Nails the ending but it’s so painful to get through. Dragged out and pretentious, just all around very american which will get me rolling my eyes every time. American filmmakers have a hard time making movies that transcend their own insufferable self-obsessed experience.
This would have been such a great movie if only the lead character wasn't so stiff. I don't know if it's just me, or if it's just this particular performance that didn't work, but it really hurt the film, in my opinion.
Stylistically it's great, the soundtrack is fabulous and that ending is iconic. I don't regret watching it, but I'm left feeling disappointed.
I think this aged really poorly but thats my fault for taking so long to watch it :sob:
I’m still replaying the scene with the murderous robotic fly and Timmy in between some holographic bush. That’s cinema.
The first half of the film drags a bit but that last hour is truly magnetic. A massively interesting topic explored with incredible subtlety, nuance and all the complexity it warrants. Fantastic performances and sublime directing. The black and white and the format work wonderfully.
I don’t know what to think about the ending just yet, though. I don’t appreciate the woman-on-woman violence, and feel it is the easy way out to wrap up the story. However, I could be missing the bigger picture and it is for sure a powerful finish.
im inclined to calling this film a masterpiece. or at least the most memorable movie ive watched recently.
i love the dev patel cinematic universe
This was extremely fun! Too wordy for my personal taste, but it does make sense in the context and theme of the newspaper. The visuals are stunning, the stories are innovative and the characters are as anderson-quirky as ever. Nothing too life-changing but always a good time.
Ah, the girlboss to end all girlbosses :nail_care_tone1:
Seriously though, fantastic story and fantastic screenplay apart from the unnecessary every-woman-hates-erin-because-shes-hot scenes. Definitely a classic and Julia Roberts is heavenly.
This was a lot of fun as always. Really good comedy, characters and dialogue but I hope the whole spiritual retreat in india theme was satirical, cus otherwise that’s hella obnoxious.
really funny… for an american comedy
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world, is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”
Oooooooh this is a classic
Oh wow, terrible. I will understand the references made to this movie in No Way Home but at what cost……
This was a bit better and there are some actually inspired sequences, in a this-is-so-tacky-it-somehow-works way. Kirsten Dunst steals the scene completely.
the eyeliner and the emo fringe…….. iconic
this was surprisingly gripping. as much as it relied on every cliché in the book, clichés are clichés for a reason and, i dont know, call it christmas spirit but this had me crying a few good tears
This had such a strong start and then I think Lin-Manuel Miranda got a bit lost in all the different ideas he had both for particular scenes and for the tone of the movie as a whole. Needed to be a little tighter and have a stronger identity, but some sequences were truly incredible. The way he juxtaposes the actual play, written by Larson, called Tick Tick… BOOM!, which essentially is about the turbulent period of the playwright’s life represented in the film, with the actual narrative scenes, blending them sometimes so that you can’t quite figure out which belongs to which, works really well. Garfield is amazing as always. Overall, a must watch film of the season and a strong contended for many awards.
I thought this was beautiful, simple, human, hopeful and warm. Loved it.
Albeit not the type of film that I connect to normally, it still kept me gripped throughout much due to Campion’s powerful and confident handling of tension, timing and suspense. An incredible original score elevates it even further. And one of Cumberbatch’s best performances. A must watch for the season.
Started off incredibly strong but starts dragging by the last third. What feels fresh, surprising and original in the beginning becomes repetitive, predictable and quite honestly boring by the end. Still, a very enjoyable watch - I especially liked the genuine chuckles I let out in the first half of the film - some great one liners!
I am usually very sensitive to pretentiousness and easily turned off by it in art, but because this was a travel film for me from the get go, my mind just forgot the fact this was a documentary about a famous person.
What I mean is that, after finishing it, what has stayed has been the images of all these different places in the world I hope I also get to film one day, and the quote by Fellini about how if you have curiosity you will never be bored. Aznavour’s life is almost secondary to the people he films in his travels, and the sequences about his wives and career become highly uninteresting compared to his recounts of Paris, his parent’s journey to France, his first trip to the United States and his beautiful images of the Magreb, Hong Kong and Macau, Japan, and others.
My experience watching this was of a fascinated travel lover much like Aznavour himself, and the deep wish to get out there and see the world too. Thankfully, when your bank account doesn’t agree, at least there’s cinema.
For the first hour of this film I was so excited about it possibly being my first 10/10 rating of this award season but then they had Diana say, with her full chest, that she likes middle class things like les mis, phantom of the opera and fast food, and it just lost some credibility.
Why have all the films I’ve been watching lately had such poor third acts? It’s like filmmakers run out of ideas, but have to make feature length runtime so they just repeat the same themes over and over. Luckily, the themes in this movie were strong enough to hold it together for that shaky finish line, much like Stewart’s performance and the breathtaking photography, score and costume design. Screenplay was lacking at times and Directing was just good enough to make up for it. So a 9 it is!
Gorgeously elevated. I was scared it’d be missing the glow 50s and 60s Hollywood brings, but Spielberg’s passion for this project is clear in every shot and sequence - some really breathtaking cinematic moments in this one. An incredible show-stopping performance from Ariana DeBose, works wonders paired with Rachel Zegler’s sweet demeanour.
This is one to rewatch countless times without ever getting bored (the music is as fantastic and iconic as always, and so is the dancing of course!).
(We’ll ignore Ansel Elgort is even a part of this. He looks, acts and sings in a manner so generic that you won’t have a hard time imagining him to be literally any other okay actor in Hollywood)
Only two words needed: Josh O'Connor.
Great thing about animated films, and cinema in general, is that you will take from it whatever it tells you, personally. We each experience a film our own way and our interpretations and feelings towards it are inevitably influenced by our lives at the moment of watching.
Encanto to me is about the young-adult period of your life where everyone around you seems to have found their calling - some seem to have always known it even. A plan laid out out and a sense of purpose. Encanto deconstructs that idea by making the character with no gift its heroine, and by diving into the insecurities, the burdens and pressures of the characters who do have gifts. They have been reduced to their abilities or feel like they must never fail or complain, when really they just want to relax and be creative. That’s a powerful message - that it doesn’t matter whether you have a gift or not, your worth comes from who you are as a human being and your relationship with others.
I have to say, besides the colours, I found the animation pretty boring and alike a lot of Disney stuff we’ve seen for the past 10 years - it’s time for a change! The music was fun, the cultural and historical nods were great.
Solid effort by Disney!
Kind of disturbing that this was all a twitter thread, kind of dystopian. Zola was a different approach to filmmaking and scriptwriting that I was curious to check out but the end-result was only so-so. The visuals are often stunning and the nods to the original platforms the stories were posted on were funny, but the narrative just wasn’t strong enough to hold a whole feature film.
I don’t know but this is the only Marvel movie with a BTS song in it and for me that is enough
This is the most wholesome Wong film I’ve watched so far. The second story made me so happy for some reason. His movies are often depressing and sad and claustrophobic but this one felt like a rom-com in comparison and a rom-com directed by Wong kar-wai is something that must be seen.
I am an emotional wreck. The longing and passion between the protagonists is breath taking… Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung had me glued to the screen, their performances are so vulnerable and they had so much chemistry. I always love the narrations in Wong films but in this one, because the characters were so reluctant to open up to one another, they hit me twice as hard. Of course they didn’t get a happy ending, but I swear I was holding out hope till the last second.
“Why did you take that washing powder?”
“It’s biological.”
And I believe in Caitríona Balfe supremacy.
