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What did you watch this week babay? (08/11-08/17)


Hey sexy lady, hey sexy boy! Come have fun with me, we will share, make discoveries and create memories. Movie related... of course.


My week:

Overlord (2018 Netflix): I bought this on DVD recently so when I saw it on Netflix I immediately took a quick looked to see if it was worth keeping or if I was going to trade it back at the store. I ended up watching it all and enjoying it quite a bit thanks to a solid production and entertaining action. The first 10 minutes ARE really awesome. It’s a good homage to B-movies, with plenty of gore but unfortunately, an excessive amount of clichés and too many scenes I saw many times before prevent me from giving a higher rating than: 7/10 (I'll keep the DVD)



Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004 DVD): As the human grows up, he changes a little bit, did you know that? When I first saw this movie, I was about 20 years old and I used words like “confusing”, “weird”, “boring” to describe it. But for the past 15 years I kept hearing praises about it so I wondered if I might have been wrong about it or if it really just wasn’t for me. So I finally ended up buying it for 2.50$ and I have to say; I changed my mind greatly! I learned to appreciate Gondry’s work for the past years and this movie is yet another true marvel. I loved the strange richness, the peculiar editing and the crazy special effects. The story was presented in a unique and beautiful fashion and the acting was solid. 8/10


Christine (1983 TV): This Carpenter horror flick came one year after the cult classic movie The Thing. It’s competently shot (to use Fred’s words) but was a bit too soft for my taste. I think the TV version even cut short certain murder scenes. Overall, it was a mildly entertaining but does not have much rewatch value. 6/10



Brick Mansion (2014 TV): Poor, pale and unnecessary remake. Average action flick as a standalone. I’d rather watch Banlieu 13 a hundred more times before watching this again. 5/10


Unbreakable (2000 DVD): What I liked: The story, the dialogue, the cast. What I didn’t like: The cinematography, the editing. 7/10


Glass (2019 Blu-ray): What I liked: The fact that they brought back the cast plus the amazing McAvoy, the cinematography, the story, the beast, the action, the ending. What I didn’t like: nothing in particular but sometimes the dialogue was so-so. People seem to question this movie a lot but on my part, it all worked great except I wonder how the girl found Dunnand Kevin at that warehouse at the beginning of the movie? My rating 8/10 (This is a rare trilogy where my ratings go up with each entry because I rated Split 7.5/10)

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Hey there,

My ratings of what you watched:
overlord 6/10
Eternal Sunshine 8/10
Christine 6/10
Unbreakable 8/10
Glass 8/10

My ratings of what I watched this week:
The Fifth Element 8/10
I know what you did last summer 7/10
The bloody judge 6/10
Rhythm on the river 8/10
Mean girls 7/10
Superman vs the elite 8/10
Overlord 6/10
The Mechanic 7/10
The little hours 7/10
Payback 8/10
Weird science 8/10
Good boys 8/10
Good dick 7/10
The other guys 8/10

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Fifth element: 7.5/10
Ikwydls: been too long
Mean girls: 6/10
The other guys: 7/10

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Fearless (1993) - I didn't like this. I thought the Bridges guy was selfish and should have been thankful. 6/10

The Virgin Suicides (1999) - Better than I thought. This message of this movie is that all parents suck. You will be hit over the head with it. James Woods was great. 7/10

1945 (2017) - Very good drama about two Jewish men returning to their Hungarian town after WW2. The townspeople are paranoid about their return and don't want them there. Good characters development. The guys playing the Jewish characters were great. They hardly have to say a word. 7.5/10

Wonderland (2003) - Too much flash and too many flashbacks. This should have been made as a gritty Los Angeles crime drama. The movie was a bit farcical. 6/10

Rounders (1998) - Finally saw it. Loved the Malkovich character. Not sure I agree with the premise of the movie but enjoy the ride into the gambling world. 7.5/10

The Second Woman (1950) - A film noir I had never seen before. The problem with this one is you can see the ending coming from a mile away. Decent enough acting from Robert Young and Betsy Drake. 6.5/10

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1945 sounds very interesting

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Wonderland: loved it. 8/10
Rounders: classic 9/10

You haven’t seen mine or just didn’t comment on them?

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Behind the Curve (2018 Amazon rental) - A documentary that follows flat earthers who despite overwhelming conscensus from the scientific community (and every other community outside of flat earthers) continue to spread their beliefs that there is a conspiracy to surpass the truth that the earth is flat. Pretty interesting look at a movement thats very existence baffles me (7/10)

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019 Hulu) - This documentary becomes as much about its film maker Ben Berman and his struggle to find a unique angle for his profile of dying magician/comedian Amazing Johnathan when he learns of competing documentary crews also following the performer. A.J. Was one of my idols in the early to mid-90s and this was at times tough to watch, particularly talking about his past (and continued) use of drugs and just seeing this once lively comedian a frail shell of his former self. (8/10)

Good Boys (2019 - Theater) From the makers of Superbad, a coming of age story of 3 sixth graders and their quest to make it to their first kissing party. Plenty of bad language but lots of laughs and surprisingly lots of heart as well. A lot of fun and a 90 minute run time makes this one go down easy. (8/10)

Wicthboard (1986 - Amazon Prime) - A woman uses a Ouija Board and unleashes a demonic spirit. Not a great movie really but it was one we enjoyed back in middle school and kind of gave new life to the Ouija Board craze in my class. Realistically should probably be a 6/10 but Tawny Kitaen from the old Whitesnake videos has a brief nude scene so it gains a point for that lol (7/10)

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I’d be curious to see Behind the curve. Quite baffling indeed.

Good boys looks pretty good.

Have a good week Sam!

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Why only movie related fun?!☹

Movies:

-The Skulls (2000)
I decided to check this one out for nostalgic reasons, just like She's All That. I'm sorry, Mr. Paul Walker, but your movies sucked! This movie was all over the place. It seemed to start out as a suspense thriller, but then turned into a lame conspiracy action movie. No logic whatsoever.

-Speed(1994)
Probably my favourite action movie. A classic.

-The Usual Suspects(1995)
Love this movie. One of my favourites.

TV Shows:

-Batman (1966) - marathon

-Relic Hunter - marathon

-The Bold and the Beautiful - marathon of very old episodes

-Twilight Zone (1959) - marathon

-Baywatch - marathon

-BH 90210 - Episode 2

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In movies, you can find love, pleasure, laughter, sex, drugs, games, action,romance, joy etc. So yeah, only movie related.

The Skulls: been too long

Speed: only saw it back then too but I bought it a few weeks ago so I can rewatch!

The Usual suspect: in my top 20. 10/10

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i'll share my thoughts on overlord below.
i really love eternal sunshine, & would consider it one of my all-time favourites if it wasn't for the lead actor!
christine is a film i really like, but there's quite a bit of childhood nostalgia wrapped up in that. i'd give it a 7 - i love it, while recognizing that it's not great.
i'm pretty indifferent to both unbreakable & glass tbh.

my week:

l'eclisse (1962) 2.5 blow-up aside, all of antonioni's films have bored me if i'm being honest.
i'm sure that's my failure. clearly there's something missing in me.
but i cannot find anything to latch onto in any of these films.
they make all my 'i'm bored' neurons fire. they never ever seem to end, and i am left feeling that i got absolutely nothing out of the experience.
i'm honestly intrigued to find out what it is that drives other people to these films.

the manchurian candidate (1962) 4.5 pleasantly surprised at just how dark & how weird this got at times.
big yay from me.

things 4 (2017) 2.5 absolutely terrible yet quite fun horror anthology.
this is one of those instances where they know they're not good enough to be actually funny, so they try to be 'bad funny' but they're so bad at being bad funny that they end up just being pretty funny.
i enjoyed myself.

the purgation (2015) 1.5 i couldn't really tell what was going on in this film, & i wasn't invested enough to try to work it out.

it looks pretty good at times, though. for a low budget affair, it has a professional sheen, decent lighting, that sort of thing, at least as far as i could tell.

but my gosh it was dull & incoherent & i could not give a shit's dick-ass about anything that happened.

one of the actors looks a lot like young griffin dunne.

scary stories to tell in the dark (2019) 3.5 it's exactly what it is advertised to you as: a ya-friendly pg13 horror film.

and it's good. fun, not particularly intense, & it probably won't have any moves you haven't seen before, but it chugs along nicely, the actors are fun & sympathetic, & it has a few pretty solid set-pieces. it very efficiently checks off all the boxes a film like this ought to.

get my gun (2017) 3.5 pregnant rape victim is tormented by a stalker.

am i getting soft & easy to please in my middle age, or is this shockingly good? even though it's only 90 minutes, it really takes the time to set up the lead character, really let's us get set up in her world. & it gives us a fairly adept little head-fake as well, and a nice nod to ms 45 to boot.

very well acted, with the possible exception of the bad woman. it looks like this is the only acting credit of almost everyone involved, which is usually a miserable omen, but not this time. the lead in particular was great, & i'd love to see her in more things.

i have to dock it a little for a slightly too silly ending & a fairly unnecessary flash-forward opening, but otherwise this is great & i really hope we get more from everyone involved.

holiday (2019) 4.5 crime film that does away with the tired tropes of such movies by focusing solely on the put upon girlfriend instead of the loutish crime lord.

i watch a lot of movies, & a lot of trashy ones. i don't shock easily, but this film shocked me, & i don't think i'll forget it any time soon. i think this will definitely be one of my films of the year.

why horror? (2015) 2.5 doc on why people like horror films. says a lot of things you've heard said before, probably.

overlord (2018) 3.5 fun ww2/horror hybrid. opens in a truly spectacular way, & i can't quite sustain that level over its perhaps slightly too long running time, but it's fun & exciting & really well made.

paranormal activity - the ghost dimension (2015) 1.5 they just weren't trying at this point, were they?
they did hire more attractive actresses for this one. i'll give them that.

all about my mother (1999) 3.5 this is another one of those things that makes me question myself, wonder just how many cogs there are missing in my mental machine.
because i see there are people testifying on this site to the power of this film.
& i thought it was a silly, campy farce.
enjoyable as far as it goes, but nothing that made me feel even the slightest thing. it's a melodrama, very soapy. fun, but i'm simply mystified that this could make anyone feel something.

lyle (2014) 3.5 low budget lesbian rosemary's baby.

it's not bad.

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dora and the lost city of gold (2019) 3 mostly pretty fun. my cinematic experience was somewhat tarnished by the half assed parenting of the man who let his 6 or so yr old loudly narrate every moment.

i don't smoke pot anymore, haven't for decades, but i think this movie has enough absurdity & slightly on the spectrum weirdness to make it a potential stoner classic.

i did find that in the last third, when it becomes a bit adventure movie conventional, some of the fun disappeared & it becomes a tiny bit dull.

i probably shouldn't say this, but i say lots of things i shouldn't:
if they were going to cast a foxy dora with nice boobs, couldn't they have made her 18 to make me feel slightly less awful for leering at her throughout the running time?

pontypool (2008) 3.5 pretty good no-budget horror/suspense affair. i remember being a touch underwhelmed when i first watched it 10 years or so back, but i liked it just fine tonight. there are a few points where i felt like people ought to be freaking out a little more or working a little harder on hatching a plan to survive. but why quibble? by the standards of these sorts of no budget affairs, this acquits itself very nicely.

the miracle woman (1931) 3.5 pretty neat little religious melodrama. not an unheralded masterpiece, & it seems to shamble about rather than hit the marks it was setting up, but the performances are great & it is absolutely worth your time, particularly if you fancy barbara stanwyck, & if you don't then what happened to you?

the cockettes (2002) 3 fairly standard talking heads doc.
for a film about gender-bending hippies, it sure feld awfully staid in tone.
it's fine, but i wish it was more shocking, more vulgar, more intimate, more something.

the skin i live in (2011) 4 i've been fairly ambivalent about my almadovar experiences to date.

whatever i feel about this one, is is definitely not ambivalence.

i watch a lot of movies. most of them fall out of my head as quickly as they enter. this one will not, i am certain. i perhaps already feel like i wish i could forget it, honestly.

the babadook (2015) 4 my first revisit since seeing it at the time of release, & i think i appreciated it much more this time. i remember thinking the opening third with the kid was unusually raw & difficult, but i was still kinda stunned at just how raw & difficult it was.

the visualization of the babadook remains the weakest aspect of the film to me, but the rest of it played absolutely perfectly.

ghostland (2018) 3 i really have to put an asterisk on my rating, as i kinda got into a bit of a twitter war while this was playing, & quite badly lost focus on it around the 55 minute mark.

i think i grocked pretty much everything, & i thought it was really quite good, though it has a certain move that i kinda wish it didn't have. but it's not the first movie to do this move, & it won't be the last, and i really thought this was quite well made & properly acted, so i don't want to penalize it too harshly.

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Hi Pop Dukes👋
I really love Christine 8/10...maybe it's the nostalgia kicking in

I saw...
Hamburger Hill (87)
It was a fine war picture although the leads often appeared well coifed and too tidy for guys that were battling the VC in a muddy hellhole...
The battles were appropriately scary and tense
8/10

Mindhunter Season 1 (17)
Rewatched the first 10 eps of the first series, it's really excellent
I've said this before, the only boring bits are the domestic moments with the wives and girlfriends...but I get it, that stuff rounds out the characters...but *yawn*
And I disagree with some of the 'net chatter that the main actor being a gay guy IRL affects the performance, I had no clue the actor was gay and that character totally worked imo
He just seemed nerdy and earnest to me
10/10

300 (07)
A rewatch of brilliant macho craziness
9/10

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Glass- I was disappointed in the way David was dealt with. I wanted him to kick ass. They just wanted to wrap things up with this movie. 6.5/10

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