Recently Watched Films

Love this movie!

My final film of 2020 ends up being one of the best seen all year. I may also have a new found appreciate for jazz, thanks to this movie. 

This was excellent. Chuck Schuldiner was a complex person, and could come across as a bit of a dick sometimes. This doesn't sugar coat it too much. However, it also shows how fucking brilliant and driven a musician he was, and how visionary. Well worth a watch.

Some parts of this are fucking hilarious. Some aren't. Not particularly in depth or anything, but it's an amusing diversion for an hour and a bit.

An excellent, but long, documentary about the rise and rise of the Playstation. It would have been even better if there had been subtitles for the interviews with the Japanese participants...

I don't like superhero/comic book movies. Knowing this, my brother thought I might like this, with it being a comedy and all. Yeah, the characters are funny, Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Drax, and I like Chris Pratt as an actor, but this movie was just really fucking lame. So I STILL don't like superhero/comic book movies!

This noir seemed a bit run of the mill at first but it really got me in the end. A relatively unknown gem. 

These two add one more to the tally of each category. I wonder if anyone can work out which way around though?

De Palma rips off Psycho (again). Still a good movie, but he kind of already remade Psycho with Dressed to Kill in 1980 so this one feels like a sign that the Golden Age of De Palma was coming to an end, though Carlito's Way, his next film, is certainly a massive last hurrah. 

I gotta say I really didn't like this one. It's a bit too confused and disjointed, too much suspension of disbelief required. And I got bored part way through it. It really was time for Sean Connery to retire the role. And for someone showing so much flesh, Jill St. John was decidedly unsexy!

That ending...

Mixed feelings but I ultimately enjoyed this. But it could easily have ended up in the category of 'overlong movie where little happens (that RYM overrates)'. 

Xmas TV 2020 has provided a couple of Pixar movies I hadn't seen yet, the first which was Cars 3. I'm kinder on the Cars franchise than most (though it undoubtedly is Pixar's least interesting) and thought this was decent light-hearted entertainment (unless you buy the theory that in the universe of Cars they killed all the humans, then it gets dark real fast). 

Still haven't seen many silent movies. This one was pretty decent.