Letterboxd — Your life in film

Sandy Collora - which might be the most unintentionally darkly hilarious name of all time - proves that in this age of CGI filled blockbusters providing the schlock, you can still make a great B-movie with guys in suits in quarries.

Bravo.

Some great sequences and ideas - particularly the intelligent bombs, but very much the unsure work of early film makers who would go on to do great things.

There's a lot to really like here, the animation is excellent and it makes me sad that western traditional 2D animation is near-extinct. But it's also a hot mess of wasted potential in its portrayal of family and fatherhood.

The title isn't false advertising.

I don't even

A melancholic film, combining the inspiring nature of most sports movies with hints of Up In The Air and a shit ton of maths. Could be a masterpiece, a game changer if you will, but comes up just short.

"It's a metaphor"
"I know it's a metaphor."

Oblivion is pretty, and like all good sci fi, has interesting ideas. However it never settles on a central idea or theme, preferring twist over genuine exploration of theme and character, giving you a well made ride that gets you partially invested in the characters, but doesn't at all live up to it's full potential.

Kung Fu Panda 2 is exactly what a sequel should be. This franchise has all the makings of an every other year serial, with adventures which draw on character development for all of the brilliant ensemble, and not simply one mainline "trilogy" that we're all about these days. It will reign in cinemas for the next--

Kung Fu Panda 2, in 2016?! You have got to be kidding me. C'mon guys. It's like you don't know how special what you've got is.

I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE.

KUNG FU PANDA IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FILM FRANCHISES EVER, AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS IT.

JOIN ME IN THE AWESOMENESS. LET'S FIND OUT THE SECRET INGREDIENT TOGETHER.

Probably a good time to note that the scores are totally personal opinions of my reaction, not the objective quality of the film, and that I was in the wrong mood to truly appreciate it. It was pretty funny, but I couldn't get into the story or care about the characters at all. 'Cept Cosmo, that motherfucker is where it's at.

The Artist gets a lot of flack for it's simplicity, it's obvious "subtext" that a child could understand (Perhaps that's why it won best picture -ba dum tish-), but I see these not as negatives. It's super simple, and accessible to any age. It is the definition of a simple story, well told, and that's all it needed to be.

And for a silent film, it had some great dialogue.