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What non-new films have you seen? (2022 edition)

Started by Famous Mortimer, January 01, 2022, 02:18:34 PM

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zomgmouse

Quote from: Blumf on January 04, 2022, 09:21:31 PMCan't speak for The Final Cut, but the Redux version added a load of bloat that should have stayed on the cutting room floor. Dragged whole film down and ruined the pacing.

Original theatrical cut for me.

I've only ever seen the redux version and I loved it all

samadriel

Yeah, I've only seen Redux, and I liked most of it. I'd like to give the original cut a go though.

Famous Mortimer

I remember being bored by the Redux version, and agree that almost everything they put back in was left on the cutting room floor for a reason (the bit in the plantation, while giving interesting context about the area, was a complete momentum-killer. I did like the bit with the dancing ladies in the helicopter, though).

Small Man Big Horse

To Catch A Thief (1955) - Former cat thief John Robie (Cary Grant) is prime suspect when a bunch of jewels start getting nicked, so he has to deduct who the actual thief is, all the while Grace Kelly is trying to seduce him.
Spoiler alert
Given the lack of possible villains I presumed it was either Grant, Kelly or a mouthy French teenager who was responsible, so the eventual reveal wasn't a shock,
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but this is a pleasure to spend time with as beautiful people wander around stunning locations exchanging very sharp and often very funny dialogue, and Kelly especially is great value when she's all horny. 7.7/10

Rizla

Ragtime (1981)

A wealthy New York family's fate intertwines with that of a talented young black musician against a backdrop of real events of the early 20th century, in Milos Forman's adaptation of EL Doctorow's historical novel.

This got a good few oscar noms but, in the year of Reds, On Golden Pond and Chariots of Fire was destined to come away empty handed - the big injustice is Johnny Gielgud taking best supporting actor for Arthur, over Howard Rollins' sublime turn as ragtime ivory-tinkler Colehouse Walker Jr, whose humiliation at the hands of a crew of godawful racist volunteer firemen, led by Baron Harkonnen, leads him down a one-way street of vengeance (with a young Sam L. Jackson at his side) seeking righteous justice, a one way street that inevitably turns into a cul-de-sac of systemic bigotry.

Fuckin loved this - sure it's a bit sprawling, a bit unfocussed, with several plot lines that go nowhere fast, but what a treat for the glazzballs. Up there with Once Upon A Time In America in the historical depiction stakes, superb Randy Newman soundtrack, marvellous cast (an "oh it's so and so" every 5 mins). Tits. 9.2/10

Famous Mortimer

The Adventures of Hercules (aka Hercules 2)

The one feeling you'll get from this is a vague sense of embarrassment on behalf of the special effects team, Lou Ferrigno, Cannon and everyone else involved in making it. I love a good cheesy movie normally, but this was just awful.

Small Man Big Horse

Silent Running (1972) -
Spoiler alert
Bruce Dern kills his fellow astronauts so that some plants can live, but eventually that doesn't work out so well even, if I don't blame him for making such a decision given the circumstances
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. It's an odd piece, quite simplistic in many ways as we watch Dern's attempts at staying sane alone on a space station with only a couple of robots for company, and as an insight in to obsession and loneliness it doesn't offer an awful lot, but I did find it quite intriguing despite this. 6.7/10

Sebastian Cobb

I saw Silent Running at a very young age (I think it's classified U) and bawled my eyes out at the ending shot, it must've had a lasting effect as I get a bit weepy on re-watches as well.

Funnily enough I saw Samira Ahmed post on twitter her now adult son refuses to rewatch the Wallace and Gromit where they leave the cooker robot on the moon for similar reasons.

Yesterday I watched The Lighthouse (2016), that's not the excellent 2019 one, with Dafoe, it's a dramatised telling of The Smalls Lighthouse Tragedy but it seemed to change enough of the key points that it's practically fiction, and at that point you might as well watch the 2019 one.

Then I watched the Aussie horror Patrick, which was daft and great.

Egyptian Feast

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on January 06, 2022, 03:34:19 PMThen I watched the Aussie horror Patrick, which was daft and great.

I've been meaning to rewatch that for ages. One of those films I caught late night on telly when I was half-cut and enjoyed immensely. Even though it's an extremely dubious and shameful movie, I'm also a fan of the truly demented unofficial Italian sequel Patrick Lives Again. I'm already kindly disposed to any movie featuring sleaze icon Mariangela Giordano (who is never a sign of quality but is such a trouper I'm always struck with admiration) but this piece of shit is so off the rails I had to applaud and then wash my hands.

Sebastian Cobb

Ooh, I didn't know that existed and sounds right up my street, added to the list, cheers!

I've got Braindead/Deadalive pencilled in for viewing over the next couple of days.

Egyptian Feast

I'd better say this in advance then: I really am so very truly sorry.

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on January 06, 2022, 06:38:19 PMI've got Braindead/Deadalive pencilled in for viewing over the next couple of days.

Oh man. I have such fond memories of that and Hard Boiled blowing my tiny mind in the same summer long ago.

amputeeporn

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on January 03, 2022, 05:06:00 PMThen I watched Red Road (2008), pretty good, set around the now gone Red Road flats in Glasgow, it's about a CCTV operator who spots someone she clearly knows from her traumatic past and the unpacking of it.

It's directed by Andrea Arnold who's got that Cow documentary film coming out, I've also seen Fish Tank of hers which was pretty good and bleak as well.

By strange coincidence, I watched her follow-up to Fish Tank* the other night, American Honey, and really enjoyed it. Like an American road-trip version of Fish Tank in some senses - it has a lot of the same themes but on a much larger and flashier (if somehow even trashier) canvas. Shia was great in it as the Fassbender-type of the piece, and the whole thing moved by fairly mesmerisingly.

I'd wanted to watch it for a while but always baulked at the running time and the so so reviews. Anyway, if you find yourself in the mood for a more sun-streaked white (and brown) trash take on the above, it's good. Kind of like a collision between Spring Breakers, The Florida Project and Fish Tank.

Which reminds me, the director of the BRILLIANT films Starlet, Tangerine and Florida Project, Sean Baker, has a new film out (I know not technically the business of this thread), which had passed me by and sounds terrific - Red Rocket.

*Just realised her follow-up was actually an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, but ykwim

zomgmouse

Quote from: amputeeporn on January 06, 2022, 09:27:43 PMreminds me, the director of the BRILLIANT films Starlet, Tangerine and Florida Project, Sean Baker, has a new film out (I know not technically the business of this thread), which had passed me by and sounds terrific - Red Rocket.

Here's a thread I started :) https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=91425.0
it is indeed terrific!!! EDIT: the film not the thread

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

A Mike Leigh joint.

This is like a sort of cinematic Rorschach Test, with Sally Hawkins' endlessly upbeat character, Poppy, as the inkblot: Is she a joyous little pixie, or David Brent-esque nightmare? As an introverted sort, I inferred some sort of trauma in her past - it just isn't normal to have a laugh if your bike gets nicked. As horrible as her bigoted incel driving instructor (played by Eddie Marsan) is, it's tough not to feel some sympathy for him when Poppy repeatedly ignores his instruction and acts like a pillock behind the wheel.

Hawkins and Marsan are, of course, excellent, as are the rest of the cast (although I can't remember who they are).



En ra ha!

Small Man Big Horse

Joy Ride (2021) - Mix of documentary about Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait as they drive from gig to gig talking about their careers, with plenty of very honest observations about the people they used to be, and footage of their stand up shows. And both are great, very funny, very thoughtful and it's fascinating throughout, and at seventy one minutes I just wish it was longer. 8.0/10

Emma Raducanu

Watched Alive on new year's Eve and enjoyed the stuck in wilderness vibe though the acting was pretty bad.

This led me to watch The Edge for the first time. Another film in the beautiful wilderness.

This then led me to watch The Breakdown, which was sort of filmed in the wilderness but not quite what I was looking for. Non the less, I always like Kurt Russell and enjoyed this film.

All decent, under the radar films from the 90s. Made me want to watch more films in the wilderness. Suggestions please.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Rizla on January 05, 2022, 09:03:31 PMRagtime (1981)

A wealthy New York family's fate intertwines with that of a talented young black musician against a backdrop of real events of the early 20th century, in Milos Forman's adaptation of EL Doctorow's historical novel.

This got a good few oscar noms but, in the year of Reds, On Golden Pond and Chariots of Fire was destined to come away empty handed - the big injustice is Johnny Gielgud taking best supporting actor for Arthur, over Howard Rollins' sublime turn as ragtime ivory-tinkler Colehouse Walker Jr, whose humiliation at the hands of a crew of godawful racist volunteer firemen, led by Baron Harkonnen, leads him down a one-way street of vengeance (with a young Sam L. Jackson at his side) seeking righteous justice, a one way street that inevitably turns into a cul-de-sac of systemic bigotry.

Fuckin loved this - sure it's a bit sprawling, a bit unfocussed, with several plot lines that go nowhere fast, but what a treat for the glazzballs. Up there with Once Upon A Time In America in the historical depiction stakes, superb Randy Newman soundtrack, marvellous cast (an "oh it's so and so" every 5 mins). Tits. 9.2/10

I enjoyed this a lot, bit long and sprawling as you say but was good.

Then I watched As the Gods Will, which is basically like Squid Game but with unwilling high school kids as contestants rather than willing people. Apparently there have been accusations aimed at SG but the writer claims they wrote the script years ago. I dunno, it was alright anyway, would've liked it more if I hadn't recently seen SG.

Earlier I watched 8mm which was tonally a lot darker than I was expecting it to be. Good though.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Quote from: Emma Raducanu on January 07, 2022, 09:04:32 PMWatched Alive on new year's Eve and enjoyed the stuck in wilderness vibe
The stuck in the wilderness and resorting to cannibalism vibe?

Twit 2

The killing of a sacred deer.

Brilliant, gripping, loved it. Black humour, stylised unnerving ultra-banal dialogue, crescendo of unease. Recommend this.

zomgmouse

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on January 07, 2022, 05:29:52 PMHappy-Go-Lucky (2008)

A Mike Leigh joint.

This is like a sort of cinematic Rorschach Test, with Sally Hawkins' endlessly upbeat character, Poppy, as the inkblot: Is she a joyous little pixie, or David Brent-esque nightmare? As an introverted sort, I inferred some sort of trauma in her past - it just isn't normal to have a laugh if your bike gets nicked. As horrible as her bigoted incel driving instructor (played by Eddie Marsan) is, it's tough not to feel some sympathy for him when Poppy repeatedly ignores his instruction and acts like a pillock behind the wheel.

Hawkins and Marsan are, of course, excellent, as are the rest of the cast (although I can't remember who they are).



En ra ha!

I always read Hawkins' character as a sort of contemporary analogue to Giulietta Masina from Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Similar indefatigable positivity amidst heartbreaking turbulence, that sort of thing. Truly wonderful film, among Leigh's best.

Egyptian Feast

Quote from: Emma Raducanu on January 07, 2022, 09:04:32 PMWatched Alive on new year's Eve and enjoyed the stuck in wilderness vibe though the acting was pretty bad.

I might be remembering it wrong as it's been many years since I saw it, but I really admired the fella who's the first out of the wreckage, smoking a fag, then does fuck all for the rest of the film and gets rescued. I think he's on the video sleeve too.

A hugely inspiring character, up there with Eric Stoltz in Anaconda, who is stung by a bee in the throat and suffers a makeshift tracheostomy, which I wouldn't wish on anybody, but then he gets to spend the rest of the film in bed avoiding all peril until he wakes up feeling refreshed just as the credits are about to roll. Disaster movie goals.

sevendaughters

there are some scenes in Happy-go-Lucky that annoy me beyond words, to the same level of a Boris Johnson speech or a Nick Ferrari broadcast. the slight falseness, the toxic positivity, the inability to read each other, the broken communication, the weird bullying feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqj6w0yW_Xc

watched Videodrome on blu-ray. Never seen before.  Not entirely sure what I was expecting here actually - Scanners has lots of great gory weirdness while DC's later films are all quite...serious and moralistic in tone. I guess this is somewhere in the middle, with a lot of strange and stylised body horror (that is always too cartoonish to be taken entirely seriously) living alongside a grubby world in the television that seems oddly detached and real. The additional and conscious layers of psychosexual material and media critique (the television is more real than reality, but it controls your desires) kind of get picked up and put down when narratively convenient rather than, for me, representing a completely coherent thing. But they're challenging and provocative and the film is a good 15 years ahead of the basic idea of The Matrix, though at times I was just longing for another inventive but ultimately meaningless 'experience' film like Scanners.

Sebastian Cobb

I think some of the predictions made for television on Videodrome got the medium all wrong, the 'Soon we will all have television names' seems more prescient of Youtubers and Instagram influencers than the one-way medium of television.

It's one of my favourite films though, so brilliantly pulpy.

Blumf

Brian O'Blivion was supposedly based on philosopher Marshall McLuhan and a quick brose of wiki shows he may have been ahead of the game on media. Pity he didn't get to see mass social media.

zomgmouse


Famous Mortimer

The Freeway Maniac

Cannon produced this, but it's weird even by their standards. A woman is on her way to an audition, but gets almost raped by three people in a row, one of whom is an escaped murderer - he killed his parents as a kid and has been in a very gently guarded facility since then. Her escape makes her a minor celebrity, so she gets a role in a cheesy low-budget sci-fi movie (this all happens in the first half hour).

The killer escapes again, shockingly easily, and heads for the movie set. It's sort of a comedy, there's plenty of gore, and no freeways. I really liked it.

Famous Mortimer

Bloodsucking Bastards

Really surprisingly good. Fran Kranz and Joey Kern are office drones, Kranz gets passed over for a promotion in favour of his college enemy, Pedro Pascal, and very rapidly, the office gets taken over by vampires.

There have been a fair few of these office-based comedy horrors, like "Mayhem", "The Belko Experiment" and "Drones", and this is right at the top, I reckon. I really liked the characters and it didn't mess about.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Egyptian Feast on January 06, 2022, 06:37:14 PMI've been meaning to rewatch that for ages. One of those films I caught late night on telly when I was half-cut and enjoyed immensely. Even though it's an extremely dubious and shameful movie, I'm also a fan of the truly demented unofficial Italian sequel Patrick Lives Again. I'm already kindly disposed to any movie featuring sleaze icon Mariangela Giordano (who is never a sign of quality but is such a trouper I'm always struck with admiration) but this piece of shit is so off the rails I had to applaud and then wash my hands.

Started watching this but it was bugging me as when it got to the different people sat at the mansion with secrets getting offed I realised it was lifted from an Indian film I've seen and forgotten.

Edit: found it in my Mubi history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumnaam

Although it's probably likely they were both inspired by the Agatha Christie mystery And Then There Were None.

Egyptian Feast

That sounds great, I must seek that out. I always enjoy a group of strangers with guilty secrets being lured to a remote location and picked off one by one. I'd say it's more likely both were 'inspired by' Christie. Now I'm trying to imagine how she'd describe some of the events in this film. It'd be enough to make her fuck off for a whole month this time.

Dex Sawash

Army of One (2020) cartoon redneck criminal gang kill a vacationing police who stumbled on the crime operation (unclear what it is) but don't fully kill his ex-Army wife so they can be part of a revenge film. Bad script, acting, casting, cinematography, score
A real mess, possibly worst film I've seent

1.4/10