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 ...

Southern Comfort, 1981, directed by Walter Hill, streamed on Prime Video, 3 stars. Nine guys in a Louisiana National Guard unit get lost in the swampland during a training exercise and manage to piss off a group of local hunters. Deadly hijinks ensue. This one was fine. The scenery was great. A sense of danger was constant throughout as this group tried desperately to find their way to safety. I think the problem was that most of the characters we were supposed to care about weren't very likable. Only the two leads -- Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe -- had any kind of charisma. And it wasn't until the last 20 minutes of the film that we were able to focus on them. I did really like that third act. Everything memorable about this movie happened near the end. Everything leading up to that wasn't bad, it just wasn't very interesting or exciting. -------------------- Stream at Prime Video (I am an Amazon affiliate, and your clicks help support this blog)