Watership Down might just be one of the greatest animated films ever made. (Either that or I just have a thing for art depicting nature’s struggle for survival in the face of humanity’s technological progress.) The character animation is incredibly vivid in its balance between expression and realism, yielding an overall design that feels at once both incredibly stylized and naturally realistic—which is becoming of a cast of sentient bunnies that hold themselves up to prophets and poets in their…
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Young Frankenstein 1974
This seminal, essential, and extremely quotable comedy by Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder continues to stand the test of time. With its very modern gags, intensely dedicated acting (with every role incomparably perfectly complimented by its respective acting talent; these were the roles they were all born to play), and immaculate production values devoted to the original Frankenstein film, Young Frankenstein may be regarded today as the indisputable benchmark for the art of parody, casting a long shadow over the “Scary Movies” of today—down to its poignant core.
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021
Despite having a unique premise, beautiful cinematography and impressively organic dialogue, Marcel has an almost annoyingly thin, conventional, predictable story that never earns any of its emotional beats or fully fleshes out any of the characters, settling for the bare minimum in a narrow-minded narrative. In the end it truly felt as though the film had nothing really to say; just gratuitously meandering until we’ve stumbled through every plot point necessary to lay claim to a story—however uninspired. If you’ve seen a trailer for this movie, you’ve more or less seen the movie.
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The Docks of New York 1928
While I’ll give von Sternberg credit for employing impeccable exterior lighting and camera techniques, The Docks of New York really falls flat in most other respects—from the glorification of life-ruining debauchery to the absurdly unrealistic romance, rarely do the characters’ motivations or desires make any sense or evoke sympathy. “Roll with a POS man and maybe he’ll change” also doesn’t make for a very timeless message.
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