Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Even as a miniseries (shorter than most at that), I feel like Adolescence gets the modern male teen social experience right better than any other full-length Netflix series, and hell, maybe any other series ever. Best of all, absolutely none of it is played as a joke or satire, but rather, as a genuine caution towards what social pressures can drive a kid to do. It takes its time and makes superb use of its "one shot per episode" gimmick,…
It has a couple funny moments, and the commentary can sometimes be cartoonishly entertaining, but it tends to be way self-indulgent and the message is tired and uninteresting. To its credit, it at least says exactly what it wants to, no holds barred (literally and otherwise), but rings hollow when you realize that its stand-in for an asshole totalitarian is so hyper-specific and makes the movie feel more like a targeted piece than anything.
The setting is also lacking, offering…
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Absolutely worth the IMAX 3D experience to see Harrison Ford fucking around in hulk form for about 10 minutes.
Everyone leaves this movie thinking "what did I just watch" when all I could think was "ooooh look how pretty literally every frame is".
Not once did I get bored because I had the hardest time not appreciating how revolutionary this movie was.
What drove me to leave a 5 star rating rather than a 4 or 4.5 star one is the fact that it won't be leaving my head for as long as I'm sane. That's what separates the…