Not going to lie, I only realized why this movie is called Love Hard after reading some online comments :neutral_face:
Bounty Hunter Carla alone gets a 10/10 from me.
0.5 stars extra for Samara Weaving.. everything else was bloody boring.
This is one of those rare movies I immediately wanted to watch again right after finishing it..
Read the book instead, it's so much better..
Definitely one of the best True Crime documentaries I've seen in a while, because of its focus on the many victims of the very flawed U.S. criminal justice system - crime victims and survivors, the wrongfully incarcerated or rather the exonerated, after they've spent decades behind bars and their families.
It would have been great to get a more in depth look into solutions or changes that need to happen and how they can be brought about, besides the obvious: Vote the right people into office!
The best thing about this movie is the trailer.. oh, and the Maserati - the real star of this 88 minutes long modern mob inspired commercial.
The episodes get a bit sloppy/jumbled towards the end (the last 3 episodes, maybe) with a lot of threads left unexplored.. but yeah.. batshit crazy, that's what this is.
I'm not sure there was a more confusing way to tell this already very confusing story.. :grimacing:
I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift's music, never was and probably never will be - I honestly can't name more than one of her song titles. The only reason I started watching this documentary was because I needed some background program, something I don't care too much about, so it doesn't matter if I payed attention or not.
.. and then after a couple of minutes I was actually watching it, completely fascinated by the personal look behind the scenes and the glimpse into the life of a very relatable and empathetic person.
This is one of those movies I loved as a child, but I haven't watched it in what must be 15 years or more and I'm not going to lie, I was hesitant to do so because I hadn't had a lot of luck with revisiting childhood favourites. (I'm looking at you, The NeverEnding Story!) However, this was so much fun, also a lot darker than I remembered, but I guess as a child the funny bits are more important anyway. Since I grew up with a St. Bernard this brought back so many great memories as well! :smiling_face_with_3_hearts: Honestly, I would happily watch this movie again and again.
As always, I was late to the Breaking Bad party, in fact so late I only watched the entirety of this show for the first time in the past couple of weeks, after Better Call Saul's most recent season. Having seen the show's finale and then this movie the very next day as if it was an extended ending raises the question of its necessity even more, I think. Something just felt off, especially in those flashbacks scenes.. It's not a bad movie, but a very safe one, too predictable and overall just something that didn't need to happen.
Anyway, here are a couple of additional thoughts:
- Todd is one of the most disturbing characters
- That shot from above into Todd's apartment :ok_hand_tone1:
- The landscapes :ok_hand_tone1::ok_hand_tone1:
- Jesse in a wool sweater :ok_hand_tone1::ok_hand_tone1::ok_hand_tone1:
I honestly don't know why I gave this only a 9 before.. maybe because it's a Pixar movie and I usually don't watch those.. I don't know and it doesn’t matter.
This movie is phenomenal in every way and I probably won't ever watch it and not be an emotional wreck afterwards :candle::orange_heart::skull::fallen_leaf::sparkles:
What a weird movie.. There's just too much going on and none of the ideas are elaborated enough to make sense individually let alone jointly. I also kind of knew where this was going before the family entered the house because the clues are pretty obvious.. even more so, if you look at the poster, which I hadn't even seen before now..
Surpisingly good? And it actually looked really beautiful. I don't know, I wanted to watch an adventure movie without a lot of substance and that's what I got and I'm completely fine with that.
If I don't know what to watch the Ocean's movies never disappoint - if you ignore Ocean's Twelve (2004). They're just a lot of fun :grin:
I didn't expect much because even the synopsis sounds horribly cheesy, but I happen to really like Kate Bosworth, so I gave it a try and I'm pleasantly surprised at how good and grounded it is! Sure, I could have done without the romantic subplot but luckily it wasn't too overbearing and the focus remained on the surfing and the power that comes from women supporting women. Really enjoyed this one and the soundtrack was also great :ok_hand_tone1:
And for anyone who liked this movie and wonders what could have happened if the characters were queer, check out the book "Into the Blue" by Pene Henson :wink:
I can't believe this is created by the same guy who's behind Nightcrawler (2014) :grimacing:
When the credits rolled and Duffy started singing I immediately recognized her voice and wondered where she went after her album Rockferry:thinking: Turns out her second album flopped and she's on musical hiatus since 2011 or so.. With a voice like that it really is a shame. I hope we hear from her again at some point in the future.
My face in the beginning when he starts talking about Trump: :unamused:
My face after a couple of minutes when he steeres away from the overdone political stuff we're hearing on a daily basis from all of the late night talk show hosts out there: :smile:
.. another one of those movies I only watched until the end to prove how much I really hate myself :expressionless:
Would have loved to see more of people like Patti Smith and Joni Mitchell and less of all the made-up stuff.. Sharon Stone's part was especially irritating.. :grimacing:
At least the poster looks good :person_shrugging:
The best things about this movie are its poster and the theme song.
The romance, humor, emotions, even the progressiveness felt so forced and that cameo from a douchy Keanu Reeves made everything worse? And why didn't they cast actual young adults for the later flashback scenes? I knew then, that this wouldn't be all too great and unfortunately I was right.
It's been a while since I watched this movie and I was genuinely surprised that I thought I liked it. I mean, I'm also the first to admit to be easily distracted by beautiful cinematography, music scores and actors I enjoy seeing (Michael Shannon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson really are exceptional and hold at least half of the movie together with their acting!) and I think those three aspects are what I remember liking, because the plot is.. questionable on many different levels.
For me personally this is also a great example for how much I learned in the past couple of years about portrayal of violence against women or how rape/murder of women are used as plot devices - and frankly, I don't want to see it anymore, especially when it's done in such a glorifying, male-gazey and sexualized way.
The most infuriating thing in this movie though, is the fact that it implies Susan (Amy Adams) deserves to be punished and unhappy because she divorced her husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) and unknowingly to him aborted their child. And then nineteen years later her then ex-husband sends her the manuscript for his novel in which he shows how her choices/decisions back then made him feel by comparig it to the rape and murder of his fictional wife and daughter?
Anyway, I'm kind of curious to read the 1993 novel this movie is based on ("Tony and Susan" by Austin Wright), just to see how everything is handled in there..
There's so much wrong with this movie.. I felt so icky afterwards I wanted to take a shower and cleanse my mind with another viewing of Booksmart (2019), but it was already too late and I had to go to sleep.
A couple of thoughts:
- I actually liked the beginning, because I thought this was going to be some sort of stalker story (which it kind of is, I guess) and I wanted to figure out Charlotte's (Allison Williams) motive - jealousy seemed to be too simple.
- Lizzie (Logan Browning) basically "traded" one abuser for another? Anton (Steven Weber) gains her trust, manipulates her mind, then violates her body and calls it a gift, because that's the only way to reach "The Perfection". Charlotte gains her trust, manipulates her mind, then violates her body and calls it salvation, because that's the only way to see the truth - which we then should accept as female empowerment?
- On one hand (no pun intended, seriously) the writers and producers of this film seem to have lived in a bubble for the past couple of years when it comes to the #MeToo movement and such, because this is a rape revenge massacre at its most exploitative.
- On the other hand I wonder if they drew inspiration from some of the most prominent sexual abuse cases that have become public in recent years. The tattoo? Reminded me about this NXIVM sex-cult who branded their victims. The institutionalized sexual abuse of talented girls? Reminded me about those hundreds of female USA Gymnastics athletes, who were abused by their trusted physician. The assault was so subtle and full of plausible deniability that the victims weren't even sure whether they were actually abused. In the movie the abuse is portrayed as some sort of gross religious ritual, with the victims sitting on a stage, strapped to a chair - which we should accept has been going on under the radar for decades?
- But it has a mixed-raced lesbian couple who not only survives but is also making out and the two actresses were even part of the editing process of the sex scene (I guess to make sure it isn't too male-gazey?), so :fist: to progress, or whatever.
I honestly would have profited from some trigger warnings before watching this, so be aware of the following content: Bugs, delusional parasitosis, vomit, suicide, amputation, ableism, paedophilia, child sexual abuse, (threat of) rape and gore in general.
I can't believe I'm saying this about a movie with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, but this is insufferable.
The most interesting thing about this movie is, that the real Amberley Snyder acted as her own stunt double for all the post-accident riding scenes, while her younger sister Autumn Snyder did all of the pre-accident stunts due to their similar riding styles - and that I learned because of the movie's Wikipedia page I read, while watching the movie.
As a German speaking Swiss I just couldn't take it seriously that these giant robots were called Jaegers. It sounded ridiculous :zipper_mouth:
