The script is really messy, it feels like every pet fixation of Bong Joon-ho (environmentalism, colonialism, class war, weird creatures) gets crammed into it especially in the second half. The ending is unsatisfying to me because it pivots towards an earnest (and very liberal) optimism of the human spirit that is in tension with the world and society that has been presented to us throughout the rest of the film. But it’s consistently funny and engaging throughout, and Pattinson is…
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Kissing Jessica Stein 2001
“Who do I have to blow to get some pussy around here?”
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Bottoms 2023
I love a good farce and this delivers in spades. Every character is very broadly drawn to the most outlandish degree, every plot turn is madcap and wacky. It's kind of a throwback to 80s raunch, fed through the meat grinder of movies like Heathers that sought to send up and critique that genre's assumptions, best embodied by how nobody acts like a normal person and how absolutely zero adults are on the ball. It's also sort of a corrective…
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Kung Fu Panda 2008
I saw this film when it first came out, at the age of eleven, with my father. I have a very distinct memory of how surprisingly and uncharacteristically agitated my father was by the film's ultimate "moral," that "there is no secret ingredient, it's just you." At the time I thought it was the complaint of a cranky 41-year-old who just disliked pandering to a child audience - but come on, it's for kids!
Having rewatched it today with friends,…
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