It’s pretty mediocre outside of the incredible cinematography and performance from Bautista. Theres really only semblances left of Shyamalans style here but for the most part, it just felt sad watching this film realizing all the tired and racially motivated critical rhetoric Shyamalan has seen his whole career felt combined into constant producer notes that seemed to restrain this film at every turn for the purpose of being “economical” yet missing the full impact of nearly every emotion that Shyamalan…
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Solaris 2002
That has got to be one of the best musical scores I've ever heard.
It ultimately becomes a film about memories and one that visually conveys how our grief manipulates our memories and our perception of others. Bit shocked that there are people trying to call this film hollow, what it does with the ideas of grief is so brutally honest, terrifying, and yet completely unpretentious from Soderbergh's direction to never overstep and suggest an answer to these difficult situations (unlike the inferior film Ad Astra, which in many ways feels like a copy of this film).
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Leaving Neverland 2019
A “documentary” that features no facts. Just people exploiting the “MeToo” movement and detailing out accusations via stories that they likely have been working on for decades since MJ's death. Without any insight into MJ beyond a character attack, this would be awful enough. But the fact that the co-creators had previously testified that MJ never abused them, and even wrote many years later a memoir about how amazing a person MJ was in their lives, just makes this become…
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Before Sunrise 1995
"White people talking about psuedo philosophical bullshit for 2 hours is so riveting and mind blowing"
This is like Anne Hathaway's love speech in Interstellar extended to 2 hours with another person trying really fucking hard to hold a conversation with her so he can smash.
