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Post by sethan on Oct 16, 2018 19:39:05 GMT
Went to see A Star Is Born last night.Really loved it.Cooper was great,maybe the best he's ever been and he seems like a natural director too.Gaga was even better imo and this is coming from someone who usually can't stand her.I was worried she wouldn't be able to shake her star persona but she really does.She's excellent and gives this film real heart.I don't know if she'll win but she's definitely getting nominated,Cooper too. :hearteyes:   I agree. I really liked too. Also I usually love Libatique as DP <3 |
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Post by LaraQ on Oct 29, 2018 2:11:02 GMT
Watched Apostle (netflix) over the weekend and it was excellent.It's definitely reminiscent of The Wicker Man but it's more than just an imitation of that film.It's a genuinely scary,gory, exhilarating horror film and well worth checking out.  |
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Post by Lex Salander on Nov 2, 2018 8:10:38 GMT
I saw the remake of Suspiria 2018, my full thoughts are in the review section but I can say that it was a completely overwhelming experience (not really for everyone though). Definitely my fave of the year.
I also saw Bohemian Rhapsody (wished that Bryan Singer's name wasn't attached to it but whatever), it was actually better than I thought it would be. It is by the numbers for a music biopic but I found it entertaining and Rami Malek was great as Freddie Mercury. |
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Post by LaraQ on Nov 2, 2018 12:52:35 GMT
I saw the remake of Suspiria 2018, my full thoughts are in the review section but I can say that it was a completely overwhelming experience (not really for everyone though). Definitely my fave of the year.
I also saw Bohemian Rhapsody (wished that Bryan Singer's name wasn't attached to it but whatever), it was actually better than I thought it would be. It is by the numbers for a music biopic but I found it entertaining and Rami Malek was great as Freddie Mercury. Saw Bohemian Rhapsody last weekend,no one is ever going to mistake it for a great film but I still really liked it.I think it's going to be like The Greatest Showman,loathed by critics,liked by audiences.Rami Malek was fantastic,worthy of at least an Oscar nomination and he absolutely nailed the accent too. |
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Post by LaraQ on Nov 12, 2018 12:34:29 GMT
Outlaw King (netflix).After watching this I kinda get why no big studios wanted to fund it.It cost around 120 mill and it looks stunning,the scenery is amazing,but it would've died at the box office.Medieval epics like this are not big draws.Chris Pine surprised me,his Scottish accent was actually pretty decent and the battle scenes were great, but overall this film is merely good,not great.6/10. ;)
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Post by Lex Salander on Nov 17, 2018 22:07:43 GMT
Aside from watching some recent cinema releases with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The Girl in the Spider's Web and Overlord (reviews are in the thread), I've been watching some other movies recently.
Last night I watched Mississippi Grind, which is an okay movie but is worth watching for the performances of and chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn, both were fantastic. The rest of the movie is whatever but they are the reason I kept watching, and they are the reason the movie worked.
I also watched The Girl on the Train, aside from the third act when it finally picks up and resolves everything, the movie just meanders from place to place and is utterly boring and uninteresting. Emily Blunt however gives a fantastic performance, making watching the movie maybe worth it. She's literally the only reason to watch it.
Collateral Beauty was... one of the most misguided movies I've ever seen. I won't go into depth about what the movie is really about but the trailers pitched the plot completely differently for good reason, its a plot that would make no one want to watch it (look it up). It tries to be touching and emotional but none of it lands because we don't care about the characters (most of them are hard to like considering what they are doing) and the story doesn't really resonate. The only good parts to this movie are the performances by it's absurdly talented cast. Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara really dodged a bullet.
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Post by LaraQ on Nov 18, 2018 0:38:33 GMT
Aside from watching some recent cinema releases with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The Girl in the Spider's Web and Overlord (reviews are in the thread), I've been watching some other movies recently. Last night I watched Mississippi Grind, which is an okay movie but is worth watching for the performances of and chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn, both were fantastic. The rest of the movie is whatever but they are the reason I kept watching, and they are the reason the movie worked. I also watched The Girl on the Train, aside from the third act when it finally picks up and resolves everything, the movie just meanders from place to place and is utterly boring and uninteresting. Emily Blunt however gives a fantastic performance, making watching the movie maybe worth it. She's literally the only reason to watch it. Collateral Beauty was... one of the most misguided movies I've ever seen. I won't go into depth about what the movie is really about but the trailers pitched the plot completely differently for good reason, its a plot that would make no one want to watch it (look it up). It tries to be touching and emotional but none of it lands because we don't care about the characters (most of them are hard to like considering what they are doing) and the story doesn't really resonate. The only good parts to this movie are the performances by it's absurdly talented cast. Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara really dodged a bullet. The Girl on the Train was a huge disappointment particularly given how good the book was.Tate Taylor's direction was so bland and uninspiring.A great director like Fincher can elevate genre material,this guy can't. Collateral Beauty was just inexplicably bad.For the life of me I can't figure out how they managed to bag such an amazing cast.Dropping out was one of Rooney's better decisions. |
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Post by Lex Salander on Nov 26, 2018 22:34:31 GMT
I've watched a lot of movies recently.
I saw Sing Street, I had heard many great things about it and didn't think it would live up to it, however it really did. One of the best films of 2016 for sure, surprisingly.
I watched American Animals, Widows and Mom and Dad, reviews are up on that one thread but bottom line, American Animals is great and overlooked, Widows (my most anticipated of the year) was fantastic and must be seen, and Mom and Dad is dumb fun and Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair make it work with their unhinged performances.
I rewatched Zombieland and The Big Short, both even better than the last times I saw them. Zombieland is a straight up road trip zombie comedy and in that it really worked, entertaining and hilarious from start to finish. I understood more of what was going on in The Big Short but there's still a ton of things that I don't quite understand yet. Still, really well put together and acted, can't wait to see Adam McKay's Vice, my now most anticipated of the remainder of the year.
Last night I saw Blue Ruin, from the guy who did Green Room. It's a little too slow for it's own good but the lead performance, the direction and the cinematography were great. The pacing was okay enough in the first and last thirds but the middle portion drags quite a bit, but the movie overall is an interesting take on the revenge genre.
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Post by LaraQ on Nov 27, 2018 0:56:37 GMT
I've watched a lot of movies recently.
I saw Sing Street, I had heard many great things about it and didn't think it would live up to it, however it really did. One of the best films of 2016 for sure, surprisingly.
I watched American Animals, Widows and Mom and Dad, reviews are up on that one thread but bottom line, American Animals is great and overlooked, Widows (my most anticipated of the year) was fantastic and must be seen, and Mom and Dad is dumb fun and Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair make it work with their unhinged performances.
I rewatched Zombieland and The Big Short, both even better than the last times I saw them. Zombieland is a straight up road trip zombie comedy and in that it really worked, entertaining and hilarious from start to finish. I understood more of what was going on in The Big Short but there's still a ton of things that I don't quite understand yet. Still, really well put together and acted, can't wait to see Adam McKay's Vice, my now most anticipated of the remainder of the year.
Last night I saw Blue Ruin, from the guy who did Green Room. It's a little too slow for it's own good but the lead performance, the direction and the cinematography were great. The pacing was okay enough in the first and last thirds but the middle portion drags quite a bit, but the movie overall is an interesting take on the revenge genre.
Love Sing Street,such a sweet film.Check out Jeremy Saulnier's most recent film,Hold The Dark,if you haven't already.It's better than Blue Ruin and Green Room imo. |
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Post by Lex Salander on Dec 7, 2018 22:18:55 GMT
Saw a bunch more movies since the last time I posted here.
Almost Famous was a movie I heard about for a while and it was really good.
Creed 2 was surprisingly great despite the lack of Ryan Coogler, it’s a perfect way to end the Rocky/Creed series.
I watched Jeremy Saulnier’s other films. Murder Party is his first movie and it really does feel like a low budget movie and far from his best but it’s decent for a first feature film. I thought Green Room was decent the first time I saw it but rewatching it recently I think it’s great now. Hold the Dark was also pretty great, it was an ambitious movie for Saulnier to make but I thought it was really good.
I can’t believe it took me this long to watch The Iron Giant for the first time but I loved it.
The Witches of Eastwick was a weird fantasy comedy by George Miller that I actually had fun with. The cast were all good but Jack Nicholson stole the show.
Searching was a really solid found footage thriller, with John Cho’s dramatic performance being a highlight.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was... fine. I didn’t dislike any of the chapters and some of them were fine but it just felt like a bit of a weird mixed bag. The Coen Brothers have done much better things in the past.
Nymphomaniac was the first Lars von Trier movie I’ve seen, I liked both Volumes with great direction and performances. It was hard to watch and it was a little ridiculous at times but it was interesting and had some good Dark comedy. The ending was terrible though and took away a lot from the actual movie.
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Post by Lex Salander on Dec 12, 2018 21:32:35 GMT
Watched even more movies since last time.
Batman Ninja was pretty much Batman Anime, which is the closest thing to anime that I have watched. It's so weird and its stunningly animated and enjoyed those aspects but outside of that I didn't really get much from it.
Outlaw King I thought was actually pretty good, it lacked in characterisation and had an abrupt ending but I thought it was really good, it was well directed and had some great performances (especially from Chris Pine and Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
Ghost Stories was a pretty fun horror flick. It wasn't particularly scary but I enjoyed watching it, and it improved in the third act when it took a turn, even though I know that not everyone will be on board for that.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties is the weirdest 2018 film I've seen. Performances are good (Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are standouts) and it's never really boring, I wasn't invested in the story or characters but I guess it was an interesting watch.
Finally got around to watching The Snowman and yeah it's not good. I don't hate it as much as other people but I'm not sure how anyone looked at this movie and considered it in an okay state to be released. The only good parts to it were the cinematography and the performances, mainly from Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson, but there's only so much that they could do. I guess it's not a bad watch if you have it playing in the background but it doesn't deliver on even half of the potential that they had.
I also so Marrowbone which is a movie I was interested in, more of a drama with horror elements than a full on horror, it was actually a pleasant surprise. Some of the characterisation was weak but the performances more than made up for it and it was directed quite well. |
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Post by LaraQ on Dec 12, 2018 22:19:58 GMT
Just finished watching Life Itself which is one of the worst films I've ever seen,very similar in tone to Collateral Beauty  .Oscar Isaac has got to start picking better projects.Also watched A Simple Favour which was pretty good actually,kind of like a light hearted Gone Girl.Blake Lively is great in it. |
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Post by Lex Salander on Dec 18, 2018 4:43:51 GMT
Just finished watching Life Itself which is one of the worst films I've ever seen,very similar in tone to Collateral Beauty  .Oscar Isaac has got to start picking better projects.Also watched A Simple Favour which was pretty good actually,kind of like a light hearted Gone Girl.Blake Lively is great in it. I've heard so many bad things about it I kinda wanna check it out.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a really good movie, albeit a short one.
2003's Daredevil (director's cut) I had a ball with, it wasn't good by any means but it is endlessly entertaining, both intentionally and not. There are legit good things (some scenes are good and Affleck was good in his role with what he had to work with) and there are also some really goofy elements that I loved (Colin Farrell as Bullseye). I am glad that I watched the director's cut, because I heard that it's a vast improvement over the theatrical cut.
Mortal Engines was pretty decent, it's worth seeing in cinemas for the visuals but I wasn't invested with the story or characters (especially the two main leads).
The first half of Roma was pretty great but didn't have much of a point. The second half of it however all came together and ended up being one of the best films of the year.
The Favourite is my third fave of the year (behind Suspiria and Widows), with some of the best writing of the year, fantastic performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and even Nicholas Hoult was a scene stealer, and Yorgos Lanthimos's direction was great.
I also saw Antichrist... beautifully directed movie but I don't know what a lot of it meant. I guess it didn't disturb me as much as others because I had already heard some of what happens in the movie.
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Post by LaraQ on Dec 24, 2018 1:38:34 GMT
Just watched Bird Box,really liked it.This is one of the best films Netflix has ever released.It's genuinely scary and tense as well as being beautifully shot.Great performances from Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes too.8/10.  |
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Post by Lex Salander on Dec 29, 2018 22:01:22 GMT
So it's been a while so I'll just run through some of the things I watched since then quickly.
Apostle is a pretty good albeit flawed movie on Netflix, Leave No Trace is solid enough but worth watching for the great lead performances, Bumblebee is the best Transformers movie and is worth checking out, The Commuter is another Liam Neeson action movie which was fun, Mid90s I had mixed feelings about and didn't completely work but it clearly had some passion behind it and had some good things about it, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle was a different and interesting take on The Jungle Book and I actually really liked it, and Vice is an unorthodox political movie that I really liked and the performances are fantastic. Aquaman was also a visual spectacle and an epic and I really loved it despite some of the writing being a tad messy.
I also rewatched Game Night, even better on a second viewing and its one of the best comedies of 2018.
And I rewatched Die Hard on Christmas Day, gets better upon every rewatch. |
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