I underestimated the grotesquery and the skills of John Carpenter. This movie deserves five stars, but I don’t handle body horror or dog stuff very well, so that’s on me. Probably won’t revisit but happy to have watched.
The tension builds and builds in a genuine way to the point where the neuroticism and the paranoia seep into everything you see, hear and feel. The sound editing is amazing, the film looks great (bought this Blu-ray on Amazon for $6)…
This is just a cool, well written, well acted, well directed film. The likes we'd usually see go right to streaming.
The movie is intriguing and keeps the pace up as you'd expect from a Soderberg movie. "Using words as of weapons" is a very good fit here. I'm more of a 3.75 but 4 for the Letterboxd. This will be a fun rewatch plus it's only 93 minutes.
This movie was sooooo much fun and the stunts that Buster Keaton does are remarkable. The film is short but pacts an entertaining punch. So many great scenes, the train, the movie screen, the railroad crossing arm, the window, the motorcycle, the sail car, pretty much the whole 44 minutes. This is my first exposure to Buster's films and I can't wait to see more.
This is not Bong Joon Ho's best, but it's original. The first half of this movie is really amazing; great concept, interesting questions, looks amazing, great world building, outstanding performances but then it really just crumbles under the weight of too many ideas. Honestly not even the most interesting ideas either.
*mini-spoiler*
By the end it should be more about Mickey, not some fake Trump ideology that we already are living or the animal stuff.
Robert Pattison is fucking amazing…
