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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Over a Meal
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Wow this is quite a tricky one, but I've managed to come up with four to do a theme within a theme. You definitely do not want to be invited to these dinner parties.
Rope (1948)
Two young men murders their friend and proceeds to host a dinner party right after as if nothing had happened, just to show they could get away with it. I like dialogue heavy movies and this is it, just people talking into the night as tension increases and it is very good.
The Invitation (2015)
Out of the blue a man receives an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new partner and the evening has an unsettling air to it the moment he arrives. This has a slow build up but in a good way. There's this ever present feeling of dread, you know something terribly bad is going to happen, just not what and why and who really is the crazy one until the final act.
The Beguiled (2017)
The arrival of a wounded Union deserter at a girls school in Virginia causes tension within the household. The whole movie is not over a dinner, but there is a big, yet quiet tension filled scene at the end of the movie that is over dinner and it just stood out. I definitely did not expect that to happen when I started watching the movie.
Le jeu (2018)
Remake of the Italian film Perfetti Sconosciuti. Three couples and their friend meet for dinner. Bored they decide to play a game where they share texts, emails and calls that pop up on their cell phones that ends disastrously. I've picked this movie twice before, still I have to pick it once more because it's perfect for this theme, also I really enjoyed it. Not as dark as the other movies, but you'd definitely do not want to play that game at a dinner party, it would likely ruin relationships.
Wow this is quite a tricky one, but I've managed to come up with four to do a theme within a theme. You definitely do not want to be invited to these dinner parties.
Rope (1948)
Two young men murders their friend and proceeds to host a dinner party right after as if nothing had happened, just to show they could get away with it. I like dialogue heavy movies and this is it, just people talking into the night as tension increases and it is very good.
The Invitation (2015)
Out of the blue a man receives an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new partner and the evening has an unsettling air to it the moment he arrives. This has a slow build up but in a good way. There's this ever present feeling of dread, you know something terribly bad is going to happen, just not what and why and who really is the crazy one until the final act.
The Beguiled (2017)
The arrival of a wounded Union deserter at a girls school in Virginia causes tension within the household. The whole movie is not over a dinner, but there is a big, yet quiet tension filled scene at the end of the movie that is over dinner and it just stood out. I definitely did not expect that to happen when I started watching the movie.
Le jeu (2018)
Remake of the Italian film Perfetti Sconosciuti. Three couples and their friend meet for dinner. Bored they decide to play a game where they share texts, emails and calls that pop up on their cell phones that ends disastrously. I've picked this movie twice before, still I have to pick it once more because it's perfect for this theme, also I really enjoyed it. Not as dark as the other movies, but you'd definitely do not want to play that game at a dinner party, it would likely ruin relationships.
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Rope is such a smart choice! I'm really bummed now that I didn't think of that.
ReplyDeleteRope is still one Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart film I have not seen! Sacrilege! I know about the others and would like to see them one day including the original The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood.
ReplyDeleteI only found out The Beguiled was a remake after seeing it.
DeleteThe Beguiled is a nice pick! That's the only one I've seen. Rope is one I keep adding and removing from Blind Spot lists.
ReplyDeleteRope - You kept removing it? It's an easy movie to get through, not dry at all.
DeleteWe almost share a pick as I picked Perfetti sconosciuti. I loved that film!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see the original as well, if only Netflix would put it up.
DeleteI've seen The Beguiled and I disliked it. But I really want to see Invitation which sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI didn't love The Beguiled, it was just ok for me.
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