“You're taller than you look.”
“I hunch.”
“Don't.”
Man, this movie gets it.
A steady and unrelenting focus on truth and responsibility, a glorious Danny Elfman score that somehow sounds exactly how a Spider-Man score should sound, and it’s memorable after only one viewing and many years later in a manner that certain recent MCU outputs can only dream of. What more could you ask for?
This has everything I want from a Spider-Man film, and near enough everything I…
“I can neither comprehend nor describe what happens behind a kitchen door. I have always been content to enjoy the issue of an artist’s talent without unveiling the secrets of the chisel or the turpentine.”
My love for this one is explained quite simply: it’s endowed with all the hallmarks of a great Wes Anderson film. The trademark dry wit of the screenplay (“don't growl at me, you convicted murderer!”). The fast-paced, excessively intellectual voiceover narration, which is admittedly easier…
“We had two wonderful months this summer - and that was it. Come September, the picnic is over - goodbye! The kids go back to school, the boss goes back to the wife, and the girl... they don't make these shrimp like they used to.”
It just gets better. It certainly has one of the finest screenplays I've come across thus far, and I notice new details every time. Not a line is wasted, and everything folds elegantly back in…
“I'm really interested in this woman.”
“What do you mean, interested? What's so interesting about her?”
“Okay, Marcus, here. Here's my last scrap of dignity. Enjoy it. I want to go out with her. Okay? I'd like her to be my girlfriend. There, I said it.”
“Brilliant! Why didn't you just say that?“
“I don't know. I was embarrassed or something, 'cause this is a bit new for me.”
Toni Collette ❤️🥲
When Scorsese said Marvel wasn't cinema, this is the cinema he was talking about. I've seen this twice now, and I do not regret it.
