What was the best film you watched this week? (22/01/2018 - 28/01/2018)

The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already.2. Please post your favourite film of last week.3. NO TV SHOWS!4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films without using the spoiler tag.5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!Here are some great comments from last week's thread:The Emperor's New Groove (2000). I have been on a quest to watch all 56 Walt Disney Animation Studios movies, and so far this movie (along with Zootopia) is the funniest overall of the ones that I've seen. The story was a fairly standard road trip film, and it was successful in being heartwarming and being a moral journey for Kuzco... but the movie excelled in it's humor. Kronk and Yzma are some of the most effective Disney villains that I've seen. They are both hilarious in their antics, and they are the driving source of humor in the film. Kronk is one of the few Disney villains that I actually felt sympathy for, and I ended up routing for him by the end. I'm actually kind of shocked by how funny and effective this movie was. Chicken Little (2005) is BY FAR the worst Disney movie I've seen in my journey, and it's main flaw was that it was painfully unfunny. I've come to learn that Chicken Little and The Emperor's New Groove had the same director (Mark Dindal). What the hell happened between 2000 and 2005 Mark?Apocalypse Now - I had never seen it before because I never knew which cut to watch, but I finally said fuck it and picked up the Redux version and I think it might be the first time since I've ever seen a movie that I truly felt that this was just pure magic. There were whole scenes that were just completely remarkable, from the beginning to the end you just let the film roll over you like a tone poem and looked as if it was literally just filmed in the middle of an actual war. The themes and subtext of the movie are woven so well in the dialouge and narration. It's basically the perfect movie. All that shit you see in Mad Max: Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049 has its roots in what Apocalypse Now put on film. The performances are basically perfect. Marlon Brando doesn't sound like the parodies of Marlon Brando, for the few moments he's on screen he's just visually arresting all on his own. Dennis Hopper's few moments are jittery and paranoid and give the entire moment they land at Kurtz's base the proper dread. It's just pure magic. I never realized how there was a whole second storyline about that surfer Lance. The movie is just as much about him as it is about Charlie's mission down river. Just incredible. It's a movie you should have in your collection. It think my only problem with it was that dinner scene wasn't really necessary, but those scenes were added back in the Redux. But they have so many good lines in them I can see why he put it back in the expanded release.Blade Runner: 2049 - I won't spoil this film. It's easily my favorite film of 2017 (so far) that's not Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It's one of the best looking movies I've seen, and it's all thanks to the cinematographer and production designer (along with the director, of course). Each shot is long enough for me to take in the details of the scene. Even the smaller scenes that don't necessarily move the plot forward with critical information (like Gosling's character walking back into his apartment building) tells a visual story. It's my favorite Villeneuve film (I've only seen Arrival and Sicario; yes, I need to see the other films) so far. It's just as great, if not better than the original Blade Runner film. Ryan Gosling gives a great performance (as usual; he chooses some of the most interesting films), and there is one particular moment where he shines. The rest of the guys also gave great performances (Ford, Bautista, Leto, etc.), but the women gave exceptional performances, particularly Ana de Armas (Joi) and Sylvia Hoeks (Luv). None of these roles were typical female roles and these characters develop in interesting ways. The plot is simple: Officer K (Gosling) is a blade runner who finds a lead on a case and must uncover the truth before a war breaks out between replicants and humans. There are twists and turns in this search for the truth and it's best to go in this movie without spoilers. Without spoiling anything, this movie addresses the overall theme of humanity in interesting and unexpected ways. I highly recommend this film to fans (and maybe non-fans) of Blade Runner. I don't think it's necessary to watch the first film or the shorts to understand this one (although you should), but they help provide some context to the situation in this movie.For further expansion of the rules, please read this link.Have fun and play nice! via /r/movies http://ift.tt/2EhABf5