team america 4/5 - would go even higher, cuz i think it's complete fun, but there's vomit scene that i remember not liking one little bit, so i've gotta dock it for that.
jo jo rabbit - 3.5 - mostly liked it, but most of the comedy - especially waititi's hitler - didn't make me laugh. hunt for the wilderpeople is a 5/5 for me.
my week:
un flic (1972) 3 ok french crime film. starts off in a very nicely pacey, tense way, but rather loses its form as it moves along. it's certainly full of characters looking pensive or determined or concerned at any given moment, but it doesn't really develop anyone into real, full formed people or develop into an interesting caper or police procedural.
brawl in cell block 99 (2017) 4.5 1hr 12m 20s - i've seen this four times, and i still yell out loud every time this scene comes along.
and 1hr 51m 30s.
holy f*cking shit.
i love this movie. would be a 5 if it was just a little bit shorter.
let this man make movies for the rest of his life.
paddington 2 (2017) 5 good thing about watching this at home is you can cry at the end without losing your dignity.
doesn't mean much if you post that publicly.
d-railed (2018) 3 d-railed seemed to be setting us up for a fun b-movie agathie christie-ish ride, but it takes a big turn into something very different. it's fine, but...i kinda wanted my murder mystery satire more than the movie i ended up getting, which was a bit horror movie generic overall, if admittedly fairly competent.
the eyes of my mother (2016) 4 impresses me and underwhelms me a bit every time i watch it.
good stuff: genuinely nightmarish images, atmosphere for days.
bad: very short on story. which is not a show-stopper - but it doesn't really give you anything in place of its absence, no peak inside the character imo.
but still, hats off to the director for making an ugly, unsettling film.
demon wind (1990) 3.5 i have no idea what this movie was about.
but it's a lot of fun. it could have been great if it just had a bit more visual spark - say if the director had about a tenth as much talent as raimi, this would have been a vhs classic.
instead it's just pretty good. but pretty good is pretty good.
gerald's game (2017) 3.5 let me be the million billionth person to say that the ending is bad.
but the rest of it is really good.
scream park (2012) 2.5 very standard b-horror. sexy teens are chased around an amusement park. ok, but no real energy or drive to make it noteworthy.
for some reason, skinny puppy's nivek ogre is in this thing. why?
the edge of seventeen (2016) 4 does an almost perfect job of walking a fairly tricky tightrope. it's clever without tipping into that 'nowhere in the world have there ever existed teenagers this effortlessly witty & clever' realm that annoys me a bit at times, and manages to be kinda sweet while avoiding mawkishness. i love this movie about teenage girls in a completely non-sinister, non-pervy way.
the incident (2014) 3.5 fairly trippy mexican indie. two groups get trapped in geographical loops, unable to escape out of a stairwell and road. has a definite feeling of a better than average twilight zone episode, and it also has strong echoes of philip k dick (whose 'time out of joint' shows up as the only book one group has to read for 35 years). not necessarily an improvement on its inspirations, but if you like those kinds of things you'll probably enjoy this.
knife+heart (2018) 3.5 can't quite say i loved it and fell for it the way i really wanted to. i certainly dug its look and its giallo fetish, and i didn't mind that it was a bit incoherent - wouldn't be a proper giallo homage if it made sense, would it?
but it lost its sleazy, ridiculous energy for me in the last 40 minutes or so. which in its way is also true to the giallo spirit, i guess. but i just didn't have fun with it the way i wanted to.
absolutely worth a look, by all means - it looks sharp, and the first hour is fun - but i was left wanting more.
spider-man 2 (2004) 5 been long enough for me to forget how great this is.
perfect blockbuster entertainment.
the house of the devil (2009) 4 if i could still have access to streaming services, i would go back in time to live in this movie.
cannibal holocaust (1980) 4.5 fantastically trashy, ugly piece of filth.
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4 years ago
also, i finally got around to watching 'haunting of hill house' on netflix, and i really liked it a lot. overall, i think this might be the best thing flanagan's made to date, and i like/love everything he's done, excluding before i wake, which is pretty mediocre in my books.
that said, there are some things that didn't work - the angry lesbian sister was a terribly tiresome character who grated on me every second she was on the screen. why would anyone let this cancerous, mean person in their life?
and it peaks with 5+6 as many have said, & never quite scales that height again. those episodes are little masterpieces in my book, especially 5.
and, also echoing others, the finale...well, i don't think it's bad. and i don't mind that it had a 'happy' ending. it doesn't even really bother me that it's a bit out of nowhere, slightly out of step with the rest of the show.
but the dialogue in that final episode felt like it came out of a daytime soap. a badly written one.
i wish that was different.
but overall, i thought this was absolutely chock-full of great moments, and in total was, dare i say, a bit of a triumph. 4.5/5
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StoneKeeper (21182)
4 years ago
I almost bought brawl in cell block 99 for 4$ once but had over 20 movies in my hands and had to let a few go. I regret it since...
Paddington 2: own it but I want to see the first one before.
Gerlad’s game: I did not mind the ending. 7.5/10
Spider-man 2: 7/10
I started the first episode of Haunting but never went back. I’ll watch it someday.
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4 years ago
if you have access to hoopla in your area, you can watch brawl... there. it's streaming for free along with zahler's other films bone tomahawk & dragged across concrete.
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TalkinPikchorBox (2250)
4 years ago
Watching Vince Vaughn kick the shit out of a car makes all my fights look like a pillow fight at a little girls slumber party. The scene that you speak of gets me every time too.
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