(Watched in 35mm at the Beverly Cinema)
This one is for you Quentin...
I have always wanted to discuss the genius of Quentin Tarantino for quite sometime. But sometimes it's tough to express things in your own voice because so much of it has been said already. But nevertheless, I am going to try.
Django Unchained is not as thematically as deep as something like Pulp Fiction or Once upon a time in Hollywood. At the end of the day,…
“ Your mission should you choose to accept it. I wonder Ethan, did you ever choose not to?”
“ There’s never been peace without first a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace.”
“ The end you’ve always feared is coming. And the blood will be on your hands. The Fallout of all your good intentions.”
“ But you were out… You were free.”
“ We are never free.”
I’ve been on letterboxd for about 3 years…
De Palma is a master of building the suspense and it’s no different here. That baby scene in the train station had me gripping my teeth!
The cast is fantastic and Sean Connery steals the show anytime he’s on screen. Not a favorite or anything but a damn good time.
Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking but this movie is just so much damn fun and gives me such excitement.
The spectacle and JJ’s directing is stellar, as are the performances from everyone in the cast. He really reinvented the franchise in a more grounded and relatable way. These films are not without their flaws though 100%. The script is very exposition heavy and I’m sorry but the Spock/Uhura romance does nothing for me and they have 0 chemistry.
Other then…
One of the best films of 2017 and maybe one of my favorite movies. I know that can sound insane. Why is a film about talking apes on horses with guns possibly one of the best movies? Well, I figured it out so read the following:
War for the planet of the apes is a character study of Caesar and what his purpose is as a leader and an ape. In the first two films, we always cut back to…
You could not live with your own failure, and where did that bring you? Back to Snyder...
