. ORRFForever saw it recently and positively reviewed it (in spite of not liking time travel movies), so I watched it and liked it, too. You might've seen both of our reviews, but I'm mentioning it just in case you missed them. It's not quite as good as Looper, but a person who likes Looper will probably like it, too.

 

[TD Charlie]

If you haven't seen 2014's Predestination, you should. ORRFForever saw it recently and positively reviewed (in spite of not liking time travel movies), so I watched it and liked it, too. You might've seen both of our reviews, but I'm mentioning it just in case you missed them. It's not quite as good as Looper, but a person who likes Looper will probably like it, too.

I haven’t seen that yet so I’ll look out for it. Thanks for the pick!

 

[Osprey]

I haven’t seen that yet so I’ll look out for it. Thanks for the pick!

You can stream it via Crackle or Plex for free and with no account required:

http://www.crackle.com/c/predestination
Predestination

 

[ORRFForever]

If you haven't seen 2014's Predestination, you should. ORRFForever saw it recently and positively reviewed it (in spite of not liking time travel movies), so I watched it and liked it, too. You might've seen both of our reviews, but I'm mentioning it just in case you missed them. It's not quite as good as Looper, but a person who likes Looper will probably like it, too.

I did like Predestination... I think... my memory is not good.

I enjoy time travel movies when they keep it relatively simple. When they get carried away, I lose interest.

Predestination is complicated but I like it anyway.

 

[ORRFForever]

Found it. Osprey is right, I did like it....

Predestination (2014) :

I'm not going to pretend that I understood this wonderfully acted time travel movie, because I didn't, but I really enjoyed Predestination.

7.5/10

 

[ORRFForever]

Another time line movie I liked mostly because of Michelle Monaghan.

An old review...

Source Code (2011) :

Ironically, before the beginning of every alternate timeline movie, I`m able to see 2 hours into the future...

I know the movie will start off strong, the characters will be unique, there will be a mystery to be solved, and the protagonist will be sent back in time, over and over again, until he/she completes the puzzle. I also know that, in the end, the movie will disappoint with a dumb timeline twist that makes little/no sense, but gives young geeks something to talk about on the way out of the theater.

Unfortunately, Source Code followed the path I predicted. Fortunately, it's better than most, and the beautiful Michelle Monaghan is along for the (train) ride.

6/10

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

 

[Langdon Alger]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

Degrassi school’s out.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

Pretty much everything by Marguerite Duras.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

And quite a few Raoul Ruiz films too - stuff that was very hard to find just a few years ago!

 

[Osprey]

Found it. Osprey is right, I did like it....

Do not ever doubt me again!

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

Sleepaway Camp is on YouTube. Oh, wait... you said "great" films.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s acidly disapproving, sometimes almost slapstick comic film about a group of well-off bourgeoisie who dabble in revolution like it is some kind of chic party game.

European directors and showing rich people doing naughty things is a very common theme I've noticed.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

Looks like M (1931) is still on there with subtitles. A Japanese film called The Only Son should be on there, a bit slow paced but nice early Ozu film should be there.

The Man From Earth (2007) is there with Chinese subtitles I think but decent picture quality.

If you want free movies then check if your local library has a streaming service, mine has a bunch of Criterion ones up and some decent Paramount pictures through Kanopy streaming.

 

[Osprey]

Anyone can give recommendations for great films that are available on Youtube?

The Private Life of Henry VIII from 1933 is on YouTube. In fact, I included a link to it in my review in this thread just last week. Maybe saying that it's a "great" film is a stretch, but it's a very good one. Charles Laughton won Best Actor for it and it's the film that made him a star.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Sleepaway Camp is on YouTube. Oh, wait... you said "great" films.

It has a huge following. I need to see it again. I know the sequels were terrible.

As for me, and to follow-up from our slasher discussion, I saw that Curtains is on YouTube and I don't think I've ever seen it. I'll be on it pretty soon.

 

[Osprey]

It has a huge following. I need to see it again. I know the sequels were terrible.

Hey, I liked the sequels. They're so deliberately silly. How can you watch the nicest girl in camp skipping around, chewing bubblegum and smiling while brutally murdering other kids and not enjoy it?

 

[ORRFForever]

Do not ever doubt me again!

 

[nameless1]

European directors and showing rich people doing naughty things is a very common theme I've noticed.

Fassbender is a little different. He grew up during the economic miracle after the war in Germany, but he has a grudge against the bourgeoisie. To him, he does not think they have learned anything from the war, and he thinks they are just as complicit as the generation that helped the Nazis to power.

Personally, I think Hanake is heavily influenced by Fassbender. Hanake, of course, takes it a step further, but they both have issues with the middle class.

 

[nameless1]

The Third Generation (1973), Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder 8A

The Third Generation is German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s acidly disapproving, sometimes almost slapstick comic film about a group of well-off bourgeoisie who dabble in revolution like it is some kind of chic party game. When their attempts at undermining the state goes awry, they run into cold, hard reality in a big way. The Baader-Meinhof gang (the second generation of German revolutionaries) they ain’t. The movie owes more than a little to Jean Luc Godard’s La Chinoise. But while Godard offers a degree of sympathy along with thoughtful skepticism toward his young student revolutionaries in his film, the equally leftist Fassbinder, who was actually childhood friends with Andreas Baader, shows only derision for his bumbling lot of middle-class revolutionary poseurs, an unexpectedly critical approach that must have greatly surprised many of his friends and admirers. The joke goes that Fassbinder was the only great director in movie history with a life-time batting average of .167, but be that as it may The Third Generation is one of his best films. It is certainly my favourite among his works.

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That is a tad unfair to Fassbender. An .167 batting average out of 37 films is about 6, and I think he has at least 10 good films.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Curtains (not clear, 1983) - I was falsely lead to believe that this was a standard slasher, but nah... it's a weak whodunnit variation, with everything pointing to a sole suspect (and of course, you know right away this is misdirection so the real killer is absurdely easy to identify)... it has artsy sensibility in parts, but is really uneven and for good reasons, the director quit during the shoot, and the rest of the film was shot and reshot over 3 years... it flirts with reflexivity, the plot being centered around the auditions of an abusive director, Jonathan Stryker, with curtains transitions that are a bit ridiculous - and since the director disowned the film, it was credited to Stryker... 2/10

Throw Momma From the Train (DeVito, 1987) - Could have been real funny. Kind of an interesting example of a mise en abyme (the movie being the book the character is writing), but with not much meat on that bone. 4/10

Adult World (Coffey, 2013) - Kind of funny. I appreciate its cynicism, but could have gone way further. Cool characters. 4.5/10

 

[Osprey]

VFW (2019) - 5/10 (Didn't like or dislike it)

A bunch of over-the-hill veterans of foreign wars ("VFWs") defend their local watering hole from drug-addicted millennials. It stars Stephen Lang and William Sadler and is like Assault on Precinct 13, but with old veterans instead of police officers. They board up the bar and use mostly sharp objects to kill the punks when they get in. It's really gory. It's also really implausible that a bunch of 70-year-olds could kick the tar out of people 50 years younger, but, hey, it's also kind of satisfying. There's really not much of a story or any drama. It's just a pure action movie that's a throwback to the 80s and grindhouse pictures. It's dumb, but it delivers on gory action, so, if that's all that you're looking for, it might do.