I loved this movie. I loved almost everything about it and I remember thinking when I THOUGHT it was halfway over “wow I could watch this another two hours” and then it did feel like it went on another 2 hours.
So that’s the almost, I guess.
I sort of wish someone had told me ahead of time “listen, this thing is gonna sort of switch vibes up on you so buckle in for that and definitely prepare for a…
I honestly didn’t end up loving this as much as it maybe deserved, which is really just an unfortunate side effect of having the time of my life with The Count of Monte Cristo earlier this year.
Banderas is very funny and CZJ is lovely and Hopkins plays it very straight, the villains are hammy as all hell and the action is mostly very good. The horse chase sequence in particular was fantastic. Still this felt like a very middle…
Bill Clinton is president and all the hippies have withered and faded like the flowers on their Bugs.
Longlegs set the table impeccably, with a hypnotic opening credits sequence and a steadily increasing feeling of unease and paranoia.
As the mystery unfolds in chilling fashion, Maika starts running away with the movie, very strong performance and I look forward to seeing more from her.
Like the hippies, towards the finale the plot gets a little lost, and while I was…
This movie is the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars of swashbuckling adventure stories. By that I mean it is the example of the absolute peak of its genre and everything else in its category is now compared to it.
I watched this on strong recommendation from a pal, and did not know the story beforehand because I am not well versed in 19th century French literature I am but a simple movie boor. So being that it was…
