Justin Long using the rape dungeon as an opportunity to boost his listing square footage is the most realistic portrayal of an AirBnB host I’ve ever seen.
Adored this movie. Solid performances, amazing screenplay, and McDonagh’s most gorgeous looking film to date. All of the actors were fantastic in this. This has to be my favorite film of the year.
One of my favorite moments of the film was Siobhan correcting Colm about Mozart. It shows that Colm was not as smart as he appeared to be, and cracked open his wise old man facade. He was being truthful to about his reasons for tanking the friendship, but his methods for doing so are still bullshit. He is wise, but also bitter and stubborn, and that so he thinks that the key to breaking his monotony is by suffering.
Colm resents Pádraic for being content with his simple life and not being concerned with having a legacy or being remembered beyond those he cares about in life. Colm, due to his frustration with his own existence, concludes that the only reason Pádraic is so content and untroubled is because he is dull and stupid.
Ironically I think Pádraic is actually Colm's muse, after each encounter with an impassioned Pádraic Colm seems to progress with his work on his magnum opus 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.
Moral of the story, in my opinion, is that men create meaningless conflict for contrived reasons and that leads to innocents being hurt (kind of like a civil war).
This movie is god awful. The storyline is just terrible. It's a complete bore. And it's a shame that they waste such a good cast. The final act is just plain bizarre. The entire movie I kept thinking that I would rather be watching Rear Window, or even Disturbia.
The cinematography is great, even mesmerizing at times, Ana de Armas was pretty good (despite the accent), and Adrien Brody seemed like a natural to play Arthur Miller. However, the film is kind of a mess. It jumps around in an incoherent way. Everything sort of gets lost in it.
It pretty much just jumps from tragic event to tragic event. It felt like an endless slog of misery. I feel like they could've written Norma Jeane/Marilyn better. They make her come off as unintelligent, with daddy issues. But they fail to show how intelligent she truly was. They don't really show how she took charge of her career, and eventually started her own production company.
Finally, a biopic with no embellishments or exaggerations! Just the plain, honest truth from beginning to end. I thought it was delightfully and stupidly fun. Lots of laughs up to and past the ending, even. I'm loving Daniel Radcliffe's career choices. Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna was perfect
Talk about underwhelming. This is some really bad writing. Like everyone else, I was excited for this, but left disappointed. Chris Pine and Pedro Pascal were the best part of it. I really root for Gal Gadot, but her lack of acting skills really are noticeable with the bad writing. As for the movie, it just got more and more absurd as the movie went on. There were so many unnecessary scenes as well. These are some of the cons just off the top of my head?
Cons:
* The beginning - it kind of made the ending predictable on what was ultimately going to happen.
* The mall scene - it felt like a scene from a tv show. Also, how did the bad guys not die from that drop?
* The highway chase with the kids. How did the kids not hear a full convoy coming that were firing guns at each other?!? Also, how were they not seriously injured from that tumble?
* They didn't give Kristen Wiig's character enough time after the initial introduction. Her final transformation comes out of nowhere.
* Fireworks scene - How the hell did he not know that fireworks existed??
* Flying a Jet - How the hell does he know how to fly a technologically advanced jet?? I don't think the knowledge transfers over quite like that.
* Was Max Lord's kid just sitting in the office the entire duration of the plot? Was he being fed? Did he sleep on the floor and wear the clothes? Where was the mother?
* How come the transformation had to happen in another person's body, but nuclear missiles can appear out of nowhere?
*How come Diana never considered the moral ramifications of her wish? Like not even for a second. Weird.
I think I get it! The snails are supposed to represent the snail-like pacing of this awful movie.
Pretty solid film overall. The acting was really good, especially from Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher, and Sasha Lane. Like others have said, I do wish they dove a little bit deeper. At some points it feels like they're only scratching the surface. I think the movie definitely could've benefited from being longer. Interesting perspective and glimpse into the crazy world that is conversion therapy centers.
I've never watched a comedy where so many jokes just fell flat. The same conversations are repeated throughout the whole movie, without much changing.
The whole thing felt like a sitcom, maybe that's the Kenya Barris' touch. Those transitions were awful and distracting. A whole bunch of talent is wasted here.
I have to say that this is a solid series from Netflix. The chemistry between Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin is pure gold, and it's what truly shines here. Their interactions are hilarious. Nothing much happens as far as the story goes, but in this instance, that's perfectly okay. There's something to be said about just giving amazing actors such as these two guys, a loose storyline to go off.
I'm baffled that this movie even got made. It's way too long, for how bad it is.
I must admit, I wanted to hate this show, simply because I loved the film so much! But I was proven wrong. I think Zoe Kravitz knocks it out of the park. The supporting cast is also pretty solid as well. Definitely a fun, easy watch
This is an incredible film. Not only is it a thoroughly entertaining film, it also comes with some hard-hitting messages. With the film taking place in the 1970's, I loved how it was able to tie a lot of things to present day, and make some slight jokes along the way as well.
I believe it's probably Spike Lee's best movie in years. Although the movie may be a bit long for some at 2 hrs 15 min, I was not bored for one moment. I highly recommend it.
This movie is pretty bad, that's why I gave it a (3). There's way too many action scenes, that it feels like there's no real story here. It's almost as if they cut and pasted a ton of action scenes, and worried about the dialogue and story later. There's quite a few scenes where the dialogue doesn't feel natural at all.
Overall this movie feels like a revved-up version of the (2006) film 16 Blocks, with a little bit of The Accountant (2016) mixed in. Also, the twist at the end is unnecessary, and kind of random.
Side Note: The action scenes with Iko Uwais are actually good. I wish they used him more effectively.
This movie was really fun. It got a little slow at parts, but the beauty of the movie made it so that you were never bored. Saorise Ronan was fantastic in this as well, she really nailed her role and was genuinely funny througout. Adrien Brody nailed his parts as well, big time.
It's so cool to see the Sanderson Sisters again! It's such a nostalgia trip. That being said, the movie is just okay. I really loved the beginning with the Sisters' origin story; I would've loved if it was longer.
The present day teenagers were boring as hell though. Just like the joke in the movie, I forgot their names too. It's like every teenage lead now has to be intelligent, confident, witty, good looking, an outsider but in a cool way, and their only faults seem to be that they're so confident it causes conflict that they're always in the right about. I loved in the first film how the three teenage leads all had very different personalities, and were able to bounce off of each other well.
The film was also missing any real scary moments. In the original, the Sisters seemed like a real threat. Here, they're never really intimidating, because the producers would never allow it.
I wanted to like this, but for whatever reason I just found it alright. The acting is good, especially Kate Winslet's performance, but the storyline is kind of weak
This season is solid, not amazing, but not bad. I wish the ending could've been better. The last episode felt half-assed. I wish they would've brought TJ Miller back, despite their differences. I'll always remember the earlier seasons though
This film was excellent. The chemistry between Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal is what immediately stands out here. It's crazy how natural it feels. Although the film aims to show problems involving race, as well as issues such as gentrification, the film also has a lot of humor, without trying too hard. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
Side note: Being from the Bay Area, Oakland does have a unique feel to it, and it's a city that isn't always portrayed in the best of ways in media, but the film does the city justice. It shows that the city has beauty to it, as well as the people who live there.
This is pretty much a villain-of-the-week tv episode. There's not much to it. It's all on the surface, no substance. It's so weird that the movie was less than 90 minutes. They needed way more time to devote to the story, which is odd because the editing was horrible (see prison escape scene). They also watered down Cletus' character so much. They managed to take a serial killer, and ruin his motivations.
Without Tom Hardy, this franchise would be hot garbage. He is clearly the best part of it. Hopefully they can find better writers, or else his talent is being wasted.
It's disappointing that this is the end. The show should've gotten another season or 2 in order to properly stick the landing in terms of ending it right. It introduces things that should've had more time to develop and explain. It doesn't really feel like a final season of a show until the final 2-3 episodes. I's interesting to see the BCR characters introduced, but it would've been nice to see them introduced sooner, because it felt like they didn't have enough time. The last episode specifically felt like a disaster. It ended up leaving so many unanswered questions. I loved this show, so it sucks that it had to end like this.
Such a beautiful film! The cinematography is simply amazing!
I liked how the ending was primarily from Mia's perspective. Had it worked out, Sebastian could not have lived his dream. He would have had a great life, playing in a jazz band in Paris and having kids with her, but it wasn't his ultimate dream.
And that's what this film does so well - it's about two people who fall in love and help each other reach their dreams...They just don't end up together.
Maybe we should stop trying to make Harry Styles an actor. I felt like he was the weakest part of this film.
Wow! That was a fun theater experience! A Top Gun sequel was not supposed to be this good. I like how the movie is actually focused on Maverick, and it's not a "the new cast takes over" movie, like some other sequels do. The action scenes are thrilling and extremely fun to watch. There's just so much life to them, instead of how soulless CGI can be. This is a peak blockbuster film. I'm glad Tom Cruise put his foot down, and made sure that this was released in theaters.
I know some people might disagree, but I actually like the sequel more than the original.
I felt like they could've dove so much deeper with this story. The ending was also kind of disappointing. The best part of the movie was Gina Rodriguez, she brought some much needed energy
To be honest, I'm not quite sure why the first Equalizer deserved a sequel. With this movie, everything just moves way to slow. It takes way too long to actually get going. The action scenes are, of course, entertaining, but they aren't enough to save this film.
I get what they were doing with having the two main characters apart for 90% of the film, but I think it's the wrong move for a rom-com. Also, what was up with Steve Zahn's character; they wrote him to be so weird, and possibly brain-damaged.
It's extremely funny to me that the bullies were a high school marching band. You have Corey, a grown-ass man, getting pushed around by some teenagers. It was a weird decision to have the "last" Michael Myers movie barely have Michael Myers. Hell, Corey's mom was the scariest person in this film.
It was just okay, although it could've easily been better. If they gave us a backstory of the guys he was bringing beer too, then it would've really felt connected.
Hilarious and haunting. There's a real beguiling quality to this film - it's a character study and yet it manages to touch on so many grand and complex themes while being so singularly focused. Power, obsession, identity politics, image/persona, the transcendent qualities of art, passion, the list could go on.
The classroom scene in the first act really seems to put a context around the rest of the film. Can the merits of a piece of art be separated from the creator? Are they inextricable? Is it an act of ego to dismiss something because we take offence? Do we deny ourselves of something valuable when we moralize art and the artist? Lydia Tar certainly seems to think so. She admonishes her student for letting his ego get in the way of perfecting his craft. She asks him something along the lines of "On what basis would you like those filling out your rating cards judge you?" The implied answer being, simply on my skill.
The "Apartment For Sale" song better be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars!
