Recently Watched Films

Very entertaining darkly comic neo-noir. 

Excellent 1940 classic. Loved it. 

The least weird movie I've seen from Terry Gilliam. 

Seeing this for the first time and it suffers through being so ingrained into popular culture that I've known how it ends for years (hell, Red Dwarf parodied this quite heavily in one episode). Despite that, I was glued to this throughout. 

Pretty standard action movie with a basic plot but for a movie to just kick back to and watch Denzel sorting out the baddies it's pretty entertaining. 

Rare black western. Unfortunately even though the story is an important one the actual film could stand to be more compelling. 

For me this never got more entertaining than its intro. It remains a solid, intriguing film that I probably did a disservice to by watching it in three chunks of about one hour each, but overall probably more experimental than I like.

Pretty good film noir. 

An excellent, though quite short, film noir.

It's possibly the worse time to start into the DCEU considering a lot of it seems to be falling apart, but I decided to start checking them out anyway. I've mixed feelings on this one. I liked the prolonged intro on Krypton and the early scenes once the story reaches Earth, covering Superman finding out who he is and his first meetings with Lois, but I felt the movie fell apart once Zod arrived on Earth and things turned into one very long action sequence, which started to get tedious after a while. 

Sunset Boulevard (1950) - 4.5/5 - wouldn't rate it as the best noir like it is on RYM, but very, very good.

Triple Frontier (2019) - 4/5 - a solid heist film with a strong cast, but somehow it never manages to reach being excellent.

Changeling (2008) - 5/5 - probably the best Clint Eastwood directed movie that he doesn't star in and I say that as a big fan of Mystic River. This true crime movie was one of the most horrifying I've seen. 

Dead Reckoning (1947) - 4.5/5 - It's film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. What's not to like?

Broken Arrow (1950) - 4/5 - This James Stewart western is solid enough and tells an important tale, but it never reaches the heights of the ones he did with Anthony Mann. 

Ghost in the Shell (2017) - 3.5/5 - I've never watched the anime of this. Basically I only watched it for Scarlett, even though I know her casting was considered controversial (except for in Japan apparently and ironically - isn't it always the way whenever politically correct issues are raised that the ones supposedly offended are the least bothered by something?). It's a stylish sci-fi movie with some good action scenes, but the plot itself didn't compel me too much.

The Arrival (1996) - 4.5/5 - Very good lesser known sci-fi gem. 

Locke (2014) - 4/5 - For a movie which takes entirely inside a car during one long nighttime journey, this is actually quite compelling. Of course it helps that the one actor on screen is the excellent Tom Hardy.

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom (2018) - 4/5 - People hyped the last one which I found essentially a rehash of the original. This one actually felt a bit more fresh.

Gone Baby Gone (2007) - 3.5/5 - Nowhere near as compelling as I'd expected it to be, based on it's good reputation. I disliked the end as well, though I guess it was at least a realistic conclusion.