Mateo

Mateo

i like to watch good movies. i hate bad movies. but sometimes i love bad movies. i also sometimes hate good movies.

Favorite films

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Annihilation
  • Blade Runner
  • In Bruges

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  • Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

  • The Lake House

    ★★

  • Mickey 17

    ½

  • Tropic Thunder

    ★★

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  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    i definitely felt like i didn't even come close to understanding everything in my viewing, but the tone and essence of the film were palpable nonetheless.

    one of the things i noticed that i absolutely love is the subtle chorus of sporadic, kind of ambient electronic tones subtlety tucked in the background of parts of the soundtrack - it expresses so much subtle, everpresent, beautiful dissonance and mirrors the films themes of that same notion so perfectly to me. (entire…

  • The Lake House

    The Lake House

    ★★

    ok it's official - cheesey romance movies made for women are actually my guilty comfort

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ½

    for almost every scene that wasn't centered around Mickey, I found myself staring at the scene unraveling before me and i just couldn't make sense of why it was happening - the characters made no sense to me UNTIL i considered US politics - then suddenly it made sense in a very surface, annoying, and bad satire way.

    maybe i've been spending too much time on reddit but so much of this film felt like a coping mechanism for people…

  • Pacific Rim

    Pacific Rim

    ★½

    i don't know why - i really don't know what's wrong with me - but big robots fighting did NOT automatically make me like this movie??!!

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