This movie is a B-tier South Park bit but played completely straight. It portrays Mexico as an uncivilized wasteland ruled by cartels. Barely intelligible Spanish. Some of the performances are good, some bops on the soundtrack, and the lead actor really saves this bizarre, clunky mess of a movie.
If I didn't know for a fact that it was made by the French, I'd be convinced that it was filmed for Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh only. This feels like…
As a disclaimer, the movie was very obviously For Kids. And what I mean by that is that Stuff Just Happens for no discernible reason or motivation. Which is a critique I often have when rewatching media from my childhood. Like, Peach goes "we need to stop [enemy character]... oh btw [other character] will help us!" but in the flattest tone possible where you feel like Anya Taylor Joy was just quickly reading lines for the first time off a…
Oppenheimer is a film that feels like an enormous pop culture event while simultaneously being a three hour, dialogue-heavy character study that extensively uses black and white photography. Watching it on a massive screen with a sold-out crowd on week two was honestly quite unbelievable. In this day and age we almost exclusively expect this for comic book movies and not much else. That thought alone made me very emotional. We just don’t get moments like these very often. Thankfully Oppenheimer is worthy of the moment.
