Like many people from what I gather, I've never been all that attached to the original Top Gun. For a movie about plane dogfights, the aerial action is wildly hard to follow and the editing is at times incomprehensible. I'm sure it was a big deal at the time, but these days it works mostly as dated camp with some magnetic leads.
I had little-to-no expectations going into Maverick other than knowing that Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie tend to…
Somehow I thought I had seen this, but I hadn't. Luckily we watched it at L'Abri this evening and had a lovely discussion afterwards. I don't have all the words now, but it's absolute masterpiece and the gold standard for Christian cinema. It's a meditative poem in visual form - but given the expectations people have built up around it, the story was also a lot more linear than I expected? More than anything, it blows me away how much…
a movie about a girl, who reads a book about a man, who hears a story about a lobby boy, who meets a man who runs a hotel, a hotel for which the story, the book, and the movie are named for
avatar (2009): who are you?
princess mononoke (1997): I’m you, but with real thematic depth and thought-provoking nuance
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