Letterboxd — Your life in film

disney really can’t have a main black character without turning them into an animal or amorphous blob (or both!) within 15 minutes. 

the joe/22 dynamic felt like a watered down version of the central relationships from finding nemo, wreck it ralph, monsters inc etc. but I thought the nyc scenes felt SO striking and beautiful + the final message was moving. in a time of such great uncertainty it was cool to see writers lean into that. I also loved the…

the outer layer is a bright candy coated shell, but peeling that back reveals the inside as hollow. i don’t have negative feelings about the ending (or the film as a whole) the way some do, actually i enjoyed it until it was almost over. but then the bad taste it left behind immediately started creeping in. as a complete picture it just feels like a bunch of gotcha moments that lack a certain kind of empathy for the subject…

i’ve spent many hours of my life seeking out stories like this. not all of them are (or have to be) love stories, but even when love isn’t the main focus there’s still one element that every good film needs: chemistry. and ammonite has none. that isn’t the only thing lacking here, but it’s the most glaring reason why this never clicked for me. i sometimes give the benefit of the doubt to some of the worst films i’ve seen…