Wednesday, October 08, 2014

What I Watched in September


Only one trip to the theaters in September. I caught the adaptation of Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder mystery A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES and thought it was solid without being great. Liam Neeson is good in the lead role even if his accent slips away on more than a few occasions. The story is very well scripted and the film is well cast but it plays more as a pilot film for a cable TV series than as a theatrical movie. The villains are truly nasty and their fates are well deserved but the hunt for them seems to be over a little too quickly. I could enjoy more of this character played by Neeson but I doubt that will happen.

EARTHQUAKE (1974)- 7 (melodramatic but excellent disaster porn!)
RED SCORPION (1988)- 6 (overlong and a little sloppy near the end but good)
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)- 2 (terrible, dull non-SF)
PLANET OF THE APES (2001) -5 (rewatch)
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012)- 8
COMANDO TXIKIA: DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (1977)- 5
THE CONQUEROR  OF THE ORIENT (1960)- 4 (not very good adventure tale)
CALL HER SAVAGE (1932)- 7 (Clara Bow pre-code melodrama)
JOE (2013)- 10 (excellent Texas character study with Nicholas Cage)
OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965)- 9 (very good WWII espionage tale)
THE SILENCERS (1966)- 7 (fun, silly spy tale)
RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1974 (2009)- 8
RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR 1980 (2009)- 8
STREET SCENE (1931)- 7 (dated but very good adaptation of a stage play -the Pre-Code nature of the story adds interest)
MURDERERS' ROW (1966)- 3 (Holy Crap!)
THE CRAFT (1995)- 7 (finally caught this and it is not bad) 
DIE MONSTER, DIE! (1965)- 7 (rewatch)
SUBSPECIES (1991)- 5 (rewatch)
THE SNIPER (1952)- 7 (well done study of an urban killer)
PATRICK (2013)- 7 (solid, well done remake)
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (2014)- 7
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (2014)- 9 (great fun!)
INVISIBLE MAN VS THE HUMAN FLY (1957)- 6
ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? (1978)- 5 (TV movie about a teenage rape victim)
MINDHUNTERS (2004)- 4 (aggressively stupid but entertaining) 

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