hey what's up guys so i thought i'd bring back an older series that i
have done in the past where i talk about all the movies that i watched in the previous month
now this is fun because i can actually kind of just round up everything and give out quick
recommendations only this time i'm also going to show you uh the actual ratings i give to these
films i normally don't like to rate movies um in the past i've only ever rated anything on
netflix back even when they had the dvd service which they still do but um so i'm very used to
like a five-star rating system um so that's i've actually found a website called movie lens which
allows you to do something like that and also provide good suggestions i highly recommend it
it's not commercial whatsoever and it's all just completely user based
so yeah how about we go ahead and get started and yeah let's talk about some movies okay so
first up we have logan uh this film was a breath of fresh air for me i uh
had never really been that into the x-men films there aren't many that i've actually seen and i
decided to skip right ahead to this one as far as the other wolverine films that are out there
and this movie just blew all my expectations i had heard really good things about it but i also
heard some people that weren't that into it yes oh man it's a very uh action-packed fun movie um
but it's also very emotional has a lot of emotional depth to it i highly recommend checking
this out even if you've never seen an x-men movie or know pretty much anything about wolverine it
has something about it that just feels very real kind of reminds me of uh joker in a way because it
feels like a movie that's grounded in reality yet centered in a comic book story or you know comic
book character at least um so yes definitely watch logan oh of course we have casablanca the classic
this film i've only seen i want to say once before so i saw this again and
it is definitely a movie that i i'd like to own someday it's it's really it's just a classic if
you've never seen casablanca you absolutely need to check it out humphrey bogart always admired his
acting abilities and i really love that sort of noir feeling of these older films
this one stuck with me more than it did before i like it even more than i have in the past it's
just one of those movies you absolutely have to see one day casablanca the trial of the chicago
seven now before i talk about this one i do want to mention my rating system a little bit here i
guess so i look at each star rating as out of 10 as well so like but i rate things um my scale is
more like how much i liked it how much i really liked it or if i loved it so if it has a three
and a half that always means that i i did enjoy it i liked it i would probably see it again someday
um but i didn't i didn't like really like it to the point where i might really want
to own it four stars would mean i i thought it's a great film and i might i might pick it
up and then four and a half is i loved it for sure five is like the penultimate there's only
like 10 to 15 movies on my list that have a full five stars so the trial of chicago 7
this film was really interesting i knew nothing about the real life case i thought it was really
fascinating definitely resonant with what we've experienced these past months or so
so i think you know the performances are great you know this one definitely could win a few uh
academy awards or golden globes so definitely want to check out it's on netflix the lobster
now this is a very interesting film um it's from jorgo's latin themos who did the favorite
as well as the killing of sacred deer i just love how weird this film was
and i just really enjoyed it unfortunately i was really tired when i saw it so i think
i missed part of it but that just gave me even more incentive incentive to check it out again
it's just one of the weirdest movies i've ever seen but i thought it was really well acted and
just a very fascinating concept definitely check out the lobster if you're into kind of offbeat
comedies and i guess uh i guess there is some drama in there too first cow here's another
uh movie that's getting a lot of attention this awards season i thought it was really interesting
great cinematography production design i think uh the i love the 4 3 aspect ratio
the old look to it i really liked the setup and um i think the payoff was good as well
it's a very slow movie it's very slow slow burn slow paced but you know very well acted
really interesting if you haven't seen first cow i think you know it's one to give a shot a24 did
this one just like the lobster love and monsters this is a very fun film um dylan o'brien's in it
and it's kind of like a a little bit of a twist on the apocalyptic uh setting where this guy
is uh trapped in a bunker because everything outside is full of monsters and scary stuff
but he decides one day to leave his uh colony and venture out and try to find his ex-girlfriend
and meets a lot of interesting people and animals along the way and a lot of exciting stuff happens
it's it's uh surprisingly has some good emotional depth i thought it was well acted really funny and
definitely good time this one is on 4k highly recommend checking it out lupin the third
the first this is a 3d cg animated film um i it's you know if you're if you've never seen the loop
in the third anime films in the past it's their first one in this format i thought it was really
well done i will say i started off watching the dub and about halfway through i noticed the the
lip syncing was kind of bothering me um because it it felt like you were watching an actual live
action dub and this didn't match so i switched to the japanese and it i liked it much more um
from that point on uh definitely a really fun film you know kind of silly lots of good action
fast-paced you know if you've never seen lupine movies these are all you know heist
and and uh you know fun adventures and things like that oh yes the classic citizen kane i
watched this uh it's the second time i've seen it i believe and i watched it to get ready for mink
um i still don't like it as much as you know like everyone says i should as far as you know
what the critics say about it but it's definitely you know a great film
um definitely one of the the best films that's ever been made in terms for for what it could do
at that time you know and yeah you know if you haven't seen citizen kane that's a must watch it's
you know okay if you call yourself a cinema cinema person movie fan definitely at least
have to watch this in canada once in your life um so yeah and then of course mink didn't like it as
much as citizen kane surprise surprise but that was very well acted loved the production design
i love the look of it um i just think the story just it wasn't that interesting um
and at some points it was a little boring because it's fairly long but i did think the
performances are great the script gary oldman you know i think it's definitely worth seeing
a very interesting film and it's it's a very interesting person to highlight um if you don't
know the history behind citizen kane dredd oh man so i finally watched dread and i liked it
way more than i expected to it was a lot of fun um even funny a lot of good dark humor in there
lots of great action it just i don't know something about the poster or something
about it just never really intrigued me for a long time and now i totally understand why
people like this film and it's now garnered a cult status since coming out on home video
um definitely check out dredd if you've ever been on the fence about seeing it yeah it's a good time
for sure oh man another round so this is one of those uh foreign language international films
that's getting a lot of buzz this year this was a great time um mads mikkelsen stars it's about
a group of friends who are all teachers and they they're kind of at a rough point their lives were
just not you know they're they're kind of going just through a midlife crisis and they decide to
all start drinking um to get around a 0.5 blood alcohol content level because supposedly there's
a theory that someone discussed that it could increase their happiness and
overall satisfaction in life so they they go on this very fun uh little experiment
and there's a lot of great comedy but then there's some emotional beats in there too
very well done film i think it has a shot at winning some of these big awards
but it's gonna have some good competition so definitely check this one out when you get a
chance it's available on vod and will eventually be out on blu-ray oh boy wonder woman 1984.
this film disappointed me um i enjoyed it but it was just way too long and
yeah i just i think there could have been a lot taken out of it and a lot of things they could
have done to make it better but you know it was a good time i don't i wouldn't see it again i
don't think but you know um it was nice to be able to catch on hbo max um you know i didn't
i had already had a subscription to that so i didn't have to pay for it but you know if you
haven't seen this one yet on the fence definitely give it a chance see what you think i know some
people really like it but there's a lot of people out there like myself who are very disappointed
so that's all i got to say about that sound of metal another award contender now i gave this
four stars if i could go back i'd probably switch that to four and a half i've been thinking about
this film a lot it's got great performances um riz ahmed i think he has a very high chance of
winning a lot of best actor awards um i also loved olivia cook i wanted to see more from her
i just the story everything it did to highlight the def community the sound mixing if this film
doesn't win best sound or sound mixing editing i don't know what to say it was incredible this
is just this film also looked great has a great color palette so definitely check this one out
if you haven't already on amazon prime it is it is i wouldn't say tough to watch so to say but it is
it can be um yeah i guess it could be a little tough to watch but it's not it's not something
that you have to look away it's just the subject matter itself because it's dealing with someone
who all of a sudden loses their hearing and um you know essentially all the all the stages they
go through to try to get it back oh boy bakurao this was a foreign film that i had heard about
and i knew nothing about this film going into it so i was very surprised it's what you would call
a weird western that's actually a term look it up very interesting it's about this fictional place
called bakurau but it's in maybe brazil but this was a very fun film very interesting uh has a lot
of twists and turns like it's one of those movies you think you know what kind of movie it is as
you're watching it but then it kind of completely flips its head in terms of the genre in a way
but yeah some dark humor um just a really fascinating film yeah i would check this
one out if you guys when you guys get a chance i know it's available on prime and blu-ray and
instant family now this is a movie that i went into thinking i knew exactly what kind of movie
this was gonna be and it was just gonna i don't know just i i wasn't sure how much i'd like it
but i actually really enjoyed this film um i liked how it highlighted um what life is like
for parents that are adopting and just the the way they presented it in this film because it's about
two people that just didn't ever want to have kids but then they finally decided that they do
and but they wanted to adopt and um i thought all the performances were great it's really funny
um there are some good emotional beats too um yeah this one just it surprised me i was not expecting
to like it as much as i did um so yeah i said if you've ever been on the fence about this one
definitely check it out the man from uncle this is a guy richie film i've started to finally get into
more guy richie and i enjoyed this film um i will say i guess something about gairuchi style is not
i don't love it as much as most people perhaps but i did really i really enjoyed the performances it
was a really funny film um and maybe it's because i'm not that into like spy movies
for whatever reason um but i yeah i thought everyone was great and it was interesting
it's it's one that i would definitely see again and it i'm very intrigued to see a lot of guy
rishi films i've only seen this and i believe the gentleman so you know i have quite a quite a few
more to check out there ma rainey's black bottom this was a great film i i really enjoyed it i was
surprised how much i liked it i actually liked that it was very short and one thing i thought
was really cool was that it was based off a play which is based off a real person in maharani um
so i like i was told this is a gorgeous looking film great production design colors performances
viola davis chadwick boseman man they were great um i definitely think this one is ver is worth
checking out on netflix it's just a really interesting film has a lot to say especially
i i i love the themes about you know what life was like at the time for black artists that were
having difficulty showing how talented they were and but being able to get exactly what they want
my rainy was a very interesting person in that she always pushed to get exactly what you want
and i like how they portrayed that in the film so definitely check this one out pieces of a woman
this is a good film but it's just really hard to watch uh great performances um
i think i gave it a three only because i i can't see myself wanting to see it again um
it doesn't have a lot of replay value for me and um but you know it for people that have gone
through what this woman has gone through you know this is a really important story to tell
and vanessa kirby was excellent you know i think she could definitely win a few awards you know if
if you can stomach or at least if you could muster up the courage to watch a movie like this and just
see what it's like for people that have gone through losing a child
through childbirth definitely something i guess i would recommend but like i said it just it was it
was tough and i just feel like i i don't really ever i can't really ever see myself watching it
again the last one up here my octopus teacher this is actually a documentary the only documentary on
this list and i love this film it was very enjoyable very i learned a lot i didn't know
anything about octopus i would say and there's the way it's told there's a lot of great interesting
observations it's about a man who's who's following sort of befriends in a way this octopus
and get to see kind of the full life cycle of what it goes through and what this man goes through
as he just goes on this journey and this transition in his life i really like the
way they interwove footage of him underwater as well as the interviews um yeah very informational
very interesting if you know people that are into marine biology or you know just love octopus this
is definitely a film that i would recommend i did not expect to like it that much but it was
it was a really good film all right guys that's all the movies i watched in january this year
um i'm very curious to know what you've seen if there's anything on my list that you have watched
and you want to talk about in the comments um i'd also love to hear any recommendations you have for
things that you've watched in the past month i hope you guys are enjoying this new format
i know it's a little different than i've done in the past but i just like being able to
express myself with less editing and more just natural conversations so i hope you're enjoying
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