Letterboxd — Your life in film

I had a fun time with this. It’s at least 30 minutes too long and The JLH and JL romance doesn’t work at all, but the rest of the cast delivered entertaining performances.

Too schmaltzy at times and the central girl never worked for me as either an actor or as a character, but Clint as a gunslinging ghost destined to wander is a premise that just works.

Stanley Kubrick’s Suburban Knights (1953)

I didn’t think this was the masterpiece it’s often hailed as today, but it’s hardly the failure it was dubbed as by contemporary critics. The expressionist-inspired look is so cool.

It’s shallow and confused about what it wants to say and I don’t think I would even recommend it to anyone, but oddly enough, it kind of grew on me by the end.

It's a nothing script with poor pacing, but the visuals were fantastic and the performances were decent enough.

There’s a lot to like in this Paul Schrader neo-noir. The visual contrast between the Christmas card midwest and the seedy underbelly of California was great. George C. Scott sells the character and watching his descent was interesting, but the ending from a worse movie and odd pacing at times undercut a lot of the emotional weight.

An incoherent film with an overqualified cast that kind of manages to pull itself together in the last third. John Hurt really was a compelling screen presence.

Those colors and that soundtrack 🤌

A lot of weird Discourse™️ - both pro and con - about Taika lately. I’m sure the man deserves plenty of praise and criticism but as someone who doesn’t care about Thor 4, it’s really weird how hyperbolic people online have gotten about him lately. I understand why potential Star Wars movies get talked about more than this wonderful film, I just don’t like it.

Yeah, this is a beautiful film. It is perhaps Waititi’s best from behind the camera and it has probably his best acting performance as Alamein.

The countless imitations and rip-offs might stop this from hitting quite as hard these days, but countless people have pulled from this for a reason. From the cast to the lighting to the script, Wilder nails it.