Mythopoeia

Mythopoeia

“Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time."

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • The Fall
  • Gladiator

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  • Chef

    ★★★½

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • Gladiator

    ★★★★★

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  • Chef

    Chef

    ★★★½

    A movie with its HEART in a good SPOT

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★

    I don’t understand what you guys mean. This is just… bad. And I’m a movie lover! I’m nice about movies!

    I’ve had some time to think about what’s wrong here. There are plenty of flaws in the general filmmaking — that’s true pretty much across the board. But the core rot in this movie is that we have forgotten how to write good people. Kind people. Heroes.

    From the first frame of this we are supposed to like this protagonist…

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  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    ★★★★

    Being on the nose is fine here - if there's anything this movie teaches, it's that you have to be

    In fact, half the point is that we can watch something THIS GLARING and keep doing nothing

    +10 points - Jonah Hill, Timothee's church game, and welcome extensions to leo's youtube screaming compilation. The scene where the Bash CEO tells Leo how he's gonna die is also really great.

    tl;dr: STOP SAYING THE COMET STORY IS TOO ON THE NOSE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE COMET dammit

  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    Bob Dylan is, easily, my favourite artist. I truly love him. Every film on here that features a Bob Dylan song - even a reference - gets an automatic rating boost. So you gotta believe me when I say: No!

    I understand the vision. The Rolling Thunder tour left a Woodstock-level mythology imprinted on musical history. Bob Dylan says he can’t even remember it; he doesn’t know what it was, and he doesn’t know how to describe it. Well, when…