It's a little meandering in the second act, and I didn't find the cinematography to be on par with the sets, production design, costumes, and well—all other visual elements, but the musical numbers were good, and that's what really counts anyway.
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Happy Feet 2006
My 1000th log on Letterboxd. Completely hamstrung plot with barely any characterization, this film runs like a Homeric epic of old. At first, you pick up on the horniness, next the religious themes, and then this film gets even weirder.
With all it's inventiveness, it's very easy to believe this is the same guy behind the Mad Max and Babe films. Absolute cinema. I love it.
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Stalker 1979
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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What purpose does faith serve? That is one of the questions asked in Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 sci-fi film 'Stalker'. The film follows an unnamed protagonist who works as and is called a "stalker". Stalkers act as illegal smugglers to bring their clients to "the Zone" and later inside the Zone "the Room", where their deepest and innermost desires are fulfilled. Our protagonist brings in a writer and a professor, both referred to by…
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12 Angry Men 1957
An amazing film that only gets better upon rewatch. The way it's directed and edited only ramps up the intensity of it all. If there were a reason to create an Oscar category for "Best Cast", this would be it.
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