Rate The Last Movie you Watched
The Lighthouse (2019)
File alongside 12 Monkeys as ‘films you have no idea about’!
Commando
It’s basically got everything hasn’t it? Quotable pay off lines that still make you smile 30 years on, guns, chainmail vests, tops off. My kids loved it. 10/10
Millsy my favorite comedy of all time.
Lost Highway (1997). My favorite Lynch. And the only one of his films I’ve seen in a movie theatre. I went to watch it alone in a city I didn’t live in, the other people in the theatres seemed like a bunch of weirdos to my young self, and it was perfect. At the time the only thing I knew about Lynch was Twin Peaks, and the fact that Trent Reznor produced the soundtrack probably was my main interest in seeing the movie. After the film ended I was a Lynch-fan too.
What is good about it and why did you like it so much?
I actually can’t remember if I ever saw it
I just love how weird Lynch’s films are, and this one really doesn’t explain itself at all, just a wild ride. Lynch can also make a simple corridor terrifying. Plus Patricia Arquette gets naked a lot in this one, so that’s also a plus.
Blitz (2024). Steve McQueen’s new film was disappointing. You could predict everything that happened in the movie accurately. On AppleTv+ so I guess not a lot of people will watch it anyway.
Ad Astra (2019)
I was worried this would be a stinker a la ‘Interstellar’ as I hadnt really heard much about it so it felt like it flopped a bit. However, I really enjoyed this - it had a cool vibe to it, some amazing visuals and a decent enough story. It of course goes a bit Hollywood at times but it wasnt too over the top IMO.
8 out of 10
Ad Astra (2019)
I was worried this would be a stinker a la ‘Interstellar’ as I hadnt really heard much about it so it felt like it flopped a bit. However, I really enjoyed this - it had a cool vibe to it, some amazing visuals and a decent enough story. It of course goes a bit Hollywood at times but it wasnt too over the top IMO.
8 out of 10
Has anyone seen Watcher? What an absolute fucking stinker - the plot is fully known in the first twenty minutes and from there it’s a miracle if you make it to the inevitable end. Shite. ⅒
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The Creator
The world they built with this one was absolutely sensational tbh. It was all rather predictable plot and character-wise but I did really enjoy the Neil Blomkamp/Akira-ness of the aesthetic. A very commendable, digestible sci-fi. 7/10
I’ve just seen that You Tube has pretty much the entire Tarkovsky back catalogue for free. I’ve never seen Solaris or Stalker before. Are they worth a watch?
This trailer is great. Hoping the movie is too, but zombies jumped the undead shark years ago.
Millsy Look worth a watch to me. Nice heads up CJ
Along_the_Wire lol. Welcome
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Stakeout (1987). You know when you were growing up and you had about 10 movies on VHS which you just kept watching on rotation? Well this was one of mine. I bought it on DVD 20+ years ago, and that’s still the only format it’s available as. I watched it for the first time in ten years, and didn’t look too bad on standard definition, which was a nice surprise. The film itself is still great in my opinion. Which maybe coloured by nostalgia, but I stand by it.
Richard Dreyfuss is by all accounts a huge asshole in real life, but he’s got amazing chemistry here with both Emilio Estevez and Madeleine Stowe. The latter is also the hottest any woman has ever been in any movie in this. And manages to sell falling in love with Dreyfuss completely, so she’s obviously a very talented actor too, because that had to be acting. Says anyone who’s ever worked with Dreyfuss.
Homegrove haven’t seen that in a while but watched it loads when it came out. John Badham was solid director.
[unknown] still holds up eh? Watched it quite a few times as a kid. Remember loving the sequel as well, but jeez that’s got a 17% rotten tomato rating.
I hated the sequel when I saw it in theatre when it was released. Never watched it again.
Thief: Someone on here called this out, or it might have been on one of the podcasts. This is reallly good and I loved the last 40 mins when it sort of goes into overdrive after a bit of a slow burn. Timeless performance from Caan, though I did need subtitles. For 81, this barely has a hint of cheese, and it actually feels quite 70s, barring the sick soundtrack from Tangerine Dream. More entertaining than Heat, even though it is a fairly generic heist plot.
8.8 / 10
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rhouses It was me, nice one Rhouses!
[unknown] obligatory I have the Arrow Video Blu ray. Wife and I did a Michael Mann double bill earlier this year of this and The Insider, and it was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday at home. Neither of us had seen Thief before.
[unknown] lies. it was CJ
Along_the_Wire hahah THIEF!
Deadpool & Wolverine
No idea why I put this on.
1 tired genre out of 5
Criterion is putting out Thief in 4K in March. I assume US only. I hope Arrow will follow in the UK.
Speaking of Criterion, Punch-Drunk Love on 4K is on their February-selection. That’s a must buy. And will probably be the only Adam Sandler-movie in my physical collection.