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I actually feel pretty confident about my rank for the series. I felt so-so about 2, but really liked the others. Animated or otherwise, it is one of the strongest series out there.
Felt number 4 was a little disappointing, and well, unnecessary!
Loved the second one, my favourite.
2
1
3
4
would be my ranking.
And I really hope they leave it there!
and
MURDER PARTY (2007)
This is Saulnier's "Reservoir Dogs", cheap but clever, with unexpected twists and long talky scenes full of subversive comedy. The ending of the film is a delicious berserker moment. I respect and admire aspiring filmmakers who know they have little to work with but manage to make the best of it no matter what.
Murder Party also introduces Saulnier's friend Macon Blair, soon a director himself (he's making a reboot of The Toxic Avenger) and a constant presence in all of Saulnier's films. But most interesting of all is the fact that Murder Party discusses violence as an art form and raises the question of whether or not violence can be condoned in certain situations like self-defence or avenging a loved one.
An incredibly simple but twisted satire, made on a shoestring budget, Murder Party is nevertheless a really competent first film for Jeremy Saulnier.
BLUE RUIN (2013)
Saulnier's critically acclaimed follow-up to Murder Party features Macon Blair as a man who wants to give it back twice as hard to the people responsible for his parents' death twenty years ago. With his first and by all means clumsy attack begins a cycle of violence he's neither physically nor emotionally fit to endure.
Blue Ruin, like so many other films, enters the debate about personal vendetta, a debate that began thousands of years ago and continues to rage on. Can one act of violence properly balance out another? Can the inner, grudge-bearing beast ever be soothed? Some films get it wrong; this one gets it right. Blue Ruin emphasises the obsessive nature of the vengeful mind but neither seeks to endorse nor to praise it. By allowing our main character a fair chance at "getting even", it also lays out all the inevitable traps for us the audience, who guiltily follows this man down his dark path.
A tense thriller that asks all the right questions, Blue Ruin is a film that will make you think, because we have all had those thoughts before, but no-one seems to have the answers. Macon Blair gives a convincing performance as a man on the edge.
GREEN ROOM (2015)
Another critical hit for Saulnier, Green Room brings Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and other punk rock kids to a skinhead bar controlled by neo-Nazis who answer to Patrick Stewart. Unfortunately, they accidentally witness a dead body and are no longer allowed to leave. Everybody starts acting paranoid and within minutes, the place is transformed into a heavily armed fortress with our protagonists locked inside.
Using violence as a crowbar, as a tool to fix a structural problem with innocent lives at stake, Saulnier once again examines how ordinary humans will respond to sudden situations of mental duress. Are we by nature violent creatures? Is violence our most primal way of dealing with setbacks? The thrilling climax of the film seems to say "yes" while guns must decide who lives and who dies.
Green Room is an excellent thriller that always keeps its finger on the pulse. Seeing Patrick Stewart as the head of a neo-Nazi herd took me out of the film for a brief while, but apart from that, I kept biting my nails.
HOLD THE DARK (2018)
Eventually, Netflix weighed in. Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Skarsgård are cold as ice but tough as nails in this snow-covered thriller that begins with men hunting wolves but ends with men hunting other men like a pack of wolves. Halfway through the film, we get a long and loud shootout, smaller in scope than the bank heist shootout from HEAT but almost as tense and possibly eating more shells. Can a man face something worse than a wolf? Yes, he can: another man.
Hold The Dark contrasts many quiet scenes with a few unexpected outbursts of deafening gun violence. As in Saunier's other films, the violence is rationalised but the rationale is questionable. And as before, two parties contribute to the violence, but one is the instigator, the other tries to balance things out again.
With beautiful photography and strong performances from his cast, Saulnier shows that he definitely has what it takes. This is his fourth film and it is once again an expertly made one. I would love to see him progress to bigger work. He's ready for it.
Bearing in mind that I like all his movies, here's my ranking:
1) Blue Ruin: 9.5/10
2) Green Room: 8.5/10
3) Hold The Dark: 8/10
4) Murder Party: 7/10
2. Toy Story 4
3. Toy Story 3
4. Toy Story 2
One of the best ways to spend a Sunday night is watching one of your all time favourite films, which this is. Steve Mcqueen is as cool as it gets – so is the jazzy score, the chase, the cars, etc. On top of all that there's Jacqueline Bisset, of course. What's not to like?
I love that one!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgEOdUicvPI&t=71m45s
Got nothing against anacronistic synthesized scores, but this is poorly judged.
I can also recommend you watch the 1943 Orson Welles film, @FoxRox. Technically, that film tells the same story, only with half an hour less time needed to do it. :)
I didnt mind the earth setting , it was okay. Powerful scene when HM has to surrender to go back to Eternia
The best :
Langella as Skeletor, imo this is one of the best movie villains ever , talk about scene chewery
Foster as Evil-Lyn , in the movie you see her and Skeletor kind of flirting , but at the back of his head he knows that EL can betray him and try to get in power herself , shes not loyal like Beastman or something
Contis music , perfect for this kind of movie , bombastic larger than life
Barty as Gwildor , he was charming
Blade (Anthony and Dolph practised the sword scene for weeks)
Julie , Kevin & Lubic , decent performance too
Very nice costumes
Grayskull interior , enormous set.......almost every $ went to that set
Enjoyable adventure and boy did JG look like Tony Stark when he put those glasses on?!!! :-O
The end clip certainly had me curious as to what Nick Fury is getting up too?
I enjoyed it too. I'm sure we'll find out about Nick Fury soon!
kudos to the filmmakers for changing a big part of the novel and more or less pulling it off, but this is still inferior to the 80's film.
To many interesting scenes from the novel and previous film have been left out and as a result it's a rather empty film with little character development especially in the Judd character.
Some good creepy moments and a great turn from Jete Laurence, but ultimately this just gets added to the long list of pointless remakes.
I'm not a huge fan of the 80's version myself, but it didn't pull any punches in the horror department and was mostly faithful to the book.
I love the novel. It's my favourite King book. It's a lean, nasty read. Which delves into subjects people can barely face talking about.
Like most of the King adaptations, i can take them or leave them. Except Brian De Palma's Carrie, one of my favourite films.
The Quatermass Xperiment
Short, simple, efficient.
Quatermass 2
Good and original alien invasion story. So original that it was "tributed" by Doctor Who (Yes, "Spearhead from Space" is a copy of Nigel Kneale's story, and it wouldn't be the last time either).
Baron Prasil
Karel Zeman's version of the adventures of Baron Munchhausen. No wonder he inspired Terry Gilliam (even if Terry said that he hadn't heard of him before watching this movie, and being blown over by the similarities between Zeman's and his work).
Normally not my thing. I'm simply not a fan. Disney animation usually doesn't work for me. I'm into Japanimation and everything else seems largely inferior to that. And then there are the stories and characters and... look, I'm mostly bored out of my skull (and a little irritated too) after about ten minutes. Anthropomorphized animals and all that. I must have outgrown the whole "cutesey" thing at the age of two for all I know.
But my girlfriend is into this stuff. She respects and voluntarily shares in my passions (Star Wars, Bond, Batman, ...) and so I wanted to treat her to an opening night experience of Jon Favreau's THE LION KING. She came out super-pleased. To be honest, so did I.
Let's address the elephant in the room. It's not real. No, you're right, it isn't. But it looks real. It's as if casting sessions happend at the zoo. Spotless CGI. A perfect copy of the real Savanna, its animal kingdom included. Apparently, some negative comments are aimed at the facial mimicking done by the animals. What? People want goofy human expressions pasted all over these anatomically perfect animations? This film finally offers us the opportunity to tell a beautiful Shakesperean story acted out by real (looking) animals. Let's not drop the brown acid and have the bad lions play with their whiskers, but let's instead go National Geographic on this thing. Because that's what we can do nowadays. This is like a next-level thing. And I'm glad I had reserved the best seats in the room for my girl and myself to experience it opening night.
Another bit of criticism I want to address is the film's lack of originality. Look, Walt Disney wanted the same stories retold for each generation. Whenever they change something (Ariel's casting, anyone?), the Internet explodes. For THE LION KING, everything was kept intact and again, the trolls come out. It's the same movie. Same story, same songs, same composer bringing his same score and even some of the voices were recycled. But it's really not. The medium is so different. I sat through the '94 film once and felt like the only person on the planet who just couldn't get into the magic. Seeing the new movie, I felt it: the magic, the beauty. This new animation canvas opens up a range of possibilities the old one never had. So in a sense, it really isn't the same film, despite lines and songs and 'twists' and even jokes being recycled like new plastic.
So I recommend you all watch this film. It's eye candy for all ages. The story is what it is; but that's Disney for ya. And yet, even if you're usually not into this (like me), you might stay onboard with this one. It's stunning.
One more thing. Next to us sat a group of four 18-ish girls who just couldn't keep their holes shut. We shushed them a few times, but it made no difference. So the teacher in me surfaced and gave 'em a 2-minute rant. People a few rows up and down from us treated me to an applause and my girlfriend thought it was the "hottest thing" she'd seen all day. There you have it. Darth Dimi: class A stud, going to see THE LION KING. Hear me roar!
OMG did I enjoy this today. So funny it has made me look forward to the next one. Great fun and have to say Dwayne Johnson is superb at comedy.
Here's one of the very best film noirs in the history of cinema. From director Billy Wilder comes the thrilling story of an unsuccessful screenwriter, played by William Holden, who unexpectedly ends up on the premises of a forgotten silent-movie star, played by Gloria Swanson. What follows is a strained relationship which one sees as a temporary way out of trouble and the other as nothing less than a revival opportunity for a career long gone. Obsession can be a dangerous thing, as one of these two is soon to find out.
Billy Wilder, whom I already admired for DOUBLE INDEMNITY and SABRINA, left a lasting impression on me with this one. Every scene is tight and filled with unforgettable dialogue while the story advances at a delightful pace. Franz Waxman's wonderful score works wonders, though it never takes center stage. This is also a story about Hollywood, a cynical story if you like, with Cecil B. DeMille and Buster Keaton "playing" themselves.
I love every second of SUNSET BLVD.. Recommended.
Done already, a few months ago. Zeman was a Genius. Too bad that Bláznova kronika
isn't available on DVD in France. I'm sure i would have liked it.
What a beautifully written review, and how you address the two elephants in the room is spot on.
As always a great watch. This is one of my all-time favourite films, and a treat in so many ways.
I'm still watching The Ipcress File on DVD and the DVD transfer isn't the best one, so I might splash out on a Blu-ray release eventually. I see there are at least two Blu-ray releases out there – one by ITV and one by Network, so if anyone has the film on BR, which release would you recommend?
iTunes is another possibility of course (it looks like it's the ITV release they sell).