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DECEMBER

7.7

7.4

The Long Day Closes (1992)

30.12.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Terence Davies

Gorgeously lighted coming-of-age film chock-full of old music and '50s nostalgia. Reminded me a lot of The Spirit of the Beehive, but similarly to that film, left me kind of cold emotionally, unfortunately.

blue_skies's rating:

2208

8.2

8.6

It's a Wonderful Life (1947)

25.12.
TV, 3rd viewing
DIRECTED BY Frank Capra

Please re-make this with Nicolas Cage.

blue_skies's rating:

1845

6.9

7.5

Frozen (2013)

23.12.
TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee

blue_skies's rating:

3965

7.2

7.6

Love Actually (2003)

22.12.
TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Richard Curtis

Alan Rickman muistuttaa tässä elokuvassa huomattavan paljon Ismo Laitelaa.

blue_skies's rating:

7.4

Joulupukki ja noitarumpu

20.12.
Netflix, ?th viewing
DIRECTED BY Mauri Kunnas & Pekka Lehtosaari

blue_skies's rating:

4496

7.2

7.8

Cast Away (2000)

18.12.
TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Robert Zemeckis

Pretty alright FedEx commercial considering that Tom Hanks is one of the few actors I actually dislike and that it has no right to last more than two hours.

blue_skies's rating:

211

5.9

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

15.12.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Charles E. Sellier Jr.

blue_skies's rating:

4.2

3.4

The Gingerdead Man (2005)

15.12.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Charles Band

blue_skies's rating:

4.5

2.6

Santa with Muscles (1996) (1996)

15.12.
YouTube, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY John Murlowski

blue_skies's rating:

6351

7.6

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

11.12.
Blu-ray, ?th viewing
DIRECTED BY Quentin Tarantino

blue_skies's rating:

7830

7.7

8.1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

10.12.
Blu-ray, ?th viewing
DIRECTED BY Quentin Tarantino

blue_skies's rating:

923

7.5

A Christmas Story (1983)

09.12.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Bob Clark

Almost the exact opposite of my sense of humour.

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Perkele 2. Kuvia Suomesta vuonna 2016 (2017)

5.8

6.2

Perkele 2. Kuvia Suomesta vuonna 2016 (2017)...

04.12.
TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Jörn Donner

blue_skies's rating:

6.9

7.2

The Other Side of Hope (2017)

02.12.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Aki Kaurismäki

Once you've seen about three Kaurismäki films, you pretty much know what to expect: approximately 3.5 stars. Kaurismäki seems to get less subtle as he gets older, but this is still pretty sweet.

blue_skies's rating:

2535

7.7

8.1

Platoon (1987)

01.12.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Oliver Stone

The only one of the Big Four of Vietnam War films I hadn't seen; I guess because I had a hunch it would be as mediocre it was. The message of the movie is that USA would've won the war if Willem Dafoe was sent to fight it alone.

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NOVEMBER

464

7.4

Suspicion (1941)

29.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Alfred Hitchcock

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489

7.4

7.8

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

26.11.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Kenneth Lonergan

blue_skies's rating:

389

7.3

7.4

The Disaster Artist (2017)

23.11.
Night Visions, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY James Franco

Another chapter in the greatest story of our times. I could've watched the film-making parts all day. I wonder if the actual The Room behind-the-scenes footage still exists.

blue_skies's rating:

158

6.7

6.6

River of No Return (1954)

21.11.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Otto Preminger

Marilynsploitation with nice scenery.

blue_skies's rating:

256

5.7

Knight of Cups (2015)

19.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Terrence Malick

Christian Bale, the Dark Knight of Cups, visits rich people's cribs and walks around the beautiful wilderness, looking equally worried everywhere he goes. I'm almost as worried for my inevitable re-watch of Tree of Life which I held in very high regard back in 2011: did Malick's style actually work better there or have I just grown tired of it altogether?

blue_skies's rating:

480

Kagemusha (1980)

18.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa was amazing with colours (too) and Tatsuya Nakadai is always awesome, but this film is way too long. Also kind of lost track of who is who and what their motives are at some point but that's more a problem of my stupidity.

blue_skies's rating:

169

7.3

20th Century Women (2016) (2017)

16.11.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Mike Mills

Ei ole tarkoituksella mikään Elle Fanning -putki menossa. Hyvän mielen nostalgiafiilistely 1970-luvun lopusta, joka luottaa vähän liikaa kertojaääneen ja jonka historialliset viittaukset tuovat ikävällä tavalla Forrest Gumpin mieleen. Ajattelin illalla, että annan tälle joko 3,5 tai 3 tähteä sen mukaan, onko elokuvan tuomasta lämpimästä fiiliksestä minkä verran vielä aamulla jäljellä. Ei paljoa.

blue_skies's rating:

412

6.3

6.2

The Neon Demon (2016)

13.11.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Nicolas Winding Refn

Pari viimeisintä Refnin leffaa on jäänyt vähän roikkumaan johonkin kiusalliseen limboon taide- ja roskaleffan välillä sillä tavalla, että niistä on hankala lopulta saada oikein mitään irti. Tämäkin on liian ryppyotsainen puhtaaksi eksploitaatioksi ja liian lapsellinen ja sisällötön oikeasti kiinnostavaksi satiiriksi. Onneksi sinänsä kiva audiovisuaalinen tyyli kantaa niin Neon Demonia kuin Only God Forgivesiakin sen verran, että ne jaksaa ainakin kertaalleen läpi katsella.

blue_skies's rating:

116

7.6

7.5

Our Little Sister (2015)

12.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Hirokazu Koreeda

Koreeda probably directs a couple of heartwarming familial dramas when he has his breakfast every morning. Every now and then he decides to release some of them.

blue_skies's rating:

216

2.9

Troll 2 (1990)

12.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Claudio Fragasso

Tämä elokuva sen sijaan ei ahdistanut ollenkaan, vaan tästä tuli hyvä mieli.

blue_skies's rating:

113

5.6

Xtro (1982)

11.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Harry Bromley Davenport

Tämä sopi isänpäivätematiikkaan kuin nenä päähän, mutta tässä vaiheessa maratonia alkoi jo vähän tämmönen sekoilu ahdistaa.

blue_skies's rating:

464

7.2

Black Christmas (1974)

11.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Bob Clark

Todellista silmäkarkkia The Gaten jälkeen katsottuna, etenkin kun aiemman leffan DVD-kopio oli tasoa järkyttävä kusipaska. Black Christmasissa on tyylikästä ja varmaan aika pioneerimaista slasher-meininkiä, mutta valitettavasti myös jonnin verran tyhjäkäyntiä keskivaiheilla. Aloitus ja lopetus on kuitenkin todella kovaa kamaa.

blue_skies's rating:

201

6.1

The Gate (1987)

11.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Tibor Takács

Tän leffan aikana ois voinu pelata jotain kasarileffabingoa, koska tässä oli kaikki aikakauden kliseet läsnä pitsasta korvalappustereoihin ja heavy metallista pastelliväreihin. Hyvää fiilistä siis, ja efektit oli ihan hauskoja myös. Muuta hyvää sanottavaa tästä onkin sitten vähän hankala keksiä. Tuntui 85 minuutin kestossaankin liian pitkältä.

blue_skies's rating:

333

6.8

Green Room (2016)

09.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Jeremy Saulnier

Nazipunksploitation. A consistently fun, thrilling film with a nice premise that gets some minus points for the darker scenes in which you can't see shit. Would be no surprise if the lighting crew from the fourth Die Hard film were involved.

blue_skies's rating:

1167

7.8

7.4

Suspiria (1977)

07.11.
Cinema, 3rd viewing
DIRECTED BY Dario Argento

blue_skies's rating:

215

5.7

5.1

The Lords Of Salem (2013)

06.11.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Rob Zombie

Horror marathon finished. Conclusion: pretty fun. This film was quite interesting but kind of went nowhere after the halfway mark and felt like a Slipknot music video or something at times.

blue_skies's rating:

958

6.4

6.7

Christine (1983)

05.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY John Carpenter

blue_skies's rating:

2064

6.7

7.1

The Mist (2007)

04.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Frank Darabont

The ending is funny as hell so at least +0.5 stars for that.

blue_skies's rating:

178

7.6

7.7

Dead of Night (1945) (1946)

04.11.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton & Alberto Cavalcanti

A horror anthology film told within a frame story of a recurring nightmare. Marred by the annoying and unfunny golf sequence, but some of the stories are surprisingly creepy still. The cinematography's quite nice, too.

blue_skies's rating:

1099

7.5

Braindead (1992)

03.11.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Peter Jackson

Might as well watch the remaining 5 of the 31 horror flicks now. This was creative.

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OCTOBER

Horror Marathon: 31 unseen horror movies (I'm gonna fail this, probably will continue in November).

1232

7.1

7.5

The Conjuring (2013)

31.10.
Blu-ray, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY James Wan

blue_skies's rating:

1366

7.3

7.5

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

30.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY John Landis

blue_skies's rating:

1256

7.4

7.5

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

30.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Adrian Lyne

Tässä elokuvassa nauratti Macaulay Culkin ja George Costanzan urapolku.

blue_skies's rating:

918

7.3

7.5

Dracula (1931)

27.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Tod Browning

The film begins very strongly: the Transylvania scenes have a really nice atmosphere and beautiful gothic images. Skipping the mindnumbingly boring sea voyage section, I was expecting to like this more than Murnau's Nosferatu, but then the second is unfortunately drawn-out and uninteresting, what with Van Helsing & co. explaining all things related to the plot and vampire mythology in general. A commendable effort, in any case.

P.S. A friend of mine advised me not to watch the film with Philip Glass' score. I gave that a quick shot, since that was included as an extra on my DVD, and it seems like it completely butchers the film's atmosphere. So yeah, I would probably not recommend that.

blue_skies's rating:

121

5.4

5.5

Eaten Alive (1976) (1976)

26.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Tobe Hooper

Syytän osittain pakotettuja katseluolosuhteita, mutta ei tämä kyllä jaksanut kauheasti kiinnostaa. Elokuvan paras hahmo, Marilyn Burnsin hahmon käsittämättömän sekava aviomies, kuolee aivan liian varhain.

blue_skies's rating:

779

7.3

7.5

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

25.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Eli Craig

Ihan hauska idea, mutta vitsit eivät kyllä naurata yhtään elikkäs ovat toisin sanoen aivan paskoja. Tai ei välttämättä edes vitsit sinänsä, vaan niiden esitystapa: liikaa ilveilyä. Samasta syystä suurin osa stand-up-komiikasta on mielestäni yhdentekevää. Lisäksi "Chadiä" esittävä äijä saa ihon rullautumaan paikoiltaan kuin sanomalehdenkulma kynttilän yllä, jos tässä nyt runolliseksi heittäytyy. Splatter-hetket olivat varmaan elokuvan vahvimpia osa-alueita, ja sanoma kommunikaation tärkeydestä sinällään oli ihan kiva.

blue_skies's rating:

318

6.9

7.1

House of Wax (1953)

24.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY André De Toth

blue_skies's rating:

1191

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

22.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Robert Wiene

Blows Nosferatu out of the water.

blue_skies's rating:

598

7.7

7.6

Deep Red (1975)

21.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Dario Argento

blue_skies's rating:

316

6.5

6.3

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

19.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Robert Hiltzik

blue_skies's rating:

277

6.9

6.5

Maniac (1980)

18.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY William Lustig

Sekoboltsi sekoilee ihan kreisinä!

blue_skies's rating:

419

7.9

7.6

Vampyr (1932)

17.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Carl Th. Dreyer

blue_skies's rating:

1038

7.6

7.8

Frankenstein (1931)

16.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY James Whale

blue_skies's rating:

327

7.3

6.8

The Beyond (1981)

15.10.
PC/TV, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Lucio Fulci

A total mess and not very fun at that for the most part. Badly paced film that got tiresome kind of quickly. Gotta like the splatter effects of the era and the silly-ass jazz-funk spider scene, though.

blue_skies's rating:

1480

6.9

7.2

The Descent (2005)

13.10.
DVD, 1st viewing
DIRECTED BY Neil Marshall

To be commended for evoking claustrophobia extremely successfully; I almost wish the entire film was focused on that, instead of the cave-dwellers who are a tad lame in the end. The action scenes could've been directed better, and I found the characters pretty annoying. Nevertheless, this film has a cool premise and I think it succeeds pretty well as a genuinely thrilling horror film.

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Number of films per decade:

1910s: 0
1920s: 1
1930s: 13
1940s: 7
1950s: 6
1960s: 4
1970s: 17
1980s: 36
1990s: 23
2000s: 27
2010s: 63

Distribution by country:

USA 130

UK 15

Finland 12

Italy 5
Japan 5

France 4

Germany 3

Canada 2
New Zealand 2
Poland 2
South Korea 2
Spain 2
Sweden 2

Australia 1
Belgium 1
Brazil 1
Czechoslovakia 1
Russia 1
South Africa 1
Uganda 1

Most watched directors:

Alfred Hitchcock: 11

Quentin Tarantino: 5

John Carpenter: 4
Robert Zemeckis: 4

Dario Argento: 3
Clint Eastwood: 3
Lloyd Kaufman: 3
Joel Schumacher: 3

Tim Burton: 2
Bob Clark: 2
Joel & Ethan Coen: 2
Aki Kaurismäki: 2
Krzysztof Kieslowski: 2
John Landis: 2
Kenneth Lonergan: 2
Kenji Mizoguchi: 2
Taneli Mustonen: 2
Visa Mäkinen: 2
Alan J. Pakula: 2
Martin Scorsese: 2
Tony Scott: 2
Denis Villeneuve: 2
Lana & Lilly Wachowski: 2
Simon West: 2
James Whale: 2

Rating distribution:

5.0 1
4.5 6
4.0 36
3.5 56
3.0 42
2.5 21
2.0 18
1.5 10
1.0 5
0.5 0

Films seen in cinema:

1. Arrival (Jan 6) ****
2. Moonlight (Feb 24) ***
3. La La Land (May 16) ***½
4. The Handmaiden (Sep 7) ***½
5. Good Time (Sep 13) ****
6. Daguerrotype (Sep 15) ***
7. On the Beach at Night Alone (Sep 16) ***½
8. David Lynch: The Art Life (Sep 16) ***½
9. The Levelling (Sep 17) **½
10. Aquarius (Sep 18) ****½
11. Personal Shopper (Sep 19) ***½
12. Loveless (Sep 19) ***½
13. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Misouri (Sep 20) ****
14. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Sep 21) ***
15. The Trip to Spain (Sep 23) ***
16. The Square (Sep 24) ****
17. Blade Runner 2049 (Oct 12) ****½
18. Suspiria (Nov 7) ****½
19. The Disaster Artist (Nov 23) ****

Films seen per month:

January: 22
February: 12
March: 11
April: 16
May: 15
June: 14
July: 17
August: 4
September: 24
October: 28
November: 20
December: 15

Best discoveries each month (+4.0-star-rating):

January: