Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
On the one hand, the movie is nonsensical and the writing is just weird; shout out in particular to the one-liners that just - aren't. They aren't anything, they're just statements of fact!
On the other hand, the future fits and hairstyles kind of rule, the movie sprints along at a good clip, and timely use of being able to do the splits saves our hero's life. The special effects are janky as hell but I have a deep fondness…
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Any 3-hour movie that zips by that fast is like at LEAST an automatic 3 stars right out of the gate
Scott's sense of scale really shines - the crowd scenes and the battles are both excellent and feel weighty. The most striking parts of the movie to me, though, were the quieter ones - probably the best and most moving scene is Sibylla saying goodbye to Baldwin, but also Saladin walking through Jerusalem as flags flutter down…
What a lovely movie. A couple of things that stuck out to me -
1. the use of technology - Thelma and Ben's confidence with cell phones and hearing aid apps and electric scooters vs Thelma's discomfort with the computer was both funny and astute
2. not to be the diegetic sound guy, but I really enjoyed the muffling effects and how the non-diegetic music was used whenever Thelma turned her hearing aids off
3. just a real sense of…
Is there a definitive ranking of Ryan Gosling's Cool Movie Jackets somewhere. Man wears some cool jackets in his movies.
Anyway I really enjoyed this :) I watched some behind the scenes stuff about stunt people as a teenager and tried to learn parkour (mostly this entailed flinging myself onto a futon at high speed; I'm surprised I didn't break it, actually) and have been generally interested in stunts since, so I was already inclined to like a movie centered…