Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
If I had watched this when I was a first- or second-year student in high school, there would have certainly been a problem. I was insufferable enough already, but this movie would have made me feel validated in ways my 15-year-old self could, quite frankly, not have handled. However, at 21, I could enjoy this movie thoroughly without worrying about that. Although it was a bit cringe and hard to watch at times, and I felt a strong urge to…
I am so glad that I watched this movie blind. There are so many ways this movie could be spoiled, and even though that matters only for the initial watch, it permanently taints movies for me when the first time I see them, they have been spoiled. I only watched Oldboy a few months ago, and I thought it was incredible, even if the twists did a number on me. Thankfully, this movie was not quite as hard to move…
Everything about this production is a 10/10 for me except for a bit of classic anime plot contrivance, which will have to dock it by 1. Fujimoto is an incredible mangaka, and I think he does have a tendency to be a bit more derivative than he needs to be, and he definitely has the capacity to be more creative. However, source material aside, this adaptation is just wonderful. After Chainsaw Man season 1 and this film adaptation of the Look Back one shot, someone will be in deep trouble if they decide to slack on a Fujimoto adaptation.
This movie is almost aggressively wholesome and very corny, but I honestly loved it for it. The animation was beautiful, and I can only say that if this is the last Dreamworks movie animated in-house, it is a tragedy. The messaging is a little bit muddled, and the story's basic premise makes it almost inevitably clumsy due to how broad it is. However, in the end, I think it tied together reasonably well. I had an incredible time with this…