The “What Are You Watching” post on Friday seemed to be successful and may be a great way to remind people what’s in theaters and get people chatting and prepped for the “What I Watched” articles. So I think I’ll consider a few things to add to it to beef it up and hopefully make that a regular thing going forward as long as everyone is up for participating.
As for how things turned out with my attempts to watch my new Blu-ray of Django Unchained, the new Blu-ray restoration of Cleopatra, Alex Cox’s Repo Man and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, it wasn’t too bad.
I was able to watch Repo Man — I’ll have more on that at the beginning of the week — and Django Unchained, which only gets better the more you watch it and I will reiterate what I wrote in my review last year: “Django [is Quentin Tarantino’s] most mature piece to date as well as one of the most rewarding.” It’s a film I feel I could defend against most any narrative criticism, outside of one scene near the end (the flashback featuring Django and Schultz) and one edit I would change in the middle (the placement of the baghead conversation).
I never got to Rublev, but I did watch the first half of Cleopatra and this Blu-ray is stunning, almost too stunning as the sets on this film were massive, but all of their flaws begin to show. Nevertheless, I’m actually a fan of Cleopatra the film and love its back-story.
Otherwise, this week I saw World War Z and White House Down in theaters and Maniac on an online screener, watched the season finale of “Hannibal” and watched my weekly serving of “Master Chef” and “Kitchen Nightmares”.
With that, I open the floor to you… What did you watch?
