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Post by PB on Oct 19, 2020 23:32:04 GMT
In my journey to watch films from the top 200 I haven’t watched yet I watched John Wick tonight. I was very disappointed. The scene in the night club may be one of the best choreographed fight set pieces ever, but by the last half hour I was bored. There were great ideas and it was super slick, but I just didn’t care about any of the characters. They all felt like caricatures that | couldn’t invest in. I really wanted to like it, and there were great moments and visuals, but it just didn’t land for me.
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Post by c on Oct 19, 2020 23:35:45 GMT
I did not like the first two John Wick films. Loved the third one however.
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Post by Ness on Oct 19, 2020 23:39:38 GMT
I did not like the first two John Wick films. Loved the third one however.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Oct 21, 2020 4:31:16 GMT
I did not like the first two John Wick films. Loved the third one however. BOO! BOO TO YOU! Either way, first up, caught the Gentleman...it's quintessential Guy Ritchie, but also kind of Guy Ritchie by numbers. The performances were solid, though I wish there was more of Colin Farrel's Coach. Story kept moving, few twists like you'd expect, but mostly predictable this go round. Not his worst, not his best, not one I'll return to often if at all, but don't regret watching it. Also, Knives Out, great little "whodunnit?" with a cast that's entertaining start to finish, not really a weak link to be found, though a couple characters don't do much. Benoit Blanc may have been the entirely prototypical super sleuth, but Craig makes it thoroughly entertaining, glad to see he'll return, hopefully the mystery is as solid and the cast as stout. Some of the big twists were entirely evident, but the small flourishes could be a nice surprise. Highly recommend for fans of the genre.
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Post by c on Oct 21, 2020 5:56:36 GMT
Knives Out was great. Very Brick like feel which made it a great return to form for that director.
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Post by 🤯 on Oct 21, 2020 8:11:02 GMT
Knives Out was great. Very Brick like feel which made it a great return to form for that director. But what about the vomit cup plothole!?
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Post by c on Oct 23, 2020 6:24:40 GMT
OMG Borat 2 was freaking hilarious. The Moon Blood dance is one of the best things he has ever done. Feels like a ton was cut from the film on amazon thought as stuff in the previews was not included and the scenes were cut.
Assume a whole lot will HATE it because it is overly political, but still is hilarious. Borat dressed as fat Trump interrupting Pence was too funny.
I really hope these two do another film together.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Oct 23, 2020 8:13:03 GMT
Ad Astra-Boring, over long, self indulgent...can't say a single interesting thing happened during the entire run time. Great from a visual perspective, and not a bad performance to be found, just not a very entertaining movie in general. I couldn't recommend it in any way, shape, or form.
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Post by Ness on Oct 25, 2020 16:23:47 GMT
Saw Speed. Was really good. No titties 🤯 but the first act rescue did have a brief ass peek so that was nice.
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Post by Ness on Oct 26, 2020 0:16:43 GMT
Nightmare on Elm 2: So... that was a thing. Not the worst thing in the world, but man it felt like I was almost in the movie as long as Freddy was.
Texas Chainsaw 2: Really liked this one. Only added the whole franchise because of that Scream discussion and Leatherface being unover with people. Let's put it to the test.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Oct 26, 2020 3:03:34 GMT
2 is easily the worst of the whole franchise, counting FvJ.
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Post by c on Oct 26, 2020 3:29:38 GMT
Yeah NOES2 was a hot mess. Kraven was set to return to direct it until he read the script and wanted no part of it at all. Then they brought Kraven in to advise the screenplay and Kraven and the writer had different visions so you got half of each person's vision for the movie and well, you see how it ended up. It is made worse in the lead actor was never told he was playing a gay character, and felt they were attacking him because he was closeted himself. He feuded with the creators for years over it. Also he said they were writing the script as they were filming it which is never a good sign and altered his character a lot.
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Post by Emperor on Oct 29, 2020 13:15:30 GMT
Beauty and the Beast (1991) Before watching this a second time I had Beauty and the Beast on the same level as Lion King and Aladdin as being peak Disney. After the second watch, while it is a great movie, it's a notch or two below Lion King and Aladdin.
Gaston is an unbelievable prick but he isn't as good a villain as Scar or Jafar. He spends most of the movie in comical songs, beating up his little servant guy. The plot as a whole isn't quite as dramatic or as moving as anything in Lion King or Aladdin. The fight between Gaston and The Beast at the end was not as heartwrenching or as gruelling as I remember it. It was basically over before it started.
Great 7.5/10 film. Had it at #40 on my Top 100 list before, but that feels way too high now. I'm going to knock it down a lot. Might even leave the Top 100.
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Post by 🤯 on Oct 29, 2020 13:17:15 GMT
Beauty and the Beast (1991)Before watching this a second time I had Beauty and the Beast on the same level as Lion King and Aladdin as being peak Disney. After the second watch, while it is a great movie, it's a notch or two below Lion King and Aladdin. Gaston is an unbelievable prick but he isn't as good a villain as Scar or Jafar. He spends most of the movie in comical songs, beating up his little servant guy. The plot as a whole isn't quite as dramatic or as moving as anything in Lion King or Aladdin. The fight between Gaston and The Beast at the end was not as heartwrenching or as gruelling as I remember it. It was basically over before it started. Great 7.5/10 film. Had it at #40 on my Top 100 list before, but that feels way too high now. I'm going to knock it down a lot. Might even leave the Top 100. Would've been a Top 100 lock had Belle busted dem tiddies out. Amirite, Ness, or amirite.
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Post by Big Pete on Oct 30, 2020 14:50:28 GMT
I find it extremely tough to rank the Disney renaissance movies. The Lion King felt like the biggest growing up, I remember the merchandise being everywhere and everyone had a VHS of it but it just didn't hit me as much. Probably because The Land Before Time was a childhood favourite and it has a very similar arc that is just as well done if not better. Seriously going back to that movie as an adult was such an eye opener, I thought it would be a laugh and I swear it hit me even hit harder. Like I said, I respected it, but it didn't quite have the same impact. Aladdin I also really liked, but the emotional arcs are sort of strong. You have Jasmine thinking she got some poor innocent young man killed by her privilege and the Genie stuff right at the end, but otherwise it's just an enjoyable romp with some great tunes. I was surprised at how efficient Beauty and the Beast was on last watch. I remember it being so fleshed out, but it's a relatively short movie and they all doll out the essential information. The rest is left up to your imagination, but there's enough stimulus there to put the pieces together. That was the problem from the remake where they tried to connect the dots for the fans, dragging the movie down in the process. Personally I love how the movie develops. The score is amazing, Belle exploring the mansion with that music playing in the background tells you so much more and heightens each emotion. You feel her low as she takes her father's place, but also the warmness of servants and how much their friendship means to her and conversly all the hope they put in her to break the spell. So many nice twists in there with them developing a romantic interest in one another in such a believable way. 🤯 is I Heart Huckabees seriously worth watching? I've seen that clip at least 50 times now.
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Post by 🤯 on Oct 31, 2020 1:36:38 GMT
I find it extremely tough to rank the Disney renaissance movies. The Lion King felt like the biggest growing up, I remember the merchandise being everywhere and everyone had a VHS of it but it just didn't hit me as much. Probably because The Land Before Time was a childhood favourite and it has a very similar arc that is just as well done if not better. Seriously going back to that movie as an adult was such an eye opener, I thought it would be a laugh and I swear it hit me even hit harder. Like I said, I respected it, but it didn't quite have the same impact. Aladdin I also really liked, but the emotional arcs are sort of strong. You have Jasmine thinking she got some poor innocent young man killed by her privilege and the Genie stuff right at the end, but otherwise it's just an enjoyable romp with some great tunes. I was surprised at how efficient Beauty and the Beast was on last watch. I remember it being so fleshed out, but it's a relatively short movie and they all doll out the essential information. The rest is left up to your imagination, but there's enough stimulus there to put the pieces together. That was the problem from the remake where they tried to connect the dots for the fans, dragging the movie down in the process. Personally I love how the movie develops. The score is amazing, Belle exploring the mansion with that music playing in the background tells you so much more and heightens each emotion. You feel her low as she takes her father's place, but also the warmness of servants and how much their friendship means to her and conversly all the hope they put in her to break the spell. So many nice twists in there with them developing a romantic interest in one another in such a believable way. 🤯 is I Heart Huckabees seriously worth watching? I've seen that clip at least 50 times now. I don't know. Maybe? I can't remember.
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Post by mikec on Oct 31, 2020 15:39:02 GMT
We watched The Host which is on Shudder last night. It’s maybe charitable to call it a movie with a 50 minute run time and the setup with a seance by Zoom chat was a little silly, but it was pretty good.
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Post by Emperor on Nov 1, 2020 11:43:48 GMT
BIG DAVE REVIEWS ANNABELLE 2014 THIS FILM IS ABOUT THAT CREEPY DOLL FROM THE CONJURING IN THE PAST BEFORE THE CONJURING HAPPENED A NICE MAN GETS THE CREEPY DOLL AS GIFT FOR NICE PREGNANT WIFE BUT CREEPY DOLL IS A DEMON AND THE DEMON STARTS HAVING FUN DOING DEMON THINGS LIKE THROWING BOOKS AROUND AND MESSING WITH THE TELEVISION SIGNAL AND MOVING THE POSITION OF THE CREEPY DOLL SLIGHTLY SO THAT THE NICE WIFE QUESTIONS HER SANITY BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT THE DOLL WAS IN THAT POSITION BUT NOW IT IS IN THAT OTHER POSITION ANYWAY SHE HAS A BABY AND THEY MOVE HOUSE AFTER THE NICE MAN THROWS THE DOLL IN THE TRASH BUT OF COURSE THE DOLL APPEARS IN THE NEW HOUSE NOBODY SAW THAT COMING RIGHT MORE WEIRD DEMON THINGS HAPPEN AND IT BOILS DOWN THE FINAL SCENE WHERE THE WEIRDEST DEMON THINGS HAPPEN, SOMEONE DIES BUT THE DEMON GOES AWAY HOORAY THEN AT THE END THE CREEPY DOLL IS ON DISPLAY IN A STORE AND SOME OLD WOMAN BUYS IT BECAUSE THE WORLD'S CREEPIEST UGLIEST DOLL WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRESENT FOR THE OLD WOMAN'S GRANDDAUGHTER SHE MUST BE A SOCIOPATH ANYWAY MY QUESTION IS WHY DIDN'T THE STORE GET POSSESSED BY THE DEMON IN THE CREEPY DOLL? DOES THE DEMON POWER ONLY WORK IN HOUSES? If I can be serious for a moment, Annabelle was OK. By the numbers haunting plot. I'd say it's above average the husband and wife couple were well fleshed out and the way they handled the wife's hysteric reactions to being haunted was sensitive and logical. Some of the visual effects were fantastic, elevating some of the scarier scenes. However, as a whole, it didn't really set itself apart from the dozens of similar horror movies that have been made over the years.
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Post by RT on Nov 1, 2020 23:16:53 GMT
Watched Insidious last night because neither of us had seen it and we have been watching horror movies neither of us had seen yet this year (except the Rob Zombie Halloween movies which we watch every year because they're my wife's favourite and tow of the few slasher flicks I can tolerate).
ANYWAY....it sucked. I hated it. And I love ghost stories. It was campy, it wasn't scary, relied entirely on jump scares and I saw them all coming a mile away. Total crap. It almost ruined my Halloween. Why do people like this movie? AND THERE ARE LIKE 5 SEQUELS.
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We also watched Midsommar this week. Was a bit long and dragged at parts but overall it was a decent flick. Very creepy. I liked it but I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
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Post by System on Nov 2, 2020 13:32:53 GMT
The Empty Man
I’ve never read the comic but I really enjoyed this, pretty much what the Slender Man movie should have been. Trailer makes it look like a teen horror movie like Truth or Dare but it’s not, quite refreshing in the directions it takes.
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Post by Emperor on Nov 3, 2020 22:46:20 GMT
Coco (2017)Coco is a Disney/Pixar movie about Día de los Muertos, a celebration of deceased loved ones that is very important in Mexican culture. It falls on November 2nd. My girlfriend is Mexican, but due to the pandemic she could not celebrate that day as she normally would, so we decided to watch Coco together. Quite frankly, I don't know why Coco is not talked about more. It is a flawless film and the best Pixar movie I have seen. Let me explain why. Although music is a core component of the plot, the use of music in the movie is fantastic. I don't like musicals in general, and I don't particularly like the way that songs are forced into Disney movies. Coco's treatment of the music was organic. Characters just didn't burst into song for no reason. The songs (really good songs) came at natural moments in the story, and they were only performed by musician characters. The narrative is unconventional but written with a delicate and careful hand. The comic relief side character turns out to become the hero in a beautiful story arc. The way that they coneyed mature themes (such as family, love, loss, life, and death) in a way that is gentle, but not patronising to a young audience, is masterful. There are many great setups and payoffs. The most important of these is Coco herself. Mamá Coco is the title character, but has 10 minutes screen time tops. Yet she is the core of the saga, and the climax of the story involving her would make anyone burst into tears. Speaking of Mamá Coco, the animation is incredible, a notch above anything I have seen before from Pixar. Mamá Coco is again the perfect example. The artists perfectly captured her warmth, kindness and inner beauty in spite of her very advanced age. Coco is true to Mexican culture and powerfully captures the meaning and importance of Día de los Muertos. I certainly came out of the experience with a crystal clear understanding of that sacred day. The humour is excellent: every gag hits its mark, and there's plenty of 'em, from wordplay to slapstick to pure silliness. Lots of great set pieces, including a genius musical number where the singer is being pursued by security guards on a stage while performing her song. Perfect film. 10/10. Recency bias would place it at #2 on my overall favourite film list, but once that calms down I reckon it would still place in the Top 10.
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Post by 🤯 on Nov 3, 2020 23:13:42 GMT
Coco WRECKED me & Wife. So good. Glad to see it register so well with ya, Dr. Emperor!
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Post by Big Pete on Nov 4, 2020 1:05:36 GMT
I Heart Huckabees🤯 's viral campaign worked, I went and saw I Heart Huckabees a movie I didn't think I'd see in a million years. Just the name alone was so much of a turn-off, but the less than stellar reception just threw me off. For years, it was just the movie where O'Russell made a fool out of himself trying so desperately hard to make the next big indie film. So after all these years, I've learned that a Huckabee is a huge department store chain that a lot of the major characters happen to be working for or working with. It mainly serves as the background however as the focus is about Jaffe and Jaffe an existential detective firm that believe everything has some deeper meaning to it. Schwartzman goes to visit them after stumbling upon their business card inside a dinner jacket he borrowed at a restraunt to understand why he keeps running into the same person over and over again. Jaffe and Jaffe is run by Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin who happen to be husband and wife. They're a bunch of quacks, but their methods seem to uncover Schwartzman's anxieties with Huckabees quite swiftly so he goes along with it. The first act of the movie is just Jaffe and Jaffe tailing Schwartzman at every waking hour so comedy ensues as you learn more about his character and the corporate landscape of Huckabees. Then then introduced Mark Whalberg's character who is Schwartzman's parrallel and is going to help him discover the 'infinite' and 'connectivity' quicker. Whalberg is this intense fire-fighter who is extremely passionate about petrolium and it's negative impact on the environment. So the movie becomes this odd couple thing where Whalberg helps Schwartzman confront his problems head on and everything goes ajar. He confronts the guy he keeps seeing and learns that he's a refugee that's been adopted by this conservative family who don't believe in Whalberg's views on petrolium which leads to this huge confrontation at dinner. This might be the highlight of the movie just because Richard Jenkins and Jean Smart are really good as these outspoken conservatives. It's also where Jonah Hill pops up 3 years prior to his break-out 2007. Then later on Whalberg gets Schwartzman fired from his job and convinces Schwartzman to drop Jaffe and Jaffe and get in with this nihilist detective Vauban, played by French actress Isabelle Hubbert. Vauban uncovers that the man Schwartzman keeps running into is infact the doorman at his parents complex and the reason he keeps noticing them is because of an unresolved trauma where his parents failed to console him over the loss of a family pet. Schwartzman and Whalberg go along with Vauban and her exercises about chaos until Vauban hooks up with Schwartzman's character. Whalberg views this as a betrayal since they're supposed to help one another reach enlightment and that's impossible now that he's a third wheel. So the movie goes down this enjoyable absurdist path but it's so easy to get lost at this stage. Meanwhile Jaffe and Jaffe work with Law's character who is a powerful executive at Huckabees and happens to make Schwartzman's character a living hell. They quickly unravel that he's miserable and in this loveless relationship with Naomi Watts who happens to be the face of Huckabees who appears in all these ads. They convince Watts she doesn't have to be pretty all the time, so she starts dressing like an Amish woman and loses her job to Isla Fisher. Watts and Law break up but Jaffe and Jaffe aren't done yet. They reveal to Law just how vapid he is and how he never has anything of substance to say, revealing that he tells the exact same story about how he made a vegetarian (Shania Twain) eat meat over and over and over again. Then Schwartzman accidently sets Law's house on fire while going on a nihilistic purge. Naomi Watts happens to be trapped inside the house, but Whalberg rescues her because he always rides a bike to emergencies and was able to beat the traffic. They fall in love and with everything going against him, the unbreakable Jude Law finally breaks down allowing Schwartzman to find infinity as the fire liberated and bonded him with this Law character who epitomised the corporate greed that was Huckabees. It's probably one aspect of the movie I didn't really like because it felt like a major cope for one guy burning another's house to the ground. It would have worked so much better if there was a bigger ripple effect where Naomi Watts accidentally sets the house on fire trying to light candles, meanwhile Schwartzman accidentally sets his apartment on fire burning reminders of Huckabees so the fire department is stretched and they have no other choice but to send Whalberg to the other house despite refusing to ride in the truck. Whalberg and Watts fall in love, the firefighters who would have easily had the fire covered arrive too late to save the house. You could even have it where Schwartzman happens to run into Law at that very moment since Law needs somebody to talk to and the only person he feels compelled to share this information with is Schwartzman who turned him onto the Jaffes. Then you pick it up from there. Anyways they had straight to the gala where they're about to introduce a new Huckabees store. It goes horribly, Law and Schwartzman have a silly slap fight in the elevator and the movie ends with Schwartzman and Whalberg hanging out at their bonding spot. Meanwhile the Jaffes and Vauban are watching on in the distance and the movie ends with them basically saying their work here is done. Kind of a real mish-mash of a movie on first viewing. There were certain scenes that were enjoyable and the whole existential theme was enjoyable but I just don't know if these characters were the best to explore that. I would have kept the Jaffes and Vauban, but the whole Huckabees scenario could have been entirely different giving us better characters in the process. The characters just didn't seem overly fleshed out which is why I largely just saw them as their actors. Even Law who plays an American, still talks like Jude Law doing a bad American accent. I just wonder if I would have connected with the existential mumbo jumbo if it hadn't been for Dirk Gently. It's a similar show, but it's really trippy and does a really good job of exploring all the concepts. It made it easier to wrap my head around what was going on in Huckabees, but at the same time, it probably wasn't as novel as it would have been in 2004. I still thought the surrealistic scenes held up nicely which was a nice feather in the cap for O'Russell who typically doesn't go away from his Scorscese type shots. It's one of those movies that's right up my alley, but didn't quite knock it out of the park. Still, it was better than I expected it to be.
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Post by Big Pete on Nov 4, 2020 16:24:37 GMT
Also caught... Feels Good Man
The 2020 documentary on Pepe The Frog, the meme that became a hate symbol for the alt-right. The entire documentary was just like an extended episode of that I'm A Meme YouTube documentary which I liked because they're really easy to watch and they cover everything in detail. Especially in this case where they actually got a couple of basement dwelling nerds to explain how Pepe became a symbol on the board and they give it all the attention and respect to make it interesting. They could have easily just riffed on the nerd for taking this so seriously, but they actually went out of their way to support everything he was saying with stills and all sorts of pictures of threads that do a pretty good job of tracking his evolution. For the most part, it follows the structure you'd expect. The origin of Pepe - 4Chan co-opting it and the creator trying to get his creation back and giving Pepe a more positive place in the world. Like I said, it's a real easy watch but not something that I can see really connecting with anyone. The highlight of the film though was the Bitcoin millionaire who was like Russ Hannerman from one of the best 2010s shows, Silicon Valley. There was really no reason for him to be in the documentary, but he was so ridiculous that he basically stole the entire movie.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Nov 4, 2020 21:51:08 GMT
Trial of the Chicago 7 was great.
The Baby Sitter: Killer Queen was not...but still just dumb enough that it wasn’t quite terrible.
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Post by Lony on Nov 5, 2020 2:25:36 GMT
I ended up watching a couple of movies on Disney+ over the last few days.
Lady and the Tramp (2019): Given this was released on Disney+, instead of the usual theatrical run like with other updated adaptations (Lion King, Beauty and the Beast), I went into this with low expectations but it was better than I thought it would be. The voice cast was on point for the most part as well, especially Tessa Thompson as Lady and of course Sam Elliot doing the voice of Trusty, no complaints there.
Dumbo (2019): It was good for what it was, I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but not bad for a one time viewing. If I'm being honest, it's probably my least favourite of the Disney live-action/CGI movies, as far as the retelling movies go.
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Post by @admin on Nov 5, 2020 2:32:11 GMT
Lady and the Tramp (2019): Given this was released on Disney+, instead of the usual theatrical run like with other updated adaptations (Lion King, Beauty and the Beast), I went into this with low expectations but it was better than I thought it would be. The voice cast was on point for the most part as well, especially Tessa Thompson as Lady and of course Sam Elliot doing the voice of Trusty, no complaints there. Wasn't this cute? I have a cocker spaniel so I am biased but I loved it. 🐶
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Post by RagnarokMike on Nov 5, 2020 22:32:20 GMT
The Devil All the Time was pretty great, strong performances start to finish, even being a slow film, never felt a lag.
We Summon the Darkness was decent dumb fun, nothing great, but enjoyable enough.
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Post by Emperor on Nov 6, 2020 20:30:51 GMT
High Plains Drifter (1973) The first Western directed by, and starring, Clint Eastwood. Having created an iconic character for himself in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, Eastwood takes that archetype and applies it to his own Western.
At first this seems like a copy of A Fistful of Dollars. An unknown stranger rides into a small town alone and solves the problems of its citizens. However High Plains Drifter is more sinister, and a lot darker. Eastwood cleverly turns the audience's expectations against them. I'd describe it as a dark comedy Western in terms of how the events play out.
There is a hint of the supernatural here, a theme Eastwood would return to in 1985's Pale Rider, but for the most part it is a precursor to Unforgiven: a deconstruction of the Western genre where there are no heroes. Everyone is a scumbag. Not as masterful as Unforgiven, but it's still great considering it's one of his earliest directorial efforts.
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Post by Ness on Nov 11, 2020 14:12:29 GMT
Training Day - Yeah... all good stuff but it also included an ass shot towards the end, which automatically gives it an extra 3/4*.
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