I dub thee valorous!
This is abhorrent.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
I can't wait to see this.
I can't think of a movie that has such a simple set, but makes it look like a $100 million production budget.
I'm no Shakespearean expert at the language, so it's definitely hard to follow, but the acting is A+.
Coen got to do a project that he truly wanted and directed the hell out of it.
Sure it's kind of like that really talented filmmaker student from your school made a Cliff's Notes version of the play, but it's still damn good. The cinematography is fantastic. The actors are exactly what you think they'll be. I was entranced for much of it.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Maybe the visual masterpiece of the year? From the first foreboding shot of crows circling the sky to the flurries of dark wings closing out the film, it manages to look stunningly expressionistic throughout, but always in the service of enhancing the stark, fatalistic mood. My main reservation is that even if Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are individually very good, their performances when together come out rather a tonal mismatch of Shakespeare dialogue/performance interpretation to me, so their chemistry and central relationship (with the latter already cut down in runtime) don't wholly work for me. Still fantastic ensemble though, with MVPs unsurprisingly going to the two classically trained actors, Alex Hassell and Kathryn Hunter. 7.5/10
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Why can't I just rent or buy this on AppleTV like I can with most everything else... ugh. I don't want another subscription.