Recently Watched Films

Righting a wrong committed 45 years ago! My cousins got to see The Rescuers, but me and my brothers didn't! I was so envious! Anyway, all fixed now. I do believe 5-year-old me would have appreciated it a lot more than 50-year-old me did. But anyway, it's a Disney movie, so there's anthropomorphic animals, the goodies win, and the baddies get their comeuppance.

Watchable enough, but kinda meh. 

When you hear a bit of dialogue in a movie and say 'hey, that's sampled in that metal song!'

'What metal song was that again?'

Movie wasn't that interesting despite the leads being Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance. 

Re-watche:

I included this as part of my Batman re-watch run. 

The second viewing has made me realise something about the DCEU: I really do not like this version of The Flash. I don't know if my opinion is just getting influenced by how problematic Miller has become recently, but there's just something about the portrayal of The Flash in this that just makes the character seem kinda gormless. You've got these five other badass characters in the team and then there's The Flash coming across as the comic relief twit. 

Or it may just be that Miller is difficult watch considering everything they've been up to off screen.

Much meddled with in it's production by people who didn't understand it. It's a good movie, but had the potential to be great.

Aside from that, though, I do remember greatly enjoying it, just not as much as the second movie, but probably at least as much as Batman Begins, if not even a bit more. Heath Ledger's Joker just lifted TDK far above the other two (and any other superhero movies I've seen, tbh.)

What if climate change hit the world overnight? The reality of it is very well done for 1961, although the special effects have been criticised. For a 60 year old British film they aren't bad - consider the average Hammer Horror or Quatermas movie.

This trilogy could never hold up to The Lord of The Rings, but I still like what they did with it a lot. People like to run them down, but the way people are already going on about the Rings of Power series when it hasn't even debuted, maybe some will come to look back more favourably on these. 

I'm randomly going through Ghibli again. It's been a while since my big in release order re-watch. This one is kinda my go to comfort movie. 

Also re-watching some Hitchcock that I've only seen once. I didn't remember this one too well, and to be honest I get why. It's not among his best. 

The recent same named soft reboot/sequel does not do this justice. 

The shortest Middle-Earth movie even in the extended versions, it's also one that seems a bit better each time I watch it. 

One of the more overtly kiddie Ghibli films, but it's still an absolute pleasure to watch. 

My third time on this one. I've never actually seen the theatrical version: I always just go straight in for the 170 minute long director's cut. 

I'll also be going through the Park Chan-Wook films that I own again. This is probably my favourite outside of the Vengeance Trilogy.

Possibly my favourite Miyazaki movie, but I can never settle on picking one due to the sheer quality of his work. I find this one very re-watchable though and the presentation is suitable for while not necessarily aimed at kids. 

Kim Jee-woon is another Korean director whose films I own I will be going through over the coming weeks. Will likely end up throwing Bong Joon-ho into the Korean re-watches as well. 

For now though, I'm focussing on going through Batman again:

These two hold up to second viewings well. A bit more silly than later Batman movies despite being 15 rated (a trait shared since only with The Batman), but they work well. I wasn't that fussed about Keaton as Batman the first time around, but I liked him more this time. 

The same thing cannot be said for these two. I thought them a bit better than their reputations the first time around but boy do they not hold up. Either that or I was just feeling charitable with my opinions when I watched them before. Forever is okay but I could really do without Jim Carrey, but both suffer from awful acting (considering the talent involved in both films that's unforgivable), are far too corny and in Batman & Robin most of all far too many of the jokes just fall back on unfunny innuendo. Luckily the next Batman movie was this one:

This is the start of the modern, gritty Batman movies that made me a fan of the character. This movie single-handedly saved Batman as a going concern on the big screen. 

And this is finally the point I'm caught up on posting everything I've watched lately. 

A satisfying end to the trilogy, and my disc for this one doesn't glitch!

Possibly Hitchcock's most underrated movie. 

I'm slowly going through these again with other stuff between them due to length.

This continues to be one I can watch any time.

Back to back viewing. 

More to come.

Lots of gratuitous nudity and some of the worst blood effects you'll ever see make for a pretty dull Satanic exploitation movie.