That Cold Day in the Park (1969) - 5/10
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. However, she has no intention of ever letting him leave again.

Awake 2021 (Polish: Gdy sen nie nadchodzi) 6/10. Not bad, but there are many things left unexplained and it feels like the film could be longer, because the ending is a little dissapointing.

IMDb rating of only 4.9.
Even though I often disagree with comments/reviews on IMDb and have occasionally liked movies that were not highly rated there, I've found that a rating lower than 6.0 does probably indicate that it's not too good of a movie. I tend to avoid anything less than 6.0, unless I have an ulterior motive.

Les Affames, aka Ravenous (2017) French with English subs - 5/10
In a small, remote village in northern Quebec, things have changed. Locals are not the same anymore - their bodies are breaking down and they have turned against their loved ones. A handful of survivors goes hiding in the woods, looking for others like them.

Another zombie movie, and a little bit weird.

The Crazies (2010) - 4/10
After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.

Paris, Texas (1984) - 4/10
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Typically depraved view of America by a German director. Complete with supposed Texas lawlessness, parental neglect, child abuse and child abandonment, alcohol abuse, mental illness, a caring but irresponsible drifter father/husband, a caring but equally irresponsible and promiscuous mother/wife, poverty, selfishness, and a peep show.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) - 3/10
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.

Gave it one hour, so almost half the movie, but it's garbage. And that's coming from a David Lynch fan. (I've never watched the Twin Peaks series, one of two or three Lynch productions I haven't seen, so maybe I'm missing something in that regard. At this point, I don't see the point in watching it.)

Death Race 2000 (1975) - 1/10
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

Scanners (1981) - 2/10
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning", to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.

Mind-numbingly (no pun intended) dumb and boring.

Disney's Sleeping Beauty

(87/100)
A flop when it debuted in 1959, it made up for it in re-release editions in both theaters and home media releases.

Based on two adaptations of the story, one of Tchaikovsky's ballet and Perrault's fairy tale, as usual, the Disney team took liberties to appeal to a wide audience.

The story goes King Stefan and Queen Leah tried for children and eventually, their daughter Aurora was born. The entire kingdom turned out to pay homage, including the uninvited Maleficent (it was bad form in the Dark Ages to not invite anyone of her high status, hence the deadly curse). Although blessed with beauty and song by Flora and Fauna respectively, Merriweather tampered with the curse to put Aurora in a sleep state to be awakened by true love's kiss.

Memento (2000) - 5/10
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.

Kind of weird, non-linear. I still don't follow the details of the story, even after reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia.

I have no idea how you could begin to understand that film without watching Twin peaks first! The series and movie (and all the other related bits) are favourites of mine.

I do believe I read somewhere that the movie is supposed to be a stand-along product, without a person having to have watched the series.
Besides, is there more to understand about the series other than a young woman being found dead and the whodunnit that follows? As much as I like David Lynch productions, I simply don't have any desire to watch this series.
Besides, the stereotyped characters in the movie really irked me as well.
My rating stands; it's one person's opinion.
If it's any consolation, I absolutely love the music and have both of the Julie Cruise CD's.

I would disagree with this I think.

Yes.

You said you only watched half of the film anyway, so I thought the rating was unfair in this respect. It's part of the Twin Peaks story, the most important part perhaps- it's like reading one page of Shakespeare and declaring the whole thing 'garbage'. Most of your ratings seem to be below a 5 out of 10- have you ever considered that perhaps you should consume them differently?

Yes, Julee Cruise is mesmerising, her music was very central to the first series especially.

I don't know why I seem to have hit such a nerve with this film. I've already stated that I'm a David Lynch fan, more than once I think, although I don't care for all of his stuff.
I don't know what you mean by "consume them differently".
As far as most of my ratings being below 5, I just call them as I see them. Not everyone has the same tastes. In that regard, I'm going to go back through several pages of this thread to where I first started my ratings and see what my average is. I will edit this post afterwards with the results.

Okay, so instead of editing my previous post, here's a new one, because my list of ratings turned out to be quite lengthy. It was interesting, though, and I think I'll maintain the text file I created in the process for adding future ratings. I love keeping lists.

My first movie rating appears on page 21 of this thread, and is dated September, 2015. My really prolific posts don't start until a couple of pages later.
To date, I've rated 191 movies in this thread. That's quite a lot, considering that on an early page I made the statement that I'm not much of a movie buff. I'm really not, and the main reason why I've watched so many, mainly during the past couple of years, is because I now live alone, found a website where I can watch them for free, and usually watch in late evening before going to bed and to just help me to wind down. I don't watch them for the typical reason that someone might be called a movie "buff". For example, the movie The Lighthouse, from 2019, is actually the last movie I saw in a theater.

Here then, is my list of ratings (in blocks of 10), in chronological order as they appear starting on page 21 of this thread:

RV (2006) - 3.5
The Omega Man (1971) - 8
Dr. Zhivago (1965) - 5
The Matrix (1999) - 3
The Hunt for Red October (1998) - 2.5
The Big Lebowski (1998) - 2.5
Quest for Fire (1981) - 9
Interstellar (2014) - 0
The Conjuring (2013) - 8
The Lighthouse (2019) - 1

They Live (1988) - 8
The Baader Meinhof Complex - 8
Charly (1968) - 8
Identity (2003) - 8
The Omega Man (1971) - 8
Dawn of the Dead (1978) - 7.5
Day of the Dead (1985) - 6.5
Strongroom (1962) - 6.5
Brainstorm (1983) - 6
Day of Resurrection (aka Virus) (1980) - 6

Tales from the Crypt (1972) - 6
The Andromeda Strain (1971) - 5
Beginning of the End (1957) - 5
Trilogy of Terror (1975) - 4
Panic In Year Zero (1962) - 6
The Mind Snatchers (1972) - 5
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) - 3
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) - 8
Lost Highway (1997) - 7
Wild at Heart (1990) - 7

Town Without Pity (1961) - 4
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - 4
The Outer Space Connection (1975) - 8
Somewhere in Time (1980) - 2
The Disappearance (1977) - 8
The Odessa File (1974) - 4
Jacob's Ladder (1990) - 9
The Day Time Ended (1979) - 1
Communion (1989) - 5
My Dinner With Andre (1981) - 1

Idiocracy (2006) - 2
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - 3.5
The Lost Continent (1968) - 4
Quest for Fire (1981) - 10
Dead & Buried (1981) - 5
Bullitt (1968) - 5
Cell (2016) - 5
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - 4
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - 5
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) - 4

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) - 5
Southern Comfort (1981) - 3
City of Fear (1959) - 4
Brainstorm (1965) - 3
Deadline (1980) - 2
Gattaca (1997) - 2
A Haunting in Connecticut (2002) - 5
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) - 5
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - 1
The Time Machine (2002) - 3

The Man Who Used To Be Me (2000) - 3
Wayne's World (1992) - 2
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) - 4
A Bucket Of Blood (1959) - 5
Don't Tell A Soul (2020) - 4
Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 4
Blow (2001) - 7
Across The Bridge (1957) - 6
Funeral Home, aka Cries in the Night (1980) - 4
Eraserhead (1977) - 10

Seven in Heaven (2018) - 1
The Road (2009) - 7
The Name of the Rose (1986) - 10
Coma (1978) - 7
The Truman Show (1998) - 2
The Parallax View (1974) - 6
Funeral in Berlin (1966) - 8
The Sixth Sense (1999) - 7
Alligator (1980) - 1
Germany Year Zero (1948) - 7

Buffet Froid (1979) - 1
Ghost Town (1988) - 1
Danton (1983) - 7
The Entity (1982) - 6
The Divide (2011) - 0
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - 4
Frankenstein (1931) - 4
The IPCRESS File (1965) - 7
House of Games (1987) - 7
La Menace (1961) French with English subs - 7

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) - 5
Un Homme et une Femme (1966) French with English subs - 8
Bringing Out The Dead (1999) - 0
Blue Sunshine (1977) - 1
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle (1967) - 10
Dirty Harry (1971) - 8
Goodnight Mommy (2014) German language with English subs - 8
The Blockhouse (1973) - 2
Flightplan (2005) - 1
Zuckerbaby, aka Sugar Baby (1985) German with English subs - 2

Jennifer 8 (1992) - 7
Taste of Fear, aka, Scream of Fear (1961) - 7
Side Effects (2013) - 7
Memoir of a Murderer (director's cut) (2017) Korean with English subs - 5
Citizen X (TV movie, 1995) - 10
More (1969) - 8
Naked Lunch (1991) - 2
The Number 23 (2007) - 4
Tread (2020) - 10
Audrey Rose (1977) - 2

Malevil (1981) French with English subs - 6
The Omen (1976) - 9
Damien: Omen II (1978) - 7
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) - 5
What Happened Was... (1994) - 5
Sling Blade, directors cut (1996) - 10
Holy Motors (2012) French with English subs - 3
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) - 5
Three Days of the Condor (1975) - 5
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - 3

Castaway on the Moon (2009) Korean with English subs - 6
The Osterman Weekend (1983) - 3
Unsane (2018) - 8
Inland Empire (2006) - 4
Grown Ups (2010) - 5
Grown Ups 2 (2013) - 3
The Banishment, aka Izgnanie (2007) Russian with English subs - 11
No Country for Old Men (2007) - 8
The Return, aka Vozvrashchenie (2003) Russian with English subs - 10

Elena (2011) Russian with English subs - 5
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 0
House of Cards (1968) - 4
Leviathan (2014) Russian with English subs - 8
Wind Chill (2007) - 3
Joy Ride (2001) - 3
Happy Gilmore (1996) - 5
The Night Eats The World (2018) - 6
The Ninth Gate (1999) - 4
Falling Down (1993) - 0

The House That Jack Built (2018) - 0
Kalifornia (1993) - 0
Sinkhole (2004) - 6
The Lodge (2019) - 3
Wrong Turn (2003) - 3
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) - 5
Memories of Murder, aka Salinui Chueok (2003) Korean with English subs - 8
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - 5
Leere Welt, aka Empty World (TV 1987) German with English subs - 3
Radius (2017) - 5

Capricorn One (1977) - 3
LE FANTÔME DE LA LIBERTÉ, aka The Phantom Of Liberty (1974) French with English subs - 5
Network (1976) - 4
LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISIE, aka The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) French with English subs - 4
Bad Ronald (TV 1974) - 2
Christiane F. (1981) German with English subs - 7
Flashpoint (1984) - 7
Lord Of The Flies (1963) - 0
Beyond Reason (1970) - 1
Stalker (1979) Russian with English subs - 2

The Execution, aka Kazn (2021) Russian with English subs - 3
Deliverance (1972) - 10
Fire In The Sky (1993) - 7.5
Basket Case (1982) - 4
Hereditary (2018) - 5
Seven Days In May (1964) - 10
THX 1138 (1971) - 4
The Chekist (1992) Russian with English subs - 6
Mr. Nobody (2009) - 7
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) - 5

Race With The Devil (1975) - 3
The Hidden (1987) - 5
Don't Look Now (1973) - 3
The Machinist (2004) - 5
The Road Warrior (1981) - 10
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - 4
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) - 0
The Ascent (1977) Russian with English subs - 6
It's Alive (1974) - 3
The Eye (2008) - 3

A Short Film About Killing (1988) Polish with English subs - 6
Abwärts, aka Out Of Order (1984) German with English subs - 6.5
The Changeling (1980) - 7
That Cold Day in the Park (1969) - 5
Les Affames, aka Ravenous (2017) French with English subs - 5
The Crazies (2010) - 4
Paris, Texas (1984) - 4
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) - 3
Death Race 2000 (1975) - 1
Scanners (1981) - 2

Memento (2000) - 5

The total ratings number 933.5, divided by 191 movies, equals an average rating of 4.88.
This is not surprising, because movies, like any other art form, produces more not-so-good items than good ones. The same is true for other art forms, like music, painting, literature, etc. The really good ones, say a rating of 8 or above, are few and far between, again as might be expected.

Note that a couple of movies are listed more than once, simply because I watched them more than once (Quest for Fire, The Omega Man).
Also, at least two movies (Falling Down, The House That Jack Built) I rated zero purely because of the blatant political message they promote that has nothing or very little to do with the subject matter of the movie. If it weren't for that, I would probably rate the former a 5 and the latter a 10. There have also been a couple of other movies I've watched during the past couple of years that I have not listed at all, mostly for the same reason.

So what am I supposed to do, not list or rate the ones I think are below 5? Not gonna do that. That would negate the whole point of this thread.
Finally, and again as is true with any other review of art, anyone who feels inclined to disagree with my ratings needs to look at this history of ratings from me in order to get an idea of what I like and what I don't like.

Yes, that was what I thought too.



This is what I was getting at- there are a few where you have either stopped watching, or else described as confusing so I was just suggesting that you watch them in a different way or at a different time, so that you may enjoy the experience more. Seldom do you indicate that you liked the experience! But if you are just watching them to help you sleep, then it's moot.


You may do as you please, I was just noticing that you didn't seem, from your reviews, to enjoy many of the films that you spend time watching. I can only judge from my own perspective, which is- if I'm going to spend a couple of hours putting something in my brain, I'm going to give it a fair chance. But that's because I don't watch TV or films often (I read mostly). I watched the whole Twin Peaks saga again recently when I was ill, so it was fresh on my mind when I came upon this thread, which I seldom visit. I noticed that you spend a lot of time reviewing films, and it seemed odd to me that someone would put such a lot of effort into something they don't particularly like doing! But perhaps you do enjoy them and just aren't too demonstrative with that side of things.
Anyway, I wasn't intending to put you on the defensive, as with all art it is entirely up to the beholder to consume as they wish. I was putting my own slant on it, since you mentioned a film which (and this is rare) I knew well. It's just that, when describing a film or book or series, I would normally use emotive words- describing how it made me feel- whereas this thread seems entirely devoid of that! This is probably why I would not make a good film critic.

I never claimed different. In fact, I've noticed it myself, without anyone pointing it out to me.
But like I said, it's to be expected that, as with any art form, most of what is produced isn't particularly good, much of it is simply garbage, and only a relatively few products are good. My ratings are merely a reflection of that, tempered, of course, by my own tastes. Just because other folks tend to only post ratings for movies they are exuberant about, and don't bother posting the bad ones, doesn't concern me; to each their own.


You're reading a little too much into that. I've simply devoted some evenings to watching movies, and there is no other time or setting that would be better for me. If I get tired, I will watch it in two or more sittings, which I've done a number of times.
There have been many, many movies that I have decided not to watch at all, simply because I'm pretty sure the subject matter would not interest me. For example, there's not a single cartoon movie on my list, such as a Disney movie or a movie about comic book super heroes. Don't care for musicals or romantic comedies either, for what it's worth.

If I find a movie to be so bad that I can't bear to finish watching it, then why shouldn't I give it a low rating?

As far as a movie being confusing, can I help it if it is to me? At least I make an effort to read the plot synopsis at Wikipedia, as well as reviews on IMDb, but often even that doesn't help.


I don't spend a lot of time reviewing films. As you point out, I often just post a rating, and sometimes a short comment. Takes all of a few moments.

One reason why I sometimes, or often, watch a movie to the end, even if I may not particularly like it, is because there might be a certain aspect of the movie that I'm just curious to see how they ended it. And before you say that this in itself would be a good aspect of a movie, it's not necessarily so. If I watch garbage to the end, just to see how it ends, it doesn't mean it's overall any less garbagey. I'm often curious to see just how far down the stupidity hole movie makers are willing to go to put something on the screen and/or dumb-down the public.
And frankly, if it weren't for the fact that I'm watching in the evening in the privacy of my own home without any distractions, I might not be willing to watch a bad movie to the end.
The Sixth Sense is a rare example of an otherwise bland movie that is redeemed by a good ending. Without the substantial plot twist toward the end, this would be a very forgettable movie. But again, these types of things are few and far between.

I'm not inclined to discuss this until the cows come home. If you like Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, or any other film, give your own ratings and comments.

Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to dismiss this conversation, because it is an interesting thing to talk about.

The title of this thread is "Rate Your Most Recently Watched Movie."
The thing is, I'm in my early 60's, so there are many movies I saw in years past, dating all the way back to the 1960's, that are not included in my list of movies and ratings in this thread. And since in the decades of my life before the internet one had to actually pay for seeing movies, one was much more discriminating in what one spent one's money on. So I think that if I were to list all the movies I saw throughout out my life, at least the ones I remember, my list would probably be much more positive than my ratings in this thread, especially since a person tends to remember the good ones and forget the bad ones.

As an aside, and substantially off-topic from the current conversation, the scariest film was one I saw when I was just a kid, about age 5. So this was in the mid-1960's.
It was a Spanish film, entitled The Miracle of Marcelino, aka Marcelino pan y vino (1955). At that age, I doubt I had the patience to watch it in its entirety, but I sure as hell remembered the scary parts for many years afterward. It's not actually a horror film at all, but a drama with strong religious overtones.
Without giving any spoilers, and long story short, it's about an orphan boy in 19th century Spain who is raised in a monastery. The monks tell him never to go in the attic, which of course he eventually does, as little kids are wont to do things they are told not to do. What he finds in the attic is what creeped me out, and for many years afterwards I looked askew at the object in question whenever I was in a church.
There are clips of these scenes on YT, for anyone interested, but watching them will definitely spoil the movie for you. Even just reading the short synopsis on IMDb will spoil it, in my opinion. Actually, even some of the advertising posters for it are spoilers.
The IMDb rating for it is 7.1, so not bad. I too would rate it a 7.

The Curse (1987) - 4/10
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Yes, but you didn't watch the film I'm commenting on, which is why I commented. I thought that others who might read this thread would miss out on a good series and movie if they read your rating! So my comment was in effect, my review.

I watched an hour, or about half of it, and I thought it was so bad that I couldn't stomach watching the rest. That's a valid reason for giving it a low rating.
You happened to like it, which is fine. So lets agree to move on.

The Deer Hunter (1978) - 4/10
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Three hours of mostly boredom, with nothing to recommend it besides a couple of Russian Roulette scenes.
Besides the scenery, which is quite obviously not Pennsylvania, the deer hunting scenes are absurd, with the group of friends constantly shouting at one another at the top of their voices, physically chasing deer through the woods and hills, and taking multiple shots - all of which would only have the effect in real life of instantly causing deer to flee at top speed and not stop until they were at least five miles away from such idiots.
The Robert De Niro character being in the army and in uniform, sporting a full beard. Beards have not been allowed in the US military probably for the past 100 years. On top of that blatant inaccuracy, there are the usual Hollywood gaffes regarding military dress codes, including De Niro wearing his beret indoors and walking around with his raincoat unbuttoned. But I'm sure the US military gave its blessings though, since the De Niro character comes back from Vietnam somewhat matured, garnering respect from the townsfolk while he struts around town in uniform, girl in arm.