list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

So here in the weekend I watched the last attempt at a Western version of Godzilla, the 1999 one I haven't seen but heard it's apparently quite bad. This one does a very good job at combining both the lumbering cataclysmic dread of the Japanese 1954 original with more conventional Hollywood disaster action, right down to balancing the mythical allegory for humanity meddling with forces they cannot control with a more involved plot and realistic perspective. (two filmmaking traditions that are decidedly different)

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi.

Somewhere. Directed by Sofia Coppola.

Edited by King Only - October 02 2015 at 13:29

Only God Forgives. Kinda disappointing flick by Nicolas Winding Refn. It's just like Fear X, just a bit more visually stylish.

Mænd & høns. Dark & pervert but very smart and funny grotesque black comedy by Anders Thomas Jensen. This might be his finest direcror's work. At least it's no weaker than Adams Æbler.


Edited by ole-the-first - October 02 2015 at 14:45

Feels like Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up re-interpreted as an overt horror movie. Even starts the same main actor, this time playing a pianist who becomes the only witness to the murder of a psychic medium, and several key scenes are structured as explicit homages to that film. As usual for Italian horror movies, it plays more on "dream logic" than traditional narrative rules as the labyrinthine plot makes most sense as allegory involving multiple layers of metaphors for the struggle between esoteric occultism and Roman Catholic Christianity, changing gender roles in the 1970s as well as the existential alienation and spiritual atomization of the individual subject inherent in modern civilization.

The cinematography, while not quite as overtly surrealistic as the other film of Dario Argento's I've seen, is also still quite something. He makes extremely well thought out use of the geometric symbolism in the architecture filmed on as the backbone of the visual compositions, as well as chiaroscure colour contrasts puncutated by red and green complimentary highlights.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - October 05 2015 at 06:15

Rush.  Nice one.  A lot more engaging than the typical bland sports movies and brought out the clash of personalities between Lauda and Hunt very well.  My dad doesn't like F1 (hates it, more to the point) and he sat down to watch the film, finding it to be interesting.  

On The Waterfront.

dr wu23 wrote: Jupiter Ascending   Earth girl ,Mila Kunis, discovers she is an alien princess. With the help of a modified human, Channing Tatum,  she fights the evil space lords and wins ownership of earth. For sci-fi fans only....good special effects but weak tale.

Yes only for sci-fi fans which i am not, but i watched it... I found Mr. Tatum kind of funny with his look.

^ Completely depraved story and characters, no sympathy for any of them.   Repugnant film.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Surprisingly undisappointing sequel with James Spader perfectly cast as an angry but brilliant AI android unleashed by a mind-altered Tony Stark.   Perhaps not quite as entertaining as the first but a decent script was proffered and the visual effects are well-rendered.