Letterboxd — Your life in film

Typical quarantine activities.

Follows the tried and true boxing movie structure, but transcends the Rocky franchise with a compelling story and some incredibly refreshing directing from Michael B Jordan.

It’s fun enough, but the headache inducing CGI ultimately prevents you from fully turning off your brain and embracing the chaotic nonsense.

Struggles to balance out the sensitive emotional themes with enough action spectacle to keep it interesting, and I wish it embraced the campy nature of its absurd premise a little more. It just wants to be a totally different movie and ends up feeling pretty tired and familiar.

Last movie in the world you’d think would put me to sleep, but it’s surprisingly slow and weirdly lacks both cocaine and bear.

Sentimental to a fault, and maybe it’s the fact that I’ve just never taken the time to watch the rest of the Rocky franchise, but this did nearly nothing for me aside from being a testosterone fueled hype video. Wanted to watch it before seeing Creed III though.

It’s a wholesome story with great production value and a message that’s hard not to be won over by, but it’s unnecessarily long and ends up being extremely repetitive. Felt like I was looking at my watch more than the screen by the end, but I’m glad it’s being so well received and I always love seeing what these guys put out.

2,000th Film Watched

Been trying to decide what film should be my 2,000th movie on here for a while now, and this one is perfectly fitting. It’s a wild ride with heavy themes and well directed action, but I just couldn’t connect to the characters that much and I think my long hiatus from movie watching has definitely affected my attention span because I was anxiously waiting for it to be over. This might just end up being a year of mostly tv shows and books for me.

Had zero expectations going in, so I can’t say I’m disappointed, but boy, this is just incredibly uncompelling and forgettable with directing choices that play it way too safe for the R rating.

Thoughtful, compelling, tender and moving. Absolutely phenomenal.

With strong writing and excellent transitions, this is a really well executed thriller that I enjoyed way more than I thought I would even though the first half is significantly better.

Shockingly tame and painfully boring. Wasn’t expecting much though.