Just : despite a seemingly endless blur of soulless, lifeless, shit-stained consumeristic slop being plastered across our screens week in and week out, there can still be true power in film as a transcendental medium. Coogler deserves every bit of praise heaped upon him for this one. Phenomenal stuff.
P.S. Marvel fucking WISHES they could make a mid-credits scene that good, holy shit.
P.P.S. Jesus Christ, the voice on Miles Caton.
“When you can lie about everything, when you deny everything, how can you tell the truth about anything?”
Sex-pionage meets The Thin Man meets a script that cracks like a fucking bullwhip and sleek jazzy mystery vibes like no other. Fassbender and Blanchett are something special here. Legitimately one of the best love stories of the past 10 years. Soderbergh, you dog.
“For a minute there, I thought you were human.”
Totally baller. Some of the most violently badass and exhilaratingly breakneck shit I’ve ever seen. Tons of gore, wickedly creative action choreography, and epic expansions of the Predator lore via a masterful grasp of the animation medium. Shoutout to the ninja section in particular for building an emotional storyline and two full character arcs with only like 5 lines of dialogue—there was no need for that level of depth but they did it anyway while still also giving us some…
Ana de Arson 🔥
Not really anything novel or impressive plot-wise, but the creativity of the action definitely lands on the positive side of the insane-o-meter and let’s be honest I’d pay money just to see John Wick in a Geico commercial so overall we’re still eatin’ good. Ana is also a special lady and teaches us many things here, namely that 1) guns <<< grenades and 2) neighborhood watches can in fact be more than a big fat joke. At…
Two films now in 2023 have dared to examine the fallout and societal implications of WWII’s nuclear exclamation point:
1. A hard-hitting social drama chronicling years in the life of a man broken and haunted by his own failure to prevent the darkness and devastation that enveloped the world following the introduction of the atomic bomb and the inadvertent opening of a door to an endless plague of hopelessness and destruction set upon future generations; a film which truly encapsulates…
Believe me, I know. I’m as surprised as you are. Not sure I’ve ever been unironically this far in the minority on a major release before. But fucking Todd Phillips, man. How dare you. Every fiber of my being wanted and expected to hate this. But nope. I liked it. Hell, I really liked it.
Ah, fuck it. I LOVED it.
Phillips clearly noticed a lot of people might have misunderstood the sympathetic & non-toxic point of the first one—especially with the…
