I watched several movies lately - the Room (a rewatch in preparation for the next movie), the Disaster Artist, the Birds, and the Godfather (also a rewatch - I got the Godfather trilogy through a Boxing Day sale, along with One Piece Film Z and The Living Daylights).
The Room was, as expected, so bad that it's hilarious. It's easily the worst movie that I've watched five or six times, and each time, I seem to notice a bunch of absurd details about it. (for example, even though they repeatedly Mark is repeatedly said to be Johnny's best friend, they don't share a scene together until the Chris-R scene) I got the Disaster Artist book for Christmas, which makes it all seem even crazier.
Afterwards, I watched the Disaster Artist; it wasn't playing in my area, so I saw it when I went to visit my brother. It's hilarious, and while it's not as detailed as the book, it still seems so insane that it really makes you question how that movie even got made.
I hadn't seen the Birds before, though I had watched a few other Hitchcock movies (Psycho, Rear Window, and North by Northwest). It wasn't as suspenseful as the other ones, and some of the effects for the birds were clearly fake, but he clearly knows how to make a bunch of birds seem unsettling and creepy, as the final scene showed. Some aspects of the movie, like the romantic subplot, moved rather quickly, but all in all, it was definitely an interesting movie. Not my favourite from Hitchcock, but still worth a watch.
I was planning on only watching the opening scenes of the Godfather, up to the scene with the horse head to refresh my memory before I moved on to the Godfather Part 2. However, I quickly found myself drawn in - Marlon Brando and Al Pacino were both fantastic, as were most of the actors in that movie, and even though it's about three hours long, it's paced well enough that it doesn't feel like it. When I first watched it, I remember thinking that the scenes in Italy felt like filler, but it helped to establish Michael's character and get him firmly into the family business. (though it felt like a lot of important details were handled off-screen)