Happy New Year!
We've reached the same year when the post-apocalyptic sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) was set.
Even though I wasn’t a huge fan of the film at first, it has really grown on me since then. The Shakespearean rivalry between Caesar and Koba was made it finally click for me in the end. I still don't give a damn about all the forgettable human survivors, however.
Similarly, here is a list of other films — most of which I was too young to appreciate at the time — that have also improved for me:
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1959)
The Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1960)
Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1961)
Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977)
Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1979)
Maniac (William Lustig, 1980)
Murder Rock: Dancing Death (Lucio Fulci, 1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Danny Steinmann, 1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)
Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990)
Popcorn (Mark Herrier, Alan Ormsby, 1991)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992)
Split Second (Tony Maylam, 1992)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gillian, 1995)
Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
Dream Home (Edmund Pang, 2010)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2015)
Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)
The Sadness (Rob Jabbaz, 2021)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1959)
The Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1960)
Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1961)
Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977)
Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1979)
Maniac (William Lustig, 1980)
Murder Rock: Dancing Death (Lucio Fulci, 1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Danny Steinmann, 1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)
Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990)
Popcorn (Mark Herrier, Alan Ormsby, 1991)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992)
Split Second (Tony Maylam, 1992)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gillian, 1995)
Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
Dream Home (Edmund Pang, 2010)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2015)
Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)
The Sadness (Rob Jabbaz, 2021)
2 comments:
Great list of rewatches always worth another look.
I think once people get beyond the Lazenby-replacing-Connery aspect of ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, they will realize that Lazenby is quite good in the role and that the film is one of the best in the whole series. It's certainly one of the more faithful adaptations of an original Bond novel.
CHINATOWN. Great. Period.
Glad to see another convert to the exploitative charms of the much-maligned FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART V. I think that "big reveal" conclusion is almost the only reason Jason fans hated it, but I liked it. It does not "violate" the spirit of the series any more than some later installments would.
I gotta see BEAT GIRL soon. That's a New Year's resolution even someone as irresponsible as me can follow through on.
The Daniel Craig films were so divorced from what made James Bond for me, they made me appreciate On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in hindsight.
Chinatown's dark subplot was beyond my comprehension when I first watched it. The film only clicked for me when I was an adult.
Like most people, I felt ripped-off with the revelation of a Jason imposter in Friday the 13th: Part V. It's definitely grown on me a lot since then.
I would definitely recommend Beat Girl if you're into juvenile delinquent films. Gillian Hills is great as the bratty lead. Christopher Lee has a memorable bit part as a sleazy nightclub owner, while Oliver Reed and Shirley Anne Field are absolute scene stealers.
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