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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

    • gcw

      • Post #9948
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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

      • LT42

        • Post #9949

        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.

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          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?

          • LT42

            • Post #9955

            Homegrove I keep meaning to watch that documentary about John Cazale - “I Knew It Was You”.

                LT42 godtier acting. I watch this on Youtube about once a week.

                    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.

                      Enjoyed Didi a lot. High school, asian immigrant movie, kinda like jonah hill’s 90s, maybe even better. Endearing and warm, not gonna lie, was fighting the tears at the end - joan chen owning it.

                      8.2 / 10

                      Along_the_Wire a lot. And you have to wait 55 minutes for Hackman to enter the movie. But still, Tony Scott at his second peak following Crimson Tide besides Hackman is also always fun.

                        • Amps

                          • Post #9963

                          New Toxic Avenger looks awful, pun intended.

                          Genuinely looking forward to it.

                          Speak no evil 7/10. Quiet an entertaining thriller, James McAvoy very convincing as a cornish psycho!