movies

[thrill]

Movies coming out the winter/late fall I am extremely excited about:
Star Wars
Hateful Eight
Macbeth
SPECTRE
Revenant
Creed


This is going to be an excellent movie season after a terrible summer.

[Schlich]

it really was a terrible summer

[MrCrowesGarden]

To each his own, I guess. I haven't enjoyed a summer slate of movies this much in a while.

[Schlich]

Mad Max was probably the only movie I can even recall even existing this summer

[Maclowery]

My summer was MAD MAX WAS SO COOL! and zilch after that.

[thrill]

My summer was MAD MAX WAS SO COOL! and zilch after that.

Me too.

I did get to see The Third Man and Goldfinger in theaters, so that was cool.

[Schlich]

The Overnighters (on Netflix) was a pretty crazy social experiment. An oil boom in north dakota brings a bunch of vagrants to town, and an eccentric local pastor gives them shelter in the church to help them get on their feet. Things spiral out of hand, and the locals get pretty pissed. Good watch. Way over the top dramatic, but captivating.

[Vidor]

"Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky--long and slow and boring. I wanted to like it, I did. And I liked "Solaris" by the same dude which was similar in many respects. Just couldn't get into this one. It does do a pretty good job of building a sense of existential dread, though.

"The Bank Dick" by W.C. Fields--was also kind of let down by this one. I'm culturally literate enough to recognize Fields and his shtick, but I don't think the movie made me laugh once.

[Vidor]

Watched W.C. Fields film "It's a Gift" off of TCM. I liked it better than "The Bank Dick"--it had a story, more or less, which "The Bank Dick" didn't, and Fields's character is more well-rounded.

[Vidor]

Watched a very very trippy Japanese silent movie called "A Page of Madness" off of TCM. Anyone who has seen and liked "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" should seek it out. Very odd and surreal film told without intertitles in which a man gets a job working in an insane asylum in order to be closer to his wife, who is an inmate there after drowning their baby--I think.