Letterboxd — Your life in film

“… One day I’ll be—”

It won’t be the Disney live-action remake to eclipse its animated original, but it’s laudable that, even with the hurdle of having to look dark and drab, this Mermaid might be the first since Branagh’s Cinderella to show some semblance of anything, and to establish itself as bonafide escapism on its own. 

I can’t remember many recent blockbusters this seemingly enamored with the idea of movement; for all the immersed — and immersive — CGI underwater wonders…

Jason Momoa is exactly the villain this series needs. But it took THIS LONG for him to give an interesting performance, all for a fucking Fast and Furious movie. He’s Gay Joker in this. It’s definitely amusing. He’s always been a cringey bore so it’s nice to see him go full Jared Leto. 

John Cena was the villain of the last movie, now he’s the Marky Mark rapping fun uncle who would die for his FAMILY. 

This is barely a…

This is basically a live-action Rick & Morty episode, which would probably be a compliment if the show's fanbase didn't end up becoming one of the most insufferable ones around when the Pickle Rick episode dropped. Though I think at this point, a good chunk of the fanbase that still gets worked up over Martin Scorsese's comments about the Marvel Cinematic Universe not being "cinema" has basically morphed itself into sharing so much with Rick & Morty's fanbase. It's impressive how these…

forms a pretty solid, miserably bleak charlton heston sci-fi dystopia trilogy with planet of the apes and the omega man, and though perhaps overshadowed by the legacy and even more iconic twist ending of the former this still very much holds up for me. namely fleischer’s structuring of this as a sweaty, conspiratorial procedural where a jaded detective (selfishly indulging himself of every meager pleasure left to be wrung out of our synthetic commercial food processing and environmental hellscape; vegetables,…

When Joy Division started playing I was like “that was one of the coolest needle drops of the decade so far.”

Easily Matt Johnson’s best work by far. Kinetically edited and has one of the best first acts in awhile. The middle skips to 2007 too abruptly and could’ve benefitted from 15 extra minutes really getting into the craze of Blackberry a little more how Fincher successfully did so fleshing out Facebook’s grab on the culture. The ending is great…

I’m shocked to have found this genuinely affecting. Gunn problematizes the trilogy’s perspective and therefore it’s continuity, via both subverting who the protagonist is and reaffirming his genre interests by allowing the many present archetypes to see their generally rote existences as faculties of spectatorship (this most echoes his first Scooby Doo script, in many respects). We naturally have no perceivable access into the psyche of the characters, for our position, in essence, fails that. An intelligent structure and manifold…

Before I say anything I need to say I’ve been an annoying Marvel hater since 2012 and disliked the fist Guardians.

I couldn’t tell you what the plot was because I cried the whole time but I’m pretty sure this is the best non-Endgame Marvel movie and I don’t think it’s close. I have never been captivated by any of their stuff the way I was here. People complain about this being too emotional and what James Gunn did here is…