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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!

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Currently watching The Facility (or called Rizen: Possession).

Alright so far, typical possession/action fare but story split in two following soldiers and other half following these students that go urban exploration.

 
Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Watched this yesterday out of boredom, real drag of a film (I should have known better lol) but very well acted. Whoopie Goldberg was a surprisingly great addition to the film. Angelina Jolie pulled off being a sociopath pretty damn well, I was impressed with her in this one. Seemed to be channeling a bit of Jack Nicholson from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Overall a really well done film (1999 was such a great year for movies, I doubt any year will ever surpass it for sheer number of good films in a single year) but also a real bummer. If you suffer from any form of mental illness, this film would be relatable. It's amazing to think what they'd lock people up for as 'crazy' back in the 60s though. Most of the characters would be let out into society in the modern era. Makes you wonder what 'crazy' really is.

7/10



Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

This film is oft-quoted/referenced in 90s film and television so I wanted to see for myself why. I'm not sure why exactly it became the cult phenomena that it did, but I enjoyed the film for its dark humor. It was an otherwise slow moving, boring flick, with not nearly enough laughs to justify how famous a film it is. Side note: Bernie's house is fucking gorgeous inside and out. Great example of 80s indulgence.

5/10
 
Mandy ( 2018 )



I have to say that I had zero faith in this movie. Seeing the turds that Nic Cage starred since I've memory, it was difficult not to think that this would be one more its B-movies straight to DVD dog-shits that he does just for money, but boy! I was wrong and I really liked the movie. Like it a lot in fact.
It's a film that must be watch it in the right "setting" and mood hopefully on a big screen, since the photography are vitally important.
The plot of the film is simple, some crazy hippies of a cult (Charles Manson type) kidnap and kill Nicolas Cage's wife, who swears and will do everything possible to take revenge for each of them. Although the plot is so simple and maybe already seen, what makes it different is the visual aspect that makes it a delight for the eyes and of course the deranged acting of Mr. Cage. 8/10
 
Mandy is propably the best film Ive seen this year. Liked it alot too. Especially the visuals and the weird places the plot took.

Watched "He Never Died" for the second time. 4.5/5

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Watched two Wes Anderson flicks this week. I'm falling in love with his style, at least the early stuff.

Rushmore ( 1998 )

I watched this film as I peaked on some psilacetin and 3-ho-pce with some weed and etizolam thrown in. It moved so fast (as W. Anderson's films tend to) that it was a bit hard to keep up lol. It was so quirky, so full of dialogue and wit. I loved the constant referencing to film legends of the 20th century such as Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick's works. The fact that the main character is supposed to be 15 but looks 30 helps add to the absurd humor. Bill Murray is a constant in Anderson's films and his deadpan style fit so damn well. All in all a flick I greatly enjoyed, and am very miffed that only Criterion offers a Bluray copy (starting at $35... FFS it came out in '98!) since I'd like to add this one to the collection.

8.5/10


The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

After reading critiques of this film I went in with low expectations, and came out pleasantly surprised. The film follows the quirkiness of other Wes Anderson films, and the performances are fantastic. Gene Hackman was great in the role of Royal, and I loved Bill Murray, though his role was much more limited in this one. Owen Wilson constantly being on a cocktail of drugs really cracked me up lol. Overall, it's another feel good W. Anderson flick. If you liked Rushmore or The Life Aquatic, you're bound to enjoy this one IMO.

8/10

I love Anderson's use of place cards in his films, the way it breaks the film into bits and pieces. Both these films used that to great effect, reminding me greatly of Stanley Kubrick's style. I just wish Criterion Collection Blurays weren't so damned expensive!
 
@Cream Gravy? Oh yeah. I love Rushmore too. :love: I think it's my favorite Wes Anderson film. I don't like his latest movies that much (feels too overstyled). The first three (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and the Tenenbaums) are the best. Have you watch Bottle Rocket?
 
Wilson Wilson said:
The Invisible Man

Started off very slow and felt like turning it off in the first half, but by the second half it gets interesting. I am guessing the film is meant to be metaphor for abusive relationships in general. Was pretty interesting after the half way mark if you like psychological thriller type stuff.

Some of it seemed a bit stupid though, like for example the woman is terrified of her abusive ex at the beginning to the point where she is scared to go outside. But then like 10 minutes later she's gone shopping and is all happy and excited. Then she suddenly goes back to being scared again.
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As I replied earlier, this 2020 version is a remake. However, I gave it a go and pretty much agree with your assessment, although your idea of it being a statement on relationships didn't occur to me. I went in with the background of earlier makes, most notably the 1933 version actually written by H.G.Wells (still holds a high rating among most viewers, def recommend if you are good with films that old), as well as the Kevin Bacon remake in 2000 titled "Hollow Man". It's been awhile since I re-watched the original, though Bacon's has stuck with me ever since first viewing - perhaps not as strong of a film as it is a remake, but the special effects were really good at the time (still hold up, mostly) and it started going into his insanity of 'am I real? am I a god?' so for that fun aspect it's held in my mind pretty well.

This 2020 effort, given knowing the others, was ok. First half did drag a bit, and second half did kick it into gear. They kinda tipped their hand early with visual cues that there WAS an invisible person with her, when they could have played it out a bit longer as 'is she crazy or is there someone there' to a later point in the film. They played it out how they played it, alright, moving on. There's a half decent twist when we see who is wearing the invisible suit, but you can kinda see it coming. This gives legs to an extended session of 'is she crazy or not', but that's also more of a means to tie up the end with a more justified ending I believe. I'll give them credit for taking the concept deeper a bit, but they really only used the invisible man theory as a means to have a revenge film, as opposed to truly exploring the impact of someone becoming invisible, so loss of points there. That, and as we focus the WHOLE film on our lead lady, she does ok but isn't all that great. I liked the brother, the cop, and even the teenager daughter better than our lead. 5/10.
 
Seems like Mandy is quite a polarizing movie. My closest friends and I all absolutely hated it, and not because of Nic Cage (love the guy, no problem with his overacting). Found it a perfect example of style over substance, just pure nostalgia-driven, unimaginative 70s exploitation fanboy fare. Very hard to put into words what I found so off-putting about it. I guess it felt empty, needlessly nasty and pretentious. The plot was nonsensical and therefore nearly impossible to give a shit about. Besides, bloody revenge hardly ever makes for an interesting movie. It follows that I found Cosmatos' first film, Beyond the Black Rainbow, to be utterly unwatchable.


Just watched Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988 ). Not sure what I thought of it. I guess I understand why it has a cult following, but time will tell if it'll be haunted by it or not. Not a whole lot of plot, just a series of events in the life of a family shown in no particular chronological order, more often than not completely ignoring whatever led up to them or what the immediate consequences were. Loads of domestic abuse and singing in pubs. Some beautiful shots and eerily artificial lighting. A bit weird but worth a watch.
 
Airplane 2: The Sequel (1982) - 4 stars - very much like the first movie: if you liked that you'll like this. Brings back most of the main characters for another disastrous airplane journey.
TQ's.

Captain Ouver: Jimmy, do you ever wonder why dogs sniff each other?
[later]
Captain Ouver: Jimmy, do you like it when Scraps grabs onto your leg and jumps up and down?
[later]
Captain Ouver: Jimmy, do you like movies about man wrestling?


I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) - 5 stars - God damn! Katie makes Jennifer Hills look forgiving! I don't want to give to much away, but this movie is fucking BRUTAL. Katie is a young model who gets offered a free photoshoot. The photoshoot is done by 4 Slovak men (from one of the Cyrillic Alphabet countries, anyway...and yes that is very relevant). They ask her to model topless and she leaves because she wants to be a real model and isn't "that desperate" for the free shoot. One of the young men later turns up in her apartment and while at first is apologetic, later returns to rape her. Her neighbour comes in upon hearing her screams and is stabbed by her rapist. They other guys turn up and wipe his prints off the knife and then force Katie to hold it as "evidence" that she killed them. If you've seen the first movie, you know the rest (except this is much worse), she is kidnapped, tied up on a filthy mattress in some basement when she is repeatedly raped, tortured and humiliated. She is then to be sold as a sex slave (human trafficking). I must say that her abuse goes on for literally almost 50 minutes and it's hard to watch at times. They eventually bury her and leave her for dead. And well, we all know what Katie did next.
Amazing revenge movie, especially if you've been raped or otherwise violated like Katie was.

TQ's:

Katie: [to Georgy] No one can year you down here! Scream all you want. It ain't gonna work. Trust me - I TRIED

Katie: They used to use shock therapy to help the mentally ill. Since you are so SICK, you, Valco, need a great deal of THERAPY
[Valco screams in agony]

Katie: [screams to Ivan as she brutally tortures him] YOU THINK THAT HURTS?! YOU JUST WAIT!

Katie: [To Georgy as she has him stripped and tied to the wall after lacerating his legs, arms, stomach and cheeks] I could castrate you!....I could slit your throat! But you are a sick and diseased bag of flesh... [she rubs faecal matter into his wounds]...and that is how you deserve to die: rotting. Like you left me! [as she turns to leave] If I were you I'd get some anti-biotics. Wouldn't want infection to set in.
 
I love Girl, Interrupted. It's a true story, too, based on the autobiography of Susannah Kayson who spent 18 months in (I think it was either Stonybrook or Bellevue).
Polly's story is even sadder in the book. It says she was a very sweet and good-natured girl who everyone liked, but she had a voice in her head that told her to die, so when she was 9 years old she poured gasoline all over herself and struck a match. The scene (also in the movie) when she's hysterical in her room screaming "I'M UGLY! I'M UGLY!!" and Susannah and Lisa play guitar and sing "Downtown" to cheer her up is heart-breaking.

I agree a lot would be out in public these days. Lisa is a sociopath, but she functions like a normal person, just breaks the law a lot. She'd be in prison. Janet the anorexic would also be out unless she got extremely thin and was sectioned for life-threatening weight loss (you have to have a BMI below 13.5 for this which is CRAZY. A general fatal BMI for women is 11 and WORSE an average fatal BMI for men is 13...so if you're a guy with anorexia you could well be too far gone to save at a 13.5 BMI).
I think these days that ward would be full of people with bulimia, ADHD and behavioural disorders. NOT Borderlines. Most studies show we actually get WORSE in in-patient settings. That's why I got forced to leave the Acute Mental Health Ward just 9 days after being sectioned because "You're better off on the outside". I fucking wasn't.
Cream Gravy? said:
Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Watched this yesterday out of boredom, real drag of a film (I should have known better lol) but very well acted. Whoopie Goldberg was a surprisingly great addition to the film. Angelina Jolie pulled off being a sociopath pretty damn well, I was impressed with her in this one. Seemed to be channeling a bit of Jack Nicholson from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Overall a really well done film (1999 was such a great year for movies, I doubt any year will ever surpass it for sheer number of good films in a single year) but also a real bummer. If you suffer from any form of mental illness, this film would be relatable. It's amazing to think what they'd lock people up for as 'crazy' back in the 60s though. Most of the characters would be let out into society in the modern era. Makes you wonder what 'crazy' really is.

7/10



Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

This film is oft-quoted/referenced in 90s film and television so I wanted to see for myself why. I'm not sure why exactly it became the cult phenomena that it did, but I enjoyed the film for its dark humor. It was an otherwise slow moving, boring flick, with not nearly enough laughs to justify how famous a film it is. Side note: Bernie's house is fucking gorgeous inside and out. Great example of 80s indulgence.

5/10
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This Must Be The Place



I'm not a fan of Sorrentino movies but this movie caught me flying low. I love it, Sean Penn does one of his best performances. It's about a British rockstar retired from stages (who looks odly similar to Robert Smith) who after the death of his father is dedicated to travel the United States in search of a Nazi who embarrassed his father in a concentration camp. I love Talking Heads and the scene with David Byrne and This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) is spectacular. In many moments it's very black comedy with some drama. 8.5 / 10

Son Of A Gun



I must admit that I had already watched this movie the year it was released, but it didn't seem like a big deal to me. This time it was different (I don't know if it was withdrawal or what hahaha) but I also loved it. The beginning with the prison scenes is powerful and the end is spectacular. The romance doesn't feel forced like in other movies, it flows naturally. If you are looking for something entertaining to pass the time, this is your option. The film is about Ewan McGregor making a teenage criminal his protégé. 8 / 10

What Just Happened



I have mixed feelings about this movie. It has very good scenes (the ones involving Michael Wincott and the dog or the Bruce Willis' beard moment hahahaha) and more than decent performances, but I feel like it's missing "something. It had huge potential but I feel like it should have been a full black comedy and just drop out the drama. Unfortunate because I love De Niro and I find Barry Levinson's TV movies amazing. The film is about a producer (De Niro) who in two weeks will have to deal with typical problems of the Hollywood machine. 6.5 / 10
 


Interesting concept, interesting movie. It's a B-Movie budget but it's good enough to watch and keep you guessing. It's not mind blowing, but plays on a concept of predetermined destiny. Worth watching. 7/10
 


I first watched this movie on 4 hits of acid. I LOVED it... however it's not one of those movies you leave watching going "WOW I LOVED IT".... more like "wow... that was a very unique movie that gave me several unique emotions". The whole movie, without giving too much away, is a take on what happens in the moments right before you die. Upon death, life turns into a fractal, an almost endless moment in which you relive your life. I'll leave it at that.

The first comment on youtube for this movie is "wow, don't watch this on psychedelics because you might have a bad trip"..... fuck that, some noob wrote that who can't handle extreme psychedelic concepts on death

if thinking about the idea of death on psychedelics is a "bad trip" for you.... well you're either a lightweight or someone I don't want to hang out with.

This movie gives a big range of emotions... just like DYING would produce...

Definitely good sober OR on psychedelics

This movie is eye candy and has some really great plays on psychedelic tropes.

The movie, in one sentence.... when you die your life becomes a DMT fractal experience.

I experienced almost every single emotion possible while watching this movie! It's great!

It takes you for a ride, that's for sure.

8.5/10

Psychedelics recommended. Amazing eye candy and visuals in this movie.
 
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It's alright. Worth watching. I feel like it could have been done better. Suspenseful enough to keep you watching. Not sure why it's so highly rated. I have a big crush on Imogen Poots.

6/10
 
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