Shine on.
Joined on September 1, 2019
I watched the director’s cut of this and I have no idea what could have possibly been cut out in the theatrical cut. This film isn’t that epic in its story, it’s pretty contained to just a few characters and for any other filmmaker with this 3 hour runtime, the film could be super boring, but Mike Flanagan makes it consistently chilling, atmospheric, interesting, and just completely brilliant. All of the performances are incredible. Especially Ewan McGregor, Kyleigh Curran, and…
Still a great and very heartfelt film with some fantastic performances, but didn’t love it quite as much as I wanted to unfortunately. I love you Mike Mills, but you just went a bit too far with the mumblecore and quirkiness for me here to quite call this film amazing or a masterpiece.
I will admit I’m very biased on this new documentary on the topic of one of my favorite musicians, Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi. For the short time I’ve been listening to his music, it’s meant a lot to my life and he’s been one of the main artists on the “Soundtrack 2 My Life” in Freshman year of college. His music has been a great escape for me when I’m feeling at my lowest. So seeing this doc going…