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Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Kelly Reichardt seems to make the kind of movies where she lets the audience do some of the work. And she’s really good at it.

His style is really watchable, but it does feel very familiar, with flashes of new fun things.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

Shout out to the guy in the middle of our cinema verbally reacting like it was an Avengers movie and the foldout couch was spiderman

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

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Looked pretty. I appreciated how the long takes and the performances added life and realism to the film, but I think that realism was all in service of nothing.

Vicky barely seemed like a character, had no agency. Only getting to the “I don’t know what I want” moment near the end of the film did something interesting come through, but even that could be seen as a cop out. “Directionless” characters can’t literally have no direction.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

“People like THIS??” I scoffed, as a giant egg bought a one way ticket to my face.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

A real MOVIE-type movie, made to be seen at the movies!

Hell yeah to everyone who made this! The kung fu was actually pretty sick too!

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Really ire and get why people love it. But I don’t think Tarkovsky is my jam. Stayed the same tempo for the majority of the movie, lingered too long on many shots, heavy on philosophy whenever they talk. Technically stunning though. Sound, shots, performances, design, all well done.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Feeling a strong urge to watch this on repeat until all the jokes are burned into my brain

Great atmosphere. Insufferable main character.

Loved the detail, especially in representing the internet and how kids used it at the time.
Took me back to when I was an annoying little shit, in a nostalgic, painful, wholesome kinda way.

I liked the first episode the best. Second one was the worst. 3&4 had moments.

The single takes looked good but they were pointless outside of the first ep (A lot of walking). And the music was terrible.

When the dialogue leaned hard into its talking points about toxic masculinity and the internet and everything, I figured this show was made for parents or just people that don’t really think about all that. Hopefully projects like this are getting people to engaging with the topic, rather than just be a weighty drama.

Weird kid. I liked him.

At the Opera House with the Sydney Lyric Orchestra

I ed just before the movie started that it’s mainly two songs over and over again. But the live band made all those moments of music so exciting.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

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Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Im a bit drunk but this fuckin rocked.

This dude was naked a lot. He wears a hat that gives him hair and he still has a visible bald patch at the end of it.
I felt bad for his son at first, but then he (Talmage??) was all for it, which was awesome. This family is full of freaks (I’m still dru k by the  way)
The blood transfusion bus? The life-size cut out of his son thats in one shot? Steve Aoki?
Bruh, they tried to end this movie making the guy look like a good dude, but he was too fuckin weird that it made the last 10 minutes so funny. He’s an inspiration … but also he’s doing things that average income people can’t access? Well he’s testing things for future generations… But also he’s pumping himself with so much shit that we don’t actually know what works?

Just a really awesome ex-mormon family unit.
I will never watch this again. This is a 4 star drunk movie.

Watched on Monday February 10, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday January 14, 2025.

Exciting and bubbly in the first half, but definitely could’ve been shorter. Never seen Joe Pesci cry before :(

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Christopher Abbott was good. I liked when he said “I have a right to bear this arm for some reason.”

Otherwise, so disappointed. A premise that sets up a lot to explore, and the film lightly grazes the surface of it all.

The writers should have got a good script editor/dramaturg. Exposition is just dolled out and repeated, characters change for little to no reason, I didn’t even get to know these characters and ended up not caring about them.

Jerrod Carmichael should have just directed. He could’ve really refined the warm+stark tone he was going for. He shouldn’t have acted in this, his performance had nothing in it. I can imagine him thinking “Depression makes you numb, so that’s the performance.” But it’s an oversimplification of how depression and suicidal ideation present. What about the common conception of an eerie uptick in mood before someone takes their own life? Or what if he’s just panicking about his life instead of actually being committed to dying? He had no idea what he wanted this character to be, and the script gave him no help. Even if he just injected his performance with a bit of energy, that would have elevated things so much.

It’s disappointing because this film is obviously aware of the bigger themes at its fingertips, but it’s not really saying anything.

Super gothic and freaky which was a lot of fun to be absorbed in. Lily-Rose Depp really commits physically and it’s mesmerising to watch.

Rewatched this just after midnight on the first day of the new year and was a little tipsy, was a weird choice maybe.

I will say Charlie Kauffman is very creative and detailed, but I find his films tend to get intellectually bogged down as they go on. Maybe too many metaphors? Maybe loading the end with existentialist explaining? Maybe abandoning/hiding a traditional structure?

I dunno. Definitely more accessible than his other directed films.

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Orlok and Hutter are two all time cinema goofs.
Orlok is still creepy to this day, but him sneaking through town with his giant coffin hoping no one notices? Awesome.
And Hutter is the original himbo. Him being like “I’m travelling to the land of thieves and spectres 😀”. And him reading the book of horrors, yawning, then fuckin spiking the book on the ground? This dude rocks.

Good blend of goofy and unsettling. Perfect for a Robert Eggers adaptation.

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

- Cynthia Erivo was incredible. Emotional and grounded without being too serious for the tone.
- Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey were also really great
- Maybe its cos I saw it in imax, but seeing the extras/dancers doing “musical theatre” acting in close up was so distracting.
- Defying Gravity felt like it had youtube ads between each verse.

Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.

Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.

Watched on Thursday October 31, 2024.

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