----10
----09
The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
----08
For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
----07
The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Raid 2 (Evans; 2014)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
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Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
1. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
2. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
3. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer et al, 2013)
5. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987)
6. The Immigrant (James Gray, 2014)
7. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2014)
8. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
9. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
10. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
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Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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Films seen this year that got 10 and 9.5 from me:
10/10
1.The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
4. High and Low (1963)
5. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
6. The Long Day Closes (1992)
7. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
8. The Hill (1965)
9.5/10
9. Memories of Murder (2003)
10. Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
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Some re-ordering has been done.
----10
----09
The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
----08
For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
----07
The Raid 2 (Evans; 2014)
The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Alan Partridge (Lowney; 2013)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
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1. You Only Live Once (1937) 77
2. The Innocents (1961) 76
3. Eureka (2000) 74
4. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
5. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
6. The Outfit (1973) 71
7. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
8. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 70
9. You're Next (2013) 70
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
1. You Only Live Once (1937) 77
2. The Innocents (1961) 76
3. Gaslight (1944) 74
4. Eureka (2000) 74
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
6. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
7. The Outfit (1973) 71
8. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
9. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 70
10. You're Next (2013) 70
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
----10
----09
Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn; 2014)
The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
----08
For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
----07
The Raid 2 (Evans; 2014)
The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Alan Partridge (Lowney; 2013)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
[]
1. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
2. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
3. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer et al, 2013)
5. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987)
6. The Immigrant (James Gray, 2014)
7. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2014)
8. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
9. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
10. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
[]
IDMFK: Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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1. You Only Live Once (1937) 77
2. The Innocents (1961) 76
3. Gaslight (1944) 74
4. Eureka (2000) 74
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
6. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
7. Mandala (1981) 71
8. The Outfit (1973) 71
9. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
10. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 70
11. You're Next (2013) 70
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
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- The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
- Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, 1930)
- Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-Ho, 2014)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coens, 2013)
- Paranorman (Fell & Butler, 2012)
- The Lego Movie (Lord & Miller, 2014)
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
- Love Eternal (Brendan Muldowney, 2013)
- Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975)
1. You Only Live Once (1937) 77
2. The Innocents (1961) 76
3. Gaslight (1944) 74
4. Eureka (2000) 74
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 73
6. Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) 72
7. Coherence (2014) 72
8. Mandala (1981) 71
9. The Outfit (1973) 71
10. Hell in the Pacific (1968) 70
11. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 70
12. You're Next (2013) 70
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
----10
----09
Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn; 2014)
The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
----08
For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
----07
The Raid 2 (Evans; 2014)
The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
The Lego Movie (Lord, Miller; 2014)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Alan Partridge (Lowney; 2013)
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1. Far from Vietnam (Chris Marker, et al, 1967)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
4. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)
5. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
7. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
8. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
9. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
10. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013)
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
1. Out 1 (Rivette, 1970)
2. Moving (Somai, 1993)
3. The Bridges of Madison County (Eastwood, 1995)
4. Charulata (Ray, 1964)
5. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
6. American Dreams (lost and found) (Benning, 1984)
7. Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Herzog, 1997)
8. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas, 1971)
9. Everybody in Our Family (Jude, 2012)
10. House by the River (Lang, 1950)
RU's: Le départ (Skolimowski), Viola, Le deuxième souffle, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Boston Strangler (Fleischer), Reds, Shame (Bergman), The Outlaw Josey Wales
Really? But the "present day" stuff with Francesca's grown kids is so bad.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Maybe I'm just desensitised to rough patches in Eastwood's films that I'm willing to overlook it in favor of how good the rest is (but even then, there's some good stuff in the present-day scenes), and the rest is just so moving and spine-tinglingly cinematic (the first scene on the bridge, w/ Streep in silhouette trying to process her burgeoning feelings toward Clint, goddamn) that I have no problem calling it an instant all-time favorite.
It's up there with Saving Private Ryan as a "movie I can easily recut into a masterpiece."
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
The only way to re-cut Saving Private Ryan into a masterpiece would be to delete three hours.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
And make it negative 11 minutes long? Cut it so it gives you time back and makes you 11 minutes younger? Not 5 minutes or 1 minutes but 11 minutes.
Obligatory Duke post: This is such a MC post.
Surprising. I've never even thought of watching it. I'll keep my eye out for it now.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
1. Van Gogh
2. Her
3. Onibaba
4. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
5. Wake in Fright
6. The Hired Hand
7. The Defiant Ones
8. Another Year
9. The Man with the Golden Arm
10. Profound Desires of the Gods
Everything else I've given 8/10 or above:
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I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
I've been curious about Bridges for years. Based on Boner's rec, I gave it a spin last night.
It's wildly uneven. There's amazing stuff in it right next to shit that wouldn't fly in a TV movie of the week. It's a fantasy for 50 year old menopausal women. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, per se, because everyone needs their fantasies. But the level of characterization and dialogue is right up there with Twilight and The Notebook.
I usually go for this kinda of stuff in a big way. I think this is where movies excel, but everything here is just so stacked and heavy handed I couldn't help but roll my eyes and laugh at it. (And good God, that voiceover. It's a shit story and even Eastwood can't patch it together).
The framing device would be serviceable if the two actors in it weren't so awful (especially the guy playing the son). They're practically biting their fists with all the emoting going on. It's soap opera stuff, and feels distinctly ridiculous given this was made in 1995.
Nah. Cut the "present day" bookending stuff (much like Madison County...a pattern is emerging) and some of 'berg's cringey attempts at humor like Adam Goldberg saying 'Juden' to the Nazis and you've got a pretty great movie.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
A lot of this is true, but perhaps I have a higher tolerance for melodrama than you. It gets Douglas Sirky but I'm totally fine with that. Meryl Streep is fucking great in this and I say that as someone who thinks she's a wee bit overrated (at least her recent performances). Clint is also fab here playing a little against type. Pretty sure I could watch these two read the phonebook to each other and be mesmerized which is why I really don't like the cutaways to Francesca's grown kids.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
But the bookend stuff is literally maybe 3-4 minutes worth of frames and it gives the impression the story is being told by Tom Hanks which gives the illusion he survives through the whole story. I think those scenes are necessary.
Or
You could argue that it's intentionally misleading to FOOL the audience since the opening transition is a very common way of representing time, and Matt Damon's character would have NO POSSIBLE WAY of trying to recreate those opening events since he didn't even meet Tom Hanks until the final act.
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