list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Toaster Mantis wrote: It's weird that despite its 1981 release date how much Cannonball Run feels like a 1970s action movie more than an 1980s one. Not just Burt Reynolds and crashing cars, but also the disco/funk flavour of the music, Jackie Chan's role, Farrah Fawcett as the leading lady and Peter Fonda doing a cameo appearance as a biker. Then there's all the moustaches.

I love me some dean martin

Both Cannonball movies were fun to watch.There were far too many cameos to mention but I liked 

That Moonraker and Octopussy were made in the wake of Star Wars and Indiana Jones says all you need to know really.

Kill the Messenger

Govt./conspiracy thriller with reporter Jeremy Renner on the trail of the South American drug lords who helped the CIA use cocaine money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua during the Reagan years.   Somewhat reminiscent of All the President's Men though not nearly as compelling or timely, the film does have some credibility as it's based on true events and highlights the impact one eager journalist can make.

 

In Cold July - 8/10

ah man, I Loved this movie!  took some few turns I wasn't expecting, I really like these new cutthroat thrillers with throwback sequencer soundtracks, Drive, The Guest, In Cold July, etc

Under the Skin - Director: Jonathan Glazer (2013)




Edited by ExittheLemming - February 14 2015 at 20:02

Walton Street wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: Under the Skin - Director: Jonathan Glazer (2013) I've been wanting to see this for a while now - is it in the stores?

It is in Australia but dunno about Canada...

Toaster Mantis wrote: It does sound like a film that would be difficult to market to more than a very small audience, if it weren't for ScarJo's star power that is. I've heard it described as "the thinking person's Species", which kinda sounds like a contradiction in terms but then again that is also how I heard Splice pitched. (haven't seen that either as I took a break from SF/F from 2010 until 2013 or so) At the least, it does seem to take a similar concept but do something more intellectual and well-thought out with the subject, that's more focused on exploring the premise's philosophical implications than on sex and violence. When I saw Species, my first thought was that there was a concept buried in there that had the potential to be treated in a much more intelligent way.

I'm still undecided about Under the Skin. Incredibly stimulating and thought provoking yes, but given its laconic eschewal of most conventional cinematic and narrative devices, that's like being surprised at rush hour traffic. Love it or loathe it, UTS is certainly one of the most original and 'cliche retardant' movies I've seen in a long, long time. It raises a heap of possible pivotal themes and (tenuous) frames of reference: the woman who fell to earth?, after my anal probe I went vegan, we hunt and farm animals for pleasure, fur and flesh: what if we were livestock to an extra terrestrial Colonel Sanders? Is an elite of any species who harvest so-called lesser lifeforms for their own amoral ends a hideous voyeuristic peep show into where we're headed in the distant future? (and mirrors our own collective past re WW2) The protagonist gradually displays signs that despite her stringent training/programming she has learned to find a sliver of empathy with humankind i.e. she starts to experience the sort of nascent emotions that her own species would find inexplicable (and probably repugnant) at the outset. It's this subtle transition of character that Johansson delivers so convincingly. I never thought she had such in her locker, so kudos are due...and Splice is highly recommended.


Edited by ExittheLemming - February 15 2015 at 06:29

Chef (On Netflix)

Wonderful, feel good movie

Highly recommended!

9/10