I actually liked this one!! Against all my expectations! If they’d just recast young Indy instead of using that insane CGI it would have been a four star movie! Get a better director and we’re talking 4.5-5 star territory! The colors and lighting annoyed the shit out of me! Especially in the first sequence where I couldn’t see shit, maybe on purpose to distract from the CGI! I thought the plot was fun and inventive! I thought Phoebe Waller Bridge…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
I have a hard time with this one. On the one hand it’s beautifully shot and completely compelling throughout. On the other hand, first contact stories are supposed to be an exploration of what makes us uniquely human, and I find Spielberg’s answer to this to be incredibly pessimistic and dark, though I don’t believe that’s what he intended. I think the behavior of the scientists is actually naive and overly trusting considering the aliens didn’t return their abductees for…
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My New Gun 1992
Hints of Wim Wenders and Hal Hartley, characters talking outright about the insane nineties interiors (“who picked out this [bright red LEGO textured] linoleum?” in the film James Le Gros admitted in an interview to “trying not to act” in. Plays with ideas of male power and control and breaking the cycle of bad dads. The climax occurs at a wedding, which is one of my favorite tropes. A surprise cameo from Philip Seymour Hoffman shouting about thunder storms. Is there anything this movie doesn’t have??
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