Spirited Away has captured so many hearts because of its rich animation, its strange aesthetic, and the messages embedded in its characters. To many this film is peak Miyazaki, and though it was my second anime film it helped to instill a confidence in me that I could watch anime films and enjoy them (something my immediate family never could do).
The first thing that leaps out at me to talk about are the sisters Yubaba and Zeniba, which in…
I loved the discussion of what the orcs represent, because they don't represent a culture Tolkien wanted to demonize as many of his contemporaries did. Orcs represented the post-modern machinations of war personified. As a documentary the film is informative for anyone who has not read the books, though it is otherwise dull in many ways for someone who has read the books. The commentators are more interesting than the summary or the Tolkien archive footage and I was interested…
Seems like a very half-hearted Christmas movie. Very little of this film is interesting, entertaining, or engaging. Mostly rides on the cuteness of the baby to save itself from irrelevancy. Kinda been hitting a spot of bad films I don't care to talk much about after having seen a spat of some of the best movies I've seen in a while before that. The last 40 minutes is basically what I was looking for the first 70 minutes of the movie and all of the engaging parts shoved into the end can't make up for that.
King Kong is so uncharacteristically bloody and violent in comparison to any other film I've seen from this era! So much death, carnage, and ripping apart the jaws of your enemies! The acting isn't bad and though the pacing stalls around the hour mark, the last forty minutes of the film more than make up for any issues the earlier part of the film had. Obviously the stop motion is genius and the special effects have had a lasting effect…
I cried. What else is new. Maybe if you’re from my generation, you can remember and empathize with how sad I was when Spider-Man 3 struggled enough that 4 never materialized. The Spider-Man you grew up with (because I didn’t have an opportunity to read the comics, other than the encyclopedias) was Spider-Man no more. Although X-Men is the true pioneer in this kind of movie, Spider-Man made it obvious that this kind of movie wasn’t just a one-time success,…
