A bit of a wasted potential. Was hoping for some sublime turn around the minute Iris realizes what she truly is, but this just a lengthy cat and mouse game of suffering and being tied up with no other sense of catharsis except for some cliche one liner before the cork opener moment. As a big sci-fi nut, this movie was a bit disappointing and didn’t offer something interesting. The short scene about the replicant Zhora fighting for agency in…
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Talk to Me 2022
2 stars because i enjoyed it but along the way the movie itself doesn’t know what to do with their characters or even the plot itself which made the second half of the movie a downward predictable slope. In hindsight it’s like an anti-drug PSA or that line from Mean Girls “don’t have sex or you’ll get chlamydia and you die” except it’s a movie that doesn’t know how to conclude itself. Was the premise interesting? Still on the fence…
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Martyrs 2008
My first dive into French New Wave Extremity and I was told that this is one of the most suggested films in the genre.
The horror and gore aspect at the start really worked but fell short on the final act when the whole motivation of the antagonists were revealed. At that point it only seemed like an aimless display of cinematic power fantasy that lead to nothing. Perhaps in 2008 it worked, but watching it with the sensibilities of…
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Late Night with the Devil 2023
Okay so I liked the film because of some particular choices it made during the filmmaking (and i’ll talk about how it’s a huge contrast to its intent in using “AI”/digital scraped and generated image). One of it is that though the movie didn’t use old camera lenses and tech, it isnt the type of film that would overly slather the film with grain and noise that would send the viewer in some sort of visual anachronism due to the…
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