a_runt_rants

amateur professional indie commercial trequarista false 9 deep lying filmmaker.

Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Parasite
  • Superbad

All
  • Sound of Metal

    ★★★★½

  • The Mehta Boys

    ★★

  • Manjummel Boys

    ★★★★

  • Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

    ★★★★

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Sound of Metal

2019

★★★★½ Liked Watched

This film is near perfect if not perfect, and I consider it perfect because Riz Ahmed may be the hottest man alive.

They should invent a Ganji/Vest Test to check how hot a person is. Popular nominees being Hrithik from Dhoom 2 and Riz here.

The way they used perspective here, the way they used sound, some shots, the stillness in the end, everything about this fucking film slaps so fucking much.

This is the first film of 2025 which…

The Mehta Boys

2024

★★ Watched

Quite boring and draggy.

I’m honestly being very liberal with my rating in some ways — because this film we barely managed to finish watching.

What good is a film if it cannot entertain those watching it?

+ the art is there but it’s so surface level and barely intellectual (but ofc overintellectualised by social media fuckers) that I can’t take it seriously.

Wanted more from Boman Irani, expected better.

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The Archies

2023

★★½ Watched

As poor as this film is, I think audiences have been too harsh on it due to the “nepotism” factor and then thereafter the audience becomes the mob, blindly following most others.

Don’t get me wrong, this film is not good. It’s glaringly average, and maybe a little below average. The dialogues are bad, the plot is predictable, and the characters are not interesting in the least. But then again, these problems are associated with most of the films that come…

Friday Night Plan

2023

★★½ Watched

SO MUCH EXPOSITION.
WHEN WILL SCREENWRITERS LEARN HOW TO STOP WRITING EXPOSITION-HEAVY DIALOGUE?!
Sorry for screaming but it really pisses me off.

FNP is a cute film. Vatsal Neelakantan does a good job trying to create his own version of Superbad but there's a lot lacking. Skipping aside the lack of proper stakes(until the jail/lockup mention at the end of act 2), the low amount of conflict, etc, the film isn't nearly telling of a generation and its culture the…