Daddy's Home: 6/10
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Daddy's Home: 6/10
A Slight Case Of Murder (Lloyd Bacon 1938, 9/10)
Gangster comedy starring Edward G Robinson. Still has lol moments even after 78 years(!)
Legend: 7/10
The Angry Birds Movie: 5/10
Momentum 3/10
Olga is hot, little else to like. Just plain amateurish.
Thread deleters 1/10
X-Men: Apocalypse: 7/10
Way Out West (James W. Horne, 1937) 9/10
Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939) - 8/10
Also a DVD of Disney Silly Symphonies (from 1929-39). Some have aged better than others, but the finest are 10/10 still.
City For Conquest (Anatole Litvak, 1940) - 7/10
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) 7/10
I'd give this a higher rating if it weren't for the flaws. The central 'little people' roles are taken by Harry Earles and his sister Daisy. They were German and although their English is perfectly good, they weren't actors by profession so much of their dialogue comes across a bit wooden; Daisy especially - she has a tendency to talk like Yoda; I suspect she was thinking her lines in German before speaking them in English, so the phrasing is odd.
Harry had been in an earlier Browning silent movie (The Hateful Three, 1925), where he's terrific I hear. He's probably best known now for his role in The Wizard Of Oz. Olga Baclanova as Cleopatra rather overacts during some of her speeches I think.
In the original uncut film, Hercules the strong-man is emasculated at the climax. That got swept away in the 30 minutes of cuts (one third of the film's uncut duration!) demanded by New York. I can't say I missed it; he is last seen scrabbling in the mud and rain with the vengeful freaks advancing on him. His uncertain fate is probably better than what would have been seen.
Deadpool 8.5/10 (You just gotta love him)
X-Men: Apocalypse, 7.5/10.
Sorry Sister, I do like LOUDER / refuse to see any movie made before the 80's. Cool that you do though (and I'm impressed that you went polite on Evan, I wouldn't be able to bring up the patience for that guy).
And Free Dippy, afaik advising people to buy henchmen is a pretty smart idea / shouldn't be moderated.
Hey there, I don't refuse to watch modern films, but it would be so nice if they laid off the reverb. Remember all those 80s records which are tough to listen to now because of the awful production techniques used back then; I suspect the same might happen with films if the tide should turn at some point.Quote:
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Is Dippy banned still? I'm appalled. Let him out! :)
Battles Without Honour And Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) 10/10
This film and its four sequels are sometimes called the Japanese "Godfather". A groundbreaking, documentary style Yakuza movie series based on the testament of a real Yakuza member as published in a series of articles in a newspaper. There are a lot of characters in here so I'll probably need to see it again to really get my head around everything.
American Gangster: 8/10.
Dead Silence: 2/10
Horror movie, but too predictable and the dialogue was boring.
Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) - 10/10
Probably the most perfect of the Ealing Comedies. Not an ounce of padding, and not one but two delicious twists at the end.
13 Hours - The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 10/10. One of the best movies I've seen in a very long time.
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) - on first viewing 7/10 but that could easily improve. Very beautiful as with any Malick film.
Blade Runner: 9/10
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) - 10/10
To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) - 10/10
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962) - 10/10
Tarkovsky's first 'real' film, and one he had to make with only half the allotted budget after a previous director spent the other half on footage that was rejected.
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) - 10/10
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, U.S. theatrical release version 1982) - 9/10
Loses a point for the Hollywood 'happy ending' imposed on the director!
The Drop 9/10
Tom Hardy is outstanding, James Gandolphini's last role.
This turned out far better than I thought it would. And in the end, you learn that things weren't necessarily as portrayed as in the beginning. I haven't been fooled in the end of a movie since the Usual Suspects like I did in this one. I loved it.
Daredevil: Director's Cut (Mark Steven Johnson, 2004) - 9/10
I never saw the much criticised theatrical version, so no comparison. However that one was, this version is great.
Star Wars - The Force Awakens - 6/10
Independence Day: Resurgence: 5/10
What we do in the Shadows. 8/10
A mockumentary of 4 modern day vampires sharing a flat. Surprisingly funny.
Get a Job: 6/10
Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011) - 8/10
Let down a bit by the earthbound sequences. I do prefer my superheroes to have some sense of loss or regret driving them on; viz Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Daredevil. Thor is cool but doesn't have that so much.
Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012) - 8/10
Infinitely better than the dreddful Stallone film. The plot is rather too linear to make it a great movie though.
Superman And The Mole Men (Lee Sholem, 1951) - 5/10
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) - 9/10
Conjuring 2, 10/10
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) - 8/10
A fictionalised biopic of the 15th century Icon painter, the film is not so much a continuous narrative as a series of tableaux (all details in the link) in the painter's life, his loss of faith and regaining of it, all set against the turmoil and brutality of medieval Russia.
Cleopatra (1912): 6/10
Star Trek Beyond: 7/10
Atlantis (1913): 7/10
The Student of Prague (1913): 8/10
The Avenging Conscience: 7/10
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1974) - 8/10
The Plank (Eric Sykes, 1967) - 7/10
"The Mutual Comedies" (Charlie Chaplin, 1916-1917) - 7/10 (a collection of the 12 shorts Chaplin made for Mutual. The earliest ones are basic slapstick fare, but it's during this period the great man really found his signature style)
Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths (Sam Liu/Lauren Montgomery, 2010) - 8/10 (Animated movie from the DC Universe series)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) - 9/10
The Butcher Boy (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, 1917) - 7/10
The first appearance on-screen of Buster Keaton
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) - 5/10
Fifth in the monster turtle series. Frequently in the 'so bad it's good' stakes this one. Two annoying children get abducted to a planet on the other side of the sun, where they fall into the hands of a pair of seemingly nice ladies who secretly plan to consume their brains and then travel to earth, where presumably they will do the same thing to the rest of the human race!
Check out his Keystone comedies. I've spent the last few days watching those too. A lot of good ones in there, but on this thread I've only been rating the feature length films I've been watching. I do have my ratings for those shorts saved somewhere else though.Quote:
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