Forget if I posted this a month or two ago.
Bad Education is great.
That's a good oneJust finished Hell or Highwater, pretty darn good western. Jeff Bridges continues to be great.
Watched JoJo Rabbit. It was more dark than expected, it has its share of goofiness but there is also a lot of drama. Which is hard to do, at times it does feel uneven and I did find myself bored. But the heart of it - Scarjo and the kid relationship worked pretty well..better than Waititi as Hitler which just felt off the minute you see him.
Finally got around to Uncut Gems last night. Was good, definitely overhyped though. Sandler was excellent, KG was surprisingly good. He has a future as an actor. But just wasn’t as great as I’d heard. Hearing too many plot points during podcasts and such probably played a part in that though.
Definitely steals from the Departed too.
6.5/10
God I hated that movie, the whole betting thing was so dumb, she just plops all the money on the desk and they just accept it no questions asked. honestly surprised KG agreed to it and the gem that they are all creaming in their pants over is really stupid looking.
Finally got around to Uncut Gems last night. Was good, definitely overhyped though. Sandler was excellent, KG was surprisingly good. He has a future as an actor. But just wasn’t as great as I’d heard. Hearing too many plot points during podcasts and such probably played a part in that though.
Definitely steals from the Departed too.
6.5/10
Steals from The Departed?
Lol at liking The Wolfman which was a joke and criticizing Uncut Gems. Just ****ing stop.
Who's the Wolfman? Michael J Fox? And yeah the last scene is a straight up rip off of the Departed. Which I'm sure is a straight up rip off of something else. Which is a rip off of something else and so on and so forth.
It wasn't a great movie, a good one, but not a great one. Shouldn't have been anywhere near an oscar, and I saw a lot of stuff saying it was snubbed.
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) This french/polish film is nothing short of brilliant! ez 10/10. Dramas are something I consider myself a very tough grader on, because often dramas(and their characters) bore me and are dumbed-down and placate the audience with a bunch of predictable feel good ****... The good ones, like this(and mulholland drive), are few and far between..
Definitely not something you want to view if your distracted, you wont be able to track the story..
The lead actress does such a great job.. It's really well made too, gorgeous photography throughout.. theres like this crazy sort of color palate going on.. It's very red and very green...
The director made something called The Three Colors Trilogy, which I saw before this and really really liked. To me, these are worth seeing just for the level of craftsmanship alone.
You are talking about Krzysztof Kieslowski,a truly amazing director. You should try to look for "Decalogue", his series of 10 movies, each one linked somehow to one of the Ten Commandements. If you don't find the whole series the two most famous of them are on youtube with english subtitles (A short film about love and A short film about killing). "Blind chance" is also worth watching although it may be difficult for a foreigner to grasp all the political context.
Cool! I'll check out the Decalogue sometime this week for sure. Pretty sure there's a youtube account that's gonna get DMCA'd very soon but they've uploaded lots of his movies in pretty good quality...
I remember chasing down that three colors trilogy was a bit of a chore.