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Beautiful cinematography and score paired with a boring and unfocused script.
The whole time I kept asking myself why? Why make this movie and why put these things in it?
A sleuth of narrative devices are present and so little is done with them. Why architecture? Why does Adrien Brody have a lifelong friend that has no impact to his arc? Why the heroin addiction? Why does the wife have osteoporosis? Why the rape? Why that drab speech at the…
If there is one thing James Cameron is good at, it is being racist and also making long movies feel like a whole story. On this basis alone, the movie strikes a 10/10. The three hour and twenty minute run time does not drag and there is so little fat. No portion is spared for meandering and at no point in the second half is there a moment where the characters talk about what happened just incase you were not…
Eli Roth makes dogshit movies and is also objectively good at making them funny on purpose. On a lateral way, this movie is great. Roth scouted a real Peruvian tribe and consented to being in the film. They apparently enjoyed it and loved doing the acting and some even participated in the crew. The character’s quips are honestly funny, especially and genuinely feel like they are coming out of a liberal arts college student. Gore is good and the plot…
Insane to think this was the highest grossing movie for 10 years and lacks any impact on the cultural footprint of the 2000s decade. In terms of CGI horsepower, I seriously don’t think it would never need to be better than this, it holds up so well and makes quasi native american cat people look believable. Sound design actually does suck ass. The screaming from the horse creatures was the ones from the velociraptors in jurassic park 3 and the…
