What Movies Did You Watch Last Week? (03/10-09/10)

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your hosts (us) posts our weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. We will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.


Caught up on a lot of TV again this week. some of which was completed and reviewed below.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

Dead of Winter (1987, Arthur Penn)
Mary Steenburgen (Ragtime) plays a fledgling actress who is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test but soon discovers she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot. The film is beautifully lensed and all around a well crafted affair. However there is little mystery as everything is very telegraphed.
5.5/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
Cinema
Kubrick's Vietnam War movie is a very interesting piece with an unusual structure. I enjoy both main sections of the film and think they compliment each other well. The first section is a little more cohesive and immediate but the second one despite feeling more pieced together and starting slow, finishes strong. So many memorable and well crafted scenes in this film and it still sits as my 2nd favourite from the legendary director.
8.5/10

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984, Peter Hyams)
blu-ray
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hyam's makes the smart choice of not trying to emulate Kubrick's vision. Instead we have a much more straight forwardly presented hard sci-fi film that returns to the spaceship Discovery orbiting around Jupiter. It is a well enough written piece with good actors and excellent special effects that still hold up.
7/10

The Young Savages (1961, John Frankenheimer)
blu-ray
In this dark gritty film Burt Lancaster plays a district attorney who investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be. It is well acted and made with some great scenes but occasionally a little ponderous.
6.5/10

FIRST TIME DOCO' VIEWING

Man Vs Snake: The Long & Twisted Tale of Nibbler(2015)
Netflix
The story of an avid gamer from the 80's who seeks to regain the record he once attained back in the day on a little known game "NIbbler".
Recommended

FIRST TIME TV VIEWING

Luke Cage (2016) Season One
Netflix
Out of all the Marvel netflix shows this is probably my least favourite but I still enjoyed it. Good casting and music but I think the thirteen episodes could have told the same story better in ten.
Recommended


WEEKLY MOVIE AWARDS

BEST FILM - Full Metal Jacket
BEST ACTOR - Roy Scheider - 2010
BEST ACTRESS - Mary Steenburgen - Dead of Winter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Vincent D'Onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Helen Mirren - 2010
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Douglas Milsome - Full Metal Jacket
BEST SCORE - Vivian Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket
BEST DIRECTOR - Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket

10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too