Letterboxd — Your life in film

i did it! this is the last of the oscar nominees 2021! and all i can say about this movie is: ew.

hooooo boy!!!! finally some steaming hot trash!

mr clooney, first of all, we all know what you looked like when you were younger and that is NOT it. 

second of all, i don’t understand why this movie is so bad and boring??? bc the story seems alright, the budget is obviously there, the visuals are nice..... and it’s a snooze fest???? no excuse, mr clooney, no excuse. it’s pacing and directing where it fails and that’s on you mr director.

I dont have the strength to properly review hilbilly elegy, because id rather just forget that i ever watched the damn thing. 

but its not /all/ bad.

ive said it before, the biggest crime a film can commit is being boring

watching this movie is never a good idea. remember til next time. you wont feel good about yourself after.

before the next white american male director makes a movie, i wish they’d just THINK for a minute. is its funny? is it necessary? does it drive the plot forward? 

i would cut down the other guys by maybe 86% and then i would cut down adam mckay himself for being a useless filmmaker. his utter lack of any talent is /almost/ worse than the humour/sexism. he should not be allowed to make anymore movies. bad choices all around.

in fact, all american white males should be banned from filmmaking from now on. its long overdue guys, cmon

bad, movie, bad.

so boring that i had to get up from my train seat and go buy a bottle of wine in the middle of it just to get through it. tries way to hard to be funny and relatable. 
(and i liked the first one!)

listen here boy... listen.... nobody can say this wasn’t  entertaining at times (the ”leap into my arms” just to body smack and fall into a shit river was my personal fav scene) but i think we can all agree — just based on the example above even — that this movie is absolute garbage and will smith was right to apologise for it. it did however remind me of how i should be watching kevin kline more often.

oh my word. 
a shot by shot reenactment of the original but with worse acting/directing/lighting/staging and in this version there’s a vince vaughn masturbation scene.
wouldnt recommend.
i missed cutie patootie anthony perkins.

what exactly are you trying to do here adam mckay??? is it a comedy? is it a drama? what are you trying to be, vice?? not often will you see a film with weirder pacing and editing. just weird choices overall.

Making strange choices doesnt necessarily mean creative or inspiring results. i feel like this movie is the definition of “oo, i’m quirKyy” “i’m not like other girls” and i hate it


for higher rating i would’ve needed to see more of sam rockwell