There is…. absolutely nothing that I like about this
In fact, I’m scared
movies
I saw Ready Player One today! I quite liked it. There wasn’t much substance to it (or if there was I didn’t see it) but it was aesthetically beautiful and it had a battle scene set to We’re Not Gonna Take It which is always good. I think my 12-year-old self would have ADORED this film.
But where was Letitia Wright? I was promised Letitia Wright.
I saw Paddington 2 today! tis very sweet and also very, very fiercely a pro-immigration parable
Also, curiously, it is the second movie this year where Sally Hawkins shares an emotionally* charged underwater scene with a human-like but non-human character whose existence is a metaphor for something.
*Except, you know, a different emotion
I went to see Their Finest today. I dunno if it’s even made it to America, but it’s a really good film about women’s contribution to British wartime cinema, if that sort of thing is your bag.
It is also notable for two other things! One, it has a chain-smoking men’s-clothes-wearing lesbian character (her sexuality isn’t involved in the plot but made very clear) who does not die despite the film being largely about death, and second (under a cut for spoilers)
the main male character dies to further the main female character’s development, which is a nice change of pace
I’m very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I’ve done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don’t. Some of them people like, most of them they don’t.
George Lucas (x)
movies I have seen recently
Spotlight
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Ironically, winning Best Picture is probably the worst thing that could have happened to Spotlight, because you just know in a few decades’ time people are going to be like “What was Spotlight? Never heard of it. Why didn’t Mad Max win?”
- Also I’m not sure Rachel McAdams really deserved Best Supporting Actress for this, she was fine but not really…prize-worthy?
- It was good though, I’ll probably watch it again soon
Philomena
- Another ‘the Catholic Church have some horrible hidden secrets’ movie. I think there’s quite a lot of them
- Hi, Anna Maxwell Martin! I remember when you were playing small roles in Doctor Who. And hi, Wunmi Mosaku!
- Steve Coogan is just playing Steve Coogan but that seems to work
- I didn’t know it was based on a true story until afterwards and then I was sad
The Impossible
- Actually way better than I was expecting
- I definitely get the criticisms about ‘why, seeing as most of the victims were Thai, did the movie have to be about a white family’ though. Especially since that could easily have been avoided by having multiple storylines about multiple people, since the film has two different storylines anyway
- Also, if I was part of the real-life family the film was based on, I’d be pretty pissed they changed my nationality from Spanish to American. Why is it always about America
- Tom Holland! Or whatever his name is! New Spider-Man! He’s a really good actor, I’m feeling considerably more optimistic about the reboot these days
- The make-up on this film was fantastic, I hope someone got an award for it
- Also yeah Naomi Watts probably deserved that Oscar
White House Down
- Paraphrased sample line from this movie: “It’s the President! And he’s got a ROCKET LAUNCHER!”
- Probably the most gleefully stupid film I have seen in some time
London Has Fallen
- Also stupid, but not as gleeful
- The posters for this movie showed Big Ben blowing up. Big Ben does not blow up and comes out relatively unscathed
- That being said I find London being destroyed on film a bit more…painful? then seeing places like Washington DC destroyed, because I live near London, so I was actually rather glad they didn’t spend too much time on that
- This film was a lot more racist than I expected, especially considering it was directed by a Iranian man
- I bet certain people were really delighted at that ‘go back to fuckheadistan’ line, sigh
- Wait Gerard Butler you were in Gods Of Egypt too? You really need to start picking better projects man