Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

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I Am Heath Ledger - The doco made posthumously for the uber talented Heath. It was okay, being brutally honest the movie kind of makes him out to be some supernatural force of love and artistic creativity but then shows some of his music video stuff and its that same pretentious weird art student stuff you see of every indie band ever. Seems like a wonderful creative guy but also an inherently weird eccentric dude with no concept of other peoples lives and time. We always romanticize the deceased and I guess that was to be expected here but it was a touch OTT for me. Stuff about the behind the scenes stuff on Lord of Dogtown, The Patriot and The Dark Knight were really interesting. 7/10
 

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Wind River- Agree with consensus here, really excellent. Nice throwback to the 90's style killer thrillers but with modern sensibilities. 8.5/10

Logan Lucky- Good fun, tight film not that surprising from Soderbergh, lacks a little to make it exceptional but no real flaws to point at. 7/10.
 

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Well, as far as disappointing pieces of s*** go, this is up there.
Manages to take some fantastically unique characters from the original anime and turn them into the most boring, stereotypical and predictable characters ever.

Putting aside my bias from having loved the original, the movie still felt very very rushed, disconnected and lots of things made no sense.

The only redeeming feature was Ryuk, who was creepy, well animated and fantastically voice-acted by Willem Dafoe.
Also Australian Crawl and INXS on the soundtrack. Cool.

3/10, I am intruiged to see what people who haven't seen the anime think of this turdburger.
 

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3/10, I am intruiged to see what people who haven't seen the anime think of this turdburger.
Am one, I didn't mind it. Except for the first scene where he saw Ryuk and tried to emulate an anime reaction which was some of the worst acting ever put on film. Except that I didn't mind it, kinda like Final Destination with an interesting back story. Agree that Dafoe was an excellent choice, probably rate it 5-6/10 because it was mostly fun.
 

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Am one, I didn't mind it. Except for the first scene where he saw Ryuk and tried to emulate an anime reaction which was some of the worst acting ever put on film. Except that I didn't mind it, kinda like Final Destination with an interesting back story. Agree that Dafoe was an excellent choice, probably rate it 5-6/10 because it was mostly fun.
That's pretty fair. Those girly screams were absolutely horrific and it was about at that point I realised what I was in for.
 

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Scum (1979) - Uncompromising, powerful prison drama. Great acting from all, but especially from a young Ray Winstone who's terrifying as a young thug marking his territory. There's several memorable scenes & great dialogue throughout. There's some absolutely brutal scenes, this movie still packs a punch today. 8.5/10
 
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Scum (1979) - Uncompromising, powerful prison drama. Great acting from all, but especially from a young Ray Winstone who's terrifying as a young thug marking his territory. There's several memorable scenes & great dialogue throughout. There's some absolutely brutal scenes, this movie still packs a punch today. 8.5/10
Kudos for catching up with this classic. Ray Winstone became one of my fave actors after i discovered thid.

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The Lost City of Z: James Gray is one of my favorite directors and imo not really capable of making a bad film. It takes a while to get going but is pretty compelling the whole way through despite feeling a little bit mild and unconnected in parts. The performance are fine. Robert Pattinson in particular is excellent and has become a really fine actor. 7.5/10
 
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Another swing-and-a-miss for Netflix and director Adam Wingard alike. Neither are having much luck at the moment. I don't know anything of the source material but I can't imagine it was simplistic as 'Final Destination but with a Willem Dafoe monster' (maybe it is, I don't know) but it was pretty tired and worn material that said nothing of anything (certainly nothing Batman hasn't tried to say for 25 years). Tonally all over the place and pretty dull to. Pass.


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The fact that James Gray is having a hard time just making movies is an indictment on modern film culture, but it's also a testament to his dedication that he attempted something of this scale and executed it swimmingly. He almost made me think Charlie Hunnam is a good actor! The movie itself is breathtaking and one of the year's absolute best.
 
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The Big Sick - a sweet movie with likeable characters and actors (even Ray Romano!). The movie is probably a bit slight, and while it's based on a true story it is probably most interesting for lovingly depicting the modern migrant/2nd generation story in America. The 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes probably had me expecting a bit too much from it, basically expecting an Annie Hall of our times, but it was a good date movie, and nice to see, alongside Master of None on Netflix, these kinds of stories and characters getting told.
 

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Deathnote;

Well, as far as disappointing pieces of s*** go, this is up there.
Manages to take some fantastically unique characters from the original anime and turn them into the most boring, stereotypical and predictable characters ever.

Putting aside my bias from having loved the original, the movie still felt very very rushed, disconnected and lots of things made no sense.

The only redeeming feature was Ryuk, who was creepy, well animated and fantastically voice-acted by Willem Dafoe.
Also Australian Crawl and INXS on the soundtrack. Cool.

3/10, I am intruiged to see what people who haven't seen the anime think of this turdburger.
I can't bring myself to watch it because I loved the anime so much. Best leave it that way me thinks.
 
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American Made - Pretty slick and savvy film about sumgglers working for damn near everyone in the 70'2 and 80's, really well handled and a boatload of fun to boot. Cruise shines (seriously smarmy southern pilot smuggler is just in the little fellas wheelhouse) whilst Sarah Wright, Domhall Gleeson and Caleb Landry Jones all ably assist. 8/10
 

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) - Ridiculously fun, super violent, action movie from Hong Kong. About a young man with supernatural strength who's locked up and ends up trying to reform the corrupt system using martial arts. Knowingly cheesy at times, super gory at others as Ricky unleashes his super-strength punching holes through people and sending people flying. The dodgy special effects adds to it all. I laughed from start to finish. 9/10
 
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