Obviously a lot of it is really fun to look at, but it also shows how strangely paced we allowed films to be then. We were cool just looking at stuff happen for its own sake. We spend like the first 40 minutes in Gepetto’s workshop. Wow, look at those cuckoo clocks. That’s cute. What’s on this other side of the workshop? Oh, more cuckoo clocks. Uh huh. I like the one with the ducks. Oh, what are those? Music…
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Signs 2002
This movie has such incredible lighting. The amount of times you can clearly see a shine in the eyes of the family members when they look at Mel Gibson, they’re so much love and they’re waiting for him to share it with them again.
Second most interesting thing about this movie, and Shyamalan’s previous works is how he takes very masculine men and puts them in situations they can only resolve through honesty and vulnerability. Beautiful.
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Made in Abyss 2017
Oops, all world building!
This show is disgusting, and I mean that partially as a compliment.
How do you come up with such absurd monsters with such bizarre biologies? How do you come up with something so psychologically terrifying and repulsively horrifying as the various curses of the Abyss, and so thoroughly investigate their implications?
What could inspire me to make such a journey of sacrifice knowing the risks? How desperate would I have to be? How much pain could I endure,…
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Noir 2001
I’ve never seen an anime so cheaply made get so much mood out of every frame.
Combine the nutty assassin mythology of John Wick with the existential interiority of Leon the Professional, and finish with extremely 2001 aesthetics (imagine a MiniDisc player with a Vaporwave color scheme, or a Wu Tang Clan kitchen apron).
The result is something that might feel stupid and vacuous if it didn’t move with such confidence and purpose. The stories are simple and straightforward, but are buoyed by the unrelenting sad-cool vibe of, yes, a noir. Less jazz, more electronic Celtic.
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