What did you watch on this faithful final week of 2017? Dada daaaaam!

La Femme Nikita. Dannnnnnng!


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The end is coming so...gotham season 2 - good series.
Twilight zone season 4 - not that bad
Spiderman homecoming - blu ray version 7.5/10

Im sorry to say ive missed all of yours
I watched...

Band of Brothers: i saw it years ago and forgot how great it was...amazing cast and the battle scenes were scarier than most anything ive ever watched!
Masterpiece!!

Veronica: Mexican psychological thriller about an unstable young woman and her therapist...i knew almost nothing going in and really liked it
Wow its a doozy and worth the time

Daylights End: the usual DTV junk about soldiers fighting a vampire plague...fun, silly late night nonsense
if you like goofy horror movies

Pusher: UK remake of a very good Danish series i saw years ago...a drug dealers whole life falls apart after a bust...the original was perfect and this probably didnt need to be made but it was very good anyway

Unforgettable: Rosario vs Heigl for a man in this 'psycho lady' thriller...nothing we havnt seen before
Very stupid but both leads are really good looking so why not?

Fuck with SK
See what ya get
Punishment
Consequences and repercussions
Understand me
Y'all know what I do

Banshun-1949 - A Japanese movie about a daughter living with her father. He's worried about her not being married
and she's worried about him being alone. A beautiful heartfelt movie.-8.5

Hangmen Also Die!- 1943- A man kills a Nazi official in Czechoslovakia. As he hides hostages are being exceuted
until they find him. He struggles with not turning himself in. - 7

All Through the Night-1942 Bogart and gangsters and Nazis. This one didn't do much for me.
A typical movie about anti Nazi propaganda which was popular at the time. - 6

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - 1956- Gregory Peck plays a business man trying to get ahead while
supporting his family. A great cast in a decent movie - 7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt-1956- A film noir about a man who frames himself for a murder in order
to show the flaws in the system. Interesting story but predictible. - 6.5

Dirty Dozen -1967- I've watched this movie on Christmas eve for as long as I can remember.
One of my favorite war movies. Men on death row are picked to raid a house in Germany. - 9

Cinema Paradiso - 1988. One of my favorite movies ever. I'll say what I said on the movie board.
When I watch this movie It reminds of what movies are capable of.
What movies are supposed to be. How they should make you feel. -10

Also watched
Supernatural - first half of the new season. Still love this show.
Search Party. Re-watched season one and watched season 2.
First season was excellent. Second season lost a little but still good.
Still continue to watch Sunny at least once a day.

Happy New Year mon ami. Continued success with the longest running post on MC.
Well done.

Raw (2016) - A French film. A young girl who is vegetarian starts school at a vet college and is forced to eat meat during a hazing ritual. She then becomes obsessed with eating meat. Her older sister is also a student at the same school and the movie focuses on their relationship and the changes going on with both. A decent story if you can believe it. 7/10

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017) - Has the feel of a Coen brothers movie. Good performances all around esp from Sam Rockwell who will win Best Supporting Actor Oscar. 8.5/10

Lady Vengeance (2005) - A South Korean crime drama. After 13 years in prison for killing a young boy, a woman is released and seeks vengeance on the real killer. Bad start to this movie with many flashbacks and attempts at humor. A great last 30 minutes or so. 7.5/10

Lady Bird (2017) - A coming of age movie. Not my thing but I recognize the talent of Saoirse Ronan. Not much happens imo but IMDB has it at 8.3/10 - 7/10 for me.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Never heard of this movie before. A young girl escapes an abusive cult and tries to re-assimilate into society while living with her sister and brother in law. Great performances from Elizabeth Olsen and John Hawkes. The movie deserved more recognition. 7.5/10

Graduation (2016) - A Romanian drama focusing on a father's hope and dreams for his daughter and how far he will go to realize them. Solid nothing great. 7/10

I Am Sam Kinision (2017) - A HBO documentary on the late comedian. Loved it all around. 9/10

Big Little Lies (2017) HBO TV series. A well produced/acted crime drama in an affluent California town. I thought the ending was a major letdown. 7/10 is generous.

I almost forgot - A Christmas Carol (1951) on Christmas Eve - still good after so many vewings 9/10.

Bright is off my list

I saw Beauty And The Beast and It's A Wonderful Life on television on Christmas Eve. On Christmas day I watched The Muppet Christmas Carol. I also played old recordings of classic Christmas shorts like "Twas The Night Before Christmas", "Pinocchio's Christmas", "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", and "Frosty The Snowman' on both days. Later in the week I watched Clue, Home Alone, Muppet Treasure Island, and The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Thank you for this thread, SK! It's been a wonderful place for exchange of opinions and a source of quite a few good laughs.

I haven't seen any of yours this week (Boo)

Movies I fell asleep to this week:

Psycho (the remake) /have seen it before/
Short review: Thumbs down for the sheer unnecessarity of it (is that even a word). Thumbs up for Viggo Mortensen's butt!
Point of falling asleep: Right during the first office scene.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead men do things...!(question mark)
Short review: Umm, wasn't fun. I liked the effects they had for Javier Bardem's character though. That was cool.
Point of falling asleep: There were people running? Or ships? Can't remember.

Movie I did watch this week (well, I was doing other things too, but I didn't fall asleep)

The Great Gatsby (2013)
Nick is an aspiring writer(?) who is drawn into the life of this Gastby character, who's just so Great. I mean, he throws a mean party. But he's also a tragic character, because of love lost and what-not. And some chick named Daisy's in it as well. Like, I get what Luhrmann was going for, with the excesses of the parties and all that, but it was just too much. Too frantic. It was like watching deleted scenes from Moulin Rouge. But more bad. And the music... awful. It's like he took a random selection of Top 40 songs and just plopped them into the movie. Our man Baz's shtick is starting to wear a bit thin to be honest. He takes something old-timey and just slaps a modern soundtrack to some sped up footage. This for a good movie does not make. Cousin walked in during the movie, asked what Spiderman was doing there. Highlight of the film. It looked pretty though, even if it was 90% CGI, and the costumes were great. I was surprised by how much this film just annoyed me.

Have a wonderful New Years, SK!