Hm? I don't remember it being incoherent?
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Hm? I don't remember it being incoherent?
It was really, really boring, but I don't remember any inconsistencies either.
It was a movie that absolutely couldn't decide what kind of movie it wanted to be- jumping from Magical Apartheid to Grindelwald being nefarious to Constance's teenage issues to the mayoral election D plot to the titular Fantastic Beasts to Newt's past to the disgraced Auror to her sister and the random NoMaj... in short, a mess.
Just watched Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, which dropped today on Netflix. Probably my second favorite film of the year after Isle of Dogs, still yet to see The Favorite and Into the Spiderverse. Roma is a movie I can't really recommend to anyone who doesn't care about filmmaking or presentation. The story is good, if not too special when familiar with Latinamerican literature, and the ties it has to the director's real life are very cool, but the directing is the selling point. The cinematography and sound design are absolutely on point. The only instances of music in the movie come from a discernible source and don't form part of a soundtrack. There is no OST; rather, the surround sound effects of the bustling streets of Roma, Mexico are the soundtrack. The movie is presented in grayscale and features many an uncut shot, some of which are really hard to pull off and really satisfying to view. It's beautiful to look at and harrowing when it needs to be, but without ever feeling melodramatic. If I had to complain about something, it'd be that some of the acting feels somewhat stilted. It fits the film's presentation and in general I didn't mind it, but every now and then I think that the performances were slightly hindered by the long shots. There's also a character that came across as hilariously cartoonish in one scene and I'd have liked it if it was put together slightly differently, because it clashed with the movie. It cemented the idea that this character is an unpleasant, worthless piece of garbage, but there were more subtle ways of doing so. The lead actress did a great job in most of her scenes but I do think that every now and then she could come off as too detached. After a certain point this is not a problem, but there is one scene where a little more emotion might have been in order. Nevertheless, I would rather it be too stilted than melodramatic. Roma could've easily been a more conventional drama, but it opted to be a more unique project and I'm very happy this was the case. I've never seen a movie like it and this was a pretty good warmup for La montaña sagrada, which I intend to watch soon. As of the first viewing, for me this is a strong 9/10.
They were connected, yes, but I wouldn't say they were intertwined. It would be a much better movie if they were, but I suspect most of it ended in the cutting room floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-WEb2oxLk
I was thinking about Men in Black a few weeks ago. Excited for this movie.
Watched Bumblebee. For a Transformers movie, I'm impressed.
The new Hellboy movie looks so weak... Like a watered-down version of Del Toro's Hellboy.
It looks like no one is enjoying themselves, which is alright if you're going for a darker edgier version, but you can't make a bunch of jokes using that tone and expect it to be funny, it ends up feeling like Charlie Brown.
I saw Mortal Engines last night. That's a movie with great aesthetic and good acting but the blandest storyline (the ending is literally just Star Wars) and tons of badly written characters (Red 3 goes down in a fiery blaze of glory which would be greatly helped if I knew the first thing about them, like their name.)
Ha ha, look, it's because he's Thor and he threw a hammer and...
look guys, everyone expected the casting gag when you decided to make the man a MIB agent, but you really don't have to try this hard to be "hip and trendy" just because the last MIB movie kinda sucked. Don't think I didn't catch the obvious MIB cartoon references too.
Last MIB movie should've been the last one period.
They're also "rebooting" the Pirates of the Caribbean without Jack Sparrow. 5 should've been the last one of that, too.
The only good Pirates was the first one, and while I did enjoy MIB 2, no MIB after the first one was needed.
Ι'm gonna have to agree with Eeyore here, At World's End worked just fine for the ending. Heck, they could have stuck to Dead Man's Chest and it'd be fine at that.
Same for MIB 2, except here 3 was really a step down in overall quality.
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Also this is unrelated but I'm really hyped up for Enter The Spiderverse and I hope I can manage to go see it before someone dumps a heaping plate of spoilers all over me again.
Not sure if this belongs here, but has anyone here watched the Timeless finale movie? They did a pretty good job of wrapping things up satisfactorily. (Even if the nature of Jia's visions went frustratingly unexplained).
New Hellboy reboot just makes me want Hellboy III. Still gonna go see it.
Saw Spider-verse yesterday. It was pretty entertaining.