Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 174

how’d you feel about the film tho?

 

loved it, I want the dog

 

American Fiction - 8/10 Jeffrey Fucking Wright man

 

Hannibal - 7.5/10
The curious case of a Ridley film that feels closer to Fincher's version of a camp film. That's not a bad thing. Some of the more intellectual, tense cat and mouse stuff between Starling and Lector is gone, but once you accept that this is a different kind of film entirely, it finds life as a well-cast thrill ride with one of the most memorable finales of all-time. (This was definitely a fucked-up movie I caught early in my lifetime). Lector is the star here, and Moore is a fine recast considering it is next to impossible to touch Foster's original performance. Oldman's Verger is an incredible antagonist. Some of the editing feels dated, but for a 2001 horror-thriller film, it's exactly what it should be.

Monolith - 5/10
Whatever you think this is -- my money was on Arrival by way of The Vast of Night -- you will likely be surprised to learn it is glacially paced and frustratingly ambiguous. While the film looks good and asks enough questions to have some potential, the eventual delivery (complete with an Annihilation ripoff) is an unfortunate letdown, feeling pretentious and clearly budget-driven as opposed to thought-provoking and purposeful. In short, things happen, even though we don't see many of them happen, and we're left with a big question mark that is supposed to feel more profound than it is. I was really looking forward to this, and while I don't think it's outright bad (and there is definitely an audience for it), it was unfortunately a middling whiff for me.

Galaxy of Terror - 6/10
For being less than 80 minutes, this movie is
shockingly dull, even with several absolutely batshit scenes that clearly went on to inspire more recent sci-fi horror. In that sense, it's ripe for a remake. Seeing Robert England was nice, seeing Sid Haig was even nicer.

 

The Zone of Interest - 10/10
One of those film experiences where there's obviously nothing profound I can add to the conversation, so instead I'll just echo that this was absolutely harrowing. A slowburning showcase of visceral evil that gradually creeps under your skin until you catch yourself making faces of disgust in the theater. And not a single act of violence onscreen. The sound design and visual experimentation is literally perfect. Less pressing, but those Nazi haircuts were fucked.

Lisa Frankenstein - 10/10
So Camp that even the stuff that doesn't land somehow makes the film better. Kathryn Newton is a fucking star. Everyone is perfectly cast and so funny, I just had a huge smile on my face the whole time. Zelda Williams is the future; she wears her influences on her sleeve and makes the film feel nostalgic without weighing it down with cheap references. The sets look incredible. Sprouse giving the dialogue-less performance of his career. Penis mutilation scene got a huge laugh and applause in my theater. We are so fucking back.

Freeway - 7.5/10
It's not a great film, but it sure is an interesting one, evolving from feel-bad NBK knock-off to profound indictment of the system and finally a so-bad-it's-good retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Gritty with extremely raw dialogue, for better or worse. Witherspoon (along with Brittany Murphy) is electric. Has to be seen to be believed.

 

Your review of Zone of Interest is pretty much why I'll never see it. Sounds like discomfort to the max, and about an event in history in which we all know the evil that occurred. I get the power in it, but to be honest, I just can't see myself wanting to experience it.

Also saw Lisa Frankenstein and that maybe sits at a 7/10 for me overall. I hadn't even seen the trailer going in so I didn't know what I was getting into, and for the most part I enjoyed it (especially the references to other romcoms / horror films / the set design / costuming etc). but I left pretty confused by the messaging and social commentary aspect I guess. Still trying to piece together what it ultimately was trying to say.

I am going to do that more though and just go see movies blind as it was an interesting experience not knowing much beyond the writer and the overall 'theme'.

 

You can obviously choose what art you do or don’t engage with, but I’d argue this is exactly why you SHOULD see it. “We all know” it was evil in a very cut and dry way that makes it very easy to compartmentalize. “Oh yeah those evil Nazi villains did something so bad!”

But it also takes a lot of passive people and people in denial and gradual steps toward dehumanization that aren’t as apparent in the cut-and-dry textbook version of it. More than any movie I’ve seen in a long time, this one makes you understand how quickly evil can start to drown you in your home when you ignored it flooding the basement

 

I'm not convinced Lisa Frankenstein was trying to say anything of substance, and if it was, it wasn't enough to distract me from just how much fun I was having, lol

This exactly. Definitely understand @Helloelloallo 's reluctance to engage with something that feels so bad, but a huge point of the movie is the way we get used to evil and even glaze over it unintentionally even though we obviously recognize the power it has. That's what makes it so essential

 

Jonathan Glazer is worth seeing for his form alone. I understand a hesitance towards seemingly bleak art that lots of people may claim is “important”, but he’s a fascinating voice of the medium beyond the subject matter (subject matter that I agree is important to face directly)

 

I forget who said it but another director in praising him said he directs genre movies like he’s never seen one. Just utterly untethered from the cliches, expectations, and tropes of whatever genre he’s working in.

 

Killers of the Flower Moon - 9/10

 

Anatomy of a Fall - 9/10. Huller stole the show. Awesome performance.

 

Kindergarten Cop - 7/10, I don't care what anyone says, comedic Arnold is good.

Predator - 10/10 I don't care what anyone says, American cinema has rarely been better.

 

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - 8/10
A few whiffs paired with some of the funniest bits of all-time (Random Task, the steamroller death, etc.). What really struck me watching this for the first time in probably a decade is not just how funny it is and how many jokes there are per minute, but how genuinely good of a parody it is of the early Bond flicks. I mean, a movie like this practically paved the way for Black Dynamite. Impressive stuff. Wayne's World is still the one for me, but this is right up there with movie I may have seen most in my life on VHS.

 

There is more effort put into the title sequence of Austin Powers than there are in full movies. It is a shame that he had to go and make that racist Love Guru movie and end his career.

 

Remember how he had that Netflix show a year or two ago

 

My buddy is a big Myers enthusiast and said it was quite bad lol

 

I rewatched the first Austin Powers a few years ago and it holds up really well.

 

Yep. Mostly hits, only a few misses.

 

The miss being Will Ferrell

 

Noooo, that's a great scene! The misses being how many times Austin comes onto Vanessa despite her saying no and also some parts where he makes random kung-fu noises as a joke (not to be confused with the very funny "Judo chop!")

 

Dr. Evil's speech at the father-son therapy session might be the best part.

 

Dying on the controversial hill that brownface is bad

No he's good just jarring haha

 

Lol, I somehow missed the brownface. That is bad. The scene is, begrudgingly, pretty funny.

It's like every time I watch Blazing Saddles and see Mel playing a Native American and go "oh no" and then watch him do one of the funniest bits of all-time (a Native American speaking Yiddish)