Fucking masterpiece is what it is.
I love the dancing in that film!
Massive Talent - I loved it!
That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!
Spiderman ATSV
It was fuckin incredible, this trilogy is going to be one of those once in a lifetime trilogies, like the Matrix Trilogy or the Dark Knight Trilogy, you mark my words.
Can’t wait for BTSV
Across the Spiderverse. I really like Mile’s story… But I was a little disappointed by how slow paced the story seemed to be imo. Nothing got resolved. The whole movie was a lead up for the ending. Really disappointed with how the studio overworked artists (although that’s par for the course these days) and how shitty the audio was before they finally fixed it. Music didn’t live up to the first movie. The first movie has music that works great as stand-alone songs, but the second movie’s soundtrack just sounds like a soundtrack.
I still enjoyed it though. I’d give the first movie a 9/10 and the second a 7/10.
The terminal; always a good movie! I watched it multiple times now, but this one never gets old.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3, pretty good.
Decided to re-watch the hobbit trilogy to see if they were as bad as I remember them being. Whilst there were some scenes I thought were well done (Bilbo’s conversation with smaug for example) the films just aren’t good in the way the Lord of the Rings movies are. The LOTR movies feel properly epic and the hobbit movies just feel so “Hollywood” for lack of a better term. All the fight scenes are stupid with excessive cgi but the worst part I feel is the acrobatics of them all with characters leaping off scenery and twirling around whilst slicing up enemies. None of the battles feel “real” or realistic in the way they do in LOTR. The dialogue in the hobbit movies also suffers from what feels like Joss Whedon-esque script writing with tons of witty quips and “humorous” observations on the situation.
Have you seen any of the fan edits? They’re limited by the source material obviously but you can do a lot with just cutting out all the unnecessary nonsense.
I’ve been looking forward to checking them out. How many are there … any recs?
We watched the Tolkien Edit when it first came out and it was a huge improvement, but was also a fairly rushed project so while it was good at the time it apparently doesn’t hold up against newer ones. Nowadays there are tons of different ones with different approaches, I hear good things about the Maple Films one but haven’t had chance to check it out yet.
They truly are some of the greatest disappointments of our cinematic era. So much hype for nothing. The Hobbit and Game of Thrones will outlive most movies and shows culturally just based on how badly they were received
Transformers 1
I like that one. The rest, not so much.
To Leslie
Loved it. The lead actress was fantastic and it’s no surprise that she was nominated for an Academy Award.
Just finished “smoking causes coughing” which is a weird french movie that goes in weird directions. I don’t know whether there’s a term for gore comedy? This is that in places
Extraction 2 was a lot of fun. The story was kind of a predictable action movie but man, the camerawork and stuntwork was superb.
The 21 minute long one-take… Chef’s kiss
Barbarian
Sadly it does not stick the landing but everything up to that point is great. Love how it plays with the fact that the audience already expects Bill Skarsgård to be creepy.
Went into this one mostly blind and the unexpected transition was definitely A Moment lol.
Thanks for the Spoiler…
Network (1976).
A prescient film that is just as relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. A little monologue-y at times, but that’s just the style.
A must watch film IMO, even just to see how prescient things can be.
Just watched Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, it was quite enjoyable.
Mulholland Drive
A strange masterpiece and artwork. Been thinking about it for a few days now.
I re-watched it recently after a number of years and was surprised at how more I liked it despite knowing the story (whatever it means) and how “weird it gets”. Lynch has become one of my all time favs, especially after watching Twin Peaks recently and then Twin Peaks Season 3!!
Have you seen Lost Highway?.. Really good.
