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Watched or Rewatched 2013 Q1 + Reviews (The O.P.)

Movie list created by The O.P.

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

922

7.4

7.7

Frost/Nixon (2008)

A TV rewatch, still it glued me to the screen. How a British TV host nailed Mr. President to his responsibilities in Watergate.

Language: American English and British English

Mar. 2013 [K0]

The O.P.'s rating:

978

4.5

4.9

Year One (2009)

Dumb yet somewhat nicely funny at times.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

6.7

7.2

Donald's Nephews

A classic cartoon, but not so good as I remembered it.

Language: Quack quack!

Jan. 2013 (YouTube)

The O.P.'s rating:

1391

5.5

5.6

Sex and the City (2008)

Liked the TV show, not so the movie. Lost the magic.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013 [N1]

The O.P.'s rating:

134

7.9

7.8

For Love and Gold (1966)

"L'armata Brancaleone".
A cult movie. They speak hilarious made up language of the Middle Ages. Don't know if you can appreciate it if you are not an Italian native speaker, though. Read more

Language: Italian, made up Medieval language

Jan. 2013 (YouTube)

The O.P.'s rating:

151

5.9

5.7

Herbie Rides Again (1974)

Ride again? What a bad idea! Skip this forgettable Herbie sequel!

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

441

6.9

7.2

This Is It

Remembering MJ and the preparation of his final concert that never was.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

878

6.1

6.4

The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

Travolta, Washington, Turturro, directed by Tony Scott. Powerful pace, like a train. A remake of the 1974 film.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

6.3

6.6

Tout Va Bien (1972)

Political stuff, bordering on boring. Some sequences are cleverly filmed, though.

Language: French

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

6.8

7.3

Brancaleone alle crociate (1970)

A good sequel of "L'armata Brancaleone". Monicelli still at the helm.

Language: Italian, made up Medieval language.

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

447

5.1

5.3

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

A comedy on rap murders and detectives with 2nd jobs! Likeable stars, but a bit of a waste. Plot? What plot?

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

469

4.6

Meet Dave (2008)

Pure comic genius from outer space. Underrated.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

121

7.5

7.9

Fantozzi (1975) (1976)

"Fantozzi", or the ultimate white-collar underdog!

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

353

6.3

6.1

Little Buddha (1993) (1993)

Seeking Little Buddah and finding Siddharta between Seattle and Kathmandu. Bertolucci's nice visual touch. Feels a movie for tourists, though.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

7.3

Un Americano a Roma (1954) (1954)

A classic of Commedia all'italiana. The American Dream as dreamt by a young Roman in the early Fifties. Some scenes are so funny!

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1411

5.8

6.1

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Two cute actors in a romantic comedy. Their chemistry is lukewarm, though, and the outcome is disappointing.

Language/Accents: British and American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

661

5.9

6.2

Prime (2005)

A light-hearted story on love and differences in age. Thin plot, but Mrs. Streep makes it enjoyable. Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1157

6.2

6.5

8MM (1999)

Dark thriller on a family man who works as a private eye investigating the world of illegal pornography. Beware: if you dance with the Devil, the Devil can change you!

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

350

7.4

7.7

Il Postino (1994)

A delicate metaphor on poetry, love, politics... in a small island in Southern Italy where Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was in exile in the Fifties. Read more

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

4365

8.1

8.3

2001: A Space Odyssey

Out of time. Sci-fi narrative and pure cinema. A true classic.

Language: English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1227

6.6

7.3

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Good laughs for trekkies!

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1041

5.6

6.2

Next (2007)

Too many unbelievable facts happening in the same day and in the same movie. Besides, really didn't like Cage's hair cut. Nevertheless, this Hollywood flick succeeds in being enjoyable and keeping a good pace from start to end.

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1899

6.6

6.7

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Peter Jackson, big name, but The Lovely Bones is just ordinarily good. Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

6.4

Fast Sword (1971)

Kill Bill's fans will enjoy this movie!

Language:

Chinese

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

350

7.4

6.8

The Beyond (1981)

Italian gore from the Eighties! Zombie lovers will be pleased. Not for theh faint of heart!

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

5436

8.3

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Positives: Third Reich told like a Spaghetti Western!

Negatives: Third Reich told like a Spaghetti Western.

I mean: it's original and entertaining storytellng in pure Tarantino's style, but, applied to WW2 history, looks as fake as a propaganda comic book. Even worse, the plot is not as strong as it should have been... Read more

Languages: English, French, German, Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

104

7.2

7.3

Bread and Tulips (2000)

As simple and as good as fresh bread! Read more

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

109

7.1

7.7

Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976)

Second installment of the "Fantozzi" series (White Collar Blues). Read more

Language: Italian

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

2593

5.6

5.9

Shallow Hal (2001)

So, are we all shallow Hals, or are we going to see inner beauty? Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

6.7

Location Africa (1987)

On the set of Cobra Verde. "Location Africa", AKA "Herzog in Afrika". A documentary by Steff Gruber about the great director Werner Herzog filming in Ghana with Klaus Kinski and an army of African Amazons! Not your average Hollywood-style "Making of"!

Kinski and Herzog on the set of Cobra Verde

Steff Gruber

Language: German

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

8.1

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions

Love classic cartoons! :)
This time, Betty Boop plays the piano and sings at the Big Invention Show! Crazy inventions, of course!

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

583

7.3

7.6

Sophie's Choice (1982)

A tale of tough choices in difficult times. Oscar winning Meryl Streep as a Polish woman who survived Auschwitz. But she has to bear heavy memories. Unforgettable performance. Read more

Languages: American English, German, Polish

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

114

7.8

7.2

Big Wednesday (1978)

"Back home, being young is just something you do until you become an adult. Around here, it's different. Here, it's everything." Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

208

3.2

Captain America (1990)

So awfully bad, it's almost good! So cluelessly clumsy that it glued me to the screen! Most incredible Captain America's superpower? Tricking people into believing he is car sick! Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013 (YouTube)

The O.P.'s rating:

107

6.3

6.7

Exodus

It has its flaws, but in the whole this 208-minute Otto Preminger's film hooked me in. Read more

Language: Americnan English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1663

7.9

8.2

Downfall (2005)

A German movie on a crucial moment in German history: the downfall of Berlin and of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler's final days are told according to the memories of his private secretary Traudl Junge.
Not bad, but could have been better. Read more

Language: German

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

339

5.8

6.1

A Man Apart (2003)

War on drugs or personal vendetta? Line blurs. Read more

Languages: American English and Spanish

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

5866

8.4

Schindler's List (1994)

Overrated movie on some tragic events in history. Annoying fake accents, by the way. Read more

Language: English with fake foreign accents.

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

5799

7.7

Donnie Darko (2001)

"Back to the Future" meets "Quadrophenia" and more. Psychedelic time travels of a troubled & rebel high school youth in the dumb Eighties. Read more

Language: American English

Jan. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1004

4.8

5.2

Doom (2005)

Rule #1: do not expect too much from cinematic adaptions of video games! Read more

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

1908

8.3

North by Northwest (1959)

Always a pleasure watching Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Martin Landau on Mount Rushmore. One of all-time favorites among Hitchcock's films, "North by Northwest" comes in the middle of his "golden era" (just before "Psycho" and "The Birds", and after "Vertigo").

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

994

5.9

6.3

Down with Love (2003)

Flamboyant war of sexes between a journalist and a feminist writer in New York City in the early Sixties. Mildly entertaining. Read more

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

7.6

Ricomincio da tre (1981) (1981)

A clever comedy about a young man who leaves Naples and moves to Florence to start over. He doesn't start from zero, though. He starts from three, the number of the few good things he did in his life. Southern Italy's traditions meet "Northern" modernity, and new kinds of relationships between men and women... How will they interact? Memorable debut film by and with great Massimo Troisi. Loved it at the time, and still love it. Read more

Language: Italian. Partly in Neapolitan

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

209

4.8

4.9

Vanishing On 7th Street (2011)

As a child I was scared by dark corners, but the shadows in this fantasy thriller are not that frightening. On the contrary, the killer darkness looks a bit silly after a while. Read more

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova. Si sospettano moventi politici

7.8

Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova. Si sospettano moventi politici... (1978)

A film by Lina Wertmüller about an idealist socialist lawyer in 1922 Sicily, at the time Fascists took over Italy. Read more.

Language: Italian. Some dialogs in Sicilian dialect and in Neapolitan, and a few American words.

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

184

5.2

5.8

The Getaway

Alec Baldwin's presence in this remake of the 1972 heist movie is rather unimpressive. Kim Bakinger, James Woods, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michael Madsen make the film a bit more interesting, but even so...

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

242

6.1

6.5

Pretty Persuasion (2005)

Has its flaws, but this faul-mouthed twist-ending high-school dark comedy starring a Wood (Evan Rachel) and a Woods (James) struck me as being so very politically-correct. Not! Yet, fresh and insightful.

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

559

6.8

6.9

Altered States

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meet Darwin in the years of LSD experiments. Ken Russel's psychedelic psychodrama featuring John Hurt and Blair Brown has some visionary scenes, not so strong a plot.

Language: American English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

7.8

7.6

Lulu the Tool

The working class goes to Heaven, as the original Italian title says. Or is it Hell? A good film about work in a factory and class struggle, where characters are real people with their lives, not just a theory.

Language: Italian

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

4911

6.6

7.3

Troy (2004)

Seeing the epic battles and mighty duels of Troy on a television re-watch is not the same as on the big screen. And sword clashing is a great part of this movie. Still... Read more

Language: English

Feb. 2013

The O.P.'s rating:

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Movies I watched for the first time or watched again.

For each entry I'll post a micro-review, tipically a couple lines, but in a few instances I wrote a slightly longer review which you can read by following the "Read more" link.

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How I Rate Movies
★★★★★(10) - Loved it. Memorable. (Doesn't need to be perfect)
★★★★☆(9) - Brilliant
★★★★(8) - Very Good
★★★☆(7) - Good
★★★(6) - Just OK
★★☆(5) - Weak
★★(4) - Very Weak
★☆(3) - Frankly Bad
★(2) - Pain in the Neck
☆(1) - Major Disaster!