I don't know if a sequel has ever retroactively taken so much shine off a film.
I watched this when it came out in 2011, in the theater. My family were all fans of Banderas's portrayal of Puss in the Shrek films, so we went and watched this. At the time, it was passable. Nothing worth really writing home about, but it was, indeed, a full feature film for the character, as promised.
Now, though, in a world where The…
Look Back is the greatest thing that Tatsumi Fujimoto has ever made, and I have a heavy doubt in my mind that he'll never top it, no matter how many things he turns into weird, sexy, grotesque monsters in Chainsaw Man.
The trials and (comparatively paltry) rewards of being an artist are explored in a way that only someone as weird and yet observant as Fujimoto can pull off: in a tale of tragic, queer-tinted friendship that features a brief…
Look sometimes you just want to watch a movie where a good guy kills bad guys.
A physically and emotionally scarred man from an oppressed minority teams up with other oppressed minorities and they go against the politically scheming bastards who maimed and tortured them and murdered their loved ones, and they fucking kill those bastards.
And a Bloodywood song plays for it.
Also there's awesome martial arts fights.
Good shit.
