Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 253

Ballerina
The fights were fun. Everything else was mostly just okay

 

28 Days Later - 9/10
Good zombie flick. I can see why it’s so influential.

 

A Minecraft Movie - 2/10

My third graders were obsessed with this and I wanted to know what the hype was about. I never played the games, so I went in blind. The only reason this didn’t get a 2 was because of when a bad guy turned the pig into a steak and someone said “well done”. That got a chuckle. Overall, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.

 

The Brutalist was good, did not like the ending at all but not enough to make me forget about the rest of the movie. I would have liked more architecture talk but that wasn’t really the point of the film obviously

 

I was sick last week and watched a few older Jim Jarmusch movies. Stranger than Paradise and Down By Law are both good, both do well with characters that are bitter and lost until someone a bit eccentric comes into their path. I went to look up if he had any earlier films and saw he is from the town I live in now

 

Was it the ending or the epilogue you didn't like? Or both?

 

I found van buren’s ending to be rushed but yea mostly the epilogue which I thought really suddenly cut against the characters and themes the film had done such a great job building up to that point.

 

Friendship - 7.5/10

 

Fail Safe - 10/10, all timer ending on that one, holy hell.

 

Highlander - 10/10

One of my all time favourite films, seen it so many times but I never get bored or tired of watching it!

 

The 1964 film?

 

Yes, first time watching it, might be my favorite Lumet and there's some pretty stiff competition from him.

 

Nice! It’s been on my list for a while.

 

Fail-Safe is fucking BLEAK. Watch that and Dr.Strangelove in close succession if you want some 1964 whiplash on how to react to international crises.

Watched the live action Snow White. There were some good ingredients (Zegler, one of the Pasek/Paul songs they reprise at least once, Sandy Powell's costumes, one sequence near the end that would give you goosebumps if the rest of the movie did anything to make you care) but overall not good at all. Gadot is horrendous (and this from someone who found her passable in Death on the Nile), there's no color, the new and old songs clash tonally and stylistically, and the CG dwarves are an abomination. I also don't think it lands a single joke that I can remember. Can we PLEASE get Zegler into some movies worthy of her? Yeesh.

 

Grave of the Fireflies

first time watching. a perfect film

 

Naked Lunch

Jesus. What in the hell? I guess you have to be on a Videodrome-The Fly-Dead Ringers hot streak to get someone to put up money to make that. I respect what he's doing and there's a lot of thematic depth, but that was viscerally unpleasant.

 

It's like David Lynch's version of Fear and Loathing, as brought to life by David Cronenberg. Wild movie. Impossible to look away, even when you want to.

obligatory "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title" Simpsons reference

 

American Psycho - It makes sense that when I was in my late teens/ early 20s so many boys my age loved this movie. Like Fight Club, it’s easy to overlook the satire in favour of piece-of-shit wish fulfillment. Unlike Fight Club however, there’s no depth at all to the lead character and while I get that’s intentional, it makes Christian Bale giving a good performance almost indistinguishable from him giving a bad one. 2/10 (it gets points for Willem Dafoe and Chloë Sevigny, plus Jered Leto getting ax murdered)

 

:(

 

I don’t think it is easy to overlook the satire

 

I don't know how much you can blame a film for a large segment of the audience missing the point. This is a deeply stupid country.

 

It's also just a mediocre movie

 

I disagree

 

It reminds me a bit of the line about "there is no such thing as an anti-war movie". They are criticizing violence, but if you aren't paying attention you are simply getting the violence you wanted in the first place. The Wolf of Wall Street gives you the hedonism, Fight Club gives you the anti-consumerist pushback. Starship Troopers works first as an actual film version of what they are criticizing.

 

Yeah there were some moments I was watching with every part of me but my eyes recoiled away from the screen. But, man, he made exactly the movie he was shooting for. It also may be the movie about writing and creating art.