Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 72

The first four seasons of this show are some of my favourite TV, so I guess we are just two separate milkshakes

 

High Fidelity is one of my faves, always fascinating how movies can cause such divisive reactions

 

It's just entirely unrealistic that the snobbiest of late 90s music snobs would be a fan of Nirvana

 

I've punched people irl that act the way that protag does lol

 

I didn't get the impression we were supposed to sympathize with him though

 

On that subject, it's been a long while but it felt like the film championed entitlement. That's on top everything else I didn't enjoy or was bored af about with HF

 

Earth Girls Are Easy - 80s/10

Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carey, and Damon Wayans in a 80s musical about aliens? Only if you're high or drunk my friends...only if you're high or drunk. They were clearly trying to go campy and goofy on purpose, but this whole thing literally felt like it was made in a week. It was supposed to be a musical and yet there were only like 2 songs...and they were FORCED as fuck haha. Like it didn't go with any story line or anything. There was no plot, the characters kept changing motivations.

but...

80s man! haha. Watch it for the 80s lols and move on.

 

The Stanford Prison Experiment: This one came out recently, so the feeling of "Why haven't I seen this before?" isn't as strong, but I am wondering how I'd never heard of it until a few days ago. It caters to my tastes really well - character studies, lots of dialogue, one enclosed setting, based on a true story. I watched it because I'm really into Ezra Miller lately, and he was great in this, but every time a character got a scene focused on them, I was thinking "Wow, this guy is just as good." A really fascinating movie

 

The Homesman - 8/10
The Long Kiss Goodnight - 7.5/10
The Darkness - 0.5/10
The Lazarus Effect - 1.5/10
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse - 4/10
Bone Tomahawk - 9/10
Grandma - 8/10

Later than usual posting this because of reasons and this has been a mixed week with a solid start, awful middle and a surprisingly impressive ending.The Homesman had a genuinely surprising twist on the usual Western film with it focusing more on how women dealt with the harsh conditions of early midwestern conditions in the 1850s as opposed to men and it was refreshing in that regard. The Long Kiss Goodnight for me has always been a favorite mid-90s action film with solid performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Geena Davis who work well with the Shane Black script. Now onto three horror films that were mostly devoid of anything worthwhile especially The Darkness and The Lazarus Effect with the former being a film swimming in tired cliches and the latter having a couple of decent points going for it but is so rushed and has an ending that is completely unsatisfying. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse had a likable lead and a couple of laughs but they weren't enough to rise above the juvenile humour and capturing what is wrong with post-2000 youths without having the balls to actually ridicule them. After that trio of below averageness I moved on towards two surprises and even though Grandma was likable with an engrossing performance by Lily Tomlin it wasn't enough to remove the utter brutality and shock generated by Bone Tomahawk, now I was aware of the rating this film had but wasn't quite prepared for the level of violence in the film but it works because the performances by the solid cast set up the characters so well which makes the violence all the more shocking. It is also by pure coincidence the second Western to change up the genre I watched this week but Bone Tomahawk not only beats The Homesman but is easily my film of the week.

 

Multiple Maniacs - what a filthy, debaucherous, wonderful time.

 

Life - 3/10

I despised this movie. I honestly think I could write a book about how much this movie fucking sucked. This is a direct to dvd movie with no redeemling qualities and I feel bad about myself for paying money to see it. Boring characters, unoriginal plot, not scary, not funny, not cool, not insightful, not fucking anything! It's a sit back and watch people die movie but! the deaths aren't even fucking scary.... and since the characters blow, you dont care. And the way it's shot is just so sad. So much chaos in every frame where you can't even get sucked into the "horrifying" deaths. We also get no real scope of the ship so throughout the movie you have absolutely no idea where anyone is...where anyone's going...or even really how big the ship is? Just a lot of doors.

The culmination of this shit-fest is the end where our main character refers back to Goodnight Moon as he's about to die only to get his eureka moment. Haha fucking HA! I literally groaned out load in the theater.

Why does it get a 3? I liked the last 2 minutes of the movie and the creature was cool looking.

 

Thoughts on Jodorowsky? I've had multiple people tell me to watch El Tapo and The Holy Mountain but I dunno, for some reason I haven't had much interest.

 

your loss

 

Haha, I'm not saying I won't it just seems like I need to mentally prepare, which isn't necessarily a problem, I just haven't had it in me.

 

in that case: I would start with the Holy Mountain or Santa Sangre. definitely not his first two films. all of his films are plenty weird but I feel like those two are a little more accessible.


also: his film the Dance of Reality is a pretty good entry point too, if you want to ease into his style of filmmaking. not too weird

 

El Topo and Holy Mountain are both great but HM is definitely the easier watch.

 

I fucking hate El Topo (well...the second half of El Topo) but he's a very unique filmmaker, and that'a always worth a watch to form your own opinion. No regrets on having watched.

 

the last half of El Topo is very hard to get through

 

The Good Dinosaur - i dunno. Pixar's and Disney's (I know it's not Pixar in this case) movies have always struggled to resonate with me. Artistically they're great, I mean, but narratively. I liked The Incredibles and Finding Nemo is a fav because I love themes of family conflict, but even those I think overrate on account of nostalgia. There's just a ton of restriction on what kind of depth and frankness you can write into a film that needs to be accessible to kids, but much more significantly, I just kind of feel like they end up overlong for their story and formulaic even beyond their often inventive setups.

In this case, it just felt very by the numbers. Beautifully animated, though. Maybe I'm just asking too much of it.

 

Overlong at 93 minutes?

 

for what its story could merit, yeah - my favorite bit was the pseudo western with the T-Rexes. everything else felt so typical and struggled to carry it along with any real sense of stakes or surprise, and as a result, it plods along. we know how this goes (but i'll put it in spoilers anyway lol): one or both of the parents will die and the kid will go on some journey to find his earnest, brave potential. i dunno, just nothing that grips me and says "you should pay attention because youre going to see something you haven't seen a bunch of times before."

 

I'd have loved if they held on stronger to the dino-western thread. I feel like the scavengers are in a whole other movie, for one.

 

yeah, those scenes had way more personality than the rest of the movie imo

 

Sam Elliott makes everything better.

 

haha, i was wondering why i recognized that gravely voice