MMOTM: the performance of Hitler Wong as Noodles Chan in Immortality
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best: marty supreme
worst: idk, didn’t watch anything i didn’t like on some level this month, he got game was the most disappointing i think, was expecting ‘great’ but got ‘fine’.
movie moment of the month: dr ian kelson’s rendition of the number of the beast in the bone temple
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Not letting me upload for some reason but watched 20 films in January, all new to me.
The very best ones were The Godfather Part 2, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Aguirre The Wrath of God and The Piano Teacher
The ones I disliked the most were 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple, The Housemaid, and Memoir of a Snail.
The movie moment of the month was the decapitation in Aguirre The Wrath of God
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Good lad, hated this
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Really good month! 8 foreign language films, which I had wanted to watch more of. 6 films as part of the Criterion Challenge. Godzilla. Muppets!
MMOTM: Kermit riding a bicycle
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Watched - 10 new, 11 rewatches
Best - Before Sunrise, You’re Next
Worst - A View to a Kill
MMOTM - Gotta be the Iron Maiden sequence in Bone Temple
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MMOTM: the closing sequence of All That Jazz, a staggering climax to a stunning film and already a new favourite of mine.
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January in order of enjoyment
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Hamnet
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme
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…a fair gap…
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Snack Shack
The Rip
The Choral
Private Life
Sat down last night to watch Paranoid Park, which I’ve had on DVD for years.
Stuck it in the player, turned on the telly and Cocaine Bear was just starting on Channel 4 so I watched that instead. Sorry Gus.
Just silly enough to be entertaining. The expanding cast of doofuses, idiots and caricatures were mostly entertaining and the bear effects were actually good. In the niche genre of films where they came up with the title first and then wrote the story it’s much better than Snakes on A Plane.
Oh, also I was a bit pissed.
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Forgot to add a late screening of Primate last night to my list, 11 new films seen in the month then
The jaw rip off scene is a MMOTM contender
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Best: Arrival
Worst: Good Will Hunting
MMOTM: Orson Welles being a heartless bastard in Praterpark in the Third Man
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Too many 4* movies to pick out a best. MMOTM was probably the scene in Bone Temple when Jimmy and Kelson first meet: for all the showier setpieces, I thought this one was wonderful in how understated the writing and performances were.
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Best: Where is the Friend’s House?, Wake in Fright, The Dead, David Lynch: The Art Life, Baby Face, The Long Goodbye, The Circus
Worst: The Wiz, Playtime, Hausu
MMOTM: David Lynch being delighted by mechanical birds in The Art Life
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I’m The Wiz…and I’m awful!
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TRON: ARES
Looks pretty, but besides a neat callback to the OG rotoscoping of the first film, nowhere near the visual revelation of LEGACY. Sounds excellent; meaty, crunchy foley and excellent ambient industrial from NIN. Acting is dreadful overall, but Leto is as heinous as you’d imagine, just a total charisma vacuum of a man; even playing a computer program with no personality he somehow brings less than nothing. The story is utter bobbins that has made the admittedly very silly LEGACY look like a work of genius.
TRON: ARSE/5
End Of Days
Hadn’t seen this for the best part of two decades and is has not aged well. Tbh I don’t think it was ever considered good at the time, but boy howdy is it a big old bag of shite. Arnie is constipated throughout, Gabriel Byrne is undoubtedly (the only one) having fun but he’s clearly playing this as a fat paycheck first and foremost. The VFX are laughable but the practical explosions are good. All I can think of now is Arnie repeatedly (allegedly) farting in Miriam Margoyles’ face.
-666/5
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Way better than it had any right to be, tbh. Definitely one of Ritchie’s more successful attempts of recent years, it plays into his strengths as a film maker well and Cavill is perfect as Napoleon Solo. Didn’t mind Hammer as perpetually livid Kuryakin and Vikander plays off both of them well. Stylish, well placed, lots of fun. Big shame it flopped, could absolutely see a sequel happening otherwise.
Double-o 3/5
Big Trouble In Little China
Big, daft, loveable fun. Carpenter has better films but this is the pinnacle of camp, metatextual action films. If anything I’m probably over-familiar with it these days but it does what it does perfectly.
5 demon bag/5
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