‘How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’' – Stanley Kubrick
It’s about time I finally sit down to write about my favorite movie of all time. A task that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time but never did because it felt like there was nothing left to discuss or analyze that hasn’t been…
"You don't know what it means to know that people are - that a whole audience just doesn't want you"
"That's when you've got to fight 'em."
Xanadu. The mysterious, hidden fortress surrounded by what seems to be endlessly tall fences. Completely out of reach. The unattainable haven built by someone longing for something that which he himself cannot attain. Dooming the project to forever remain unfinished, to never feel like home.
The home that Charles Foster Kane longs for…
Funnier jokes, less forced fourth wall moments, sensible plot, better villain, better action. This is everything the first one should've been
Also: All the cameos are amazing!
Quite the fun ride at times. What begins as a badly written story with extremely fascinating visuals, slowly abandons any kind of interesting style and completely loses everything by the end. While there are interesting moments and a surprisingly good amount of it is quite fun, it fails to hold any sort of consistency and falls apart very quickly. It does have some killer fight sequences in the first half but then shifts back to boring choreography for its final…
