max mellman

max mellman

Favorite films

  • Godzilla
  • Raindance
  • Night Has a Thousand Desires
  • El Valley Centro

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  • Point Cloud

    ★½

  • Fubar

    ★★★½

  • The Birdcage

    ★★★★½

  • Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

    ★★★★½

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  • Point Cloud

    Point Cloud

    ★½

    skating is mostly whatever, visual effects are largely annoying outside of a few (skater turning into just a neon silhouette is mostly what i’m thinking of), not really feelin this one sorry!!!! weird ass kids music + forever young were a cool vibe at least imo. bullshit that koston didnt really skate in this but those shots were fun

  • The Birdcage

    The Birdcage

    ★★★★½

    Nathan Lane’s John Wayne walk 🙌

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★½

    for such a cool & fun premise with great performances, this really got killed by clunky & lazy writing - the ‘xD s0 r4nDoM’ humor didnt really work half the time, they just started directly stating the themes of the movie like it was a bulletin list and the infuriating need to clean everything up too cleanly (esp for a movie so concerned with messiness)

    this was basically The Butterfly Effect for people who love sharing self-care infographics 🙃

  • AGGRO DR1FT

    AGGRO DR1FT

    ★★★½

    -Made me think of Trash Humpers in it’s rejection of cinematic norms despite being at different ends of the spectrum - Trash Humpers veers closer to anti-cinema while this went overly cinematic to the point of abstraction with it’s faces rendered void by thermal vision & stodgy video game dialog.

    -Felt free in it’s total lack of self-consciousness - avoiding irony in favor of just a bunch of shit Harmony Korine thought looked cool with zero regard for how stupid it…