Celebrating my 500th logged movie with a film that's- not exactly what I'd call festive. I was originally saving 500 Days of Summer for the occasion, but I ended up watching it a couple weeks early, so now I guess a Swedish rape-revenge flick was my second best option. Crazy how that works. Either way, I was actually quite excited to watch this one: After dipping my toes into some western grindhouse classics for the first time these past couple…
One discourse I've encountered a lot these past few months is the one about "movies" vs. "cinema"; or in other words "entertainment" vs. "art". "Art is anti-entertainment, and entertainment is anti-art", right? "Oh you like Transformers? You should watch some REAL cinema like Sátántangó instead". Yada yada. I get why people make the distinction, but it feels just as limiting as it is useful. I don't really like bringing it up either, since it inherently comes with a lot of…
Why are they so desperate to reassure you that they're on the right side of history that they forgot to actually explore the themes that are supposed to build the core conflict of the story? This movie just feels like 2.5 hours of virtue signaling, which kinda just feels like a meaningless buzz word nowadays, but is actually applicable for once because every theme is underlined until it just loses its meaning entirely. Every conflict is pre-solved and gets watered…
Wildly entertaining and undeniably memorable, but a little too concerned with spectacle and gimmickry to make the best of the premise (which would've allowed for more jokes than the constantly reoccurring hot dog fingers). Still, this is the ultimate low attention span movie, and not necessarily in a bad way. It prioritizes running fast over digging deep, and while that's definitely a valid approach to make this film as fast paced as it is, I probably would've preferred it with…
the last 25 minutes of jazz-driven high speed racing with no dialogue are truly the pinnacle of cinema
For the first time in my life I don't understand why I'm giving a movie a score as high as this. I take my ratings a bit too serious for my own good, but this is the first time ever that I can't put a finger on what I enjoyed so much.
Honestly, apart from the fantastic cinematography there's not much that could put the reason for the absolute blast I had while watching this into words. I can't lie,…
