Letterboxd — Your life in film

please, sir, i want some more [dickens adaptations]

we are overdue for “hard times” (1854)

rankings: 

— “david copperfield” (1850) is second-tier dickens novel tbh. (hard times, bleak house, a christmas carol, and great expectations are top shelf) 

— this movie is a top-tier dickens adaptation (it sits just under the david lean movies and the 2005 bleak house series) 

— this movie is a lower-tier iannucci work (but that said, it’s nearly just as good as anything released in 2020)

They needed a Rick Moranis, but they got an off-brand Mr Pibb

All the funniest moments were ad-libbed 

A dark and weird version of A Christmas Carol

Stellar entry into the Deborah Eisenberg cinematic universe

lesson learned: if your dashboard gps starts to glitch, then you're about to be assassinated

good double feature with "dark waters" (2019)

No substantial thrills or scares, but this might be one of my top 5 favorite Stephen King adaptations

cool how i didn’t see this because i heard it wasn’t good and now 16 years later... i see it. and it’s good

“Elevated horror” lol

Exhausting actually. Can’t believe I just watched it a second time this summer.

Come to be hypnotized by the soundtrack, stay for Frank’s hanging bed

“Judas was content for 4970 dollars less.”
“There were no dollars in them days.”
“But sons of bitches... yeah.”

If ever there was a movie on ketamine

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Much better than when I saw it in the theaters after having seen the trailer countless times in the months leading up to its release

I find Lean’s Dickens movies more enjoyable

This is really pretty, especially if you like emo boys with eye-liner. 

Damning portrayal of imperialism and hypocrisy  

But watch “Letters from Baghdad” (2016) instead

The thing I remember from watching this movie as a kid: rooms with high ceilings and slow rotating fans