Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!! Went in having only ever seen the preview once like a month ago, so basically blind. So fun. So creative. So imaginative. Tilda doing what Tilda does best and balanced beautifully by the adorkable awkwardness of Julio Torres. RZA is a delightful cherry on top.
Solid YA thriller. A bit clunky at times (hovering for just that extra millisecond many times to get a plot point across), but it made me realize that some middle schoolers are going to learn how to watch movies from this. Overall a lot of fun and really strong chemistry among the three main actors. Gonna be a slumber party hit on streamers.
Can't give a star rating because this is 100% a nostalgia pic for me. I LOVED this as a teen (having never read the book). I have now read the book (and re-read it at least once a year) and can clearly see the shortcomings of the film as an adaptation, and as a film. All that said, this is completely audacious and ambitious, and I always give credit for that.
Really trying to avoid the game of pitting versions against each other, but after rewatching this for the first time since the Nolan versions, this has the ideal combination of brooding darkness and fun. Add in the impeccable classical Burton production design, and you have a version that really should be revisited more often. Oh, and Nicholson is just so much fun, something that Ledger rarely was.