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The most important thing for me is how a movie makes me feel.

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • Wicked

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  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

  • Invasion of Astro-Monster

  • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

  • Jokers Wild

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  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Revisiting this before I check out the remake this weekend.

    Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is cute. It’s got nice animation, fun characters, and a menacing villain (the old hag still creeps me out). It’s also slow, meandering, and poorly aged. But I don’t care about that, because I think it’s a very important film.
     
    Without it, Disney would not have become what it is today. A lot of people hate Disney right now, but it’s undeniable…

  • Invasion of Astro-Monster

    Invasion of Astro-Monster

    Aliens with ridiculous outfits and evil laughs. Godzilla and Rodan fighting King Ghidorah. A melodramatic romance between an alien and a Vladimir Putin look-alike. Godzilla doing a victory dance.
     
    Despite all of these elements, this film somehow ended up being boring.
     
    Invasion of Astro Monster’s pacing is weirdly sluggish, with the betrayal from the aliens (that we know right away is coming) taking far too long to happen. The human characters are dull, and there are barely any…

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  • Good Grief

    Good Grief

    Show, don't tell.

    Don't just tell me about grief. Show it to me. Allow me to feel it. It's weird that in a story about allowing yourself to grieve, the audience is kept at a distance from the grief. Character development is summarized rather than shown, which makes it difficult to connect with what is going on. What should be a film filled with powerful emotion ends up being a forgettable experience where I felt very little.

    It's a shame, because the performances are all pretty solid, and the story had a lot of potential. I wish this was better than it was.

  • She Came to Me

    She Came to Me

    What the hell was this movie?

    It’s hard for me to articulate why I found this so terrible. The story feels like they combined three different scripts together. There’s the composer with writer’s block who gains inspiration after he has an affair with an unstable and quirky boat captain. There’s the therapist who wants to become a nun because of guilt (I think). And there’s the romance between an 18 year and a 16 year old that’s framed as pure…