The Girl on the Train - Meh. Blunt's great in this tho.
Deliverance is still a stone cold classic. Gosh dang, whatta movie. This film also has the best 'playing dead' performances I've ever seen, that's the kind of thing you tend to notice on a rewatch.
For how much longer will Park Chan-Wook be best known internationally as the director of Oldboy? I mean, I like it a lot, its great and all, but many of his other films are considerably less grueling and audience friendly. I could see The Handmaiden being a relatively big arthouse hit, for example. Its got great commercial elements like clever and intricate plotting, and also, lots of graphic lesbian sex. Like, if, in The Sting, Robert Redford and Paul Newman just started going at it, hard, midway through. So its got that going for it. I bring up The Sting because this is also a con artist movie, with characters working on an overarching deception after a big payday, and of course, that's all fun to watch. But like the Victorian set novel its clearly taking inspiration from, the trappings that adorn the story count for a lot, and here Park gets to do his gothic tinged thing, and do it well. I had a lot of fun with this movie. Not one I'd recommend to even the slightly prudish though.
