Rate The Last Movie you Watched
A Fistful of Dollars (1964). I’m a big fan of For a Few Dollars More and the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (and Once Upon a Time in the West is his best movie), yet somehow I’ve never watched this one before. And what a way to do so. The new Arrow Video 4K remaster. With the original theatrical mono audio. Looked amazing, and sounded like a really old movie, as it should.
Compared to those two other Clint Eastwood Leone-films this is much smaller in story and theme (and a complete rip off of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (Kurosawa famously sued, and won), which I’ve yet to also watch), but man so good.
Amps Arrow did a whole new scan restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative in Italy, and used a 35 mm Imbition Technicolor print they sourced from The Cinema Museum in London for color reference. The 4K Blu ray has HDR10 and Dolby Vision. It looked like seeing it at a really good cinema, of course just a smaller screen. If they made this look this good I can’t wait for For a Few Dollars More and TGTBATU done the same way. I’ve ordered those too, will be getting them at the end of June.
What a time to be alive! Glad they have done a good job. Enjoy!
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Peter Weir’s early Australian film, set in 1900. Three girls and their matron gets lost at a volcanic rock formation. People start searcing for them. Nothing much happens, and the whole thing is very dream like (the idea for the novel it’s based on came to the author in her dream). But I liked it. The Guardian gave it five stars when it was briefly back in theatres earlier this year for it’s 50th anniversary. A Letterboxd-review put it nicely by saying that it’s like Sofia Coppola and David Lynch having a love child.
Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning (2025.
First hour was actually bad, and could have been cut to 15 minutes, the middle wasn’t the best either, but jesus the final stunt was amazing. Still a bit of a dud to end an franchise with. M:I ranked according to me:
- Fall Out
- Rogue Nation
- Ghost Protocol
- Mission: Impossible
- Mission: Impossible III
- Dead Reckoning
- Final Reckoning
- Mission: Impossible 2
I think I watched the first one and it was shit, so haven’t watched one since.
On another note, I’ve got tickets for fear and loathing in imax on Saturday. There’s something to be said for for a small theatre with no one in it, I think they’ve sold a dozen tickets.
I tried to do a couple of Mission Impossibles (Fall Out and the first one) recently, to warm up for this last one. Couldn’t do it, will be swerving this franchise.
Will do Lilo & Stitch with the daughter instead.
Enjoyed the “Smile” horror movie series, good fun. Second one is a banger actually.
Homegrove I’ve seen about two thirds of one about a year or two ago - it was awful.