Here are my top 10 horror films this year:
1) US
2) Ready or Not
3) I Trapped the Devil
4) Midsommar
5) IT 2
6) Crawl
7) Annabelle Comes Home
8) Child's Play
9) Greta
10) MA
Still need to see a bunch of films but that's my list so far.
Went to see Knives Out this afternoon, and it's excellent. Fun and unpredictable with solid writing and a stellar cast. It's basically a modern Agatha Christie style whodunit. Reminded me a bit of 1985's Clue, but not nearly as silly.
You can tell that the cast clearly had a lot of fun making it. Daniel Craig steals every scene he's in.
I saw it this week as well. It was excellent.
Daniel Craig was superb, but I kept thinking to myself they might have equally cast Kevin Spacey in that role. That is before all of his transgressions.
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Meh. I thought they were going to do something clever with the whole "hands across america" thing, but they never did.
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On the return leg of my transatlantic flight, managed to catch a few more movies.
Yesterday - I really liked this. Yes it was not perfect but the scenes of people hearing the music for the first time really worked for me which was enough for me to really enjoy this movie. Well worth watching IMO.
Rocketman - The acting was exceptional, music was great but overall a disappointment for me. Pretty glossy view of Elton John and the people who wronged him. So while somewhat fun I came away feeling I watcheda fictional musical vs a biography.
The Russian Five - couldn’t stay awake for this. 15 minutes in and I had no interest.
I'll start off as saying that I'm the farthest thing from a horror-aficionado, but...
I really liked Get Out. I thought it had everything that makes a horror/thriller really good.
But Us was bad. I mean laughably bad. Its one of the few movies I went to the theatre for off the strength of 'Get Out' and we were all laughing.
I assumed it was parts that were meant to be laughably bad to blindside you to the more more thrilling parts....but alas 'twas not to be.
So I didnt like that one. At all.
Midsommar...what a ton of wasted potential. So there was so much there that I think they just really didnt do enough with. It was weird and cinematically beautiful but thats about the best I can give it.
I think my feeling at the end was: "What? Thats it?"
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This movie doesn't have much of a plot, the lack of realistic gravity on the Moon and Mars bothered me a bit. But somehow the movie works. Visually I found it fantastic and in general I really like it. Certainly not for everyone but if you let it all in and don't expect something spectacular to happen you'll enjoy the film.
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I quite enjoyed Knives Out, although I thought it was a tad predictable. I thought the first half built up a grand mystery and the conclusion turned out to be pretty much exactly what I thought it was. I never really felt like there was that big twist that I didn’t see coming.
The acting was phenomenal and the humour was on point and wasn’t overdone or out of place. For me it was a solid 7/10.
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Okay CP I need your help. I’ve got way too many movies on my Netflix list and no where near enough time to watch them all. It has gotten to the point where when I do have time for a movie I feel anxiety trying to choose. That is where your help comes in. I’m going to watch one movie this week and have narrowed it down to the following 4 award winning films of the early to mid 2010s. What should I watch?
1. The Big Short
2. Birdman
3. The Revenant
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Okay CP I need your help. I’ve got way too many movies on my Netflix list and no where near enough time to watch them all. It has gotten to the point where when I do have time for a movie I feel anxiety trying to choose. That is where your help comes in. I’m going to watch one movie this week and have narrowed it down to the following 4 award winning films of the early to mid 2010s. What should I watch?
1. The Big Short
2. Birdman
3. The Revenant
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
All are absolutely worth watching. Birdman would be first on my list
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