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Divius · Aug 1, 2016

July Wall of shame:

Remember:

DO NOT just post the title of the movie you wratched. It isn't conducive at all to the kind of discussion & communication we want to engender here, because it tells us nothing of you, the movie, the impact of the latter on the former. Post scores, descriptions, essays, poems, gifs, hashtags, whatever provides you the best outlet for personal expression, you unique little digital snowflake. Also, Marvel movies are mostly shit. - icarus-daedelus

Interesting movie listing/rating sites:

Letterboxd
iCheckMovies

Our ICM group: http://www.icheckmovies.com/groups/neogaf/

Regs on such sites:

- Post your top 5 of July!

- Are you new to the Movies You've Seen Recently threads? Let us know a bit about yourself:

1. What's your favorite Movie?
2. Who's your favorite director?
3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses?
4. Favorite Genre(s)?
5. What's your favorite performance in film?

- Unsure of what to watch?

ICM has a compilation of many official movie lists with lots of interesting recommendations. Or you could ask members in the thread; we don't bite. Participate!
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July thread.

thenexus6 · Aug 1, 2016

Small month for me.

Kikujiro
North by Northwest
Hana-Bi
Vertigo
Under the skin
Hail, Caesar
Ant-Man

All rewatches apart from Under the Skin and Hail Caesar. Under the Skin was very good, Caesar fell kinda flat for me.

Divius · Aug 1, 2016

Watched 29 movies in July

TOP 5 NEW VIEWINGS OF JULY
5. The Nice Guys
4. Quai des Orfèvres AKA Jenny Lamour
3. Hithcock/Truffaut
2. Goksung AKA The Wailing
1. Bakushû AKA Early Summer

Honorable Mentions: The Neon Demon / Sing Street / Love & Mercy / Gates of Heaven

BEST REWATCHES OF JULY
An American Werewolf in London
Punch-Drunk Love
Suspiria
Once
Walkabout
Paris, Texas

WORST VIEWINGS OF JULY
Results
The Purge: Election Year

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared · Aug 1, 2016

July felt like a really underwhelming month in the cinema even though I saw so much good stuff.

Best

The BFG
The Neon Demon
Summertime
Sunshine on Leith
Mustang
Winter's Bone
Frances Ha
Maggie's Plan
Mistress America

Worst

The Hangover
Ghostbusters
Ice Age Collision Course
That top cat movie
To Rome With Love
Absolutely Fabulous the movie
The Legend Of Tarzan

And on that note

I remember many years ago, in that mystical time of 2009. I went to the cinema with my friend cos thats we used to do (and still do actually, we see movies) to see The Hangover. We were both 16 at the time. He really liked it, and still quotes it at me to this day, but even at the time I didn't like it, although I didn't know exactly why, cos I was even stupider at 16 then I am at 23.

Having rewatched it now... I still don't like it. I think it has a great premise, not 100% original but still a great premise. Just don't like it. Don't like the random... I can't think of the word, that American style of comedy this movie does, I don't like the celebrity cameos, I don't like the main cast. Couple of laughs here and there, but missed the 6 laugh quota. Its also immature, smug, puerile, and stupid. Which I would easily get over if it were funnier, but it isn't, so boo.

BeeDog · Aug 1, 2016

Saw Ghostbusters, and I guess it was alright. It was funnier than I thought, but what struck me the most was just how safe and unoriginal it felt. I didn't mind the women, but they were quite undeveloped, especially the black woman and the crazy gadget-maker. It took a long, long time for the movie to get anywhere, and the villain guy was such a non-entity and plain bad. All the callbacks to the original movie were alright, though some of them felt very forced. Surprisingly enough, Chris Hemsworth's idiot character was the best part of the movie. I don't regret seeing the movie, but this is one I won't be remembering next week.

UrbanRats · Aug 1, 2016

I need to curb my shit posting.

I hope to watch more stuff this month, as the heat starts to dissipates, in the back end of the month.

lordxar · Aug 1, 2016

I logged 50 for last month but that includes a lot of shorts. So of that are 20 full length films.

The top five for the month would be:
1. Seven Samurai
2. Ikiru
3. Repulsion
4. Her
5. Ghostbusters

Top five trash:
1. They're Watching (complete garbage)
2. The Last Man on Earth (boring slog)
3. Shaolin Temple 3: Martial Arts of Shaolin
4. Green Room (could have been so much better)
5. Slacker (cool concept but didn't click with me)

Horror top 5 (minus Repulsion):
1. Bloodsucking Bastards
2. The Cars That Ate Paris
3. The Invitation
4. The Bay
5. The House of the Devil

Top five shorts:
1. The House of Ghosts 1908 (very cool early stop motion in parts)
2. The Great Train Robbery 1903
3. Asparagus 1979
4. A Trip to the Moon 1902
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1912

phoenixyz · Aug 1, 2016

My Top 5 of July (of 11 watched):

1. The Truman Show
2. Ikiru
3. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
4. The Trust
5. Hardcore Henry

Fancy Clown · Aug 1, 2016

Watched 11 movies last month (and the 5 David Lynch shortfilms on the Eraserhead bluray), which is at least a big step up over the last few. Most of them were excellent too.

1. Paths of Glory
2. The 400 Blows
3. Brazil
4. Wild Strawberries
5. Three Colors: Blue
6. Kuroneko
7. The Foreign Correspondent
8. Powaqqatsi
9. Walkabout
10. The Neon Demon
11. Star Trek: Beyond

old manatee · Aug 1, 2016

Kelly and Cal: I didn't think this movie was very well written. The characters all seemed oblivious and I didn't buy their motivations. Juliette Lewis is awesome, though.

Bounty Killer: I guess this was like Turbo Kid and Kung Fury. Special Effects are so cheap that people can make these crazy action epics on nothing. It's basically trash, but there are a few 10/10 moments, for sure.

The Breakfast Club: This was my favorite movie when I was in like the 6th grade. I watched a version I taped off of TV that had a bunch of scenes cut out and all of the swears were overdubbed. I saw it like 40 times before I even knew they were smoking pot because they cut the part where they go to the locker and the part where they smoke. I just thought high school kids broke out dancing sometimes.

my favorite overdubbed swear:

original: "Do you slip her the hot beef injection?"

my version taped off network tv: "Do you give her hot love and affection?"

daydream · Aug 1, 2016

top july watches

1. pusher
2. the neon demon
3. pierrot le fou
4. the 39 steps
5. only god forgives

goal for august is to complete refn's filmography and go through the backlog of 2015 movies (sunset song, bone tomahawk, 45 years, et. al.)

Blader · Aug 1, 2016

What's the gif in the OP from? Punch Drunk Love?

Had a full weekend of movies to close out July:

Inside Man
Rewatch. Man I love this. Denzel and Owen are killer, great supporting cast (especially Dafoe and Ejiofor), sharp, funny dialogue, great score, great cinematography. Slick as hell bank heist movie. My only complaint is Jodie Foster's performance, whose take on cavalier evil is mainly just to act twitchy. Not Spike Lee's usual fare, but his best movie for me.
4.5/5

Braveheart
Yes, I've never seen this before. It's a bit long and there are some definite 90s music cues, but I liked it. The battles were cool, I liked the scope of the story, performances were all fine across the board. Didn't realize until afterward that the king was Number Six from The Prisoner.
4/5

Batman: The Movie
Cross-post from the Batman thread:

I liked the TV series as a kid and remember it being bright, colorful camp compared to the Burton/Nolan movies. But I had no idea it was actually this insane and kind of absurdist. From "Support your local police! That's what we're about!" to Kitka's full name to crashing the Batcopter at a foam rubber convention to the whole bomb sequence to the 20 second close-up on Batman's face when he realizes Catwoman is Kitka (and some hilarious music playing in the background) to "We'll leave inconspicuously...out that window"... I mean, I could go on and on. Porpoises swimming into a torpedo! Holy shit.

The script and the tone, and especially Adam West's line delivery, are completely nuts, but so on point about it; no one is shying away from how insane the plot and dialogue are, everyone fully owns and plays into the heavily tongue-in-cheek nature of it. The movie feels much more like it's overtly winking to adults than the show ever did, but maybe I'm just noticing it more than I would have 15-20 years ago.

It's funny, but somehow walks a really odd tightrope between funny and still kind of weirdly engaging in its own way. Hard to explain; this movie works in a way I really can't articulate or fully understand.
3.5/5

Lady Snowblood
Stylish af. Loved the cinematography in this; incredible colors, nice flourishes like the way falling snow or flower petals look, and the geysers of blood all over the place. Story is tight and focused. Flower of Carnage is a great song. I knew Tarantino had used this as inspiration for O-ren in Kill Bill, but I didn't realize just how much of this movie was transplanted into that one. Really liked it.
4/5

The War Room
An interesting, and ironically timely, doc on the inside of Bill Clinton's '92 campaign and how James Carville and George Stephanopoulos apparently changed political campaigning forever...though it's never really made clear what exactly they changed, or what made this campaign so drastically different from others in how it functioned. I like the fly-on-the-wall approach, with the filmmakers dropping you into the action without any explanation, but there's also not much insight into what these guys are doing and why; you're just kind of along for the ride. It's interesting but I didn't find it as insightful as I hoped it'd be.
3.5/5

So with that, top new watches of July:
1. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
2. Lady Snowblood
3. Life, Animated
4. Braveheart
5. Finding Dory
6. Star Trek Beyond
7. Hail, Caesar!
8. Batman: The Movie

Fancy Clown · Aug 1, 2016

Blader said:
What's the gif in the OP from? Punch Drunk Love?

It is indeed

-Stranger- · Aug 1, 2016

Top five for July

1. Deadpool
2. Green Room
3. Shrew's Nest
4. Finding Dory
5. The Gambler

chadskin · Aug 1, 2016

Seen 10 Cloverfield Lane recently and loved it, should've watched this at the cinema.

Freewheelin' · Aug 1, 2016

Watched The Invitation on Netflix last night, surprised at how good it was. Very classy film, the shots are excellently laid-out and there is a slow build up making the horror shocking and visceral. Superb script and performances too.

4/5/5

Messofanego · Aug 1, 2016

Our Little Sister
For a movie about remembering the dead, it sure is sweet and light-hearted but isn't too slight to avoid real drama about these failed families. Loved the atmosphere of a Japanese summer outside the city, but I guess that's quite common in Japanese media since it's a nice escapist environment. The cherry blossom scene is great. As soon as I started getting annoyed with how simplisticly goody-two shoes the youngest sister Suzu was, she finally takes initiative in sorting out these old wounds. Great chemistry and just overall enjoyable.

Why does no one talk me out of the tree? Am I so capable that I don't deserve any attention?

Maggie's Plan
Really good comedy about destiny and the boundaries of control, involving failed marriages, single parenthood, and a love triangle (or quadruple sort-of). There are some killer one-liners ("Like is a language condom"), even a line about a "ball-lift" which got the biggest laugh. The drama fares really well with more complex characters than expected from a romcom. Nothing to write home about with the cinematography other than a couple of good zooms like a surprise announcement during a coffee shop scene between Gerwig and Moore's characters. Ethan Hawke is really good at playing a fuck up, isn't he? While Julianne Moore's accent is ridiculous, it's nice to see her play a colder and more calm character than her usual emotional ones. Greta Gerwig isn't exactly away from her typecast as ditsy and muse-like but here she's at least more active and challenging much like in Mistress America.

One hilarious scene with Maggie's kid in the bath reveals a simple but positive response to the want to clean up every mess ("Why don't you use a sponge? Forget about it!").

It ends cleaner than I would have hoped but hope there's more movies of this quality from Rebecca Miller in the future.

iceblade997 · Aug 1, 2016

The 33.

I was initially skeptical of this, thinking it'd be a generic disaster survival movie. However, having checked the IMDB scores, and realizing it was a real story, I decided to give it a shot. What I got in return was a really powerful movie, of a harrowing tale, that made me feel for the characters (always a good sign and something a lot of movies miss),and kept me glued to the screen even though I knew what the outcome would be. It kept the tension up really well. The moment when

the drill finally breaks through to them

, and the moment when

the rescue capsule comes down for the first time

were exhilarating. Of course some parts did feel contrived. For example, it taking place in Chile but being in English (I imagine this was to make it easier for a global audience than a subtitled/dubbed film), and parts that wind up having very little relevance in the end (

one of the miners being told that he needs to change jobs by his dad I think it was

), but these were a few minor annoyances: the movie found its niche, stuck to it, and executed really well. On the whole though, it was a really good movie, and I liked how it showed really strongly that despite all the infighting, problems, and disagreements, when push comes to shove and fellow people are on the line, people will do whatever they can to help, even against seemingly insurmountable odds.

Valkerionseven · Aug 1, 2016

Just got back from seeing this...

Don't waste your time guys. As someone who lives in Japan, this shit was too real for me, my friends, and all the businessmen and women who were in that theater lol. Multiple people were like throwing there hands up "really!?" "omfg too real" lol. If you want to know what its like to work in Japan just watch this shit and save yourself sometime haha. Super long Japanese business meeting the movie, featuring Godzilla, is what it should be called.

Though the atomic breath scene was literally badass, and the several new attacks apply dubbed by me and my friend "rave beam" and "hype lazer" were cool too. Good scale of Godzilla in the cinematography too. The general point of the plot was good as well, showing the ridiculous bureaucrats of Japan and the complacency of the citizens... but at the same time not asking them to question it lol.

Oh and literally the same soundtrack as Evangelion, din't even remix it or nothing. Pretty sure you could put the Godzilla scenes in this next to the first episode of Evangelion on a side by side and see how similar they are.

In short, Gozilla scenes, ace, though the first few were creepy as fuck/silly looking (on purpose obviously) the other 80% of the movie was literally like watching one of my boring office meetings on repeat for 2 hours.

Oh and there were some cool Evangelion vs. Godzilla promos, that would be an amazing movie, not this. Rent it, fast forward the talking stuff, to the Godzilla scenes.

Rhomega Beta · Aug 1, 2016

Top 5 of July:

1. The Warriors
2. The Enemy Below
3. Lethal Weapon 2
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Kung Fu Panda 2

Blader · Aug 1, 2016

Valkerionseven said:
Oh and literally the same soundtrack as Evangelion, din't even remix it or nothing. Pretty sure you could put the Godzilla scenes in this next to the first episode of Evangelion on a side by side and see how similar they are.

Sold.

Messofanego · Aug 1, 2016

Valkerionseven said:
Just got back from seeing this...

Don't waste your time guys. As someone who lives in Japan, this shit was too real for me, my friends, and all the businessmen and women who were in that theater lol. Multiple people were like throwing there hands up "really!?" "omfg too real" lol. If you want to know what its like to work in Japan just watch this shit and save yourself sometime haha. Super long Japanese business meeting the movie, featuring Godzilla, is what it should be called.

Though the atomic breath scene was literally badass, and the several new attacks apply dubbed by me and my friend "rave beam" and "hype lazer" were cool too. Good scale of Godzilla in the cinematography too. The general point of the plot was good as well, showing the ridiculous bureaucrats of Japan and the complacency of the citizens... but at the same time not asking them to question it lol.

Oh and literally the same soundtrack as Evangelion, din't even remix it or nothing. Pretty sure you could put the Godzilla scenes in this next to the first episode of Evangelion on a side by side and see how similar they are.

In short, Gozilla scenes, ace, though the first few were creepy as fuck/silly looking (on purpose obviously) the other 80% of the movie was literally like watching one of my boring office meetings on repeat for 2 hours.

Oh and there were some cool Evangelion vs. Godzilla promos, that would be an amazing movie, not this. Rent it, fast forward the talking stuff, to the Godzilla scenes.

Sounds great, thanks!

AnkitT · Aug 1, 2016

Top 5 from July:
1. Y tu mamá también
2. The host
3. Bad timing
4. The devils
5. Big trouble in little china

supermarioworldE · Aug 1, 2016

I was dragged into seeing Lights Out with my siblings a few days ago. It was as average and forgettable as any horror movie could be these days. The scares were rare and incredibly cheesy, the writing was on the same level as a soap opera, and the characters were generic and hollow. I really cant understand the good reviews this film has been getting. I was nodding off at several points.

Baroquemantic · Aug 1, 2016

Top 4

1) Speed Racer
2) Spring Breakers
3) Divergent: Allegiant
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4) Pixels

Wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy

Need for Speed
Jem and the Holograms

Infernostew · Aug 1, 2016

Top 5 best watches in July:

1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Wiener-Dog
3. The Green Mile
4. Medium Cool
5. Midnight Special

Top 3 worst in July:

1. The Bourne Legacy
2. Jason Bourne
3. Carnage Park

Best rewatch:

The Bourne Identity

AdanVC · Aug 1, 2016

I barely watch movies since I'm always busy as heck but yesterday I managed to get some free time for a movie and I went all out and decided to watch Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick

I've been a big fan of Stanley Kubrick for years but I've always ignored this film until yesterday and holy crap I think it is now my favorite Kubrick film and one of the best I've ever seen in my lilfe! It's a cinematic masterpiece both technical and story wise. Photography in this film is like a moving painting. It looks like if it was filmed this year due to the majestic quality of the photography. I still can't believe this is image quality from 1975! Dat NASA lenses for natural light tho. I've seen several movies set on the XVIII century but this one is without a doubt the most convincing of them all! It truly immerses you on that era. The story pace is excellent IMO despite being a 3 hour long movie. I didn't get bored through the whole film at all! Always looking forward to see what crazy thing Redmon Barry will do next. The ending was excellent and satisfactory, a bittersweet ending but a pleasant one anyways. So mad this film didn't won an oscar as best film or best Director at that time!

Before watching Barry Lyndon I considered Stanley Kubrick to be one of the best filmmakers of all time, now I considered him the absolute best. Now the only film of Kubrick I have left to see is his last one: Eyes Wide Shut. I will definitely see it this week!

daydream · Aug 1, 2016

Green Room: There is a lot to be conflicted about with 'Green Room' but, ultimately, sharp production design and editing are wasted on cinematography that succeeds at a lot of things, just not at the most important one: The exploration of space. The actual green room never manages to capture the attention of the camera despite being a repeatedly sought narrative haven. In a lot of ways, 'Green Room', as a film, keeps running around in circles without ever stopping and straight-lining it to the centre.

JTripper · Aug 1, 2016

The Invitation: I really enjoyed this one. It uses many elements to create an atmosphere of discomfort and dread in what seems like a very ordinary setting. I like what it went for at the end but I'm not sure if it really satisfied me. It's great for temporary wow factor but I think it goes more for that than commentary on the themes the film presents throughout. I think the ending surely has both going for it but it felt a little thin to me. Nonetheless, it's pretty cool.

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared · Aug 1, 2016

Sunshine On Leith is an outstanding film, an explosion of joy set to the narrative of a drama in a town in Scotland, set to some excellent music by the proclaimers, that has be smiling like an idiot all the way through it. Can't argue with that, loved it to bits.

Ridley327 · Aug 1, 2016

Haven't been posting much in here recently, but you have not been forgotten!

Top 5 New Watches in July (no particular order):
-They Look Like People
-Les Escargots
-Tales of Terror
-The Raven (1963)
-Backcountry

Most Valuable Rewatches: House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death, Pieces, Society, The Return of the Living Dead, Tenebrae

I Got to See These in a Theater, neener neener: Casablanca, Planet of the Apes (1968)

Fuck My Life, I Saw This in a Theater: Labyrinth

Somehow, Substantially Worse than Labyrinth: Microwave Massacre

If you couldn't tell from most of the films I've watched in July, I'm already starting to brainstorm the one and only List for that annual brouhaha in October. One of the unfortunate things is that I have tomes upon tomes of material to help me track down American-made films, but foreign films are, shall we say, under-represented. So, I am calling out to one and all for some recommendations! Here are the guidelines:

1) They has to be from the 80s, because it's the eighth annual marathon I've done, so numerical symmetry blahblahblah.
2) When I say foreign films, I don't mean non-English. I will certainly accept any and all kinds of languages, as long as they do have English subtitles available.
3) Don't feel like you shouldn't recommend something because it isn't a straight horror film. Believe me, I've screened enough hybrids and progenitors in previous years to stretch the definition somewhat. As Tom Atkins was wont to say in another 80s horror film, thrill me.

Secret Fawful · Aug 1, 2016

I've decided the only movies I'm going to watch from now on are the ones on Edgar Wright's list of the 1000 greatest movies, because I haven't seen enough of them, and I need to see all of those.

DeathoftheEndless · Aug 1, 2016

The Lobster is weird. It isn't laugh-out-loud hilarious or overly dramatic because the dialogue is intentionally awkward, but I was captivated for most of it. Its unique and presents an interesting look at relationships.

Divius · Aug 1, 2016

Ridley327 said:
I'm already starting to brainstorm the one and only List for that annual brouhaha in October.

Samesies. <3

If I think of any 80s recommendations I'll let you know.

Expendable. · Aug 1, 2016

July top 5:

5) Kwaidan
4) Ten
3) Pickup on South Street
2) À nos amours
1) The Lusty Men

Also: Pete's Dragon, Cameraperson, and The Childhood of a Leader are very good.

Rhomega Beta · Aug 1, 2016

Citizen Kane

A classic movie about a man who wants to be loved but doesn't quite get it. I've also noticed how this movie inspired Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. I've also read on Wikipedia what innovations this movie took, and I can certainly appreciate the movie for it. It's certainly a worthwhile watch.

lordxar · Aug 1, 2016

I'm more of a free flow person these days so coming up with an actual October list seems difficult. I've got a few ready to go like Krampus and Rocky Horror plus a cheap ass 50 movie set but I know the streaming services will drop a bunch of cool shit like last year so I'm on wait and see mode.

robotrock · Aug 1, 2016

Valkerionseven said:
Just got back from seeing this...

Don't waste your time guys. As someone who lives in Japan, this shit was too real for me, my friends, and all the businessmen and women who were in that theater lol. Multiple people were like throwing there hands up "really!?" "omfg too real" lol. If you want to know what its like to work in Japan just watch this shit and save yourself sometime haha. Super long Japanese business meeting the movie, featuring Godzilla, is what it should be called.

Though the atomic breath scene was literally badass, and the several new attacks apply dubbed by me and my friend "rave beam" and "hype lazer" were cool too. Good scale of Godzilla in the cinematography too. The general point of the plot was good as well, showing the ridiculous bureaucrats of Japan and the complacency of the citizens... but at the same time not asking them to question it lol.

Oh and literally the same soundtrack as Evangelion, din't even remix it or nothing. Pretty sure you could put the Godzilla scenes in this next to the first episode of Evangelion on a side by side and see how similar they are.

In short, Gozilla scenes, ace, though the first few were creepy as fuck/silly looking (on purpose obviously) the other 80% of the movie was literally like watching one of my boring office meetings on repeat for 2 hours.

Oh and there were some cool Evangelion vs. Godzilla promos, that would be an amazing movie, not this. Rent it, fast forward the talking stuff, to the Godzilla scenes.

Sounds amazing.

Rhomega Beta · Aug 2, 2016

lordxar said:
I'm more of a free flow person these days so coming up with an actual October list seems difficult. I've got a few ready to go like Krampus and Rocky Horror plus a cheap ass 50 movie set but I know the streaming services will drop a bunch of cool shit like last year so I'm on wait and see mode.

I've already set up a temporary list for 31 Days, focusing on A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween. I imagine Jacob's Ladder will be on the Mandatory Movies list, considering it's now free on YouTube.

Infernostew · Aug 2, 2016

Rhomega Beta said:
I've already set up a temporary list for 31 Days, focusing on A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween. I imagine Jacob's Ladder will be on the Mandatory Movies list, considering it's now free on YouTube.

I just started throwing a prelim list together. Deciding whether I should do Halloween 1-3 or Friday the 13th 1-3 this year...

element · Aug 2, 2016

Try to watch a movie every night. Sometimes new, sometimes old. Sometimes something I've seen before.

The Rocketeer - This is like a warm blanket. Just fun to watch anytime.
Gleaming The Cube - Another throwback that is just silly fun to watch. Totally stupid, but awesome.
Green Room - Razors edge thriller. One of the best movies of the year.
The Exorcist - Rewatched this for the first time in decades. It is so far ahead of its time. Amazing in every way.
The Nice Guys - Classic buddy movie. Shane Black at his best.
The Huntsman: Winter's War - Couldn't make it past 15 mins.
Boiler Room - Solid ensemble cast. I actually like it over The Wolf of Wall Street.
Everybody Wants Some - Not Linklater best film, but a fun movie.
Heist - One of the better crime movies.
Fastball - If you are a baseball fan this is great. It shows just how professional baseball players are on the edge of what is humanly possible.
London Has Fallen - Stuff blew up.
Midnight Special - Interesting twist on super powers in the real world. Slow burn, but another great story/film from Jeff Nichols.

Ydelnae · Aug 2, 2016

Crush the Skull

Saw it had a 100% on RT and very good reviews. Was expecting a horror film with black humor, but I was left with a watered down Scary Movie. There were highlights like

the main character shouting "I'm a white person" to the cops so they would pay her attention or "I told you the bitch was fucking evil" after the plot twist.

But everything else was mediocre at best.

It's a good movie to watch on a lazy saturday afternoon while you try to take a nap, but not the masterpiece some people were telling me about. I'm kind of wondering if I just watched a completely different movie with the same title.

Rhomega Beta · Aug 2, 2016

Casablanca: I love the game Grim Fandango, and while I've heard it has its inspiration in film noir, I can see how much Casablanca influenced Year Two. Manny is Rick, Ugarte is Chowchilla Charlie, The Blue Parrot is The Blue Casket, and so on. This movie is also a plot point for Overdrawn At The Memory Bank, featured on MST3K. This is still a great film with a good story, motivations, characters, and famous quotes as Rick tries to play the middle ground between French and Germans during WWII.

Kazaam · Aug 2, 2016

Rhomega Beta said:
Citizen Kane

A classic movie about a man who wants to be loved but doesn't quite get it. I've also noticed how this movie inspired Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. I've also read on Wikipedia what innovations this movie took, and I can certainly appreciate the movie for it. It's certainly a worthwhile watch.

Here's a small review by the most popular person in the world.

sora87 · Aug 2, 2016

Just watched Chinatown for only the second time, first was a long time ago. Still really dislike the ending. The music is god tier though.

JoJoShabadoo · Aug 2, 2016

sora87 said:
Just watched Chinatown for only the second time, first was a long time ago. Still really dislike the ending. The music is god tier though.

Why do you dislike it, if I may ask?

MrOogieBoogie · Aug 2, 2016

I recently saw The Searchers (1956) and found it kind of underwhelming. I'm a huge fan of Westerns, but aside from the sets and scenery this movie didn't do much for me. Found most of the characters grating, found the writing and acting hokey, and thought the plot was just silly.

b&jy77VjiKn$#F · Aug 2, 2016

Guys, I need your help. I want to watch The Shining but just found out that there's 2 versions: US and International. Which version should I watch as my first viewing of the film?

Blader · Aug 2, 2016

Went to a 50th anniversary screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly last night. Leone's closeups are really striking on the big screen. It's a hell of a thing having Lee Van Cleef's face tower over you like that.

Ridley327 · Aug 2, 2016

Foolia said:
Guys, I need your help. I want to watch The Shining but just found out that there's 2 versions: US and International. Which version should I watch as my first viewing of the film?

The US version is what Kubrick originally envisioned. IIRC, the European cut was a pretty harsh response to the initial criticism that the film got, so it gutted about a half hour. Reading over some of the scenes that got cut, it seems like the European cut is a good deal more incomprehensible. It could be to its benefit from an atmospheric perspective, who knows! but I think it's safe to say that it's not the ideal way to see it for the first time.

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