Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Or just trolling... very few films I absolutely don't like earn 1/10 ratings.

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Fists in Pocket (1965) - C

Banditi a Orgosolo - 7/10


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Ornamental Hairpin (1941) -

Shimizu explores the finiteness of time, yet gets you to recognize both the joy and sadness of it. Time manifests itself in a few different ways. You have the backdrop of soldier Nanmura on a short leave from the Pacific War, varied characters staying at the resort for the time being, the inevitably of Emi's uncertain future hanging over her, and the spa gradually emptying out as the occupants depart throughout the film. Nanmura's injury from the titular hairpin is the clear emotional core. Being the MacGuffin which holds Nanmura and Emi together, its presence also proves finite. With each day Nanmura's condition improves and with each trial he completes, one can feel each minute of his time at the spa running out since there's nowhere for him to go but forward. In less talented hands, this film could've just been a tragedy, but I was surprised as to how much humor and lightness Shimizu brought to the film. We have the adults keeping each other awake with their snoring, a professor constantly seeking a masseur, the children cheering Nanmura on throughout his trials, and the newfound love and family Emi finds through Nanmura and several characters. There's no telling what the future may bring, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself in the present. I also find it interesting how the entire main conflict is set off by something so insignificant - a single hairpin left on the ground. It creates a sense of escalation and makes the thematic richness all the more noteworthy given how slight the film should've otherwise been. Phenomenal ending, by the way. Overall, this was far more interesting than it had the right to be and more people should check it out.

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Beast - (2015)

Jaime (Chad McKinney) is a young up-and-coming half-Filipino half-American boxer who is coached by his father, Rick (Garret Dillahunt) - and provided with plaster-infused boxing gloves for his latest match to help cheat him to victory. Unfortunately, his opponent, Pedro, dies, and this sends Jaime on a guilt-fuelled crusade to help save Pedro's family once they're targeted by local gangsters who were in on the fixed fight. An Australian/Philippines co-production, I didn't think it was too bad an examination of redemption, guilt, responsibility and morality - but not too many people have seen Guilt, and I reckon it would be hard to find, so it has really fallen through the cracks. Jaime isn't really all that complex a character, so McKinney's talents don't get a full work out and the screenplay does most of the heavy lifting. Co-director Sam McKeith has never made anything else but Tom McKeith has recently released another movie - horror/sci-fi In Vitro, which sounds interesting.

6/10


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Poseidon - (2006)

This rather cynical Wolfgang Peterson-directed remake of The Poseidon Adventure has it's share of tense moments and decent set-pieces, but falls down in several areas - the "water filling the room, narrow escape, hold your breath" segments become repetitive, and after a while you really start to wonder why the screenplay lacked invention and imagination. I mean, you have a whole other movie to help you think of episodes to put the movie's band of survivors through. Talking about the survivors - no husband and wife teams in this, and many characters are completely forgettable. Some set-ups (turns out Richard Nelson, played by Richard Dreyfuss, has killed one of his co-survivors' friends on his way) are abandoned, and the movie simply seems in a hurry to try and squeeze as much suspense out of affairs without any character or storytelling elements added to the mix, making this another forgettable remake amongst a whole slew which came out around this time. Gone is the emotion, the great Gene Hackman and the wonderful John Williams score - which makes Poseidon stand out even more as comparatively poor. Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Kevin Dillon sink this $160 million bomb.

5/10


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The Shop on Main Street - (1965)

I figured that this would have to rank up in my Top 10 of Holocaust-based films. Simply a powerful, powerful movie that would probably be a timely watch in this day and age in many places around the world. We need films like this - all of us. I hope it lives on for generations. Full review here, in my watchlist thread.

9/10

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Blood & Cold - (2023)

German movie set during WWII. 7/10

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I've got the @Holden Pike Favorites of the 1990s bookmarked, and I am checking off titles I haven't seen in preparation for the upcoming countdown. First up:


Gus Van Sant, 1995





Not sure how I managed to get to 2025 not having seen this film, especially with how big the Pam Smart case was in the area of the country in which I live, but here we are! I am guessing it is because at the time it came out, I was busy with my band and wasting time partying on Friday nights.

Anyway, really fun stuff, and I got a few good belly laughs out of this one, Some sharply written comedy nested in scathing satire that sort of sprinkles in mocumentary tropes as it goes along. A clear indictment of America's obsession with true crime at the time, which from what I can tell, has only gotten worse over the years.

Kidman is in her prime here in more ways than one. Was fun to see young Phoenix and Affleck as the two dipshit stooges, and I like Illeana Douglas, as well.

Not sure this one will make my ballot, but I really enjoyed this one. Rating might go up on additional viewings, but I have other films to get to for now.

Next up for me is Weir's Fearless.

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LOVE this movie…my favorite Nicole performance and on my list of sexiest female movie characters Suzanne Stone Amaretto clocked in at number one

. And I don’t want to spoil it for you but Fearless is amazing 🥲

Hated Poseidon; never seen Beast but it sounds really good and am adding it to my watchlist

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Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Oliver Stone's most emotionally impactful film?... It wasn't perfect, but I didn't expect to be a mess afterwards.
Top 5 Cruise, easily.

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The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

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Mysterious Object at Noon - (2000)

Off to Thailand in this next World Cinema Project entry, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Object at Noon, an experimental film which travels the country asking various people to contribute to an ever-growing story (the exquisite corpse game is what the exercise is called) while the director flirts with interpreting the story on film. It mixes and matches cinéma vérité with a variety of other styles and methods, while presenting this to us with visuals filmed on 16 mm black and white film before being blown up to 35 mm - giving the whole spectacle a hazy, dream-like quality. At times we segue into what appear to be completely random asides - a doctor and her patients, the crew actually filming this film and people telling personal stories about themselves. You have to be very accepting of artistic expression and experimental cinema to find your peace with this feature (A.W.'s debut), which at times feels a little all over the place but is short enough not to become overly painful. Surely a very strange one, and nearly impossible to rate - I think it has tremendous merit, but at times I found it a chore to watch. It's more fun to think about and ponder once you've soaked it all up, and been on the voyage it takes you on. I'm just going to split the difference.

6/10

Tonight I watched Die! Die! My Darling! (which is a direct quote from the movie), and loved it. I loved the occasional Psycho homage, although they're pretty different films, including no one believing dead Stephen was alive vis Tallulah Bankhead's Mrs Trefoile knew he was dead the whole time. Mrs Trefoile is grieving over her loss and tries to compensate with her dead son's ex-girlfriend. Things don't work well. Die! Die! My Darling! is a spectacular film. I didn't know it was Hammer. That didn't change my opinion. I just thought it was cool.

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The Pawnbroker (1964)