This is where I post my movie and show reviews. I absolutely love media and cinematography so I write a lot of reviews about things I like.
Spoilers ahead (1)So I'm very late to writing this, I actually watched this movie multiple months ago, like two months after it came out. This is genuinley my favorite movie of 2024. Recently, I've has some problems with thte way movies look and feel that have come out this year. The main problems I've had with the movies that have come out this year is that they genuinley aren't good. Like there are so many movies that came out this year that sucked and I hated every minute of it (the garfield movie), to the point where I feel like I wasted valuable time in my life watching a movie that is so ass. This movie, was the complete opposite. I love this movie so much and I thought it was so cool and well written. It does have some similarities to John Wick, some pretty major ones that seem like it could be a copy? but I don't see it as similar as some people make it out to be. This movie was so cool and I loved all the action scenes in it. I LOVED Dev Patels acting in this and he's become one of my favorite actors because of this movie. Hes so cool in this and everything he does feels so real and so cool I just love it so much.
(2)One of the main points I want to touch on is the inclusion of transgender women in this movie. They were so cool and I was so glad that when they included them in the movie they didn't make them out to be like weird or the villans as so many other pieces of media do. I don't know a lot about the cultural backgrounds of this movie so there are most likely some things I missed, especially when it came to the trans people in the movie. I just thought it was really cool all the ways they included them in the fight scenes and how their characters worked around during fighting. It was really cool and I thought the fight/action scenes were so fye. I also like a lot of the religious parts of this movie. I always love when they include religious aspects to movies because, if done right, it can make the movie so much deeper and cooler.
(3)The cinematography in this movie was also so incredibly good. The COLOR OMG. I just remembered how insanley beautiful all the scenes are with the colors and stuff omg. I love emphasis on color in movies because it can be used so much to show parts of the characters and the scenes and stuff. Its such a cool thing to add so when they added such a big amount of stuff like that in this I was so happy cause it was all so cool. The scene with the house burning down was also really cool even though it was so terribly depressing. It was really hard to watch that scene because of how freaking sad it was. I felt so bad for Kid in that scene it was insane. I also love wrestling scenes and the inclusion of underground fight clubs because those scenes look so amazing. I love dev patel in the mask fighting so much, it was what hooked me on this movie in the first place. Every scene was just so intense and I really liked the ending even though the main character, Kid, dies. It was overall just really good and probably one of, if not, my favorite movie that came out in 2024.
(1)So I've sat on this movie for quite a while just so I can really feel deep inside how I felt about it/my final thoughts about it. I honestly thought that I'd eventually completely forget this movie because I do tend to do that when it comes to some movies. I haven't forgotten any of this though and I actually think about it often. I really like this movie and its so beautifly made, shot, and written. The relationships between all the boys and the relationship they had with their english teacher, Mr. Keating, was so heartwarming and such a genuinley beautiful way to express a healthy form of masculinity. I think that everybody should have a Mr. Keating in their life at some point.
(2)I started this movie many times and haven't been able to really stick with it until about a month ago when I watched it all the way through. The start of this movie goes quite slow, with it taking a while to get through the exposition and the introduction of all the characters. About 20 minutes or so in, it becomes this amazing and deep story about these boys in this private school who want so much more than theyre allowed to, but they don't realize it until Mr. Keating comes in and tells them about poetry and teaches them in a way that theyve never seen before, things are more interactive for them and they have fun while learning these things that all of them are interested in. They all grow such an attachment to Dead Poets Society because its their escape. its their way to be truly themselves without fear of being punished or shamed. Its just so beautiful to see these young men go through this journey of self discovery that would have never happened if someone didn't take the leap and try to go out of their way to reach these boys.
(3)My favorite character in this movie is Charlie Dalton, or later known as Nuwanda. I really relate to him, and its kind of difficult to understand how really I relate to him but I really connect to him and I enjoy every single scene hes in. I think hes such a good character and one of the only scenes in this movie I cried to was closer to the end when he gets kicked out of the school and hes crying and tells Todd to remember to call him Nuwanda. Its such a sweet scene and it really shows the depth of the characters because he was always seen as this brave and fearless character but in reality he cares for his friends and misses Neil so much and doesn't actually want to leave the school and all his friends. Hes scared for his future and for himself, but not only that, hes scared for his friends and what might happen to them. He just stops caring after Neil dies, he stops caring about what happens to him. Hes such a good character I really like him.
(4)I love this movie so much and this is just such a beautiful film Id recommend anyone.
(1)I just finished the three devilman otv things from the 1980s to 2000s and they were really good and I really enjoyed them. I really like devilman and I've been wanting to get into devilman for the past few years and finally had the nerve and time to do it and thank god I did cause it was so good and so cool. I watched devilman crybaby a few years back and it hurt so bad but it was so good. I knew at the time that there were other parts of the devilman franchise but I never thought to get into really until this year after stubling upon a tiktok account (yikes I know) with this really fucking weird guy who I've been following for a while and he actually just got a really cool devilman tattoo and it made me realize how much of devilman I had yet to interact with. This is where I started to try to watch all of the otvs. I watched the first one at midnight on my bed, the next one I think I watched on my couch, and the third one I actually watched at a football game in between the times we were supposed to be performing. My friends kept peering over at the nudity whenever it would come on screen cause they didn't know what I was watching. When I told them they actually cringed which was really funny but lowkey understandable. Devilmans so weird and kinda freaky so it was definitley embarassing to have watched all of it but I still think it deserves the hype it gets and more cause its really good (its lowkey fie) and I really enjoyed it. I think it could do with less freakiness but I know it was apart of the orginial mangas and stuff so I don't reallly care. I'm also on the ace spectrum so that affects a lot of what media I consume. Its one of the reasons why I found the freakiness a little too much.
(2)It was really good though and yk if it wasn't so weird I'd recommend it to more people. I really enjoyed the movies though and I thought they were so so good. They were genuinley some of the best anime movies I've ever watched and its crazy how much it inspired other animes and stuff. You can tell the different pieces that inspired other shows and stuff like there are individual pieces that you could be like "hey I know that from blahblahblah". Its really cool you can see those similarities. Overall it was really good and I thought it was super cool, I'd watch it again.
(1)I went to go see this movie with some close friends on Sunday (yesterday). I went into this movie with a completely fresh slate, I've never seen the musical and I've never interacted with anything wicked before seeing it. One of my friends had already seen it, and all the others had seen the musical. Starting the movie, I actually really enjoyed the begining scene with the main green girls mom. I think it was really well shot and all the reds really pulled everything together. I think whenever theres a main focus on one color, its always the best scenes in this movie. From start to finish I was pretty locked in. I know for a fact though, that ariana grande was not locked in until halfway through the movie. She only really started to play the character glinda after half the movie was already finished and we were into the song popular. Before that turn she was insufferable and I loathed her everytime she came on screen, which I know is what they were going for but the way I loathed her wasn't even the way they intended. It wasn't because she was rude or bitchy, it was because her character was so bland and her only trait was being a prissy asshole. I just hated her so much until her little turning around cause then she became such a funny character that was such a dick but in all the right ways. She had so many scenes after that that made me giggle it was really funny and her pink scene where everything was this beautiful shade of pink was great. Before that though her pink was so like disoriented, it wasn't even that bright and she just looked so icky. I think they should've made her a different shade of blonde or at least hired someone else that was actually blonde. Their singing wasn't that good either, neither of the main characters, the only time I actually enjoyed their singing and thought it was good was the very end and the last song. That was a good song and I thought she did really good w it. Elphaba or whatever her name is did a pretty good job I think. Not the whole time though, she wasn't a very good actor for a lot of it but she really locked in there at the last few scenes of the movie. I also don't really like her character but she was fine Ig. I also like her whole animal activitst thing and how she wanted to stop the Wizard even though she knew it would change her life so much and not in a good way. She also had a lot of sympathy for those monkeys she changed and I liked how they showed that backstory (yet again I don't know how they do it in the musical). I think the only problem I actually had with her was that she didn't even look like the witch, or even just a witch, shes just kinda green. I don't care that much about it though tbh.
(2)This movie did not need to be 3 hours long at all, they couldve cut so much of the exposition out and all the hair flipping. I don't even really know what spaces they should've cut out but something did. I also think that its stupid how theres a part 2 (which I know its a movie based on a musical so its like the part two of the musical but idc) because the movie was so long and theres still so much more left. I just don't think I'll care enough to see the second one.
(3)I think this movie was pretty good overall, it was very desaturated which was the main problem I saw. Overall I think it was fine and I know that a lot of hardcore fans enjoyed it. It also got a pretty good rating on letterboxd which I wasn't expecting in the slightest. There were many scenes of this movie I enjoyed and it definitley made me want to go see the musical.
Spoilers for these 2 movies ahead
(1)Yeah so pretty much, Moana 2 was ass and I don't think they should continue this plotline because after everything I've heard about it, it just honestly makes me not want to ever interact with disney again. The animation was pretty good for being a sequel I guess, the storyline was not good and it was lacking in some pretty major areas, the whole thanos multiverse mcu whatever type thing they got in the end credits for like more sequals and shows and stuff was a terrible decision and I hate how they added that so much. The only thing I liked about this movie was the inclusion of more parts of their culture ig, it still wasn't that good but I mean its better than older films that try to do similar things. I also liked how they made moana a demigod because I think as a character shes pretty well cut out for it. I'm also pretty hyped they didn't give her a love interest in this movie cause for multiple scenes I was kinda scared they were going to but they didn't so cool. It was still overall not that good but I don't have any really strong opinions on it and don't care for it that much. It's definetly something I won't purposefully watch again.
(2)Gladiator 2 on the other hand, was not that bad. It was actually a pretty stable movie as far as sequels go and everyone I went to go see the movie with enjoyed it a lot (all of them beign diehard fans of the movies for years). I think it was pretty good and I enjoyed the plotline, the charaters, and the overall just vibe of the movie. It's really REALLY difficult for me to watch characters that obviously have a mental disability be put in difficult situations or like uncomfortable situations like how one of the emperors get put in charge of everything and gets all manipulated and stuff, like obviously these are all bad people but when his monkey got threatened and stuff and he got like super concerned and KILLED HIS BROTHER OVER IT (and other stuff too but still) It was so hard for me to watch and like after that scene all I really cared about was making sure the pet monkey didn't die (which it didn't to my knowledge thank god). It was honestly a really stable movie and I think the actors in it did a great job and I'd 100% go see more of each of these actors future projects.
(1)So I just completed breaking bad and el camino. Ill die on the hill that breaking bad is one of the best shows ever made and deserves all the hype it gets and more. It's honestly so insane how much I value this show. Its so insanely good and all the characters are so well thought out and everything feels like it was made on purpose and it doesn't feel messy in the way of like incompitence (if thats the right way of explaining it). Honestly I dont think I've ever cared more about this group of characters than I've ever cared for any other characters. Each character has a backstory and like a way you can sympathise with them. They have so much like character diversity like no one seems the same, no ones a copy of a copy each of them are their own person. So many shows get watered down after the first few seasons but this one stays on the same grind as it started. Theres no other show Ive seen that has this good of a plotline other than Hannibal maybe but thats cause I have a personal attachment to that show. I love mike ehrmantraut so much, like theres no other character in this show I liked more than him. He was such a good character and I related to him so much and hes exactly what I want to be when I grow older (apart from all the drugs and stuff). The other characters I liked were Jesse (duh), Marie, and Hank sometimes. I have a soft spot for Marie because at the start she seemed really annoying and I didn't really like her but when we get farther into the series she becomes such a good character and I love her so much. The only time I ever cried to this show was when hank died and marie found out and started crying. After watching that I just immedietly started sobbing. My mom has more of a soft spot towards hank which I can see sort of why but he doesn't strike my interest as much as the previously mentioned characters. Jesse on the other hand, is just, wow like hes such a great character, like maybe one of the best I've ever seen. He's such a complex and difficult character and went through so much but I'm glad he got his happy ending (or the ending that was best for him). When watching him at the last few episodes of the series, it was some of the most difficult episodes I've ever watched. It was just rough man. I've picked up so many of his like vocal things like yo and bitch and stuff to the point where its annoying as shit. Overall though, amazing show, would most definetly rewatch and I already plan on doing so, watch this show (unless your one of my friends cause then back off this is my show now) and this is just such an amazing show and expierence.
(2)Now, moving onto el camino. I watched el camino the day after finishing breaking bad, and at the time of writing this, I watched it yesterday. This was such a good follow up to the end of breaking bad, and I wasn't expecting much from it as a movie since it was a follow up to a television show but the cinematography was absolutely beautiful and I enjoyed watching every second of it. The scene with mike was so insane and it pulled on my mike loving heartstrings so hard. I felt every moment of this movie and it was just such an insane watch. It made todd such a more thought out character and it gave him so much more depth. The scenes with him and jesse were so weird and kind of disturbing to watch. Like if you saw jesse and todd from afar, or just kind of walked by them on the way to the grocery store or something, you would think nothing of them. Like youd probably be like "dang that guy smells and needs to take a shower" but other than that they seems like completely normal buds just hanging out working on a project or something. You wouldn't expect one of them to be a kidnapped meth slave cook and a nazi sociopath. Like what crazy shit is that man. It was just so crazy to watch all the inbetweens of these episodes and the things that we missed. Like jesse and walt in the restuarant, they were just sitting there and chilling, they were so close just for it all to go down the drain so insanely fast. Along with that, the most badass scene Ive ever seen was when jesse killed those guys to get the money and then like lie to the guys to get the money and leave, like he scared the ever loving shit out of them. Omg it was just so great and I'm so glad that jesse got to go to alaska like mike said and that he sent brock a letter. It's the happiest ending that jesse couldve gotten and it was just such a good end scene to a beautiful show and movie (I have yet to see better call saul). Argh and badger and skinny pete scene were perfect and I almost cried in every scene they were in ( I love those characters so so much). Im just so glad that these characters got the ending that they deserved (other than mike, I will never forgive walt for killing mike) This is the most i've ever written for one thing on this website so far. It definetly shows how many opinions I have about this show.
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH AHH
(1)No cause seriously this show is so funny and has one of the things I value most in shows, having good repersentation that doesn't feel super forced. A lot of media now a days has repersentation just for the woke points of putting repersentation. I know this sounds like some crazy right winged stuff I'm projecting but it is something I'm genuinley concerned with. The repersentation in this show is actually pretty good and it's not something super crazy or in your face. Like you could genuinley consider majority of the characters queer with some of the things they mention in the show. Like it just doesn't seem to be that big of a deal in this show whether or not someones queer. Peacemaker's obviously going to say some stuff about this cause of who he is but it's not anything out of character or something random just for woke points yet again. If you're gonna put repersentation in a show, this is the way to do it. Like put some gay people in but make it make sense, make it not that big of a deal. Most queer people I know being queer isn't even a big part of them. It's certainly not a big part of me, it's only a small part of what makes me, me. This show's just so funny and it has the same humor I do which makes things so much better. I just love this show so much and it's my absolute favorite.
(1)This show is so good so far. I've been watching for a while and I'm currently on season 3 of the original show, Breaking Bad. I'm gonna watch the movie and Better Call Saul. Its so good and all the symbolism is absolutely insane. I love the differences in the color of Walts clothes showing how evil he's feeling. All of the characters are so good and so complex and the show makes you empathize with antagonist characters.
(2)This show is so farting good and I love it so much. I get why people obsess over it the way they do (even though some of the obsessions for certain characters I've seen seem a little overboard) but honestly I get it like this show is so good and so are all the characters. I'm a real geek when it comes to acting and cinematography so when I watched this movie I was just so giddy with how many cool camera shots and transitions they do. Some of the acting does get a little weird sometimes but Walt's actor does such a good job portraying the emotions in each episode. Like they're all such good actors that sometimes you forget that these people aren't actually drug dealers and insane people.
(1)This was on my watch list for a very long time and for good reason. This movie is so incredibly good with an amazing story to tell and such great acting. It’s so sad but so beautiful and such a crazy story about growth and acceptance and how different people can react to the same situations . This movie genuinely makes me want to scream, cry, throw up, and never leave my room again. It’s one of the most powerful stories I’ve ever watched and literally gut wrenching. I don’t think I’ll ever find another movie that moved me and altered my mental state as much as this one did. Brian’s also so incredibly relatable but in a slightly less severe way (I have no where near the amount of memory loss but it’s still pretty bad). This will forever be held dear in my heart.
(1)This is by far the best punk movie I've ever seen. It's such a good movie and has such a good premise its just great. When I first watched this a few years back it genuinley changed my life. It's so beautiful in so many ways and I don't think any other movie I ever watch (other than holes of course) will ever encapsulate the feeling I felt watching this for the first time. I think ever alternative person should watch this, especially the people who are really into fast fashion right now because it's such a good representation that you don't have to look the part to be the part. One of my favorite characters of all time is Mike because he doesn't look punk but he's the realest punk in the entire movie. Like you could call every single one of the other characters posers compared to Mike, and he looks like a weirdo nerd! Its just such a good movie and I feel the world would be a much better place if everyone did.
(1)This movies really farting good. It’s definitely one of my favorites. A lot of people associate it with incels but they gotta realize it’s making fun of the way these men think. You’re not supposed to look up to them or think they’re cool. You’re supposed to think they’re losers and not go down their path. It’s the same with American Psycho and Wolf of Wall Street. You aren’t supposed to like them. They’re bad people. They go down these horrible paths you’re not supposed to look at and say “that’s peak masculinity right there”, that is literally missing the whole point of the movie. Get your mind out your booty and use your brain.
(1)This movie was freaky man. It’s been a few weeks since I watched it, actually maybe a month or two. But it’s still one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. I originally wanted to watch it because it has one of my favorite actresses, Thora Birch, and I haven’t seen any movies from her other than like a few I’ve watched since I was a kid like hocus pocus or monkey trouble. I think this movies actually really good. Other than the creepy main character who’s whole deal is to take back his life by doing inappropriate things with his daughters minor best friend, I think this movie had a lot of good lessons and a very very interesting plot line. This is not one I would watch with anyone other than like extremely close friends because it’s just so weird and kind of uncomfortable. I love a lot of the characters and I think that the overall idea of the movie was really good and I love the end where you don’t really know who killed him and you think it’s gonna be his wife but it ends up being the insane neighbor, absolutely amazing. I would definitely watch this movie again but with more mental preparation with how GROSS it can be sometimes. I just really hate the main guy in this, his whole spiel is just nasty. I mean I guess I understand some parts like his unhappiness with his marriage and job and all that but the way he did everything was so poor and just ewww. The guy the daughter ends up dating though was pretty cool even though he’s also very creepy. I liked his plot and his mom. I also really liked how he filmed everything and his vibe (???). I definitely feel weird about him though cause of the end scene but he’s better than most characters in this movie. I DESPISED the friend and pretty much everything about her. She didn’t deserve a lot of the stuff that happened to her but at the same time she was just so mean and rude to everybody and was so creepy with the dad. I also just hate the wife and how she cheated on the main dude. Like that was such a weird part of the movie and I just didn’t like it at all. I think it played in really well with the movie though. The cinematography was also absolutely fire and I loved all of the camera angles and ideas, obviously the main one being when she’s on the ceiling with the roses (even though that scene was gross). Overall, I think this movies really great and even though some parts can get uncomfortable it’s still a movie I’d recommend to people and I think it will stay as one of my favorites for a good while.
(1)Let's set the scene: the movie *Donnie Darko,* made October 26th, 2001, follows the protagonist Donnie as he travels through an alternate universe. Donnie has had a history of mental illness and has trouble with sleepwalking. One night, he sleepwalks out of his house and finds a giant demonic rabbit that tells him the world will end in 28 days. When Donnie awakes and returns to his home, he finds that a jet engine has fallen directly onto his bedroom where he would have been sleeping. Donnie goes through these next 28 days figuring out how the world ends and how he can prevent it.
(2)This movie was engrossing, and I had a fun time watching it. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys the psychological horror genre. *Donnie Darko* is one of my favorite movies because of how many parts can be discovered by rewatching the movie. It is similar to the psychological thriller *Shutter Island* because viewers can unearth new aspects and "revealed" spoilers that make sense in the context of the movie with every rewatch. It is like watching the film for the very first time again. *Donnie Darko* is a very confusing film, thus making it much more engaging and entertaining to watch. When the movie ends, one can see everything come full circle and how things start to make sense. There were a lot of twists and turns in this movie, which made it difficult to watch for the first time, but watching it again helps the story unfold fully. *Donnie Darko* is overall one of the best movies I have ever seen, and I highly recommend this movie to anyone.