I’m so surprised this movie was this good.
Two great decisions were made. One is to cover a short period of time instead of a whole life, the latter usually leads to wonky pacing and editing imo.
The other was to let Bob’s character be enigmatic and open to interpretation, as he actually is. While this is a pretty basic biopic format on the surface, they mostly refrained from constructing some reductive narrative to make things neater and more palatable.…
Did the annoying thing in music movies where the live performances sound like modern studio recordings, it’s common but it really takes me out of it. Music was mostly good but also that guy sounded like a douchey singer from 2013. Also stupid lighting in the Gaslight? Everyone looked like wax?
Movie was good when it was funny and when the main guy wasn’t talking.
This was fun and funny and said a lot of interesting things about sex and men and stuff. I don’t know, maybe this is a Yorgos thing and it just didn’t bother me years ago when I watched some of his other films, but why do so many acclaimed filmmakers of our day gotta be so damn ‘quirky’. Not saying this was wholly unoriginal or anything, but there’s a comedic and aesthetic tone here that’s become so familiar and kinda…
Another finger laser show from Christopher Nolan. The formula is to have bunch of layers of manufactured complexity and spectacle with little actual substance or depth, set it to his stupid ass violin scores, and pass it off as something profound.
Was excited to see it cause I love the subject matter, I think whatever I did enjoy about it was just I enjoyed the story itself. I’m gonna be a little hyperbolic here, it’s not as bad as I’m…
