What did you watch on this final week of march?(25/03-31/03)

Munich (2005) - Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. Loved the focus on the Israeli assassins and the effect on their lives. Eric Bana and Daniel Craig were good. Should have seen this movie years ago. 8/10

Zodiac (2007) - In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. Another movie I should have seen years ago. Good performances from Jake G and Robert Downey. 8/10

All the Money in the World (2017) - The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. I appreciate Ridley Scott putting this together after the Kevin Spacey fiasco but I thought the movie was a bit drab. Christopher Plummer was great as JP Getty. Would love to see the Spacey version as a comparison. 7/10

Automata (2014) - Jacq Vaucan is an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation who investigates cases of robots violating their primary protocols against altering themselves. Melanie Griffith cannot act. A good first 45 minutes and then it got stupid real fast. 6/10

The Color Purple (1985) - A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. I went 33 years without seeing this and I should have went another 33 years. I found it extremely long and boring. Then they tried to redeem the Danny Glover character at the end. 6/10

Runaway Train (1985) - Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving. This is a fun movie. Jon Voight is way over the top as the hardened convict and Eric Roberts plays the dumb sidekick. Not to be taken seriously. Great ending. 7/10

My ratings of what you watched:
The Ninth Gate 5/10
Donnie Darko 9/10
Punch Drunk Love 8/10
Big Fish 9/10
Sideways 7/10

My ratings of what I watched:
Sherlock Gnomes (2018) 7/10
Time Out for Rhythm (1941) 4/10
Don’t Talk to Irene (2017) 9/10
You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) 7/10
20th Century Women (2016) 9/10
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) 7/10

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animals (2014) 3/5 homeless, drug addicted (but still movie-star good-looking) couple bounce around between scrounging up money & then scrounging up drugs. pretty good, but maybe the ending was just a bit too soft.

death of stalin (2017) 3/5 most of the reception i've seen of this to date has rhapsodized over it, praised how it's so incredibly dark & bleak yet incredibly funny. perhaps because i've read two of anne applebaum's books on the gulag & the ukrainian famine in the last half year or so, i didn't find its darkness a surprise at all - it's more or less what you'd expect if you come in with a bit of priming.
so i didn't find it offputting or too dour. but i also didn't find it all that funny. a few chuckles here & there (the biggest laugh to me was in the preview - 'no problem'), but nothing that was memorable, or even clever to me. it all seemed like british sitcom-style forced wittiness. i'll give it another watch when it hits streaming, but at this point, i'm calling this a dark comedy that wasn't that dark & didn't really make me laugh.

right now, wrong then (2015) 4/5 a film director meets an artist (the handmaidens' kim min-hee) & spends the evening getting drunk with her - then lives the exact series of events again in somewhat different ways. slightly reminded me of certified copy in the way it shifted ground without explanation - sweet & quite funny at times.

guy and madeline on a park bench (2010) 3.5/5 whiplash/la la land director damien chazelle's first film is maybe a little aimless when there isn't a musical number ongoing, but in a nice, pleasing way, much like a properly made mumble-core or cassavetes film. the musical numbers are great, even magical - ragged & amateurish, almost punkish in a way that left you feeling like you're in the front row of a performance, unlike the slick, distancing glitziness of la la land.

Black Christmas (1974) 44 (out of 100)
Lone Star (1996) 45
The Mission (1986) 46
I Am Number Four (2011) 48
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001) 37
Nashville (1975) 52
The Chess Players (1977) 62
Nemesis Game (2003) 68
Aloha (2015) 33
Paris Belongs to Us (1961) 52
Show Me Love (1998) 67
The Words (2012) 37
Punk Love (2006) 53
Paranoid Park (2007) 24

Now how does trash like Joe Morton keep getting roles (gay bribery?) and how is Carly Pope not a bigger star (Canada V.I.P.s being useless as usual?)?

Sideways was so popular back in 2004 but not much happens in it in my opinion.

The Ninth Gate was surprisingly good and I agree with your rating.

I have not seen Donnie Darko yet. I keep putting it off.

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I liked Donnie Darko as well and your rating is spot on. It gets by mainly on atmosphere and good performances. Soundtrack is also pretty good.

I always thought Sideways was overrated and boring. Both main characters were annoying. 4/10

I rewatched Star Trek: Generations (1994) https://moviechat.org/tt0111280/Star-Trek-Generations this week. This was the first ST movie with the "Next Generation" cast. I thought the story was very weak and totally wasted Kirk's final movie appearance. 6/10

Beerfest (2006) https://moviechat.org/tt0486551/Beerfest Dumb and goofy comedy from the Broken Lizard troupe (Super Troopers, Club Dread) about a group of friends who enter an international beer drinking contest. Since I enjoy dumb and goofy, 7/10.