Films

"I thought it was interesting how just a temporary hallucination can have a permanent effect on some people, on their... on their consciousness, just chemically."

This movie was weird but ultimately pretty mediocre since there were a lot of ideas that didn't lead anywhere, and there's not much really holding it together. Kind of all over the place thematically. I don't mind though I think that's fine

You have to be smoking the best shit ever made to somehow twist this into a well made feminist movie. Any intention to portray something liberating or an exploration of dealing with trauma or similar is immediately counteracted by the voyeuristic way in which the story is presented. I mostly see what they tried to do (and some things kinda work, like, I get it, okay?) but I find it hard to believe that a movie that seemingly has never heard of subtlety is also secretly trying to bring attention to the many problematic aspects that it displays. Also what was with the straight up Nazi style caricature of a 'money lender'? Can we talk about the literally green guy for a second?
Art style is beautiful and while I don't believe that it's inherently "wrong" to display rape with their surrealist pretty art style, in the context of a movie that broaches the topic more like an exploitation porno than anything else it definitely doesn't help its case.

It seemed much shorter than when I watched it the first time. Apparently it's the most famous or well liked? I don't agree that it's the best Star Trek movie (obviously that's The One With The Whales) but in contrast to The Motion Picture it's sooo much more exciting and engaging

Rewatched it with a friend and liked it more than the first time. It would be good if it wasn't so long like how many more times do we have to circle the Enterprise please get on with it

"Well, the architecture, that interests me.
I feel the grandeur, the… the mystery, the intended emotional effect.
And it’s like someone has shone a story at me that I do not believe.
It’s built upon the empty promise of a child’s fairy tale filled with malevolence and misogyny and homophobia and its justified untold acts of violence and cruelty while all the while, and still, hiding its own shameful acts.
So like an ornery mule kicking back, I want to pick it apart and pop its perfidious bubble of belief and get to a truth I can swallow without choking."
I won't lie I was thinking about that for the rest of the movie

I watched this with my friend who really wanted to see it and we did not like it at all but we had a lot of fun making fun of it. The woman who plays Mary did a great job but the scenes where she was acting her heart out and Christoph Waltz was just giving absolutely nothing lead us to make fun of him for the entire movie. We were saying shit like "you can't just Waltz in here" and the like.
Also the gargoyles made every scene they were in so unserious.

I didn't wanna watch this movie for a while because on one hand it appeared to be closer to the book than adaptations so far but I also heard some things about it being not very close to the book from people who watched it.
For the first, like, hour, I didn't vibe with the movie so much at all. I kinda got into it when the monster showed up tho.

The core message? of the movie is very different from the book. It's very essentially a story about child abuse, which isn't what the book is about. But taking the movie for what it is it's actually really good. I actually think the monster from this movie has a chance to live in society and he was treated infinitely kinder by the world than in the book, once he was allowed to see it.
Other than in the book, where, after having killed (almost) everyone in Frankenstein's family, the monster kills itself but on a burning pile at the north pole, in the movie he forgives his father on his deathbed and greets the morning sun instead. It's satisfying and a much happier ending for him. It's very hopeful and like I said I do genuinely think he could live among people (in the movie the peasant family shoots at him bc he is literally in a room full of mauled wolves, standing over the dead body of ther grandpa. Like sorry I'm with the peasant family on that, it's NOT the same as shooting at him just because he looks scary and gross).

I was in a christmas mood because of the film I watched with my mom so I decided it was time to rewatch Tangerine (not a movie I'd watch with my mom tho)
Such a great movie.

This is kind of what it's all about. It's kind of a really nice day. 

But yeah to be super real with you this is just the sort of thing I would be really into. It did give me that 2am "oh fuck I'm gonna die" existential crisis but tied it together nicely at the end with the fantasy of living forever and what that would mean.

Life can be tragic and scary and unfair but no matter what there's still this inherent beauty to just being alive and even to death.

This movie is very campy and bad obviously but it wouldve been less bad if my friend next to me hadn't complained about how bad it is for the whole movie and said that he's in physical pain from how bad it is every 20mins

rewatched with a friend. such a great movie, she was saying "damn!!" at every reveal

a movie about how when you work for the police you become a bigger asshole than you already are and how if you have any morals at all you have to quit the force. at least there's that

Interesting concept, well done and beautifully tragic. A bit slow but that didn't bother me

some people don't like this movie because she kills herself but like first of all it's 64 years old and secondly no i get her

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i know itll sound annoying but i saw that twist coming. very good tho. its a bad twist anyway if you dont put in some hints

super inaccurate adaptation — the REAL Sherlock Holmes would NOT know there is a difference between the sun and the moon

Obsessed with the implication of not only mouse colonialism but also that everything in mouse society happens pretty much at the same time and place as in human society. Do we think mouse Marie Curie got double radiation poisioning because of this

watched it with my mom this time. i really like the film

a year or so ago a friend of mine watched this movie and he has not shut the fuck up about how he wishes t e lawrence was still alive so he could have sex with him since then. anyway good movie, fuck england

Made the mistake of reading through the letterboxd reviews again. Fascinating how even the best movies only ever get around 3 stars on here bc people watch movies they never would've liked anyway and give them 1 star.
So here are some of my thoughts on criticisms I've read:
Yes, the pacing is weird and bad. That is the point. Owens life is rushing past him, he is narrating his own life. That's stated in the movie. Reality and time are wrong. He know something is wrong, he is waiting for something to change. He knows what he should do but he is too scared. He is dying in the way that you are dying by waiting for the feeling that your life is wrong to go away, even though you know it can't go away. There is something inside him but he is too afraid to look. He is dying because he is trying to ignore the fact that this isn't real life - this isn't who he is supposed to be. It's a movie about queer repression guys, if you don't or can't relate to that then you just didn't get it.
The characters are "boring" and "two dimensioanl" because their lives aren't real. We don't see them interacting with much of anyone else because those people don't matter. You can think this is good or bad but it is clearly intended and not "sloppy writing". This is a strange movie that constistenly uses its own concept to the max. You have to accept that the "real world" isn't real, the show is real. "But that makes no sense" -- because it's a metaphor. Maybe you think thats dumb and it sucks but that doesn't change the fact that that's what it is.

Personally I think it's very good. There's a reason many of the reviews here are 5 stars. Some people understand the metaphor and appreciate how everything in the movie supports it. It's a surreal movie, you cannot approach Owen and Maddy as three-dimensional characters. They are "broody and sad" all the time because that is all they are - they are trapped and they have to get out. There is no nuance to this, that is literally it. If they stay in the midnight realm aka "real life" they will die. Much the same way that denying your true self or refusing to engage with it means that you will die as someone you're not. You will be miserable, wondering and hoping that you could be someone beautiful. "Normal life" will suffocate you, it will rush past you while you wait for it to feel right. But it can't, because that's not who you are. Owen and Maddy have to "kill themselves" in the way that transitioning or coming out in general can feel as scary as dying. Even when continuing to live the life that is suffocating you is in itself like dying. Owen chooses to die slowly rather than take a chance and live as the girl he wish he was, the girl he knows he is. In a way, that is Horror; and that is what makes some people call the film Horror. It's the horror of stagnation, the horror of slowly rotting away in your grave even though you could choose to crawl out. The horror of fear - fear of yourself and how your life would change if you faced what is inside of you.

So yeah, I actually like it and it's not because the movie is "pretentious" it's because it is does what it means to do and it does it well.

insert the sonic fandub image "woah he's bisexual, I didn't know that"

what a nice film about trains. and spotting them.

Everyone and their mom was telling me to watch this and i finally caved. Very good, I recommend!

Watched this bc it was on James' movies list. a cute movie!!

i would've appreciated if they just dropped a short line about how international relations were affected in this future – like what are the other countries doing? did the global market collapse as every country now counts on locally sourced food? anyway otherwise good movie

My DM told me to watch this several times, I finally caved

if the script + the plot + the lip synching??? + the acting of the side characters in general wasn't bad it might have been okay. some good lines and good acting from the main characters. i don't mind that it's bad because if it's funny bad it's still fun to watch. the vibes are there but it would be better if it was good.

anyway. the power of lesbians + the comet (+ a scuba hobby?) transcends universes. apparently.

i don't even know if i'd seen this before. maybe.

rewatched because they showed it at the cinema and it was such a snoozefest not even half the seats were filled and nobody even sang along. Lame. anyway movie was still funny

plot was pretty stupid but apart from that it was good

One of the best damn movies ever made

Showed this to my friends at movie night and it's even worse than i remember

okay i'll admit it was kinda funny. we must not allow a mineshaft gap!!

people apparently hate this movie but for no reason. if it tried to be like the 60s movie it would suck. as well as the fact it was directed by someone else. it's not perfect but if you hate it for looking like and having the vibe of an 80s movie then I'm sorry but maybe you have to look up the word "time" in a dictionary.

i actually thought it was very beautiful!!
i thought it was a great movie and maybe "easier to watch" than the original one, which was more artistic and beautiful visually, as well as longer. i loved them both

i feel like it could've been just a lil bit shorter. like artistically it was beautiful but it impacts the pacing a lot

so cute, why did no one tell me about this movie til recently

Did you know the official Farscape channel on YouTube streams the show 24/7? I clicked on the season 4 stream and the movie was on so I thought I might as well rewatch it

A friend told me to watch this

If anyone needs me I'll be sad forever

finally another MCU movie that I actually want to see. a good time

Strangely pretty movie.

I really like the beginning half or so of this film. The worst thing about it is that it‘s too long and thus boring.

Very sad but good movie. The symbolism is heavy but if you get it it's like bein it by a damn truck. The horror of this is just amazing. There is still time!!

I will add a word of warning for anyone who struggles with derealization though, think twice before you watch this. If inception or the matrix fucked you up this will fuck you up extra bad. Good movie tho.

Cereal Killer may have the most powerful trans girl swag any man in film history has ever had. Join the dark side girl

really really good <3! and when they played scores from the original film ooh that went hard

I knock this film a lot but it's so fucking funny. Stop! He's.. British. Jelly baby? (steals his gun) now would you stand aside before or I shoot myself. "I always drezzz for the occasion" followed with no break by "Lee is the son I have always yearned for." We as the Doctor Who fandom deserve a stupid B-Movie and anyone who is mad about it has no silliness left in them.

Unfortunately this is a masterpiece