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

[ORRFForever]

I came this close to using the top shot for the picture in my review, but already gave Gibson a dreamboat moment in the picture I used for my The Year of Living Dangerously review and I didn't want to repeat myself. Like it was a matter of artistic integrity of something.

We should all look like that.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - Cute to the extreme. Modern comedies could learn a lot from this, in that writers could try and project themselves as being as idiotic as their creations. It helps to give that feeling that you're laughing along with them, instead of at them with a heightened sense of intelligence. The slapstick and comic crumbles are both first-rate (the umpire bit was a howler) and the sets actually looked really good in a way that I find a lot of mainstream comedies don't put a lot of time into (or perhaps simply due to a lack of taste). Nielson certainly steals the show, but everyone did their part. A good time.

 

[OzzyFan]

Corpus Christi (2019)
3.75 out of 4stars

You all sold me on watching this film and it easily met expectations. An endlessly thought provoking powerful tale about morals, forgiveness, redemption, accountability, guilt, humanity, imperfection/"sin", faith, dogma, and more with a strong lead performance. You don't need to be religious to enjoy this movie, just being human is enough.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Repo Man (1984) - 8/10

I love the weirdness, which normally I don't but when there's a solid plot it combines with then it works well.

Harry Dean Stanton also looks like he starred in Paris Texas the same year, two movies that could not be any more different.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Oh, and couldn't sleep last night.....

Moneyball (Miller, 2011) - Rewatch. Still has some charms. 5.5/10

You're a Habs fan, right? I swear to God, I can't watch this and unsee that this is who Marc Bergevin fancies himself as. It's so awful and a terrible mental burden.

 

[Langdon Alger]

You're a Habs fan, right? I swear to God, I can't watch this and unsee that this is who Marc Bergevin fancies himself as.

Brad Pitt?

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Brad Pitt?

Not Brad Pitt per say. But as the handsome, metro sports dude who outsmarts everybody else by being Bargain Bin (his greatest nickname and completely fitting within his moves and Billy Beane's). He's a terrible dresser, has no eloquence and can't build a team to save his life, but in a bizarre, unrealistic way, I can't help but think that Bergevin seems himself like Moneyball Billy Beane. It's just a dumb tidbit of mainstream art f***ing up my perception of narrative but I can't shake it after my last viewing, which was very recent.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I’d have to go back and watch this again, but I remember liking it. Why such a low score?

5.5 isn't really that much of a low score for me... When I started rating films on IMDB (in 2007), it was really only for me, I never shared any of it with anyone before I started posting on this board. I made a conscious decision to make more room to distinguish what was a good film, a very good film, a great film, a masterpiece, and beyond than to distinguish between turds of different colors. And at the time I still had a functioning brain and I very rarely watched the kind of crap I watch today (except for horror films).

So to me, 6/10 is a good film that I think should be seen. 5/10 is a good film that I feel can be passed over. Most commercial films are 3/10, or 4/10 if they have some originality or are particularly entertaining.

You're a Habs fan, right? I swear to God, I can't watch this and unsee that this is who Marc Bergevin fancies himself as. It's so awful and a terrible mental burden.

Not really a Habs fan, not really a hockey fan. I joined HF years ago (under another alias) when I got involved in a keeper hockey pool with friends. I dropped the pool and I dropped HF. I got back in the pool 3 years ago, so I got back in here. I mostly lurk the prospect boards, and pretty much only post here. I don't think I've ever clicked on the Habs board.

 

[ORRFForever]

La Llorona (2020) :

As per wiki...

"Enrique Monteverde is a former Guatemalan dictator responsible for the brutal genocide of native Mayans during the 1980s. Although he was brought to court and found guilty, the verdict is overturned because of a technicality that allows him to return to his home. This is met with great disgust and unrest by the general public, who hold protests outside of the Monteverde home. Despite this the family manages to live relatively peacefully with their servants until Enrique's increasingly erratic and senile behavior drives most of his staff to quit. Shortly thereafter a young woman, Alma, arrives as a new worker and supernatural activity ensues."

It takes a long time to get to a payoff that's not worth the wait.

5/10

Spoken languages are Spanish, Mayan-Caqchickel and Mayan-Ixil.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Field of Dreams - 1989

Never saw this movie before, so I thought I’d check it out. A little sappy, but overall an enjoyable movie. I’d watch it again.

7/10

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Repo Man (1984) - 8/10

I love the weirdness, which normally I don't but when there's a solid plot it combines with then it works well.

Harry Dean Stanton also looks like he starred in Paris Texas the same year, two movies that could not be any more different.

Still one of my personal favourite movies. Infinitely quotable if you like weirding people out. Which I do.

It's the little things that stick out as you watch it closely. All the cars turn the opposite way they're signaling (remember Bud's "Nice signal, dickhead!!"?), the lady whose trash Otto knocks over shows up later at the hospital talking to the admission nurse as Otto walks by ("It comes to something when they expect you to pick it up...!"), the first car Otto repos changes from a hatchback to a coupe while he's driving it, Otto and Bud only enter stores either during or immediately after robberies...a few sight gags involving no-name food labels...vintage SoCal punk soundtrack...so many good things about movie.

 

[heatnikki]

My Octopus Teacher. I guess more of a feature length documentary of sorts. I thought it was amazing. Utterly engaging and so incredibly touching. I can't believe I had tears in my eyes watching a documentary about an octopus.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

The Babysitter: Killer Queen (McG, 2020) - I guess following a film with zero substance, that works only because it doesn't give a f*** about anything other than shock and chuckles, must be kind of hard. First one was a fun ride, this is just rehashing the same stuff, with no original ideas. McG? 3/10

 

[NyQuil]

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - Cute to the extreme. Modern comedies could learn a lot from this, in that writers could try and project themselves as being as idiotic as their creations. It helps to give that feeling that you're laughing along with them, instead of at them with a heightened sense of intelligence. The slapstick and comic crumbles are both first-rate (the umpire bit was a howler) and the sets actually looked really good in a way that I find a lot of mainstream comedies don't put a lot of time into (or perhaps simply due to a lack of taste). Nielson certainly steals the show, but everyone did their part. A good time.

What I love about this film is the little jokes in the background that you might not catch on the first viewing:

1. When Drebin is giving his speech to the assembled crowd waiting for Weird Al, you can see luggage being thrown out of the plane on to the tarmac behind him, missing the cart every time.

2. When Drebin is at the police lab and he walks around the set walls while the other two guys walk through the door.

I actually like the movie more than Airplane! because despite the similar machine-gun joke delivery, I find more of the jokes land and are more related to the actual film.

My favourite scene is still when he's grilling the harbourmaster and his bribing campaign ends up with Drebin 20 bucks ahead.

 

[ORRFForever]

Field of Dreams - 1989

Never saw this movie before, so I thought I’d check it out. A little sappy, but overall an enjoyable movie. I’d watch it again.

7/10

When I was young, I loved Field Of Dreams. I felt so touched by it.

Now, looking back, it is REALLY sappy/corny and difficult to watch.

 

[kihei]

The Distinguished Citizen (2016) Directed by Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn 7A

Daniel Mantovani (Oscar Martinez), a recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature living in Europe for decades,, becomes disillusioned by fame and any attention paid to his work, no matter how praiseworthy or well-intended. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to return to his hometown in Argentina which he hasn’t visited in decades to take part in a small festival in his honour, the sort of activity that he would usually shun. It doesn’t quite go as planned. The Distinguished Citizen is a relatively rare movie—an intelligent film about an intellectual. If they are portrayed at all in movies, intellectuals are usually presented as the “other,” too removed from reality, too arrogant to be tolerated, too elitist to countenance, too cut off by their intelligence from the concerns of everyday life. The movie actually takes this stereotypical notion and examines it from different angles, putting Daniel, its guinea pig, back in his hometown after all these years and seeing how both he and his old acquaintances react to the Nobel Prize winner's arrival. At first the humour is gentle, but it soon becomes barbed, and eventually poisonous. The film's target is both the pretensions of intellectuals but as well the problems inherent in our response to them and how our insecurities can be exposed by their presence. Possessing an excellent script and a fine lead performance by Martinez, The Distinguished Citizen is an entertaining and thoughtful movie.

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[Tkachuk4MVP]

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - Cute to the extreme. Modern comedies could learn a lot from this, in that writers could try and project themselves as being as idiotic as their creations. It helps to give that feeling that you're laughing along with them, instead of at them with a heightened sense of intelligence. The slapstick and comic crumbles are both first-rate (the umpire bit was a howler) and the sets actually looked really good in a way that I find a lot of mainstream comedies don't put a lot of time into (or perhaps simply due to a lack of taste). Nielson certainly steals the show, but everyone did their part. A good time.

Nice write up. Top 5 comedy of all-time for me.

 

[nameless1]

Field of Dreams - 1989

Never saw this movie before, so I thought I’d check it out. A little sappy, but overall an enjoyable movie. I’d watch it again.

7/10

It is one of those guilty pleasure movies. It is sappy, it is predictable, it is pure Hollywood mainstream, and it is made when studios still believed that Kevin Costner is the next big thing, but damn it, it worked, and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

 

[nameless1]

Not Brad Pitt per say. But as the handsome, metro sports dude who outsmarts everybody else by being Bargain Bin (his greatest nickname and completely fitting within his moves and Billy Beane's). He's a terrible dresser, has no eloquence and can't build a team to save his life, but in a bizarre, unrealistic way, I can't help but think that Bergevin seems himself like Moneyball Billy Beane. It's just a dumb tidbit of mainstream art f***ing up my perception of narrative but I can't shake it after my last viewing, which was very recent.

Is he not though? Bergevin does not exactly operate with a bargain basement budget, but he does use moneyball tactics. He uses some sort of algorithm that is far different from everyone else, and that is why his track record on acquisitions are all over the place. There are some great moves, and then a lot really questionable ones. Overall, he likely bats under .500.

I live on the West Coast, and that is how I feel when I watch from afar. The media is not exactly wrong on that aspect.

 

[Langdon Alger]

It is one of those guilty pleasure movies. It is sappy, it is predictable, it is pure Hollywood mainstream, and it is made when studios still believed that Kevin Costner is the next big thing, but damn it, it worked, and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Yeah, it’s enjoyable for sure. I don’t know how people feel about Costner’s work overall, but I thought he was good in this.

 

[nameless1]

Yeah, it’s enjoyable for sure. I don’t know how people feel about Costner’s work overall, but I thought he was good in this.

He has had a long career, but I can merely count a handful of movies that I enjoyed. Out of those few, only Dances with Wolves has any artistic value, but even that can be arguable. At times, it feels very self-indulgent, particularly with the 3 hours runtime. The success of the movie also fed his ego, and for a while, he pretty much had free reign to get his projects approved, which led to a couple of big expensive flops. I especially hated Waterworld, because to this day, Universal continues to try to salvage it, as it is now a live action show at its namesake theme park.

Plus, his acting never got any better over the years. He always plays the same characters over and over again.

 

[kihei]

My Octopus Teacher. I guess more of a feature length documentary of sorts. I thought it was amazing. Utterly engaging and so incredibly touching. I can't believe I had tears in my eyes watching a documentary about an octopus.

I absolutely loved this documentary. The shot of her playing with the fish and then rushing over and hugging the guy's chest, I mean, wow, how can your heart not melt? Let me highly recommend a book The Soul of an Octupus by Sy Montgomery. If you found the movie engaging, I guarantee you will find this book equally engaging or more so.

 

[kihei]

I'd find it hard to pick between Airplane! and The Naked Gun. I think The Naked Gun is slightly the more well put together of the two, but I would have to watch them again to judge fairly. Still, probably the two funniest laugh-out-loud American comedies of the last half century.

 

[Langdon Alger]

He has had a long career, but I can merely count a handful of movies that I enjoyed. Out of those few, only Dances with Wolves has any artistic value, but even that can be arguable. At times, it feels very self-indulgent, particularly with the 3 hours runtime. The success of the movie also fed his ego, and for a while, he pretty much had free reign to get his projects approved, which led to a couple of big expensive flops. I especially hated Waterworld, because to this day, Universal continues to try to salvage it, as it is now a live action show at its namesake theme park.

Plus, his acting never got any better over the years. He always plays the same characters over and over again.

I’ve never seen Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves, but my dad told me Costner was pretty bad in that.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

What I love about this film is the little jokes in the background that you might not catch on the first viewing:

1. When Drebin is giving his speech to the assembled crowd waiting for Weird Al, you can see luggage being thrown out of the plane on to the tarmac behind him, missing the cart every time.

2. When Drebin is at the police lab and he walks around the set walls while the other two guys walk through the door.

I actually like the movie more than Airplane! because despite the similar machine-gun joke delivery, I find more of the jokes land and are more related to the actual film.

My favourite scene is still when he's grilling the harbourmaster and his bribing campaign ends up with Drebin 20 bucks ahead.

That money scene is when it started clicking with me that this was going to be a little extra special.