I try not to watch shit, but it happens
❤ = All-Time Favorite
"Amuro, I'm doing something extremely wicked. If you're nearby, feel my presence."
In which Char Aznable cements his status as an all-time great villain, and Amuro Ray as an all-time great hero. Heartbreaking, epic, beautiful.
As hard as it is to see Char fall from grace, his heel-turn is indicative of Gundam's attitudes towards mankind's thirst for power and the neverending cycle of war such a thirst propagates. Not only that, but Gundam's cynicism regarding mankind's tendency to fear what…
"I never lose. Not really."
The French Crime and Punishment: cool and detached rather than weighty and tortured. Is it all a dream, like the trippy end of that magnificent opening shot suggests?
This is a quiet film. You can almost hear the beating of Jef's lonely heart. Almost.
"His darkness is way too deep!"
This was a hoot. Knowing nothing about the series it was sensory overload, plain and simple. Some kickass, melodramatic dialogue about the nature of love during batshit space battles whose scale must be seen to be believed. What more could you ask for?
"We leap into the unknown to prove that we are free."
This might be a certified five star masterpiece on rewatch. Coppola's audacity is astonishing. Ending your career on THAT iris in and following it by writing a new pledge of allegiance for all of humanity?! Bye, haters 👋