Amph What was the last movie you saw? (Ver. 2)

That's true, actually. The remote-controlled plane did lose control, sending people running fir their lives.
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things


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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things takes the premise of Groundhog Day and then makes its own thing.

This movie is quite deep, at least deeper than Groundhog Day in terms of contemplating the benefits and burdens of reliving the same day over and over. Additionally, there's more than one character aware of the time anomaly.

The main characters of the film are quite endearing, and so the story driven more about the characters development and their relationship rather than just figuring out how to fix the time anomaly.

I found this film quite enjoyable, much like Edge of Tomorrow, where I was expecting one thing, but it was better than I expected. There's a richness to this film.

 

The Night Flier (1997)
Richard Dees is the lead reporter for a low-fodder conspiracy and urban legend-newspaper called the "Inside View". When reports of a mysterious killer start circulating, who travels between small airfields, killing people as if he was a vampie, Dees goes out in pursuit of what he belives is a mad man that he names the "Night Flier" — finding far more than he bargained for.

A well made horror movie with lots of tension.

 

2012
Okay, you know it's a stupid movie, and I know that, and Roland Emmerich knows it.

But it's stupid fun and I want a Microsoft Flight Simulator mod for all the scenes of aircraft taking off as the ground and buildings collapse.

 

It's kind of hilarious how many "ground is swallowed up right behind the main characters who somehow survive" shots there were in that movie. I am a sucker for disaster movies so i still liked it.

 

That's the one with the B-17 landing with one wheel retracted, isn't it? I haven't seen it in ages. That was not planned, it was a real malfunction with the landing gear, and there was enough time after they realized they couldn't get the wheel down that they were able to get the cameras ready to record the crash landing for prosperity. Fortunately, the B-17 is a tough plane and it's possible to get it repaired and flying again after that type of incident.

 

No , that scene looks like its cut together with some stock footage of an actual crash . the scene I'm refering to is of a one-man plane smashing into a bunch of others.

 

The Young Savages. This could quite easily be a good movie. DA Burt Lancaster, assisted by detective Telly Savalas, keeps digging into a murder case involving three racist Italian kids murdering a blind Puerto Rican boy, only to find the case keeps becoming more and more complex as he bounces between rival gangs/ethnic communities and Shelley Winters, the mother of one of the boys, whom he used to date back when he was growing up as a poor Italian kid in Harlem. Unfortunately, the film is an absolute mess. It goes in for sensationalism with violent teen gangs in leather jackets running wild, inflicting nihilistic violence and disrespect all over the place, and then it also moralizes about social ills, throwing in a kitchen sink of problems until there’s nobody in Harlem who has any excuse for growing up normal and non-criminal. This total indecision about the film’s message comes to a head in a disastrous climax, a wildly unrealistic trial in which Lancaster meanders around pointlessly sabotaging his own case because it’s all just so complex and by the end you have no clue what the film thinks about anything, but you’re pretty sure you don’t care because the film is a stupid mess. It’s just a sloppy, misguided, schizophrenic effort, and a few nice directorial touches from John Frankenheimer can’t save something this misconceived, cartoonish, and confused about itself.

 

Caught up to The Death of Stalin (recorded at the end of last year off BBC2). It wasn't bad but I'm glad I didn't pay cinema money for it.

 

Spoiler: Stalin dies.

 

Spontaneous 2020

stars Katherine Langford.
Comedy/ horror .
Students at a high school start inexplicably exploding. This was a lot better than I was expecting , the cast is likeable , there's a romance at the centre of it and some real tension because you really don't know who's gonna go next.
it's also surprisingly emotional at times.

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. A kitchen sink drama that follows a young man in a borstal where the headmaster is mad for sports, flashing back to his tough working-class life, it hits all the beats you’d expect. His life sucks, the borstal sucks, he is rebellious. It’s quite well made and a solid drama, but it never felt revelatory.

 

How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World (2019)
The animation and flight scenes are better than ever, and the themes of love, loss, and letting go get me right in the feels. Plot seems repetitious, but they get away with it by making this the end of the series, pretty much closing the door on any more sequels. Sad that there won't be any more stories about characters I've grown to care for, but better to end on a high note than drag it out with weaker episodes that make me tired of the whole story.

 

Marnie. I didn’t care for it. It’s got an interesting premise, but only unlikable characters, and the execution isn’t strong enough to overcome it. Tippi Hedren plays a compulsive thief who’s caught by Sean Connery, who marries her and tries to fix her. Connery is well cast as a charming but domineering husband who sees his wife as a project and basically blackmails her into marriage, but the character is a fairly ugly one and not at all the audience identification character the film seems to think he is. Hedren is hugely unlikable as a hostile, dishonest character. I’m not sure how much of it is supposed to be the character and how much is just Hedren’s acting, but she’s incredibly stiff and exudes no kind of charm or appeal to suggest why Connery is so intrigued by her; she’s just sullen and prickly the whole time. And the whole thing hinges on terrible pop psychology, with Hedren exaggeratedly tormented by repressed memories of childhood trauma with her mother — another terrible performance. The film just doesn’t work at all, which is a surprise coming from Hitchcock. It should be able to tap into the kind of themes he used so well, but instead it just lies there without offering the audience any real hook to get involved except Connery’s raw charisma.

 

King Kong vs Godzilla
1962
This is a fun and funny film. There are a lot of slow scenes of broadcasters, officials, and scientists talking about stuff, but the fight scenes are great in spite of Kong's suit looking like road kill.

I like the giant octopus fight with Kong. He lives to see another day. The octopus that is. Although apparently they used 4 real octopi in the shoot and someone important from the film crew ate one of them.
Gojira being made to eat his broccoli by Kong is hilarious.
Kong doing a forward somersault and knocking himself out lmao.
Gojira beating Kong with his tail.
Good stuff.

Godzilla vs Hedorah
1971
This is a nice psychedelic story that even has some animated sections and some music scenes in the nightclub. Hedorah is the smog monster and a not so subtle representation of the consequences of polluting the Earth. It's an interesting film with some nice camera work and one I'll rewatch, hopefully on blu ray next time as the version I have on DVD is sub par.

And I also watched all the kaiju scenes from King of the Monsters. 2019.
Rodan and Ghidorah are awesome in that movie. Mosura and Gojira too! Very excellent action scenes. Bit too much people scenes so I mostly skipped them on this rewatch.

 

Zootopia

 

The Villainess (2017)
A young woman who is out for revenge on the death of her father gets hired as an assassin. A bit cliche in the La Femme Nakita theme but for pure entertainment value it's hard to turn away. It's certainly thrilling; with a mixture of perspectives from the first-person POV and standard third-person. The cinematography might've drawn inspiration from John Woo films.

 

They don't seem to make film noirs anymore , I mean the hard-bolied PI and feme-fatale kind . I wonder why.

 

Because most studios have been bought out or collapsed and the remaining studio is only interested in making stupefied porridge that will play well in any market in the world.

 

House on Haunted Hill 2.
Sequel to the remake. I actually enjoyed the remake it was good B movie fun. The sequel is a mess. Still it's an awesome concept.

 

Sinners' Holiday (1930) starring Grant Withers, Warren Hymer, Evalyn Knapp and in their sound film debuts, Joan Blondell and James Cagney. Even more starring Lucille LaVerne. Dayyum, Cagney, LaVerne, and Blondell rock this movie. It's a filmed play that includes Blondell and Cagney in their original supporting stage roles. Cagney plays such a sniveling punk that you want to hate him, but you don't because he's Cagney and shows star quality, as does Blondell; their roles showcase really sleazy, unlikeable characters. I put Hymer in as a "star" because first, he gets lots of footage as the main Big Bad and next, he portrays his trademarked thuggish personality with a scosche more intelligence than is usual; he's still mean, though.

The stars Withers and Knapp do fairly well as a romantic pair who want something different than their lives spent earning pennies as they rope in the yokels into the pinball and other machine games in their gallery. LaVerne runs the gallery and her family of Cagney, Knapp and another brother who's honest, so we don't learn much about him. LaVerne made a magnificent Madame Defarge in 1935's Tale of Two Cities and voiced and was the animation model for both the Evil Queen and the Witch in Disney's Snow White; she's on point here as a Mama Bear defending Cagney. The scene that displays Mama's and Sonny's closeness in Holiday surprised me because it's a near match on 1949's White Heat Mama Bear (Margaret Wycherly) comforting her son Cagney with a snuggling lapsitting sequence. All in all, the movie opens up the play into Coney Island's particular atmosphere and I liked it, creaky early sound film acting and staging notwithstanding.

 

The Stepfather 2009
Surprisingly entertaining remake of the 80's thriller that starred Terry O'Quinn (Locke from Lost) as a guy who kills his old family only to find a new one. Amber Heard plays the son's girlfriend. Sela Ward plays the wife, and Dylan Walsh plays the evil stepfather who appears too good to be true at first. Not bad as far as B movie remakes go. I seem to be watching a lot of those.

 

I Care A Lot

what in the ass ****.

A muddle of unclear intentions.

edit: watch Gone Girl instead

 

I don't understand some of the bystanders rooting for Kong over Godzilla in the last fight. Have they no national pride?
As far as the Toho movies are concerned, "King Kong Escapes" was better.

 

Pride over the monster that has smashed Tokyo twice?