Rate The Last Movie you Watched

RichM What would people recommend at the moment (no marvel, sci fi shite)

Commando.

Wasily our second favourite bald headed Brit

Thank you sir!

Enjoyed hard truths. Witty and moving in equal measures with a great lead performance from a clinically depressed Mariane Jean Baptiste. Have always loved the way Leigh captures small town London. His best since Happy go lucky IMO

La Dolce Villa, me Julie’s choice.

Quite possibly the worst film I’ve ever seen

Alarm bells!!! Get rid

Smallman1 I know what you’re going through Ed. Equaliser 3 was also a terrible film but made me long for the Amalfi coast.

Licorice Pizza (2021). Rhouses was right, it’s really hard to get past the age difference when he’s 15 and she’s 25. Will probably like this more on a rewatch, but I think that’s true with half of PTA’s films. Great cameos from Sean Penn, and I never liked Bradley Cooper that much (more like tolerate him in movies) but he was on one here.

3 ⅕ stars.

I couldn’t get into Liquorice Pizza at all. Turned it off after an hour. Might try again at some point although life is too short.

Millsy don’t try Inherent Vice. Some people really hate it, but for me it was love at first sight.

Rewatched Assassination of Jesse James yesterday. Vaguely remember watching it more than a decade back, was obviously baked out of my mind, and couldn’t get down with the artsy fartsy look and what felt like a voice over telling me way too much. Like a fine wine though, this has aged beautifully (also maybe a bit of bias with all the movie podcasts telling me it’s actually brilliant but a victim of its release year, competing with No Country and There will be blood). I was actually ready to turn it off after the first hour, but as you move forward it gets more and more compelling. Brad Pitt does paranoia and depression well, Rockwell the bumbling fool and Casey Affleck the slime ball, equally good if not better. The epilogue also feels like a gut punch, where youre not really expecting much. The script is incredibly strong as you’re never exactly sure what Jesse knows and doesnt. Had the afternoon to myself, and it made for a great lazy sunday viewing. Not quite the same class as No Country or TWBB, but damn close. And yup, its wild Roger Deakins did this and No Country the same year.

8 / 10

Homegrove i might have been ok with 15 - 21, 15 - 25 was a bit too excessive to digest.

rhouses Must give this another watch, good shout

Wasily agreed. meh.

Munich (2005). There are still Spielberg-films I’ve not seen, and this was one. He’s trying not to pick sides here, but there is a clear message of cause and effect. Also a reminder that when Spielberg wants to be brutal he really can, the violence in this pretty shocking, Saving Private Ryan was not an outlier for him.

Also has all the usual Spielberg-perks, some amazing blocking and camera choices throughout it. And it did not feel nearly three hours long.

Homegrove cracking film.