I too, cannot believe I haven’t seen [insert movie].
Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album, track #1, 2:47-2:50.
I wrote so much about why I didn’t enjoy this but I deleted it because it won’t bring me peace.
This is Alex Garland’s Chappie.
That’s all, that’s the review.
Alright. A little more. I’m half remembering this, but does anyone else recall that tumblr era post about how people don’t always call out inappropriate/unwelcome behavior, they just stop associating. And it was like a little PSA post that was talking about how you should think critically about not only what…
An insanely calculated, disorientating, and exhausting experience. Truthfully though, it’s just fundamentally not really an experience for me.
I adored Good Time (2017) for Connie’s (Robert Patterson) ruthless, desperate intelligence and the intermittent glimpses we get of a misguided— but still intact soul. A soul manifested almost entirely through Benny Safdie’s wounded character.
And yet, Uncut Gems feels intentionally devoid of a heart or soul (conflate or separate those things as as you will). From the moment the Safdie’s weave…
Wh- what happened?..
(It’s very ugly, it’s also not really 80’s at all, it’s incomprehensible, it’s WAY too long, it’s very dumb, it’s terribly edited, it’s nonsensical).
It’s 4 different movies smushed together and all of them are fundamentally contrived. Also, it’s ugly.
How was this made by the same people as the first one? Are we sure it was because that music was absolutely not done by Hans Zimmer, at least, I hope it wasn’t.
Justice League > WW1984 and…