The Last Movie You Saw?

[jexxica]

Elle. I hope Huppert wins the Oscar!

 

[gius]

Mon homme Godfrey 1957

 

[Belowen]

Suicide Squad

 

[softgrey]

not sure if this counts as a movie...
But everyone should watch...
available now On Demand and Youtube
Part 1


Part 2

 

[jexxica]

I rewatched Alien after many, many years.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

The Duff- Cute. The lead was fantastic!

 

[Pricciao]

Yi Yi
L'ombre des femmes

 

[Belowen]

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

 

[MissMagAddict]

Over the Edge [1979]

 

[jexxica]

Netflix's 13Th. A must see.

 

[Pricciao]

最愛(Passion)

 

[jexxica]

The Lego Batman Movie

 

[jexxica]

A cure for wellness. Amazing, loved it! It takes unexpected turns in such a cool way.
Rings. Boring and predictable.

 

[Phuel]

I rewatched Alien after many, many years.

Still the best one of the Alien franchise. At once so simple and so rich.

Watched Irreversible again.

I remember when this film first came out and all the buzz that surrounded it. I also remember seeing it a year or so later after its theatrical release. I was in my early-20s then.

Nearly 15 years later, and having watched it again, I feel the same shock and awe— but immediately also understand the social and political context that gives this story a much more horrific, doomed sensibility far and beyond the tragic event that I first accepted it as then. (The only other film I can recall that has such an effect on me in terms of the catalyst is the gang-r*pe scene in Casualties of War.)

It would be interesting to see the kids coming of age now that view social politics so idealistically (OMG— you said the N-word 30 year ago so you must be branded as a racist for the rest of your life now), and as simply back and white rather than complex shades of grey, would think of the character Marcus and his actions… Likely immediately to dismiss him as a "privileged white straight man" who shows his bigoted, racist and homophobic true nature for his blatant disdain for the way he treated the Asian cab driver, the transvestite prostitute who is a POC, and the gay men in the fetish club. There’s no defending his unleashed, psychotic hate on all the people he comes across because of the event that just transpired. There’s a lot to despise of him. But as the story unfolds, the viewer may also begins to slowly understand, and even forgive Marcus’ toxic fury. Or would they— in 2017…? It’s one of those beyond horrific events that I would never wish to experience— or wish anyone to experience in order to answer that question.

And Monica Belucci hits you like thunder and lightning with her mesmerizing performance. I am so glad she never made a bid to be a Hollywood star. She is so much more talented than that.

(I decided to check out some Youtube reviews for this after watching the film, and sadly, there are people that seem to enjoy it for the explicit graphic violence: One woman reviewing this even mentioned how she loved the face-bashing scene… I guess there’s no difference between brave, masterful storytelling/ filmmaking and any given trashy, throwaway zombie-killing spree to some people.)

 

[Platinum Blonde]

The Frozen Ground

 

[Deleted member 141523]

La la land! #LoveIt

 

[Phuel]

Alien 3.

The most gorgeously shot of the trilogy. I believe this is Fincher’s first major motion picture: The tone, the atmosphere and even angles are such trademarks of his-- straight out of Madonna’s Express Yourself and Bad Girl videos… Alien Resurrection feels more like a parody and doesn’t count as the 4th— I don’t even think the producers intended for it to even be a part of the series. And Winona Ryder is so hilariously miscast, she's horrible to watch. Not to mention the most silly-looking alien design in that hybrid LOL

But Alien 3… totally smothered in a depressing mood from start to finish, and still so captivating, with the most elegant and deadly design of all the Xenomorph. And such a great cast with such graphic, strong faces, including Charles Dance, Ralph Brown and Charles S. Dutton.

Alien: Covenant looks gorgeous— and like great slasher fun. Hopefully Ridley learned his lesson from Prometheus... And the legendary Xenomorph is back...

 

[BaBorrow]

'Leading Lady'

It was an okay little film.

 

[jexxica]

Kong: Skull Island

 

[christian zh]

Jackie