Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 184

Little Women (2019). Been thinking on this one for a while and I've finally decided. In my list of top 20 films of all time for me. Easily a 9.5/10

 

Only a 9.5 for your top 20 of all time?

 

Could be a 9.7 on a good day. It’s currently at #16 on my top 20 list on letterbox’d. Only the first 5 I would consider 10/10. The rest are interchangeable from 9.8 to 9.5

 

some real pitchfork scores in here

 

this is the first gif that pops up when you search for pitchfork

 

We should do a top twenty thread. It has been a while.

 

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Haha, you're a harsher scorer than me! I have like 100+ 10's. Tbf I'm more like that with music but even then I've probably got like 20 10's.

 

The King of Comedy - 8.5/10
I just love Scorcese in comedy mode 95% of the time. It may be missing a little connective tissue -- scenes tend to jump forward quickly because of things that have happened off-screen -- but that feels like an intentional editing choice that lends to the film's dark comedic tone and brisk pace. On this rewatch, this film not only felt like the other side of the same coin as After Hours, but I was surprised to find myself preferring it ever-so-slightly. The casting is just so good, DeNiro is undeniable, and Zimmerman's script does an incredible job of making the audience laugh, cringe, squirm, and occasionally feel legitimately unsettled. It feels like an anomaly not only in Scorcese's filmography, but in film as a whole. (At the very least, I'm hard-pressed to think of an example that's done it better.)

 

Kokomo City was a beautiful documentary, and all of the scenes with Daniella Carter were especially insightful, but there were some odd choices throughout. I thought some of the imagery was a bit lazy and distracting, and the inclusion of the guys (especially Lo) frustrated me. I think I understand why they were interviewed, but ultimately, I thought the documentary suffered whenever it wasn't strictly on the women. Still, it's an important film that more people should know!

 

Watched this for the first time last year and it’s maybe my favorite Bobby D performance.

 

i just watched that recently too. de niro's level of cringe in the waiting room scenes is unreal.

 

Was able to catch Luca in theaters, really liked it!

 

It’s really good

 

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The Prowler - 6.5/10
This is a tough one. The kills undeniably elevate it above many of its peers, but it sags in the middle and the reveal of the killer is unexplained with virtually no motive. It's a well-directed (if somewhat run-of-the-mill) slasher, but at least the killer gets a cool costume/weapons. The opening WWII News footage is a great touch, too.

President's Day - 6.5/10
Chris LaMartina fans will know what they're getting into and have a ton of fun with this. It runs a bit long in the tooth, but the kills are shockingly good considering the budget, there are some familiar faces from his other films, and the acting is subpar in the most charming way possible. The whole thing feels VERY 2010. If you're not a WNUF-head like myself, though, this will probably just feel like more low-budget schlock.

 

Tsugusa Dairies - Close-Up meets momento. Where does art stop and life being. No matter how much structure you destory people together will build something, make friends with a dog on the set, ride a tractor, make a film, start some drama, drop a hot song.

My Dinner with Andre - Ive been blacked out all weekend, watched these 2 movies that have been sitting on my hard drive. Some times nothing beats a good pretenious conversation, where you say fun stuff about the world with no way of backing it up. Underneath the rhetorhic theres clever film making and with genuine character moments but right now im exhausted and ready to watch Heat. I want the guns and Pacino to say the ASS line.

 

It is great whenever anyone sees this. It was unfairly passed over; Gomes is among the best of the century.

 

Whats the best Gomes or will it be revealed in the list?

 

Tabu might make the list.

 

Finally got around to Fallen Leaves (2023) - beautiful, sad little movie. Jumped into my top 10 of 2023 list

 

The Truth vs. Alex Jones - 9.5/10
After the morally questionable (at best) presentation of Quiet on Set, The Truth vs. Alex Jones feels like a masterclass in discussing sensitive subject matter surrounding accountability in entertainment. A straightforward, information-driven compilation of courtroom footage and interviews surrounding Jones' defamation trial regarding the Sandy Hook shooting. When the shooting is discussed, the victims are centered and the shooter's name is never mentioned. Stylization throughout the documentary is light and emotional manipulation is low even when tensions run high, offering viewers a relatively nuanced eye to view Jones' moral corruption as plainly as possible.

And it's still shocking. We know these people exist. We know what they are doing. It's easy to make jokes about them, shrug them off, or even long for a time when conspiracy theories weren't so harmful. But to see testimony from a father that someone urinated on the grave of his murdered child, to hear that rape threats are being made against mothers that have already experienced the unthinkable, and to then see Jones continue his dangerous sideshow on InfoWars as the trial is still happening simply to sell supplements...it's surreal. And vital. It truly feels like something you need to see to register just how immoral these people are. It is the ultimate irony that the Jones and the Trumps and the Taylor-Greenes of the world, after all of the bullshit and vitriol they spew for their infamy and influence and financial gain, are the ones who have truly sold their souls.

 

Jacob's Ladder - 10/10
This rewatch just confirmed that, beyond the things I already love about this film (the parapolitical conspiracy aspect, some of the ambiguity), it really just is the most unsettling depiction of Hell that I've seen on screen. Some might argue that it's not technically Hell, but...War is Hell. PTSD is Hell. Poverty is Hell. Being shown glimpses of a life you once had as if it's possible to get that life back, just to have it ripped from you over and over again, is Hell. And much of this version of Hell is one we are (in one way or another) complicit in building, but that ultimately doesn't matter because we no longer maintain it. We have no control over the chaotic scrambling our brain (or soul) might do to desperately make sense of our lives in its final moments. While this film might not scare me in the traditional sense, the thematic implications are uniquely terrifying because it all feels so grounded. A film that transcends horror to simply become one of the all-time greats.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood - 9/10
Been meaning to revisit this one to confirm whether it's my favorite Tarantino (it's top two), and after having to drive my cat to the emergency vet Saturday night, I desperately needed something cozy to distract me and keep my anxiety down as I stayed up through the night waiting to hear back. (He's all good now.) And boy, if this wasn't just the perfect movie for that upsetting situation. It's certainly Tarantino's best worldbuilding, recreating late 60s Hollywood with an excruciating eye for detail unlike anybody else can. It runs a hair long in some sequences, but when the vibes are this good, it's hard to complain. Perfect casting for what is mostly just a wonderfully weird and genre-bending comedy that continues Tarantino's fascination with alternate history (and women's feet).

I think what I love most about this, something I expect to be continued in The Movie Critic, is that he seems to have transcended some of the cliches that defined him early on, and while there are still splashes of them, he is now making movies about his love for film as a whole as opposed to movies that painstakingly reconstruct the genres that he grew up loving so much. Nobody wants to be a Tarantino guy, but for lack of a better term, it really feels like you're watching somebody who has worked to reach their final form in a really exciting way.

 

Still have never seen that. Might change that this week.

 

Which one?