🧡 = Technical Merit (Direction | Writing | Cinematography | Editing | Acting | Production Design & Art Direction | Sound)
🧡 = Artistic Vision (Symbolism & Metaphor | Complexity)
🧡 = Personal Affect (Replayability | Style | Original Soundtrack | Originality)
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Things I liked the most during previous viewings of The Big Lebowski (there are too many to name, but some highlights):
*One of the many faces of Jeff Bridges, but arguably the most iconic.
*John Goodman was born…
🧡 = Technical Merit (Direction | Cinematography | Production Design & Art Direction | Sound | Editing | Musical Score | Make-up, Costumes & Visual Effects)
🧡 = Artistic Vision (Mood & Atmosphere)
🧡 = Personal Affect (Gratification & Comfort | Replayability | Style | Influence or Change in Perspective)
To all you b*tches out there talking shit about Prometheus, here's a quote from The RZA about Sir Ridley:
“And I’ve got to tell you, one of the greatest brains I ever saw work…
🧡 = Technical Merit (Direction | Writing | Cinematography | Acting | Production Design & Art Direction | Musical Score)
🧡 = Personal Affect (Gratification & Comfort | Emotional Response & Resonance | Replayability | Style)
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Some good looking broad comes to you with a perfect plan to kill her rich husband so you can take off with the estate/ insurance/ inheritance and be together.
Sounds reasonable, right? Stop. You're probably in a film noir, she's probably a femme fatale, and she's definitely going to fuck you up.
🧡 = Technical Merit (Writing | Editing | Acting | Choreography)
🧡 = Artistic Vision (Symbolism & Metaphor | Substance)
🧡 = Personal Affect (Emotional Response & Resonance | Message Poignancy)
A tale of two halves.
***SPOILER ALERT***
In spite of some laughs courtesy of Jenny Slate and the delightful Jamie Lee Curtis (who, it turns out, has impeccable comedic timing), the first half's frenetic, oppressively anxious sensibilities were beginning to make me question what the fuss around EEAAO was all about.…
🧡 = Technical Merit (Direction | Writing | Cinematography | Editing | Acting | Sound)
🧡 = Artistic Vision (Mood & Atmosphere | Symbolism & Metaphor | Complexity)
🧡 = Personal Affect (Emotional Response & Resonance | Originality)
Let's start with the obvious:
Blah blah holy shit Hannibal Lecter blah blah cinematography blah blah atmosphere blah Clarice blah what the actual fuck blah blah crazy blah.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Look, Silence of the Lambs is a masterful exercise in suspense and is a landmark…
