The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.
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2. Please post your favourite film of last week.
3. NO TV SHOWS!
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Here are some great comments from last week's thread:
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I revisited Ron Howard's Apollo 13. Space has never felt so claustrophobic. Ron Howard directed another masterpiece of suspense thriller, but this time in space. Howard recounts the true story of the Apollo 13 spacecraft and its crew's miraculous return to Earth. You will still be stunned by the realistic special effects and the enclosed environment. You feel like you are in the ship with these astronauts. Howard also lets you understand how hard it is for the families of NASA's team members to endure these flights. Apollo 13 is a phenomenal historical drama that plays out more like an epic disaster film. Apollo 13's cast is filled with excellent character actors that all deliver heartfelt performances. Tom Hanks, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinese, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, and Ed Harris are particularly wonderful to behold in Apollo 13. These actors bring these incredible real events to life with a genuine quality that comes across the screen. Their emotions and desires are felt by you through these highly expressive depictions. I think Apollo 13 is as much a display of believable acting as it is a recreation of historical moments. James Horner delivers an emotive score that grips your heartstrings with each tender note. The scary sequences are elevated by Horner's tense score as well as the intimate familial scenes are grounded by his gentle sounds. Apollo 13 keeps you in the moment with its tense scenes in addition to Horner's classical music. In short, Apollo 13 is a must see American classic. It may have been released in 1995, but it looks like it could have been made currently. The effects, story, acting, and direction all hold water to date. I think you could play Apollo 13 in a classroom as a time piece of the late 1960's and early 1970's. It is that good.
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1987 When the Day Comes - In the mid-1980s, the South Korean government was still a dictatorship with Chun Doo-hwan as the President. During this time, the Korean people were calling for a full democracy and increasingly protesting for it. The government had an anti-Communist task force executing McCarthy-esque searches for "Commie sympathizers", which was carte blanche to seize anyone speaking out against the current government. The tensions were high and in 1987 there was a major incident with a student which set things in motion for what would eventually be called "the June Democratic Uprising". This is the story of that incident and the events that followed which eventually led to the government having full democratic elections. The movie is historically-based but goes out of its way to say it's not meant to be a documentary, so liberties were taken. The film overall is a historical drama cut with the energy of a political thriller. The cast of characters is in the dozens and only a few are consistently on screen, but each person's role in the storytelling is woven in masterfully so that by the end, the viewer is totally immersed in the world of South Korea 1987 and the events that are going on. It's told at a large-scale level, laying out what is going on and what events/actions are leading to other actions, but it also spends just enough time to give character and personality and motivations so that we can sympathize with many of these people... all of these people, really. The movie is really tight and engaging throughout and has a really fantastic and powerful ending. I'd recommend knowing very little about it going in, even the trailer reveals things that many of us in the United States may not know about that part of south korean history and learning it on the fly was pretty interesting and exciting. The storytelling is structured interestingly and I'll say just that the film feels like a particularly type of movie at the start but continues to grow and grow and become a very different film by the end. Yes, it does get into some melodrama at times. Yes, it does get a little "hollywood actiony" at times. Yes, it does play to sentimental tropes at times. But it does so in a very controlled way and it doesn't dwell on those moments too long. It pairs really nicely with another recent South Korean historical drama A Taxi Driver which deals with the events of the student protests in Gwangju province about 7 years prior to the events of this movie. Overall, it was simply outstanding and I was blown away by it and really want to recommend this movie. I think if you liked A Few Good Men or All the President's Men you'd really enjoy this film.
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Watched There Will Be Blood for the first time the other day and holy shit. The cinematography is beyond beautiful, the soundtrack sounds like it belongs in a horror film but for some reason fits perfectly making for such an uneasy and dark feeling, the writing is unbelievable, there is just quotable moment after quotable moment in this movie (the milkshake scene, my god) and holy shit the acting, I seriously don't know what can be said about that hasn't already been said, Daniel Day-Lewis probably gave one of the greatest performances of all time but I feel like Paul Dano really doesn't get enough credit since he was in DDL's shadow, his performance was fantastic. Now saying all this, this movie does remind me of something like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Stalker where it's definitely not for everyone. The movie doesn't have a super interesting plot line or very likeable characters but instead focuses on it's unnerved dark aesthetic, beautiful shots and interesting themes (capitalism & religion, human greed, "the American dream", competition & the need to be the best etc.). I definitely wouldnt blame anyone who thought this film is "boring" or "bad" but for me, this is one of my favourite films of all time. Nearly a week after I've watched it, I still find myself thinking about it and replaying scenes over in my head and to be honest I'm not even sure why. There's just something about this movie that sticks with you, I'd definitely recommend giving it a try even if you might not like it
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