Archive for November 2024

12 posts from 05 to 30 November 2024.

  • Anora

    The first third really trick you into this being just some American Pie shit. But it’s really not, the gopnik is the real working-class hero. Fucking rich assholes.

  • The Bourne Ultimatum

    A little bit of Identity, a little bit of Supremacy, a bunch of Snowden stuff, and some very supercharged spooks, since this film’s budget is much bigger.

  • The Bourne Supremacy

    This is still very cool, even though Marie’s death is extremely shocking. Why, does Bourne need extra motivation? She was just another Collateral Murder.

  • The Social Network

    This is truly the Citizen Kane of our time, but it’s only accidentally brilliant. Know idiot and delusional Aaron Sorkin tries to suck Zuckerberg’s cock while maintaining eye contact all the time, but it backfires and both look like absolute idiots.

  • Ararat

    Why does this have to be so complicated and convoluted? There’s at least three interlocking stories here, stories withing stories.

  • Emanuelle

    A remake in name only. The main character is not even named. Plot with a bit of porn, nothing outside French standards.

  • The Island

    A childish The Matrix/I, Robot, directed by Michael Bay. Who the fuck wrote this, a 15 year old teenage boy? checks Oh, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, yikes! At least in the grimdark future, you can ride a public maglev from Arizona to LA, thanks Elon!

  • Tabu

    Such a great melodrama split in two parts, but I preferred the first one. The second is tinged with colonial disgust in every scene, always there in the background, you can never ignore it.

  • X

    More like XXX for Gen X.

  • The Thin Red Line

    A war film by Terrence Malick, sounds like a contradiction but the Malick-ness wins, it’s slow and soothing. Half of it it’s shots of weird jungle animals, Melanesian people enjoying life in a remote island away from the big brouhaha of modern cities, or soldiers on leave frolicking with said natives.

  • Saint Maud

    A slow burn over Christian superstition. Burns it out to the ground, not even the ashes remain. It seems God speaks Welsh, a gentleman of ill repute.

  • The Substance

    It’s all nice and metaphorical in the first two thirds, but then it goes nuts and loses the plot for the sale of referencing The Shining, The Thing, and eXistenZ. Maybe it’s too French and I didn’t get it.