Low ratings for Non-Stop, Peng. Any thoughts on how it fits with the rest of Neeson's early year films? I rather like his entries into the crappier months of film release, since they're usually competent if not ever really revelatory.
My list so far:
Ida - 8.5
Only Lovers Left Alive – 8.5
Stranger by the Lake – 8.5
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 8
Boyhood - 7.5
Under the Skin - 7.5
It Felt Like Love - 7.5
Whiplash - 7
Edge of Tomorrow - 7
Listen Up Philip - 7
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The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
I still mildly liked it; score would be 6/10. I think it fits well with other Neeson vehicles (save for Taken 2 and The Grey that I haven't seen), which all have a bit of melancholy from his performances to ground the ridiculousness. Non-Stop is no different. Very sensationally directed, but being a closed-space mystery sometimes makes the logic harder to swallow than usual, especially early on. Still fun though.Quoting dreamdead (view post)
I thought it was good. Better than you would expect, given the premise, with some real legit tension throughout, but it is a bit forgettable after the fact.
The Grey was better, though, but this was far better than, say, Unknown.
I also thought it was good. Better than Unknown, Taken/Grey still at the top. Taken 2 at the bottom.
1. Under The Skin
2. The Immigrant
3. Nymphomaniac
4. The LEGO Movie
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6. Jodorowsky's Dune
7. Cheap Thrills
8. A Field In England
9. The Dance of Reality
10. Ida
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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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1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Blue Ruin
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. The Immigrant
5. The Rover
6. Obvious Child
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. Nymphomaniac
9. Snowpiercer
10. Veronica Mars
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
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- Boyhood (Linklater)
- The Lego Movie (Lord/Miller)
- Noah (Aronofsky)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
- Under The Skin (Glazer)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (Pavich)
- The Double (Ayoade)
- The Wind Rises (Miyazaki)
- Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (Reeves)
- Joe (Green)
Very rough order that's definitely going to change, especially since I tend to re-watch stuff I like as much as most things up there (and in Lego's case, I definitely already have), and also the range of time between seeing some of those goes from having just seen Boyhood last night to it now being nearly a year since I saw Under The Skin and The Wind Rises.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
1. Under the Skin
2. The Immigrant
3. Boyhood
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Godzilla
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
7. The LEGO Movie
8. Guardians of the Galaxy
9. Edge of Tomorrow
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Pretty excellent year so far. One of the best years for summer blockbusters. Also a great year for science fiction. A perfect mix of small and tentpole films.
I don't know what else I need to see that's out there. I usually use Boner's list as frame of reference for recommendations.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
1. We are the Best!
2. Only Lovers Left Alive
3. Manakamana
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. Stranger by the Lake
6. The Raid 2
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. The Immigrant
9. Ida
10. Snowpiercer
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. Only Lovers Left Alive
2. Under the Skin
3. Coherence
4. Snowpiercer
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
7. The Wind Rises
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past
9. The Lego Movie
10. Moebius
Update:
1. Stray Dogs
2. Under the Skin
3. The Immigrant
4. Two Days, One Night
5. The Strange Little Cat
6. Boyhood
7. Listen Up Philip
8. Ida
9. Manakamana
10. Force Majeure
RU: Soft in the Head, Norte, Only Lovers Left Alive, Closed Curtain, We Are the Best!, The Missing Picture, Stranger by the Lake
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- The Look Of Silence (Oppenheimer)
- Boyhood (Linklater)
- The Lego Movie (Lord/Miller)
- Under The Skin (Glazer)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
- Edge Of Tomorrow (Liman)
- Noah (Aronofsky)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (Pavich)
- The Double (Ayoade)
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Not sure how it's already the final stretch of the year (wow did it fly by), because I have so much I keep reminding myself to catch up on from "early 2014", which by now is most of it.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Everything I've seen:
1. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2. Locke
3. Under the Skin
4. The Double
5. Nymphomaniac: Vol II
6. The Unknown Known
7. True Detective [tv]
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past
10. Non-Stop
Mistaken for Strangers
Fargo [tv]
The Invisible Woman
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Boyhood
A Field in England
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?
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Top 10 of 2014
1) Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 ****(possibly a masterpiece, I need to re-watch it)
2) Under the Skin ***.5
3) The Unknown Known ***.5
4) The LEGO Movie ***.5
5) The Immigrant (sadly, this has faded over time for me) ***
6) Grand Budapest Hotel ***
7) Only Lovers Left Alive***
8) Bad Words ***
9) Godzilla ***
10) Veronica Mars **.5
I really wanted to put True Detective up there, but I it just felt dirty.
Shit, y'all, Ida is playing near me and I can't go because I have a child. :cry:
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Boyhood
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Blue Ruin
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
6. The Immigrant
7. The Rover
8. Obvious Child
9. Edge of Tomorrow
10. Only Lovers Left Alive
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
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Definitely a masterpiece.
I thought it fell apart in its second half, but that first half was something special. A great exploration of two conflicting ways of coping with the horrors of the world.
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Oh, no, I wasn't communicating clearly: I loved it. Would definitely give it ****, but it's a TV show. My mind rebels.
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
No, no, your communication was clear. I was just taking the opportunity to state my opinion of the show. As for the issue of whether tv shows should be ranked together with movies, I can't see any good reason not to, at least when the tv show is a clearly self-contained story rather than an ongoing serial.
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?
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Thought experiment: how do we think it would play on the bit screen? I'd probably go see it. Hummus, I don't know if I can do it. It would possibly break the top three. I really loved it.
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
I have a hard time justifying separating Nymphomaniac vol. 1 from vol. 2 and the ending of 2 was shitty enough to sink the previous five hours.
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
This is the reason why I'm hesitating to watch it. Trier's endings are so damn divisive and can easily corrupt otherwise brilliant films. Conversely, it can also make them great (Breaking the Waves).
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
Oh you haven't even seen vol. 2 yet? Far out.
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
1. Under The Skin
2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
3. Gone Girl
4. The Immigrant
5. Nymphomaniac
6. The LEGO Movie
7. Cheap Thrills
8. Jodorowsky's Dune
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. A Field In England
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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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Updated for the beginning of October.
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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
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