Just watched Get Out. That was really sketchy. Jordan Peele is doing really well for himself with directing and acting
What was the last movie you watched?
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Ah, that one is so nostalgic for me. I saw it as a teen (probably about the same age as those in the movie) and liked it. Unfortunately, I haven't quite found the other films by Iwai I saw to be as enjoyable.
For me, I watched Repulsion by Roman Polanski. I thought the jazz score was a bit mismatched for the tone, but other than that it was pretty flawless. So creepy. My favorite movie ever when I was first getting into movies was Eraserhead, so I've always had a primal love for films that are unhinged or surreal with high contrast black and white.
16 days later
It (2017). The only thing I didn't like about it was the rather forced portrayal of the relationship between the two brothers. It wasn't really very scary, but it was exciting. Would recommend!
a month later
Look Who's Back. Pretty much what you'd expect from reading the synopsis, had a great mix of light and dark humor with a still-serious underlying message.
The Thin Red Line (1998) by Terrence Malick
I like this latter style of Malick's filmmaking. It's not a very subtle form of beauty but it's hard to resist. However, the generic Hans Zimmer score and repetitive settings took a bit away from it. I also miss the homeyness of Linda Manz in Days of Heaven to some extent.
3 months later
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I'd learned about all the more polarizing scenes through osmosis before hand and didn't go in with very high expectations but I definitely liked it much more than I thought I would. I am still disappointed with how it ended since I feel like they could've gone somewhere really interesting but it seems like the series is doomed to just tread the same path over and over again. Also, Jesus Christ, they really want me to buy those Porgs, don't they?
These were the 20 best films I saw this year:
- Mandala (1971) by Akio Jissouji
- Hanezu no tsuki (2011) by Naomi Kawase
- Re-Wind (1988) by Hisayasu Satou
- The Nun (1966) by Jacques Rivette
- The Church (1989) by Michele Soavi
- The Clock (1945) by Vincente Minnelli
- The Song of Bernadette (1943) by Henry King
- Les Divisions de la nature (1978) by Raúl Ruiz
- Design for Living (1933) by Ernst Lubitsch
- Bronze Magician (1963) by Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Un jeu brutal (1983) by Jean-Claude Brisseau
- Visages d'enfants (1925) by Jacques Feyder
- The Wind (1928) by Victor Sjöstrom
- Sins of Sister Lucia (1978) by Kouyuu Ohara
- Les Démons (1973) by Jesús Franco
- Holy Ghost People (1967) by Peter Adair
- Cigarette Burns (2005) by John Carpenter
- Heart of Dragon (1985) by Sammo Hung Kam-bo
- Seuls (1989) by Olivier Smolders & Thierry Knauff
- The Savage Innocents (1960) by Nicholas Ray
19 days later
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Overall I did enjoy the movie, but it felt bogged down by too much nonsense, like most of the sequels, plus had some coninuity errors, but that is nitpicking. It was a solid laugh and had a solid, varied cast, but I feel they have never been able to truly capture what made the films great since the first one.
Flatland. Was a wholly unique experience.
a month later
Walkabout. Simple premise but it manages to be rather strange in the execution which I liked for the most part. The editing is somewhat obnoxious in places but aside from that I thought it was well paced and beautifully shot. Soundtrack's pretty nice too.
As someone who is not a fan of superhero movies, Black Panther was great.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (John Sargent, 1970)
This is the archetypal "evil computer tries to take over the world" movie but it's SO FUCKING GOOD that it never feels stale.
No Game No Life: Zero
A fantastic anime movie. BD came out today but already has a first-rate encode and subtitle job! The visuals are amazing, and it's a fairly unrelated prequel so you absolutely don't have to watch the original NGNL to watch it. The plot's pretty heavy too, especially considering the original NGNL was fairly light-hearted. I'd recommend anyone give it a watch, it's only a movie so it doesn't take too long.
Dumb and Dumber
It was a rewatch but still good.
19 days later
Decided to watch Stalingrad (1993) on a lark, and ended up floored throughout the entire thing. For perhaps the same reason Americans made such masterpieces as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, Germans always seem to make the best World War II movies.
Backlash wroteDecided to watch Stalingrad (1993) on a lark, and ended up floored throughout the entire thing. For perhaps the same reason Americans made such masterpieces as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, Germans always seem to make the best World War II movies.
Gonna have to disagree there, the best WWII movies were made by the eastern Europeans, and especially the Russians. Ivan's Childhood and Come and See alone are a stellar argument.
Sadly, most of the ones about it from Japan were made in the time of WWII itself and are basically propaganda, and not even entertaining, well-made propaganda like some American and Russian films from the time are.
Evil dead (1981) just because i need fun.
10 days later
The Shape of Water. One of the best looking films I've ever seen, del Toro really knows his stuff. Would highly recommend.
4 months later
John Carpenter's The Thing and Idiocracy. Both of which I had only known about the general premise before seeing them for the first time today.
The Thing presently surprised me since I had based my expectations off of Big Trouble in Little China and Escape From New York. I'd had a somewhat schlocky horror film in mind and instead got something that I would unironically classify as true kino. The special effects held up wonderfully well for an early 80s movie.
Idiocracy was more or less in line with my expectations. The humor didn't always hit but it hit frequently enough and with enough force.
If you ever have ninety minutes of free time and are unsure of what to fill it with either of these two would be good picks.
All in One wroteJohn Carpenter's The Thing and Idiocracy. Both of which I had only known about the general premise before seeing them for the first time today.
The Thing presently surprised me since I had based my expectations off of Big Trouble in Little China and Escape From New York. I'd had a somewhat schlocky horror film in mind and instead got something that I would unironically classify as true kino. The special effects held up wonderfully well for an early 80s movie.
Idiocracy was more or less in line with my expectations. The humor didn't always hit but it hit frequently enough and with enough force.
If you ever have ninety minutes of free time and are unsure of what to fill it with either of these two would be good picks.
The Thing is the first of Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" and personally I like the two that followed, Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness even more! I would say that The Thing is definitely the least schlocky of them, but they still manage to be more fascinating to me in terms of the storylines.