Review #500!
(How did this happen?)
Starting the new year with a biggie. The idea for this movie is obviously up my alley, but I am finally getting around to watching it now for the first time.
As someone who attended a very fancy music school, had a very checkered time there, and continues to work in the bottom rungs of the music business, I was pretty sure I was going to have some ~feelings~ about this one.
I certainly…
When I caught The final Cut a few weeks ago it was meant as a precursor to seeing this for the second time. When I saw this in the theatre I remember enjoying it quite a bit but had such high expectations that the experience was a bit underwhelming.
First of all, It is important to note it is a true miracle that this got made. The original film was not a huge success at the box office, and while…
While this embraces Y2K action movies in a big way, this is far more watchable than its terrible reputation would suggest. The appeal of Brosnan as Bond was always his ability to combine the urbane Moore, with intensity of Dalton and the charisma of Connery. He is certainly capable of dealing up the intensity to the level of Daniel Craig, even his doesn't usually get a chance to do so. Here he can give all the quips in a very…
The biggest broadway musical of the 21st century gets a big budget Hollywood treatment, and the mixed reception shows the world of broadway is still a bit different from the typical North American movie going audience. (Disney's Hamilton also was noticeably less acclaimed by the streaming audience compared with its rapturous reception on stage.) The fact it is broken up into two parts and the opening really does vigorously nod to the MGM film has lead some audience members to…
Ah, time to join the stampede of Letterboxd reviews!
This is a big achievement that could only have come from Scorsese. Perfectly tailored for its cast, and a deeply personal film for its director. Is it self-indulgent? Certainly, but if you are sympathetic for the journey it goes on, you won’t mind. (That’s my way of saying I’m not sure how people can say the movie doesn’t feel long, it totally does, but it earns it by showing so much…
This my 100th Review here on Letterboxd
So I thought I would pause my somewhat random exploration of silent movies for something that was essentially guaranteed to be good.
It is interesting to compare this to the serial killer genre of the 90s (which Fincher memorably contributed to.) With the distance of a few years Fincher sees a new way of looking at the themes and story beats involved.
I think it is also fascinating to think of this in…
