The Menu meets Shaun of the Dead meets Dr. Strangelove?
I don’t know. I mean, I laughed a lot during this. Just the idea of a bog body circle jerk was hilarious.
Everyone is playing it straight, which is funny enough. Then there is all this absurdity, like the POTUS being obviously British, and the “regret” confessions. Parts of the film looked awful, almost reveling in its low budget. The score was also rough, almost amateurish. If these factors had…
Maybe I’m upset because the bar set by Parasite was so damn high, but I expected more out of this film. There is so much slapstick that never made me laugh, and the end sequence dragged, killing the fun pace of the first 3/4 of the film.
There are some funny bits, and of course any time we take down Trump and his whisperers I’m on board. Bong has an obvious distaste for Capitalism and Carnivores, but (and I’m sorry…
I’ll never forget my Dad telling me so many years ago, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder….for somebody else.” At the time, I was pining for my college girlfriend while on summer break. And of course he was right. We wrote some heavy love letters, but her passion for me went away.
When I came back, we tried to make it work, but it wasn’t the same, for a million reasons. Would my life have been different if I stayed…
Ok, so I’m not AS pissed off as I was at the end of last night’s Oscars.
Without question, Hopkins pulled off maybe the hardest part I’ve ever seen. There isn’t a second where you think “Oh, no way he would do that”.
It is brilliantly unsettling to be inside the perspective of one who is “losing his leaves”. The way the sets are done is quite amazing, and I think the production design was magnificent. I really was impressed…
