Across the Spiderverse is a 9/10 Spiderman film and like an 11/10 animated film.
I watched the previous movie, this movie actually somehow blows that one away. Like I can't believe a movie like that was made, and it took less than a decade to make.
Looks Who’s Back, a German comedy about Hitler suddenly coming back to life in the modern day. Now I know it’s political and we live in divided times where we have to debate if things like racism are real and #notallfasicts but it doesn’t change this movie has some lols to it. It’s scripted but it has Borat vibes but more tame as they never put him real tense situations. It feels too amateurish (more TV movie than student film) as it doesn’t know when to let the drama and points it making play out as well as how to put an exclamation point in like a good satire should as well as it’s being edited/filmed poorly. Still it makes the point that is worth hearing that fascists tell you they are fascists but folk don’t believe it. The highlight is the Hitler actor who nails being a p****, charismatic and funny.
The Hidden, this movie was metal! It’s like Men In Black but less quirky and more of 80s buddy cop action movie. It’s about people deciding to play real life Grand Theft Auto by blasting 80s rock whilst robbing robbing banks and killing people for lols. Kyle MacLachian is pitch perfect as the FBI cop tracking him down with a down to earth homicide cop as his partner that really makes the movie. It’s surprising how good the film is, just a fun well crafted genre movie. I’d put it along side the likes of They Live of great 80s genre action movies. Highlight of the flick was the surprise of seeing Danny Trejo pop up to die 2 seconds later.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s, the OG manic pixie dream girl movie! To be honest after watching it I don’t think it’s fair to call it a manic pixie dream girl movie since the movie is about her even though it’s told from the point of view of the guy but yeah, quirky and underdeveloped so she does meet the criteria. It’s an okay movie, the most interesting bits like trying to reinvent yourself is undercooked so it feels like an almost great movie. It has one of the most eww things ever with a white man in yellow face playing a Japanese character shouting cartoony Japanese things, it’s not even tonally matching the movie so it just makes you go wtf. Highlight of the flick is the opening few minutes, iconic. Elegant Aubrey Hepburn eating breakfast looking into a jewellery store as Moon River plays, just filmed in a gorgeous dreamy way with an empty New York misdirecting you as it’s not her but what she aspires to be.
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, based on a book that is the standard bearer for coming of age stories. Considering the hate Turning Red got on here I can’t imagine folk on the forum would watch this but I really liked it. It’s very charming, sweet and captures all sort of anxious and awkward feelings for tweens. I would have preferred something less wholesome though like the period moment is something out of The Shining or the debate of is she Christian or Jewish is a huge CGI battle with lasers and explosions with God present for it but hey-ho. Highlight of the film was having a rush of flashbacks of loads and loads of other shows and movies coming into my head because this has been mined, homaged, parodied to death as it’s so influential despite the movie only just coming out.
@jump I kinda wanna watch Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret out of how much it compares to Turning Red and yes I do know this is comparing a PG-13 movie to a PG one but I am quite curious.
@jump When I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's on TV they'd just cut out every single scene that included Mickey Rooney's Japanese caricature. Which normally I would be opposed to but in this case it didn't feel like I was missing a lot Iol (there were a couple of moments that came across a bit disjointed but on the whole he seems to be a pretty superfluous character). I agree with you some aspects of the film are a bit underdeveloped, but it is very charming and Moon River is one of the most beautiful songs ever written so it's got that going for it.
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@Owl1 I've not got a clue about age ratings, I don’t really care or think about such things.
It's completely wholesome unless you count tween girls talking about periods at all is wrong despite how mild and non-graphic it is and it’s less about periods and more a symbol of their adulthood. There's also a scene of them trying on training bras (less about bras and more about growing up) but again non-graphic and mild. The protagonist has a Jewish Dad and a Christian Mum so there’s an argument at one point about what does that make her, again not provocative just a discussion but you never know how some people take stuff like that.
It's not really like Turning Red, I made the comparison as a lot of people on here bizarrely exploded with rage at it (and then backed down to they just couldn't relate to it) as it's a coming of age tween girl story but whilst Turning Red had kaiju monsters, manga and video games nods this would appeal even less as there’s no geek references and no adventuring as it’s just a pure coming of age story. Oddly I relate more to Turning Red and Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret more than say American Pie or Superbad. Turning Red is about kids wanting to go to a gig, replace the boyband with someone like Prodigy, NoFX or System Of A Down and that’s my teen years and there’s a subplot of Are You There God? of the big kid which was me.
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret is the standard bearer for tween coming of age stories (you will see it’s fingerprints on loads and loads of stories that came since) and it’s good adaptation so yeah see it. With a bunch of new movies coming out in June and it's not a CGI blockbuster I can't imagine it will be at the cinema for much longer.
@Dogorilla You’re didn’t miss much and yeah, it probably improved the film without him in it. Ignoring the yuck of it he has no barring on the plotting besides calling the police on the party and letting her into the building both can be done without showing him, he’s only in the same room with Aubrey once but not even in the same shot and when he does pop up his energy is completely different so you get a tonal whiplash from him.
Yeah Moon River is such a great song and it really adds to the opening and ending. The opening is pure cinema magic, just gorgeous to watch and adds to the film by making you ask who she is and misdirecting you.
@Rambler I couldn't get into Dark myself, my missus liked it though so I played my Switch next to her on the sofa as she watched it.
Yeah Look Who's Back is part Borat by talking to randoms, part scripted satire. It's less adventurous though as instead of sticking him in tense this could go wrong situations they pretty much just go to the pub to find the racist in the corner and start talking to him. I talked to some Germans about this before and their attitude is very different to WW2 aside from the obvious. Whilst Americans and Brits wont stop glorifying WW2 they don't and since then they had stuff like The Cold War and The Berlin Wall as their recent history.
People like franchises and not movies anymore innit. Those bombastic films growing up like Terminator or Mad Max or cool must see films like Donnie Darko or Kung Fu Hustle have been largely replaced with franchises like Star Wars or Marvel which are mostly younger rated films anyways so there is no reason to sneak into a 18 rated film anymore as the hype is for 12 rated stuff with really cool/bombastic stuff nowadays just gets ignored.
I remember being a pre-teen staying up late to watch the midnight movie on Channel 4 as that is when the good movies were on. Thinking about it there is one I watched called Antibodies at the age of 11ish, the movie is a subtitled German film that is like a remix of Se7en and Silence Of The Lambs about a very naughty pedo serial killer. In a way I regret seeing films like that too young, not because it's graphic but I didn't pick up a lot of subtexts like I do now which only comes from having perspective of life experience but hey-ho. Then again when I was 15 I was saving up for tattoos and figuring out how to travel across the country to go to music festivals despite being underage and not having a tix.
It's not a perfect movie, but gosh dang was it fire.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Owl1 Oh wow, I'm not normally someone who watches a film just because a particular actor is in it but I will make an exception for James Acaster in Ghostbusters
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I wouldn’t read too much into Indy reviews just yet as it was only screened for Cannes Film Festival rather than critics. You know how people moan that all the Oscar films are too serious and arty farty? Well if those same films were shown at Cannes they would be booed for being not serious and arty farty enough so it was always gonna get bad reviews. As silly as it was of Disney to show it there it tells me they have confidence in it being more than nostalgia porn, just not enough to win a Cannes festival crowd over.
Speaking of Cannes, there’s a few films that has been added to my watchlist from it.
Anatomy Of A Fall, the big Palme d’Or winner, a courtroom thriller about a wife on trial for murder as I really like a courtroom thrillers I’m looking forward to this.
Tiger Stripes, a French body horror film about teen acne. It’s being compared to Raw which I think is a bloody good film so sounds good.
How To Have Sex, British drama about drunk girls partying after exams. I saw words like visceral and real being used to describe it.
Sleep, it’s the debut film from Bong Joon-ho’s (the guy that made The Host, Okja and Parasite a film so good Hollywood gave it the best picture Oscar despite it not being in English) working partner, It’s about a couple with a kid and one of them sleeps walks and is doing something scary with the kid.
The Old Oak, a film by Ken Loach about how important pubs are. I fully agree with this bias political agenda propaganda movie!
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