I'll try to do a Last 10 Top 10 every 10 movies I watch in 2016. And we reached my 100th movie and by this finished my tenth Last 10 Top 10 of the year. Woohoo.
Another extra: All of the movies on this list are from Mubi, because I felt I don't watch enough movies on mubi, so I decided to watch 10 in a row.
Starting us of with a double pack of music documentaries, I watched Mistaken for Strangers and Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
I put Mistaken by Strangers on Number one because I liked it just a bit more. This documentary, directed by the main guy, is really more about himself. And it was so interesting, it was fun, it was great.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil isn't as good and a little depressing, but still a great time, still very good. I liked it a lot. Both of these I saw without even knowing anything about the bands, you don't need to know anything about them.
My number 3 is a short movie. Dream Work is just masterfully edited, and actually a bit scary. I really liked it, it deserves the number 3 position for sure.
Hawks and Sparrows by Pasolini, who made 120 days of Sodom, is actually a funny comedy. I'm sure there are a lot of things about this movie I did not understand because it is about 1960s Italy, which I know nothing about, but it was still funny and entertaining. Especially considered it is from 1966.
They also had a few German movies on Mubi, the one I decided to watch is Kebab Connection. While having some frustrating scenes and a frustrating ending, it was a fun time and I did not hate it. The Kung-Fu scenes were actually pretty great.
Talking about Kung-Fu: Fist of Fury (aka the Big Boss), as far as I know the first real movie starring Bruce Lee. Sadly, his character swore his mother to not fight anyone, so the first half of the movie is him standing by while other people fight. It was actually an interesting mystery with some great fight scenes, but the dub I saw it in wasn't that good and while some fight scenes were great, others were okay, or even a little bad. So it's only number 6 (on a pretty good list).
Ashik Kerib is by far one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. The movie was in one language I didn't know, translated by a narrator into another language I didn't know, subtitled in German. That being said, the music was pretty great and everything looked gorgeous, the colors were great. I actually liked it and appreciate it, but it was kind of too crazy for my taste.
FROM THE REPORTS OF SECURITY GUARDS & PATROL SERVICES NO.1 is probably the longest title for a very short movie. This German short without any dialogue is interesting to watch and actually made me feel a little weird. I just couldn't put it higher because, unless a short really blows me away, I can't really put it over full length movies that are good. If you have 11 minutes to spare, check it out yourself.
Orchesterprobe, the third music-themed movie of this list, and the third short movie, doesn't really hold up. It's a comedy short about a weird orchestra where everyone makes fun of everyone. It is okay, but really not that funny.
Last but not least, Destroy Yourselves. I didn't hate this movie. I didn't even dislike it. I just can't rank it with the rest of these movies. It is totally weird, at some times boring, but I guess that's what it was supposed to be. I just put it at 10 because yeah, it's not that enjoyable and not that fun, but I feel like it deserved to be in mubi and is one of the reasons, I got it.
Mubi shows me movies I would never watch otherwise and also, to be honest, never even hear of. I heard of Mistaken for Strangers and Anvil, I knew about the Kebab Connection and Fist of Fury, but I had no idea there was anything like Destroy Yourselves or Dream Work. This experiment was fun and interesting, I watched 7 out of these 10 movies in 2 days, and I realized how much Mubi has to give if you just watch enough of it.
Hope to see you next time, when it will probably be 10 random movies again, including Batman V Superman.
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