Last 10:
Last eleven days:
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (McQuarrie, 2015) 
The Station Agent (McCarthy, 2003)
Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin (Carnimeo, 1970)
Downfall (Der Untergang) (Hirschbiegel, 2004)
Adaptation. (Jonze, 2002)
A Mighty Wind (Guest, 2003)
Notes on a Scandal (Eyre, 2006)
Twenty Four Hour Party People (Winterbottom, 2002)
Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)
The Way of the Dragon (Lee, 1972)
Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)
The Last King of Scotland (MacDonald, 2006)
King Kong (Jackson, 2005)
1408 (Håfström, 2007)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
Team America: World Police (Parker, 2004)
Phone Booth (Schumacher, 2003)
Wind River (Sheridan, 2017)
The Death of Superman (Liu/Tucker, 2018)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney, 2002)
Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
Ju-on: The Grudge (Shimizu, 2002)
American Psycho (Harron, 2000)
Kill Bill vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
Kill Bill vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2004)
Roughly two-thirds of the way through my “Favourites From the 2000s” challenge.
So, I decided it is right time to do inevitable. To watch all those monkey movies.
Planet Of The Apes (1967)
There are two things I hate most in movies. Chimps. And court hearings. Aaaw, how I hate court dramas. Yuck. More than apes. More than crime shows. If you watch NCfuckingIS don’t speak to me. And all this is in this spectacle. But fair enough. It’s still quite intelligent scifi movie, despite that thing with english speaking apes and astronaut still babbling he is on another planet. 7/10
I didn’t watch all those sequels (four?), because I remember one thing about them: garbage!
So I jumped over Burton’s installment in the franchise, which I considered as a bit boring and headed towards the new trilogy.
Rise Of The POTA
Wow. A big surprise this was, and according to most of the reviews, not only for me. From underdog to smash hit. If you think this is a bad movie, you should see a doctor. 9/10.
Dawn Of The POTA
Still pretty good, although a bit predictable, but you know, some scenes are just fantastic - ah, that overtaking of the tank by Koba, brilliantly directed. 8/10.
War For The POTA
Pure postapocalyptic gold. Best part in the trilogy for me. I failed to hate apes in this movie. I wanted them bastards to win. Horrible, what movies can do to you. 10/10
ehm…
Well, at least we can still talk to each other. I think…
Added them to my watchlist.
Geez, what’s the world coming to?
Just joking. Although why the hell are crime shows so popupar is beyond me.
I know man, I’m joking as well. I really like full-length court drama movies, but I have no interest in any TV series of this kind.
Finished up Season 1 of Rhoda and watched Shakiest Gun in the West!
Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig)
****
Set in Sacramento (apparently not the place to be), in 2002, in a post 9/11 USA, this comedy drama tells the story of a rebellious young woman who insists on being called ‘Lady Bird’. She’s pink-haired, eats communion wafers (“They’re not consecrated”) and desperately wants to move to New York (the place to be).
Not just the umpteenth coming-of-age movie thanks to great performances by Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalff (as the girl’s mother) and witty dialogue, occasionally of almost Woody Allen proportions. Some of the peripheral characters flirt with caricature, but both Odeya Rush and Beanie Feldstein are enchanting as Lady Bird’s two best friends, the first one hot and popular, the second one overweight and insecure.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, Matt Reeves)
***
The final part of the reboot trilogy . Good old Caesar, the most intelligent (man-like) of the apes, has become a Moses who must try to bring his people - sorry apes - to safety after a mad Colonel has led an attack on the apes’ colony outside San Francisco. But he also wants revenge on the madman …
The first part, Rise of … managed to breathe new life in what looked like a worn-out idea, the second, Dawn of … was not as good as the first, but still okay, so the inevitable question was: will the downward trend be reversed in the closing act? Well, opinions vary. Some have called the script morally complex and resonant, but to me it sounded above all ponderous and preachy. The film looks great and with its biblical influences and visual references to movie classics like Gladiator (the attack on the Apes colony!), Aliens (the foster ape child!) and several others, it sure is ambitious, but apes discussing their war traumas around the camp fire is not really my idea of intelligent entertainment. Nor is Woody Harrelson playing a cross between Marlon Brando and Donald Trump (he’s even building walls!)
Robin Hood (2010, Ridley Scott)
***
Not really the classic Robin Hood tale, but not the revisionist approach it was supposed to be either. Allegedly Russell Crowe wasn’t happy with the shady type of anti-hero he was supposed to portray, therefore the script was re-written a couple of times, in order to make Robin look more like the rebel from Sherwood Forest we all know. The movie tries to do what King Arthur did with the legend of the round table: telling us not what happened, but what could have happened (if we assume that Robin is a historical character)
Crowe is called Robin Longstride at the beginning of the movie, an archer in King Richard the Lionheart’s army, and the movie is mainly concerned with the question how Longstride became Hood. Not a great movie, but lavishly produced and wonderfully shot. Medieval Britain (and France) never looked better. The large-scale action sequences don’t have the intensity of similar sequences in Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, but some scenes set in taverns or around the campfire, with people dancing and drinking, are almost hypnotic
Outland (1981, Peter Hyams)
**½
Sean Connery is a space marshal (space as in universe, not as in cake) who discovers that things are rotten on one of Jupiter’s moons. His wife begs him to go home with her and none of his deputies is willing to support him, but of course Sean refuses to forsake his duty.
High Noon on a moon. Connery is in good form and the production design is great, but the script is paper thin and predictable. And look at those computer screens …
It’s hard not to agree with what you wrote, but despite all that, I really liked the movie. Very entertaining stuff. Connery is great.
I’m probably giving up on this after this scene.
What else can ape genre offer to me?
Absolute terror!!!
Not yet, plenty of superior Oshima movies. Now that we have entered that territory, you might as well view Bye Bye Monkey, as you seem so keen on ape genre now. 
First I’ve heard of Bye Bye Monkey but will investigate 
. There does seem to be a modern push for chimpanzee “personhood” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/chimps-legal-personhood.html 
Oh my god. Stop this madness.
“It’s a mad house! A mad hoooouuusseee!”
