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Gerald's Game

Actually a pretty decent film, which is hard to expect from a Stephen King adaptation.  While most of the movie is essentially a woman handcuffed to a bed trying to escape, there's much more depth to it than that basic premise.  Carla Gugino does a fantastic job of carrying the film, as a less capable actress would have had the entire film come crashing down around her.  Here's hoping that Netflix gets into the business of adapting further King material.

The Dark Tower

What a mess of a film.  Whoever thought it to be a good idea to adapt a seven-novel epic into a roughly 90-minute film was severely misguided.  The worlds in which the film takes place simply do not have enough time to be set up here, nor do the main characters, as we're just supposed to believe that Roland and The Man in Black have been battling for a very long time with only a very awkward intro to help establish that for us. 

Elba is fine as Roland and I'd pay to watch him attempt the role again, as I would with McConaughey and The Man in Black role, but it would need to be done by an entirely new creative team behind the camera.  The film is poor from the jump and just keeps getting worse as things go.  For something that took seven novels to complete, everything just seems to fall into place far too easily and far too quickly.

Wonder woman, only until the action was interesting 

The neon demon

Good music

Vertigo

StarWars III

Murder on the Orient Express - I'm not sure it's worth seeing if you know the story, but if you never read the book, it may be worth considering.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pan's Labyrinth.

I wasn't to impressed with pan's labyrinth. I was under the impression that it was a horror movie but it isn't. The story was boring and the ending was a big eye roll. I guess it's more of a kids movie or something.

A United Kingdom

Raging Bull

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World  -  still great  

Snatch (always a good movie to watch)

Lady Bird - I imagine this movie will be mentioned a lot during award season. Saoirse (as always) and Laurie are great in the movie.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Meh  Really just meh.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.  -  Denzel was good. Unfortunately, the movie was just okay.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Great cast and performances but if you aren't depressed when you go in,

you sure will be when you come out.

Personal Shopper (2017)

A terrific surprise of a film.  Had no expectations going in and really knew nothing about it, but this turned out to be a brilliantly effective ghost story that has you questioning what is going on in front of you while also not resorting to the tired and cliched aspects of the horror genre that have caused the genre to generally become stale these days.  

Kristen Stewart is excellent as Maureen, the film's protagonist, who finds herself trying to make contact with her deceased brother after the two had made a pact that the first of the two of them to die (they both had the same genetic heart defect) would reach out from beyond the grave and attempt to make contact with the other.  This is Kristen Stewart actually doing some acting, not moping her way through another Twilight film, and while she's turned in some quality performances at other times in her career, this should be the film that causes people to take notice of her talent and give her the due that has eluded her to this point in her career.  The fear, sadness, paranoia, and the wide assortment of other emotions that Maureen goes through as she navigates her day job as a personal shopper for a fairly successful model as well as the potentially supernatural goings-on that happen and are caused by her as she tries to seek out the spirit of her deceased brother.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind  -  Movies are not always good years or decades later. Amazingly, this movie is still good 40 years after it was released.

24 minutes ago, jkjk said:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind  -  Movies are not always good years or decades later. Amazingly, this movie is still good 40 years after it was released.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is still the best action/adventure film

^^ I'm not going to argue with that.

Based on those two movies, I think we can agree that Steven Spielberg is okay at making movies.  

American Pastoral (2016) - a good depiction of the neomarxist subversion