I get that Robert Zemeckis' angle was clearly intended to be "don't dismiss people just because they seem slow-witted", and there are some endearing moments early in the film which do succeed in emphasising that, but what irks me is how people hyperfixate on this angle because the film was so tedious they only half-watched it, and as a result buried the more inisidious aspect of the film's underlying narrative, and that narrative is very obviously and aggressively conservative. Despite…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Superbad 2007
I mostly wanted to watch this again just because everyone on my timeline was talking about and making fun of millennial nostalgia brain rot, and I vividly remember Superbad as like one of those defining movies of that generation so I wanted to look at it with eyes afresh. Who can forget the awkwardness of Michael Cera, the insufferability of Jonah Hill, the ineptitude of McLovin, the comic timing of officer Seth Rogen, the dance where Hill only just then…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Kinda Pregnant 2025
Finally, a movie where Amy Schumer gets to lie about her life with the same enthusiasm she shows for lying on behalf of genocidal war criminals. The one laugh in the whole movie is when one of her students says he's extremely uncomfortable around her. Truly, he spoke for us all.
Translated from by -
Adam Green's Aladdin 2016
This honestly reads more like a play than a movie. The acting feels like they're performing in a stage play, so do the costumes and drawn-on set-pieces, and the walls. The script could have used much more work and the jokes aren't really that good. That said it's hard for me not to appreciate the earnest outsider artistry of the film's overall aesthetic, it's like Adam Green just decided "fuck it, the first thing I draw is in the movie". The film's anti-folk soundtrack is also pretty good, and it's really the highlight of the movie besides the art.
Translated from by
