Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| Dec 2014

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Post your top 5 movie that you watched last month.

1. World On A Wire.
2. 22 Jump Street
 
I finally finished Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

I started it so many times but today I finished it. It was great, I think from the old movies I prefer Laputa to Nausicaä but still great.
 
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I literally saw only one new film last month so I can't make a top 5 list. But I'll see what I can do...

1. Birdman
2. Birdman
3. Birdman
4. Birdman
5. Birdman

Birdman was really fucking good.

Hopefully I'll find some time this week to go to the theatre, but I got two essays due Friday so that probably ain't happening.
 
Police Story 2 was a fun mess. Fantastic action/fights/stunts/sets, story was all over the place and not that great. Then again, who cares; The amount of glass-shattering building-exploding madness makes up for whatever the movie lacks on paper.
 
Best movies I watched in November

1. Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Husbands and Wives
3. A Night to Remember
4. Gone Girl
5. Deux jours, une nuit
 
Shit, what movies did I watch last month?

1. Munich
2. The Cat O' Nine Tails
3. The Birds
4. Interstellar
5. The Iron Horse

Man, I barely get to go to the theater.
 
1. John Wick
2. 21 jump street (lttp on that)
3. Maleficent
4. Dumb and dumber to.

I'm cheating a bit but I'll mention Gone Girl which I saw in October. That was a great movie.
 
Everything I watched last month

Fury
Lost in Translation
Oki’s Movie
Interstellar
Killer Joe
Project A2
Gohatto

New Police Story
Shinjuku Incident
Eraserhead
Snowpiercer
JSA
Like You Know it All
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Violent Cop

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
The Kingdoms of Dreams and Madness

All bolds are films I watched the first time.
 
Top 5 I saw last month:

1) Lawrence of Arabia
2) Interstellar
3) John Wick
4) American Beauty
5) Ben and Charlie(also known as Amigo, Stay Away)

*Bold = rewatched.
 
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
A lovely companion piece to The Wind Rises, offers an interesting behind-the-scenes look at Ghibli while doubling as a nice send-off for Miyazaki (and to a lesser extent, Takahata, Suzuki, and the rest of the studio). This has been a really great year for docs.


Top 5 new watches of November:
Life Itself
Interstellar
22 Jump Street
Rocco and His Brothers
Banksy Does New York
 
top 5 of november:
1. stroszek
2. lucy
3. welcome to new york
4. cape fear(1991)
5. cape fear(1962)

man i really need to catch up on some 2014 stuff though(or the herzog catalog i planned on finishing this year)
 
Been a great month for catching up on some older stuff for the first time in a while:

1. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
2. Vertigo
3. Possession (1981)
4. Love Exposure
5. Interstellar

So glad that a friend turned me on to Possession last month. Isabelle Adjani brought one of the most manic female performances I've ever seen in a film, which all culminated in a terrifyingly claustrophobic train station sequence. Andrzej Zulawski's direction was equally as restless and unnerving as the actors in each frame. Also, a young Sam Neill being all passive aggressive with a goofy german playboy.
 
Me and my brother had a Dark Knight Trilogy Marathon this sunday.
1PM: Batman Begins
4PM: TDK
7PM DKR

In total, eight and a half hours of fantastic cinema :D
 
So glad that a friend turned me on to Possession last month. Isabelle Adjani brought one of the most manic female performances I've ever seen in a film, which all culminated in a terrifyingly claustrophobic train station sequence. Andrzej Zulawski's direction was equally as restless and unnerving as the actors in each frame. Also, a young Sam Neill being all passive aggressive with a goofy german playboy.

Adjani gives probably one of the best on screen female performances of all time. I mean, I can't believe she didn't win the Oscar... how much more can someone put in a performance than that?
 
top 5 new watches:
1) Force Majeure
2) The Strange Woman
3) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
4) Letter Never Sent
5) The Babadook

Though my only two rewatches would be ahead of all of those: #1 The Curse of the Cat People, #2 Detour, then the rest.
 
1. Force Majeure
2. Working Girl
3. Nightcrawler
4. The Guest
5. Interstellar

i should probably watch more movies.
also i just want to bring attention to femmeworth rating double indemnity a 3/5 and why the fuck did you do that wilder is a national treasure
 
The Great Silence - This was pretty good. Definitely better than Django and The Mercenary, which I also enjoyed. Obviously better than Navajo Joe, as fun as that one is. Jean‑Louis Trintignant did a pretty damn good job while not uttering a single word the entire film, and Klaus Kinski was just a slimy bastard. Was not expecting that ending either, and the alternate ending, just terrible. Thank god that wasn't the real ending; it probably would have dragged the whole film down. Really enjoyed the cinematography as well and it reminded me of Once Upon a Time in the West in certain shots. It also was a really nice change of pace to see a western set in a snowy climate. Probably my favorite Corbucci.

Her - Enjoyed it. It was kind of odd how despite being science fiction, it kind of wasn't. Outside of the advanced AI, all this really could be today with the way the people in this movie are slaves to technology with their heads buried in their handsets and looking for basic human interaction within said tech rather than outside where they should be looking for it. And forget his red shirt, that coat he was wearing toward the end was fucking dope.

Le Cercle Rouge - Two or three minutes in I realized this is a rewatch. Better than Un flic, but not as good as Le Samourai. Everything about this film is masterly done. Melville was a master. Los Doulos is next. Also, Corey gave Vogel the rose he got at Santi's. How sweet.
 
Woody Allen's Whatever works

Yeah, was alright. The story kept me going. And Larry David is good.

Up in the air

I feel with Clooney in that movie. And Kendricks is a cutie pie.

22 Jump Street

My name is Jeff. lol. The rest of the movie was more like "meh"

Pitch Perfect

Still good and entertaining. Kendrick is still a cutie pie.
 
  • La Marche - Crap
  • Mommy - Great
  • Sin City 2 - Couldn't even finish it
  • In the Mood for Love - Couldn't even finish it
  • Lucy - One of the worst films I've ever seen
 
Maze Runner

I dunno, I certainly didn't hate it, and the mystery of it all managed to keep me somewhat invested, just not all the time. I'm unsure if I genuinely care though, where it all goes but I guess we'll find that out whenever the sequel drops.
 
I've never heard of this before, but it looks very interesting. Either of you care to expand on why it was good?

Family ski drama on how easily masculinity bruises while femininity is given less blatant but equally throbbing papercuts, restrictiveness of domestic gender roles and balancing family with the self. sometimes without enough grace, the pink and blue outfits may have been too on-the-nose, yet its portrayal is always accurate and each of the leads wholly convincing. and it nails how family arguments grow and arc outwards or down generations, how when you're really close to someone you can start to avoid letting them inside your head. the way the family worked, and the way the family worked rottenly on a vacation in particular, was eminently familiar to me. despite that it still made me really want to be on a ski trip with my family. That may be how Ostlund understands skiing so well. The mountain both alien and controlled, the intermittent thoughts of "oh, people die doing this stuff" while you treat it like a lark, the tranquil pioneering of skiing fresh show. I even wondered if he coached the actors on how exactly to ski, because the couple's technique says plenty about their personalities alone.
It really stuck with me all month.
 
I recently re-watched Poseidon (the remake, not the beautiful original).

While the movie is definitely flawed, and is quite shit compared to the original, the movie still has the most convincing use of VFX I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkdfnf-oyg

Like Jesus, if you don't think the above looks realistic as hell, then I don't know what to say.

(Obvious spoilers from the film's climax)
 
I quite like this guy's videos. He has a new one on Jackie Chan and action/comedy.

great video, really helps you appreciate the lengths Jackie and his Hong Kong film crew go through to make the various action/comedy scenes work so well. Its not just "he does his own stunts". Its how they film those stunts and actions, the rhythm and pacing of the sequences through a combination of the actors, the editing, the shot selection/duration, etc.
 
Saw Foxcatcher recently. Fucking intense. Carrel, Tatum, and Ruffalo were all on point, and Bennet Miller is definitely one to watch as he's done nothing but good thus far.

I also just saw the Lego Movie. Holy shit, so good.
 
Days of Future Past is now my favorite X-Men film. Watched it last week and was very impressed by how much more enjoyable it was than even the first two films. I've never really wanted to watch an X-Men movie more than once, but this one wins. Good performances and good pace between action and dramatic scenes. Was also surprised by the body horror.
 
Top 5 from November (first-time watches only)

1. Whiplash
2. Coffee and Cigarettes
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley
4. Nightcrawler
5. Interstellar
 
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