Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 67

Repulsion was great, if a little uneven. it's pretty horrifying that Polanski, a child rapist, made two very cogent movies that revolve around adult female fear.

 

have you seen the rest of the apartment trilogy?

 

Rosemary's Baby yes, The Tenant no. the former seems to me to be a pretty apt metaphor for women not being allowed to control their bodies.

 

The Tenant is the weakest of the three, but I still like it.

 

Bertolucci and Brando abused and exploited a woman in a movie where a main plot point is about a woman who feels abused and exploited by a film crew. It's an industry wide plague infecting male auteurs.

 

Woody Allen made a movie where a 42 year old dates a 17 year old

 

true, i've just stayed the fuck away from that film. it's just an even more absurd and disgusting situation wherein they're able to tap into a woman-lived perspective men typically have no conception of... and choose to abuse it.

 

Nashville is a tremendous movie. Altman's ability to tie together seemingly disparate threads in a big ensemble is unparalleled. And for a guy never interested in zooming in on set story beats, he sure knows how to create emotionally powerful moments. Ronee Blakley should have won that Oscar.

 

It was a film I found before learning what happened while making it. The impact it had on me was pretty profound, it was one of the most complex films I saw in high school. I rewatched with a friend a month or so ago who hadn't seen it and it remains a powerful cinematic experience. Obviously that's no excuse and one must reconcile cinematic history/impact with what happened on set. Or in personal lives, in the case of a Polanski. But then that's a constant discussion about guys like Polanski and Allen. As long as that's part of the discussion or consciousness about a film, that's something, at least.

 

Last Tango's story is complicated by the fact that some of the stories were unsubstantiated, so it's hard to figure out what did and didn't happen.

 

Get Out - 8.5/10

Absolutely loved the first 3/4 of this movie. The pace was great, the eerie atmosphere was great, and just a fun experience in the theater..... BUT i thought the final 25% of the movie kinda unraveled and it really felt like somoeone told Peele "hey man wrap the movie up" and he did as fast as possible. From capture to escape, it all seemed too simple and too easy. I was also expecting a fewww more comedic moments overall. Like the gag of the friend repeating his conspiracy twice was not a great gag that took about 5minutes.

Still great. Still #1 of the year.

 

logan last friday 4.5/5

 

Well I believe Schneider and Bertolucci both confirmed that they didn't tell Schneider until that day about the butter, she said she felt "a little raped" and he said he regretted the way it happened or something. It seems boundaries were clearly crossed, at least in that one instance.

 

Which, last year, got mistranslated through an Italian website into something more sinister. But yeah definitely seems like a morally questionable line to find on that movie.

 

I've committed a sin

I watched the last 30 minutes of Magnolia and it seemed really bad

 

It earns that ending with the rest of the film.

 

It's not to the ending yet! I watched the part where all the characters sing a song in different places lol

 

Mission: Impossible II - 5.5/10
Mission: Impossible III - 7.5/10
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 8.5/10
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 9/10
Imperium - 8/10
Hang ’em High - 8/10
The Wild Bunch - 9/10
Warcraft - 7/10
The Cassandra Crossing - 6/10

Not a bad week which started where I ended last week with continuing and finishing the Mission: Impossible series which I had yet to watch back to back. The second film is by far the weakest entry in the series which is overall solid. Imperium had a great central performance by Daniel Radcliffe and though it could've been deeper it is an ultimately timely film dealing with white supremacist movements. Finally got round to watching two Westerns I have been meaning to watch, Hang 'em High being relatively conventional and despite being somewhat similar to a Sergio Leone film still entertaining while The Wild Bunch was a complete surprise, struggling to think of an action film before that which has as much graphic violence and a high body count. Warcraft was a decent enough action-fantasy film and despite not having any knowledge of the games was enjoyable enough. Finally The Cassandra Crossing was a typical 70s disaster film with an all star cast (some of which have been in prior disaster films) and plenty of cliches but fun nonetheless but far from either the best or worst from that era.

 

Just wanted to say I love reading your weekly posts

 

Thanks, appreciate the support. So glad I started this minimum of one film a day thing this year, discovering some future favorites.

 

Are you in a sort of routine where it's not hard to maintain the film schedule? Like, 9-5 job with free evenings? Is this something you wouldn't have been able to do before and you had to wait until the right time?

 

I usually watch a film with lunch or at night since I'm not employed at the moment (the economy in my area is predominantly seasonal work) but it is relatively easy to maintain despite all the other things I do. The hardest thing to be honest is finding something to watch now that my initial list of films to watch is now dwindling but luckily I have plenty of things to use like Amazon Video, LoveFilm Rental, NowTV and films I own that I have yet to still watch.

 

Have you thought about whether it's something you'll be able to keep up if you get a job? Sorry, I don't mean to pester you, it's just something I'd like to do as well and I'm curious how it's working out for you. Does it ever feel like an obligation, like, "I just want to go to bed and I still have to watch a movie?" I know you must love film so I'm sure it's not too big a problem. We all have time, anf it's important to make time for the things you love

 

Do you retain them all? Even watching a few movies a week I find I forget a lot because it's so much

 

If I do find a job (as in between everything else I am searching furiously for one) then it might become difficult to keep it up but since it is something I am thoroughly enjoying I'm sure I could make it work. Don't worry you aren't pestering. I guess it is a combination of having a good routine and loving film that stops it feeling like an obligation.

I'm on Letterboxd so that helps retain a record of my score plus I update my Movie List on here after every film.