What did you watch last week? (25/06-01/07)

#Horror (2015 Netflix): I stumbled upon this by accident and the first minute got me curious so I kept watching. I now see that it has many bad reviews and a very low rating but to me it deserves a little more credit. Considering the budget, it was well done, I liked the settings, the atmosphere, the music and the acting was not THAT bad. I liked the blonde woman. I think each actor really pulled their heart out and did their best at tackling the serious subjects. I wouldn't recommend it but for me it was OK. Although I have to say that I fast-forwarded a few parts. (I recommend you watch the 56 seconds trailer though, it's hilarious.) 5/10

Everybody wants some (2016 DVD): Dazed and confused is one of my favourite movies so I was a bit anxious going into this one. I enjoyed it, it was fun and refreshing but there was no memorable moment. The story is like an harmless straight line with no high, no low, no curve, no hit and no reward waiting at the end of it. I, too, noticed some of the actors were too old for their roles but one of them is actually justified in the movie. Apart from that, the characters were cool. So the movie wasn't bad but it wasn't great...how we say that again? Oh, yeah, t'was good. T'was alright. 7/10

The impossible ( 2012 Netflix): The trailer was attractive enough for me to watch this. I thought it would be more intense with disaster action but it was actually more of an emotional drama/thriller. The acting was OK and everything else too. No major flaw, but I was just not in the mood. For the first 45 minutes it was fine but then they just ride the drama round and round with the same redundant sad and stressed pattern. Well, at one point I stopped feeling sad and started being anxious to watch something else. 5/10

Police Story: Lockdown (2013 Netflix): I don't think this addition to the franchise was really necessary. It has its moments and there's a few good action scenes but overall the story and acting felt outdated. 5.5/10

What I wouldn't give for some rain just about now. We've been hit with a heatwave, that's left me half-melted. Anywoo, Can't Hardly Wait is a favourite. I really liked it growing up, I rewatched it a few years back, and I still enjoy it! And the cast is just great!

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
Fisher, the daughter of a plantation owner, is back in town and ready to stir some trouble. Everybody hates her because her father killed a bunch of people. She sets her sights on poor Jimmy, and informs him that he’ll be her escort to all the fabulous parties she’d be attending as a debutant (not that many invites arrive). Suits are bought; people are being cartoonishly evil; an old lady is euthanased; love is lost, or won, or something…; and Tennessee Williams must’ve gotten a lot of exercise in his grave, from all that spinning. This movie is mesmerisingly bad. The acting, the dialogue, the plot. And yet I couldn’t stop watching… In fairness, there were a few moment, when I genuinely felt for the characters, but sadly, those were not enough for me to like it.
https://moviechat.org/tt0896031/The-Loss-of-a-Teardrop-Diamond

Blow Dry (2001) /rewatch/
A small town hosts a hairdresser’s championship. Old rivalries are revived, hatchets are buried, corpses have their hair coloured, and someone has cancer. And apparently small Yorkshire towns are in a weird time vortex, where it’s still the 90’s, in the 00’s. It’s a fun, enjoyable movie, with heart. The cast is the best thing about it. So many wonderful actors in it (and Josh Hartnett for some reason.). I really enjoyed it the second time around, as well.
https://moviechat.org/tt0212380/Blow-Dry

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Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) - based on a book by the mystic and mystificator Gurdjieff, where he tells about supposed strange experiences and acquaintances in the Orient. Beautiful scenery, sets and costumes, but mostly fails as a movie - the incoherent scenes and lack of character development make it boring. Could have been a great spiritual adventure movie, but it is not. 6/10

Firebase (2017) - two weeks ago I was telling you about my love-hate relationship with Niel Blomkamp and his new project - series of unconventional short movies, which he hopes one day to turn into full movies. The new short, Firebase, is a nightmarish almost surreal story taking place in Vietnam during the war. I would call it "a twisted superhero movie". It is available on Oats Studios youtube channel. The next one, Zygote, is coming in two weeks. 7.5/10

Slow week for me, no movies, only TV series. Had to do a lot around the house and garden. A bit of rain would be nice here too :)

casting jonbenet (2017): very weird approach to a crime documentary. totally failed in my opinion. 1/10
pretty little liars season 1 - 3 (2010): so far so good. not sure how they gonna drag it out for 7 seasons, but it keeps u hooked enough to continue watching. basic story arc is fine with some filler episodes, but oh well. also, 2 of the gals are really pretty. 7/10

The Untouchables-1987 Still a great movie 8

Billy Liar-1963- Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie. About an emotionally immature man who has fantasies and makes up stories to survive in this world. Usually at the cost of his friends and family. It does have a comedic premise but is really a very
sad story about the loneliness of one person who can't relate. 7.5

Reservoir Dogs -1992 Another Classic -8

Mistaken For Strangers-2013 A documentary about the music group The National. Very well done. It turns into more
of the relationship of 2 brothers. 7.5

Youth-2015 -Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz A terrific movie about getting old, relationships, regrets and life in general. The cinematography is beautiful, the music is incredible. A superb performance by Caine. 7.5

Stone, I just watched Everybody Wants some last week I think. I totally agree with your review.
I liked Hotel Rwanda a little better than you. If you want a powerful movie about that war see Sometimes In April.
You won't be disappointed.

Transformers: The Last Knight- this movie was so bad that I walked out in the middle of it. 1/10

Baby Driver- pretty good movie. I'd watch it again when it comes out DVD. 6/10

Been bingewatching season 3 and 4 of Homeland. 8/10

I re watched my username on a plane because I was bored, 9/10

Chungking Express: This is my first Wong Kar-wai movie, and it was pretty great. I'm looking foward to watching his future movies, especially In the Mood For Love, 8/10

Baby Driver: I don't think ive ever laughed out loud in a there since I was like 8, but this movie changed that. (SPOILERS: The scene where he shows his voice recordings in front of Kevin Spacey). Great movie, 8.5/10

I also watched the first four episodes of Black Mirror season 3, and I fucking love that show, but I can't really give it a rating.

Hey, I don't think i've posted on one of these for a few weeks. I've been busy lately and doing more book-reading than movie-watching, but I did watch a couple this last week.

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961, US)
In the 16th century, Englishman Francis travels to Spain to visit the castle owned by his brother-in-law Nicholas Medina, to inquire into the fate of his sister after he hears about her death. Nicholas is evasive about what exactly happened, raising Francis' suspicions. As he continues to investigate, it gradually comes out that the castle has a dark history and Nicholas' father was a brutal torturer in the Spanish Inquisition, and that Elizabeth's death may somehow be related to the history of the castle.

Panic (2000, US)
This movie is a bit of a hidden gem, which I only found because Donald Sutherland is in it. A middle-aged man whose father runs a contract-killing business is facing a midlife crisis, stuck in an unhappy marriage and mired in self-doubt, and gradually comes to the conclusion that he wants to get out of the "family business". He approaches a therapist to find some direction in his life, and meets a younger woman who makes him feel alive again. But his father isn't willing to let him go, and threatens and blackmails him to get him to murder his next target, which turns out to be his therapist himself.