This was really really good. Odd, but good. Hit my feelings just the right way. I think I need to re-watch this sometimes.
I wouldn't call this a comedy. This is a dark story about acceptance and revenge, with beautiful clothes along the way. I didn't like how things turned out with the love interest (no spoilers) but I'm glad she was finally able to move on and let go. And the villagers quite deserved what they got and more besides.
Both warms and breaks your heart, this charming small town tale takes a darkly comedic take on tragedy and wins at every turn. Strengthened by strong performances from everyone in this great cast (I mean, it made me enjoy a Liam Hemsworth performance, that has to mean something), The Dressmaker feels like a storybook fantasy brought to the real world.
I played the hating game all the way through this vapid movie.
Watching the multi award winning Beauty and the Beast after all these years was a real treat. It's as touching now as it was when it was first released 20 years ago, and the 3D special edition is simply gorgeous. The 10 months it took to remaster was worth every minute.
When it was released in 1991 I was working as a projectionist at a small cinema and watched it many times, the songs becoming ingrain, but I can't now imagine watching it, along with the 3D Special Edition of the Lion King, any other way.
The 3D, supervised by director and chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios John Lassiter (Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Toy Story 2, Cars), is masterful. The depth in many sequences feel as if you could just step into them.
Beauty and the Beast is a Disney classic that stands the test of time.
very wholesome. i really enjoyed it!
Breezy, cheerful adventures with a thirteen-year-old witch (and her sarcastic talking cat) who leaves home to find her place in a new town. It's big-hearted and welcoming, as can be said of most of the Studio Ghibli catalog - colorful and fuzzy and full of life - but suffers from a lack of adversity and thus, falls a bit on the flat side. Self-doubt and adolescent shyness are her only major foils, and while those are worth exploring, they feel more like side acts than a main course.
Still, it's a delightful place to inhabit, a nice break from the doom and gloom of the outside world, and I enjoyed myself despite the relative superficiality. Kiki is a charming protagonist, bold and ambitious but also delicate and reluctant, and it's inspiring to watch her horizons broaden as she encounters different personalities and grows to love the coastal city she's chosen for her new home. A wonderful dose of escapism and fantasy, it's decidedly (perhaps intentionally?) light fare.
Good emotional scenes and relaxing atmosphere but overall story development is mediocre
I'm not a fan of cats and witches but after watching this, I just want to be a witch and have a talking cat. I'm so in love with this film.
First time rewatching since seeing it 10+ years ago and I don't remember it being this bad.
Had a bit of a connected film run these last 3 nights. From 'No Strings Attached' -> 'Black Swan' -> this one. Tonight's viewing was definitely the weakest of the lot. Compared to No strings which coincidentally came out in in the same year it just had no heart. I didn't feel their connection here. Just JT's character being a massive douche and them crowbarring in some 'depth' coz he had a complicated family situation.
Also there were some really problematic lines in this film. Like saying he wasn't going to rape the woman in the park (wtf kind of writing is that!) and the gay colleague constantly asking if Dylan was gay and all his interactions being about banging dudes. That and plenty of other shitty cheap comments. Just lazy writing all around. It liked to think it was being smart with the meta rom com stuff but it was just shit.
Do yourself a favour. Watch no strings attached and pass on this one.
great first season. it's very "teen sitcom-ish" (duh), which means, besides other things, predictable; but with elements that make the show stand out. the most noticeable is, of course, the AMAZING representation that extends all the way from the main to the side characters. I also liked that the episodes were shorter, so it didn't take long to finish it and it was fun all the way through. hopefully it's popular enough to get 2nd season!
Just as slow as the original, but I'd argue it's a better film overall.
There isn't much between the two films, I admit. However, I found 'The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement' more enjoyable than 'The Princess Diaries'. The plot is probably just as interesting, but there's less cringe in this one and the villains are a big improvement.
Anne Hathaway (Mia) is very good once more, while Julie Andrews (Clarisse) does solid things again. John Rhys-Davies (Mabrey) and Chris Pine (Nicholas) are top additions, great casting on the latter by the way given it's Pine's feature film debut.
I also said in my review of the 2001 film that I don't like fictional places in live-action, non-fantasy productions. That's still the case here, but I didn't actually mind it all that much to be honest. "Genovia" is way more believable here, thanks to us actually getting to see it for real - as opposed to it just being referenced.
As noted, there are still a few cringey moments and it does run too long. There are some sweets parts, though. It's also kinda weird that, technically, Mia and Nicholas are related; a number of generations back sure, but still...
A sequel that (minorly) improves on its predecessor, that's always a positive in my book.
Still love this movie in 2020. Just an awesome and fun sequel with gorgeous Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. Absolite nostalgia overkill.
A great sequel to the first beloved Princess Diaries movie. It's lovely to see what happens after the first and how Mia progresses as royalty. As funny as the first, and Julie Andrews is just amazing.
This was a decent movie. My wife played it for me while I was cooking dinner, and before you know it, I was locked in.
I was genuinely surprised when the reporter started speaking Persian. ʘ‿ʘ
Loved this film as a kid. Still love it as an adult. My politics and some annoyances with the historical artistic license are pretty much the only things that take me out of it, and really the political issues are only in the first 10 minutes. Great music, great animation, decent voice acting even though its celebs instead of pros (especially Kelsey Grammer and Christopher Lloyd), and an enjoyable if somewhat cliche'd plot. "In the Dark of the Night" will always be one of my favorite villain songs.
Sweet movie, even with a basic story it was easy to grow attached to the characters because of the nicely written dialogue and the expressive animation, and the songs were great! It really did well as a musical. The villain was very fun too with how his body parts kept coming apart, I can see the animators had a ton of fun with this one. Visually it was also interesting, because this movie both has the extremely fluid animation you know from early Disney but you can see too that this movie was drawn digitally and there are attempts at utilizing cg and digital photography here. They were some parts where it worked surprisingly well, sometimes not - The final fight for example, looked a bit jarring.
I loved this movie as a kid, so I thought I would re-watch it. Thankfully that wasn't a mistake. Though the movie is not as good as I remember it is still pretty good. The plot is kind of dumb, and some of the songs miss, but it is visually stunning. All the characters motion looks great and the landscapes are fantastic. Most of the songs are quite good, and the voice actors do a fine job (despite being screen actors by trade).
This movie holds up, at least for me. It might be nostalgia (probably is).
Re-watched this for the first time as an adult last weekend, I wasn't disappointed. I used to be obsessed with this film when it came out, I had the doll, sang the songs, and I can still see why.. it was truly enchanting, the Rasputin scenes were suitable creepy, and I felt the emotion at the ending (don't want to spoil it!)
I love this movie! Calling this a cartoon makes me feel ashamed, so I ended up adding it to two lists. Everything about it was perfect. The music, the animation, the animated emotions, the fluid movements, the setting and storyline, and EVERYTHING in between! I loved Anya and Dimitri's duo dynamic, both before and after; not to mention Vlad and Pooka's chemistry was the best cute relief!
The score-reducers were the smaller details, like how Dimitry accepted his love for Anya only after her "transformation" into a princess and subsequently, how his behaviour towards her also made a 180-degree spin. But given the time during which this movie is set and given all other specifics, I can understand how his behaviour was not really offensive, but rather quite understandable. So that brings me back to where I started: this movie is perfection!
Must watch for all age groups!
Watched this in the theatre. The person left to me was browsing on his phone, and the one on the right fell asleep. It’s a bit slow at moments and I was happy it was over.
I think it was fair, it had a few funny moments. Enjoyable for 1 time.
It felt like it was an epic campaign your friend played, but it sounds a lot less interesting when your friend was retelling the story. :person_shrugging:
Really lovely, there is a lot of chemistry between Robert and Marisa.
Italy looks gorgeous, I can´t think right now in any movie where Italy looks so beautiful and romantic.
Good comedy, nice romance that is a little bit over the top with crazy moments, just like a great romance has to be. Enjoyable if you believe in love.
This is a competent rom-com fashioned from the same clothes as Moonstruck, but with far less finesse and focus and a lot more cheese. The leads Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. are overshadowed by very underrated pairing of Bonnie Hunt and Joaquim de Almeida. Italy as the backdrop is cliched but as inspired as Roman Holiday.
Above all, the film is a compilation of music videos of old romantic songs and fabulous score by Rachel Portman.
My quest to watch all my future husbands movies: RDJ :pound_symbol:5
What a fun little twisty rom com. All the actors were great and RDJ was as dreamy as ever. Loved the location too, it was so beautiful :heart_eyes: The concept was great and the main lady's logic was so ridiculous but it only heightened the movie's madness (in a great way).
Overall another great season of Sex Education. I love how this season expanded on the characters, like Jackson feeling trapped in the prison of living out his mother's dreams, and Maeve's issues of letting peoplle close into her life out of fear of being let down, and also introduced new characters. I especially loved Vivian, and seeing her friendship with Jackson. I am defnently lookking forward to see how the series takes things from here, and also man Mr Groff is a shitty person.
Add this to a long list of shows where I only "liked" its much acclaimed first season only to be onboard in love with its second (Atlanta, Barry, Fleabag, Lodge 49, Succession). Apart from the colorful opening episode, I found season 1 floundering in direction a bit after, and places much more finesse for (great) messages over storytelling, even if fully lived-in characters/performances make that go down easy. Season 2 still has the latter problem a bit, but the storytelling feels more assured to be near equal footing with its even more radically emphatic messaging, and it actually builds momentum of intersecting storylines and characters, leading to a pretty great stretch of three final episodes, ending very strongly.
This move should’ve been called: Janet Van Dyne’s Adventures in Star Warsmania.
Quantum Physics has so many incredible theories and hypothesis that could be explored and Marvel decided to take us to some random Star Wars planet / galaxy.
The jokes weren’t even that funny.
Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was a fun way to lose a couple of hours, but I could never shake the feeling that I was watching highlights from 3 or 4 better films. This is a movie just stuffed to the brim with characters, stories, and concepts that never really get a chance to breathe. On top of that was what should have been an amazingly inventive world kneecapped by effects that are going to age like an open milk container left in the basement. I know that many complained that Marvel's Phase 4 was too slow and meandering, but was packing the next phase into a single film the answer?
