Recently Watched Films

A good war story without too much actual war and spread over 40 years.

This one gets a bit better each time. Seemed a slightly lesser Argento at first and compared to some of his others still is, but I enjoy it a lot.

First step on going through the Hitchcock films I own in order (though I'll be skipping Jamaica Inn and The Wrong Man on account of having not that long ago watched them). Known as the first true Hitchcock film, this is a pretty great silent, though the modern score is up and down in terms of fitting the movie. The grand orchestral bits are fine and suitable to the developing plot, but then it throws in vocal tracks that feel extremely wrong in the movie. 

Second watch. Far from a normal comic book movie. I feel like I appreciated more the second time around (though I hardly disliked it the first time), but his manic laugh really starts to grate after a while. 

I liked the Elvira movie from the 80s. It was good, stupid fun. 

This isn't. Knocking off the kind of movies that Roger Corman was making with Vincent Price in the 1960s (The Pit and the Pendulum being a major point of reference to the point of being name checked in the dialogue), it just comes across as poorly acted, badly made parody. 

Never seen this before. Wasn't what I was expecting, but highly entertaining!

Well that was a godawful pile of shit. Such a stupid premise. Oh well, at least it wasn't Iron Eagle...

Yeah, nah. Like Avatar it looks pretty, but it's overrated arse.

Retfærdighedens Ryttere (or Riders of Justice in English), was just what I expected. Sad, clever, and absolutely hilarious. I haven´t laughed this hard for a long time. Anders Thomas Jensen has done it again. Probbably my favorite Danish film maker. I´m not sure people who don´t speak Danish will understand every detail and the humour, but maybe I´m wrong, and then this one is definitely recommendable along with every other movie that Anders Thomas Jensen has been involved in making (exluding The Dark Tower which was a disaster).

Wanted to see if this was a bad as some say, or whether its director's even worse rep just resulted in low ratings from people who have never seen it. Turns out the film is okay. But the filmmaker can go fuck himself. Luckily he hasn't had any films made since the rise of the Me Too movement and it should stay that way. 

would be better if the script wasn't so snarky and annoying... every character is a cunt