25 minutes into "The Tragedy Of Macbeth," and I've turned it off. I'm sorry, beautiful visuals or not, you just cannot be more fucking Shakespeare than Shakespeare.
I'm not even going to sit here and pretend I understood a single sentence of what I saw up to that point. I have seen two plays of Macbeth, and every Macbeth adaptation to date, and honestly, they're nowhere near as incomprehensible as this. I mean, to watch this, unless you're a f*cking…
"You never know what you've got, until it's gone".
Elevated by Dan Romer's captivating score, Patrick Sommerville's thoughtful writing, and the beautiful, yet daunting apocalyptic visuals created by a trio of incredible cinematographers, "Station Eleven" is a poignant look at a civilization crumbling under the weight of a killer flu.
It's a nuanced presentation of a possible future not to far away if we carry on with our current path. A future that hastens with every lie, cover-up, get-rich-quick-scheme, acts…
I think that with "Eternals," people have forgotten this is a new group of heroes, and they're also so focused on the next phase it sets up for the "beloved Avengers," that they don't really much care for the character building going on here. We have our favourite Superheroes who've found their way into our hearts over the course of so many years, so now we're pretty closed off to welcoming newbies.
Then there was all of the enormous hype…
"This Is Just The Beginning"
When you hear that last line of dialogue you know you've reached the final moments of "The Beginning," and you immediately begin to contemplate what you just witnessed, and when you genuinely consider the fact that this is just "the beginning," your jaw falls to the floor. 'Dune' is 85% world-building, 10% character development and 5% action, and that's by no means a complaint when you've been blessed with a film of such an epic…
