Sunday, November 29, 2015
Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982 - ★★★½
I sometimes hate the normal movie going audiences. This movie was hated by everybody, not because it was bad, not because it was boring, not because it made them feel uncomfortable. They hated it because there was no Michael Myers in this. But if you watch it in the context of an anthology or just as a standalone movie, it is really good.
The story is something new, something interesting, something that wasn't made before. The acting was good and the characters were good too. Of course it's an 80s movie, and it feels like an 80s movie. But for the 80s, those were the best movies they had.
It reminded me a lot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1978, also because I feel like Tom Atkins looks kind of similar to Donald Sutherland, but also all in all the ongoing threat of something being off just a little bit.
Also, I love the Silver Shamrock Theme. It's really stuck in my head.
The Thread, 2015 - ★★★½
I knew a bit about the Boston Bombings in combination with reddit and I was wondering how they would do this since most of it was done in reddit comments, and just showing comments all the time would be boring.
They decided to go a slightly different way. The movie is separated into 7 parts, one for each day of the week this happened. And for every day and the events of that day they talked to different people that were somehow involved in this, so for one different redditors (the guy who made the first post, the mod of the "findthebostonbombers" subreddit and the guy who drove around when they captured him), but also other news-websites like someone from the New York Times and someone from the website buzzfeed and they got different opinions and the way they saw what happened.
The Thread was not really about the Boston Bombings but way more about media and how the media react to big terror events. Also about the good and the bad sides of this new way of communicating news.
I liked that they didn't have just one opinion. They aren't pro reddit or pro normal news, but also not against any of them. They just show opinions.
Instead of just showing comments they mostly had the current interviewee read the comments to them and then tell them what they felt about that when they saw it, which I think is a great way to do this, it never got boring.
I also liked the visual style this movie was done in, especially everything that had to do with showing text on screen. It's hard to describe but they managed to never have the screen be boring/just showing the text, they kinda had it written as you saw it. Now thinking about it makes me think they used that quite a lot but it never really got annoying.
What was the best part was following the last guy around, he actually drove them around where he drove along when it all happened. Also, after seeing that, I had to watch Nightcrawler (which I did) because it was really similar in some way.
Another good thing was that they showed actual videos of the Boston Bombings and everything that happened after, because in this day and age of course everything was filmed.
What I didn't like is it felt like they were kind of making fun of the one mod, they filmed him filling Mountain Dew into his weird cup and I remember some other scenes that made me wonder why they showed it.
All in all this documentary was interesting, visually great to look at, not boring at all and it was only 1 hour long so really easy to watch. I'm rating this 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Last 10 Top 10 14.11.2015
The last ten movies I've seen, ranked. I wanna try to do this every ten movies now.
Those are some incredibly strong movies this week. I really enjoyed them all and it was hard to rank them but I decided I wanna do one now.
Junun is on my 10 because it was probably the movie I enjoyed the least out of them because it has a very weird style and I'm not sure if I'm totally into it, but I still appreciate it, liked it and enjoyed the music.
Incendies as my 1 because I think it's a very strong movie, and the twists and turns it took blew me away.
Friday, November 6, 2015
My Netflix Watchlist
All of the movies I put on my Netflix watchlist. I really need to watch more before I add new stuff.
- Iris
- The Nines
- Finders Keepers
- The Thread
- Recess: School's Out
- Frozen
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Fargo
- Only Lovers Left Alive
...plus 109 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
The Guest, 2014 - ★★★★
Dan Stevens reminds me a lot of Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love!
Bad Taste, 1987 - ★★★½
After rewatching Braindead (one of my favorite movies) I decided it's finally time to watch Bad Taste, the first full length movie by Peter Jackson.
It's about a town where everyone is gone or behaving weird. A special forces group is sent in to attack because that town is ruled by Aliens (see poster). Most of the movie is them killing the aliens and trying to survive themselves. Peter Jackson is acting in this movie, too, playing Derek, one of the special forces group, whose head is split open and he only keeps it shut with a hat, or else his brain falls out.
This is, just as Braindead, a horror comedy where the comedy derives from the over the top gross out gore and other moments. If you can't stand blood or guts, this is not for you, but if you like this sort of "comedy", you will enjoy it. Braindead feels a little low budget, even more so does Bad Taste. It was shot over weekends with mostly Peter Jacksons friends and you can see that.
The acting is okay, the characters are okay, all in all it's really just a normal low budget movie ... if it wasn't for the effects. I love practical effects, and I love when they are done well. And they are done very well. Every time Peter Jacksons back of the head opens, it just looks perfect.
Also the aliens looks great, you can see them on the poster and they just look like that.
The ending is the weirdest thing I have seen in a long time.
All in all the only thing I really can't understand is how anyone saw all of these movies and thought "This guy would be good for directing the Lord of the Rings movies." But he was.
I rate this movie 3.5 out of 5 stars and a big like, if you like old low budget movies and good practical effects you will enjoy this.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Braindead, 1992 - ★★★★★
I watched this movie last night, a little drunk with a group of friends.
I was wondering if me rating this movie 5 stars is too much, too easy on the movie. But I have to say this is one of my favorite horror comedies ever.
I could watch this every day and enjoy it like on the first day. This movie is crazy. Peter Jackson wanted to make the goriest movie of all time ... and he did.
This is stuff you NEVER see in movies. This movie is so disgusting. But I love it. The special effects are crazy good, even the guys who don't like old movies had to say that it looked good and real.
Objectively, most of this movie is bad. The acting isn't the best. The characters are weird. It is so over the top. But subjectively, to me, this is a masterpiece. I wish Peter Jackson would make another movie like this.