Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 97

Crumb was a pretty fucked up movie. Lot to chew on

 

I'd seen a few of his other films before this, but nothing I enjoyed anywhere near as much. Raise The Red Lantern was undeniably beautiful visually, but I thought from a storytelling perspective, it was weak. Couldn't get to grips with Curse of the Golden Flower whatsoever and I'm 99% sure I've seen house of Flying Daggers, but I've retained nothing from it.

Not One Less was a really pleasant surprise.

 

Are these all the ones you've seen? If so, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, and To Live are all essentials. The Story of Qiu Ju is great too, but a notch below those three. Ju Dou is especially beautiful, as it was printed in Technicolor, which is crazy for a film from 1990.

 

Finally watched Gangs of New York. Entertaining, if a bit messy, but goddamn if Daniel Day Lewis doesn’t attract every ounce of your attention like a tractor beam. Holy shit that guy is unreal.

 

I wished GoNY wasnt comic book-y

 

GONY, like most late-career Scorsese suffers for the lack of a tighter edit. The film loses focus in parts, and even though it's the great Thelma Schoonmaker doing the editing, it needs at least 20 minutes cut off it. The final act focused on DiCaprio's vengence against the DDL character (character names are long gone to me!) suffers the most for this. From what I remember, DiCaprio's character is not sympathetic enough for us to care about his personal vendetta against DDL (DDL killed his father or something?).

Cameron Diaz and DiCaprio also have really poor accents in this film, which is dissapointing.

 

GoNY is one of the few Scorcese films I haven't seen. I always wanted to see it but people keep steering me away from it.

 

It was cartoony enough for me to turn it off within 20 minutes. Did not feel anything like a Scorsese movie and I wasn't investing 3 hours into DDL's acting

 

It's easy to get distracted by the amazing visuals and miss the fact that they're great movies sometimes. Not that I'm an expert by any means. But yeah.

 

Totally. He’s an incredible story teller.

 

When We First Met (Netflix)

If you enjoy predictable rom-coms (I do), you'll probably enjoy this.

 

I liked it

 

I watched Definitely, Maybe the other day with my wife. It should have been Rachel Weisz. Jk Isla Fisher was the right choice. My mom and my sister used to always quote the "even though you drank, and smoke, and was such a slut, I still love you," line all the time and I didn't even know it was from this film until I watched it 2 days ago.

 

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women treats its audience with a tremendous amount of contempt, as if they need to be explained everything with constant hits over the head. I am almost finished with 2017 films, and this was a bad one.

I did like Wormwood a lot, and Errol Morris is usually overall boring. The film carefully toes the line regarding the son's obsession with his father's death, and trusts the audience to decide for themselves the nature of his life's work.

 

Role Models - 8/10

haven't seen this in a while, still just an all around solid mid-level comedy. Has heart, truly hilarious moments, and its the last we ever saw of Stiffler and McLovin

 

The Big Sick

Well, I'm in love with Zoe Kazan now. First time watching anything with Kumail Nunjiani and I really liked him. Need to catch more of his projects. Oh, and this movie was heart wrenching.

 

Annihilation

This film is quite trippy.

 

Just saw Agnes Varda in person at a screening of Faces Places (which is wonderful) and she is as amazing as you would expect her to be and then some

 

I saw her around at TIFF in 2016 but was too shy and nervous to go up to her. Her work is absolutely incredible and the new film is such a joy.

 

It also gives me new father and my hatred for Jean-Luc Godard. Haha

But really she and the film are a treasure.deeply thoughtful about art without ever stooping to pretension or trying to talk their way over your head

 

I know it's very off brand but I somehow had never seen An Education before tonight, if I remember correctly I was worried about the subject matter
I of course enjoyed it, I had either forgotten or didn't know that Nick Hornby wrote it

 

That is off-brand. Gun to my head, I'd have guessed you loved it.

 

I had no idea he wrote that. Haven't seen it in a bit but my memory is that it was delightful.

 

I am finishing up 2017 films for my final list, and I watched Loveless, Thelma, and Hermia & Helena. Loveless was fine, and it continues the brutal realism Zvyagintsev has shown in Elena and Leviathan. Thelma was a waste of time, and Joachim Trier must have let all of the praise he was receiving convince him he can make a bad genre movie work. Reprise and Oslo were always close to becoming silly, but he had a better grasp of reality before. Hermia & Helena is the standout, but Piñeiro's films always seem to bother people because they can't appreciate his cheekier retellings of Shakespeare.

 

Just released that soundtrack on vinyl! Love ATB and glad this film is still getting love:)

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