still haven't found the energy or enthusiasm to sit tho those two films ^ they just seem frightfully annoying.

Godzilla was really good!

given the season that's in it, been doing a lot of film watching lately. here's a quick recap:

big hero 6 - loved it
inherent vice - thought it was meandering & dull & really unfunny
boyhood - really liked it
birdman - loved it
whiplash - meh. decent but ridiculously overhyped.
nightcrawler - really liked it. gyllenhaal was really brilliant.
grand hotel budapest - not really my cup of tea. wes anderson isn't my cup of tea. i've sat thru all his films & haven't laughed or even cracked a smile once. it's just not me.
American sniper - one of worst, most unlikeable films I've ever seen.

also been doing other stuff like

grand theft parsons - really liked it. one of the better comedies of the past.. of this century. that's not saying much of course but it's a nice enough film, & short (coming in @ under 88mins - if you can't make a film in 90mins or less you shouldn't even bother imo!). i love gram parsons but this isn't about him. it's about the crazy story after he died which is one of the best rock n roll stories, really. johnny knoxville is actually bearable for once & michael shannon is brilliant & looks so young as to be almost unrecognisable. i love grams & this story & had serious misgivings about it (johnny knoxville chief among them w/applegate not far behind & the irreverent tone it took) but i eventually was talked into giving it a chance & i'm glad i did. defo one of the more worthy, charming comedies i've seen in a long time.

been doing lars von trier too
melancholia - i loved
nymphomaniac I - i thought was terrific
nymphomaniac II - not as good as the first part. nowhere near as good in fact.

oh yea i did this german mini-series/film, Generation War. it's melodramatic soap opera of a stupefying fictionalised account of 5 friends during the war.
i thought it was horrible, verging on whitewashing & blame shifting/deflection. i was amazed at times what i was seeing.
i found it worrisome actually, as a representation of how modern germans [may] view WWII.. a total lack of accountability & honesty. it distorted fact & tidied up german attitudes (i.e. germans = good, jew-loving. happy & generous; nazi's = bad guys - as well as the polish separatists & ukrainians - of which there is an element of truth in, but the distortion of this film puts their crimes on par w/that of the nazi's which was just one example of the lack of accountability that runs thru the film). 
now a lot of it was interesting, but that stuff was mostly in the margins.

Supergroup... A bunch of guys nobody's ever heard of & a guy nobody likes.. Super duper.

Haha!

This film was great.

& I fucking hate the smiths too. I don't hate oasis & don't like Paul Weller/the jam. But the smiths be one of my most loathed bands.