This movie's like, almost perfect, man. It's my exact type of movie, in that it is a lugubrious, dark, Burtonesque animated movie that is also very funny.
The main character of this movie, Grace Pudel goes through some horrendous stuff, and needs to somehow move past all of it in order to live the rest of her life in a good way. She has hidden herself in a shell, like a snail, and needs to find a way out of…
Toni Collette's nails made me wanna puke, which is probably what they were going for. Also the dinner scene with the Persian tapestry is what made me invested in this movie. The messaging is on the nose and super obvious, but its also over the top, which makes it cool and very funny.
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"Flow" is a movie that reminds me so much of open world games like "The legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild" (there's a scene with a windmill that looks like one of the ones from Hateno village). The wide open spaces and the ruins of a civilization long gone are animated beautifully. The constant suggestion throughout the film that there were, in fact, once humans inhabiting this world, adds an air of mystery that I really like. This sense…
Nosferatu (2024) by Robert Eggers is a weird movie. It combines the story of the original 1922 Murnau film with a couple of elements from Coppola's ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' and the Robert Eggers style. Nosferatu's extending shadows, for example, are lifted straight from Coppola's version of Stoker's original story. This makes for a movie that can be read like a collage of all of Dracula's cinematic history.
The movie also wonderfully builds upon the groundwork that was laid in the…
