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What did you watch this week? (04/06-10/06)

posted 8 years ago by StoneKeeper (28334)
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A good Sunday to you all. Hope you had a good week.

Here's mine:

Irreversible (2002 DVD): I still can't believe I had to pay $19 for a DVD but I really wanted this french Gaspar Noé polarizing hit in my collection. When I received it, I checked if it was working all right and ended up watching it all over again. Yep, all of it. Those who know the movie know how hard it is. I personally love shocking and traumatizing movies, my top 20 actually consist mostly of "provocative" films. This one does make me feel tense and uncomfortable but it is so hypnotizing that I'm just glued to my seat until the end. Some call it trash... I call it a masterpiece. I have this little ritual where I watch the final scene in pitch dark and concentrate on the screen. Try it and your TV will switch sizes and crazy stuff will happened right in front of your eyes. Epileptic Warning! 9.5/10

Creep (2015 Netflix): I am a very difficult person when it comes to horror movies and I rarely enjoy jump scares but in this one they were just a load of fun. I jumped so many times and always laughed right after. This movie is an amazing blend between horror and comedy but it's actually a thriller. I think the two writers/directors/actors (there is only 2 cast members listed) actually underestimated what they were sitting on because the movie should've been longer. The part inside the rented house ended too quick. Great acting, superb style and tension and a wicked sense of humour make this a success. *Thank you hownos. 7.5/10

Bronson: Right after the first 5 minutes you know what kind of movie you just got yourself into. A psychedelic, violent drama. And it's a good one too. Right down my alley. When you're 40 minutes into it, you feel like you've seen enough content for two movies already. Then the mood changes a bit while still being very eerie. The movie does have a few flaws, Nothing worth mentioning. Tom Hardy delivers a 10/10 performance. The music was great. The story was crazy. 8/10

[–] PlaintiveMelody (245) 8 years ago

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)- starring Linda Darnell, Jeanne Craine, Ann Southern, et. al. It is about three wives and the problems withing their marriages. A fourth unseen woman, Addie the narrator, has run off with one of the husbands- but which one? It's a Joseph Mankewicz (sp) so it is very "talky" there is not much action. The dialogue is superb, especially the last episode of the wives' story. It's not visually interesting, being a Mankewicz film, but it makes up for a lack of visual stimulation with the brilliant words. The ending can be confusing to some viewers if the dialogue is not carefully followed in the last scene.

The Dollmaker (1984)- a TV movie, but really a film starring Jane Fonda as a beleaguered mountain woman who must leave the mountains to follow her husband to Detroit during WWII. I say it is a film because Fonda is brilliant and her characterization of Gert is reminiscent of Henry Fonda's portrayal of Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. She won an Emmy for her role. It is available for free on youtube and highly recommended.

The Good Woman (2004)- an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play "Lady Windemere's Fan" starring Helen Hunt and Scarlet Johannsen. It is set in the 1930s Amalfi Coast, but Wilde's dialogue still worked and was believable (in my opinion). Since it is based on Wilde's play, the film does not really have very developed characters. Wilde was brilliant, but not very adept at characters. His characters were representations and not "real". This may leave viewers kind of flat, but the costumes and Italy are beautiful, and the words are delicious. I think people would like it if they are familiar with Wilde's plays.