Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

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I liked some scenes - particularly the iconic one where she enters a room through an opening which from the other side functions as the mouth of a graffiti. But overall it was rather tame and by the numbers?
Rip :) He did become very recognizable from that very movie. Most actors never achieve that.
 
Oppenheimer, 2023. A dramatic rendering of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the development of the bomb, and some petty politics that followed in the fifties when someone Oppenheimer had offended wanted to strip him of his security clearance on suspicion of being a Soviet agent. Good drama, though Harry Truman’s voice acting was bizarre: he sounds like he’s from down yonder in Mississippi, not Missouri, There are literal recordings of Truman from this time, so it’s not as if they couldn’t have gotten closer.

Dirty Harry, 1971. A cop with no tolerance for political nonsense goes after a twisted serial killer. Some seriously disturbing scenes, especially with the adult-on-child violence.

The Shape of Things to Come, 1979. I don’t know if this merits B-movie status. It uses H.G. Wells title for future-casting but has NO connection to it otherwise. Enjoyed the costuming and props but that ….was about it. I only made it through because I was watching with Rifftrax, MST3K-commentary.

The Philadelphia Story, 1940. The lady-friend hadn't seen this so we watched it. She loved it. Possibly a keeper.
 
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Heretic

Great premise, first half is pretty solid as a psychological horror. It lost me a bit when it started becoming a cat and mouse conclusion similar to so many other films in the genre. Good performances and visuals. If only the filmmakers had dared to think outside the box with how to end the film.

Woman of the Hour

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut about the bizarre case of how true crime serial killer Rodney Alcala appeared on a sleazy tv dating show in 1978. Well made, well acted and all that. I'm not entirely sure about the decision to inject dating show contestant and aspiring actress Sheryl Bradshaw (played by Kendrick) as the focal point of the film. There's another female character who happens to be in the audience when recognizing Alcala for what he is. The film switches to her POV and her attempt to alert those around her and the show producers, but only momentarily. I would have liked that character to be the main of the film, but perhaps that's not how it played out in real life?
 
I agree with you on both (ending of Heretic and lack of substantive tie to the actual story of Alcala and his victims).
I don't even get how the ending of Heretic made sense, and it was not needed (if they wanted the same result, there were less bizarre ways to achieve it).

The game contestant, in real life, never went on a date with him at all. The police already knew his name and face; iirc a policeman just randomly saw him on tv in the game show, while searching to arrest him. Also iirc, the other character did exist, but did not alarm the authorities about him (out of shame). She ended up testifying against him many years later when he was trying to be released after serving some of his time.
 
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The Third Man, 1949. British film set in postwar Vienna, based on novel by Graham Greene. Orson Welles means = interesting shots.
 
Madame Webb For the most part, the critical panning of the movie is deserved.


Deadpool and Wolverine Not to be taken too seriously. But enjoyable enough.
 
Madame Webb For the most part, the critical panning of the movie is deserved.
Lol...I actually got through the whole thing but it was so bad it was almost enjoyable for that reason. I think I wrote about it on here a while ago. Mainly just a really really bad script and concept though I know it is based on a character that I really know nothing about. I like Dakota too but she was horribly miscast.
Deadpool and Wolverine Not to be taken too seriously. But enjoyable enough.
I'll be watching this one soon.
 
Lol...I actually got through the whole thing but it was so bad it was almost enjoyable for that reason. I think I wrote about it on here a while ago. Mainly just a really really bad script and concept though I know it is based on a character that I really know nothing about. I like Dakota too but she was horribly miscast.

I'll be watching this one soon.

I didn't think the casting was bad. And from time to time the cast would deliver decent lines well. But there were few decent lines. And the script and story as a whole just didn't work.
 
I know it is based on a character that I really know nothing about.
Wikipedia said:
She is usually depicted as a supporting character in the Spider-Man comic book series, where she appears as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, connected to a life support system resembling a spiderweb.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Web
As you can see it has nothing to do with the actual character.
 
Last week, I saw a film. As I recall, it was a shortish film:
 
Girl, Interrupted. Great, relatable, does its job in getting you upset. 8 or 8.5/10. Might be the only time I've ever liked Winona Ryder's performance in something. And this was before Angelina Jolie gave up on trying.

Let Go. Swedish movie. Really, really wonderful and emotionally heavy. An easy 9/10. Also got me onto Alba August's music, who was the lead in the Danish series The Rain. And is apparently the daughter of Shmi Skywalker.

Time Cut. A tolerable teenage time-travel slasher that tries to rely on early-00s nostalgia. 6/10? It was fine.

Deadpool and Wolverine. Extremely mid. 4/10. Parody movies don't work when it's very obviously a Hail Mary desperate attempt by Disney to save this disastrous phase in Marvel. The multiverse was a little charming when it was Spider-Man, but it being used everywhere else constantly, with always a multiverse-ending threat, is just obnoxious.
 
The Revenant (2015) on linear telly tonight.

Remember watching this on 4K ultra a couple of times in jaw dropping mode. Still great cinematics (on telly) but more attention to story this time.

Lord, did white man screw the natives of America over.
 
The Revenant (2015) on linear telly tonight.
great movie...probably my favorite of that year..a.nd there were some good ones. Just realized that I saw all the Best Picture nominees that year and liked them all.
 
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Tom Hardy was great there. DiCaprio was OK, actually pretty weak, but Hardy was amazing, much better.

Made the movie. Unpopular opinion: woulda preferred to see him win. That DiCaprio would was never in doubt. Hollywood would never allow someone so anti-social to prevail, but it woulda been a more memorable movie if he had.
 
A thing that fudging ticks me off about some historical movies is that they go to such lengths to make much of it look and feel authentic. And then, and it's like they do it deliberately to see if anyone will call them out on it, throw in a complete ahistorical anomaly.

So we have **The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare**, and where they say that ship is a British destroyer, it's the image of an American cruiser.
 
Tom Hardy was great there. DiCaprio was OK, actually pretty weak, but Hardy was amazing, much better.

Made the movie. Unpopular opinion: woulda preferred to see him win. That DiCaprio would was never in doubt. Hollywood would never allow someone so anti-social to prevail, but it woulda been a more memorable movie if he had.
I agree Hardy was fantastic, but Dicaprio was too. Very deserving of the Oscar.
 
Only God Forgives, 2013. Ryan Gosling. Two brothers have a crime thing going on in Thailand, but Gosling's brother is a pervert who gets himself killed after he violates the wrong man's daughter. Gosling's mama shows up in town to chide him for not avenging his godawful brother, and many people die. Not a fan.
 
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