Birth Year Challenge: Part 1: letterboxd.com/alexc25/list/birth-year-challenge-part-1/
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A pretty neat short that won the Academy Award for animated short. Well done stop motion work and art direction was also pretty strong, even with the video source I watched this on being rather pixely and blurry. The story itself if nothing special still works and I quite like the ending and what it implies happens with the sand man.
I love the first Trainspotting which is among my favorite movies of all-time, so I set my expectations to more of not expecting this to be better or equal, but atleast pretty good.
Thankfully, it was that and more. I felt there was a theme of redemption throughout the movie and reconciliation of the past while trying to stay-up with the changing future. Sure, there was a lot of call-backs to the first movie, but I never felt it was…
Do I really need to say anything? The hype is real!
That said without spoiling anything, there were a few nitpicks and smaller issues which prevent this movie from being a total favorite, mostly having to do with the fact that things would get expanded and fleshed in the up-coming sequels, so we didn’t get that much in terms of backstory of characters and world, and though also a strength, the movie seems to own a lot from the very…
Just like last year, I went and watched at the theater a new Star Wars film and had a blast of a time. Now, The Force Awakens was excellent in many ways and until I finally get to some movies of that year, it's my favorite of 2015. Not only Rogue One is also so far my favorite of this year and turned out to be even better than The Force Awakens, but now it's among my favorites of all-time.…
