Ambling Frebling

Ambling Frebling

Favorite films

  • Harold and Maude
  • Paddington 2
  • In Bruges
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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  • 13 Going on 30

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    ★★★★½

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    ★★★★½

  • Mulan II

    ★★★½

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  • 13 Going on 30

    13 Going on 30

    Some real high highs! The scenes with the parents especially really really hit.

    Some low lows! This felt really slow and I really hated a lot of how the body swap/time skip stuff was played for comedy

    Overall I liked it but no idea how to give a numbered rating on this one

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    Howl's Moving Castle

    ★★★★½

    Watched this in Sentinel Park with 4 of my closest friends and definitely didn't cry despite being my second watch in a week

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  • Getting That Girl

    Getting That Girl

    ★★★★★

    Alright, I adore this movie because of a theory I have on it - I think the director tried for a "so bad it's good" film and didn't let the actors in on it.

    My evidence is limited but somewhat solid. The director has pretty much made nothing else, and has very limited social media presence. A lot of that presence, though, is praising films like Zombeavers in a seemingly unironic way. The "Making of" is what's really oddly damning,…

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    ★★

    What a mediocre film. If you squint and consider this a jukebox musical, it's the best of its kind, probably, but a good soundtrack can't save cartoonishly unbelievable characters, from ill-developed protagonists to ill-conceived antagonists. There are good moments here, and on the whole, the film is shot competently enough (despite a color palette akin to staring at 80 year old paper for two hours), but the story feels so poorly assembled from pieces of The Odyssey, pieces of 1930s…

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