I think I also fundamentally distrust anyone who feels affection rather than shuddering contempt for their experience of high school
I guess her being sort of blankly amused by the Howard Zinn boy is funny and rings true enough
oh my god i loved three billboards
he constant tension between violence and tenderness, like, the whole time was just so gorgeous
and it was much funnier than Killing of a Sacred Deer (reviewers thought that movie was comical and like, maybe? but also holy shit)
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I turned it off before the last ten minutes
go to hell, catharsis
oh and I also watched the first hour or so of good time a couple days ago and thought it was pretty repulsive, not a good time at all
i just realized there must be 100ās of negative IMDB reviews of Good Time each with an equally banal remark about how the title is false advertising
re: Ladybird, I honestly need to see it again because I was too busy comparing my own life with the movie, and it weirded me out how something could be aesthetically so identical in so many weird unexpected ways, and yet so different in pretty much every other way. I definitely knew at least 5 people for whom this movie probably feels like an actual invasion of privacy of some kind, though.
One of the weirdest things is the cafe that she works at is actually not in Sacramento, but in Pasadena, and I spent a lot of time there for a couple years, always thinking about how that part of Pasadena felt kind of like a Southern California Theme Park version of Northern California.
it reminded me of a place in Amherst so
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I mean, Your Name is fantastic, obviously
I recommend it to anyone
But it unfortunately isnāt above doing underskirt shots of its female 17y old protagonist
It canāt hide the Bad Anime influences
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Yeah I caught Your Name again on TV and it is real good. You canāt hate what it is real good at being but thatās your problem.
Cranky dad Felix literally the only person in the world who refused to like Ladybird. I almost admire it!
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I meant they filmed it at that actual place
A critic I like recently said that A Cure for Wellness is the most underrated movie of the year, so I checked it out. Itāsā¦ better than its box-office reception would suggest, at least! The thing is, describing it makes it sound way better than it actually is. Ready?
Itās a gorgeously shot horror movie in the mold of a fairy-tale-inflected 70ās Italian giallo, and it really is a giallo in all ways - a catchy, ethereal soundtrack, magical realist scares, a fantastical premise, a plot that makes about 70% sense, some really viscerally nasty gore, and an anti-capitalist moral that is welcome, if a little clumsy.
Come to think of it, it almost has the vibe of the third season of Hannibal, if its writers were a little dumber.
This would be kind of a great movie if it were 90 minutes, but unfortunately it really takes its time and luxuriates over the course of two and a half hours.
Itās really not a marketable movie at all, and itās kind of amazing it got made and released to a wide audience in 2017. Itās probably the result of all the fuck-you money Gore Verbinski made from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
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itās kind of fucked up that this and āthe shape of waterā are two different movies
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As far as Iām concerned every Gore Verbinski movie is a good movie
Now that I think of it, this is not the first time Greta Gerwig has done this to me
In āGreenbergā her character is eerily reminiscent of a friend of mine, they even worked at the exact same art gallery in Echo Park. For awhile I was convinced that Noah Baumbach had some kind of fleeting encounter with this friend there and then imagined the entire story of the movie based on that. But I guess itās actually just based on his actual fucked up romance with Greta Gerwig.
also the Howard Zinn-reading guy looks exactly like a teen Baumbach lol
I was totally into it when it was a breezey body swap romcom because it was actually good at it, and then that happened and Iām just sitting in the theater nodding and thinking āYes. This is an anime.ā
Which isnāt to say that I hated it, I just wasnāt in love with it, especially since The Red Turtle, an actual good cartoon film, got released last year as well.
Oh! The universal praise Your Name got made me assume that you actually found my commentary not praiseworthy enough
I actually saw both Nocturama and the red turtle in 2016 and the red turtle has a special place in my heart
The red turtle has mostly fixed shots, with the character moving from one end of the shot to another, then he Ā« changing screen Ā»
I am 90% certain they had PSX Final Fantasy in mind when working on this
Why did the turtle transform though . No one has ever been able to answer me
midichlorians
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I gotta say thatās not the kind of thing I had assumed Iād ever hear from christopher nolan
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I wouldnāt mind a Dark Knight Rises that was imbued with socialist moralism instead ofā¦ definitely not
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Although Nolan lumping himself in with āus little peopleā is pretty rich (did you see what I did there)
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honestly I feel like the move from obviously chicago to obviously NYC was the main thing wrong with that movie and everything else followed from there