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THE BEST FILMS OF 2024
(a video by me)
It's a decent framework for an action movie, but seriously lacks meaningful characterization. Gyllenhaall is practically comatose here in comparison to his usual intensity and it's hard to blame him. Sad that I used to think that these projects spiritually belonged to cable and now all I can think is how they'll get slopified into Short Form Video Content™.
[dancing]
Brooke: What's going on in college?
Tracy: I don't know, everyone's really excited about this frozen yogurt machine at the student center.
B: I watched my mother die.
T: What?
B: I was with my mother while she died.
T: I don't know any dead people.
B: That's cool about the frozen yogurt machine. Everyone I love dies.
Me, watching a Godard film with unorthodox editing: fuck off you pretentious asshole. We get it, that's not the established cinematic language and that's not the type of (non)narrative commercial movies tend to be interested in, but is there something more to it? Or are you just doing it for some vague-ish intellectual reason to seem disruptive? Or worse, because you think it's cool?
Me, watching a Varda film with (somewhat similar) unorthodox editing: nothing in the history of the…
