Lmao @ me for hating this as a kid bc it wasn’t accurate to Greek mythology
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Below 2002
It’s way too long, a little dated, & its reach occasionally exceeds its grasp, but this is otherwise has a great premise, is dynamically shot, tautly cut, uniformly well acted, adorned with immersive production design, & filled with plenty of atmosphere & some clever scares. Would be cool to see Darren Aronofsky write more like this again rather than keep trying to be important
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3 from Hell 2019
I didn’t hate this? It looks better than I expected it to & strikes a nice balance between the psychedelic abstraction of House of 1,000 Corpses & the take no prisoners cruelty of The Devil’s Rejects. It’s been years since I saw the latter but remember strongly detesting it, & against my expectations, this actually managed to empathize with the titular psychotic murderers & make me feel for them in a way that so many claim Rejects accomplishes that I just can’t see. Maybe it…
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Daddy Longlegs 2009
Gonna give it another watch before I’m sure, but this could be my favorite Safdies. It really is just how shaky a majority of the visuals are that are holding back that extra half star, but I love this so much. So personal, so heartfelt, so resonant, so real.
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
I watched this instead of the Oscars, yet I feel I got the same amount of self aggrandizing, speeches, faux progressive ideals, & relentless moralizing that ultimately amounts to a hollow display of wealth that aspires to critique its own very essence. I’ll admit the captain’s dinner was very funny & admirably gross, but it occurs at the hour mark, & everything beforehand was borderline unwatchable for me. The commentary being made is so leaden & obvious, & the characters are too shallow & vapid to…
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018
It’s not terrible. Anyone who decries this movie being worse off without Deakins or Villenueve’s visual finesse is nitpicking & biased imo. It looks & sounds phenomenal & has some very effective set pieces. Every step down from the original lies in the script & tone. In regards to the latter, pick one: Michael Bay taken seriously in a geopolitical sense, or Zero Dark Thirty for the bois. You can’t have both. As for the story, I have to join the widespread pile on…
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