What did you watch last week? (10-08/10-14)

Here is what I watched:

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 9/10
Cult of Chucky (2017) 7/10
The Conjuring 2 (2016) 8/10
The Craft (1996) 6/10
The Lure (2015) 10/10
The Box (2009) 7/10

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Hey SK. They do tend to go on don't they. They're all a little cray cray if you ask me.
Another slow week for me. Hard to watch movies when your eyes are full of tears.

The Apartment-1960- Just a plain great movie. -8.5

Eating Raoul-1982- It's a black comedy cult film about a couple who kill swingers and steal their money
so they can open a restaurant. -7

Mystic River-2003- Great stars and great acting. Penn and Robbins were great in this movie.
For me that's where it stopped. It's a convoluted and uneven story. They added so much information
and tried to tie all these characters together that for me it got ridiculous. -6

Started to watch season 2 of People of Earth.
Continuing with Sunny

Totally agree on Total Recall.

Event Horizon (1997) - a good first hour and it seems as if the writers didn't know what to do. The premise was good but the execution was bad. Why this has a cult following is beyond me. 6/10

Meadowland (2015) - a young married couple's son is kidnapped and probably dead. A year later we check in on the couple who are struggling with the loss. The movie doesn't really go anywhere. The ending is weird and nothing is resolved. The only thing the movie proves is that Olivia Wilde can act. I thought she gave a good performance in a driftless movie. 6/10

Paths of Glory (1957) - a great anti-war movie from Stanley Kubrick with great performances from Kirk Douglas and George McCready. No Oscar noms for this movie is just crazy. A great battlefield scene at 29 minutes focused on Douglas leading the charge. 9/10

Resident Evil (2002) - I watched this at the behest of croft a poster on here. This is not as bad as I thought it would be. I didn't realize it was a zombie movie. Milla Jovovich is hot and she spends a lot of the movie is some form of undress. The movie and I assume the entire franchise is geared toward teenage boys. 6.5/10

Touch of Evil (1958) - a haunting and complex film noir with some great cinematography. Orsen Welles was great as the grotesque villain. Heston was miscast. A whole bunch of cameo appearances. 8/10

Diabolique (1955) - first time seeing this one. A wife and mistress of a cruel school headmaster conspire to kill him. Great atmosphere and some sold performances. Hitchcock wanted to do this movie but lost out on the book rights. The ending is open to interpretation. This is a french language movie. 8.5/10

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - great depiction of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression following a family from Oklahoma to California. Some may think it is pro communist but I think it is pro survival. This movie is comfort food for the mind. 8.5/10

I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - A Canadian nurse goes to the Caribbean to care for a woman who is in a trance like condition. Not a bad little movie at only 68 minutes. Some good voodoo scenes and a great ending. Zombies were a lot more docile in the 1940s. 7/10

Cache (2005) - another french language film which won a bunch of awards back in 2005. A man and his wife start receiving videotapes of themselves going about their daily lives. The husband suspects who the perpetrator is and has to confront some ugly things about his past. The movie is one big allegory re collective guilt and memory. 7.5/10

Strange Days and Goodbye Solo.



"I Am the FBI."

Jason X
Wonder Woman

The Case For Christ (2017) was the only movie I watched last week that I hadn't already seen.

08:30 AM
On a Monday
Bulgaria, EU

I have only seen Total Recall. I agree with you. But how about that lift through the center of the Earth, tho? Cool and totally something that could work. Also, lense flares galore!!!

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Eggsy is back, and he's a proper spy now. He has his colleagues, his girl, his mates. And then a delightfully evil Julianne Moore makes a mess because she wants to make drugs legal? So he goes to America for help from The Kingsman's brother chapter, The Statesmen. There a surprise awaits. Blah blah blah, fighting fighting fighting, ELTON JOHN, robots, the good guys save the day in the last minute. Not as good as the first one, still fun though. The performances were great. The story was a little on the blah side. The fight scenes were a little disorientating. THE SOUND LEVELS WERE DEAFENING! Still, it had some fun moments, but I probably would've liked it less if I didn't see it on the big screen. A solid 6 out of 10 robot arms.