fictionguy

fictionguy

Favorite films

  • Oldboy
  • Apocalypse Now
  • American Beauty
  • Almost Famous

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  • The Big Short

    ★★★★½

  • Vice

    ★★★½

  • Marie Antoinette

    ★★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

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  • Vice

    Vice

    ★★★½

    Yeah I see why this is controversial, not only from a political standpoint but also from a filmmaking one. Christian Bale’s performance here is just incredible, as well as all the other satirical depictions of the 2000’s most prominent politicians. The story is also really interesting but I never felt this film actually dug deep enough to get to the core of Cheney as a person, to know who he truly was/is.

    Overall Vice is good, almost great, but held…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Robert Pattinson is amazing as Mickey but the films is unfortunately a letdown for me.

    I get what Bong was going for as much as I understand why people love this but I just couldn’t with all its desperate and (mostly) failed attempts at being really funny and the extremely unsubtle satire.

    To be clear I don’t have a problem with unsubtle satire, it’s not the ”over the top” and ”on the nose” thing that’s bugging me here, it’s just…

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  • Oldboy

    Oldboy

    ★★★★★

    My favorite film🥰

  • Enemy

    Enemy

    ★★★★

    A film that through Jake Gyllenhaal’s fantastic performance explores the human mind and many of our flaws, with abstract symbols and a great ambiguous ending that leaves the film open to interpretation. Denis Villeneuve creates a very desolate and almost apocalyptic tone with his excellent directing, yellow color palette and as usual; really good cinematography.