peyrin
Cinema Addict
Member Since: 08 Jan 2018
Location: CA, USA
Bio: i watch movies again, i guess (he/him)
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Shin Godzilla (2016) - Rated 21 Aug 2025
"Uncut Gems level of utterly unreadable dialogue and sign spam and it's awesome. There's a method to the madness with the chaotic rapid cutting occasionally opening up to strikingly-composed shots straight from the playbooks of Khara's eternally underappreciated Masayuki and Tsurumaki (the train tracks!). The politics are similarly messy as hell but depicts a first-world yet uniquely wounded country with the same laser-focus as 1954."
The Birdcage (1996) - Rated 21 Aug 2025
"Lubezki cinematography goes crazy. I'm not sure if this is #cancelled in 2025 but the best gags are all the slapstick ones so I'd say it aged well."
The Circle (2000) - Rated 30 May 2025
"The structure of it is cool for sure. The long shots held on the faces of the women were the real crux of the film."
Carnal Knowledge (1971) - Rated 28 May 2025
"Interesting as a historical document (there was a Supreme Court case over this? in 1974?) and for copious scenes of unclothed Jack Nicholson but not much more than that."
Catch-22 (1970) - Rated 25 May 2025
"Translating the more slapstick gag from literature to screen is tough and I think some of the sight gags lose their punch because the dialogue ends up explaining them anyway. "Where's my parachute" is an amazing bit but then it gets re-explained in dialogue for no reason. The written back-and-forths still hit though. P.S. Always a pleasure to see Large Orson Welles dominate the screen for a few minutes."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Rated 23 May 2025
"I see why it was groundbreaking for its time, but 50 years later it feels kinda academic."
The Graduate (1967) - Rated 08 May 2025
"Is it about anything? Not really, but it's funny and it looks amazing (the colors all pop). All-timer soundtrack also."
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Rated 11 Apr 2025
"Caught a theater screening of this. The wide shots really bring a tear to my eye man. Lean is funnier than people give him credit for - old people in the theater laughed regularly through the whole thing."
The Brutalist (2024) - Rated 30 Mar 2025
"Wow. Toth and Van Buren are such singular "great men" that their story resonates more on an individual level than an allegoric one, and yet the imagery is so towering that it simply forces you to think on the macro scale. The treatment of Israel is very early-Corbet in its unfounded ambition, which forces you to do the thinking for him and pick your favorite interpretation (for better or worse). I hope this gets everyone else to think harder about title/credit/intermission design."
I'm Still Here (2024) - Rated 28 Mar 2025
"The normalcy is the scariest part, I think. You go out for ice cream, play with the dog, go to school, play ball at the beach, while people are being disappeared."
