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I'm convinced that one of the sound guys accidentally deleted all the dialogue and they had to ADR the entire movie to fix their stupid mistake.
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"Well, slotted pig, these are standard issue."
This film has to be regarded as one of the all time best sequels to any movie ever. Everything the first film did, this one turns up to 11. The writing is cleaner, the animation looks 4 times better, the voice acting really draws you in, and the song... man that song...
(Also this is the version of Lightyear I wanted to see)
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To go from the slow, methodical and simply gorgeous pace of Andor to this bullet train of an opening is the worst whiplash I've experienced since watching the movie Whiplash.
(i miss Andor)
Daredevil: "My dad worked for Fallon..."
Me, a 1996 kid who only just watched the Netflix Daredevil series for the first time this year: "WHAT? JIMMY FALLON IS IN THIS?"
Even with all the memes that have come from this film and lasted the test of time, the funniest moment is STILL the shark stealing Woody's hat going "I'm Woody Howdyhowdyhowdy." and it needs to be referenced in pop culture a whole lot more than Woody sex face or Buzz depress face.
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Just like Yelena, I too was the goalkeeper of an absolutely terrible kids soccer team who never won a match and shipped countless amounts of goals.
Oh, and I'm hella depressed.
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"There should not be this much sexual tension between an adult and a child" - my partner halfway through watching this film
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This is basically Ted Lasso except instead of a soccer club in England and Hannah Waddingham is your boss, it's a fashion start up company in Brooklyn and Anne Hathaway is your boss.
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Marvel Execs: "Ok we need something to differentiate Sam Wilson's Captain America from Steve Rogers. Thoughts?"
Writers: "Hear me out... what if we gave him a Duolingo subscription?"
Marvel Execs: "...........genius."
MCU I See You - Marvel Ranked
The funniest birth scene in all of cinema.
Also between this and No Way Home I've learned that Andrew Garfield can make me cry with just a single look, and that's a damaging amount of power he wields.
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Why does it feel like I turned up to the cinema to watch Puss In Boots 3: The Lost City?
Also no Peter Capaldi booooo
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OKAY FINE
HAVE YOUR 4 AND A HALF STARS AND LET ME GO CRY IN PEACE
I know this is weird to say, because Stephen Schwartz wrote the original soundtrack, but...
HOLY SHIT JON POWELL THIS IS THE BEST SCORE YOU HAVE EVER MADE WHAT ON EARTH DID I JUST WITNESS
Ariana Grande deserves to have her own cinematic universe and Jonathan Bailey should have been one of the princes in Into The Woods no questions asked holy shit this film was WAY too good
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It's hilarious to me that this 2000 film is the breeding ground for Hans Zimmer's best scores.
In the opening battle scene (and throughout) you can clearly hear his working idea for Pirates of the Caribbean (2003).
About an hour in when Proximo ends a conversation with Maximus and stares out his open window, you can hear the horn line from 'Time' from Inception playing, and that didn't come out until 2010.
Lets see it Gladiator II has the Batman theme or some shit
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As a kid I wanted to be Johnny English because he was a cool spy.
I now realise as an adult I've grown up to be Bough, mainly because I too am sick to death of the zany Mr Bean antics and the weird French Interpol person with the Australian accent.
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I walked into a housewarming party where this film was on, and the scene with Devon Sawa and the poor cat was happening. Please try imagine that scene with NO CONTEXT, and then imagine me watching the rest of this film trying to piece this mad ass plot together
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Even though Reverend Moore is the best character in this film, I really want to see John Lithgow play him as Lord Farquaad and see how much better the film gets.
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Beni is the most hateable character in all of cinema, and I say that having sat through all of Artemis Fowl.
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Rest in peace to Francis Ford Coppola's winery that he sold in order to make this movie
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"This film should win all of the awards just for Blake Lively's boots" - my partner who liked this film far more than I did
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"Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why."
I hadn't seen this film in 8 years, but knew that I had ranked it 8th on my This Golden Retriever Pup's Favourite Films list. My word does it live up to that ranking in every sense.
Let's start with the recent ing of Bernard Hill. I never really noticed his performance until this viewing, where he comes in alongside established characters and steals the show in EVERY scene he's in. The guys got presence, and I feel every emotion he's conveying. Top that with Viggo's Aragorn, Sean and Elijah's consistent chemistry and Sméagol (we'll get to him) this film has class in every corner. I'll leave my Aragorn talk for the next film, I have a lot to say, but just know that Two Towers forms the solid ground for just how brilliant of a character he is in all of cinema.
It's incredible how every department of this film hits it out of the park. Compare the editing of this film to The Last Jedi, where there is also 4 or 5 different locations and character stories being cut to. Where TLJ edit falters and leaves you cold out of the crucial elements of the story, The Two Towers effortlessly balances the characters, their individual quests and their battles whilst not tanking the pace of the film. We see Merry and Pippin the least but it is because their part of the story is slower and easier to comprehend, whereas we strongly follow Aragorn Legolas and Gillian's they chase down orcs, restore kings and protect the people of Rohan. What helps with keeping this edit streamlined are the narrative elements being tied together by the same characters (eg. the random family of two kids separated by their mother during the village attacks end up at Helms Deep and end up fighting). It flows seamlessly and makes 3 hours feel like 2.
The combat, the battles, the stunts, the weapon work, it's all top notch, but the VISUAL EFFECTS. There is something about early 2000s visual effects that seem to be timeless and perfect. The battle sequences look realistic, the background and environments look gorgeous and well realised, and Sméagol looks mostly stunning for technology they were inventing on the fly. Andy Serkis' audition for Gollum was the figurative 'lighting of the touch paper' for the future of cinema. If Peter Jackson had followed his original idea of fully CGI character with a voice actor these films would never have been as classic as they are, and motion capture wouldn't be as developed or as strong as it is today. We have this early collaboration of Jackson and Serkis to thank for this, along with such a compelling well written character.
Oh, and Howard Shore's music.... I could speak for an age of what these themes do to me, especially the Rohirrin theme that plays constantly whilst the party are in the heart of Rohan. This man put an entire world into his music and it never ceases to amaze.
It's hilarious to me how this film is so good, and yet it STILL isn't my favourite one. That one is coming... my king.
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"Mother, just because I wear trackies and play sport, does NOT MAKE ME A LESBIAN!" Is the best line ever delivered by Keira Knightley.
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Inside Out is one of my favourite animated films ever made (it fights Wreck It Ralph and Incredibles on a daily basis). There is a level of emotional catharsis that punches me in the stomach every time I watch that film, let alone every time I hear the first notes to 'Bundle of Joy'.
Inside Out 2 impresses, but falls marginally short of its predecessor. Having a different director, different characters, different vision and even a different composer (Michael Giacchino I miss you) did inject this film with some new life; however it seemed to lose some of the simple classic charm that the original possessed in spades. An entertaining and worthwhile story in its own right; just unfortunate that Inside Out 2 has to live up to the behemoth of the original.
Gotta hand it to Embarrassment; best character of the movie and he hardly spoke.
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Simple and effective. Shyamalan can be overly ambitious and miss the mark countless times, but here he sticks to his premise effortlessly and carves out a possibly one of the only concert thriller films in existence. Interchanging protagonists can be messy but for once M Night pulls it off. Nowhere near his best, but still solid.
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Speaking as a completely third party objective with absolutely no personal interest in the matter, I think this film slaps.
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Centaur Pierce Brosnan is my spirit animal
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Channing Tatum Gambit is giving serious Benoit Blanc energy and I don't know how to feel
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10% of this films runtime is Daisy Edgar-Jones looking at clouds, pulling out a camera and taking a photo of them.
90% of it is Glen Powell turning me gay.
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"Read my lips. FIVE. THOUSAND. DOLLARS."
"Can you put this in a good spot? All this shit happened last time I parked here."
"Disturbing the peace? I GOT THROWN OUT A WINDOW!"
Eddie Murphy's best movie, one of the better cop comedies of all time, Brooklyn 99 wishes it could rise this high (love you B99).
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Bridge to Terabithia grew up to be a scary ghost animatronic animal horror film.
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"Hey Luca, have to say that's a really ingenius way to shoot a tennis game, well done."
"OH YOU WANT MORE"
"...sorry what-"
"I CAN DO IT DIFFERENT"
"...well sure, but you nailed it alre-"
"HERE IS CAMERA BALL"
"Oh, wow, that's int-"
"HERE IS POLICE BODYCAM"
"Oh jeez alright that's a bit weir-"
"HERE IS INTENTIONALLY SHAKY"
"My word this is quite a lot-"
"HERE IS GLASS FLOOR"
"Sorry what?"
"GLASS FLOOR"
"Okay this is getting out of hand-"
"HERE'S THREE UNINTERRUPTED MINUTES OF ZACK SNYDER SLOW MOTION FOOTAGE WHILST ZENDAYA STARES INTO YOUR SOUL"
"please stop"
Teenage Aaron Taylor Johnson might have stolen a piece of my girlfriend's heart, but I'm taking comfort in the fact that he has no idea how to hold a bass guitar.
Also Angus the cat deserved more screen time, he's the damn title character.
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It's funny to think that they waited 2 years for reshoots just to have Daisy Ridley kick Mads Mikkelsen into a hole.
Also why was Nick Jonas in this
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Ryan Gosling disguised as an alien giving multiple middle fingers to a gaslighting liar is exactly the type of energy I want in my everyday life from now on.
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Films whose narrative benefited from Michael J Fox playing Marty McFly instead of Eric Stolz:
1. The Flash
2. Back to the Future
3. Back to the Future 2
4. Back to the Future 3
Ryan Gosling's reaction when he found a dead body is the best piece of comedic acting I have ever seen and needs to be taught at drama schools for centuries to come.
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Here's a fun test: let's put Kumail Nanjiani in all of the 2-star-rated films, and see how many of them he bumps up to 3 stars simply because he was in it.
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Javier Bardem blindly worships Tatooine-Willy-Wonka in the exact same way that I blindly worship Scott Pilgrim, and I have no idea whether that makes him weirder than me or the other way round.
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Taste the Rainbow motherfu-
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Best Acting Debuts In Cinema History
1. Dafne Keen in Logan
2. Zack Gottsagen in The Peanut Butter Falcon
13. Shia LaBeouf in Holes
942. Jason Bateman in Teen Wolf Too
Eleven was fine, but there wasn't enough Dustin shenanigans to be a 4+ rating.
Bring me my Dustin shenanigans.
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This one is tough. Because despite the action being done really well, and despite Professor McGonagall being an absolute legend, this film falters at the end.
I can't stress how perfect the war of words finale was in the book; Harry and Voldemort circling each other in the Great Hall with everyone surrounding them, as Harry breaks down Voldemort using his tongue rather than any other weapon. Voldemort's constant retorts of "you dare-" being match by Harry standing up to his foe; "Yes, I dare". Harry exposing the flaws in Voldemort's vision, and how the Elder Wand could never harm Harry as he is the rightful master of the wand. Instead of this nuance dialogue brilliance, we get Hollywood Chad Harry Potter having fisticuffs with Voldy and tackling him off a building because reasons.
That being said, everything with Snape is perfect and magical. Knowing now that Alan Rickman nearly didn't take the role because he didn't want to be a villain, and then seeing this conclusion of the character is probably as emotional as this series gets. Neville gets his time to shine, Molly Weasley's one line steals the show, and Professor McGonagall's childlike "I've always wanted to use that spell" hits me in my core.
This film is enjoyable and a farewell to a strong 8 film saga. I only wish some moments had translated better from the page to the screen.
Also music is top notch Desplat rules
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It was actually fine. Not top tier MCU but still fine.
The editing and pacing was like a plane crashing through a bale of hay, but apart from that it was fine.
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This was the Bond film we needed in place of Die Another Day.
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"I shall tell you the tale, as it is a happy one."
Proceeds to tell an incredibly fucked up story
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They try to make Napoleon look like a wartime tactical genius, when in reality dude just loves his cannons and his ex wife.
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The most un-Harry-Potter Harry Potter film of the lot.
This acts more as a road movie, and for large portions of it is a two-hander between Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who have grown so perfectly into their roles by this stage. They and Rupert Grint carry all the drama perfectly, and they seem to honestly depict their own close friendship valiantly onscreen. The Hermione-Harry dance scene is an example of a perfect cathartic moment for the characters and for the audience.
The score by Alexandre Desplat is very muted (he feels almost underused here), but the scenery and lush soundscapes take Potter in the real world to a whole new level.
Dobby's return is triumphant and emotional and brutal and hilarious, however I strongly believe that the 8 year gap between cinema appearances did make his introduction and then ing less impactful than it could have been if he had been in other films in short bursts, like he was in the books. However he has the best scene in the entire franchise; Dobby casually undoing the chandelier above Bellatrix to then say "Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure!" What an absolute legend.
This film gives all the evil characters a space to shine; Ralph Fiennes is still warming up as Voldemort yet steals every scene he is in, Helena Bonham-Carter owns Bellatrix like no one else could, Jason Isaacs portrays Lucius in a way that shows he is scared and vulnerable, Alan Rickman knows Snape inside and out... the acting overall is just top notch.
Also the animated section is stunning and beautiful and perfectly captures the essence of a story within a story. If the book was not split into 2 films you know that we never would have had proper time to explore this tale, nor any of the other character moments in the film.
Some of the pacing is a little off, and I really feel like Desplat could have been utilised better, however this film reinvigorates the Potter world and displays it as a fugitive film, and it was a great breath of fresh air needed before the final act.
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The amount of disappointment I have in my friends right now is immeasurable. NONE of them have ranked this classic above 3.5 stars, and that should be a crime.
List of other things that should be a crime:
- Kidnapping children
- Flying a plane into a building in the year 2001
- Giving Tony Shalloub 4 heads
- The Artemis Fowl movie. It's not really related, but it's the worst crime of the lot.
Shrek walked so that Guardians of the Galaxy and all its shitty imitations could run
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Never in a million years did I think I would watch a $125 million dollar family-friendly musical film where Matt Lucas would say the word "bussy".
Never.
]]>Ranking of all the Pixar Films I've seen.
- Inside Out
- The Incredibles
- Toy Story 2
- Inside Out 2
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 4
- Soul
- Incredibles 2
- Onward
- Elemental
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I have seen most of them previously; just haven't gotten around to reviewing them on this platform.
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Avengers: Endgame
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Thunderbolts*
- Hawkeye
- Eternals
- Thor: Ragnarok
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Interstellar
- Her
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 12 Angry Men
- La La Land
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Hot Fuzz
- Ex Machina
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>With Star Wars IX "The Rise of Skywalker" coming out and completing the saga, I've decided to rank these films based on my enjoyment of them. Hopefully this will last me all the way until the opening night :D
- Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Skyfall
- Casino Royale
- Thunderball
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- No Time to Die
- The Living Daylights
- Goldfinger
- GoldenEye
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- From Russia with Love
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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