Letterboxd — Your life in film

Don't want to fully call this evil because if you're gonna be ludicrously wealthy and buy unfathomable tracts of land I guess protecting it as national parks is a good result, but to not even for a moment entertain any remote discussion about the quasi-colonial invasioning into Chile and give the subjects the mandate of heaven certainly makes this feel callously ignorant of what's happening here. Also just terribly lifeless and uninteresting as a talking head ego story, a catastrophic…

Yay! They made the first one of these that I would, very tentatively, call "good" in years! Has two major steps up on literally every other post-covid Marvel thing by a. Actually feeling (mostly...) like a movie driven by a script and direction as opposed to composited non-sequences and b. Referencing absolutely zero television programs or universe setup or anything, it's JUST a guardians of the galaxy movie. This comes in just about, if a little under, the same as…

Even though its proud character arcs are mostly simple and basic this really does hold its own on the backs of those darling characters. Mantis, Nebula, and Yondu are all perfect and Kurt Russell is so inspired here. Still suffers from wiggle waggles in taste and an overlong, cacophonic. finale. Visual direction that is sometimes almost better, but also big budget sloppier/void-inducing. Baby Groot is a sickening abomination who should be cast into hell, but the gen-xers he's made for…

Have not seen this movie in over eight years and am so very happy to discover that it actually, in fact, is really quite good. Is almost even a great movie until its ten hour sleep inducing climax. It has genuinely been years since I watched any of these movies that could still be described as fun and lovely, and this is still a pretty charming, rollicking, and sometimes humorous adventure chock full of really sweet characters. There's tonal oscillations…

Lol this is so stupid and evil and cartoonish, BUT somehow still a super solid display from Ritchie in terms of pure nuts and bolts sequence crafting, action, and atmosphere. Embarrassingly effective for a Jack Decker tollybahn movie, especially the long stretch from the base raid through the hike back. The droning string score gives so much tension and the cinematography is vast, gorgeous, and tactile. This is an insanely dumb movie about the Epic Broship between Marine and the…

Honestly quite strange as an object that is so slavishly dedicated to only recreation and almost no adaptation. There's costuming, prop, and design pleasures that come but every element is just an attempt to facsimilie the better, correct, version. Like I do have to admire the commitment to, instead of "What can we do on stage?", mostly say "How can we do it on stage?", so a lot of delightful puppeteering and background pieces surprise you. You'd think though that…