#cinema thoughts

[chosominous]

suuuuuuch a top tier casting

[heliophiledaydreamer]

Cinema Thoughts

I hate it when good actors fight against the genre they are loved in and would be most successful at, just for what it seems like trying to appeal to “macho men” online. Men who don’t even go to watch movies and rarely leave any positive comments about anything, because it's "uncool and cringe"

It's okay for attractive actors like Henry Cavill and Jared Leto to do romantic movies, comedic movies. Be the star of an adaptation written by a woman. it's doesn't have to be action/CB/video game movies all the time. Lean in to your charm! Seek those type of movies.

Shia Labeouf needs to get back to comedy and stop doing arthouse/ artistic p*rn movies that get no distribution. You were the king of Hollywood in the 2000s fgs.

It's baffling! I get wanting to branch out but small budget movies with dialogue and heart are needed nowadays by everyone except for incels and yet they're the one controlling the market with their constant unemployed blabbering online.

Those movies should be produced with care and marketed with generosity and they will succeed.

[deafening-enthusiastic-dreamer]

Inside Man (2006)

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i watched Inside Man (2006) so you don’t have to — but maybe you really, really should.

A heist movie where the villain literally tells you what he's going to do in the first five minutes... and still manages to outsmart everyone. Denzel washington in a trench coat. Clive owen in a wall. Jodie foster being terrifying with vibes alone. Spike lee turning a robbery into a whole lesson about privilege, power, and perception — and oh yeah, opening with chaiyya chaiyya for absolutely no reason except that it slaps.

I literally had to pause the movie and check if my spotify was on..

this isn’t a guns-blazing, glass-shattering kind of film. it’s calculated. cold. calm. like if a sudoku puzzle had a political agenda and a jazz soundtrack. also? the plot twist doesn’t just twist. it shrugs while doing it.

watch if you like:

slow burns that leave you yelling at the screen

morally grey characters with great fits

being confused but in a classy way

thinking about what “justice” actually means

Also what Chaiyya chaiyya sounds like -

[radiodormouse]

Friendship Review.

I enjoyed the first half of Friendship, but it felt like I was watching a different movie than the rest of the audience. They laughed hysterically, while I found it to be more of a thriller with comedic elements. It felt like the inverse of The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey—a thriller-comedy that puts the thriller elements first, rather than a comedy with the story structure of a thriller. While I didn’t laugh, I found myself engaged with the story.

Without delving too deep into the plot, I thought the sudden disappearance of a certain character should have been a turning point—something that motivated Craig to go after Austin for revenge, now having a flimsy justification for his fixation on him. Instead, the film treads water with scene after unrelated scene of Craig being weird, goofy, and awful, in the mold of a generic studio comedy, but doing nothing to advance the storyline. The most egregious example comes in the form of an acid trip that could be cut from the film without affecting anything, and seems to exist for no reason other than to make some easy product placement coin from Subway. At least when David Lynch promoted Heineken and Pabst Blue Ribbon in Blue Velvet, it was done in a way that revealed something about the characters’ psychology based on their taste in beer.

Finally, the film abruptly decides to be a thriller again during a climax that comes out of nowhere and then just ends, leaving me unsatisfied.

So this is a straight two-and-a-half stars for me. Half the film is a compelling thriller; the other half is an unfunny comedy. The Cable Guy, ironically, satisfies more as a straight thriller than Friendship does, by paying attention to genre conventions and a three-act structure that serve to advance the plot—even if the content is more openly comedic. It would be the superior option if you're looking for something in what one might call the “bromance gone bad” category.

[chosominous]

NO margot robbie isn’t a better choice than lupita nyong’o for helen of troy.

you’re just being racist while thinking you’re being historically accurate, even though you probably don’t know that the only description we do have of her, sure, her white arms, was mainly a symbol of her social status as nobility who didn’t work under the sun, or her blonde hair and blue eyes only appeared in artistic depictions (which were ofc biased by the western norms of the time) at a later date, or how her beauty was actually NEVER described because it was legendary

[chosominous]

the fact that both actors in obsession, a movie about, among other things, the horrifying fallout of sexism in straight dynamics, happen to be queer…

it’s a cosmic coincidence i’m not mad about

[chosominous]

crazy how pacific rim came out 13 years ago and yet, the vfx have barely aged

[chosominous]

i rewatched dirty dancing and

1) honestly surprised by the themes it tackles for a movie from ’87

2) no rivalry between women over the main guy

3) the insecure one in the relationship is johnny and not baby, which is actually kinda cool (like, she’s not the one on her knees all desperate for him)

4) AND OMG HOW HOT IT IS WHEN PEOPLE CAN DANCE WELL