Are the comics better? Yes. Is this movie still the coolest and funniest fucking thing ever? Yes. I just love it to death man. The jokes, comedic timing, the editing, the acting, the music ITS SO GOOD ITS SO FUN.
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Absolute classic. I am not that well versed in the zombie genre, but this movie just slaps. I love Edgar Wright's style so freaking much, it has that zanyness and energy and that is just so greatly enjoyable for me. While I do think this is the weakest film in the cornetto trilogy, it's still amazing.
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*This section contains personal talk about my autism, where I mention my frustrations over how other people, allistic and neurodivergent, percieve me. I don't know if it's triggering, but if you want to skip it, just know that this film has some of my favourite autistic representation.*
Jesus fucking Christ this fucking movie. It's both funny and devastating. The art direction is absolutely stellar, I love the creator's stop motion dolls and just how freaky they look. I like the main two characters and the dynamic between the main two friends. My absolute favourite aspect of this film is the potrayal of autism. It was just so real and genuine. I went knowing that Max has "Asperger's" and their is an entire scene where he talks about it in his letter to Mary. It was a really well done scene and I loved the message that Max was proud to be himself regardless of all the problems caused by his disability. One thing I did not expect was how his autism was this important to his whole character. We see how he struggles with interaction, how he's scared shitless to correspond over mail, how he has to deal with all these little day to day problems caused by his autism. As I said, it was so authentic despite the silly and exaggerated reality of this world. I don't want to spoil much, but there is a ploint point about Max's frustrations over other people wanting to cure him, people he though he could confide in. It was so devastating and hit so close to home. I never had to confront people saying that I need to be "cured", but I just feel that people don't understand my relationship with my autism. Why are there so little people that I can talk to about it? Why are people try to argue that I'm not disabled just because I function well on my own? Would they percieve me as lesser if they did call my condition "disabled"? Why is my condition only brought up when I do something wrong, but not when it impacts me in a positive way? Why am I supposed to not care that I'm autistic? I want to be happy that I'm autistic, because I want to be happy with myself. This movie hit so close to home and I'm so happy that it did. I said all those things without even mentioning how I think Mary is definetly an undiagnosed neurodivergent child. In conclusion, peak neurodivergent cinema.
Really charming, amazing cinematography + colours, fun chemistry between the leads, really great music, what else do you need in a movie? I'm honeslty suprised just how much I connected with "La La Land". I was really invested in Mia and Sebastian's relationship and was greatly entertained by everything that was happening. During one of the argument scenes I remember my brain being completely quiet, because it was so focused on the drama. That almost never happens to me. Even when I am greatly locked in to a movie, I will be thinking about something on the back of my mind. My thoughts being properly quiet freaked me out, but also felt really special. After watching this film I decided "I need to watch more movies which make me feel like this one". Also, realising that certain musical sequences were one big long shots was so cool.
The movie's free on youtube, here's the link. This is a weird and absurdist piece of indie animation. I discovered it through Scaffrilas reccomendations and decided to watch during the Christmas break. I wanted to watch as many films as possible and this one was easily accesible. Dude. I think that was the best movie watching experience I ever had. The movie is actually a compilation of the short episodes, so it's narrative isn't even close to a proper movie structure. It follows Tux and Fanny, two weird blobs who speak in text-to-speech russian, who go on various crazy adventures. I went into it blind, and the weird presentation made me on edge. Like I was constanlty scared that the film would become a horror or something. But, it never did, instead this is one of the coziest and most genuinely happy movies I've ever watched. I was so sucked into this film when I first watched it, when it was over I actually clapped and felt a genuine feeling of joy for the next couple of hours. The themes are related to actual absurdist theory, with it being about how nothing happens for a reason and we should just find happiness in being able to choose our destinys. However, it also presents worrying about these theories too much as silly. It's not a "turn of brain off" movie, but its also not trying to be pretentious. The fact that this movie means to much to me just shows the importance of art, like what do you mean a silly film on youtube left such an impact on me? I just want to make even more art now.
Link."Tux and Fanny" got a sequel and it's just as peak. This is also a compilation of episodes, but this one has more of a "movie structure". There is an actual plot with the house and the family that used to live there, many plot points get used and resolved to present certain themes, it just feels like there is a narrative progression. Compared to the first movie where shit just happens. By this point, there series' artstyle and the character design has become more consistent while remaining experimental. It's still really weird and really fun. One thing I noticed about the series is that Fanny seems to suffer a lot more than Tux. Maybe suffer isn't the right word, but the solo Fanny adventures seem to be more fucked up than Tux's. Comepared to him, she's the fucking Spongebob in Silent Hill meme.
I need to watch more Wes Anderson films, because this one was so good. It's so fun, charming, well constructed. I love the Zero and Mr. Gustave so much, they are respectively well-written and have such fun chemistry with each other. The movie made me laugh so hard, especially during the snow mountain chase sequence.
Best way of describing this movie is simple, but effective. The plot is straight forward, could even be predictable in some areas. The presentation is amazing tho. It has a energetic style which I find highly entertaining, it has an absolutely iconic needle drop and use of a pop song, and it's funny. I laughed out loud so many times throughout the film, there are just so many iconic one-liners.
I might rewatch the film to refresh my thoughts on it. I think it is one of my fav films because of well written, constructed and presented it is, as opposed to me feeling a really strong personal fondness to it. That's not a bad thing, as I really like it. Normally I pussy out of horror movies, but I found "Sinners" more tense than outright scary. It has a simple narrative presented in a really entertaining way used to explore interesting themes. I like all the characters and especially found Remmick an interestingly written one. Him being a victim of colonisation, but also a perpetrator of it is a cool way to explore how a person could define themselves through how they were opressed, but choose to take advantage of whatever privilege they have is an interesting topic that should be talked about more. I'm Polish, so I sometimes think about how my country both greatly suffered due to war, conquest and cultural erasure, but is also European and clearly benefits from that. I really liked the dynamic between Stack and Mary, I don't have a specific reason why, I just found it interesting. I like how the movie takes its time before shit goes down. It allows the characters to shine and how important character traits and dynamics to be established. I feel that the movie may be moving too slow how some people, but I personally think that it uses its time well. I think that its cool when a story allows you to get attached to the characters before giving them tragic fates. Obviously the "I lied to you" scene is the best one, I believe that it is the moment where the movie jumped from really good to amazing. From that scene forewards, the movie becomes more fun in presentation. More tense scenes, more comedy, more songs. There are just so many things to discuss about "Sinners" without getting tired. I guess that's what makes it so amazing in my eyes.
"Dangerous Men" is a Polish historical fiction film released in 2022. It follows a theoretical scenario where a bunch of polish artists (painters, poets, etc.) meet up in Zakopane to have a drug-filled party. In this fictional narrative, four poets find themselves in a "The Hangover" scenario where they find a dead guy in their house and don't remember anything because of the drugs they took last night. Also the dead guy looks a lot like one of the poets. Said poet also is pursued by debt collectors. This is a really fun and creative movie. It's funny, has great cinemotography, the acting is stellar, the music is awesome. I tend to rewatch it once in a while with my family, it's one of our favourite films.
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