Recently Watched Films

Picked this up based on a rec from Reddit. It didn't disappoint. Quite a gem. 

And here we have a much better known movie than the previous, which wasn't as good as its reputation. Maybe I'd have been more into it if I didn't already know the ending. That's the trouble with seeing movies that are too well known. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112722/

Another decent Shudder find. 

I'm not averse to a bit of nudity and violence, which this movie has in spades. However don't go watching it expecting a J.Law wankfest, because it's not. The nudity is well within the context of the story, and far from arousing. The graphic violence could be a bit offputting to some people too. In between all that though is a pretty good spy thriller, with twists aplenty.

This is an unusual western. Lots of tense build-up, changing allegiances and lots of blurred lines on hero and villain all leading up to a final shootout, which then never happens. I'm genuinely not sure if its anticlimactic or the best Randolph Scott western I've yet seen. 

His filmography is really diverse. I've only seen a small fraction of it, but he's tackled a lot of styles. 

He made a strange 'western' some years ago, Sukiyaki Western Django, oddly for a Japanese movie made directly into English, played like a traditional US western but seemingly set in some sort of hybrid US-Japan with weird storyteller scenes starring Quentin Tarantino. 

He was also responsible for 13 Assassins which may just be the best traditional Samurai film post-Akira Kurosawa. 

It's really surprising how little known some of his movies are considering how massive one likes Audition became. 

Part two of six. 

Very solid western. Randolph Scott is growing on me with the last few of his westerns I've seen. Could take or leave the first ones I saw. 

wtf did I just watch