benjaminweir

benjaminweir

Favorite films

  • Midnight in Paris
  • Whiplash
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • Gladiator II

    ★★

  • The Prestige

    ★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★

  • Hit Man

    ★★★

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★

    He was reborn from the river Styx I guess. Is that the climax? The rebirth of the dream? Reborn into….what? I have no idea why Lucius is fit to carry on the dream. Because of his dad? He can fight but I felt no soul in him to carry the emotional burden of the movie. I don’t know that there really was one.

    Can’t say much for any of the performances except Denzel, he was interesting to me! until the reveal of his motivations.

     Set with the sharks was insane. Also kind of unsatisfying in its conclusion?

  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    ★★★★

    Feel like the only thing I want to see more of is the women in this. Their thoughts and feelings feel a bit throwaway except Scarlett maybe.

    “I don’t care about my wife, I want his secret”

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  • Italian Studies

    Italian Studies

    ★★★

    I had so much fun watching. You’ll like it if you see it. Transported me for an hour and then lost me. No one in the theater was convinced that it was over until the credits continued for 3 minutes.

    It also will not change your life and doesn’t wrap in any sort of satisfying OR “it’s satisfying because it ISNT” kind of way. No subversion of expectations, which isn’t bad but in this case I thought it would.

    Watch…

  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★★½

    Ummmmmmm I’d never seen taika fail like this before but I still had fun

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