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Rate The Last Movie you Watched
rhouses Things are all over the place second half.
Part of its charm!
Babygirl is literally one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, it’s fucking awful. It makes Eyes Wide Shite look like a fucking Oscar winner. 0/10
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Double Indemnity - classic noir - really hammy and not a particularly great plot. I have no idea why this is held in such high regard, I guess for its time it was great, but you can’t judge it on that 70 years later. 4/10
Half Nelson - decent Ryan Gosling number about a teacher who’s addicted to narcs and booze and all goes surprisingly a bit wrong. Pretty horrible to watch. 7/10
Babel - was surprised after watching it that it wasn’t scoring in the 90s on Rotten Tomatoes. Four interlinked stories and all of them grim in their own little way. Iñárritu is class. 8/10
Along_the_Wire loved Babel. Need to rewatch that some time
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I have watched two interesting but quite depressing Arnie films recently that I would recommend.
Maggie (2015) - this is set in a post-pandemic world where infected people turn into zombies over the course of a few weeks. The plot centres around Arnie protecting his infected daughter as she starts to turn. It was light on action and heavy on mood, and certainly a different take on zombie films altogether.
Aftermath (2017) - based on a true story of a mid air collision between two planes, leading to hundreds of deaths. It is told from two perspectives - number 1 is Arnie who loses his family in the crash, and number 2 is the air traffic controller who caused it. I found it interesting how they played out the logicstics of something like this happening, although the last 20 minutes of the film did take a bit of an odd turn. I read after that this film was made direct to video so never got a cinema release - quite strange for a Schwarzenegger film I thought. Glad I watched both though
6 out of 10 for each film
I stumbled across a film last night, branded as a cult classic, called Charley One Eye (1973), hilariously bad, so bad in fact it was absolutely amazing, in the truest sense of the word. Don’t watch this if you take yourself too seriously.
The Conversation (1974). Catching up on Gene Hackman-films. This was great. Obviously a classic for a reason. Pretty slow so glad I watched it solo, my would not have made an hour into it. Hackman’s great in it, but so is everyone else too. The soundtrack is also good, very different from other seventies movies, ahead of it’s time almost.
Mickey 17 - decent enough but not as good as parasite and not really worth the trip to the flicks for. 7.5 Mickys out if 10
Better than Metal Micky?
Do you have to see the first 16?
Good god, lads.
The acting in that scene is nothing remarkable.
Enemy of the State (1998).This was an even better movie to follow The Conversation with than I remembered. Obviously this is not even in the same league as that, but lights up whenever Gene Hackman is on screen.