"Just be yourself!! Be yourself! C'mon... Be happy..."
If you were her, wouldn't you go crazy too?
Such a cutting and universal portrait of family life that feels so personal to Cassavetes while also capturing emotions and relationships I can relate to half a century later. The cyclical nature of familial trauma is shown through the visual language of the movie in so many interesting ways: Nick repeatedly dragging the kids upstairs, Mabel forgetting things from just moments ago, scenes…
"You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people."
Michael Mann's dialogue is so mind bogglingly good. He may return to some very similar themes and motifs in his films but man he makes them hit.
Heat goes above and beyond with its character work and makes the most compelling cops & robbers rivalry put to the silver screen. Pacino and De Niro's performance have been discussed to death but my god it's still their best work, primarily…
"Size matters not."
... but scope certainly does for a Star Wars movie. The story had less weight than either of the last 2 mando season finales. This could've been a 4 issue tie in comic in all honesty.
I wouldn't have minded the smaller scope if our protagonists had any form of depth but they'll seemingly stay merchandise cash cows forever.
Aesthetically it's solid besides its reliance on CGI characters. Both this and Andor feature zero lightsabers but there's galaxies of difference between the two.
However none of this films' faults are because of Rotta. He's perfect.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"We would just throw the ball, and catch it, and then throw it again. Just that. Over and over. There was no point to it... I would've been happy just playing catch forever."
some of my favorite characters and world building in all of television and movies. one of the first animes I ever watched with my brother and I got the opportunity to live with it for almost a decade.
animation is definitely the weakest aspect for me here,…
"I'm not afraid to die. I realize now there's something I haven't got past. This fear... of ever going through any of that again, of losing somebody I care about."
My first time re-editing a feature film and I had to make the darkest Batman movie even darker by making it black and white. It's actually insane this movie doesn't have an official black and white version already because it looks like it was shot for this format. (For those…
Such a cool way to shoot a modern film, like this is 21st century filmmaking. Park has improved on his formula and executed some of the coolest editing techniques I've seen.
Really great performances all around that go to extremes but don't necessarily feel unbelievable. All tangible human emotions just exaggerated.
On some level this movie did feel predictable. Moment to moment I was surprised and shocked but it almost felt like Park was only doing it because it's what…
