This is gonna be hard to review.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a great film. It's a great watch from the perspective of watching it for the horror or its weirdness. The body horror is so good. The effects are great and it's so creative. The main story and its themes are about a person known simply as The Salaryman becoming more machine than man. It's like Eraserhead (which this movie takes a lot of inspiration from) in that you…
What's Up Doc? is a homage to the screwball comedies of Classic Hollywood. I personally never saw any others. Going by this movie I may like them.
The films main plot is about four identical briefcases and the mix up shenanigans that go down.
The comedy in this movie is great. The fast talking wordplay jokes, some physical humor and absurd situations all come together as all of it is well acted and directed. The way all the characters bounce…
52 Films Directed By Women 2025: #12
The first time watching Lost In Translation, I saw it as a good film, but very orientalist. On this second go-around, I like it more, and the orientalism is more complex than imagined for better and worse.
Japanese culture is used as a visual for alienation, but it's not just culture shock, it's two people's whole lives. They don't just feel emotionally distant in Japan, they feel the same back home. And these…
Chain Reaction Challenge
Progress: 80/100
Link: Hollywood Adaptation Of A European Arthouse Classic → 2009 American Film Titled The Number Nine
It doesn't surprise me that this bombed when it came out when I was nine. No one talked about it, and this was prime "I was actually social at school" time for me. I say this about other films that made money, but those ones are bad usually and spell out its legacy. Watching it, the edginess makes the…
Cobra Thunderbolt packs it all in. The rad chase scene. Battles that range from typical action movie, to the city police battling terrorists, but it's like Vietnam. Both types of scenes having endless explosions. To a name like Dick Smore, which weirdly sounds like the male-equivalent name of a Bond Girl.
The way Villeneuve deals with exposition is almost like the opposite of Lynch, and unsurprisingly better. The former does is all naturally, with a few moments where it's a little more explicit. The latter does exposition all in bulk, with the moments Villeneuve being a bit more explicit on being poorly explained or just not explained. Looking back, it makes sense since Lynch dislikes revealing information.
Denis Villeneuve's Dune really is the Peter Jackson adaptation of Lord Of The Rings compared to David Lynch's Ralph Bakshi.
