Last (x) movies you saw

I broke it in half a couple weekends ago, about three hours each part give or take. I don't think I breathed once, especially during the cat sequence.

I thought this thread was "Last movie in xxxx genre that you've seen" - so answering that instead, sorry.

I realised last month that I hadn't seen a superhero film since Batman Returns, not intentionally, just never really interested enough. I asked a few people for suggestions for one to try, a few people said "Kick-ass," so I watched that and found it unpleasant for a variety of reasons. Do people actually like this film, or was I just asking the wrong people?

Bitter Lake (Curtis, 2015) 8/10
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Freidrich, 2012) 7/10
Viva Riva! (Munga, 2012) 6/10
Gueros (Ruizpalacios, 2015) 7/10
*The Nutty Professor (Shadyac, 1996) 4/10
*Adaptation (Jonze, 2002) 7/10

aw man TNP is worth it for "how do you think you get your colon cleansed? by taking your asshole to the carwash?"

I'm probably being overly harsh on TNP. Eddie as Buddy Love is pretty fearsome.

I mean it's not a "good" movie by any means! and it did kickstart the "Eddie Murphy playing 17 characters" horseshit that led to NOrbit years later so....

Bitter Lake - flawed, but ought to be on the national curriculum anyway.

This Gun For Hire (Tuttle, 1942) - 8/10
The Falling (Morley, 2015) - 6/10
Spectre (Mendes, 2015) - 4/10
Mission:Impossible - Rogue Nation (McQuarrie, 2015) - 5/10
Young Ones (Paltrow, 2014) (renamed Bad Land: Road to Fury here in the UK, and advertised as a Mad Max: Fury Road post-apocalyptic action film (Nicholas Hoult is also in this.) It's actually a somewhat languid neo-western drama, and a bit of a snooze at times.) - 6/10
Amy (Kapadia, 2015) - 9/10

rewatches:
Sleepy Hollow (Burton, 1999) - 6/10
Lincoln, (Spielberg, 2012) - 8/10
The Counsellor (Scott, 2013) - 6/10
Evil Dead: Army of Darkness (Raimi, 1993) - 5/10
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935) - 9/10

Wow so "Spectre" is that bad eh? Gonna be the first Craig Bond I sit out, then. Too bad.

Mulholland Drive (rewatch/Criterion Blu): 8/10
The Harem : 7/10

Think spectre is a love or hate. Several of us liked it in the Bond thread

Spectre has some competent action set-pieces but there's no sense of any enthusiasm behind any of it. It kind of is the Dark Knight Rises of the Craig Bonds

Terminator Genisys (2015) - still fun the 2nd time through.
Deep Space (1988) - b-grade combo of Aliens, Miami Vice, and Evil Dead
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985) - Christopher Lee goes to a New Wave club. upon signing on for Gremlins II Lee apologized to Joe Dante for being in this, as Dante made the first one.
Blackula (1972) - cool intro animation, pretty unique story for a Dracula movie. heavily edited for TV tho.

Went to dad's for Thanksgiving and he gets over the air TV. His newest channel is called Comet and plays the 90s remake of The Outer Limits & Stargate SG-1 in between MGM b-movies.

Extreme Prejudice - Walter Hill's last truly great movie. Had to order the Blu-Ray from Japan.

Heaven Knows What (2015, Safdie, Safdie) 7/10
The Walk (2015, Zemeckis, 3D) 6/10
*Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Haynes) 10/10
Office (2015, To, 3D) 6/10
*The Four Musketeers (1974, Lester) 8/10
*Safe (1995, Haynes) 8/10
*The Three Musketeers (1973, Lester) 9/10
This Land Is Mine (1943, Renoir) 6/10
*The Parallax View (1974, Pakula) 8/10
Reel In The Closet (2015, Maddux) 7/10
Crime Wave (1985, Paizs) 8/10
Je, tu, il, elle (1976, Akerman) 7/10
*Citizenfour (2014, Poitras) 8/10
Clandestine Zero Line (1960, Suzuki) 7/10
Archangel (1991, Maddin) 5/10
In This Our Life (1942, Huston) 7/10

Spectre (Mendes, 2015)
The Sound and the Fury (Ritt, 1959)
Mark of the Vampire (Browning, 1935)
Mr. Holmes (Condon, 2015)
Innocence Unprotected (Makavejev, 1968, after Aleksić, 1941)
Bitter Rice (de Santis, 1949)
The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)
*Ronin (Frankenheimer, 1998 w/his commentary track)
A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski, 1988)
*Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)

So I was drunk and not remembering stuff for a week, but I started watching films again yesterday; so far:

Bigmaechi - this was in my notes but I was still sobering up, better rewatch, I vaguely remember it being... good? (yay my critic skills) I'll guess 7/10
Entertainment - the Neil Hamburger bisnes, quality but not really entertaining. Like that TimnEric film The Comedy was good, but not a comedy 7/10
Pocket Listing - Not BAD bad, but I starting checking Twitter and opening mail and folding paper cranes. In retrospect, probably bad. 7/10
The Legend Of Barney Thomson - Bobby Carlyle's directorial debut. Pish. 7/10

Then started on the horror pile, firstly a coupla 80's ones by Tibor Takas, who I never previously checked out:
The Gate - very entertaining 7/10
I, Madman - not as good as the previous 7/10
then I watched
Deep Dark - pish 7/10
The Perfect Husband - actually quite offensive. The husband abuses and tortures his wife then (SPOILER) unreliable narrator, turns out it was the other way round and the wife was the pycho torturer. Fuck this shit. 6/10

saw the secret in their eyes remake, p bad. theres a cool shot sweeping down and into dodger stadium and the girl they cast to play julia roberts daughter really resembles her so wtg there.. ultimately tho they just futz a lot of characters behavior (esp like the counterterriorism bosses as villains) 2 create the plot and set up the pointless twists. also bothered that in the baseball scene its supposed to be 2002 and they say its 6-5 dodgers over the mets going to the 9th i believe? no game matches that so either just don't get that specific or pull from a real scenario, 2/10

theres a cool shot sweeping down and into dodger stadium

Yeah, pretty sure that'll be the only thing I end up remembering from that dumb movie.

Father's Day (Astron-6)- I don't feel like I have the necessary Troma background to rate this properly? I'm not really sure what the director(s?) brought to this and what's Troma. I still kind of want to see their giallo takeoff (The Editor) because I'm a sucker for that kind of thing

*Hellraiser (Barker)- Still A+ horror classic even if individual elements dated badly (that skeleton dragon puppet especially)

*Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (Randel)- Liked it much less than I used to, sadly. It's still competent, the gore is still upsetting, but it's unmistakably where the franchise went wrong- essentially by jamming Barker's interesting stuff into an overtly Christian framework, with an actual "hell" that exists to punish naughty people. I understand Barker's new book and comics do the same thing, which is an absolute shame.

Enter the Void (Noe)- This is a stupid fucking movie that I'm still glad I watched. It seems like it would be better drunk or high and with something else entirely on the soundtrack (I never want to hear that little girl screaming after the car crash again), which is fine, really

*Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth- SPEAKING OF FUCKING STUPID

Love (Noe)- eeeh. I enjoyed it, more or less (mostly down to the excellent soundtrack and some really good editing) but it's still overlong and self-indulgent and kind of dumb.

In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution (Statler)- it's on Youtube in high quality, presumably ripped from Criterion's DVD of Island of Lost Souls. I'd seen the "Jocko Homo" video before, but the whole thing is wonderful. And "General Boy" is still one of my favorite throwaway character names ever

*A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway)- rewatched for the first time in at least a decade to prepare for a Photoshop poster design project. Still the funniest Greenaway I've seen, still an insanely great Nyman soundtrack

*Moebius Redux- mediocre made-for-TV doc on Moebius that I forgot I'd already watched a few years ago. It seems like they had a lot of access to Giraud, and he's charming as hell and manages to do most of the heavy lifting for them, but he's a fairly introspective artist and it's a little boring to watch a documentary that doesn't seem to have any critical perspective whatsoever. I'm not even talking about problematizing the subject's work or whatever, I just mean getting things to deviate from the predictable biography/career overview/established persona route.

Princess Arete (Katabuchi)- like Howl's Moving Castle but better, kind of? That's a really facile comparison (anime movie based on Western fantasy book) but almost everything in this felt stronger and more focused and grounded and humane. It doesn't have the visual imagination of the Miyazaki film, but it's just quietly gorgeous instead, with this earthy palette and details drawn just as much from actual medieval art and costuming as from fantasy lit.

Modesty Blaise (Losey)- this movie is completely batshit, but not as stupid as it looks on the surface- besides, look at that fucking cast! Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde as maybe the best camp villain I have ever seen

Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (Sallin)- so much better than the Moebius doc, even if the subject isn't quite as much to my taste and it's a little hagiographic (entirely understandable since he was quite aged and died shortly after filming was completed)- they had tremendous access to archival footage, including some jaw-dropping sequences of Giger working with just an airbrush, and also Giger's adorable cat Muggi

*Maska (Quay)- seeing this in HD has shot it up near the top of my personal Quay list. I'm finally past the point where I'm weirded out by (kind of) sync dialog and open, unvarnished romanticism in a Quay film and can just roll with how unbelievably gorgeous it is. I am no longer worried about the Quays being forced to use digital media (though of course I'd prefer it if they could reliably get funding to produce films on their own terms). Great use of Penderecki too.

*De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (Quay)

School Daze (Lee, 1988) 5/10
Jamaica Inn (Hitchcock, 1939) 6/10
The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972) 9/10
The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942) 5/10
In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967) 8/10
The Secret Garden (Holland, 1993) 3/10
The Guest (Wingard, 2014) 2/10

The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972) 9/10

Excellent. Been looking now for 10 or 15 years for a reasonably priced DVD (I have a home-taped VHS I periodically dig out). Same with An Unmarried Woman, except I don't have that home-taped and would settle for a used VHS.

Spectre (Mendes, 2015) 6/10
Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015) 9/10
The Lady in the Van (Hytner, 2015) 5/10
Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) 4/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) 8/10

Results (Bujalski, 2015) 7/10
The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968) 7/10
The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953) 8/10
Terror on the Britannic aka Juggernaut (Lester, 1974) 5/10
Ice Station Zebra (Sturges, 1968) 6/10
Judex (Franju, 1963) 8/10
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965) 8/10
Thieves Like Us (Altman, 1974) 7/10

Headless Woman (Martel, 2008) - Saw it as part of the just finished Tarkovsky season and its pretty inspired to get this in. Although Martel isn't as in communion with nature as Tarkovsky, and would never talk about class politics (even factoring the era and environment they both work in you could never see such a high priest of art as Tarkovsky ever dealing with it) I can see the parallels in the dream (or, more accurately nightmare) logic to talk of national hurt (Argentina's Junta vs a repression of art in Tarkovsky). There was a 25 mins or so, post-accident, where the lead wasn't at all there - and it was impressive how this was grounded in a reality of hospitals, X-rays, her meanderings and interactions leading right up to sex (almost as a way to feel 'human' again, rare to see sex in this way really)...that sequence was just great. Almost engulfed the film although the rest of it was so well-played played and done and told.

The Judge (5.0)
Damsels in Distress (6.0)
Beneath the Harvest Sky (5.5)
Kitchen (?)
Sunset Strip (6.0—mediocre documentary, not the other one)
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (7.5)
In Jackson Heights (8.0)
Poor Little Rich Girl (6.0)
Spotlight (6.5)
I Am Evel Knievel (5.0)

Martian, the (2015) 5
Spectre (2015) 5

Captain Phillips (2013) 5/10
Little Shop of Horrors, the (1960) 6 -- could have been a radio play, nothing visual going on
Terminator Genisys (2015) 4
Mommie Dearest (1981) 6 despite some great scenes
Whiplash (2014) 9
*Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) 7 mostly for the ending
Tusk (2014) 2
Hunger Games, the (2012) 6
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the (2013) 4

paradise: hope - (2013, seidl) 6/10
soaked in bleach (2015, Benjamin statler) 6/10
all things fair ('95, widerberg) 6/10
museum hours ('13, jem cohen) 9/10
pigeon on a branch... ('14, andersson) 7/10
jojo dancer, your life is calling ('86, pryor) 7/10
decline of western civ 3 ('98, spheeris) 4/10
the collector ('65, Wyler) 7/10
who can kill a child? ('76, narciso Ibanez serrador) 6/10
admission ('13, weitz) 2/10
listen to me marlon ('15, stevan riley) 6/10
3.5 minutes, ten bullets ('15 marc silver) 8/10

crunch, the Pryor autobiopic doesn't come across as sentimentalized baloney?

def not; I wouldn't say im that familiar w all the finer pts of his life but it felt candid to an extent & hes a good actor imo... the hokiest thing is just the flashback device used but nbd

A Walk Among the Tombstones (Frank, 2014)
The Lego Movie (Lord/Miller, 2014)
The Judge (Dobkin, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014)
Taken 3 (Megaton, 2014)
Birdman (Iñárritu, 2014)
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006) - 1/10, what a piece of shit
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Singer, 2014)
The Thing from Another World (Nyby, 1951)
Lured (Sirk, 1947)
*Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) - just got the Criterion blu-ray and omg, 10/10

The Lords of Salem. Bought this around Halloween, watching it for the second time. A huge leap forward from anything Zombie's done before.

William C's rare excursion into a points system otm

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A lot of that batch are from the HBO/Cinemax free weekend on Directv during Thanksgiving -- binged on a lot of the action trash I'm a sucker for. Tombstones was better than I expected. Taken 3 was crap, but I'd seen the first 2 so I figured I might as well.

That batch, ranked best to worst:

Black Narcissus
Birdman
The Thing From Another World
Inherent Vice
Lured
A Walk Among the Tombstones
X-Men
The Lego Movie
the rest are banana-peel scrapings

Yesterday: To Live and Die in L.A.
Today: The Driver

I'm in a mood for car chases lately.

Wolf of Wall Street (rewatch; 4.5/5)
Days of Heaven (rewatch;5/5)
Drifting Clouds (1996; 4/5)
The Wolfpack (3/5)
Jauja (3/5)
Safe (rewatch; 5/5)
Finders Keepers (3.5/5)

*Moonrise (1948, Borzage) 8/10
Five Star Final (1931, LeRoy) 6/10
Christmas, Again (2014, Poekel) 7/10
Street Smart (1987, Schatzberg) 5/10
*Le joli mai (1963, Marker, Lhomme) 9/10
Jet Storm (1959, Endfield) 6/10
Bulldog Drummond (1929, Jones) 7/10
*Klute (1971, Pakula) 8/10
*The Reckless Moment (1949. 9/10)
Carol (2015, Haynes) 6/10
In Jackson Heights (2015, Wiseman) 7/10
Bridge of Spies (2015, Spielberg) 9/10

Since the last bunch I seen
Little Paradise (don't recall, drunk)
Nightingale (good performance but kinda meaningless)
then a whole bunch of shite; Heist, Criminal Activities, Red Herring, Bleeding Heart, Absolutely Anything, Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, Alto, Fury: The Tales Of Ronan Pierce, Another World, Star Leaf, L.A. Slasher, Landmine Goes Click, ALL THESE FILMS WERE ENTIRELY WITHOUT WORTH.
So I washed my hands and watched Last Shift, 400 Days, Uncanny; none of these were good, but compared with the last bunch they might as well be Citizen Kane, Vertigo and, I donno, Stalker.
Then I watched the Julien Temple documentary about Wilko Johnson, which was actually quite inspiring re: his attitude to stuff, but it was Julien Temple so there was a buncha archive footage and film clips including Stalker, so then I rewatched Stalker, which may not be the greatest ever film, but is probably in the top one.
Then: Sleeping With Other People, then Night Owls (both meh, but good casts), Applesauce (which impressed me more than that boy's last film, and actually was quite enjoyable).
Today I've done Hotel Transylvania 2, The Wannabe (which I was led to believe was a film about rigging the Gotti trial, instead it was exactly the same plot as... I forget, something I watched recently... IMDB says "Rob The Mob"? probably both equally tedious), Cut Snake (Australian thingum, quite enjoyed this), 99 Homes, (I don't understand this american concept, the government pays for my house, but I'll watch Michael Shannon in anything. Andrew Garfield scowls his way through it with a bad accent, but there was one bit where he shook his head and I briefly thought maybe he could act?).
Now I'm watching OzLand, it's got the Zardoz conceit of post-apocalyptic quasi-religion based on the Wizard of Oz, but none of the batshit insanity, so not as interesting.

Only one lately (finals week) but holy shit, Footprints on the Moon is AMAZING. It's kind of in the same Polanski-ish neighborhood as my all-time favorite minor Italo-horror, Perfume of the Lady in Black. Great spooky church organ theme, gorgeously shot by Vittorio Storaro...the astronaut stuff is less important than you'd expect, it's the standard giallo excuse for a striking image or motif, but it's still creepy as hell. And the whole thing plays like someone dared the screenwriter to write a giallo take on Last Year at Marienbad. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - 5/10 - seemed to think very highly of itself. not sure i loved it.
Lady In The Van - 7/10 - some great performances. i liked it, and i usually hate this kind of British comedy

Rented Knock Knock from Amazon for 99 cents. Worth every penny. It's an Eli Roth movie starring Keanu Reeves as a married architect who lets two rain-soaked young women into his house one night while his wife and the kids are away for the weekend. Things go awry. It's not a great movie, but it has the courage of its convictions and doesn't take the typical revenge-on-bitches angle. And considering it's a Roth movie, it's neither particularly gory nor leeringly sadistic. Recommended, with a shrug.

Knock Knock was appallingly bad in every possible sense. But maybe if everyone gave Eli Roth 99 cents he might just go the fuck away.

The Look of Silence (2014, Oppenheimer) 8/10
*Eraserhead (1977, Lynch) 9/10
Paris Belongs to Us (1961, Rivette) 8/10
Stinking Heaven (2015, Silver) 7/10
*Revenge of the Mekons (2013, Angio) 7/10**
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015, Gomes) 8/10
*The Forbidden Room (2015, Maddin, Johnson) 8/10
Lady Sings the Blues (1972, Furie) 4/10
Les Rendezvous d'Anna (1978, Akerman) 7/10
Gloria (1980, Cassavetes) 7/10
Anomalisa (2014, Kaufman, Johnson) 5/10

**Audience-shot cameo by yours truly

Timbuktu (Sissoko, 2014) 8/10
*Glassland (Butler, 2015) 5/10
Dope (Fumuyiya, 2015) 7/10
Unstoppable (T. Scott, 2010) 6/10
Amy (Kapadia, 2015) 8/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrahms, 2015) 6/10
Dark Horse (Solondz, 2011) 5/10

Very Semi-Serious (7.0)
Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of (6.0)
Requiem for the American Dream (7.0)
Elegy (5.5)
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (7.0)
The Battle of Chile (8.0)
Don’t Look Now (6.5)
Only the Young (7.0)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (7.5)
Chelsea Girls (7.5)

Only the Young had some of the most beautiful colour photography I've ever seen in a documentary; the three teenagers were less compelling.

Carol (Haynes, 2015)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
When Harry Met Sally (Reiner, 1989)
Pyaasa (Dutt, 1957)
Hard to Be a God (German, 2015)

Loved Pyaasa, a genuinely brilliant musical drama about a friendship between a poet and prostitute that needs chance to start and work - and eventually blossom..it could have been 15 mins shorter at the end (too much exposition) but it all builds to the last couple of mins, which is a fantastic and properly romantic end to a film.

re: German's film - calling this even Tarkovsky like is a bit dim. Its Russian and medieval but the pace was relentless. I'm all been-there-done-that so it needed more violent kicks to keep you awake. It was like a perfect execution of an idea that wasn't that good. Was telling a friend I was with I was glad she recommended we see it - that might have usually come from me (although I would probably watch this on my own just because its three hours long). Has anyone read the book? I really want to..

Carol (Haynes, 2015) - 8/10
Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) - 4/10
While We're Young (Baumbach, 2015) - 5/10
The Man Who Wasn't There (Coens, 2001) - 7/10
Hard to be a God (German, 2015) - 6/10
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) - 8/10
Inside Out (Doctor, 2015) - 6/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) - 9/10

rewatches:
Slow West (Maclean, 2015) - 7/10
American Gangster (Scott, 2007) - 6/10
Pinocchio (Luske, Sharpsteen, 1940) - 7/10
Barton Fink (Coens, 1991) - 9/10

Die Hard (1988)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Speed (1994)
Kingpin (1996)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

oh, and Bridge of Spies - 7/10