Movies are scored on personal enjoyment, not on objective quality or whatever.
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
Blade Runner 1982
The trouble with most anti-capitalist art made under capitalism is that without providing an alternative vision of how society could be organized, it comes across as neo-liberalism rubbing its hegemony in your face. Like, it's saying "Yeah, the status quo is terrible but there's nothing you can do about it, so we don't even have to hide it." By no means does Blade Runner meaningfully subvert this scourge of capitalist realism, but it does sidestep the problem. In its opening…
Translated from by -
Promare 2019
Hiroyuki Imaishi is indisputably the master of directing frenetic animation. His style eschews any semblance of realistic movement in favor of explosive dynamism, to the point where it feels as if creator and character alike are rebelling against the format itself by pushing it to its limit. The reason Imaishi is so successful at this is the wide variety of techniques he will employ in any given shot, a few of which include light speed ramping, strategic use of limited…
Translated from by
Recent reviews
More-
Tahara 2020
It is easy to wonder that if Tahara was a larger production, would its sudden blitzes of formal stylism that occasionally punctuate its editing and shape have more prominence? Despite this, I think the answer comes just as easily, the relative dryness of its regular proceedings is critical to establishing the austere dreariness of its setting; High School. Such construction makes it all the more powerful when a single kiss expands the world. Still, even as our leads rant and…
Translated from by -
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
Pretty clear here that Raimi was largely brought in to punch up the visuals in the same way that Dan Harmon was brought in the punch up the humor in the first one. Good thing there because the script is fairly abysmal on its own, inheriting and enhancing WandaVision's gross bio-essentialism while propping up a thesis around the toxic notion that every version of Stephen Strange needs to be involved with the least developed MCU love interest to be happy…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The shot where a second Star Destroyer crashes next to the already shipwrecked one on Jakku is
1) Hilarious
2) Such a brilliant visual metaphor for how insipidly derivative and disastrously constructed this movie is that I'm almost convinced it was Rian Johnson's idea.Translated from by -
Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Fascism is a difficult ideology to portray in fiction because its aims and goals are cartoonishly evil even though it exists in the real world and thus is subject to the same factual complexity that everything else in the real world is. This is what makes the pseudo fairy tale conceit of the film so brilliant, it’s both a counterbalance for the similarly simplistic but uniquely perverse moral values of fascism and a coping mechanism to soften a reality often…
Translated from by
