This week will be easier than last to pick a worst, but the best still has several choices!
I saw seven movies, 100% of them for the first time! I think this may have been the first week where they were all fresh films to me.
Four of them, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Emma, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, and Disclosure, were four star films, with The Sword and the Rose was three stars, Coffy was two and a half, and True Romance was only two sad little stars.
To the surprise of zero people who are able to count, True Romance was definitely the worst of the week. Maybe I would have liked it better had I seen it when it first came out, but unfortunately it’s 2021 me who has to judge the film, and 2021 me thinks it is a movie about a couple of real assholes who just make foolish and disastrous decision after foolish and disastrous decision, and get rewarded for it anyway.
Also, the movie appears to think of these assholes are the epitome of awesome. The movie is so wrong. It is clearly written by a young nerd who really wants to be cool, which would be Quentin.
For the best film, I think I’m going to go with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, if for no other reason that it is a real original piece of animation. I know it’s from a book, but the film itself seemed like it sprang fully-formed from Zeus’ forehead. Fiddler and Disclosure cancel each other out, both being documentaries, and Emma was brilliant, but there are load of other Emmas. There is only one Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. (I know there is a Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, but I haven’t seen it yet, so it doesn’t count).
365 Films in 365 Days 