Total and absolute chaos. Punch-Drunk Love may be the most unusual Paul Thomas Anderson movie I’ve seen. And easily the most peculiar love story. Let me start by saying I did love this movie. I love the weird, random offbeat awkwardness of it all. This is a one-of-a-kind for sure and it’s easily the best performance Adam Sandler has ever given, without a doubt—Emily Watson is fantastic as well. And of course Phillip Seymour Hoffman, as with any film he’s…
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Open Range 2003
I really like Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall but for some reason I don’t connect with this picture as much as others have seemed to. Open Range is a slow-burn cowboy movie that’s pretty corny in my opinion. There’s some gorgeous cinematography and the final shootout is exciting but it just doesn’t build to anything meaningful. It feels like it’s trying way too hard to be important, like we’re five minutes in and there’s already this swooning anthemic score happening…
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Vanilla Sky 2001
Honestly I might have to relive what he went through in my life at some point. Vanilla Sky probably felt ahead of the times when it came out, but some movies have become so high concept now and seem to put a lot more faith in the audience to figure things out that it just feels a little stilted in comparison. Tom Cruise is great, actually a phenomenal actor, weird seeing his career shift from more dramatic roles to now…
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Alien: Romulus 2024
Look this is about as good as it’s gonna get for the Alien franchise at this point, and I’m fine with that. This scratched my itch for an exciting sci-fi monster space horror. Alien: Romulus brings back the old-school feel of the original and copies the style of the second movie (like the rest of the sequels), but it also combines some awesome practical effects that set the bar pretty high above the other installments. The set design was excellent,…
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