Rate The Last Movie you Watched
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Bring Them Down. It’s difficult to describe it as a revenge thriller, it’s all over the fucking place and doesn’t know what it is. I know what it is. Rubbish. Barry Keoghan being Barry Keoghan and he was also an exec producer - a little over confidence there. 2/10
Along_the_Wire
I lasted 10 mins. It just seemed so depressing right from the start
The Sugarland Express (1974). Spielberg’s theatrical debut popped up in one of my streaming services, so figured I should watch this.
A tonally pretty uneven movie (parts of it are like The Blues Brothers, parts a tragedy) which also exhibits Spielberg’s insane talent even at such a young age. So many cool shots using car’s mirrors, going from one car to another on a highway etc. William Atherton in a rare role where he’s not an asshole, just really dumb.
Flow - really good and well deserving of the best animated movie oscar - I’ve seen nothing like it in movies (except maybe studio Ghibli) but have seen the exact tone and style in games a fuck load of times - think Ico, Shadow of the Collosus & Journey and you’ll know exactly the kind of stripped back world building and story telling it uses. Artistic masterpiece in more ways than one. 9 capybaras / 10
Heat (1995)
Watched this for just the 2nd time today, after my first watch a couple of years ago.
It’s a 10/10 film isn’t it? I’d be interested to hear from anyone who feels otherwise. Story, acting, pacing …..it’s all first class.
Here’s a question. Best actor out of De Niro and Pacino? I’d plump for De Niro personally but it’s close
Wally meant to be ace, apparently animated with a free open source software package too.
Phil-McRackin ‘it is pure cinematic poetry’ - not my words, but the words of one Mark Kermode.
(Yeah, Blender what they used and is an off the shelf 3d modeller. It’s stunning to look at )
LT42 I think it’s okay, the acting is piss poor for the most part.
Presence (2024). A ghost story shot entirely from the point of view of the ghost. Steven Soderbergh does M. Knight Shyamalan very much like. Not a total success, but I’m not mad for paying to see it solo in the cinema. Monday night tickets cost 12 €, so eh?
Soderbergh also shot this movie, and talked about trying not to kill himself on the stairs in the house, which was at first all I could think of.
Along_the_Wire no better or worse than any movie of that genre, Granto. I thought DeNiro was brilliant if I’m honest, he had the perfect coldness.
The Great Escape (1963). Catching up on classics again. I made proper time for this because it’s nearly three hours long but that welt really fast. I don’t know why I’ve never seen it, I guess it was never on TV here when I was a kid. Loved it.
But I’m going to have that fucking theme tune in my head for the rest of the week I’m sure.
Homegrove on every Christmas for decades since I was a kid. Absolutely loved it.
Thought I’d treat my kids to it one Christmas and got the Blu-ray of it when it first came out. They were bored shitless and the missus gave a right bollocking as I made everyone watch the lot.