Movie Record 2022 Edition - The Bear and Badger

LivDiv

11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)Competent enough slasher but nothing you wont have seen 100 times before.
Didnt really grasp what was so good about the original.
I would say you could switch out Leatherface for Jason or Myers in this and the film would basically be the exact same thing.
The opening 20 minutes needlessly trowels on social commentary that ends up having nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
Middle of the road score for a middle of the road movie.[5]

Webbins

Didn't even know about a new TCM until it popped up on the Netflix. But then I've only ever seen the og, none of the sequels or reboots. I'll give this a watch, if only out of general horror interest.

LivDiv

Probably the most interesting thing about it is that it is rated R but could easily be edited down to a 15 which of course it would have been for a theatrical release.

Raiziel

Webbins wrote:

Didn't even know about a new TCM until it popped up on the Netflix. But then I've only ever seen the og, none of the sequels or reboots. I'll give this a watch, if only out of general horror interest.

Perfectly okay if you haven’t seen the sequels, as this new one is a direct sequel of the original.

Dark Soldier

LivDiv wrote:

11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)Competent enough slasher but nothing you wont have seen 100 times before.
Didnt really grasp what was so good about the original.
I would say you could switch out Leatherface for Jason or Myers in this and the film would basically be the exact same thing.
The opening 20 minutes needlessly trowels on social commentary that ends up having nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
Middle of the road score for a middle of the road movie.[5]

Watching it now. That lead lass, Mel, is a fucking fanny and it's ruining the whole thing.

Also no real need for it to be tied to TCM. Ots just a generic slasher as you say.

LivDiv

But she is unconventional looking.
Its clever.

Dark Soldier

I'm like halfway through now and all she's done is fucking moan and shit it. I'm guessing it's a commentary on the snowflake generation and it's incredibly deep.

Wookienopants

Tick Tick Boom

I wasn't expecting to like this but utterly swept away by it within the opening few minutes. Andrew Garfield is absolutely brilliant in every way and I cried my eyes out at least twice.

Just give the man a damn Oscar

poprock

The King’s Man
Abysmal attempt to rescue the franchise by winding back a century and starting again. Godawful from start to finish.

davyK

The Football Factory Better than I imagined it would be. Smarter anyhow. A very young Danny Dyer has some screen presence which surprised me given the one dimensional shtick we get from him now. It was OK. Probably more impactful in its day.

Moot_Geeza

It's not a terrible film. Whereas Green Street is.

Gremill

25. Ravenous
Prime slice of 90s cannibalism themed horror, with Robert Carlyle terrorising Guy Pearce in a winter battered outpost in 1850s California. It's more schlocky than I remember it being and has some weird inconsistent comedy beats but it's still a great watch. 8

nick_md

davyK wrote:

The Football Factory Better than I imagined it would be. Smarter anyhow. A very young Danny Dyer has some screen presence which surprised me given the one dimensional shtick we get from him now. It was OK. Probably more impactful in its day.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

It's not a terrible film. Whereas Green Street is.

Love me any football hooligans film tbh, can watch the shite ones. I'd recommend Cass tho, not shite imo, pretty familiar topic but well done.

Raiziel

Gremill wrote:

25. Ravenous
Prime slice of 90s cannibalism themed horror, with Robert Carlyle terrorising Guy Pearce in a winter battered outpost in 1850s California. It's more schlocky than I remember it being and has some weird inconsistent comedy beats but it's still a great watch. 8

I have this on my watchlist. Not sure I’ve seen it before, so might give it a go later.

Wookienopants

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Well that was pointless. A horror film that was neither horrific nor scary. Just totally unnecessary.
Boring too.
Watched this straight after Tick Tick Boom and it was like having the best meal of your life followed by leftover Chinese you found in the bin

LivDiv

12. Schindler's List
Not alot to say that won't have been said before. One of the best movies ever made. Soul destroying and harrowing.

Raiziel

I cry without fail when he realises the worth of his pin could have saved a life or two.

hylian_elf

16. Dark Waters - 19/2
Scary and brilliant docu-movie about Teflon and the dangers and Big Corps.
[8]

17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - 19/2
Good build-up to the finale but suffers from being part 1 and therefore feels like it's just a teaser or stepping stone to the next film.
[7]

18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - 20/2
A grand finale full of spectacle and surprises and emotion. A great finish.
[8]

LivDiv

13. The Terror
Pre Easy Rider Nicholson in fairly standard for the era, churned out horror.

14. Three Billboards...
Yeah good stuff. Rockwell is always highly watchable. Harrelson's letter cut me up a bit.

Cos

LivDiv wrote:

11. The Terror Pre Easy Rider Nicholson in fairly standard for the era, churned out horror. 13. Three Billboards... Yeah good stuff. Rockwell is always highly watchable. Harrelson's letter cut me up a bit.

Your numbering technique is the real terror here.

LivDiv

oops

Cos

hylian_elf wrote:

16. Dark Waters - 19/2 Scary and brilliant docu-movie about Teflon and the dangers and Big Corps. [8]

That story was both entirely unsurprising and infuriating that people could be so callous. Tip of the iceberg as well, I'm sure.

Cos

21. The French Dispatch
Enjoyed this overall but probably one of the more uneven Anderson films. Of the three main stories, the first stood out as best by quite some way. Benicio on great form. The second was interesting but less engaging (my wife fell asleep at that point) and the third pulled things back somewhat. It also felt like it was bordering on self-parody at times (perhaps intentionally if you're feeling generous) but I unashamedly lapped it up. Some may argue it's style over substance but even if it was, when the style is this good it's bonkers to ignore it. [7]

hylian_elf

Yo Cos. Aren’t you collating all your viewings in one post? If you are, I couldn’t see it in first two pages of the thread.

Cos

Ah, I forgot about that. I've updated page one now and will keep on top of it.

As a proper nerd, I've got a spreadsheet where I track all my watching though not for reviews/scoring.

LivDiv

15. Equilibrium
Post Matrix slightly naff dystopian Sci Fi starring Brian Conley.

Gun katas were never cool let alone aged although they clearly influenced The Last Jedi thrown room fight as everyone stands around like a lemon.

Moot_Geeza

Ha that was one of those 'no really trust me it's actually great' dvd movies. It wasn't.

hylian_elf

Based on 1984, wasn’t it?

Paul the sparky

LivDiv wrote:

15. Equilibrium
Post Matrix slightly naff dystopian Sci Fi starring Brian Conley.

Come again?

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