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such such such good execution in every regard.

changes the way you think about how narratives can be presented in film.

some may criticize the dialogue with the younger actors but it perfectly encapsulates the cringe of the self-serious teenager trying to be cool.

the only knocks on this I have, is I predicted two big events at least like 5 mins before they happened… but it was so satisfying to get there that I can’t say im mad.

brilliant.

this may be my favorite comedy ever. hits all the marks.

also it predicted the corporate collab of country + hip hop, which says something lol.

Beautiful and well shot and ugh. Octopus are puppies of the ocean. I want one.

Bro should have faught to ops the octopus had though, idc

Why did I actually really love this movie lol

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

most realistic sexuality ive seen in any film

was super surprised with the turns the story takes (haven’t read the book) and was enthralled the entire time, immersed the entire time, and also turned on the whole time.

Guadagnino deserves a Best Picture for making me go “would fuck Daniel Craig’s character but feel super conflicted afterwards”

5/5 I’m less of a baby gay after this + it’s gonna make a lot of “Heteros” whiplashed

How do you get two extremely fuckable people and make them extremely unfuckable

This review may contain spoilers.

Would give it a 4.5 but frankly I don’t really have anything that isn’t making it a 5… insanely great. Will be looked back on as “a movie of its time” in a few decades in a vaguely similar way we may view… Taxi Driver or something of the sort. But of *this* time. Especially as a Palme D’or recipient.

Phenomenal. The economy of its pacing, the acting/dialogue, etc etc. All feels natural. Subversion is the name of the game w/ this movie, even with the marketing.

Ending is slightly on the nose but I can’t fault it. Didn’t seem revolutionary, but that’s what made it so stark with everything else that occurred. A trope we’ve seen many times augmented by everything that occurred beforehand.

You could discourse with someone for a while about the meaning to be derived… not because this movie is abstract… but because it thrives in the contradictions it’s teasing around with. Everyone’s flawed. Everyone has humanity. Everyone is acting to protect their egos and livelihood, deeply under the influence of $$$.

Whose intentions are pure? Whose actions are justified? Who do we feel bad for?

Rich questions about the influence of capital on human relationships, the influence of our livelihood and social mobility on our occupations and our actions within them, etc etc etc.

Go in blind. I’m not saying any more… jk unless…

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If you feel Anora was taken advantage of and holds the total crux of your empathy by the ending, that’s a superficial read and I feel we didn’t watch the same movie. It’s way more complex... Let’s talk about it.

there was a lot I liked but overall fell flat in the end and made all the good stuff kinda meh. 

too much talking. Not enough allegorical shit happening that leads the audience to sink into.

R/atheist level discourse that doesn’t feel weighty or… intelligent. If that was the point, then they made that point pretty clear and I do find the antagonist annoying.

would have been fun with a lil deep layer, but instead tried to be intellectual and instead became a bit cringe. if you put some of the discourse in this video thru a Jordan Peterson AI… I may not be able to clock it as being from this movie.

I’m sure some really smart skeptic-type film bro will have an interpretation that could make this a 4/5 on paper but it was just really cringe.

Which is a shame bc acting and direction was great. Dialogue was Ballsass and pacing was questionable. Screenplay should have been workshopped with/edited by someone that makes “pseudointellectual white dudes be like” memes so they could advise on how not to be so on the nose.

was a 4 but that last act took a weird tonal shift and nosedive imo that nullified an entire star of really good stuff… and that ending… come on dude.

Some stilted acting but overall pretty fresh visuals and fun plot. Does what it does well.

Watched on Tuesday November 5, 2024.

ending lost me a bit, should have been more powerful with how excellent of a film it was the first 80%

unbearable tension

Extra half star bc this movie made me feel things other films have not.

Didn’t get it fully at first and thought it was stupid goofy, even for Connor, then I understood the assignment lol.

Dude is a visionary of post-modern film and I’m not even joking

Holy shiiiiit

Will type up an actual review later. Watch this in theaters…

First “part” felt like this movie was gonna be an easy 4.5/5.

Then it kept losing me.

Then they never really utilized some of the shit they setup.

Then I felt like Nick Cage was entirely miscast for the tone they were trying to convey.

So many “whats” in this movie… with no “whys”… and in the third act you get a 5 minute really vague exposition dump of the “hows”. Feels like a nothingburger of a reveal when we get to the “twist”.

Incredibly disappointed though there was a lot to love… mostly in aesthetic and Maika’s performance. I don’t think someone can be in the FBI whilst being that anxious though lmao.

Side note: there were several other theatergoers just talking through the whole movie. and one mentally disabled person that kept repeating lines/commenting on irrelevant random stuff in the background (I.e; “a dog just barked!” 5 mins into the movie bc a dog barked in the background of a scene).

Someone asked them to stop, and they did. Lowkey they made the movie more enjoyable.

Ok I’m sold on Mad Max.

Saw it with da DBox. Was Fun!!!!

Watched on Wednesday April 24, 2024.

Watched on Friday April 12, 2024.

I watched this months ago and thought I reviewed it but I didn’t. It was Good. And Fun.

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’

The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

- Aaron Bushnell

So unbelievably mid and stupid. Overrated piece of
poopie.

Man… they could have done so much more with that setup 😭

Pretty funny but somewhat uneventful in the end. I liked it a lot though. Wish they did more with it.

Kills were pretty meh. Plot was pretty average (which is good for a Saw movie). Just a very watchable Saw movie but nothing was really great about it. Also one of the dudes (the one that Cuts Open His Head) was mad annoying it was hilarious.

Very average, but plus one half star for Paul Dano. Love when the last 20% of the film is told thru text.

Completely middle of the road. A story that had way more to offer and a runtime too short to fit it all.

it was p good but kinda underwhelming

Watched on Saturday August 26, 2023.

Watched on Thursday August 24, 2023.

Watched on Monday August 21, 2023.

What a fucking amazing debut. Excited to see what’s next from these guys. Awesome effects, great pacing, good ending. Satisfying watch. Really creative. NO JUMP SCARES!

The kid was annoying and I wouldn’t have tried to save him

These kids watch too much damn tv go outside

Do it no balls

watched this on a tinder date and paid way too much attention to it. it was really good.

P good generic movie

A dive into the mechanisms of revolutionary plots, and the systems designed to dismantle them. Tows a perfect line between humor and tragedy. Brilliant pacing, tone switching, and humor. Some awesome shots/scenes. Just an overall great flick. Favorite I’ve watched in a minute.

Surprisingly kickass soundtrack as well. 

Themes of revolutionary angst, political collusion/psy-ops, far-right nationalism drawing in and eating up the working class that are sunk-cost into capitalism, etc.. etc. that hold up painfully well to this day. This could have come out this year, modernized, w/ the same exact beats and it wouldn’t have felt aged to me at all.

Glad I held off to watch this one w/ a group of buds that appreciated it as much as I did!! It was superb, pretty damn quotable.

really solid average movie

dam… uh… damn………. intergenerational trauma type beat

im on a really dumb vince vaughan movie streak and i can’t begin to explain why

My sister was raving about this movie so she put it on, saying she didn’t mind watching again. 

This is actually the worst movie I have ever seen. Like absolute dogshit. LMAO.

Things just happen without being explained, because any explanation would be completely dumb as hell… the acting was hilarious, etc etc.

I wouldn’t even say it’s so bad it’s good it’s actually just like, the most horribly constructed screenplay I have ever seen. I’m laughing at how bad it is. I wanna say something good but there isn’t. The guy getting shot in the head has decent effects… that’s it dog.

It’s like if The Happening wasn’t so bad it’s good.

one of the worst best worst movies ever. it’s a movie. its got a like, 10 minute guitar hero scene. it’s canon that Vince Vaughan created guitar hero. it’s mentioned multiple times. 

love how bad it is it’s the most 8/10 1.5 star movie ever.

Gives clarity to the worst vibes the country has ever experienced. This is only the beginning.

Fuckin brilliant and epic and funny but again there’s SO MUCH GOING ON. I can see why people rewatch these, so much to munch on. Loved this to shreds. Blows the first movie out of the water in of my engagement. I was fully invested, whereas the first movie I was like “ok ok bet, alright… who is that? oh yeah… okay bet bet… what’s happening? Oh yea… okay bet…” 

this one made me “Get It” fully and understand all the different “arcs” as one story.

I thought it was a great intro… after continuing with the series. Kinda a lot thrown at you at once, and it’s totally necessary but a little alienating to this first time viewer. Still loved it tons.

Really beautiful, fun, creative, and a darker tone that still manages to be light in Selick fashion. Kinda super busy and “sudden” at times. Really dug this though.

Very interesting choices, some I liked and some I didn’t.

Zach isn’t a veteran filmmaker, but loved his work on WKUK (and Miss March is funny too but in a So Bad It Is Good Way lmao). Seeing him do a horror had my interest piqued.

Very great tension, very great world building. Interesting and creative exploration of its themes.

Some slightly hamfisted character arcs, with slight subversions of tropes that would have you rolling your eyes or even offended in other movies as it would be presented with worse context and a lack of care. If this was presented with better dialogue it would have been really brilliant. But wasn’t as subtle as desired.

The kind of movie where a choice feels somewhat sloppy but also excitingly bold at the same time. The film wasn’t half baked, but wasn’t truly realized to the concept’s potential. The way the story “branches out” from the A plot was very interesting. The suddenness of the “true horror” debatable. A huge tonal shift that was ittedly a tad sour despite me desperately wanting it to be great.

A stronger first and second act than a last. Ending feels rushed, beginning might be slightly long… but would be worthwhile if a better ending/more fledged out screenplay occurred. 

*Feels like a Wes Craven movie and a Jordan Peele movie combined. Wanted it to work seamlessly. But it didn’t do it fully for me, though I respected its efforts and want more movies to follow in its footsteps. Almost a disregarding of “elevated horror’s” grasp on horror, into a modern realm of new sincerity in the genre.* (if the movie pulled this off in a less clunky way… it would have def been a 4)

This could have been *incredible* but overall feels like a slightly undercooked, albeit very fun and well done first horror outing from a director somewhat green to feature lengths AND horror. Look forward to seeing more from the director.

EDIT: Might want to rewatch, I almost wanna give it a 4 for what it’s able to do and pull off in hindsight… but it just doesn’t hit like a 4… changing from 3 to 3.5 for now.

Only movie to ever make me cry tbh