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Divius · Feb 1, 2017

Watched 44 movies in January

TOP 5 NEW VIEWINGS OF JANUARY
5. Manchester by the Sea
4. Moana
3. Toni Erdmann
2. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1. The Big Heat

MOST VALUABLE REWATCH
Ah-ga-ssi / The Handmaiden

WORST NEW VIEWINGS OF JANUARY
Kill the Irishman
Live By Night
Perfetti sconosciuti / Perfect Strangers

Hexxen-Panda · Feb 1, 2017

I saw 16 movies in January!! Not bad.
I finally went into my town's second-run discount theatre. Not sure why I expected it to be like the porn theatres from Taxi Driver. It's actually a rather nice place, if not for some distracting lines on the screen.

Top 5 New Watches in January
-- La La Land
-- The Nice Guys
-- Silence
-- Manchester by the Sea
-- The Young Girls of Rochefort

My favourite rewatch was E.T. Seeing it as an adult is so much more rewarding.

daydream · Feb 1, 2017

felt like a slow start for me so i checked and while i only logged 13 films this month, last january i watched only one more. guess i always need some time easing into the new year

top new watches:

1. la la land
2. the handmaiden
3. bande à part
4. kubo and the two strings

Pachimari · Feb 1, 2017

I saw 22 movies in January, which is also a new record of mine for one month.

Top New Watches:
1. Incendies
2. Locke
3. Mustang
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Only God Forgives

Blader · Feb 1, 2017

Top 5 new watches of January:

1. Silence
2. Dead Poets Society
3. De Palma
4. Cameraperson
5. (tie) El Dorado / Do Not Resist / Hidden Figures

Speaking of which...

Hidden Figures
Light, fluffy, end-of-year, crowd-pleasing Hollywood dramedy fun. I actually didn't know this story at all so it was an interesting piece of history to learn. Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae are the standouts (although Henson has a scene that feels a bit too Oscar clip-y to me). Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, and a glorified cameo by Mahershala Ali make for some solid supporting work too. I liked it.
7/10

big ander · Feb 1, 2017

Top 10 new watches of January
1) The Elephant Man
2) Silence
3) 10 Things I Hate About You
4) Jackie
5) Starstruck
6) Starship Troopers
7) Louder Than Bombs
8) Moonlight
9) I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
10) Signs

Catching Elle later today, Toni Erdmann and La La Land in the next week or so. Then I can get back to catching up on Lynch/rewatching Twin Peaks

Fancy Clown · Feb 1, 2017

Top 5 of January:

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. Persona
3. Embrace of the Serpent
4. Silence
5. Love & Friendship

Best rewatch:
Return of the King

gfxtwin · Feb 1, 2017

Shaolin Soccer: Kung Fu Hustle is still Chow's best movie by far IMO, but several laugh out loud moments in this and I was all in during the last quarter of the movie (the soccer matches). The kinetic feel of the action scenes is pretty fantastic and that alone makes the movie worth watching, but fortunately there are some decent jokes too and Chow is as charming to watch in this as he is in KFH. Kinda wish he would still star in movies, but I have yet to see the new stuff like The Mermaid, maybe I will dig that too. 8.0/10

Nice Guys: I wanted to love it, but all the jokes were kinda obvious (I grew up with a dad very similar to the main protagonists so it was really familiar) but that said, still several funny moments, just wish it reached the highs that Kiss Kiss Bang Bang did. 8.0/10

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: If you like spoof movies (Airplane, Loaded Weapon 1, etc) and campy b-movies, this is worth a watch even if the jokes lose steam in the final act. Humor is like if the characters from MST3000 made their own 50's cheesy sci-fi movie. If you grew up watching that loveable old monster movie garbage there's a lot to appreciate here, as it pokes fun at that genre amazingly well. 8.5/10

phoenixyz · Feb 1, 2017

My Top 5 (of 13) of January
1. Ghost in the Shell
2. Before Sunrise
3. Sing Street
4. Elle
5. Toni Erdmann

Good month.

AngmarsKing701 · Feb 1, 2017

Watched 14 2/3 movies in January, 12 2/3 of which were new. Somehow managed 68 posts in the thread though, so I like talking about movies maybe even more than watching them.

Of the 12 new ones, my top 5:
1. The Nice Guys
2. Sing Street (and thank you to Movie-GAF for the recommendations on this one!)
3. Sicario
4. Hell or High Water
5. Train to Busan

So what's that 2/3 all about? I haven't finished The Wailing. Still have 45 minutes left.

Favorite rewatch was Moana.

Hoping to get a movie watched tonight. Not sure what yet.

Cripplegate · Feb 1, 2017

gfxtwin said:
Kinda wish he would still star in movies, but I have yet to see the new stuff like The Mermaid, maybe I will dig that too.

Mermaid is great. Chow is a real talent behind the camera, and I'd say Mermaid is up there with anything else he has directed.

But, true, I do really miss having him in front of the camera. Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle will probably go into the books as the peak of his creative abilities.

Puck Beaverton · Feb 1, 2017

January Top 5 :

1. Paterson
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Don't Think Twice
4. Scarlet Street
5. La La Land

Best Rewatch: Barton Fink

TheFlow · Feb 1, 2017

January Top 5 in no order

The Young Girls of Rochefort
silence
manchester by the sea
shin godzilla
hunt for the wilderpeople

will be doing a quick write up on new releases for this month.

Vault Dweller 111 · Feb 1, 2017

January top 5 (I think I only saw 5 new movies in theaters for the month):

1. La La Land
2. Silence
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. Moonlight
5. Hidden Figures

Best rewatch was Mad Max Fury Road for like the fifth time, but this time I smoked a bowl before watching. :O :O :O

What a movie.

BaronLundi · Feb 1, 2017

January:

- Iron Man : Marvel movies are mostly shit
- Iron Man 2 : Marvel movies are mostly shittier
- Iron Man 3 : Marvel movies are mostly shit
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (rewatch) : nope, I tried again, I rest my case : boring, twitchy, ugly, tries way too hard, overall embarassing.
- The Revenant : the going was pretty good, the coming back was not so hot
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (director's cut) : "interesting", Stacey Martin was impressive, LaBeouf was pretty good, Charlotte Gainsbourg disappointing. Lars gonna Lars with some excellent filmmaking and a good deal of nonsense. Also a lot of being a sadist to women.
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (director's cut) : yay Jamie Bell, more sadism, morbidly bloated symbolism, an unwatchable

self abortion

scene. Lost me on the way. Non sequitur ending. Best part was the tree.
- The Neon Demon: wtf but pretty. but wtf. triangles. Would've worked better with a main character played by someone actually irresistible. Loved the leftfield ending though.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: I usually hate hate hate that guy Ritchie but this was surprisingly entertaining. Also I have a soft spot for movies that introduce me to cheesy italian love songs so there's that. Alicia Vikander and Armie Hammer are super. Superman not so much.

TheFlow · Feb 1, 2017

for anyone trying to catch up on some critical acclaim movies before the voting/oscars draw near.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1339956

Vault Dweller 111 · Feb 1, 2017

TheFlow said:
for anyone trying to catch up on some critical acclaim movies before the voting/oscars draw near.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1339956

Fences is playing nowhere near me. It's the only BP nominee that I have no idea how to see before the Oscars.

I have to figure something out.

Infernostew · Feb 1, 2017

Top 5 new watches in January:

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Ikiru
3. 8 1/2
4. Rope
5. White Heat

TheFlow · Feb 1, 2017

Vault Dweller 111 said:
Fences is playing nowhere near me. It's the only BP nominee that I have no idea how to see before the Oscars.

I have to figure something out.

yea I owe it to myself to go see that one this weekend.

PushTheButtonMax · Feb 1, 2017

Sing Street: I watched this two nights ago. It's a fun watch; the band-mates and the music really elevate the film. I had to turn on subtitles due to the kid with red hair, not that his dialog was vital. Drive It Like You Stole It will be stuck in my head for a good while. (End spoilers)

I like that the movie in a way gives you two endings: the imaginary gym concert sequence where everything is colorful and hammy and every conflict is resolved, and the real concert that's dark and grimy and the headmaster is still a shithead.

Great film.

orthodoxy1095 · Feb 1, 2017

Watched 11 newmovies in January, I think my top five would be:

Galaxy Quest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Hero
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Lima · Feb 1, 2017

Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

AngmarsKing701 · Feb 1, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

Hell or High Water probably qualifies

thenexus6 · Feb 1, 2017

My January

(Mouse Hunt)
Ratchet and clank
Silence
(Ponyo)
While the Women are Sleeping
Minimalism
Kung Fu Elliot
Sneakerheadz
The Nice Guys
(Jiro Dreams of Sushi)

( )= seen before

lordxar · Feb 1, 2017

I logged 31 films for January which included a number of shorts. My top 10 would be this:

1. Taxi Driver 1976 - What an incredibly iconic movie.

2. Sorcerer 1977 - As much as I loved the Towering Inferno this was too bad ass to put below it.

3. The Towering Inferno 1974 - An amazing disaster film that was competently made and has a massive cast.

4. Resident Evil 2002 - One of my favorite movies.

5. La La Land 2016 - For a singing film this was very good!

6. The Neon Demon 2016 - Some things you just can't unsee

7. Sadako vs. Kayako 2016 - With a better ending this would have been amazing.

8. Paths of Glory 1957 - Very cool WW1 movie from Kubrick who was on point in delivery.

9. The Poseidon Adventure 1972 - I remembered this a lot more fondly than it is. Still loved it but it didn't sweep me like it did in days past.

10. The Phantom of the Opera 2004 - This was painful to get through with all the singing but it was simply gorgeous to look at.

Stalker was a bit meh for me so it doesn't get a top ten spot but I'd do an honorable mention. The other Resident Evils were fun to watch but man that series doesn't really build up very well. So many changes seemingly made on the fly.

TissueBox · Feb 1, 2017

Best new film I watched last month was W. probably.

As for a recent re-watch, I abide by the opinion that Raising Arizona has one of the Coens' most perfect emotional payoffs of an ending put to film, nearly makes it all worth watching just for that. Also the dialogue is practically Shakespearean.

overcast · Feb 1, 2017

Baby Driver premieres next month at SXSW.

👀👀 should be getting impressions/reviews

xrnzaaas · Feb 1, 2017

Morgan was an okay movie, not as good as Ex Machina or Hanna, but still enjoyable. I really liked the cast in this one, the story wasn't exactly a mess but it could've better writing in some scenes

like Lee using the escape Morgan had in her cell all along

. The final twist was among the few I considered

I like cold and heartless Kate Mara <3

, but for quite some time my best bet was on

Morgan using some kind of mind control to influence the staff around her

Still an enjoyable flick even though it could've used a bigger budget (primarily to make Morgan look more plausible as a non-human).

Peco · Feb 1, 2017

Top New Viewings of January:
Medium Cool
Holy Motors
Silence
Arrival
Beware of a Holy Whore
Incendies
In Bruges
Slums of Beverly Hills
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Top Rewatches of January:
Oldboy
The Fly
Symbol
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Ridley327 · Feb 1, 2017

Acid reflux had me all fucked up in January. Here's to a less eventful February, especially as I finalize my top 10 list for the past year!

Top 5 New Watches for January (no particular order)
-Embrace of the Serpent
-O.J.: Made in America
-Silence
-Christine (2016)
-Don't Think Twice

Most Valuable Rewatch: Princess Mononoke

It's only January, and I hate this movie more than anything else: Night of Something Strange

KayMote · Feb 1, 2017

My favorite new viewings in January:

- The 'Apu'-Trilogy (wow, what a cinematic gift!)
- Boogie Nights
- Phoenix
- Sonatine

And I need to talk about one of the best rewatch experiences I ever had:

Chungking Express (1994)
I watched 'Chungking Express' for the very first time around 2 years ago and even though I thought it was kind of weird I sort of liked it, but didn't really love it. For some reason though this movie stayed with me and the feeling it evoked in me kept spinning in my head like 'California Dramin' on repeat. It was in this January when I read Haruki Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' which I loved and that somehow reminded me of this movie - not necessarily because of its story, but more because of its imagery. So one quiet night, when I couldn't fall asleep I spontaneously put on 'Chungking Express' again and this time I loved every single minute of it!
It's so unique, the characters are so tenderly irrational, the images are full of desire and I simply love the camera work here - the city with its hyperactivity, these overwhelming cascades of neon light and its fragmentic lifestyle is being portrayed as this place in which anything seems possible and yet so unreachable. This is simply a masterpiece!

Rhomega Beta · Feb 1, 2017

Top 5 of January:

1. It Follows
2. Boyhood
3. 13th
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Before Midnight

kevin1025 · Feb 1, 2017

Edge of Seventeen getting prominent treatment, I am happy.

brianjones · Feb 1, 2017

i love all of you

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

The Last Picture Show

Bad Day at Black Rock

i love that kind of setting

LeonSKennedy90 · Feb 1, 2017

overcast said:
Baby Driver premieres next month at SXSW.

👀👀 should be getting impressions/reviews

MOTY tbh

Discotheque · Feb 1, 2017

overcast said:
Baby Driver premieres next month at SXSW.

👀👀 should be getting impressions/reviews

God damn. Really hyped to hear if this delivers. Edgar Wright making a straight up car chase movie. I'm expecting some good things.

kevin1025 · Feb 1, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

I haven't seen it yet, but True Stories looked real neat when Red Letter Media did their re:View of it!

overcast said:
Baby Driver premieres next month at SXSW.

&#55357;&#56384;&#55357;&#56384; should be getting impressions/reviews

Darn being Canadian, this one time it screws me over! Can't wait to hear how perfect it is.

T Dollarz · Feb 1, 2017

Only watched 3 movies in January. Working full time and school full time is kicking my ass lately.

1. Silence
2. Split
3. Hidden Figures

I didn't love any of them. All had aspects that I loved, along with some faults. Hoping for a better Feb.

MidnightCowboy · Feb 1, 2017

The Wind Will Carry Us

Third Kiarostami movie I've seen, third masterpiece in my opinion. I want to die amongst those Iranian hillsides, he makes the dirt roads look so beautiful and hypnotic. This movie is just one big poem, so much information is withheld from the viewer. There's like at least 5 characters that you straight up never see on screen, you just hear their voices. It's really hard to articulate what I think about this movie, it's so full of symbolism and just represents such a stark contrast to narrative driven cinema. It also appealed to me because it has a kind of slice of life/hangout feel to it, with characters just chillin in the village, which is always a mode of storytelling that I love.

Borgnine · Feb 1, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

The Straight Story.

swoon · Feb 1, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

junebug
george washington

junebug especially is incredibly detailed and exacting about north carolina

lone star
shotgun stories

Sean C · Feb 2, 2017

44 films logged in January. Woo, unemployment!

Top 5 new viewings:

1. The Killers (1946)
2. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
3. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
4. La La Land (2016)
5. Silence (2016)

Top 5 rewatches:

1. Casablanca (1943)
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
3. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
4. L.A. Confidential (1997)
5. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Gilda (1946): Otherwise known as the movie the inmates watch in The Shawshank Redemption.

An American noir film set amongst the expatriate community in Buenos Aires, Gilda has a distinctly different tone than many of its fellow genre entries from the period due to its setting, as well as director Charles Vidor's making room for a couple of song and dance pieces showing off the abilities of star Rita Hayworth (who had previously enjoyed her biggest success in Vidor's musical Cover Girl). It's a consistently fun watch, powered by the terrific dynamic between Hayworth and costar Glenn Ford, though it's held back from true greatness by a boring secondary plotline (which in some respects feels like it's supposed to be the main plot) about a

tungsten

cartel that really has nothing to do with the characters' relationships. If the film had found a way to make these two things fit together more organically, this could have been one of the great film noirs of the 1940s.

Julieta (2016): On a moment to moment basis, this film is always very watchable, and with commendable acting. The opening scenes primed me for the story to go to much darker places than it ultimately did, but considering this is an adaptation (loosely) of the work of Alice Munro, that really should have been expected. However, the abrupt ending of the film deflates it somewhat. While it's clearly meant to leave some things unresolved, I feel it goes too far, and had Almodovar actually paid off what he seemed to be setting up in a more satisfying manner, this would have been a truly great film.

KayMote · Feb 2, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

I've recently seen Jeff Nichols debut 'Shotgun Stories' which would qualify and that I liked quite a bit. Tense, touching and loaded (no pun intended)!

TheFlow · Feb 2, 2017

Watching Aquarius. Decided to tackle this 2016 backlog once and for all

not psycho · Feb 2, 2017

Top 10 first time watches of January (out of 19):

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
2. The Witch (2016)
3. The Stunt Man (1980)
4. The Lobster (2016)
5. After Hours (1985)
6. The Nice Guys (2016)
7. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
8. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
9. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
10. A Night in Casablanca (1946)

TheFlow · Feb 2, 2017

not psycho said:
Top 10 first time watches of January (out of 19):

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
2. The Witch (2016)
3. The Stunt Man (1980)
4. The Lobster (2016)
5. After Hours (1985)
6. The Nice Guys (2016)
7. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
8. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
9. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
10. A Night in Casablanca (1946)

lot of people watched this one last month

MidnightCowboy · Feb 2, 2017

Does anybody know of/have a good list of critics/film aficionados to follow on Twitter?

Glass Rebel · Feb 2, 2017

Dredd
Pete Travis, 2012

Watched after reading a lot of praise on GAF and found it to be terribly disappointing. Felt like a failed attempt at marrying the tension of The Raid with... something, I guess? Aside from the fact that it looked super cheap and garish for like 90% of the time, there's just nothing terribly exciting happening for most of the movie's runtime. Comparisons to The Raid are unavoidable and this failed to reach that movie's heights in most areas. The complete lack of tension made me question why they went with the lockdown scenario. It has very little bearing on, well, anything. It finally picking up in the last 20 or so minutes wouldn't be such a problem if most of what came before it weren't so terribly boring.

That's not to say that there wasn't anything memorable about it. Lena Heady as villain was pretty dope. The slow-motion sequences looked cool. The mutant mindreader subplot was unique. Judges turning on Judges was interesting (sadly never capitalized upon thematically). Dredd's various tools had potential. But none of these elements ever manage to make up for the movie's glaring weak points.

Also, Karl Urban's constant frown was hilariously corny. I didn't like it.

Infernostew · Feb 2, 2017

Lima said:
Anyone have some recommendations for small town America movies? Either about the subject or just that the story is set in one.

Groundhog Day
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (watch the TV series first if you haven't seen it)
Blue Velvet

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