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Post by daniel on Jan 9, 2015 13:53:51 GMT -5
Resident Evil movies are a guilty pleasure of mine.
I agree with the rest of your list, though I have yet to see Where the Wild Things Are, and what you said reinforces the reason why I won't want to.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 9, 2015 16:40:36 GMT -5
I think I'll stick with it just because I've started it so I might as well finish. I also still am curious in a lot of these films, even when they sound terrible. Yeah, I'll probably still watch the nominated movies when they come my way, but I'm not going to go out of my way to track down some of the really obscure ones that aren't on DVD and don't show up on TCM. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 9, 2015 17:40:35 GMT -5
That's about where I'm at too.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 10, 2015 12:32:39 GMT -5
2. Saw III (2006): Watched via Netflix on 10/25/2006  This year I finished my masochistic exercise in watching Friday the 13th movies and immediately replaced it with a masochistic exercise in watching the damn Saw movies. The weird thing about this series is that each successive installment makes me like the previous one more because they keep finding new lows to hit with each one. 1. Willow Creek (2014): Watched on DVD via Netflix on 10/23/2014  There are some bad movies on this list, but almost all of them do at least have some degree of professionalism to them. This one on the other hand is a film I genuinely believe I could have made myself if I had known such a thing could be sold. This is a bewilderingly amateurish Blair Witch ripoff that goes absolutely nowhere and is about as scary as your cousin’s home movies. How this fundamentally worthless movie managed to get an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes I will never know.
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Post by Nilade on Jan 10, 2015 12:51:10 GMT -5
Wow, written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. I didn't know he did anything but Police Academy movies and that one Married With Children rip-off.
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 10, 2015 13:15:26 GMT -5
Drac, I am begging you, do not keep watching Saw movies at Halloween. You will hate yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2015 13:58:08 GMT -5
I don't see why anyone would finish that series.
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Post by Ramplate on Jan 10, 2015 14:26:35 GMT -5
I liked We're the Millers.
And Resident Evil was entertaining
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Post by Nilade on Jan 10, 2015 17:03:20 GMT -5
The last half of the Saw series makes no sense. You should stop watching them right about now.
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Post by Ramplate on Jan 10, 2015 17:39:29 GMT -5
yeah watch one and two - and possibly three but onl pretty much to conclude Amanda's story |
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Post by Dracula on Jan 10, 2015 17:44:57 GMT -5
Drac, I am begging you, do not keep watching Saw movies at Halloween. You will hate yourself. I don't see why anyone would finish that series. The last half of the Saw series makes no sense. You should stop watching them right about now. Let's just say that there's a certain interest in seeing just how bad things can get. |
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Post by thebtskink on Jan 10, 2015 18:47:38 GMT -5
Wow, written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. I didn't know he did anything but Police Academy movies and that one Married With Children rip-off. Shakes the Clown was a masterpiece! |
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Post by Jibbs on Jan 10, 2015 20:39:48 GMT -5
Let's just say that there's a certain interest in seeing just how bad things can get. I've never felt so close to you. |
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Post by Dracula on Jan 10, 2015 22:13:47 GMT -5
The Top 20 Non 2014 movies I watched in 2014Alright, on to part 2. Unlike my worst list this one will exclusively be looking at non-2014 movies that I watched in 2014. Also note that I've kind of exhausted my supply of true classics to watch for the first time, so this list will probably be a little more middling than other people's, especially in its first half. I only deemed four of these movies to be worthy of the four star rating when I first watched them, so that should say something about what it actually means to show up here. That said I do think this year's crop is generally better than last year's. 20. Cutie and the Boxer (2013): Watched on Netflix Streaming on 1/29/2014  This was a documentary that I watched early in the year while catching up on 2013s documentaries. I didn’t love it and if I’m being honest it probably mostly made this list by default. Still, I was pretty fascinated by this story of two aging artists trying to deal with their respective baggage. 19. Young & Wild (2012): Watched on Netflix Streaming on 8/8/2014  This summer I somewhat spontaneously decided it would be a good idea to explore contemporary Chilean cinema (as one does) and of the four movies I looked at this was probably my favorite. A movie is about a teenage girl rebelling from her born again Christian family and experimenting with her sexual drive and her latent bisexuality, which is a fairly salacious topic, one that you’d think would have gotten the film more attention. The film never really got much of a U.S. release and didn’t really set the festival circuit afire, but I think it probably deserved better. 18. Breaker Morant (1980): Watched on TCM on 5/4/2014  In May Turner Classic Movies ran a marathon of movies from the Australian New Wave. I kind of missed most of it, but I did catch this movie about a group of Australian soldiers accused of war crimes during the Boer War. It’s not the most interesting case I’ve ever seen, but director Bruce Beresford (who would go on to have a successful if somewhat disreputable Hollywood career) dramatizes it really well and makes it more interesting than it probably deserves to be on its face.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 12, 2015 21:42:11 GMT -5
17. Hell’s Angels (1930): Watched on TCM on 3/29/2014  This film was directed by Howard Hughes himself and is the film we see him making in the early scenes of the film The Aviator. I mostly just tuned in because of its role in that Scorsese movie, but the film itself turned out to be fairly interesting. The movie was originally meant to be a silent film but sound was added later on to keep up with the times. As such the film is an interesting fusion of late silent film technique with early sound techniques. The fake air battle scenes are really good, and the movie as a whole is a pretty interesting artifact. 16. Coraline (2009): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 10/9/2014  In my continuing efforts to watch and understand the family films of the last decade I’ve come across a number of decent-ish movies, but this is one of the few that really seemed pretty special. The movie has its flaws, but it makes up for them with its creative and oddly creepy style. It works both as a sort of children’s adventure story and as a sort of children’s horror movie. 15. Incendies (2010): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 1/12/2014  Denis Villeneuve has the distinction of having a film on both my best and worst films list this year. I’m not entirely sure what to make of this filmmaker really, I think his last two movies (Prisoners and Enemy) are not very good at all, but this earlier French Language film showed a lot more potential. A really well realized movie about a pair of siblings trying to find out about their roots in Lebanon and their mother’s actions during that country’s civil war. The movie has a kind of wacky ending, but as a whole the film mostly worked for me.
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 12, 2015 21:59:08 GMT -5
Wooo! Second year a film club recommendation for me makes the best of list.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 16, 2015 14:20:45 GMT -5
14. Not Fade Away (2012): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 12/22/2014  This movie, which was directed by Sopranos creator David Chase, was pretty much ignored when it came out in 2012 and while it isn’t exactly a masterpiece it certainly deserved better than that. The movie isn’t an overly original look at rock and roll in the 60s, but it’s really well made and has a an interesting mood to it. You can tell that a lot of it was rooted in Chase’s own youth as a pretentious youth in the 60s and that it means a lot to him. 13. The Act of Killing (2013): Watched on DVD via Netflix on 1/15/2014  This was one of the most acclaimed films of 2013 and while I wasn’t quite as crazy about it as some people I do definitely think it was the best documentary of that year. The film’s look at the strange paradox of war criminals who are held up as heroes in Indonesia because they were on the winning side of the civil war they were in the middle of. I probably could have done without the conceit of allowing these people to film genre reenactments of their exploits, but it’s a fascinating film all the same. 12. The Way Back (2010): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 9/14/2014  This story of a group of Russians escaping from a Siberian jail and traveling by foot across vast swaths of land is every bit as extraordinary as anything in Unbroken, but it offered fewer opportunities for patriotism and “inspirational” slogans, so of course it was ignored by audiences and awards bodies. That’s unfortunate because it’s a really well made film filled with interesting scenery and good performances.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Jan 16, 2015 16:22:21 GMT -5
I loved "The Act of Killing", really unique and unsettling documentary. It was astounding watching it thinking about how open and excited these horrible people are to talk about their crimes.
I liked "The Way Back" too, it makes me sad that Peter Weir has made 2 films in the last 15 years. The story and characters weren't developed as much as I'd hoped, but the collaboration with National Geographic shows; it has some stunning cinematography and beautiful sweeping, aerial shots.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 18, 2015 16:48:26 GMT -5
11. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984): Watched on TCM on 7/15/2014  I was already pretty familiar with the life of Harvey Milk from Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk, but it was cool going back and watching the documentary that first popularized his story back in the 80s. It’s a pretty well formed documentary in and of itself, which brings together archival footage and after the fact interviews really well and tells the story very efficiently. 10. Seconds (1966): Watched on DVD via the library on 6/29/2014  This is one of two movies on this list that I saw because of the CS film club (thanks Coop and Jibbs), and this one took me a second to come around on, but after looking some writing on it I was mostly convinced that it was a little more special than I might have initially thought it was. Its in-your-face style was ahead of its time and really elevated what could have been almost a glorified Twilight Zone episode. 9. Quadrophenia (1979): Watched on DVD via the library on 6/14/2014  Although this is ostensibly based on The Who album of the same name, it’s pretty far removed from the over-blown pretentiousness that’s usually associated with rock operas. In fact I think the whole Who connection has probably hurt the film’s reputation over the year, it’s actually a pretty good British kitchen sink realist coming of age movie about the mods and rockers era.
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 18, 2015 18:42:04 GMT -5
Seconds was an honourable mention for my list.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 18, 2015 18:43:54 GMT -5
Seconds was an honourable mention for my list. It would have just been an honorable mention for me too if I'd watched as much awesome stuff as you. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 21:56:10 GMT -5
Seconds is an amazing movie. A pretty terrifying one at that, too.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 19, 2015 16:29:55 GMT -5
8. Henry V (1989): Watched on DVD via Netflix on 6/1/2014  This is probably the most famous of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare movies and now that I’ve seen it I can kind of see why. I prefer his Hamlet, but this one has battle scenes, it’s got an exciting arc, and it isn’t four hours long, so I can see why it would be more audience pleasing. Those battle scenes really are pretty well staged and display the horrors of war in a way that Lawrence Olivier’s more… patriotic… adaptation didn’t. 7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): Watched on DVD via the library on 2/26/2014  I always viewed The 39 Steps as being the place where Hitchcock really started to be Hitchcock, but this movie was made a year earlier probably fits the bill a bit better. It’s got a really fun plot and a cool villain performance by Peter Lorre, and is offers pretty much anything you would want from Hitchcock’s British period. It’s like I’ve found the missing link. 6. La Notte (1961): Watched on TCM on 10/11/2014  I was kind of scared off from Michelangelo Antonioni after a botched viewing of L’avventura when I was proabably a little too young to understand or appreciate it. I might revisit that one some day, but in the meantime I thought I’d move on to his second major work: La Notte. I really wish I’d seen this before I saw The Great Beauty because it was clearly a reference point for that movie and the fact that I missed this makes me feel a little foolish. Anyway, I probably respected this movie more than I loved it, but I definitely “got” this more than I “got” L’avventura.
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Post by Neverending on Jan 19, 2015 16:56:37 GMT -5
8. Henry V (1989): Watched on DVD via Netflix on 6/1/2014 This is probably the most famous of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare movies and now that I’ve seen it I can kind of see why. I prefer his Hamlet, but this one has battle scenes, it’s got an exciting arc, and it isn’t four hours long, so I can see why it would be more audience pleasing. Those battle scenes really are pretty well staged and display the horrors of war in a way that Lawrence Olivier’s more… patriotic… adaptation didn’t. I watched that movie in 10th grade. I don't remember if I mentioned that in our school discussion from 6 months ago. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 19, 2015 18:48:55 GMT -5
The Man Who Knew Too Much is another of my honourable mentions. I have La Notte and Olivier's Henry V waiting on my PVR.
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