Movies Rate and Discuss the Last Movie You Saw v.16

[eddymotto]

45 Years (UK, 2015)

British drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.

Kate (Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Courtenay) are a retired married couple living in the English countryside. They do not have any children and pass their days visiting the local village, walking the dog, reading, and puttering around the house. Perhaps it is not quite domestic bliss but it does look like a married couple enjoying their golden years together.

Their relationship is disturbed when Geoff (interestingly pronounced "Jeff" rather than "GEE-off") receives a letter from the Swiss authorities that the body of his former hiking partner, Katya, has been discovered in a melting glacier where she had fallen to her death during a trip with Geoff 50 years ago. Geoff had met and married Kate a few years after that incident.

Kate knows a little about Katya but Geoff's slow motion reaction to the news begins to raise questions about who Katya really was to Geoff and how it impacts the foundation of their marriage. A line in the film sums it up well, "this place is so full of history, like a good marriage". What if one thing in that history changes? Is it a pebble thrown into a river or the first domino in a line?

This is a superbly acted, slow drama. Rampling is exceptional, as always.

It is a classic "show, don't tell film". We are left to observe how the news about the past creates ripples in the present.

It is an amazing relationship study. How well do we really know the closest person in the world to us? How does something that happened 50 years ago change the perception of everything that has happened since?

This is a slow paced, subtle film. Too slow for many people but a careful watch is rewarding. I suspect that your enjoyment will be heavily influenced by your own life experience. I appreciate the craft of the film but I could not directly relate to the situation. Those who do will probably see a masterpiece.

Rating: 7/10

 

[HenryFlower]

45 Years (UK, 2015)

British drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.

Kate (Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Courtenay) are a retired married couple living in the English countryside. They do not have any children and pass their days visiting the local village, walking the dog, reading, and puttering around the house. Perhaps it is not quite domestic bliss but it does look like a married couple enjoying their golden years together.

Their relationship is disturbed when Geoff (interestingly pronounced "Jeff" rather than "GEE-off") receives a letter from the Swiss authorities that the body of his former hiking partner, Katya, has been discovered in a melting glacier where she had fallen to her death during a trip with Geoff 50 years ago. Geoff had met and married Kate a few years after that incident.

Kate knows a little about Katya but Geoff's slow motion reaction to the news begins to raise questions about who Katya really was to Geoff and how it impacts the foundation of their marriage. A line in the film sums it up well, "this place is so full of history, like a good marriage". What if one thing in that history changes? Is it a pebble thrown into a river or the first domino in a line?

This is a superbly acted, slow motion drama. Rampling is exceptional, as always.

It is a classic "show, don't tell film". We are left to observe how the news about the past creates ripples in the present.

It is an amazing relationship study. How well do we really know the closest person in the world to us? How does something that happened 50 years ago change the perception of everything that has happened since?

This is a slow paced, subtle film. Too slow for many people but a careful watch is rewarding. I suspect that your enjoyment will be heavily influenced by your own life experience. I appreciate the craft of the film but I could not directly relate to the situation. Those who do will probably see a masterpiece.

Rating: 7/10

Andrew Haigh can’t miss.

 

[TKing]

Land of Bad - 7/10

Couldn't sleep and found this random movie starring Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe and Milo Ventimiglia. A special forces unit gets ambushed and Crowe is the eyes in the sky for the team. I had never heard of this and I was surprised at how bloody it was and also didn't steer away from showing the brutality of what happens when a team gets captured by the enemy.

It did have some random scenes that didn't fit in especially with Crowe, some odd character decisions and towards the end they went crazy with the final act for the sake of fun action. Surprisingly fun movie.

 

[eddymotto]

Andrew Haigh can’t miss.

have you watched this one? (45 years)

 

[revoltub]

Doubt anyone cares but I havent been posting any reviews because I've been watching Oz.

On season 3. Solid show so far. I know there's another thread for TV shows but whatever.

 

[HenryFlower]

have you watched this one? (45 years)

yezzir. back in 2011(?) or thereabouts, Haigh’s follow-up to Weekend was one of my most anticipated releases at the time. did not disappoint.

i still need to see his most recent though. i have it downloaded, so i don’t really have an excuse as to why i haven’t watched it yet

 

[the ambush]

Passenger 57

On board a commercial Atlantic Airlines flight a terrorist in-custody, Charles Rayne/Bruce Payne is being transported in the passenger cabin. When a surprise ambush happens mid-flight the only person who can rescue the passengers held hostage by terrorists is a former head of security for Atlantic Airlines, John Cutter/Wesley Snipes. A flight attendant, Marti Slayton/Alex Datcher forms a relationship and bond with John Cutter/Wesley Snipes along the way. Remember, always bet on black! I recommend the film

 

[Loiosh]

I don't mind that actually. I don't ask for much. Give me good editing and I'll have fun. I've watched Michelle Yeoh kick ass for 30 years.

It's a pretentious, empty vessel and that's why I hated it. It's not a movie. It's a collection of cool scenes mashed together.

Atomic Blonde? I saw it, didn't think it was that good. I thought she was a hundred times better in Fury Road.

Speaking of kick ass women..,

 

[Loiosh]

Doubt anyone cares but I havent been posting any reviews because I've been watching Oz.

On season 3. Solid show so far. I know there's another thread for TV shows but whatever.

If your soul hasn't been crushed by the time you finish, try following up with The Shield.

 

[Loiosh]

45 Years (UK, 2015)

British drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.

Kate (Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Courtenay) are a retired married couple living in the English countryside. They do not have any children and pass their days visiting the local village, walking the dog, reading, and puttering around the house. Perhaps it is not quite domestic bliss but it does look like a married couple enjoying their golden years together.

Their relationship is disturbed when Geoff (interestingly pronounced "Jeff" rather than "GEE-off") receives a letter from the Swiss authorities that the body of his former hiking partner, Katya, has been discovered in a melting glacier where she had fallen to her death during a trip with Geoff 50 years ago. Geoff had met and married Kate a few years after that incident.

Kate knows a little about Katya but Geoff's slow motion reaction to the news begins to raise questions about who Katya really was to Geoff and how it impacts the foundation of their marriage. A line in the film sums it up well, "this place is so full of history, like a good marriage". What if one thing in that history changes? Is it a pebble thrown into a river or the first domino in a line?

This is a superbly acted, slow drama. Rampling is exceptional, as always.

It is a classic "show, don't tell film". We are left to observe how the news about the past creates ripples in the present.

It is an amazing relationship study. How well do we really know the closest person in the world to us? How does something that happened 50 years ago change the perception of everything that has happened since?

This is a slow paced, subtle film. Too slow for many people but a careful watch is rewarding. I suspect that your enjoyment will be heavily influenced by your own life experience. I appreciate the craft of the film but I could not directly relate to the situation. Those who do will probably see a masterpiece.

Rating: 7/10

Man, I had it for Charlotte Rampling bad.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Passenger 57

On board a commercial Atlantic Airlines flight a terrorist in-custody, Charles Rayne/Bruce Payne is being transported in the passenger cabin. When a surprise ambush happens mid-flight the only person who can rescue the passengers held hostage by terrorists is a former head of security for Atlantic Airlines, John Cutter/Wesley Snipes. A flight attendant, Marti Slayton/Alex Datcher forms a relationship and bond with John Cutter/Wesley Snipes along the way. Remember, always bet on black! I recommend the film

- Watched several times when i was young. US Marshalls is another great movie with Snipes and Tommy Lee Jones.

I watched Battletruck 1982. Never heard of that movie. Was a cool simple movie. As a brazilian i felt pretty served when the car used to face the truck, was the most realiable, powerful and greatest car in history, or beloved Fusca also know as Volkswagen Beetle.

 

[eddymotto]

If your soul hasn't been crushed by the time you finish, try following up with The Shield.

The Shield is one of my all time faves

 

[Loiosh]

The Shield is one of my all time faves

One of the most perfect finales we could have hoped for.

 

[Loiosh]

French Girl (2024)

3/10

Zach Braf stars as a New York teacher whose French Canadian chef girlfriend is offered an opportunity in Québec City.

I watched this because it featured a city I love, Québécois actors (most of whom were born within ten minutes from where I live), and even had Georges St. Pierre. Also I have always had a soft spot for Zach Braff, I liked him in Scrubs and loved Garden State.

This was really bad. Braff amplified all of his most annoying qualities and didn't bother including anything to make himself even remotely endearing, by the end of the film you're praying for the girlfriend to leave him for someone better.

The film used stock duck out of water incidents for the New Yorker in a French city, and none of them were funny. They were just awkward.

Very disappointing.

 

[ufcfan4]

The Shield is one of my all time faves

One of the few series I can think of that stayed really good throughout its run, right through its final episode (one of the better series finales I’ve seen for that matter, too).

 

[ufcfan4]

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play fictionalized versions of themselves having a long conversation over dinner. That’s about it. Obviously it’s a bare bones type of film and could have just as easily been a play, particularly considering that both of these guys were playwrights/theater directors, but getting the very good French director Louis Malle to helm it definitely helped make it more cinematic.

I found it very compelling. Their conversation goes in all sorts of directions but the more philosophical musings on death and relationships and the contrast between modern comforts and ancestral humans were really good. I think it really does ebb and flow like a spontaneous conversation which speaks to the quality of the writing. There are a couple of lulls here and there but that fact makes the points where Gregory says something really resonant or Shawn makes a compelling counter argument all the more impacting.

The voice over from Shawn that begins and ends the film serves as solid book ends to an interesting and insightful movie.

7.9/10

 

[Loiosh]

One of the few series I can think of that stayed really good throughout its run, right through its final episode (one of the better series finales I’ve seen for that matter, too).

You know which moments will stay with me forever because they were absolutely perfect?

Spoiler

“Good cop and bad cop have left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop.” (Set the stage not only for who he was but how much law enforcement was willing to let him get away with).

"How much memory has that thing got?" (Vick's look of resigned contempt in the face of everyone else's shock).

"What about protecting the goddamn team!" (Vick's betrayal of Ronnie).

There are many more of course but these are the ones I always revisit.

 

[Loiosh]

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play fictionalized versions of themselves having a long conversation over dinner. That’s about it. Obviously it’s a bare bones type of film and could have just as easily been a play, particularly considering that both of these guys were playwrights/theater directors, but getting the very good French director Louis Malle to helm it definitely helped make it more cinematic.

I found it very compelling. Their conversation goes in all sorts of directions but the more philosophical musings on death and relationships and the contrast between modern comforts and ancestral humans were really good. I think it really does ebb and flow like a spontaneous conversation which speaks to the quality of the writing. There are a couple of lulls here and there but that fact makes the points where Gregory says something really resonant or Shawn makes a compelling counter argument all the more impacting.

The voice over from Shawn that begins and ends the film serves as solid book ends to an interesting and insightful movie.

7.9/10

Wow, damn does that bring me back.

 

[ufcfan4]

Wow, damn does that bring me back.

given that both these dudes thankfully have lived long lives and are still around, it sort of bums me out they never did a sequel. Some of the stuff they were concerned about in the early 80s has only been exacerbated in the past couple of decades. Would be interesting to hear some thoughts from them with regard to social media, internet, alienation, etc.

 

[ufcfan4]

You know which moments will stay with me forever because they were absolutely perfect?

Spoiler

“Good cop and bad cop have left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop.” (Set the stage not only for who he was but how much law enforcement was willing to let him get away with).

"How much memory has that thing got?" (Vick's look of resigned contempt in the face of everyone else's shock).

"What about protecting the goddamn team!" (Vick's betrayal of Ronnie).

There are many more of course but these are the ones I always revisit.

For sure. All of those moments really stand out.

Spoiler

I really liked in that final season how Ronnie had a bigger role and seemed to be more confident and emboldened only to have the rug pulled out from him by Vic’s deal.

That show had some really dark moments. Goggins is another guy who is a really underrated actor. He played Shane perfectly and yet I’ve seen him excel in vastly different roles and a variety of genres.