i love the first movie, but it’s not a fun one
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Saw Strange World. It was gorgeous, and I liked a lot of it, it has a huge twist that I figured out well in advance and immediately felt like a genius for realizing… but the dialogue felt as if it were written by the Death Stranding writers. The characters were constantly discussing the movie’s themes in very direct and boring ways. I felt like I was watching Deadman tell Sam Porter Bridges all about “Bridges…! Bonds!! Connections!!! Bringing America together!! With Bridges!!!” Except in this case the themes they were discussing were Living In Harmony with Nature and Exploring Vs Farming (not IMO a very compelling binary)
I follow someone on letterboxd who wrote in their review of this movie:
The final shot of this movie boldly depicts something I’ve wanted to see on screen for a very long time.
So I was expecting that the final shot of the movie would be something very socially bold, like having the gay protagonist who is voiced by Jaboukie look directly into the camera and saying something like “And that’s why we all need to arm ourselves to defend gay rights,” or something, but the final shot of the movie is instead some pretty dumb fantasy setting stuff. I have no idea what this reviewer was even talking about anymore. I watched this movie half because of that review and I feel like I’ve been gotcha’d!
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watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, which I spent most of the runtime regretting. could just be inflated expectations due to the discourse. a nice thing is that if you somehow missed the point of the movie, they spend the last half hour painstakingly spelling it out.
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It’s a movie about learning to listen, directed at an imagined audience of the worst listeners on Earth.
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look some of us just want to watch a dumb summer blockbuster and tell people we were watching an A24 film
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saw the rover, love dumb robert pattinson so much. him singing no boys allowed and drooling and bleeding is such a treat! I never knew
BUT OMG GUY PIERCES PSYCHO FACE? WHEN HE GOES INTO ANGRY KIRYU MODE? they were both so good at being fucked up in different ways. loved how resilient 2004 target clothes are in the collapse, hate how silent and ominous driving a truck slowly is. fucking TERRIFYING
I just wish he killed the pimp
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Eeaao works for me because it has a lot more going on with the characterization than just that and I loved the exploration and variations on that theme in the form of seemingly completely non-sequined gags suddenly coming together into absurd yet emotional punchlines
It’s good. The last Jedi does exactly the same shit but less competently in a visually more boring way and people seem to like that one just fine.
I literally know a dozen people that EEAAO hit so hard they cry every time they see it because of how seen they felt so…like…IDK
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Rock n Roll High School is one of the most fun movies that I have watched in a while. I love all the late 70s fashion on the 28 year olds playing high school students.
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Agree that the characterization isn’t quite that thin, but that’s only where the problems start for me 
and I’ll confess that I don’t understand the appeal of being “seen” by a piece of media, nor have I ever felt that way afaik.
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I guess what I mean is: it hits differently if it’s getting at a feeling you have felt but don’t see expressed. And god are there moments in that movie that do that for me.
And when I say it I don’t mean it lazily hit a demographic like a marvel movie putting a bisexual pin on a superhero I mean that like…it conveys a feeling so incredibly specific and made me think about myself in a way that shocked me as a depressed basically middle aged woman feeling she made the wrong choice at every turn.
I feel the same way about blue velvet. It expresses a feeling that I had that I couldn’t explain until I saw it articulated outside of myself.
That’s something I want out of art, it isn’t the only thing I want, but when I feel shit I’m not going to ignore that it did that even with it’s flaws
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I randomly just watched this too and was super surprised by how much fun it actually is. Expected an exciting premise wasted in bad execution, but no!
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Marie Antoinette (2006) is so hilarious. the lady took her dog and said ‘we’ll give you french dogs in france’ and then france was full of bologneses, a japanese chin, ANOTHER PUG, italian greyhounds, jack russelI terriers, I think a havanese but not a single fucking poodle or bichon frise. a little joke just for me
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Yeah I came away with something in the middle. I do think it has real emotion sometimes but I think part of the problem is that basically none of the humor works for me (and a lot of it is actively grating).
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I will disagree with this point because Agatha Christie was politically the exact opposite of Glass Onion. That’s literally all the movie brought to the table: “Agatha Christie but the rich people are awful idiots and the working class people are savvy and scrappy”
EEAAO is perhaps the dictionary definition of bathos. A trivial movie with garden variety reddit memes for a voice, that’s somehow able to emotionally manipulate people into thinking it’s more than treacly pap about how we should all hold hands and get along. Nauseating. Reincorporating a family guy tier sight gag into the final moral about how even hot dog fingers can be gay and thus gay can be okay (but its still funny to laugh about buttplugs I guess, don’t let some casual homophobia get in the way of the good feelings and disney-level queer representation, right?)
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i have not seen EEAAO yet, but i can’t stand the mixed messages i have been getting from all the tertiary reactions and promotions and stuff about the movie. like i am promised on the one hand a film about a middle aged immigrant being tormented across dimensions by an evil tax collector (good, wholesome, brilliant) and on the other a movie about intergenerational misunderstandings and like rick and morty level meme humor (have no particular strong feeling either way about this)
all i know is that ke huy quan deserves greater recognition one way or another and i don’t particularly care how he gets it. so therefore without having seen the movie, A++, S-Rank, Pure Cinema, unassailable classic IMO
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It is unfortunately not about this past the 25 minute mark. It is yet another stereotypical film about an immigrant mom who doesn’t know how to talk to or accept her kid. Imagine every trope from stories like this and you’ve got this movie to a tee. It has nothing to say about being in an immigrant family because it can only communicate in cliches.
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It’s one of a handful of movies I watched recently that made me realize that depictions of Parent-Kid Stuff is an emotional cheat code that will get me choked up utterly without regard to context or quality. So thanks for making me realize that, movie.
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I don’t have much to say about it, but I enjoyed this movie
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I don’t think it’s homophobic to find buttplugs funny. I’m a straight man who could still find use for a buttplug if he wanted. I think it’s okay to laugh about buttplugs.
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