YES to women empowerment and YES to Milo Ventimiglia's ass!!!
8/10
i still think this is the cutest, purest love story and them not wanting to go back to "the real world" is honestly the biggest mood.
9/10
I agree with the sentiment that if a movie needs an explanation outside of itself then it’s not a perfect movie, however, once you read the theories this film takes on a whole nother level of genius. If i had gotten to the meaning of it by myself this movie would have a big round 10, but unfortunately it’s just a little too abstract for me to be completely satisfied by it. Jake is fucking incredible, i am seriously obsessed with him. And Villeneuve does an amazing job with his shot composition, atmosphere setting and suspense building. One of my favourite directors. I don’t doubt this movie might go up to a 9 on a second watch, maybe.
8/10
i love all of it except for cameron's arc lol the actor that played him was pretty bad and the character didn't help.. if it wasn't for him this movie'd be a 10 for me lmfao but still amazing, and some sequences are freaking iconic. i love 80s and 90s teen movies so much
8/10
Trakt only allows you to write in English, for some reason so... An incredible performance from Albano Jerónimo in a movie that had everything to be successful until it got lost in a family melodrama, with an air of Os Maias, in its third acr. Even still, the first and second acts, with the Estado Novo and Revolução dos Cravos thematics told through an uncommon perspective, are super interesting and intriguing.
Uma performance incrivel de Albano Jerónimo num filme que tinha tudo para dar certo até se perder num melodrama familiar, com ar d’Os Maias, no seu terceiro ato. Ainda assim o primeiro e segundo atos, com a temática do Estado Novo e da Revolução dos Cravos contada através de uma perspetiva pouco comum, são super interessantes e intrigantes.
This film takes everything that life and love and connection are all about and boils it all down to one dream-like time-stood-still night. It’s romantic but real, the awkwardness at the start is almost a turn-off because of how little you see it in movies, but in the end it makes it all feel even more attainable. Their connection grows and transports the story, making it almost impossible for you not to be transported with it.
It was a fun movie, even if a bit messy and with a rather unsatisfying ending.
I know this film teaches you to dream, but it also shows just how dangerous dreaming can be when the real world so often, effectively and nonchalantly kills every last bit of belief and hope we let ourselves have as kids, as we grow up. Neil’s death is unbelievably painful to watch now after the world lost one of its greats, sir Robin Williams, in such a similar fashion. I guess we’re all lucky to have an entire film dedicated to how incredible and inspiring that man was. O captain, my captain!
Great film about paranoia and the surveillance state. Memorable ending.
Men are fucking deranged help... look at the lengths he went just to prove his virility.
It’s a good movie, it’s well made, it’s emotional, Will Smith and Jaden Smith are incredible and I understand that it’s a true story, but the message this is trying to sell makes me sick. “Hey he did it, so if you can’t you’re just not working hard enough!!!! Hey this Will Smith character slept on a public bathroom’s floor to make his dreams come true and you can’t even leave your parents house haha you loser!!!!”. No. Absolutely Not. The American Dream is a fucking joke and this revolting idea that if we sacrifice our wellbeing and submit our last shred of human decency to the system we will be rewarded makes me sick to my stomach. No one should EVER have to be homeless, no matter how lazy, dumb, sick, WHATEVER, you are.
The main character keeps quoting the Declaration of Independence and how every man has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - then the whole film goes on to show just how capitalism denies those rights to thousands (the lines at the shelter were chilling) - only to then wrap up by feeding the audience the lie that it’s possible to achieve happiness and that if you haven’t, you’re just not working hard enough - the dozens of people at those homeless shelters are just not working hard enough!!!! This film is capitalist propaganda and I’m very happy for the real-life guy who got his happy ending, but I just wish he wasn’t the exception to the rule.
The quietness of this film seeps through you. At first it makes Ennis and Jack's relationship all the more genuine and moving, the way they can sit in silence up in the mountains and their actions of love are more electrifying than any lengthy, love-declaration filled dialogue could ever be. By the end, though, that quietness has transformed into soul-crushing loneliness, that which comes from living an entire life denied of the freedom to love the only person who completes you.
Brokeback is and will always be groundbreaking and, to this day, after decades of good LGBT+ cinema (boosted by this movie itself), it is still one of the very best, if not the best well-rounded characterisation of human sentiment in general, and queer experience in particular, to be seen on screen.
Incredibly heartbreaking and so well made. Anthony Hopkins is a legend.
Lilo has to be the cutest Disney character of all time! Lover her so much
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world, is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”
Oooooooh this is a classic
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!
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.
Finally. My first 10/10 movie of the 2022 Academy Awards. If a Disney movie wins over this, I’m rioting. Absolutely breathtaking. One of the best documentaries I have ever watched.
Jesus Christ, this movie really takes you on the wildest freaking ride. So wild it excuses the slow pace, and almost justifies it, since it helps you sit with every emotion, every situation and every hardship, feel them and think about them. My favourite thing about the film is Azabal's performance, for sure. It does seem a bit far fetched and cruel, though, that after such an awful life a mother would send her children back to where all the atrocities she experienced happened, and have them go through the process of finding out about them on their own , but again, you excuse it for the way the search and discovery make the story so much more compelling. Absolutely loved it, and want to watch again.
9/10
I'm surprised this film has such a low rating on here, i found it brilliant. It was the first time i watched an Almodovar film and I think i picked a great one to start with, because it turned me into a fan. Not only is the direction in this film brilliant, so is the writing and that's all down to him. You can tell it's auteur cinema, because there's this cohesiveness that's so satisfying and that pushes the narrative forward. It auto-references itself in a way that's surprising and moving and it tells someone's life story, set in different times, while almost making it feel like it's all happening at the same time. The past is so present and constant, there's so much intention in everything that's happening both in the flashbacks and in the present. This film feels like a spider-web but Almodovar simplifies it enough to make for a beautifully satisfying watching experience. The ending is just the cherry on top. Absolutely adored it!
Beyoncé revolutionised the visual album concept and format. Her self titled Beyoncé started the trend, Lemonade took it one step further, and Black Is King is just on a whole other level. Insane visuals, incredible production. Narrative wise, if i wasn't so familiar with the story of Simba, it would have been a bit confusing I think, but you slowly put the pieces together and extract the message that African culture is one of the richest in the world, and never should have been attacked, reduced and perverted the way it was by the white colonisers. Beyoncé should go wild and direct a whole narrative feature film, she clearly has the vision.
On a rewatch it's great to pay attention to Travis' very slow descent into psychosis, i think the movie does a fantastic job at building it up. It's great piece on subjectivity and mental instability.
What a beautiful message! And really well delivered as well. Went in expecting a love story and came out of it with a new perspective. I would say though, no one should be allowed more than a second chance in this world, third chance maximum. At least he never fucked up greatly and went back in time to fix it, he only ever fixed small harmless things, choices. Like imagine he had slept with Charlotte that night in London and then gone back in time to undo it that would have been sooooo shitty, but that's just an example of how, you know, this is a we could say "romanticized" or "optimistic" portrayal of time travel, in the sense that it shows it in the hands of a genuinely good guy. But yeah what I mean is, while I think I would have felt a bit cheated if i found out my husband had countless times to perfect our relationship/moments, I still think it could have been a lot worse - like the example mentioned above - and he used his abilities for good. So that would be the major flaw in the movie for me - how they portray something that's essentially cheating at life like something 100% good. But they do end up passing the message that it's best to just live life once and not mess with it anyways so it's all good. Very beautiful movie!
8/10
I’m doing a mini rewatch before Endgame and I swear I started crying when Tony said "If we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it". I just can’t believe how far this universe has come and how much the original 6 have grown and changed. I really really really love this world and these characters and I’m not ready to say goodbye to them. So Tony, Steve, you all better stay fucking alive :sneezing_face:
9/10
This film is a good exercise on what it means to live in a society. If you've watched this movie and are reading this comment right now, i think it's safe to assume you're someone who tries to rationally process everything around you and have at least once wondered about the societal structures we are thrown into from birth and how they dictate a big part of our lives from the first second. And if you're aware of how conditioned and ultimately stifled living can be most times, you must have thought at one point or another what it would be like to send it all to hell and go live in a forest and be self sufficient and not have to work to be able to afford food, and not feel like your worth is dictated by your career or how much money you have in your bank account. Well, this movie does that for you, arriving to the conclusion that to be truly human you have to live with other humans, which means you have to live in a society. In the end, that comes with a lot of downsides because as much as it is human to relate and seek personal connections, unfortunately, it is also human to seek power and control, which is attained through money, which in turn is what conditions and stifles us all. There's obvious upsides and downsides to every story, and the most captivating aspect of this film is that it explores the different dimensions of the most general possible concept: living. It makes you think, it does a good job in maintaining its balance and showing both sides, allowing the viewer to form their own opinions. However, it can get corny and a bit too on the nose at times, and technically wise it's nothing impressive. Solid and entertaining watch.
Great, great docu, with a beginning, a middle and an end, with a clear vision and (what i feel like was) honesty. Billie and Finneas are proof that, no matter how much the cultural and musical landscape changes, talent always wins out in the end. I don't think there's a person in this world that doesn't think these two were born to make music. Their family life was great to watch, and seeing Billie gain her footing as an artist, but above all a person, was really cool. She's so young, and initially I thought maybe too young to already have a movie made about her, but there's no doubt hers is a story that deserves to be told because it's just so impressive. I'm rooting for her and hope she stays as true to herself as she's been so far.
It's amazing watching the movies that inspired all the ones that came after it. The continuous shot illusion here is flawed yes, but obviously genius for the time. The performances and the tension keep your eyes glued to the screen.
It's also interesting to see how so many of the villains in Hitchcock's movies are queer coded - at the time that came from his fascination with the twisted, but he couldn't have predicted that these villains would make the heroes of his stories incredibly dull in comparison - that is especially obvious in this film. Now, funnily enough, Hollywood is obsessed with making stories about villains, we've become the celebrated protagonists.
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!
First time I watched this film I was a kid, I really had no idea of what I was watching, but I knew it felt earth-shattering. Second time I watched it, I knew it was a love story, I knew they couldn't be together because they were gay, that was about all that I could understand, no nuances, but still... earth-shattering. Have watched it maybe 12 times in total. Every single time, earth-shattering. Tonight was my most recent rewatch, the first one in a couple of years. The first one after studying film in university. The first one after watching so. many. different. kinds. of. movies. trying to catch up on all the ones I missed before I found the love I have for this art form. Little did I know... no matter what film I watch, the one I watched when I was way too young to understand half of what it really meant, what it really represented - or the reasons as to why it's one of the most beautiful things I have ever had the privilege to watch -, would always be the one every other movie would have to live up to. My experience watching it this time around was familiar, as it always is. Like always, I could recite every big scene, I knew most sequences by heart, but Ennis and Jack feel more real than ever to me, now. I feel like for the very first time I really understood the full scope of their emotions, and bonded with them more than I had ever before. I was also blown away by the technical aspects of it too, Ang Lee's incredible talent. I understood it was a beautiful movie before, but now I can see just how beautiful it is. And is there even a way of putting Jake and Heath's performance into words? To me there isn't. All they had was Brokeback Mountain, and I will always have Brokeback Mountain too.
100000000000000000000000/10
This is regarded by many as the greatest film of all time, and I can definitely see why. Incredible storytelling, tension from the first to the last second, fantastic performances, beautifully shot film, iconic sequences. The story in itself, you know, mob business, doesn't mean anything to me and films only become my absolute favourites when they touch my heart in some way, which this one didn't, neither do most - if not all - the classics. Probably a generational thing, I don't know. Happy I finally watched this, after so long though. It wasn't really what I imagined, but I think I liked it better this way than what I thought it was going to be like.
9/10
