What if you saw 3 of the least empathetic guys solve their trauma? I don’t know what to say of this movie except it felt longer than it was.
How much money do these wizards have????
briefly features a song by my favourite band :] lots of my favourite things to see. all-around something good and safe for me. gold. probably underappreciated by many. special ~gzip
destroyed me. my fucking god
When I initially watched this movie, it made me fall in love with China—at least this movie version of rural China shown. I love the landscapes, the architecture, how slow and deliberate people are, the way the poetry is narrated.
Normally I try to be sort of subjectively-objective with my logging of movies. I enjoy talking about what makes a movie work or doesn’t work, as much as I enjoy talking about my personal experience with it. With Kaili Blues, I don’t think I can be as objective as I’d want. When I think about this movie I don’t really think about the smooth editing between the long take and the rest of the movie. I don’t even think about the story of a man discovering things about himself and other people, and accepting it as it is. I just think about the love it makes me feel.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html
Great thriller with a great performance from both the leads. It wasn’t as heavy on the more open ended storytelling as Kurosawa’s previous movie Cure was, but it was definitely still there.
Something really interesting was how little significance was given to when people were hurt or died. When someone gets shot, they don’t scream, the sound effects are minimal, and they just… slowly fall over. It was a really neat touch that added to the uneasiness.
Still not quite sure what to think about this movie. Its got the usual Kiyoshi Kurosawa style, Koji Yakusho is great (how could he not be?). I feel like the movie is wanting to be a thriller, but something is holding it back, up until the end. I feel like there’s interesting philosophical ideas being presented, but none of it really hit me at any point.
I think the only way for me to come to a conclusion about this movie is to watch it again. In that way I’m glad. Its pretty rare that I feel I NEED to watch a movie again, I usually only want to.
Has very cheesy dialogue and acting, but the good cinematography, lighting, and set make up for it.
I mostly wanted to watch this to get started with Sam Raimi and since it isn’t my Friday movie I don’t feel like writing much else.
This marks my first time watching a movie that I fully own. Before I’d been ~acquiring~ my movies, but with Mishima I was gifted the Criterion Blu-ray (which I ripped of course, I’m not buying a shitty disc player). Its very special to me to watch it in the best digital quality possible.
I’ve never really liked how often people describe movies as masterpieces. Sure there’s lots of movies so there’s bound to be quite a few, but it still feels /too/ frequent to me. When I first watched this movie I knew that I could probably consider it a masterpiece, but wanted to make sure that I rewatched it before claiming that. A masterpiece is sacred in my eyes, and by naming movies too often as such only devalues them.
After rewatching this movie, I can say without a doubt that this really is a masterpiece. I could go on about every aspect of the movie, and I would never be able to describe how great it is. It has so much to say about living with art and beauty. If you’re reading this and haven’t seen it, Watch It.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html
Even though this was a rewatch, and I went in knowing that the lens was absurdly wide, I still was not prepared for how wide the lens is.
I mean its just great, man. People coping with loneliness makes for some great stories.
I remember reading this one street photography book and the artist talked about how he rotates his camera in order to keep composition, which is abnormal, which this movie does frequently. You’d think that with such a wide lens, there wouldn’t be much problem to get interesting compositions. But I think because they wanted to keep the camera close to the characters, they ended up having to rotate the camera anyway.
This was the first Wong Kar-wai movie I watched so I didn’t know that the movie was referencing Chungking Express, which it does pretty often. Makes me wonder if Kar-wai’s other movies reference each other and I just haven’t been noticing it.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html
I feel like this is a movie about responsibility, with the 3 story lines showing different parts of it. The photographer avoiding it, but later coming across it. The teenager running away from it. And a married man desperately clinging on to it.
I think Edward Yang really likes having characters that do things that may not make sense even to themselves. He had a little bit of this in That Day on the Beach, a lot more in Taipei Story, and even more in Terrorizers. Because of that, it took me a while to figure out what I’d like to say about this movie, which is nice. It means I think about the movie for a bit longer.
REALLY interesting movie. It gives off some David Lynch vibes with… well.. a lot of things. The pacing, the black comedy, the set design, and a lot more that I can’t really put a finger on.
A lot of foreign movies I watch I feel have comedy that isn’t too culturally specific, but with Monday there was a couple times were I felt I would’ve gotten the joke better if I knew more Japanese.
The movie has one of those endings where, if you were to watch it with friends, I feel you could discuss it endlessly about what happens and what you think certain things meant. I always really like those kinds of movies.
The book of henry. On second watch this movie makes so much more sense. Two main issues that break this fucking film for me: The Book of henry 1: the guy does not need to be there post-hospital, he is shoehorned in and the writer should’ve considered Lesbians: Sheila would’ve been a nicer fit for all the scenes he has outside of a medical setting. did not keep me from wanting to fuck him, though. The Book Of henry 2: they should’ve shown Glen being more evil. Bruises, even shadows that elude to him hitting his kid. Fuck this, you’re depicting a child seizing twice and not even showing a makeup-bruise on a child for the MAIN PREMISE OF THE THIRD ACT? HALF OF THE MOVIE???? ARE YOU STUPID?
THE BOOK. OF HENRY. 7⁄10
When I originally logged this I left it blank, which I feel kind of implied that it I didn’t think it wasn’t noteworthy. But that’s not what I think it all, this movie is just a remake of the first 6 episodes of Evangelion and it does it quite well. There isn’t too much you can say about this movie that can’t also be said about those 6 episodes.
I’m writing this review mostly to say that my goal on this glorious website is to write something for every movie, even if I only have a sentence or two of thoughts about it.
i watched this not knowing that there was a twist. that was unexpected. pretty good movie.
An above average 80s crime movie. Nothing too crazy to be honest, other than getting to watch Chow Yun-Fat be the literal coolest person alive.
It very obviously inspired Reservoir Dogs, so that’s cool I guess
Really great slow movie about people’s different responses to living in their pasts.
I think it perfectly encapsulates the feeling in adulthood where people you know sort of unceremoniously coming back in your life, briefly catching up, realizing you’re both different people after spending time together, then leaving the same way they came.
This movie also continues the trend of stories about people being homesick for their adolescence. I can’t offhandedly think of a Western movie like that, but I feel like I can list so many East Asian movies like it, which I think is interesting.
Mostly a standard romance, but Maggie Cheung carries it way further
impenetrable cybersecurity in 2009 is so funny to look back on. This film is formulaic at times, the plot is predictable but also hard enough to keep track of that it kind of makes up for it. Several of these characters are transgender furries without knowing it, they plug flip phones into ethernet cables to play cards with demons. I won’t forgive that guy for killing the koi. (spoilers)
7⁄10