Last movie you watched......

While we're on Eastwood, I picked up "Heartbreak Ridge" at the library on a lark. Remember thinking it was a little hokey, but filled with great one-liners, when I saw it back in 1986. Let's just say... does not hold up well.

The "battle" scenes (I mean, c'mon, it was fucking Grenada) were laughably bad. Some of Clint's one-liners were still pretty solid, but man... just did not hold up.

 

Interested to read the vitriol for "Hoover" since the reviews I've read have been very positive.

 

You've apparently been reading the only reviews that are very positive: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/j_edgar/#top-critics-numbers.

 

Just a fluke, I guess. Haven't been searching out reviews. They're just the only ones I came across.

 

The only Eastwood movie I cared to see these past few years was Invictus which was very good. J. Edgar looks horrible. The Salon review mocked the Burn Notice guy's accent in his portrayal of RFK. The Burn Notice guys is from Boston.......

 

A few weeks ago, I DVR'd Let's Scare Jessica To Death off of TCM's Underground because I thought it would be an entertaining slice of early 70s shlock.

To my pleasant surprise, it's a very good psychological horror movie about madness ... the malevolence one can inflict upon oneself because of it and how a truly malevolent force can manipulate madness to its own end.

It's understated and atmospheric in an early 70s way (early Moog, etc.) and very creepy. How its slipped out of the horror pantheon is beyond me because its very good.

 

I'll post my immediate thoughts, which I put on facebook right after the film:

" ‎'J. Edgar' was a well-crafted, fair and touching portrait of a complex and important man, played with a deft touch by DiCaprio. The film at first feels erratic, but seemingly by choice, as it then works to shine an intimate and more focused light onto Hoover's conflicted self. One of the finest films I've seen this year."

I stand by it. The film was muddled at first because J. Edgar was the narrator -- and one you struggled to believe. I knew very little about Hoover before seeing the movie, if that means anything. It was a good movie about a very conflicted and interesting man. Well worth your time.

 

Finally got around to watching "Miracle." It was OK and KR was pretty good, but the hair and facial expressions reminded me more of Pat Quinn than Herb Brooks.

 

Watched "Attack the Block," an enjoyable, British indie sci-fi flick, last night. With a low budget, it wasn't loaded with CGI and, though the aliens weren't spectacular to look at, they were done convincingly enough to give them some real menace.

The main character, Moses, is a dead ringer for a young Denzel with British accent.

 

"Silver Streak" was on This last night. It didn't age as well as I thought it would have, but it still was worth watching - especially the final action scene.

 

I'll watch just about anything with the late Jill Clayburgh in it.

 

That's on my Netflix list (it has a long wait) because I love Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead and it is from the same producer. Plus Nick Frost also appears in it.