both films you watched are favourites of mine. fifth element has faded a little bit for me - chris tucker's character in particular wears out his welcome quickly. it's still a fun, all over the place & imaginative film, and i love it plenty. and being john malkovich is a perfect film to me, a 5/5. probably kaufman's greatest script.
unsane (2018) 3/5 reminds me just a bit of hereditary, in that both films really intrigued me in their setup, but left me a bit deflated when i found out what was actually going on. hereditary is much, much better though, imo. honestly, if i didn't know this was soderbergh, i might have just passed it off as a slightly better than average b movie. there are a million films not unlike this streaming on tubi-tv right now. not to say that this was poor, because i thought it was just fine - it just felt a bit generic & undistinguished, particularly considering its pedigree.
first reformed (2018) 5/5 my 2nd favourite movie of the year so far. i've always been a bit on the fence on hawke , but i thought he was 100% convincing & compelling here. as many have said, there is definitely an undercurrent of taxi driver running through this, but not in an immediately obvious way. in fact, it's almost a inverse image or a bookend to taxi driver. it continuously surprised me, but in the most subtle, unpredictable ways, right up to the end. love love love.
female prisoner 701: scorpion (1972) 3.5/5 a firmly better than average women in prison film, though i did find its energy dropped a touch in the last 1/2 hour or so. cute girls, lots & lots of nudity, plenty of cheap, trashy gore effects, horrible acting & half-hearted violence, some reasonably imaginative camera angles & weird shots, and one fairly steamy lesbian sex scene all add up to a happy me.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) 3/5 the sequel isn't quite as gleefully trashy as its predecessor, and it's sadly lacking in sex content, but it's still good fun.
taxi driver (1976) 5/5 one of my very favourite films, & it's one that seems more relevant & vital than ever. it feels so much to me like a movie that hasn't dated a second, unlike many of its peers.
sinister (2012) 3.5/5 sinister remains a pretty effectively creepy movie. it loses its atmosphere towards the end, but when it works, it really works.
the shallows (2016) 3/5 i didn't quite find this as purely enjoyable as last year's 47 meters down, but both are b-movie goodness. exciting, trim, never dawdling or plodding about, in and out in 90 minutes.
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StoneKeeper (28408)
7 years ago
Hey bud!
Taxi Driver: I'm in the small groups of people that like it but don't think it's that great. 7/10
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