Why don't all movies look this good?
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
The Sword and the Dragon 1956
Movie magic abounds if you can withstand the charmless "repel the invaders" bravado.
Popular reviews
More-
Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Vampiric. What's left for those who want for nothing? Even sex is reduced to empty ritual built on the blood of us "mortals". The spectacle—devoid of any actual sexuality—means nothing besides the show of strength. Alice, the only character to admit to an honest human desire, is also the only erotic part of the film. Bill's world is shattered not because his wife's fantasy wounded him, but because he shares it. The club he assumed to be a member of is a grotesquerie—that tolerated him at best! Imagine wanting that life. It's inhuman.
-
The Chronicles of Riddick 2004
One of the last sci-fi movies to ever really go for it. Maximalist in a way that pretty much doesn't exist anymore. Xbox ass movie. It probably owes more to D&D and fucking Warhammer 40k than the usual suspects, Aliens and Dune. Riddick is clearly the coolest character in the world to Vin Diesel and you know what? He's right.
