I loved the colors, the story and the characters. If it's a bit cringy at times it's only because it's doing a good job at protraying young teenagers. One of the best Pixar movies I've seen in years.
A pretty uneven and underdeveloped script that thankfully turned into a very watchable, if still never quite engaging movie thanks to Jessica Chastain's transformative and powerful performance
I like that Copshop isn't trying to be some artistic revolution for the action genre. It seems like a lot of action films nowadays are trying prove that action cinema can be art too, as if we didn't know that already. I love those movies, but sometimes it's fun to go back to pure and to-the-point 80's style action.
One of the most geniunely funny comic book movies ever made, mostly thanks to Adam West and Burt Ward's fantastic deadpan delivery of the silliest lines of dialogue you will ever hear.
Fine of its own, but compared to the realistic almost documentary like feel of the original, it starts feeling more like a genreic early 2000's slasher.
This movie has one of the dumbest screenplays I've ever seen. It's full of characters you don't root for, set pieces you don't care for and plot twists that should've never been included.
Andrew Garfield gives a great performance in this movie, which perfectly captures the feeling of desperately looking at possible clues and hidden messages in every piece of pop culture you can find.
Not only is this movie a highly entertaining horror film on its own right, but it's also a love letter to all kinds of classic cinema, from the horror genre to the French New Wave to the Golden Age of Porn. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre influence is obvious (this film is a better TCM movie than the one we got earlier this year), but the film is also full of nods to movies like Friday the 13th, Psycho and even Easy Rider with some of the editing. The movie is darkly funny to the point where I actually laughed out loud at certain moments, and the characters were all surprisingly pretty fun and engaging. The main elderly couple is surprisingly well developed and there are times where you even feel a little sad for them, even if you don't believe for a second that they are actually old. It's not really all that scary, it's simply a lot of fun with entertaining characters and good villains. Add to that fantastic editing and directing and you got yourself a certified top-tier throwback slasher.
I'm a bit conflicted but also really impressed. I guess it's technically my least favorite Robert Eggers movie, and yet it's still really damn good. Much more straightforward than his previous films, The Northman is a brutal, beautifully directed story of revenge that arrives pretty much where you'd expect, but takes some seriously unexpected turns along the way. Because this legend has been around for so long and has inspired countless of famous stories, which in turn have inspired even more famous stories, it will probably feel like you've already seen this before, but that never really takes away from the spectacle. You really have to put yourself in the place of young viking child, being told this as a bedtime story by your burly bearded viking father and being wowed by the all the magic and beheading. That may sound oddly specific, but to be fair, the film does a pretty good job at making you feel like that.
My faovirte Batman movie yet. This is the kind of Batman movie I've been waiting for my whole life. Like a live-action episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It's dark and realistic, but also stylish and large-scale. It's not limited by a commitment to realism like the Dark Knight trilogy, nor is it burdened by a shared universe like the DCEU. It is its own thing. A moody, disturbing, visually stunning, David Fincher-inspired, three hour long detective epic with some of the best interpretations of the characters ever put on screen. Robert Pattinson is fantastic as a younger, moodier, and yes, more emo Batman. Paul Dano is straight up terrifying as the Riddler. Colin Farrell is unrecognisable in more ways than one as The Penguin and Zoë Kravitz is easily my favorite live-action Catwoman. This movie kept me hooked all the way through, even if I said before, the third act is its weakest part. But that's like saying that the cone is the worst part of an ice cream cone. It's true, but it's still delicious. This is the best Batman movie. The Dark Knight is good and all, but Reeves finds the perfect mix of gritty realism and style (Nolan would never even dare to have a snorricam shot of Batmam gliding over the city), and finally gives us a live-action Batman that lives up to the title of "World's Greatest Detective". Not that there's much competition, since he's like the only one to actually do any detective work (no, Christian Bale magically finding a fingerprint on a broken bullet doesn't count).
This was really frustrating. One the one hand, it's a massive improvement over the theatrical cut. On the other hand, that's not saying much. I've seen some people say that it's a completely different movie, but after watching it, I have to disagree. The Snyder Cut is still basically the same movie. There's a lot to like. The added scenes make some of the events that happen make more sense, the effects are a little better, most of the bad jokes are gone, Cyborg gets a lot more to do, and yes, it is a million times better than the other cut. However, a lot of the things that I disliked in the original are still here. Apart from Cyborg, most of the characters are still pretty bland, Steppenwolf is still very uninteresting, the action is still forgettable and I'm just not emotionally engaged enough. There's a lot added to the movie, but a lot of it seems like it's only there to set up movies that may never even happen. Also, there's a choir singing that plays whenever Wonder Woman shows up and I hated it. In the end, I'm really glad that Zack Snyder got to finally make the movie he wanted. I believe all filmmakers should be able to make their movies the way they want to make them. But this movie is still just Justice League but longer. It's an improvement, but being better than Justice League (2017) isn't a huge accomplishmet. Disappointing.
While aside from the awesome big battle, Spartacus may not feel much like a Stanley Kubrick film, it does feel like a moving classic Hollywood epic with great characters and iconic scenes. It's corny at times and it drags quite a bit during its three hour runtime, but manages to mantain its status as a true Hollywood classic and an important, if at times unsubtle criticism of McCarthyism from writer Dalton Trumbo (the main villain literally has a list with the names of all "enemies of the state").
I've always found Mike Flanagan's movies to be quite overrated, and this movie is for me the best example for why I think that. It's just a bland and unmemorable movie. Never really scary and only ocassionally creepy. It has some good ideas but is held back by having to expand on the lore of its awful predecessor. I like the look and the style of it, but I just wished it offered more than a well made but generic story. It starts strong but quickly descents into pure over the top horror loudness. It reminded me a lot of The Conjuring (another well-liked horror film that I'm not a big fan of for similar reasons). Most of Flanagan's movies I've seen are ok at best.
I just think his work is not for me.
First things first, this is an Avengers movie in disguise. Sure, Captain America is somewhat the focus, but the emotional core of the story comes from the conflict between every member of the team, especially Steve and Tony. This movie surprisingly holds back on the action to give us many scenes of characters talking and debating. That's not to say that there's no action, 'cause there's still a lot, but the main conflict comes from the more relatively quiet scenes. The action is just a culmination of the tension set up there. I really love how the big bombastic battle isn't the climax. The climax is instead a more personal and visceral fight between three characters. Also, Zemo is one the franchise's best villains. It's just a great movie all around and possibly my favorite MCU movie. RIP Chadwick Boseman.
You mean to tell me there's a Terrence Malick film starring my two biggest crushes Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling that is unapologetically pretentious and artsy in the best way possible and has gorgoeus cinematography by Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki?? Sign me in!! I really, really like this movie.
I get that it's not for everyone, but man is this film an absolutely beautiful and moving experience.
It's no Tree of Life but is anything really Tree of Life?
One of the best found footagr horror films, if only because it actually looks like it could be real. I can't stand when films claim to be found footage and yet they shoot in an HD professional movie camera that might as well be ****ing IMAX.
Just get a ****ty handheld camcorder.
Trust me, it's way more effective. It's also just very effective at being unsettling and disturbing. It really makes you feel like you're lost in the middle of the woods. Also, I don't care what the Razzies say, Heather's performance is really ****ing good. All of the actors did a great job, even if they probably weren't acting.
Doctor Strange is an incredibly enjoyable film with lots of very creative visuals and even some good dramatic scenes every now and then, as well as some really good performances from Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton. It's also my mom's favorite Marvel movie because she's a doctor, so of course I'm also gonna like it.
The ending ia dumb and unnecessary, but for most of the film's runtime, it's a real breath of fresh air for both the exorcism and found-footage genres. Ashely Bell gives the best possesed performance in an exorcism movie since Linda Blair in The Exorcist. That is a really huge accomplishment. Definitely reccomend it if you can look past the awful ending, because it's still one of the best exorcism movies not directed by William Friedkin.
Begginers is my favorite romantic movie and one of my favorite movies of all time. It's that good. A sweet and heartbreaking masterpiece about love and relationships with stellar performances from a great Ewan McGregor, an even better (and totally snubbed for an Oscar) Melanie Laurent, and an absolutely perfect and Oscar-winning Christopher Plummer. Also, the dog derved an Oscar too. It's sweet, it's sad, it's stylish and quirky in the best way possible. I love it. A bittersweet work of art.
Life or Something Like It is one of the most insultingly lazy movies I have ever had the displeasure of watching. The ending is the biggest copout I've seen in a long time.
When I heard they were making a sequel to Blade Runner, one of my favorite films at that time, my reaction was "No! Leave the original alone!". Thank God they didn't because Blade Runner 2049 is just as good, if not better than the original. I remeber my biggest fear was that they would drop the slow pace and noir atmosphere for more action and explosions, but thankfully, the film remains just as slow and just as great for it as the first one. The effects are outstanding and sure to stand the test of time just like the original's. Roger Deakins' cinematography is stunning in every way. The performances from Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas and Harrison Ford are spectular. I love how realistically the technology has progressed since the first once. Everything's just a little more advanced after thirty years. I also love how it subverts the "chosen one" trope.
K may not have been a real human bean, but he sure was a real hero (sorry). Rarely does a movie come around and blow away all my expectations like this.
While perhaps a little too sweet for me, the insanely beautiful visuals straight out of Wes Anderson's wet dreams and the refreshingly positive and innocent tone of the film, along with its overall stylish presentation, make it a must-watch, no matter what you end up thinking about it.
It seemed like a weird way to end phase two, but after the bombastic Age of Ultron failed to live up to my expectations, the more small scale (no pun intended) Ant-Man surpassed them. Paul Rudd, of course, is extremely likeable and I really like the family drama elements of the story. Also, the shrinking effects are seriously impressive. I really enjoy Corey Stoll as the villain. His character is far from complex, but I love how he hams it up as an unapologetically cartoony villain (he has a shrinking gun for Christ's sake!). Why wasn't he Lex luthor instead of Jesse Eisenberg?
Bigger and dumber than the previous one, but still a lot of fun, and even a bit better than I remember. I remember finding Ultron very annoying and the pacing very rushed, but now I relly enjoyed him and the pacing, while still rushed, flowed a lot better. The biggest problems are that the third act is a bit hard to follow and, worst of all, the stupid Hulk and Natasha romance. What were they thinking? However, it also has some of my favorite MCU moments. The party sequence is amazing. Just the Avengers hanging out and being friends is wonderful to see. Hawkeye steals the show and becomes a much more interesting character. And the nightmare sequences are honestly terrifying. It's messy, but more consistently enjoyable than I first gave it credit for.
With the sequel coming out and Baron Cohen's performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 stealing the whole movie, it was about time I watched Borat. Two words: Very nice. Borat shows the best, the worst and the ugliest of America through the eyes of the most deliciously offensive character to ever win my heart. Watching him **** with people is incredibly awkward, but also absolutely hilarious.
While most of its novelty has worn off since we've gotten used to these characters, Guardians of the Galaxy remains a testament to Marvel taking one of their biggest risks. And it paid off. While I think that it's a bit rocky at times and that the sequel is infinitely better, I have to say that the beginning and end are great.
Everything after "we are Groot" works wonderfully. The dance-off, the holding hands moment, the montage and, best of all, Peter opening his mother's present. That will always be my favorite part of the whole movie.
Blade Runner is the definitive cyberpunk movie. Its effects hold up to this day. Its visuals with its use of neon lighting and beautiful shadows make it one of the most stunning sci-fi films to look at. The plot is simple, but engrossing. The romance could be better (and less assaulty), but the implications of the ending and the film's equally great sequel paint it in an interesting new, if still not official light. Roy Batty is an amazing villain. His final speech will never not make me feel existentially depressed. Its themes of death are terrifying, but fascinating. Oddly enough, the "zoom and enhance" scene is my favorite in the whole movie. Final Cut is the best cut. It's great movie in almost every way. Beautiful.
Sure, some of the effects are impressive, but the emotionless animation, subpar voice acting, and just overall missunderstanding of what made the original such as beloved classic make this movie nothing but a shot-for-shot dud.
