thegijoel

thegijoel

Favorite films

  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Prisoners
  • Dune
  • The Shawshank Redemption

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  • Parasite

    ★★★★★

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

  • Morbius

  • Turning Red

    ★★★★

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  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★★

    First I gotta say I can't believe I let so much time pass before watching this, and to think there were days of my life without this incredible work of art in my life makes me genuinely sad. 
    I don't say movies are perfect very often so please take me seriously when I say this film is simply perfect. There is absolutely nothing I would change, add or takeaway. An incredibly original story, incredible visuals and symbolism, and great performances from the whole cast.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    This film was truly a great and unique take on the idea and current fad we are seeing in storytelling of the multiverse. Evelyn has a life full of decisions and regrets like all of us do. But for Evelyn, all or her decisions in life feel like the wrong ones, because she is clearly stressed, unhappy and unsatisfied with her lot in life. That is until the multiverse reaches out to her with a mission, and at the worst…

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  • Morbius

    Morbius

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★★

    Dune has long been considered a book that could never be successfully adapted to film, and I have seen every attempt from David Lynch, the Syfy channel original series, and this movie was the first successful try. If you ever read Dune you know exposition and internal monologue play a huge part in the story. Of course to have that much exposition or that much monologuing would be a mortal sin on film. But somehow villenuve was able to translate…