I'm pretty upfront about my favorable bias regarding Ti West, so I knew I was going to like when he first announced the project years ago. But now that I finally watched it, the film is a bit different than I imagined. The plot really is just an all-efficient distillation of the classic revenge story. But there's some real goofiness thrown in—this is an element I've really appreciated in (most of) West's films over the years, and it really works…
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Aquaman 2018
Some sequences are beautiful and almost hallucinatory. Other scenes are amazingly stupid (like, any time someone talks). The movie suffers from serious superhero movie bloat—I got close to permanently turning the thing off, but thankfully the final act came along and woke me up.
Dumb dumb dumb with some beautiful stuff mixed in.
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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
A lot of the focus for this film is on the Totoro scenes, of which there are surprising few. (And that CATBUS, man. Insane!) But the rest of the movie hit all of the right buttons for me. Miyazaki always does an amazing job of capturing the small wonders of life, be it children steeling themselves to go into a dark attic (and then finding someone amazing) or the joy of enjoying a sunny day. Lovely stuff.
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 2013
Two couples, two different sets of problems. Weichung and his wife Feng have been married almost a decade; he's closeted, she doesn't know. Weichung's sister Mandy splits up with her fiance San-San right before their wedding, since she wants something better than "normal" (and San-San is very, very normal).
This is a slight film in tone and appearance. I thought it asked some really honest questions and ran with them, and it's hard not to feel for the characters. There…