I have a letterboxd so I don't know if I will be using this a lot. Maybe some of the more hot takes and deep dives will be saved for here and classic quips and quick reviews will be on my letterboxd. I also am thinking aboout making a whole catalog of my own personal dvds and such here to show it off in a more lame way! But yeah we will see what I put on here -----> letterboxd
Films
Movie Hot Takes #1
Did anyone really like the first Knives Out that much. Like I remember watching it when it came out and being a bit entertained but even at the time feeling pretty nothing about with how it ends. Now looking at it I think that it is lazy writing and a lot of the characters are very 2D with them there to just saying some witty thing to mr thinky in front the knive throne. I do like the look of the movie and its classic rich mansion deal but thats just because I love that kind of set-up. I just feel like this movie was talked about so much as such a twisty and crazy ride when it was really the most bland tame mystery that is trying to clown around but ends up to be very millennial coded prestige baiting trash that acts smart and stuffy as well as it kick starting the rich is bad drama comedy movies that have flooded the market. Also just another one for fun. I did not care for Step Brothers the second time around. Its has a good couple of scences here and there but it is rushed and can feel a bit lost in the sause.
Do the Right Thing
The Hottest movie of the summer! I mean like actually you can feel the HEAT in this movie in more ways then one.
Its such a Beatuiful Day
This is Generational Truama the Animated Film. It is just pure pain and comfort crushed into less than a hour. An its told with basically stickfigures drawings.
The Holdovers
Best Christmas movie and I think Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne need to win Oscars.
Miracle Mile
I'm such a sucker for movies that happen all in one day. I love it, Afterhours, Goodtimes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Do the Right Thing, but this maybe my favorite, although I might filp flop from Afterhours depending on the day. I think I like it mainly because of just how hopeless the whole story is. I'm not a dark bleak person but I do like myself some media that is just dark from the start and this one lures you into thinking it is going to be a fun romcom fest only to hit you in the junk with the doom of nuclear war.
9
I was scared of Coraline as a kid but for some reason was just in love with 9. I fear I have spread this infection to my brothers as well with it being one of the few movies all of us watch. Although they don't Coraline is scary which I will never understand I mean a girl getting her eye sown like how does that not freak out at kid but a soul coming out of a puppet ragman that is being sucked up by this gaint animalistic machine monster, who then lets the lifeless corpse of ragman just fall into the oblivion was fine. I thing i have something wrong with me which I know and many medical professional do as well but like it got to something more, cause I'm fine with dolls for the most part, I think they are cool and really show off some craft. I mean it was not just the eye stuff, there just some much underlining dreadful hum to it all. Jeez I end up talking more about Coraline than 9 lol. Hell with it we will leave it in because I just connect these two movies together so much because of their whole doll deal. But anyways back to the movie I was actually talking about, 9 is one of the most grime ridden broken place of which gives us a little idea of what happen to make it such a place cause of the robot wars. But other than that a lot of it is told in a very environmental way from such a small view which I think further show just how much destruction there is that even these couple of inches people are barely able to surive. This is not The Borrowers living a somewhat kushy life, this is death at every single direction. Also Elijah Wood just knocks it out as the number 9 himself, but I don't think enough people talk about John C. Reilly who plays 5, of which for the longest time I did not know, but damn it I always though of him as such a funny man, but both 9 and Chicago he just has this perfect tone of still being a tad goofy yet almost unrecognizable from any other character like Dr Steve Brule. Honestly he is an unreped actor and need some more praise for not just his comedy. This movie gets a.....9 out of 10. See what I did there. I know. You can laugh now.