What happened to subtlety?
Whilst I didn't hate the film and even thought some things in it where fantastic, I found myself so immensely disappointed by how Bong Joon-Ho choose to visualize his themes here. He has never been known for his subtlety, his film are almost always a criticism of modern day capitalism and classism. But it was always done with such care and thought put into it. A train piercing through the post apocalyptic snow with the cabins…
Soooo much better than I remember it being.
It's incredibly funny, the characters have great chemistry, there is a really well done theme of accepting change that's not just them having to deal with the fact that they now have powers and are in the spotlight all the time and there is some really impressive effects work both for the time and now in this. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis are genuinely fantastic in this.
There are still some problems,…
It feels weird to say I found a movie very dissapointing when that movie is called "Cocaine Bear".
Cocaine Bear never knows what kind of tone it wants to set for itself. Every aspect feels underdeveloped and misunderstood.
With a premise like Cocaine Bear there are realisticly only 2 ways you can make it work. 1. You take it completely serious to the point of hilarity where that becomes the joke in it of itself, or 2. You make it…
Though I havent seen Millenium Actress yet I am pretty confident in saying that this is Satoshi Kon's Masterpiece. Where do I even begin?
Let's start with Sathosi's other films.
Paprika had amazing visuals and an amazing soundtrack, the blurred line between reality and dream was very interesting and the movie felt dreamlike. But my problem with Paprika is that I find the characters extremely uninteresting.
They are pretty dull and don't really have any personal motivations to do what…
