Top 5. Immediately. I think this is the fastest I've ever given a movie a top 5, I just don't know where it stands yet. I watched this about a month ago, and I'm only getting around to this blog now because I wanted to wait for the recency bias to wear off. And because of the sheer spectacle this movie contains, there was a lot of recency bias. If you haven't seen Dune 1 yet and you want to see Dune 2, you have to watch the first one to understand anything that's going on. Yeah, people are right about Dune 1 being pretty slow, but it successfully manages to establish Arrakis and Paul & his family's politics very well. Dune 2, on the other hand, is a rollercoaster of movement the entire time. Because of how slow the first Dune moved, this one also picks up pretty slow, but once it gets started it does not stop. The action is smooth, the CGI is fantastic, the soundtrack is incredible, and the acting is top-notch. I'd be surprised if this movie makes less than 3 Oscars this year, but after seeing Barbie get robbed, it's hard to tell. What's even harder to tell is how much I loved this movie. Not because there's only a few details I loved, but because of how stroy-rich this movie is. I don't think I can say a single thing about this without spoiling it, so this post might feel a little lackluster in terms of synopsis. But oh my god is this movie epic. I don't mean that in a Reddit-ish way, but the way the movie's filmed makes it feel like a fantastic epic. If there's one thing that I love above everything else that this movie does well, it's the sandworms. Again, I can't say much without spoiling the movie, so just know that both of these movies are fantastic ways to kill 12 hours. I've got nothing to complain about in this movie, so I think that Denis Villenueve's Dune: Part Two gets a perfect score. 10/10
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I watched this a while back as the start to a 200 days 200 movies thing with a couple of my other firends. I've got a couple issues with that, one being the fact that because of how good this movie is, it was gonna be hard to even compete with the sheer emotion and suspense this movie produced. Another issue being that we only lasted about a month before everyone dropped out. Great run, guys. Real team effort there. I can't even be mad, we all had practically no time to watch that many movies at that time in the first place. Oh right, the movie. Like I said in the first "paragraph," almost no other movie I've watched can honestly compete with the suspense and pure dread this movie was manage to capture. The only other one being Society of the Snow, but I don't want to spoil that blog post (it's probably going to be next (but who knows? (I sure don't))). The way this movie creates tension is amazing. I've had some of my friends say it's way too slow, but I think it's perfectly paced for how long it is, especially considering the stakes at hand and the ending. The story follows two families, both of which lose their youngest daughter during a Thanksgiving party. They, along with the help of a far too suspicious detective, attempt to find their daughters, with a number of bumps along the way (and by bumps I mean torture). The movie sets up as a lighthearted, family movie at Thanksgiving time, but quickly goes down the drain after their daughters go missing. This sets up the stakes for the movie, as the first 48 hours in a missing persons case are the most crucial. The movie is a fantastic exploration of mania and panic, and if you know me at all, you know I love movies that explore human emotion. The casting's great, the acting is top tier, it's got Paul Dano in it, there really isn't that much I have to complain about in this movie. I think if I was going to pick one thing, it'd be that the movie's a little long. But honestly, I don't care about how long it is, because this movie's just so (imagine I used a word here starting with "d" for emphasis) good. Might even be a top 5, but I'll have to revisit it before I decide that. 9.5/10If you asked me to give you a movie that was insane, outrageous, and heartfelt all in one, I'd give you Milos Forman's 1975 masterpiece One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Besides the fact that this movie is literally nuts, it's a chaotic collage I haven't seen this well put together, or performed, in any other movie. This is another example of a movie that could not have done well if the actors didn't give it everything they had. But this time, instead of a stale, undercooked plot (I'm looking at you, Poor Things), it's a super interesting and unique storyline that, once again, I haven't seen in any other movie. I do know a song that follows the plot pretty closely (Joe Hawley of Tally Hall's The Mind Electric) but that's a different story. In one sentence, a man is sentenced to a work prison, but instead of going to the prison, he pretends he's crazy and gets sent to an asylum, where chaos soon follows. He shows the patients what life's really like. Shows them how to play basketball, how to have fun despite the strictness of the ward, and even sneaks the patients out of the hospital to go on a fishing trip. If you're anything like me, you'd think that this is a super interesting concept for a film. But that's not even the best part. I know I talk a lot about how a cast's performance can really affect how the movie turns out on this blog, and this movie is no exception to that. I don't think I can really say how well every single actor played their part in this movie. Jack Nicholson is convincingly unpredictable, and this really shows as a testament to his and his co-stars' raw talent showcased here. 9.5/10There's not enough words in the world to describe how weird this movie is nor are there any words to describe how I felt watching it. I don't know what I felt while watching this, but discomfort's putting it lightly.
I saw Poor Things with my friend, Jacob (his blog's here), about a week after it came out and thank God for him because I would not have made it through that alone. From start to finish, this movie was a roller coaster of emotion that made it genuinely difficult to pull your eyes away from the screen, but at the same time made you want to hate every movie you've ever watched. It's a disturbing perversion of how people grow up and find themselves. And I'm going to be honest, we were either going to see this or Wonka and we chose this because it looked better and was up for a number of Oscar categories. We should've just done Wonka. So, after just crapping on the movie the entire introduction, it really seems like this movie could never redeem itself in any categories. But the parts that are good are magnificent. The most obvious example of this being the actors. Poor Things shines almost entirely through its actors. Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo all explore characters that are wildly different than any other character I've any of them play before. Well, Ruffalo's mad for a lot of the movie. I feel like there's a series of movies where his alter ego is triggered by him being mad, but I just can't think of it. Anyway, the acting. Poor Things relies almost entirely on its actors to keep the audience entertained, because the plot would have definitely scared most of the audience out if the acting wasn't good. But genuinely, the acting in this is phenomenal. Each one of the actors absolutely sold their parts and I'm not surprised that Emma Stone got Best Actress for this. But that doesn't mean I like this movie. I can't think of a reason to like this that isn't the acting or the costuming, and that's because of how the movie unfolds. It follows a young woman's coming of age (literally) and how she learns to view the world and empower herself. Reading that sentence, you'd think that this is a pretty good movie, right? But that's the most basic, absolute rock-bottom plot synopsis of this movie. I don't want to spoil anything because the twist is kind of freaky, and if you've read this blog at all you know I love freaky elements in movies, but the rest of this movie is absolutely an exception to that. |
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