Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
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Robert Eggers has a fantastic sense for visuals and his cinematic style is quite developed and distinct. While I quite liked The Lighthouse, I was disappointed by The Witch. With his 2024 retelling of the classic tale of Nosferatu, Eggers has now fallen into an even worse trap--that of over-indulgence. This movie is getting the best reviews of Eggers' career but I wasn't crazy about it. I didn't hate it, but ultimately left a bit let down. Perhaps this is…
David Lean strikes again! The Bridge on the River Kwai is a masterpiece in pacing, performances, and scripting. This is a war movie that does not focus on gun fights, explosions or violence of war per se, but the futility of it and the arrogance inherent in manmade destruction. Part adventure, part humane allegory, the film is also a deeply ironic portrayal of stubbornness and persistence. Performances are all perfect, photography is legendary, and the entire production is just suffused in an epic scale that only Lean that deliver. The film is cinematic in ways that other films don't even come close to achieving.
FUCK YOU TARANTINO.
Holy shit this movie pissed me off. I can do nothing but laugh at people who claim that this is tarantino's most "mature" or "complex" film. This is the same fucking shit that he's been doing since Reservoir Dogs, except now he has appropriated one of the worst periods in human history and decided to make one of his repetitively pedantic revenge fantasies. To that, I say fuck him. I found the entire premise insulting and his…