spooky month watches #3
i love how this movie starts off with the unnerving, creepy, atmospheric mood just right off the gate with the opening with the odd creepy music. this intensifies when they reach the hotel too. sure, it looks nice, cozy, and inviting, even having a lot of pretty long takes showcasing its beauty, but as the film progresses and we see jack torrance slow descent into madness, the place starts feeling more uncomfortable, more creepy, and disgusting…
best picture binge: 35 out of 96
oh yeah... this is definitely going to be a film where i need to rewatch on the big screen to get the fuller and better experience because, goddamn.
david lean creates one of the most visually beautiful and large scale movies anybody has ever seen. every shot has something beautiful, spectacular, raw emotion, and you can REALLY feel its huge scope. most of the shots in this movie are even wide, not really…
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FINAL RANKING: mission impossible
"our lives are not defined by any one action. our lives are the sum of our choices.
watched in imax... speaking of which
off-tangent and disconnected to the review: this is the first time i've been to an imax theatre since i went to the early access showing of dune: part two, i legit forgot how amazing the format is and how big the screen is. this was worth it thanks to the scale and some…
best picture binge: #57 out of #96
watched the director's cut
if i had a nickel for every-time miloš forman made a banger best picture film following up boredom (sorry to all the people who love the godfather part ii (1974) 🥺) i would have two which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
all silly jokes aside, amadeus (1984) is incredible and easily the best best picture winner of the 1980s. manages to make a 3 hour…
best picture binge: #80 out of #96
there's silent but dread to nearly every scene in this movie. the incredible sound design helps enhance the vast empty desert landscapes with a lack of music as we follow three leads throughout the film and its violent world. a departure from the usual coen film instead offering something dead serious and more... subtle with how it shows violence. of course everyones performance is incredible but nothing can capture the unsettling and stoic…
best picture binge: 42 out of 96
contemplated on whether this was amazing but not quite there or just outright perfect. i questioned this for a while before ultimately coming to the conclusion that... yeah, this is outright incredible.
this is definitely noticeably the first shift from the golden age of hollywood into new hollywood. i don't think anything this far in the binge has come to the harshness, realistic, bleak world that john schlesinger's midnight cowboy (1969) has. flourishing…
it's me birthday!!
it genuinely is insane to me how i'm still living even after all the shit happening to the point of living to age 17 now as of today writing this. feels like any other day something terrible could've happened to me, but even throughout all that, i managed to live through. age 16 was tough (albeit compared to age 15, considerably more relaxed) but served as an introspective on everything i've done at ages 14 and 15…
"this film was made by humans"
watched with my cutie willow 💜
adam elliot is truly one of those people that gets what it means to be a human. life being stitched as memories you roughly and such. events happening that make you said thing. we the events we go through in life and the many, many troubles we go through like pain, loss, and grief but in the end it shouldn't control us and we should…
"jesus, i approve of you as the only cool man besides kurt cobain"
it's wild and bewildering a movie like this with a plot about upskirt photography but also about religion in a massive 4 hour runtime is this good. sion sono constantly making bold and bonkers decisions that never once miss and enhance the film in every way possible. it's nuanced in its themes of trauma/grief/religion, it can be funny and hilarious, and it never makes 4 hours feel…
w/ willow
so, there's a whole lot i can say about look back and what it means to mean. it's up there as one of my favorite pieces of film (at least top 25) and is something i want to talk about a lot. however, while deciding if i wanted to write this (which my mind is a mess rn) or something more personal and not entirely related i decided to choose the latter because i feel it's more important.…
"i think you'll find this present a valuable addition to our modern lifestyle. they're techno-tros. ex-nasa. fantastic for walkies!"
if this was a feature animated film this would legit be in my top 5 animated films of all time like i'm not joking. there's a lot to love about a grand day out (1989) and i'll stand by that but this legitimately sures it in every way it's incredible.
despite the fact the animation is more refined especially with wallace…