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Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Apocalypse Now
Paris, Texas
Amlie
Inglourious Basterds
Snatch
O Brother Where Art Thou
Fargo
Black Swan
Sin City
Casino
Scarface
Requiem For A Dream
The Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
The Shining
Goodfellas
The Godfather

I'm replacing The Godfather II with The Wizard of Oz. Watched it for the first time ever, in full HD, on Halloween night. Mind-boggling technological marvel for 1939, and the movie itself is pure magic. I spent most of the movie with my jaw dropped. I was not expecting that. Bit ashamed to have overlooked it all my life.
 
The movie criticism show I really liked was Michael Phillips and AO Scott.

It was what ended up being the end of the line of the show that started as Siskel and Ebert at the movies. It morphed a bunch of times. Siskel died. There was Ebert and Roeper, then Roeper for a long time with various guest hosts. At one point it morphed into Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.

The very last thing - and the very best IMO - was Phillips and Scott. I really enjoyed that. I wish that could have lasted but it died after a fairly short time.


Then Ebert tried a web-based weekly show which I watched. It had Christie Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevestsky (sp?). She was okay. He was one of the few guys I have found less useful than Ebert. And somehow less appealing too. That's not easy. And Ebert would do a few reviews too. Just to piss me off.



But I still watched religiously. But it petered out. I really like that kind of show - I like the video reviews - but I guess it's not viable as a full-fledged show any more. Roeper has regular video reviews on his website now. Phillips is doing a bit more video stuff these days.

Would love if they could reboot the Phillips and Scott thing but nothing is leading me to believe it is in the cards.
 
Freaks (1932) - While I have seen many a reference to this iconic piece of work from the early days of film in many places, I had never sat down and watched it start to finish.


It is a fascinating thing, this movie. First of all there are the actual freaks and it's like, jayzuz would you look at that. But then there is a transition. Before you know what happened, you have slid into a very thoughtful story. But then there is the disturbing (but cathartic) twist - and then an ending which at first seems so absurd I just laughed it off, you gotta be kidding. But the more I think about it, the more genuinely creepy it becomes. I rewatched the ending on YouTube later and it was more like, Ohhhhh shit.

All presented in an economic 64 minutes.

This is a fascinating piece of movie history. It was rejected when released and banned in many places - only to be rediscovered 40 years later and gain a well deserved cult status. To give it a proper rating, points would have to be deducted for some of the acting, and some of the line-by-line scripting - but then big bonus points have to be added for extreme ballsiness, a great message, and also that jolting moment of really effective creepy horror, perhaps the creepiest I have ever seen in a movie.


I give it an 8/10.




One of us, one of us, gooble gobble, gooble gobble . . .



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The Tree of Life (2011) - Well I watched it through to the end so anyone who wagered on that is very happy because I believe the line was +900.

I don't know why I watched the whole thing. I started to suspect pretty fast it was not going to work. That early impression was correct.

Tedious, drippy, claptrap. That's about all I can say. Two hours of exploring a family dynamic that could easily be explained in about 3 sentences.

Like, my god, I wish there was a 6 hour director's cut. After the two hours I saw, I'm not quite sure if the dad is more of a dick than the mom or not. Maybe another 4 hours would clear that up.

There were about 3 scenes that sincerely moved me (totaling about 47 seconds altogether). Then there were a bunch of scenes where I was not necessarily moved but I found a commendable authenticity. But nothing came of any of it. It was all just a lot of public zit-squeezing on the part of Terence Malick.

And oh my gawd, the whispered voiceovers. Not a big fan of voiceovers in general but there needed to be a special Razzie for Achievement in New Lows in Voiceovers

Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to your door.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.


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3 out of 10
 
we watched Sinister last night... as far as the last few years of recent horror movies go, this was one of the better ones i have seen... ethan hawke plays a has been writer digging for a gruesome script...moves his family into the house where 4 people were hung (doesnt tell wife or kids its the house where it happened..goes over reaaaal well when she finds out :lol: ) ... its nothing great, but held my attention the whole way, which is better than most of the stupid horror shit ive seen in years... the broad was all hanging on me and squirmy and, well , you get the idea...mission accomplished :highfive: .. 6.5 matty rains

 
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