Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I personally think there was too much time spent on slow emotional arc scenes, and I wish there were more genuinely funny moments, but there were already more than a few times that I got a real good laugh! I immensely respect the first feature length looney tunes movie to ever see theaters and of course hand drawn animation. Petunia Pig is female STEM representation at its finest.
10 year old me would've sincerely called this the best movie he'd ever seen. Given the choice between new Snow White and this, watch this.
I didn't mean to write an essay on this but here we go.
I've been reading more about the Book of Kells and rewatching a few scenes, and while I do still think the narrative feels shakily paced and a little emotionally confusing, I think I'm getting it's themes better: Rather than obsessively seeking safety, especially when it's not really possible/within your control, the truest and, in an eternal perspective, most saving response to darkness and evil and fear and…
Though I wouldn't have given it a 10 on first watch, the more times I see it, the more I'm absolutely floored by it. Best depiction of childhood and the magic of it in film, as far as I'm aware.
It is with a heavy heart that I rate it as low as I do. I knew it wouldn't be amazing, but still let myself hope that it might be good. Sadly, the few good aspects like the character design (except the protagonist), the set designs, most of the costume design, some of the animation, and a few well and historically-accurately coordinated fights were just not enough to conquer the vast list of blaring, heartbreaking problems of this movie that…