“But it was an experience. I will not turn him into an anecdote.”
Not that I regularly care this much about the troubles of the uber-affluent 1%, but there’s some wild magic running afoot in every abrupt cut of this exemplary — I mean it — and kinetic adaptation from stage to screen; the kind that makes one forget there’s something that separates both media, one in which it’s all bridged so seamlessly I was left wondering how it took…
“… One day I’ll be—”
It won’t be the Disney live-action remake to eclipse its animated original, but it’s laudable that, even with the hurdle of having to look dark and drab, this Mermaid might be the first since Branagh’s Cinderella to show some semblance of anything, and to establish itself as bonafide escapism on its own.
I can’t remember many recent blockbusters this seemingly enamored with the idea of movement; for all the immersed — and immersive — CGI underwater wonders…
“I don’t want to move on.”
The gays were ready for Chris Messina to have his elevated-horror-scream-queen moment, but alas, destiny had in store for him a movie in which he spends two thirds away just so the screenplay can prove he’s an emotionally absent father!…
But truly, as far as studio horrors go these days — and the overall state of King’s adaptations —, it’s a marvel that this boogeyman takes its time to develop, while playing with light…
“All you need is to want it.”
A plot built around wishing upon, with no material threat... I get why some would regard Wonder Woman 1984 as lazy. On my end, I just find it to be one rare beautiful tentpole, on how innocence can quickly turn into ignorance, and the price one pays for that.
Patty Jenkins really built something here. Ultra-reminiscent of the blockbusters of the era it’s set in, when some dumb idea could become the most massive of…
I’m a rare beast, I say Michael Bay’s an auteur all the time, but that I don’t like his art; and then today that shit came out to bite me.
My boys, what a perfect marriage of every high-octane masterpiece set in LA and the dumbest exaggerations a man in love with explosions could ever come up with. I’m awestruck at the audacity. There’s Speed in there, Heat, T2, it has it all; but then as soon as this thing starts,…
