What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[stylish_raven]

Another cookie-cutter '80s Medellin cartel flick. Terrible shaky-cam throughout and every imaginable trope thrown in for good measure

this was a good one. It is quite thrilling

 

[Joffrey]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Stinson]

Fargo

 

[edinatlanta]

how a professional camera stabilizer works

 

[noob in 89]

Halloween. I was bizarrely motivated to see this one, partly due to David Gordon Green — who made some good indies later released by the Criterion Collection— and partly due to 80s nostalgia. With a more mature treatment and kick-ass soundtrack, it didn’t disappoint. It was slightly weird to learn after all this time that Michael Myer’s hair was part of his William Shatner mask, not his own, as well as to see two sextagenerians duking it out, but otherwise — solid.

 

[Ace_Face]

 

[lefty]

lefty

 

[edinatlanta]

Boris Karloff in "The Raven"

 

[edinatlanta]

Neat little 20-minute sci-fi film from France: "Reality+" (avec les mots en anglais pour les cancres du Style Forum).



Not the best, but it's neat enough and it's short. Worth checking out!

 

[wojt]

A great movie and competent thriller and a short study on human condition as well. Interestingly some the earlier scenes in the movies were supposedly cut from the original when the movie first hit US cinemas because of being anti-American. Some really great tense scenes in this one.

First time watching this, I was afraid it is going to be awful chick movie(still I probably enjoyed the movie more because I was watching it with my gf). Definitely a good erotic film if you have company. Also it was not a deep movie, but it was somehow thought provoking and was not devoid of some study of relationships. Good movie.

 

[Kaplan]

If you liked The Wages of Fear you should check out William Friedkin's The Sorcerer (based on the same book) - it's pretty great.

 

[edinatlanta]

The other side of the wind..........now granted I only took a couple film classes at a second tier state school so far be it from me to criticize orson Welles but......I'm not sure if works. I'm about 30 minutes in and it lacks any purpose. Considering how orson struggled to cobble it together and Netflix semi finished the job decade after that makes sense. And the satire lost its punch over that time and isnt really subtle. "Is the camera an extension of the eye....or is it just a phallus?" Being asked by an overly serious reporter in the first few minutes really sets the tone.

 

[graywayne]

Because of Script to Screen Youtube channel, I'm currently watching 500 Days of Summer again.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Poignant. Viseral and tragically pointless story of a company of English soldiers who await in the front line trenches the onslaught of Operation Michael in March 1918. Into this walks young Raleigh(Asa Butterfield) fresh from public school to Officers Training Centre who requests his Uncle a General to placed into the company of his sisters fiancé Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin). The film occurs over five days as the troops have to put up with mud and anxiety as they await the German onslaught.

Dramatically powerful performances also from Uncle, (Paul Bettany) one of the best performances I have seen from him and ably assisted by Toby Oates and Stephen Graham.

Director Saul Dibb delivers a film which will leave you emotionally floored at the futility and poiintless sacrifice of the Great War.

Highly recomended.

 

[HORNS]

I watched 8 1/2 two nights ago. What an amazing film.