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Blade Runner 2049 2017
8 years later, and still just a visually stunning, achingly slow, beautifully moody film that spends nearly three hours brooding about whether replicants can have kids, only to conclude: “Eh, who cares? Look at this cool neon rain.” Jared Leto shows up to do a TED Talk about God, his henchwoman is one sadistic monologue away from twirling a mustache, and the whole thing feels like it’s convinced it’s delivering deep existential truths, when really, it’s just vibing in a cyberpunk screensaver.
Still, gotta respect a movie that spends $150 million just to tell Ryan Gosling he’s not special.
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The Hunt for Red October 1990
RED OCTOBER AND THE DARK EXISTENTIAL VOID
That scene in the middle of The Hunt for Red October, where Captain Ramius speaks with his first officer, Borodin, during a hushed “Crazy Ivan” maneuver? That scene felt tonight—again—as if director John McTiernan had crafted some kind of ultimate cinematic experience for me. I’ve seen it at least 15 times before. I saw the film in a cinema on its opening day. I’ve watched it on 35mm, DVD, Blu-ray, and a few…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Like its predecessor, 'Folie à Deux' stretches a flimsy concept so thin that it eventually tears. Arthur Fleck is once again portrayed as a victim of society, with his transformation into the Joker feeling inevitable, driven by external circumstances. This lack of agency is the film’s fundamental flaw: by reducing Arthur to a passive figure, the film removes any sense of tension from his brewing psychosis. His development becomes predictable rather than compelling, stripping him—and the audience—of free will and…
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Megalopolis 2024
A couple left midway, and the way their conversation loudly began before the door even closed behind them made the whole theater chuckle. After 2.5 hours, the end credits were met with loud laughter and applause (from the same people) and an immediate buzz of analytical discussions about what the hell we had just witnessed. I was stopped twice by strangers on my way out of the cinema who wanted to both listen and share. A beautiful, thought-provoking, ambitious, boring,…
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