Letterboxd — Your life in film

a biblical epic. frenetic and campy and excessive in the best way. maybe the best biopic of all time. austin butler baby we will get you that EGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: so many people i know hate this and i know i am in the minority for really loving it, even with all the obvious Walk Hard aping. idk, i love Luhrmann's Gatsby too, for similar reasons: taking material that's interested in the grandiose/lush/gilded/profane and using every technique possible to replicate that…

i am so compelled by austin butler i could easily go see this a fourth time and not get bored. he has IT. sells every frame he’s in from the beginning when he’s looking at tom hanks as though he’s a real person and not a beloved movie star giving one of the worst performances ever committed to film, with those big earnest trusting babygirl eyes convincing me he truly has no idea why women are violently cumming in their seats every…

“It doesn’t matter if you do 10 stupid things so long as you do one smart one,” Colonel Tom Parker advises us near the start of Baz Luhrmann’s utterly deranged musical biopic about the King of Rock & Roll, but even a ratio that forgiving would still leave “Elvis” roughly 370 “smart ones” short. If only this 159-minute eyesore — a sadistically monotonous super-montage in which a weird Flemish guy manipulates some naïve young greaser over and over and over again…