“If he dies, all that is left of me will die with him.”
This is, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood films of the past 20 years.
The first time I watched this earlier this year, I was on the fence about it because I never really understood the importance behind it. I went into it expecting a terrible film, but I think that’s why I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it; I was surprised by…
Ok yes, the kid is practically the spawn of satan. But, if you walk in on your kid jerkin it and you make prolonged eye contact instead of immediately closing the door, there’s blame on both sides.
I’m surprised, I thought I was gonna love this one but I’m incredibly underwhelmed. This reminded me a lot of the Capone biopic they came out with last year; there are far more similarities than I care to admit, and although this movie did it incomparably better, I can’t help but feel that it was more cheesy than impactful for me. I also hate saying this about any movie, but this was overwhelmingly pretentious. I can overlook that most of the…
It’s so nice to see Will Smith in a good movie AND giving a great performance. It’s been a minute.
I don’t think this movie is incredible, but the performances push it way past what it would have been otherwise. The story is a little shallow and seems to skim over a lot of potentially potent side stories and deeper problems. That’s not really the point of the movie though, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
It still has a lot…
Wow I related to this so much! Especially the scene where Rami Malek and Denzel are in a car talking about how bored they are while waiting for something to happen...
“In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.”
When I was a senior in high school, I was one of the morning announcement guys (I know, I know). Every morning my sign off was that quote, in the hopes that when anyone from my school watched this movie, they would hear that quote and go
“🙄 *scoff* the morning announcement guy.”
If that has happened even once, it was a success.
