Too silly for my enjoyment. Tried to send a message, but apparently pressed the wrong button.
Probably the most overrated movie of 2022.
This movie was great because I fell asleep in the theater and had an amazing nap
One of the most influential movies out there!!!
I do not usually write reviews, as I generally find ratings etc. on Trakt to be somewhat accurate. However, I found this movie to just be insanely overrated. The movie tries way too hard to be grand and funny, but is neither.
One of the best
That end was so ridiculous haha
"Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina!" :ok_hand_tone2:
I have been baffled for years as to why this is ranked so high in the Hitchcock canon. I've always remembered this as being a bit slow and boring like nothing happens, so I decided to give it another chance on Blu-ray. The good news is...the Blu-ray restoration looks amazing. Seeing a late 1950s San Francisco on film is truly spectacular. The bad news is...this movie is just as boring as I remember. Nothing happens! Guy follows a lady, this lady may or may not be nuts and is related to a lady who committed suicide. This lady kills herself, Jimmy Stewart is tried in court by the most asshole judge ever, then is crazy for a scene, then finds a lady who looks like the lady, turns out that is the lady, then boom, she is spooked off the tower. Okay, when I say it all like that, stuff does happen. And when written, those twists seem interesting. But putting them in a two hour movie, there is a whole lot of padding....including a scene where his platonic best friend paints herself into the painting of the famous lady. Man, that was awkward. Also, that end scene is so abrupt and out of nowhere. I know we're watching this with 2016 eyes, maybe it wasn't as jarring to a 1950s audience. But that scene is shot as if the nun was spying from the corner where the husband hid. She approaches in the shadows, gives one creepy line, then Kim Novak falls off for real. I get why the nun was shot like that, it's supposed to make us think its sinister and supposed to scare Kim Novak, but I'm just not buying it. It's too much of a stretch. And then BOOM, credits.
I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't be so hard on this movie if it wasn't ranked so high. This bumped Citizen Kane form the 2012 Sight and Sound poll and in previous years was ranked at #2. The idea that this is better than Citizen Kane is just impossible. It's not even in my Top 5 Hitchcock! Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt and Suspicion all rank higher. I even want to say Dial M For Murder and The Man Who Knew Too Much are better, but I need to rewatch those again too. Anyway, Vertigo is a beautiful movie. Watch the Blu-ray.
There is something very special going on in this movie. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of Christmas movies, and I'm not a fan of Will Ferrells comedy, but this movie just hits the sweet spot. After watching it, I'm always smiling like an idiot.
The basic idea is really quite weird, but the story is told with a sweetness that really sells it. Will Ferrells performance is spot on, his over the top kind of comedy just fits with the character perfectly. And it has Zooey Deschanel (even singing), which never hurts.
My absolute favorite Christmas movie, miles ahead of everything else.
Holy shit. It's absolutely off the rails and just batshit insane. There aren't enough words to explain how batshit insane it is. I am not exaggerating. It's deeply comical and incoherent. All the characters are over the top and fun to watch. There's a genuine manic energy that reminds me a lot of TCM2 but with the unpleasantness of TCM1. I can't say that I recommend it, but I think it's the most interesting sequel or remake so far.
It was alright, I guess.
Did you all give high ratings to make a point? Half way through the movie I could not keep my eyes open. Seriously... 8.7 / 10 in IMDB. Crazy!
This is without doubt the greatest film I've ever seen
Man, I feel like I must be one of the only people who didn't like this movie. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a fitting name for it because that's what this movie throws at you and for me it just didn't work. It's for the most part a tale of finding family across the multiverse which I think could've worked fine on its own. Instead, it's got this scifi "jumping" element where in order to switch multiverses you have to do a "statistically improbable action". So you go from artsy shots and the protagonist discussing divorce with her husband to some guy sitting on a buttplug in an office or a universe where people have fingers made of hotdogs. I only laughed once or twice during the movie; the overall tone wasn't comedic and the "wacky" bits were quite tame compared to what's been done in Rick and Morty to much greater effect. You're also constantly jumping around, martial arts gets thrown in...it's all a bit incoherent.
I would rate Eternal Sunshine higher for emotional time travel, About Time higher for romantic time travel, Rick and Morty higher for comedic time travel, The Butterfly Effect higher for thought-provoking time travel...in summary; this movie is not more than the sum of its parts; it's more like the average of its parts and each part isn't as strong as it could be on its own.
i liked this film more than the 1st one. & i didnt have to type out a short novel about it
Im Nicaraguan, and the facts are not wrong. Its good to people to know a little bit of history of our countries.
Far too long, completely overdone. By the end, you are just wishing it will be over.
I don't know if I went into this with high expectations because of the critical acclaim it has, but I was left a bit confused at the end as to why Vertigo is so lauded.
I love many movies from this era and indeed Hitchcock's work (I especially love Rear Window) but hadn't seen this one before. The first half of the film was enjoyable and felt like a slow burn, unfolding towards some thrilling conclusion. James Stewart is always watchable and the cast in general is good, but I felt the film's second half drastically let it down. There were abrupt developments, such as Stewart's character Scotty getting hospitalised then suddenly free again, and then there's how Scotty displays a manipulative stalker-like side when he finds Kim Novak's character again, and pretty much holds her captive for the remainder of the film - until her death marks the almost hilariously abrupt ending.
I certainly wanted to like this film, and perhaps a second viewing will unlock some of its charms, but as a first watch and impression, Vertigo was sadly lacking for such a lauded film by an acclaimed director.
People complain about a movie being slow as if a two and a quarter hour meditation is somehow a bigger crime than fifty hours of deadening CGI about a purple man getting a magic mitten.
One of the most beautiful alien encounter films I've watched.
I can watch this film over and over again
I'm on Oh-ficial Clown business bitch, so watch this great movie!
This is one of the first movies my father showed me, when I was about 12 years old. That was over 30 years ago. To this day it is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is also the first movie I remember that made the specific point that not all German soldiers were Nazis. And there was quite some animosity between the military branches like the German Air Force towards the SS and Gestapo. There is this neat little scene in the office of the camp leading officer and it's awesome to see how he really doesn't even care about the Hitler salute. As a teenager that was an important distinction and it is sad that to this day a lot of people still don't know that a lot of German soldiers actually hated the Nazis and only kept on fighting for patriotism. The German officer even says he just hopes he can survive the war together with the prisoners as comfortably as possible. This was made in 1963. To this day not many WWII care to make a distinction between SS and other German military. For me this is the greatest triumph of this movie.
Do people not realize this actually happened? That's what makes it so disturbing.
I've just finished watching 'Carnvial of Souls' for the very first time and I've already made up my mind that it's an absolute masterpiece. This movie manages to be incredibly atmospheric on a shoestring budget of just a couple thousand dollars and achieves something that most of today's movies don't even manage on a multi-million dollar budget: To completely draw the viewer in and mesmerize them.
This movie proves that you don't necessarily need tons of practical and special effects, big action sequences or an overly complex plot to make a good movie, but merely a group of dedicated people with a vision and the expertise to realize it. Herk Harvey, John Clifford, Candace Hilligoss and their colleagues probably didn't realize what exactly they were creating at the time, but they all had lots of talent and expertise as is evident in the final movie. It's a piece of art.
The cinematography and direction of 'Carnival of Souls' are phenomenal, Gene Moore's organ score is haunting, and the acting is surprisingly captivating, especially Candace Hilligoss in the lead role. Her facial expressions in the scene where she's playing the organ as if possessed are chilling. The grand finale at Saltair is something that is burnt into my mind now. Such beautiful and haunting images. A brilliant movie!
'Carnival of Souls' is an exceptionally moody motion picture that absolutely deserves its cult following.
Always fun, always humorous and always the right time to see it again and again.
Look how they massacred my boys
My pops likes to torture moms occasionally and sit thru every 007 movie in what he calls Bondfest bahahaha
One of the greatest closing scenes ever filmed.
