Uninspired horror filmmaking. The scares are nonexistent. For some reason this death demon likes to take its time on some of the characters and seems more focused on hiding and jump scares than doing its actual job.
An excellent adventure film with great performances, particularly Walter Huston, who deservedly won best supporting actor that year. I can say this very confidently having seen 3 films from 1948.
A solid teen comedy in a world where no parents exist, nobody asks any questions if you miss school for 2 weeks, and main plot is just few scenes to setup the gimmick of the movie.
Solid tension building filmmaking, a little too many fake outs for my liking. I do think knowing the ending twist affected my appreciation a little bit.
Trying to imagine a 52 year old modern star doing anything like this. Leans on a reliable sports movie template (maybe it invented it?), players vs owner, that would be used for decades to come.
This movie has a ridiculous title for what the content of it actually is, it's a stereotypical teacher/class movie. The most unbelievable part is that her breakthrough with them is through Bob Dylan lyrics.
This movie relies on you enjoying Ford assimilating into an Amish community for the majority of its runtime which I was fine with. But the scene of Ford and McGillis dancing to the Sam Cooke song is enough on its own to highly rate this movie.
Pretty inferior to the original in every way, a movie I didn't even really care for that much beyond the leads. Doesn't really have any idea what it wants to be. I like when people get shot with guns and they fly back 20 feet.
This stays really entertaining even through its drab cold case pursuit and a couple of the most unsettling sexual assault scenes put on screen due to Fincher's attention to detail and a locked in cast. I'll admit to being to disappointed by the last 15 minutes of this.
This is a intentional joke right? I'm assuming so cause it opens with Perd Hapley as the news anchor. Otherwise, we have the worst acting and directing of the year wrapped in pro-AI and pro-Cop messaging.
Pretty enjoyable throughout due to its silliness and setting. I was not aware that Christian Slater had an actress sister that has a noticeable face from many TV shows.
The location filming and staging by the crew really gave us some of the most incredible wide angle and landscape shots in cinema history. Was not aware at all that this was a biopic based on a real soldier. It maybe help explains what I thought was a diminished 3rd act comparatively. It was not shocking to read that Frank Herbert took inspiration from this movie for his Dune novels, it became pretty evident about an hour in that the lead characters shared similar qualities.
Why not just make Romeo and Juliet. The director can paint a pretty picture but no clue on these characters. Becoming slowly more convinced on Elordi's acting ability. I liked the one Charli XCX song.
I do think its solid enough and did the best it could its minimal setup. But even in 90 minutes you can only do the fakeout, fakeout, actual scare so many times.
A solemn, well done look at a family in distress. Timothy Hutton as Conrad in the supporting actor category is maybe the worst case of category fraud ever done at the Oscars.
A natural and scenic look at the beautiful vistas and scenery of Africa. All while white people take over and the indigenous people are all cool with it and love them.
I actually really loved the middle act of this from when she gets to the house all the way through to the ball. The leads dynamic together was solid and the performances and delivery were on point. The rest is pretty rough though, unfortunately. There's about 30 minutes total with her father that seem incredibly pointless for the plot and pacing. I found it odd that it was nominated for all acting categories except lead actress but Hepburn's intro is wildly over the top and overacted, and her singing sequences were dubbed. Awful ending...
Hard to say I enjoyed any extended stretch of this. The score is memorable but the script was a big miss for me. Crowe's accent is all over the place, Jennifer Connelly is nice.
While the production is grand and captivating, I was left wanting more from the resolution of the story. While its clear throughout the movie that it's headed towards bigger things beyond the story of Judah Ben-Hur, I found it all to be tacked on to what was already a deserving, epic story.
Some the exterior shots are gorgeously framed and lit. I think the story is standard fare for the era and topic. I only slightly cringed when basically the last line of the movie is "How Green Was My Valley then?" when the montage is playing of how nice it was.
Laughton is an unrivaled curmudgeon. Clark Gable can handle unjust floggings, starvation, and murder by the Captain, but he draws the line at the confiscation of the pearls he received from his new lady friend in Tahiti. That's what really started the mutiny.
