21st Elvis!!
the editing was very wonky and all the doctor stuff pissed me off. this type of story feels like something hallmark would’ve done, it’s very shallow, basic, and uninteresting. I do believe Elvis is a good actor as proven in films such as King Creole and Flaming Star, but I felt his performance in here to be a bit flat. I did enjoy the last 30 mins as I felt it to be more engaging and a bit…
the film never truly invested me (with an exception for the final 15 mins) as the pacing issues are quite abundant in the second half and the lack of fleshing out some of the side characters kinda took me out. I know the romance bit should be something I hate, but I actually enjoyed it. the writing was interesting and the performances were good. other than that, pretty impressive directorial debut for Brando.
https://youtu.be/d58Aa1-034Q?si=P8haCNbB8u23PsBa
109th Miike!
After 2 months of searching, I’ve finally found Pledge to Peace. I really thought this was impossible to find until I reversed searched the poster and found a link to a YouTube video of the whole entire film. While searching I found out many interesting things about this film.
This film was made to be exclusively shown and sold at Yūshūkan Museum. The museum is a shrine dedicated to soldiers who fought for the Emperor, including war…
The first two acts were great, but I felt the third act didn’t captivate me as much as the first two did. Besides that, the film is very original and looks gorgeous, plus Willem and Robert are amazing.
