Union of Salvation
Pretty much the entire movie.
Union of Salvation
Pretty much the entire movie.
Blood Rain
Some sins can never be forgotten.
This is like a samurai murder mystery without the samurai.
Korean cinema doesn't disappoint.
Unforgiven
Masterpiece.
Nobody, and I mean, nobody makes a western like Clint Eastwood.
Army of the Dead
7 out of 10
Mainly because of this guy...
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Nobody (2021)
I recommend this movie. It felt kind of realistic, his skills seemed rusty at first, taking quite fair a bit of damage and even in the end this guy didn't feel allmighty. Even though he didn't have a big role, Christopher Lloyd delivers a few priceless moments.
The trailer I saw was a bit misleading for me, btw.
Zama (2017)
Originally a novel, which is considered one of the Argentine classics. The novel is touted as being the epitome of nothingness. How did it translate to the screen? Seeing as I haven't read the novel I can't compare them. But I can judge the film.
This movie is long and boring. Actually it isn't that long, but it is so slow that it feels twice as long as it really is. It took me two days to finish this movie because I found it so mentally exhausting that I went to bed early. It is indeed a movie about nothing. In every scene something happens, but it is so minor that it feels like nothing. The story is about nothing. Diego de Zama, a local magistrate or lawyer in a small Paraguayan frontier town in which nothing happens. He wants to bee promoted and specifically wants to be transferred to a town called "Lerma". He never gets promoted and his life wastes away on the colonial frontier.
The obvious problem with this movie, not that it is slow. Rather than nothing in it makes sense or is seemingly explained. This leaves me with so many questions about the plot, which apparently it doesn't matter, cause nothing matters. The pacing actually makes any plot point pretty forgettable because the movie then moves on to another really slow scene. Only some of these plot points come back in the rest of the movie. What is more every scene is so strange and the camera angles are so uncomfortable that it feels like an actual meth trip. Some of these scenes are so odd and surreal that I am confused as to whether it was meant to be real, or if Zama is imagining it, or if it is a dream sequence. I found myself asking the relevance of some of these scenes. But it left me with so many questions that I don't see how this even works as a movie. The story plot points appear to be barely explained. Or I was tripping out and missed all of it.
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Warth of man: well made but i didn't expect such a superficial story from guy ritchie. Let's blame that on covid...
Yes! This is the point!
What's interesting in this review is that you recognize the film is about nothing, or rather this sort of emptiness, but then you seem disappointed by that. Neither the novel nor the film really focus so much on a story as a state of being and state of mind, and so trying to find evidence concretely in favour of one interpretation of an event or another is a fruitless enterprise (in fact, there's some scenes towards the end that have no logical explanation at all). This is quite common in modern literature (and very much true of the source novel), and yet often seems to come as a shock when it's presented in film—perhaps because it is assumed that visuals in film must be taken as literal, while words on a page can be read as subjective.
With a film like this when you watch it, you should use your imagination and knowledge of the setting to arrive at your own conclusion. If at a later point you realize there can be an alternative theory, there's a thrill to that discovery. For me, there's more richness to that experience than having the director hold my hand through the whole way.
A bit of background that may help you, though:
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I do hope that with all these questions that it stays with you, there are many elements in the film that are subtly unsettling or disorienting and that's what gives it power.
The issue was really not being able to understand what was happening. Pretty much nothing was explained. The actual trippy scenes were not that much of a problem.
Barbarians
Bene, ma non benissimo,
to quote our Italian brothers.
It's always good to see Romans lose and they did make an effort with the Latin and the costumes but still...
meh.
Battle scene was great though.
Had me in tears and everything.
Oslo
Historical movie.
It's also sad that the peace did not last.
'Abu Ala, what is that sound?'
'They are crying. All of them. They did not think they will live to see this day.'
Friends: Reunion
Wow, they really squeezed all the nostalgia juice out of this one, didn't they?
Voyagers: the original lord of the flies is much better
Oxygen: claustrophobic thriller, it's a pleasant watch but lacks thrills.
Hysterical
Yay, women.
Boo, the patriarchy.
Gets a little redundant and repetitive.
But Iliza Shelsinger is still cute as hell.
Truly inspirational.
Lower Decks
Great series.
Great characters, great writers, great comedy, great action.
Here's some truth about Star Fleet:
It's Kind of A Funny Story
This cured my depression.
Very wholesome
Boss Level (2021)
Offers enough entertainment for what it is but I wouldn't say you need to see it.
What bugged me with this is:
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I just saw rurouni kenshin! and it was awesome!!!