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It’s a beautiful IMAX picture, the songs played by the characters and the movie score are wonderful. Yet the story lacks the special something, it comes across preachy and wants to make a statement. Maybe that was Cooglers goal idk. It never really turns into a horror flick either. It tries to be unique with some of the choices it makes but I feel like it fails at that because in the end it doesn’t add anything to the story other than to invite evil. There is no redemptive arc coming from it, and it’s forgotten once it serves its purpose. One of the main characters gets killed at the end by some kkk guys who only really matter in the end and there is no information really to who they are other than that their obviously bad because their kkk guys. There is no function to these guys other than they show up to kill him only to be killed by him and hit the main character with one bullet so he can die a heroes death to be with his girlfriend not wife? Who lost their child possibly during pregnancy? You can absolutely setup a death like that, but this all happens after the main evil and antagonist has already been defeated and all the good guys and family already died too. So, idk it feels weird, because the fact that the guy who sells them the barn lied to them about being a former kkk guy but is actually still active kkk, and actually intends to kill all of them gets revealed in the middle of a really bloody battle with Vampires by a character who didn’t think of this fact earlier, like before the god damn Vampires showed up and it was just a chill party? Also how could this character know the kkk will actually show up the early next morning to kill them? I feel like it’s a rushed and unnecessarily complicated way to wrap up the story, maybe it could’ve been cool to have the kkk show up while their still fighting the Vampires and the whole fight climaxes because now there is ultimate chaos and everyone fights everyone. Because why should the kkk wait for the next morning to kill the partygoers? They risk that a lot of people already went home, so if they wanted to kill as many people as possible they could’ve waited until the middle of the night to show up. Idk, I don’t like the ending at all. Imo, not properly thought through imo.

Everyone talked about the one takes, I didn’t like them and the story flattened after the first couple of episodes because there wasn’t really anything more to explore. The side stories other than the actual story of the murder were kind of “meh” not as gripping as the beginning of the series.

Good solid movie, definitely really beautifully shot and the set design is great! Love all the 50s&60s design and props.

Classic cinema, overly theatrical just like all the movies back then. Couldn’t really follow the story, but it’s refreshing to go back and study how they made films back in the day. I’m happy they no longer make them like they used to, but also I think we’re missing a lot of the original ion films had back then for stories and beautiful visuals in movies today, majority of the movies today are all about catching our attention and hijacking our brains, wanting to create some sort of hype around the movies “universe” to then create 99 subsequent movies only to cash out. Instead of coming up with actual good plots, characters and compelling stories that then become classics in Cinema history.

Classic great comedy by Jim Carrey

Interesting setup, but it kinda didn’t get me excited. I think I’m just over the whole AI thing. And the whole nude imagery, and play on sexual attraction kind of bored me, can’t we come up with something more original are we humans so bland?

Light hearted, cool, fun, shallow but enjoyable! Cool visuals, cool cowboys, American as it can get.

The action was cool, but the story was really standard.

Beautiful visuals! Great build up, long middle part and a somewhat anti climactic end.

Gripping movie, they create suspense with great visuals, superb acting and cool scene setups. I enjoyed watching it a lot. I have to watch this movie again the ending felt a bit too naive, since it was super well done literally until the last moment and then everything kind of feels rushed and boring. Also really enjoyed the visuals, clean look but still very moody. Great use of the grand architecture of the Vatican.

I’m really a fan of guy’s films! But this one is a downer. Awkward acting, bad editing, bad timing and no tension build up.

Watched this movie again and have to say, it’s still really good. Only let down is, we don’t really have any felt stakes for the main character. I feel like it’s due to the fact that there is not much character development going on, missed opportunity! There could’ve been some cool character arch. But movie is still entertaining and fun to watch.

Just watched it again, and this movie still excites me. The story telling is gripping. And you can feel the tension rising in maya. She becomes possessed with UBL to the point where everything and everyone becomes her tool to achieve her ultimate goal of killing UBL. Her motivation and her character development feel authentic and relatable. The cinematography is surgically precise and simple, not glamorous or over stylized. It wants to be realistic without loosing the aesthetics of cinema. That’s why Fraser has become one of the greatest DP’s of our time.

Cheesy and annoying over acting. Bad accents, really anticipated more from this movie.

Entertaining Ben Stiller romcom, nothing too crazy but funny and original. The acting is great for a movie of this genre, much better than today’s romcoms. And somehow back then they understood to ride the fine line between cheesiness and seriousness. Whereas nowadays, a lot feels rushed and underdeveloped, this movie has a solid idea what it wants to convey and it does just that. Whether you like the story or not, the message and the comedy comes across in a good way.

I really enjoyed the pace of this movie, even though the antagonist doesn’t have too much dialogue, Cameron is able to create character depth by Showing him in different scenarios, acting and reacting differently every time. I appreciate these older movies for the time
They take to establish a scene, you feel like you know every location because the filmmakers back then took the time to establish the scenes. Of course for today’s standards this movie might feel cheesy to some people, but I think it stands the test of time, the VFX in this movie was outstanding for the time early 90’s and imo it still holds up today! And it’s a proper story! Watching this movie you can feel how James Cameron poured his ion for filmmaking into this, and he did a good job crafting a story the audience cares about.

Entertaining movie! Great cinema for the big screen (I’ve seen it in Imax, really worth it!). If you’re feeling like laughing at vulgar and sexual jokes that’s the movie for you! Deadpool humor at its best. But don’t expect a killer plot the movie is more about jokes and feelings of nostalgia than it is about wanting to be serious (obviously duh!), but if you don’t know what to do or watch go watch Deadpool, it’s really bloody though!

Funny flick, good acting, action and cinematography! Overall fun to watch, but the plot is really foreseeable not that these kind of movies usually have a really crazy plot but I liked the story concept (a movie about the filmmakers world) and would’ve enjoyed some out of the box storyline. But yes sadly nothing special there.

Great movie, compelling and believable characters. Love the tension and the action, I haven’t seen any other racing movies that’s that intense! Beautiful cinematography, even the high key lighting situations look mostly great!

Beautiful film! Love the narration and how it goes along with the imagery. Some reviews say this is a pseudo religious movie, I didn’t feel like it was. It makes some statements on how we are infinite, which was a little weird at first but after thinking about it Imo Malick tries to convey the beauty of life and how we come from dust and will be dust again and therefore we will always be connected to nature. Great film! Wish I could see it on the big screen!

Interesting story concept! Didn’t like the over sexualization visually and verbally in specific scenes, but I guess this belongs to the world the characters are based in. Beautiful cinematography!

Great movie, important message wrapped into a not too preachy story. Great humor and great acting.

It’s actually a good movie!

I love the character development in this movie, characters feel real and believable. There are a couple of cheesy scenes, but overall the clichés do not take the upper hand.

Fantastic show! Beautiful cinematography, great sets and fantastic performances.

The pacing is superb, this is a show that depicts history in an interesting and exciting way. Great watch and also heartbreaking because of the factual background.

Magnificent landscape and nature cinematography. Didn’t like the night scenes and the interior shots. The story is a slow burn, it falls into the same category with all the other political and ideological portrayals of colonialism. This film goes along with the current trend of using art as a vessel to preach political opinions, maybe this film would’ve been more powerful by asking questions and exploring the dilemma instead of the sheer portrayal of violence. No doubt that violence against indigenous people has and still is a tragedy and not acceptable at all. But by blowing into the same trumpet of the current trend of violent portrayals of the barbarity of colonialism this movie falls short of bringing something real and helpful to the table. If films like this would be asking the question, why humans have and still are committing heinous crimes against other human beings we would cross the border of creating groups and actually start a conversation about humanity. And maybe then we as society as humanity could slowly lay aside the us against them mentality and have a conversation about our own wickedness as humans that transcends all and every people group no matter the origin, religion or ideology.

Weakest link in the A24 lineup of films. Love the story idea and portrayal of journalism. But story arch falls short towards the end and some weird decisions have been made in on how to tell the last part of this story. Not a fan of that movie, cinematography was ok.

Beautiful masterpiece of a documentary! Stunningly shot and produced! Already almost 10 years old but stands the test of time because the filmmakers poured every drop of sweat and blood into this piece.

Worst motion picture creation in the world of Tolkien cinematic adaptations. The Hobbit is way better, and Hobbit fell really short of the lord of the rings movies.

Cool fight scenes and great action sequences. Poor CGI and predictable story, bad acting from everyone besides Jake Gyllenhaal.

Funny movie, great acting, interesting twist. Imo falls a little short in the end, but still an entertaining movie. Visually very beautiful!

Overall weak storytelling, they forced Galadriel into a modern weird feminist hero-role. Basically just creating the female counterpart of equally irritating male macho roles like Rambo. Sad, they could’ve created a really cool female hero, because Galadriel is a really awesome and cool character in the books.

Utter garbage!

I had big expectations for this movie. People told me it’s a masterpiece, it definitely is wonderfully shot for a movie that came out in 1962. In my humble opinion, I feel like the acting is out of place and is weirdly overdramatic, probably because back then this was the norm? The acting didn’t sell it for me. What convinced me was the sheer technical difficulty they must’ve overcome shooting in these remote locations. The set design is not over the top and seemed pretty realistic, I love the color pallets they have chosen. The night scenes are sometimes great and sometimes bad, because at times the went for fake moonlight which didn’t look bad, and I have to say some day for night scenes look decent too, but some night scenes look pretty horrendous. I gave it four stars because I ire the filmmaking craft that went into this movie.

Absolutely insane experience! I saw it in IMAX and it was absolutely worth every cent! Magnificently shot and executed, gripping story and wonderful storytelling!