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    Name & Rate the Movies/TV You've Watched.

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    3 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

    July aka Western month, thanks Panda

     

    *Amélie - 6/10

    The Magnificent Seven - 6/10

    Pyaasa - 7/10

    Le Notti Bianche - 7/10

    *Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 8/10

    *The Leopard - 7/10

    *I Vitelloni - 6/10

    Pinocchio - 8/10

    Johnny Guitar - 9/10

    The Emperor's New Groove - 9/10. Obviously the greatest thing Disney has ever done.

    *Cloud Atlas - 6/10

    Watch Out for the Automobile - 6/10

    Stagecoach - 8/10

    Destry Rides Again - 8/10

    The Ox-Bow Incident - 8/10. Actually quite a bit better than that for 80% of its runtime, until the awful device with the letter that couldn't possibly sound more like a preachy Author's Message if the writer himself stepped into the frame, got on a soapbox and read it into the camera. A shame. The first hour is terrifying.

    *Trainspotting - 7/10

    My Darling Clementine - 9/10 [longer "pre-release" cut] Not a fan of what this ends up doing with Linda Darnell's character, but otherwise a nearly perfect hangout western I could watch for hours. Wouldn't surprise me if David Milch had the same thought once upon a time, and that's how we got Deadwood.

    *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 8/10

    Red River - 8/10 [shorter cut with the narration] First hour's something of a drag, but it starts paying off in a big way once Clift takes charge. The ending is powerful in theory and almost works in practice, it's just hard to accept it given some of the things Wayne's character does in the lead-up to it. Has what is probably the greatest-ever reaction by a movie character to getting shot with an arrow.

    The Gunfighter - 8/10

    The Naked Spur - 8/10

    The Searchers - 8/10. The first 45 minutes is pretty staggering, absolutely feeling like myth brought to life, which only makes the useless comic relief to come more bewildering. The romantic/melodramatic parts semi-work for me as contrast to the urgency of the main narrative (Life Goes On, etc.), and are helped by some emotionally raw work from Vera Miles, but still barely function on their own narratively. It's a testament to the fundamental power of Ethan's character and story, and to Ford's sense of control whenever he doesn't inexplicably lose it, that I still came away thinking of this as a great film.

    Basic Instinct - 6/10

    Seven Men from Now - 7/10

    The Tall T - 8/10

    3:10 to Yuma (1957) - 8/10, though I suspect I'm underrating it and can't wait to see it again. Biggest surprise of the month, a moody melancholy western with some breathtakingly beautiful stretches (everything with Glenn Ford and Felicia Farr as the barmaid), gratifying attention paid to character interactions above all else and an ending that actually makes sense unlike the remake's. 

    Forty Guns - 7/10

    Decision at Sundown - 7/10

     

    The comic relief in The Searchers is a hindrance but I believe was only in there to distract the censors from the violence. I did a first time watch of both versions of 3:10 to Yuma recently and yeah the remake’s ending makes zero sense and kinda ruins the rest for me.

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    The Green Knight | A24 | July 30, 2021

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    Liked it a lot, didn’t love it. The visuals were far too dim half the time which may have been for realism but it was too much. Great sound design and atmosphere.
    I’m very confused at all the comparisons to Boorman’s Excalibur though, they’re probably just PR buzzwords but the two couldn’t be more different. 

    Name & Rate the Movies/TV You've Watched.

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    Watched a lot of great stuff the last week:

     

    The Heartbreak Kid 8/10

     

    High Noon 8/10

     

    Rio Bravo 10/10 - Discovered it earlier this year and seen it 3 times since, instant favourite and John Wayne’s best film.

     

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 9/10

     

    How Green Was My Valley 10/10 - Catching up on my John Ford and this is the best of his I’ve seen so far. Astoundingly beautiful film.

     

     

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    Ghostbusters: Afterlife | November 19 2021 | Sony | Delayed again

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    24 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

    This looks infinitely worse than the 2016 film and also feels kinda pretentious with how it's taking itself so seriously lol. It's obviously going for TFA vibes here which is the opposite direction for a sequel to a goofy comedy film.

    I agree with you that banking on GB as some epic nostalgia mythology is bad and bizarre (the original is mostly SNL guys riffing) but it looks significantly better than the 2016 one. 

    Old | M. Night Shyamalan | July 23, 2021 | Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps

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    I totally get the divided and negative responses from audiences but I loved it. It's this cross between a Twilight Zone/B movie vibe and this existential rumination on life and death that's breaking convention film rules as it goes along. One of the most creative and ambitiously shot films I've seen in a while, I wanna see it again just to study and focus on the framing and shot composition more closely. Some clunky dialogue and stilted performances but genuinely very thrilling and moving. I've only seen Sixth Sense and the Unbreakable trilogy so I really do need to go through the rest of M Night's films.

    8/10

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    The Green Knight | A24 | July 30, 2021

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    I'm always more down for a director's original vision and I adored "Ghost Story" so I'm really excited for this. I wonder how it would have been if A24 did release the 90 minute cut though, the auteur filmmaker driven indie studio cutting down a director's vision. The reaction from them doing it, would've been interesting.

    Black Widow | July 9 2021 | ScarJo secures the bag from Disney

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    Movie would've been better if they actually went to space at the end. The finale was typical big CGI action stuff and already jarring with the first 2/3s, so why not go full tilt over the top crazy with it and commit to the absurdity instead of the lame half step. Aside from that, I found it surprisingly decent, first MCU film I've had fun with in a while.

    Name & Rate the Movies/TV You've Watched.

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    Rewatched Superman (1978). The effects have dated sure, but the film itself has aged tremendously well. So honest, sincere and heroic in a way that's so rare in comic book cinema now. Reeves really was terrific and I love the screwball style comedy with him and the Daily Planet gang. Top 3 superhero movie for me alongside, Spider-Man 2 and Batman Returns. 10/10

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    Name & Rate the Movies/TV You've Watched.

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    June:

    • Baby Driver (8/10)
    • Once Upon a Time in the West (10/10)
    • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (7/10)
    • Malcolm & Marie (3/10)
    • Django (9/10)
    • Wrath of Man (8/10)
    • Conjuring (8/10)
    • Conjuring 2 (7/10)
    • 25th Hour (9/10)
    • Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (4/10)
    • Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga Hoole (6/10)
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark (10/10)
    • Mitchells vs The Machines (8/10)
    • Spiral: From The Book of Saw (4/10)
    • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (10/10)
    • Bo Burnham: Inside (7/10)
    • Sucker Punch (4/10)
    • Bone Tomahawk (8/10)
    • Goldeneye (8/10)
    • Brawl in Cell Block 99 (8/10)
    • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (8/10)
    • Duck, You Sucker! (7/10)
    • 10 to Midnight (7/10)
    • Grizzly (5/10)
    • The Fast and The Furious (7/10)
    • 2 Fast 2 Furious (5/10)
    • Luca (7/10)
    • Death Rides a Horse (8/10)
    • The Mercenary (9/10)
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    F9: The Fast Saga | June 25, 2021 | Pray to your Dom Shrine! | Coming to Cannes!

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    7 hours ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

    They were interviewing Vin on the Today Show this morning. He pretty much stated the 10th film is the last, so apparently they may have scrapped the 2-part idea.

    It'd be kinda neat if the finale was a back to basics street racing heist film again. I haven't seen F9 yet but the consensus seems to be that the over the top action has been pushed past its breaking point now. The series has survived so long by evolving and changing over time once it started getting stale.

    The Flash | June 16 2023 | Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton | We’re stoping the count at a Nice 69% RT (it’s 72% For Real) | Please Remember that Your Enjoyment Of The Film is Not Based On Others Opinions And To Be Nice To Each Other

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    It’s nice they’re keeping continuity with the use of the Returns suit. Also the jam blood seems to imply they’ll keep Keaton’s Batman as a murderer which is good, I was worried they’d change the characterization. 

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