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I watched Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino yesterday for the first time, after being in my list for so long.
Such a masterpiece. Lengthy, but it gives it enough room to have a nice pacing. Great photography and dialogue, of course. One of Tarantino's best, imo.
Flesh Gordon.
No that isn't a typo.
Yes it is exactly what you think.
Yes it is hilariously bad.
The Flash, mildly funny, awful awful CG, the most interesting bit was spoiled in the trailer, Iβll never watch it again. 2/5
Over the years I've learned not to watch any trailers if it's a movie I'm interested in watching. They seem to want to give the whole movie away in them these days.
Shoplifters sweet, harsh, and with a nice reveal at the end. It was my second watch as I wanted to revisit it
Free Solo
Impressive what some people can handle.
Glorious - a film about a man's interaction with an other dimensional being he finds in a rest stop bathroom. Very weird, but refreshingly interesting. I didn't know what was going to happen next throughout the whole movie, which was is a change compared to most movies these days. I'd give it an 8/10 overall.
Into the Spiderverse at cinema! It really really blew me away, the visuals, the music, the plot. Honestly an experience. One of the few movies I'd really recommend to watch on cinema (alongside the LOTR movies)
Repo! The Genetic Opera. It's a rock opera horror set in a dystopian future where organ repossession is a thing. I enjoyed it and might even add it to my background noise rotation.
12 angry men. The 1957 version. It was an amazing watch and I can definitely see why it's one of the highest rated movies of all times.
Not sure whether I should watch the remake though. Not sure about some things that it decided to go with.
Charlie Day's new movie Fools Paradise!
If you like always sunny you'll have a good time spotting cameos from like, everyone.
I really enjoyed the film, but my family wasn't digging it and I could definitely see why.
Blackberry. It is awesome
The Bad Guys (animated kids film) with my kids for any the 6th time I think. Still pretty good.
Just watched Greta Gerwig's Little Women, it was quite enjoyable.
Knock at the Cabin
Not M. Night's best work. I'm not a particular fan anyway, but here's my micro-review. The love story was touching, but didn't wrestle a tear out of me. You can tell from the flashbacks that the writers spent a lot of time thinking about the main characters, but there's not enough screen time dedicated to developing them.
Most of the screen time is spent highlighting two or three perdictable jump scares, and many minutes of bad attempts to build suspense. The religious dogma is boring. If you're going to include that as the premise of your thriller, then at least get creative.
Bautista is the best part and that's saying something.
EDIT: The twist, if you can call it that, is more of a mild tale of morality about how things aren't always what they seem. Blair Witch 2 had a better "twist" and it was one of the worst movies I've ever had to suffer through.
I watched Sick (2022), the story was about normal/average for a slash-horror, but the action scenes themselves were surprisingly well shot. It was written by the same writer of the original Scream movies.
Clueless. It's one of the few films I can actually sit and watch all the way through at home. Witty, campy 90s fun. The fact it's actually an adaptation of Emma by Jane Austen is the icing on the cake.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Friends of mine were hyped for Across the Spider-Verse and that was my opportunity to go watch the first with them. If you're an animation nut, then yeah, this movie is brilliant for that. A very fun movie, definitely going to pick up the Blu-Ray when I pop to HMV in the future.
spoilers for Into + Across the Spider-Verse
I did get a new unexpected favourite character, and it was the movie's version of Sp//dr Robot from the Peni Parker version of Spider-Man. Such a great robot design, and I was pretty gutted when it got destroyed in the final fight. Even moreso, I was spoiled on Across the Spider-Verse where they apparently used the comic book design which, ngl, disappointed me a bit. I'm apparently in the minority here but, eh whatever.
watched Renfield yesterday. was pleasantly surprised. nothing too deep and meaningful but quite entertaining.
Spiderman: ATSV. It was so good.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I've seen it before but watched it with friends, including one who had never seen it, after consuming edibles and had fun with it even though it's slow and cheesy.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (for the second time) and it's even better the second time.
I watched 20 minutes of Moonfall. 20 minutes because it was full of cliches and cringe. Then I watched a YouTube video of Action Adventure Twins who explore deep, unsettling and claustrophobic caves. It was wayy better.
I just spent ten minutes attempting to remember. I did not remember but, whatever it was, it was "meh".
Dino Dana: The Movie. It was about what I expected. Fun for the kids and not bad for adults either.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes. I loved it!
The Covenant and Trial by Fire
Both were good.
I think the first Spiderverse movie, if I remember correctly. It was great, it set a new standard for animation in general.
Werewolf of London (1935) - a solid werewolf movie for the period, but with no surprises in the plot - and without a lot of the 'standard' lore that developed around the time.
Chiefly notable, I thought though, in showing a surprisingly independent woman in a failing marriage (failing due to her husband being a werewolf...) and in portraying a drunken upper-middle class woman (and contrasting that with fairly stereotypical drunken working class women). Warner Oland features in one of his many bizarre yellow-face roles too.
Just prior to that I went to a 50th anniversary screening of The Wicker Man (1973), which was as great as ever.
Last I saw was TΓ r in the cinemas when it came out. I liked it, not a lot, but I liked it and defended it against my partner who didn't think much of it.
But I haven't had a film fade away in my mind as much as this, where I went from liking it, to kind of forgetting it and eventually criticising it, just passively as my mind mulled over the film.
When it came time for the Oscars I accurately predicted it wasn't going to win anything because I suspected I wasn't alone in this feeling ... that others would eventually feel like maybe it was just technically good and not actually about much.
