Absolute masterpiece on subjective realism. One of my all time faves.
Born singers, born performers, born legends, with a discography made out of gold. Every song is legendary, and BTS are unmatched when they step on that stage. Map Of The Soul: 7 deserved a stadium tour, forever in our hearts queen :pensive::fist:
P.S.: I will physically never recover from that entire opening section (those ouftis?!!:!&:£/&/ and the choreo :kissing_closed_eyes::ok_hand:), the shadow-black swan-jimin dance solo section, and the f#cking attack that my time and filter one after the other were. God I miss October 10th :sob:
Yes this film is a cinematic achievement in every sense of the word - incredible screenplay, incredible cgi, cinematography, editing, directing and soundtrack. As mind-blowing and testing as the story manages to be, in the end what stays is the love between a father and a daughter. Science-fiction isn’t my thing so this could never really become a personal favourite, but I am happy to objectively praise its prowesses.
It was rather boring, didn't really offer anything new or interesting, both in its screenplay and in its directing. Only rewatched it cus I had to for a class. Clooney and Woodley were great, though!
Honestly? I had a great time watching this. Some of it felt very meta and like the screenwriters knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote it. Other bits were a bit were just pure cliché and one dimensional but still pretty damn entertaining. And girls. Hot.
Elsa protector of shappics and maker of pretty things
I watched this when it first came out and didn’t really get the hype. I’ve read the book recently and have updated to being of the opinion that both it and this movie are just all around solid works. The adaptation here is done wonderfully, just faithful enough to please the reader but with a directioral fingerprint from Fincher that’s just enough to be satisfying to the viewer. Rosamund Pike is obviously the star of the show, the perfect casting for one hell of a character. It’s been great to be immersed in this twisted tale for the past few months.
I commend this movie on the conversations it prompts, and I honestly feel like it’s a great tool to use to suss out what someone’s view on love and relationships is - just make them watch this and ask what they think! and it truly has some incredible dialogues and acting, just like the first two. but I truly cannot get behind it and its message.
i really think they fucked up with this one. however, i still rate it highly because regardless of that disastrous last scene, the rest of the film is genuinely good and it does make you think, and that is primarily what we should ask of a great movie - that it makes you think.
My mum is a huge Murakami fan so rewatching this with her felt super special. I’ve only read one of his books (fastest read of my life, finished it in three days), but if this film is anything to go by I can’t wait to dive into Murakami’s world.
Drive My Car has everything I love in a story, it’s incredibly introspective, character-driven, layered and riddled with double meaning and metaphor. It’s slow paced and the action is minimal, so some could argue it works better as a book, but some of the visual motifs and signs throughout almost make it feel like it was always meant to be a film. Striking cinematography and subliminal acting and directing. The length is very demanding of the spectator but once you’ve finished, you understand that difficult emotions need time and care to be properly tackled. And, besides, rushing these actors would be an absolute crime - their growing performances with each minute are a treat to experience.
I don’t know how to put it but I feel at home in this franchise. I didnt really have a Hunger Games phase back when it first was a thing but going back and reading the books and rewatching the movies now has made this universe very personal to me. I love Katniss :two_hearts:
THIS MOVIE IS SO FREAKING UNDERRATED. It's so full of heart and Andrew and Emma have one the best chemistries i've actually ever seen in any movie. It's wild how it was made in 2012 but looks SO recent and fresh. This was the movie that first made me fall in love with the super-hero genre and it will always be special to me for that reason. Had to make sure I still loved it enough to have it on my top 5 super hero movies of all time and damn right I do.
10/10
This movie means everything to me, I can barely put it into words. I could try, but i'd end up writing a whole dissertation. My favourite super hero movie of all time, and one of my favourite movies in general. I'm still fighting back tears and I finished it 10 minutes ago. It hit as hard as the first time I watched it. God, i hope 1984 at least does this first instalment justice, because I'm already pretty confident it just cannot beat it.
10/10
Not my favourite. I love angst in love stories, I don't mind the uglier side of relationships, but not when it feels like the characters absolutely cannot stand each other. The arguments were too petty and too annoying and too cliché to actually build any sort of meaning or commentary beyond what we were given at face value. Yeah, alright, the movie proves love isn't a bed of roses, but it does so in an uninspired way in my opinion, then trying to salvage itself by throwing a few callbacks and clever dialogue about the relationship between love, life and time that all just mostly fall flat (even if there's some genuinely good moments in the midst of it all). Jesse and Celine work as a fleeting relationship, not as a long lasting one. In the other two films you could see they got on each other's nerves but it worked cus they were only in each other's presence for a brief period of time. This film wants so hard to be realistic, but there's nothing realistic about these two staying together for this long. The creator of this trilogy should have realised this worked better as a succession of one night stands.
God, this film was gorgeously shot and just so intoxicating. The tension in the story and between the protagonists was just amazing to watch, and the way there's so much that's said between the lines and left to interpretation only adds to that. Loved it.
A coming of age movie out of time. A great mirror to what it means to be 27 in the 21st century, where you don't have a stable home or a stable income but you also know people your age who are married with kids and an apartment in Paris. It's reassuring to know she did find her way. Loved it!
this is really one of the most enjoyable movie musicals i've seen. such delicious music and the story is so dramatic and dark, i just love it.
“I want a ride-or-die. I just want someone that’s always gonna love me, no matter what. Someone that’s gonna hold my hand and never let it go. She got to be special, though. ‘Cause she gonna be my legacy.”
“What do you mean?”
“I ain’t going to bend the world. As long as my lady remembers me fondly, that’s all I need.”
Happy Valentine’s Day :heart:
Genetics and blood relation are a wonderful, creepy thing. We are our parents just as they are us. Their story is our story, and any story we create is a continuation of theirs. Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman is a time capsule film that weaves past and present together as if they were concurrent, which ultimately they are.
Film’s ability to warp linear time is particularly satisfying because it comes closer to representing how humans experience time in real life than any other medium can.
Sciamma does a great job at capturing that singular childhood experience of really seeing your mother for the first time, when you realise she had an entire life before you, that she is more than just a mother but a person and a child too. Nelly pictures her mum’s life at her age, and her relationship with her own mother, which allows her to better understand and empathise with the pain her mother is going through in the present.
The house (full and empty) and the woods as the bridge between the two add a powerful symbolism for the experience of growing up.
Beautiful!
This has to be one of the most beautiful movies of this century. No one does romantic tragedies quite like the british.
This will forever be my favourite animated movie :heart: Being older, the social commentary and anti-colonisation message is sooo amazing, too!
second watch: it’s good.. i find it a little over the top and self important. the tragedy just brushes the melodramatic but because the movies thinks of itself as a brilliant masterpiece it becomes pretentious. im also just not a fan of the message transmitted of the mentally ill. it’s still entertaining and honestly visually interesting, with an incredible soundtrack, and impressive performance by Phoenix, who i genuinely believe deserved a better screenplay.
Just too much pretentious hipstery “oh my god your taste in music is amazing :heart_eyes::heart_eyes:” shit for me. The themes of friendship and Charlie’s arc are generally interesting and beautiful tho.
A 3-hour long runtime is always intimidating, but every second of this felt necessary. It’s slow, but it doesn’t drag. Instead the tempo and stillness allow you to sit with these wonderfully complicated and wounded characters, both as a spectator to their stories and difficulties and as a part of the film yourself. Much like Takatsuki’s monologue about loving yourself before loving someone else, a good story is primarily about your subjective relationship with it, and only secondarily about its objective characters and plots. A good movie is introspective and connects to parts of your own soul and psyche by way of someone else’s (characters, director, writer). And Drive My Car is a really good movie.
Oh, this was f*cking fabulous.
9/10
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
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.
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!
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.
