Knowing the story behind this and how it was made really tongue in cheek but also incredibly seriously takes this pretty funny movie with some inventive scenes and elevates it into a truly inspiring feat of filmmaking. Makes you feel like making YouTube videos really can lead to bigger things, but should also be appreciated in its own right as a form of filmmaking. And Matt steals the show.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The Batman 2022
So much of the dialogue is plot exposition, so I was able to track along with certain plot points better this time around. Everything seemed to coalesce better. But it was all just as beautiful.
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Free Guy 2021
2 things:
1) kinda sad Christophe Beck brought back his Paperman theme for this…I absolutely love that score and animated short. But whatever it kinda works here, just couldn’t stop thinking about Paperman while it played.
2) there’s actually a really interesting movie in here revolving around the two secondary leads’ love story (Keys & Millie), it’s too bad it got bogged down by all the other bells & whistles
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The Dark Knight 2008
Each time I watch this I feel like I pick up on a new plot detail that helps me understand what the heck is going on. 😆 But it doesn’t matter anyway because it’s so well-paced and every scene is so engaging in its own way
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Kimi 2022
Now this is how you make a pandemic movie!
2 thoughts:
1) Soderbergh is modern day De Palma?
Or
2) This movie is just modern day Blow Out?Either way, very good. Soderbergh consistently delivers interesting stories but it’s his ability to display such control and creativity over the camera/visuals that put his films over and above most things being made right now. Almost every time I see one of his movies I think to myself, “huh, I’ve never seen something like that before”
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Nightmare Alley 2021
I almost gave this more stars, but you know what? No. I did not like this. Just like I did not like Shape Of Water or Crimson Peak or, dare I say, Pacific Rim, before it. Idk what’s going on with Del Toro but the “magic” just isn’t there anymore. Yes, there are some things to appreciate. But his latest films have such a fake, almost television-like veneer to them, and it’s made worse by cheesy, overly self-aware, performances. Can someone explain why I find his movies so “blah” now?
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