Well, I finally got around to watching the first (god willing, only) Trump show.
Quickly, my take on the October emails announcement is a little unusual in that I don’t think it decided the election. The further we get from 2016, the clearer it’s becoming to me at least that that election was decided the moment Hillary became the nominee. People were sick of her, the “corrupt” label was already firmly stuck to her and Trump’s base of loser white…
Joss Whedon’s Justice League > Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Because it’s shorter, less self-indulgent and had the “save one person” scene.
The animation is balls compared to what it could/should be, the dialogue is incredibly lame, the changes they made are either flat-out weird or cynically done to add more action and the amount of puns/illusions to Harvey becoming Two Face made me want to kill myself. Oh you’re of two minds on something Harvey?? Such clever writing!!
After Hush, I have no faith they’re actually going to keep it to the original killer, which is exactly what you want from…
It’s Scott Pilgrim, but stupid.
Daniel Radcliffe is legitimately great tho. Gotta support my man.
America isn’t a country. It’s a business. Now fucking pay me.
Really unsure of why this exists or even what the point is, but hey, Brad Pitt is good!
Ah, the dreaded Sophomore Slump.
Cooper understandably is feeling himself after A Star is Born, one of the finest debuts of recent memory. That movie, blueprint be damned had the energy and ingenuity of someone who’d been working to that point for their entire lives.
Maestro finds him in both Prestige Director AND Cool Shot mode, which are very dangerous places to be, especially when you’re thrust into the former so quickly.
The images he and Matthew Libatique compose are…
Has some fleeting fun & coolness until it stops down for what felt like two hours to tell us a bunch of stuff about the Lestrange's for the sole reason that R*wling needed to set up the Aurelius Dumbledore bit.
Maybe it comes into play later on, but if it doesn't it'll be the dumbest and most pointless thing in all of these stories.
Time has been unkind to this one. Rowling’s choices as a writer and Lynch’s as a director are completely in sync in that they are bad.
Gonna list some things out that bother me.
- Rowling’s books other than Potter (I read the first couple Galbraith’s) are fine, so maybe this would have worked as a novel, but as a screenplay, it’s pretty bad. Her best moments as a writer are the beast setpieces, everything else: oy vey.
- David…
Not much to say about this. It’s weird, uncomfortable and disorienting, like all Kaufman joints are. Whether he’s weird for weirds sake or an important artistic voice of the 21st century is not a question I’m qualified to answer.
I probably won’t like any film of his more than Anomalisa. That’s fine by me.
This movie’s got great bones.
A father (De Niro) trying to pull his son (some guy) away from the local mafioso (Palminteri) who does his business a couple doors down.
How do you mess that up? I love De Niro, but the answer is casting bad actors. The script could have used some work too but overall it’s the main kids who brought this down for me. Neither of them amounted to much (one did time 😐) which makes sense…