My thoughts on movies I saw in 2016
(Note: some movies come late to BKK so there are some 2015 movies that I didn't see until 2016. Also, I watch movies on planes... so some are even older.)
The Good:
A Bigger Splash:
That scene with Ralph Fiennes! The Hot Matthias Schoenaerts. I'd link to the scene with him and Tilda Swinton in the pool but that might be NSFW.
A Perfect Day: Despite the fact it was shot in Spain and about Wat/San Engineers - it was quite good at the annoyances and joys of being an aid worker. I really think Benicio Del Toro has been a MSF log. And that grumpy French girl is for sure an aid worker.
A Conspiracy of Faith: Danish film that I watched at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Sort of like a Kurt Wallendar book.
As I Open My Eyes: A stunning Tunisian film about what it means to be young and a woman who loves music. Lovely. Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Big Short - made me cry because people are so greedy and there is nothing we can do to fix the world.
Brooklyn: love Saoirse Ronan.
CameraPerson: Lovely and evocative.
Captain Fantastic: I love
Viggo Mortenson.
The Childhood of the Leader: One of the most atmospheric and interesting films I saw this year. Loved the imagery.
Watch the trailer and tell me what you think. It's a pity that the whole crowd that came to see it at the Sarajevo Film Festival were only there to ask Ser Davos inane questions about Game of Thrones.
Dead Pool: I've always been a fan of Ryan Reynolds but he has picked some shitty movies. This one was good and brought us back to his glory days of
Van Wilder.
Hail Caesar! Love the Coen Brothers but
Channing Tatum channeling his Gene Kelly! And "
Would that it were so simple."
I, Daniel Blake: It broke my heart. Also Sarajevo Film Festival
The Legend of Tarzan: Alexander Skarsgård in a loincloth. Need I say more?
Letters from War: Like watching a poem unfold. A Portugese film about the angolan civil war - a Sarajevo Film Festival special.
The Lobster: One of the oddest but best movies I saw last year. What animal would I be? Maybe a long haired pony. :)
Love and Friendship: Whit Stillman!
A mean Kate Becksindale! Saw it at the Sarajevo Film Festival where after watching Lady Susan scheme and cheat everyone, a clueless female festival attendant stood up and told us and Whit Stillman that she really admired her and she was a "real woman" and all of us should be more like her.
Rogue One: Oddly, I read no previews before I went so was blown away! And Diego Luna!
Sicario - Emily Blount as a bad ass and serious evil drug lords but a bit confusing and not quite sure what was going on .
Testament to Youth - doomed british young men and Jon Snow marching off to war instead of Oxford. Weep Weep Weep
Taxi Driver:
The Meh:
Absolutely Fabulous: I wanted it to be so much more. But it was just okay. But I still love Patsy and Edina.
Burned - Bradley Cooper trying to channel Anthony Bourdain without the charm and saucy sexy sparkle but serious food porn
Hacksaw Ridge: Andrew Garfield alternating between Jesus and Forrest Gump. Some of the grossest violence ever. But an amazing man and a real life story. Too bad Mel Gibson was directing it.
Doctor Strange: Is there a movie that Benedict Cumberbatch WON'T do? He's turning into Nicolas Cage.
Zootopia: Not a huge fan of animated films. Cute but not memorable.
Land of Blood and Honey: Angelina Jolie's film about rape in Sarajevo. Some good performances but very dull. She seems to equate dull with serious.
Graduation: A Romanian film about a young girls' rape and her fathers ambitions for her. Just meh.
Various short movies at the Sarajevo Film Festival - not a fan of short movies.
The Awful:
The Hateful 8 - awful and boring "a long racist play."
Humidity: A Sarajevo Film Festival Serbian Film. I was so bored and annoyed. It made me hate everything about Serbia. At the end, the man next to me and I just sighed and said "Thank god its over."
Los Bastardos: Just
like this skit from Saturday Night Live ... a pretentious and weird student film.
How to Be Single: One of the worst films I've ever seen. Dakota Johnson has ZERO chemistry. She is sooo lame.
