17 watched in October
MMOTM - the lad who decided to wear Converse in the Long Walk.
MMotM - cutting back to the portrait of a dead guy on the wall and the portrait is now reacting to the scene that just happened in Sullivan’s Travels. Literally always funny.
2 Likes
Tonight I am trying to be allowed to watch Eddington or Jesse James vs Robert Ford, but I think it is more likely we will watch Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
4 Likes
Have decided that November is a month for good films only. I won’t be watching anything that I suspect I won’t like. Started with Parallel Mothers (don’t know why it took so long for me to watch). I’m Still Here is next.
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MMotM: when Paul Bettany gets off the boat on the Galapagos islands after 6 months aboard a navy ship and suddenly he’s wearing all this flowery beach attire
6 Likes
Big month by my standards
MMotM probably Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley wrestling in the kitchen in Kill List
5 Likes
that’s a spooky month!
3 Likes
Can’t believe anyone would voluntarily sit through more than about 15 minutes of triumph des willles 
(Maybe a massive nazi would!!!)
Mate I voluntarily sat through Dune 2, I’m simply a masochist, not a Nazi.
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best: one battle after another
worst: the ice road
movie moment of the month: the goy’s teeth in a serious man
also rewatched the thing, still a perfect movie
3 Likes
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Not generally a fan of biopics, the only one I can think of in recent years that I think highly of is Blonde, and everyone hated that.
This unfortunately falls into all the usual traps, so is difficult to recommend. I am a Springsteen fan so probably gave it a bit more leeway (having more tolerance for scenes of home Nebraska recordings than the average cinema-goer), but like most biopics it’s very on-the-nose, some expository lines are ridiculous, and it’s just generally far too obvious.
Springsteen was absolutely correct about the first Suicide album though, and hearing Frankie Teardrop through big speakers is a rare treat.
Also, just in the eyes, Jeremy Allen White is a dead ringer for 70s Pacino at certain moments.
3 Likes
Sweet Sweetback. Not thought about that in a long time. Is it as mucky as I remember?
MMOTM (predictable) - the car chase hill scene in OBAA
MMOTM (left field) - the room of exploding hookers in Frankenhooker
why ever do this please
some scores I love and some I hate but a strong selection nonetheless
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