Moose And The Movies

Nine of the movies I watched in January were rewatches. A couple of them I have seen several times, favorites from my DVD library from the early '00s. The rest are films I remember watching only once before. Here are my tier-list rankings of those rewatches. I'll be back in the next day or two with a recap of all the movies I saw for the first time, and I also plan a combined ranking. 9. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, 1978, directed by Philip Kaufman, streamed on Kanopy, 2.5 stars.   I had always remembered this as a pretty good film since I saw it probably during its first theater run. But it didn't hold up for me at all, mostly because of all the plot holes. 8. V/H/S/2, 2013, multiple directors, streamed on Prime Video, 2.5 stars. You need more than one excellent and one decent segment to hold up a five-segment anthology. 7. Southern Comfort, 1981, directed by Walter Hill, streamed on Prime Video, 3 stars. A decent thriller about a National Guard unit lost in the swamps ...

I watched 13 films in the first 14 days of January 2025. Five of those were movies I had seen at least once before. Here is my ranking of those five. 5. V/H/S/2, 2013, multiple directors, streamed on Prime Video, 2.5 stars. I dove into this the night after I saw V/H/S, which I'll discuss in a later post. A couple minutes in, I realized that I had seen this one a year or so ago. It's a found-footage anthology, consisting of a wraparound story that leads us into four separate self-contained short stories. Two of the segments aren't very good, the wraparound is just OK, one segment is entertaining and one segment is tremendously batshit crazy. Unfortunately, the batshit-crazy segment, titled "Safe Haven," lands in the middle of the movie, and is followed by the anthology's worst segment and the inconsequential conclusion of the wraparound. So instead of going out with my head spinning round, I was left pissed off that I had to sit through 20 minutes of anticlimac...