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I was going to make an entire thread on this just to keep my own notes and for my own entertainment. I still might. But for now...
Been watching films from the imdb top 250 list that I haven't seen before. Hoping to eventually get round to seeing them all. Not doing it in any order, not even solely picking ones that I'm interested in the most, I'm mixing it up quite a bit. The last few...
Star Trek (2009) 6.9/10 - Was alright, I guess a bunch of nods to the older stuff might have been lost on me but it was still pretty good, nothing ground-breaking though. Kept me entertained throughout.
Le Notti di Cabiria aka Nights of Cabiria (1957) 1.8/10 -Dreadful film. Plodding plot and poor acting. Not sure why it's on the list.
The Prestige (2006) 8.7/10 - Thoroughly enjoyed this film. The non-linear narrative worked really well with the reveals of certain events being interesting and giving earlier parts of the story more meaning. Thought the entire cast was really good, Hugh Jackman had a little more to his performance than his usual Hugh Jackman-ness and was right up there with Bale and Caine.
Persona (1966) 7/10 - The cinematography used throughout this film was excellent and the two actresses portrayed their parts well enough to get the message of duality across pretty well. The plot jumped all over the show at times but that was very much intentional when you grasp the whole nature of the film. The subtitles were a bit off a lot of the time though.
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