Keeping Track (October 18, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Last Week at the Movies
Argo
Seven Psychopaths
Last Week at Home
Love in Space- a not very good omnibus romance from China
New in Theaters This Weekend
Paranormal Activity 4 and Alex Cross, so not a promising weekend unless you’re a fan of the Paranormal Activity series.
What have you been watching? What are you looking forward to?
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At the Movies
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
At Home
The Blue Max (1966)
Brain Damage (1988)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Mad Monster Party (1966)
The Mummy (1932)
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Killer Joe (2011)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Family Plot (1976)
I hadn’t watched any of those films before and, with great exception to Chernobyl Diaries, they’re all either good or great. The Blue Max is a war masterpiece and Killer Joe is one of my favourite films of 2012.
I take it then that you liked ‘Brain Damage’? I haven’t seen that film in 20 years, but remember it being a real trip.
@Richard, I did like it. And trip is definitely the right word. The gruesome violence was so over the top and the color schemes and deranged imagery were s out there that if one could stomach it all it’d be an impossible film to dislike. Also, all of those horror films I’d listed were coincidentally in a single folder in my PS3. lol
Nir–I love Carnival of Souls. :)
Theater:
Seven Psychopaths
Home:
Life of Brian
V (The Original Miniseries)
Great, great, and fun for nostalgic reasons–in that order.
Seven Psychopaths was clearly the movie of the weekend. I really liked it, thought it both funnier and more interesting than I had expected from the trailer. Wonderful performances!
At the other end of the movie spectrum, I saw Dredd. Pretty ho hum stuff but I saw it at the Chinese in Hollywood which makes everything look better.
The reason why I love Dredd and only like Seven Psychopaths and Looper is because I broke my one rule of cinema viewing: never have any expectations for any film. I had high expectations for Looper and Seven Psychopaths and low expectations for Dredd and, well you now see the end results. Oddly, I had set my expectations to “low” for The Dark Knight Rises and still came out disappointed.
The funny is that everyone that I know went to watch Sinister (which I hear is pretty good) over the weekend and not any other film, not even Argo (which I really want to watch). Well, I guess that Argo is next and Sinister will have to wait for video because… who cares, that why. :O)