JFF: What Was the Last Film You Saw, and How Would You Rate It? (Pt. 20)

Whistle (2025/6) - Final Destination fanfiction with decent production quality and competent young actors that still just didn't work. 5/10

Allegro non troppo (1976): A very generous 5/10. Walt Disney need not worry about this raunchy parody of Fantasia.

The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993): 8/10.

Project Hail Mary (2026) [IMAX]: 7/10.

The Drama (2026): 7/10.

Fantasy Life (2025): 7/10.

Despicable Me 2 (2013) - 6/10

101 Dalmatians (1996) - 6/10

Aladdin (1992) - 9/10

Liberal Arts (2012) - 8/10

Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) - 6/10

An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) - 6/10

Before and After (1996) - 7/10

Battle Royale (2000) - 8/10

Also finished Il Gattopardo in Netflix which was quite good - 9/10

Amores perros (2000) - 8/10

The 39 Steps (1935) - 7/10

Zeta (2026) - 5/10

Small Time Crooks (2000) - 7/10

Civil War (2024) - 8/10

Space Cowboys (2000) - 8/10

Deviant Passions (2003) - 4/10

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America or Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) - 6/10

The Phatom of the Opera (1983) - 5/10

Mi obra maestra (2018) - 7/10

The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 8/10

Shadow of the Blair Witch (2000) - 7/10

Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) - 5/10

The Hitchhiker (2007) - 4/10

Fountain of Youth (2025) - 5/10

El cautivo (2025) - 7/10

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) - 8/10

Arco (2025) - 8/10

All My Crazy Friends 2... A Few More Nuts (2000) - 2/10

Scream (1996) - 7/10

Coyote Ugly (2000) - 7/10

Hamlet (2025): 6/10;

ChaO (2025): 9/10;

Salmokji: Whispering Water: 7/10;

Three Colors: Red (1994): I guess I actually never seen this one from the Three Colors Trilogy. 9/10.

Steal This Story, Please! (2025): 7/10;

The Last One for the Road (2025): 10/10; 

and

Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025): 9/10;

HEY EVERYBODY. LET ME KNOW IF WE NEED TO MAKE A NEW VERSION OF THIS THREAD AS THIS ONE SEEMINGLY IS START TO GLITCH OUT - POSTING WISE.

Hokum (2026): 8/10;

Labyrinth (2025): 8/10;

Obsession (2025): 8/10;

The Sheep Detectives (2026): 8/10;

Decorado (2025): 5/10;

Aloise (1975), 4k restoration: 3/10; screened with a short film, Qui donc a rêvé?(1965): 4/10.

Tuner (2025): 8/10;

I Love Boosters (2026): a generous 7/10;

Frances Ha (2012), rewatch: 10/10;

What Time Is It There? (2001): 8/10;
Backrooms (2026): 9/10. I would have liked to rewatch this one in the movie theater but I really had to close my eyes during the shaky-cam scenes to avoid getting motion sickness.

Tekkonkinkreet (2006), rewatch: 8/10. I liked it more than I remembered.
Another World (2025): 8/10;

Disclosure Day (2026), Dolby Theater: A generous 6/10. Super hokey.

Honeyjoon (2025): 8/10;

Toy Story 5 (2026): 9/10;

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (1999): Wish Gkids had mentioned that this wasn't a standalone film and that it was attached to an anime series or set of films. Still not sure of what exactly came before this. Still, a wildly enjoyable if not confusing 9/10.

A screening of animation shorts from the Annecy Film Festival:
Zwermen (2025): 7/10;

Hairy Legs (2025): 8/10;
Ovary-Acting (2025): 8/10;
Safo (2025): 5/10;
Sulaimani (2025): 9/10;

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), rewatch: 10/10;

Rose of Nevada (2025): 9/10;

Supergirl (2026): A generous 6/10;

Girls Like Girls (2026): One of the worst scripts (dialogue-wise) so far this year. If this came out 20 years ago ... and released by Miramax? It would have been a critical darling. 5/10.

My 70th trip to the movie theater this year goes to...

Chan is Missing (1982), rewatch: 10/10. Bumped up from 9/10 since I watched it over two decades ago. Maybe seeing it on DVD from the library?

I watch quite a lot of movies but have rarely, if ever, really generated and shared a report here.

I recently saw Rust, starring Patrick Scott McDermott.

This is the movie for which Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer, suffered a mortal gunshot wound, and Joel Souza, the director, survived being hit by the same bullet fired from what has been by now understood to be an authentic-style replica of an 1873 Colt .45″ revolver, which is necessarily single-action; Alec Baldwin, the head (and the other starring actor and for the titular character), being the one in whose hand the prop firearm was when discharged, all when none of the fully-functional firearms serving as props in the entire production was really supposed to have been loaded with live rounds, like ever, let alone the specific prop for the specific rehearsal. As we know, there was a major media spectacle (little bit of political spectacle too), extensive inquiry and various felony indictments, even the subsequent successful felony trial conviction of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer, who was revealed to have been terrifyingly reckless, possibly underqualified, in such a high-responsibility role. There were and are various civil suits as well, especially considering how set workers had been complaining about dangers all along. (While some people online have speculated that a disgruntled worker intentionally loaded live rounds into the prop of interest, so as to make a point about lack of safety on set, never has any investigator uncovered any lead, let alone evidence, to that effect.) The production was delayed for roughly two years. Brady Noon had originally been cast to play Lucas Hollister, but by the time filming was ready to resume, he had other commitments and was perhaps not young enough anymore for the part anyway, so McDermott wound up playing Hollister instead. Bianca Celine filled in for Hutchins and worked to maintain the spirit Hutchins' cinematographic style. Souza healed and resumed work as the director.

Anyway, Rust is by no means a terrible movie. It's just, as a lot of critics point out, a little long, not necessarily boring exactly. In my humble opinion, it would otherwise roughly be on par with Levring's The Salvation and Cooper's Hostiles. A movie in this genre (Westerns) about fugitives seeking escape or redemption would of course be more suitable for comparing and contrasting, I admit. The misleading (rather false) old Hollywood-borne trope of the tavern, casino, brothel and inn being all in one building appears vaguely present in Rust. Not too clear in this case, but in the distant past, a whole host of films that defined this genre (revolver-toting outlaws getting into shootouts with sheriffs and marshals) took a lot of unhistorical creative liberties due to technical limitations or just for dramatic effect.