list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

haha.  that fox speaking is so cheesy....

I am about to watch another film titled "antichrist" from 1974.... perhaps it will be better....

I just watched There Will Be Blood... it was genuinely brilliant up until the very end, which I didn't think made a lot of sense or had any real emotional grip and felt like an overly messy contrived climax without any real driving force or integrity. If it weren't for that scene, I'd give it a solid 10 but with it, an 8.

 ^ isn't it?   just utter class

manofmystery wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: I just watched There Will Be Blood... it was genuinely brilliant up until the very end, which I didn't think made a lot of sense or had any real emotional grip and felt like an overly messy contrived climax without any real driving force or integrity. If it weren't for that scene, I'd give it a solid 10 but with it, an 8.     I liked it.  SPOILER: He beat that kids head in with a bowling pin!  Daniel killing him makes perfect sense, and everyone should have seen it coming as soon as that scene started, but the director still managed to present it in a way that left theater audiences speechless (at least the one's I was in).  Plus, had they ended the movie differently then they couldn't have claimed "There Will Be Blood".

MANY MANY SPOILERS:

OK. Well up until that last scene you had a rich ambiguity between Eli's evangelism, greed and self-aggrandisement. Once that was stripped away I felt his actual character was more or less finished anyway and consequently the actual violence seemed completely irrelevant after his breakdown. Equally, the number of mood swings Daniel went through in one scene seemed to have no particular driving force.

I don't really see why Daniel kills Eli then except that it's the end of the film. I suppose thematically you can say that when the two other aspects of blood treated by the film (family and the blood of christ) have both failed and broken down, then only violence remains. I thought the bowling pins thing was just ridiculous and felt highly choreographed and stylized by comparison to the brutal realism of the other deaths and violence in the film.

TGM: Orb wrote: MANY MANY SPOILERS: OK. Well up until that last scene you had a rich ambiguity between Eli's evangelism, greed and self-aggrandisement. Once that was stripped away I felt his actual character was more or less finished anyway and consequently the actual violence seemed completely irrelevant after his breakdown. Equally, the number of mood swings Daniel went through in one scene seemed to have no particular driving force.

manofmystery wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: MANY MANY SPOILERS: OK. Well up until that last scene you had a rich ambiguity between Eli's evangelism, greed and self-aggrandisement. Once that was stripped away I felt his actual character was more or less finished anyway and consequently the actual violence seemed completely irrelevant after his breakdown. Equally, the number of mood swings Daniel went through in one scene seemed to have no particular driving force.   You didn't enjoy Daniel forcing Eli to yell out: "I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition!"? Daniel has violent and verbally abusive outbursts throughout the film so his behavior at the end makes perfect sense.  He has also obviously grown crazier with age, decades of excessive drinking, and loneliness and sees this final destruction of Eli as a way to get some small bit of satisfaction.  At least, that's what I saw.

Well, I thought that part was pretty good, even if it didn't really match the interest Eli held earlier. Earlier in the film, I thought Daniel's range of mood swings seemed more motivated. It was the killing that seemed rather ineffectual (and personally, I would've liked it to fit with the more realistic deaths earlier in the film) given he has already crushed an impoverished Eli and compelled him to discredit himself for perceived financial gain. Maybe if the old age part had been developed a bit more and lasted a bit longer I'd have liked it more.

Atavachron wrote: CinemaZebra wrote: Deadline-USA with Humphrey Bogart is an underrated gem with good characters and an intriguing plot. It ends kind of abruptly, but the sheer awesomeness of it is so good you probably won't care. Probably. 3.5/4 Shells young people still watch old movies?  really?  good for you, there's hope in the world

Watch them? I was RAISED on Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton, and Peter Lorre!

Atavachron wrote: excellent, I used to spend my weekends with Hitchcock, Abbot&Costello, and all the bad monster movies of the 1950s.. nothin like it

Hitchcock is the MAN. Along with Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, and maybe Harold Lloyd, depending on the situation.

You've seen a movie before, Matt? 

Atavachron wrote: A Person wrote: Atavachron wrote: excellent, I used to spend my weekends with Hitchcock, Abbot&Costello, and all the bad monster movies of the 1950s.. nothin like it My parents didn't watch much old stuff, but I've seen a few Abbot & Costello films. ^ love them, and a few were downright superb, like A&C Meet the Invisible Man, In the Foreign Legion, or Meet Frankenstein

I remember Hold That Ghost pretty well.