APFSDS Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 rewatched This is England I remembered it differently. I saw it 10 years ago. Hah. Still, a good movie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sober4life Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 The Joker It was great. Like him I've been an extreme outsider my whole life and extremely mentally ill and the world has been against me from day one and like him I haven't been happy one moment in my entire life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epictetus Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 can't recall the name, but it was an old movie starring Conrad Veidt. He played two twin brothers. One was a Nazi spy and the other a book shop owner. It was memorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofthelight Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 9:05 PM, Bulgakov said: "Freeway" 1996, Reese Witherspoon, Keifer Sutherland. Reese's character is developed throughout the movie, but she doesn't really learn anything . . . because in her own profane way she maintains a firm grip on what she considers good and bad in the world. Her skanked out, hooker mom (Amanda Plummer) and mom's live-in horn dog, are separated by CPS/Police. Reese escapes and goes on the lam--she's 16 or 17--to search for her grandma. Her adventure on the way is the story. It also stars Keifer Sutherland as a the psycho freeway killer--all in the beginning, no spoiler. I ran across mention of this when looking at old Siskel/Ebert reviews. Both gave it a thumbs up. Most of all it's hilarious. In one scene, a black detective interviewing her off-handedly slurs her trailer-park lineage. She lashes back with a string of racial epithets that you might have imagined but never actually heard before. The funny part is that viewers know her boyfriend back at the park is black. She's not racist, she just doesn't like people messing with her. Bulgakov This movie is on my all-time favorites list! Found it years ago somewhere (I don't remember, but probably in the 90's at a rental store) and loved it from jump!!! I warned friends and family that on the first viewing, you don't know whether to run away or laugh. The thing is, when Reese is interviewed or her career is noted for its variety and longevity, Freeway never comes up in the conversation. WHY????? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) She Says She Didn't Do It/Violation Of Trust (1991) Things were always being 'violated' or 'shattered' in 90s made for TV movies. This is the only time I've seen Katey Sagal in anything but Married With Children, and she and most of the cast give very good performances. It's yet another teenage m*rder story, and the mystery involved is at first interesting. It eventually devolves into a pretty stupid, contrived Agatha Christie-type mess in the end. The story is also another instance in which teens involved (or seemingly involved) in someones d*ath could have avoided a whole lot of trouble if they had simply told the truth from the beginning. Edited January 24, 2020 by SqueezeWax 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sober4life Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 41 minutes ago, SqueezeWax said: She Says She Didn't Do It/Violation Of Trust (1991) Things were always being 'violated' or 'shattered' in 90s made for TV movies. This is the only time I've seen Katey Sagal in anything but Married With Children, and she and most of the cast give very good performances. It's yet another teenage m*rder story, and the mystery involved is at first interesting. It eventually devolves into a pretty stupid, contrived Agatha Christie-type mess in the end. The story is also another instance in which teens involved (or seemingly involved) in someones d*ath could have avoided a whole lot of trouble if they had simply told the truth from the beginning. Katey Sagal is great in Sons of Anarchy too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_chick Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I watched The Last House on the Left I think I'd seen it before when I was a young teen but mostly forgot about it. Very intense! Would recommend for horror fans. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 On 1/24/2020 at 6:28 PM, sober4life said: Katey Sagal is great in Sons of Anarchy too. I forgot that I did see her a couple of times of 8 Simple Rules, and the sight of her playing a run of the mill, white bread sitcom mom completely unlike Peg Bundy was surreal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) Candyman (1992) This was the very first horror film I ever saw, when I was about 5 years old after it first came out on VHS, and my older brother and his best friend watched it on repeat. We chanted "Candyman" into the mirror to see what would happen. I last time I saw it was over 15 years ago, and I forgot about half of what happens in the film. It is heavily reminiscent of the Nightmare On Elm Street films, at least the positive aspects of those films. It's approach 'broader' than I remembered, but not as campy as the NOES movies. I love Virginia Madsen, and think she should have become a bigger star. Edited January 27, 2020 by SqueezeWax 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sober4life Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 1917 It was good enough to make me sit through the whole movie which is something I haven't done in years. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epictetus Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 "Days of Glory" 1944 film 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atra Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 On 1/28/2020 at 4:14 PM, sober4life said: 1917 It was good enough to make me sit through the whole movie which is something I haven't done in years. I liked it too. It wasn't the kind of movie I expected, I presumed an epic battle film. Still enjoyed it. Finally saw Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker not very long after watching all the prequels in numerical order. I get why many call it a flawed capstone, largely unavoidable, but I felt it was pretty good. I went into the film without huge expectations, ready to embrace it rather than tear it down or to be let down. Glad I saw it before it left theaters. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epictetus Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 "We Were Soldiers" on TV. Its been a year since I've seen something at the cinema. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evalynn Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Last night I was a in a romcom mood, so we watched Always Be My Maybe on Netflix. I thought it would be a cute, little romcom but it ended up being really hilarious too. Keanu Reeves shows up halfway through the movie to play a crazy, d-bag version of himself in some of the funniest scenes I remember seeing in a long time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APFSDS Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Truth and Justice, 2019 not bad for a "local" movie, 8.9 on imdb... wtf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 To D*e For (1995) I've seen it almost ten times by now, but this was the first time I emphasized with Susan Stone. Her husband demands that she abandoned all her unrealistic dreams and devote her entire life to helping him fulfill his. I can relate to someone who knows what they want but doesn't know how to get there and isn't equipped to begin with to attain those things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epictetus Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 2001: A Space Odyssey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Female On The Beach (1955) I finally got around to watching this film last night, because I was bored to death with nothing else to do, and I'm so glad I did. It was one of the few Joan Crawford films from the '50s I hadn't seen. It is as wonderfully campy as most of her other films from that decade. She plays yet another b*tch and I laughed out loud several times at her sassy dialogue and delivery. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) I watched Affliction after finishing the Russell Banks book the night before. I hated it. I thought Nick Nolte and James Coburn, who won a damn Oscar for this, were terrible. I think it if only their two parts were cast differently, it would have salvaged the film. It felt like a Lifetime movie mixed with those cheesy reenactments from true crime shows or Unsolved Mysteries. Some parts were even unintentionally funny. Edited February 23, 2020 by SqueezeWax 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 When A Stranger Calls 1979 I'd seen it before, and thought it was a decent made for TV movie. I was shocked to find after watching it a second time that this was a theatrical release, and a pretty big hit. It is not too different from the earliest slasher movies made around the same time as Halloween. The violent content is very mild, and it plays a lot like an episode of Kojak or Columbo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atra Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 The Foreigner (2017) Jackie Chan blows stuff up, beats up Irish people. It's ok to be looking at your phone while watching this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofthelight Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Belle du Sueigneur -- the second worst movie I've ever seen. (The first is Blair Witch Project.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark250 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 11:37 PM, sober4life said: The Joker It was great. Like him I've been an extreme outsider my whole life and extremely mentally ill and the world has been against me from day one and like him I haven't been happy one moment in my entire life. Same here. I'm not sure about the Joker being portrayed as an illiterate with the handwriting of an infant, but I did like the political and topical aspects, such as Thomas Wayne is now a corrupt 1%er and a brute. Also, loved the talk show theme throughout the film and was completely taken by surprise at what Joker does on that show. However, in regards to what Joker does and says on the Murray Franklin show; "you get what you f***ing deserve." This is actually a glaring error in writing and dialogue. I'm not sure how many other people have noticed this, but when you think about it, that line doesn't seem to make any sense. Is it not the fact that for literally the whole of Joker's life this man has NOT been getting what he deserves and this is what it has led to? Anyway, good film. Society is indeed an utterly heartless cesspit. It's enough to make anybody crazy... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epictetus Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 "The Champ" [the version directed by Franco Zeffirelli] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueezeWax Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 The Legend Of Lizzie Borden (1975), starring Elizabeth Montgomery. I try to avoid true crime, but I made an exception for this because I've been wanting to see more 70s made for TV movies. Even though there have been far more brutal crimes committed, this case still unsettles me in a way that many don't. I think the antiquated 'Gay 90s' setting makes it a little creepier than crimes committed since then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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