elliott smith deep cut was the coolest part. bong joon ho’s fixation on surface level socdem social critique fits in snugly with the satirical sci-fi format’s natural leanings towards obvious conclusions on how Our current world is so bad, we’re basically aliens!!!!!!! mark ruffalo does a truly awful blatant trump impression that reads as vegas elvis performing in the weimar republic, down to the horribly design pseudo-swastika emblem (can’t imagine anything more shoving-political-opinions-down-audience-throats). robert pattinson does some truly charming work…
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Anora 2024
this is what happens if you let someone who has never seen a movie before in their life try to make the next safdie brothers movie from 30-second youtube shorts of good time. genuinely nauseating camera work and the most ridiculous pacing, that first half hour is borderline unwatchable. boring script. acting is fine.
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Badlands 1973
“the world was like a faraway planet to which i could never return. i thought, what a fine place it was…”
intensely all-american. martin sheen’s james dean look with the craziest “just stopped weeping” weariness in his expression while he holds car scraps up to his face like a knight going into battle. malick is a god of shot composition, whole thing looks like a moving norman rockwell. destitute emptiness and unending violence of the western frontier, something about the…
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The Brutalist 2024
quite moronic at times but overall well made. every beat is so familiar along the lines of the greater tradition in american cinema of hubristic projects (there will be blood comes to mind a couple different times), doesnt ever really seem to follow through on its ideas until it purposefully turns itself into a gimmick. felt a little overscored, all those hopeful piano trills became grating. felicity jones kills it.
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