list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Atavachron wrote: Hollywood EndingWoody as a has-been director who finally lands a worthy project but has to work with his ex-wife and as if that weren't enough, suddenly and unaccountably goes blind (a case of "hysterical blindness") during the shooting of the film.   Equally funny and caustic, anyone who's had to work for ~ or with ~ an ex will identify with the story and laugh out loud frequently.   Nice one from his later period.

The scene of Allen trying to learn the office layout and then have that meeting is one of my favorite WA movie moments.

Broadway Danny Rose

A gushing love letter to old school showbiz and one of the funniest movies ever made, BDR is Woody at the height of his creative powers, spinning one character after another each more bizarre than the last as he gets in deep with the New Jersey mob trying to help a client.

Deconstructing Harry

Woody Allen's intimate portrayal of a depressed writer is full of unusual choices in style and tone for him, a schizophrenic plot and choppy camera work.   Quite good overall with a slow humor that twists like a knife and a cascade of first-rate actors.

Lone Survivor

Harrowing and completely involving true account of a small SEAL team on a mission in Afghanistan that goes progressively bad.   Surely embellished but only to the point of illustration and believable without being hyper-realistic (e.g.Private Ryan), the movie is a cooker of suspense & action if a bit sentimental.

Speaking of dystopian future supercop movies, I just watched this. Never read the comics so I have no idea how faithful it is, but I still quite liked it. It's not often you get this kind of no-frills unpretentious-but-still-creative sci-fi action B-movie so well done as this.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - June 07 2014 at 15:26

Talking about Judge Dredd or Robocop?

phew ... the 'original' Dredd was far from excellent.

Friday the 13th  (1980)

The simpleminded but fun and seminal slasher film holds up well, which is to say it's as stupid and oddly effective as it ever was with a budget comparable to that of a hotdog cart and enough cute chicks in underwear to still make the original among the best rainy-night-at-home fright flicks.   The only actor to have made it out of this one with a career appears to be Kevin Bacon.

Well yes it's a different animal.  But I get the impression it was not liked, which is too bad.

The last movie I watched was a South Korean movie called BREATHLESS. It's about families trapped in cycles of domestic violence. Very grim and heavy but also a very good movie.