Reviews

sjsj

Really entertaining movie... It kept me hooked from start to finish, even if I didn't totally love the ending. Jesse Plemons is amazing, but so is Emma Stone. I just wish her character was developed a bit more before her story goes off the rails. Yorgos makes pretty movies tho, so it's a visual feast even tho it takes place largely in a basement.

An american dad flick. It sorely needed some mech vs mech action. The CGI quality was there, could have gone MechWarrior/Armored Core and be all the better for it. The ending leaves room open for this, we'll see if there's a sequel 👀🍿

The Land Before Time narrated by God.

This is what life is all about.

This series is the mysterious cool guy that you aspire to be, but aren't. You look up to this series and you wanna be just like it when you grow up. Go watch it and do yourself a favor.

The most remarkable thing about this man was how casual he was about getting stabbed.

Incredibly sad and interesting at the same time. Couldn't stop watching even tho it was hard at times, not because it was cringe or anything but because what was happening was beyond miserable. Highly recommended if you want to sit quietly for a while starring at the wall after its finished.

What was supposed to be a fan service film turns out to be, in the human sentiment department, an infinitely more profound experience than its 2 predecessors. It is not only worth the watch, but makes and already magnificent series of movies into something more. Loved it and wanna make love to it.

This is a brain attack

Manic tourette dream girl falls for incel film fanatic. It inches a little too close to Folie à Deux, but it reels itself back right at the edge. Fun, explosive, thought-provoking, a little cuckhold, a little emo.

A masterpiece of the late nineties? Yes, why not? I have been told again and again that 1999 was a great year for films - The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club - and as a GenXer just entering the workplace - well, the professional workplace - this film was a revelation. It failed at the box office, but recovered itself on DVD and online, just like many other masterpieces - The Shawshank Redemption, anyone? - and it deserves its cult status and praise. And you know a film is great when Jennifer Aniston is in it and hers is not the performance that sticks with you.
Oh, I need to look for my red Swingline stapler

Charlie's mother's song is the worst song in the movie, but I don't agree with people who claim it's unnecessary or adds nothing. This movie is all about the influence parents have on kids. Understanding Charlie's mom even though she only shares a slightly different outlook from Grandpa Joe, helps to understand Charlie more.

In the song, his mother, encourages him not to lose his specific brand of optimism. This is something Grandpa Joe doesn't really show he has a fondness for that goes beyond the idea that children have an innate positivity. This song is the only time where it is implied Charlie has recently become more negative. His mother addresses how he is at an age where he's starting to understand the world and his place in it. She fears him becoming disillusioned with kindness for kindness' sake (a trait the movie shows adults are not reliable to show). The only other time the concept of aging is mentioned is in the final scene where Willy Wonka reveals he's looking for a protege. The idea that getting old kills imagination and altruism is set up by this song and paid off in the glass elevator scene. This song arguably gives us insight into Wonka's truth.

His mother sings out to the night instead of to Charlie directly. We're seeing her dream and what inspires her, but also the reluctance to tell all this to his face. The movie spends so much time with children, that I feel like any look at the adult world is important. Poverty can make you treat everything in life as an investment or a bet. She and Grandpa Joe are treating Charlie like the lottery. This manifests in how Grandpa Joe treats the golden ticket situation, but Charlie's mother's withdrawn reaction to it, suggests she's less indoctrinated into this idea of luck than her father. Maybe she has to get older to understand.

People also say the song is jarring, which it is, but this Carpenters-ass song in the first act adds to the movie sonically for me. Non-Wonka or Oompa Loompa songs, invoke radio hits from the time, contrasted with how spare and unorthodox a song like Pure Imagination is. This technique is used visually all the time in the movie, like when all the kids and parents go into a room just barely big enough to hold all of them, before they're unleashed into the huge chocolate river room. You need to be squished in order for the expanse of the world to mean something.

These were my thoughts from my most recent viewing. had to go high school essay film analysis mode. I should have used the word "furthermore" more. I'm not looking forward to actually researching the song's origins and finding out it was a shoehorned contractual thing for the actor or something. Idk if that's the case, then they stuck the landing with it for me

eductional

Best comedy ever. Walter and Jack, and all the cast are just so awesome and professional

Hsha

Horror has expected connections to the supernatural, and despite its involvement, the horror this movie deals with goes above and beyond what the undead can conjure. Beautiful setting, gorgeous costumes, sublime acting (save for one instance of accent believability).

The budget is thin, but it's really all about relaxing your nervous system and reconnecting with your inner child. It's a care free story that quickly becomes a comfort watch. The blatant pokemon references are kinda funny tbh.

Todo muy conveniente para los protagonistas