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Don’t tend to score shorts, stand-up or TV, will give a heart if I like it though!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I've busted out my laptop to write this because I have so many thoughts that this 'review'/scattergun mess might run a little longer than usual.
I felt physically sick whilst watching this, like to a point where I genuinely thought I was going to throw-up multiple times, thankfully I didn't as close as I might have come! The sound design is haunting, it's probably some of the best I've ever had the displeasure of listening to, every crunch of glass,…
Started stress-eating kinder bueno halfway through.
No idea what happened, was filmed with a handheld camcorder yet still looks incredible, I understood very little of what I watched - and yet I’m pretty sure it’s great? No idea really, I fuck with it.
The three hour runtime is daunting, but it’s paced surprisingly well. Self-indulgent, nonsensical, psychedelic, haunting, beautiful soundtrack. Brilliance.
David Lynch, greatest of all time, in the conversation anyway.
Insane Kylie Minogue needledrop 😭
I trusted him, one last time.
It gets off to a rocky start with an incredibly poorly edited first twenty, with an overuse of flashbacks and exposition, but once you get past the credit sequence, holy fuck that’s cinema baby
An utterly breathless experience that had me laughing out loud, trying not to throw-up through stress, and genuinely crying for about five minutes straight. There are so many unbelievable set-pieces in this I find it impossible to nail-down my favourite,…
I can’t believe I’m sat here balling my eyes out at the fucking Robbie Williams monkey biopic, but here we are. Let’s be real, based on the concept alone, this has absolutely no right to be as astoundingly brilliant as it is.
Exceedingly ballsy and slick direction by Michael Gracey, phenomenal editing & VFX, a brilliant exploration of who Robbie (Robert) truly is, which most biopics completely fail to do these days.
So many incredible scenes, but I think the very…