“Is there a group that truly does nothing together?”
“Congress.”
Aside from the derivative premise, clunky pacing, puzzling direction and camera choices, and most underdeveloped script, I quite liked Opus. Edebiri is one of my favorites currently working and she brings a very solid comedic/dramatic blend to this role. Malkovich is at his most bombastic in some of the craziest costume design I’ve seen all year. You can tell he is loving every second of this role. As well, there…
The best thing this movie did was when Jonathon Majors got dumped by Jessie, he ordered 20,000 calories to drown out the pain.
Besides this, wow this stunk. Admirable work by Majors (despite him being the scum of the earth, piece of shit human being), but even he couldn’t outwork the bland, one dimensional script and just an abysmal edit. I can also respect it being shot on film with some good cinematography, but overall this was bad. No ides…
This is a ChatGPT movie. The blandest script of the year with boring dialogue, zero nuance, and glazing over a hundred different topics including the morality of euthanasia, climate change, and how we view death. However, we get no exploration into anything, the characters are literally pieces of meat spewing out lines of nothingness with no conviction or meaning. There were multiple scenes that just laughably took me out of the film, even though I was beyond bored the whole…
“Let’s never come here again cause it would never be as fun.”
In a world, in an existence, where almost everything doesn’t make sense and tangibility is often a myth, finding something so real can be life changing. Amidst a world they literally cannot understand or grasp onto, we watch Joe and Charlotte go from lost souls to finding something tangibility in their existence through their relationship. Knowing the inevitably of their split, they decide to plunge into the realness…
