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

[ORRFForever]

Centigrade (2020):

Naomi and Matt are a young couple (she’s pregnant) trapped in their car under a mountain of snow in Norway. They're panicking / scared because they have no idea how to escape.

About 15 minutes in, nature calls and Naomi disgustingly explains, “I just peed on a towel”. Matt replies, “Yeah, well... I had a BIG Thai meal for dinner last night so that's the LEAST of your worries”.

Okay, Matt never said that but, if he did, it would have been the best line of dialogue in this poorly written, poorly acted, bore of a movie.

3/10

 

[Langdon Alger]

The Squid and the Whale - 2005

Well acted film with Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney and Jesse Eisenberg. Didn’t really get into it that much. Thought I would enjoy it more. Got great reviews, but to be honest, it didn’t do a lot for me. I like when Jesse Eisenberg plays a Pink Floyd song at school for a talent show and he claims he wrote it. Like, did no one in that audience think, hey, that’s a Pink Floyd song? Weird. Anyway, not really my thing, but it was a well made film that was well acted.

6/10

 

[ghostnights]

Calibre (2018) Directed by Matt Palmer 7A

Calibre is one of the more plausible thrillers of the past few years, and there is nothing slow burn about it. Vaughan and Marcus, two likeable guys from Edinburgh, go deep into the highlands of Scotland to do some hunting. They meet the locals, get in a scuffle that almost turns really serious. On their first day in the woods a terrible accident happens and then there is an attempt to cover it up. They return to their hotel and decide what to do next, but nothing goes as planned. The villagers begin to sense something is very wrong. A real work of craftsmanship, well-written, well-acted and well-directed, Calibre is one of those thrillers where every step along the way seems perfectly consistent with what has come before. How events unfold makes sense. We view the action from Vaughan and Marcus’ perspective, but with mixed feelings. We can also understand the villagers’ reactions and the practical and moral dilemmas that they face. It all makes for some gut-wrenching suspense. I’m amazed this movie didn’t find a bigger audience. The terrible generic title probably didn’t help, but Calibre is among the best movies you never heard of available on Netflix.

Sidenote: Incidentally, the movie makes a great travelogue for the Highlands as well. Some viewers may be surprised by how rugged and beautiful Scotland northern Scotland is.

Netflix

I saw this movie last year and thoroughly enjoyed it .

 

[The don godfather]

The descent. Scary . Amazing watch it.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

with Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, and various other sociopaths.

The CIA/mercenary dirty jobs crew from the first movie shows up after a few random Arabs blow themselves up in a supermarket in Kansas City. This means they get to blow up and shoot a whole bunch of brown people. Not Arabs, though. Apparently one of them snuck across the Mexican border, so the hit crew decides to use this as a pretext to kidnap a drug baron's daughter to start a war between the cartels. Also to run around in whatever country they feel like to shoot people. It's even mentioned at one point that two of the bombers were US citizens from New Jersey...but this doesn't even so much as make a blip on anyone's radar. Mayhem and dead bodies ensue.

The first Sicario movie held my interest and humanized some of the characters; this one is a bloody, tedious slog from start to finish. The first movie raised questions about how to fight the drug war; this one throws anything regarding ethics right in the garbage can. The hit squad is sent and run by an agency and country that believe in nothing, stand for nothing, has nothing of any interest to say, and are morally, ethically and spiritually bankrupt. The moral of the story is apparently that life is shit and everyone's a sociopath.

About as fun as shaving your head with a cheese grater.

Worst field trip ever.

 

[pastaaa]

last movie I watched was this creepy anime named flavors of youth.
i would rate it 6/10

 

[Osprey]

last movie I watched was this creepy anime named flavors of youth.
i would rate it 6/10

I'm impressed that you registered today just to post a movie review here. Most people join the site to talk hockey and it's not until they've been here for years that they get lost/drunk and stumble into this corner of the site. You realize that we can't let you leave. You're stuck here with us, so welcome!

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Le Havre (2011) - 8/10

Second Aki Kaurismaki and while I prefer the Finnish setting and Finnish deadpan acting compared to this French setting, it still works pretty similarly. Very simple, likable, and grounded for the most part with just a tad bit of drama added in. Very easy viewing.

Just curious, what did you think of the original Indiana Jones trilogy then? I only dislike the second one, but I still had fun with it overall.

f*** that's another one I thought was pretty campy and overrated though not as bad as Back To The Future. Harrison Ford is a much better actor than Michael J Fox. I grew up in the 90s and 00s though not the 70s or 80s so most 70s and 80s blockbusters come across as very dated in comparison to more serious films like dramas from that time.

 

[kihei]

Under the Silver Lake (2019) Directed by David Robert Mitchell 3B

Under the Silver Lake is a movie about a slacker amateur detective (Andrew Garfield, the only good thing about the movie) and the flick moves at a slacker’s pace. Sam is 30 something, jobless and soon to be without an apartment as he is weeks behind on his rent. He dresses like a 20-year-old and has less ambition than a house cat. However, when a pretty girl turns up at the swimming pool of his condo complex, he becomes attracted and gets to know her a little. Then she disappears and he begins a search for her that gets wrapped up in him trying to decipher oddball codes of one kind or another which lead him into many strange circumstances, almost all of them eccentric but pointless. The combination of high production values and flashy cinematography in concert with the lack of any plausible reason for the movie’s existence doesn’t play well at all. The movie clearly wants to be a hip California noir in the manner of The Long Goodbye. However all Under the Silver Lake accomplishes is to reveal itself as a work of uncommon self-indulgence.

Prime Video

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Under the Silver Lake (2019) Directed by David Robert Mitchell 3B

Under the Silver Lake is a movie about a slacker amateur detective (Andrew Garfield, the only good thing about the movie) and the flick moves at a slacker’s pace. Sam is 30 something, jobless and soon to be without an apartment as he is weeks behind on his rent. He dresses like a 20-year-old and has less ambition than a house cat. However, when a pretty girl turns up at the swimming pool of his condo complex, he becomes attracted and gets to know her a little. Then she disappears and he begins a search for her that gets wrapped up in him trying to decipher oddball codes of one kind or another which lead him into many strange circumstances, almost all of them eccentric but pointless. The combination of high production values and flashy cinematography in concert with the lack of any plausible reason for the movie’s existence doesn’t play well at all. The movie clearly wants to be a hip California noir in the manner of The Long Goodbye. However all Under the Silver Lake accomplishes is to reveal itself as a work of uncommon self-indulgence.

Prime Video

I liked it quite a bit, reminded me at some times of Brian De Palma, and at others of Tinto Brass. The whole last part was disappointing, but leading up to that, there was IMO a lot of potential in it.

 

[kihei]

With the US Open starting tomorrow, I thought I could sneak this in:

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018) Directed by Julien Faraut (documentary) 8A

Why, one might ask, is a sports documentary on John McEnroe part of the Criterion Collection, a DVD company devoted to the preservation of art house classics and experimental films? Well, it is not your everyday sports biopick by any means. It’s not even about the perfection of John McEnroe, or, if it is, it’s sort of a backhand slap of an accolade. McEnroe, of course, is the famous angry brat of tennis, who reigned almost supreme for several years in the 70s and ‘80s (there was Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors in this era, too—with Borg perhaps the best of the three). McEnroe was gifted by the gods with a superb game and supreme touch, a true artist on the court. But he had an artist’s temperament, too, endlessly whining about line calls and other slights real or imagined on the court. Unlike the friendly tennis commentator that he is today, McEnroe was a punk in the age of Sid and Nancy, But he wasn’t cool. He was less a punk than an upper-west side spoiled Manhattan rich kid and his on-court demeanor and non-stop glower almost cost him his legacy. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection is a weird but satisfying mix. Part archival instructional demonstration, part tennis doc, part psychological analysis, the documentary does an excellent job of capturing the mercurial highs and lows of this gifted athlete who made an almost weekly habit of pissing on his own canvas.

Criterion Collection

 

[Chili]

On Dangerous Ground-1951

Interesting film noir directed by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause). Main part of the plot is a manhunt somewhat similar to 'Track of the Cat' (written by that same writer who also makes a cameo in the film). Many of the scenes were shot in the Colorado mountains in the snow. Not a typical cop story of the era (although it starts out that way) and strong performances from the main characters. Good film.

 

[aufheben]

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) Directed by Eliza Hittman 8B

Currently the #1 ranked movie of the year on Metacritic, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a very direct film about what it is like to be Autumn (Sidney Flanagan) a pregnant 17-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family with a white trash boyfriend already in her second trimester trying to get an abortion without the help of anyone, save her slightly older cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder). Thwarted in Pennsylvania, they travel to New York City and into a world of unknown dangers. The movie has only one thing on its mind and that is to put the viewer in Autumn’s shoes and experience what she goes through on this perilous journey. No question, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is showing what it is like to be a girl without power in a man’s world, certainly a stance that will rub some people the wrong way. But the movie makes its many points with surprising subtlety and in a totally gripping fashion. First time actress Flanagan (she looks a little like a baby Meryl Streep) gives an utterly convincing performances as the deeply introverted Autumn. Never Rarely Sometimes Always, angry and empathetic simultaneously, isn’t as depressing as the society it depicts.



Top Ten so far this year

First Cow, Reichardt, US
Seducio da Carne, Bressane, Brazil
Beanpole, Balagov, Russia
Before We Vanish, Kurosawa, Japan
Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Hittman, US
The Portuguese Woman, Gomes, Portugal
The Forest of Love, Sono, Japan
The Load, Glavonic, Serbia
A Land Imagined, Siew, Singapore
The Day after I'm Gone, Eldar, Israel

Good movie but Christ I feel like I just spent 2 hours in Port Authority.

 

[aufheben]

Showgirls (1995, P. Verhoeven) - 3.5/5

Wow. I don’t know if this movie is a masterpiece, utter garbage, or both.

 

[Mario Lemieux fan 66]

Tenet : 7.8/10 Pretty good. First time back to the cinema for me since february. Mostly well done but like Inception there is some part harder to understand. I think that's the 1st good movie involving Pattinson. Cosmopolis, the lighthouse and Good time were dreadful.

 

[Osprey]

On Dangerous Ground-1951

Interesting film noir directed by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause). Main part of the plot is a manhunt somewhat similar to 'Track of the Cat' (written by that same writer who also makes a cameo in the film). Many of the scenes were shot in the Colorado mountains in the snow. Not a typical cop story of the era (although it starts out that way) and strong performances from the main characters. Good film.

You had me at "snow." Seriously, I just watched it and really liked it. Besides Track of the Cat, it reminded me some of the much newer Wind River. I found it amusing how bad Wilson is at being a cop (always letting bad guys get a head start, letting them get away, roughing them up when he catches them and talking in such a cold tone that no criminal or witness would be persuaded to cooperate), but I suppose that that's the whole point of the story. I found it to be well paced, engaging and emotional. Have I mentioned that I also like that it has snow in it? Thanks a lot for the recommendation.

 

[kihei]

Black Snow (2017) Directed by Martin Hodara 4A

Black Snow is a slow-burn family-with-secrets thriller from snowy Argentina. (I always forget it snows in parts of Argentina, that the country competes in alpine skiing and snowboarding in the Olympics. But I digress). Salvador (Ricardo Darin) has spent his entire life living in a cabin that his younger brother Marcos, visiting from Buenos Aires, wants to sell to rich Canadians for 9 million dollars (yea, us!). However, there are dark reasons why this might not be a great idea. Having accidentally shot and killed another brother in his distant youth, Salvador is reluctant to leave his homestead. He has a good case, but Marcos, with his pretty, pregnant wife in tow, persists. Black Snow has a perfectly acceptable though hardly original plot which it compromises with some very unlikely discoveries and some annoyingly sloppy details (why struggle mightily to get out the driver’s seat window of your hatchback when you can just crawl over the seats and open the back door?). To be fair, the acting is first-rate, especially the great Ricardo Darin, the scenery in Patagonia is impressive, and there is a pleasing congruence to how the pieces fit together. Still, a more discerning script would have made Black Snow a much better movie.

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Netflix

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Good movie but Christ I feel like I just spent 2 hours in Port Authority.

 

[McOilers97]

This weekend I watched:

Incendies - Denis Villeneuve 2010
Incredible movie. I don't have a ton to say really, just that I found it to be very powerful and a definite early indicator of Villeneuve's talent as a filmmaker, tackling the big projects he's taken on in the last 5 years.

Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese 1980
Great DeNiro performance, and overall fascinating look at a fall from grace of a f***ed up human being.

Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick 1964
I definitely appreciate the cleverness and dry humour from this movie moreso than I actually enjoyed it as a piece of entertainment, but there's no doubt that Kubrick had a lot to say about the idiocy and bull-headedness of those in positions of power. It's definitely a movie that seems like it would reward repeat viewings.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

^ You should watch Fail-Safe after you viewed Dr. Strangelove. It's from the same year, first 20 minutes are slow though.

 

[McOilers97]

^ You should watch Fail-Safe after you viewed Dr. Strangelove. It's from the same year, first 20 minutes are slow though.

Thanks, I'll throw it on the list!

 

[Chili]

You had me at "snow." Seriously, I just watched it and really liked it. Besides Track of the Cat, it reminded me some of the much newer Wind River. I found it amusing how bad Wilson is at being a cop (always letting bad guys get a head start, letting them get away, roughing them up when he catches them and talking in such a cold tone that no criminal or witness would be persuaded to cooperate), but I suppose that that's the whole point of the story. I found it to be well paced, engaging and emotional. Have I mentioned that I also like that it has snow in it? Thanks a lot for the recommendation.

Good call on Wind River which I have seen. Another movie I thought of was High Sierra (Humphrey Bogart and ironically Ida Lupino). Robert Ryan is usually convincing, found he was here. I enjoy films with outdoor scenes, maybe why I'm a fan of westerns. Glad you enjoyed the film.

 

[nameless1]

^ You should watch Fail-Safe after you viewed Dr. Strangelove. It's from the same year, first 20 minutes are slow though.

I love Sidney Lumet. He is one of the more underrated masters.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Captain Blood (1935) - 7.5/10

Really fun old pirate film with a good pace that keeps going despite the pirate aspect not coming in half-way through the film. I like Errol Flynn as the lead quite a bit though I can see why he'd wear on some people. Definitely feel like a lot of elements of this are in more recent pirate films so the parts of the film before they get on a ship are probably more enjoyable. Also watching Robin Hood slay Sherlock Holmes in a sword fight...wild.

 

[deadinthewater]

Tenet : 7.8/10 Pretty good. First time back to the cinema for me since february. Mostly well done but like Inception there is some part harder to understand. I think that's the 1st good movie involving Pattinson. Cosmopolis, the lighthouse and Good time were dreadful.

People have raved about his acting in The Lighthouse (I haven't seen it). Was the film just bad, or his performance too?