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L'étudiante (1988)
High Brow Rom Com
Sophie Marceau: absolutely gorgeous, genius, and multi-talented. This underrated romantic comedy is definitely a gem. I recommend contemplating the fact that she was 21 years old when she commanded this role. Wow! She dated, copulated, studied, wrote and defended a dissertation and succeeding in dispelling my disbelief. This film is like a Valium. I always rely on "L'etudiante" to cheer me up when the world is literally in the middle of a Pandemic, racial injustice is out of control, and the global economy is sinking. This is truly a joy. The sets, cinematography, casting, writing, and most of the music is amazing.
La Môme (2007)
Worst Subtitles in a Foreign Film
This film would have been amazing but the ratio of subtitles to words spoken were 30 to 70. I thought I was going to learn words to the legendary Edith Piaf's songs and her history. However, there was literally zero subtitles for her songs. I rented this film from Apple on AppleTV. I'm not sure if other platforms have better subtitles but, I'm not as fluent with French as I am with Spanish. Consequently, this made for two hours and twenty minutes of guessing.
The Forbidden Room (2015)
Wes Anderson on Peyote channeling David Lynch
This is a feast for the senses. Cinematically, The Forbidden Room is Valentine to filmmaking from the Silent Era to Talkies. Guy Maddin has clearly viewed a plethora of films and synthesized them into this masterpiece. It moves at a fast pace and the two hours will pass Quickly. Get ready for an unconventional film that will cover alternate dimensions, tantra, neurological disorders, psychiatry, manual labor, god and goddess worship and the heroes quest. Every minute Maddin is using the screen as a canvass with varied masterful brush strokes. It is packed with a great cast, wonderful silent film effects, chromogenic color palette, and a joyous ending that is a thorough as a well written dissertation.
It is as if Joseph Campbell took psilocybin and made this film. Watch twice with sub-titles.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Please! Stop Giving 1's as Ratings.
Meditate on the time JJ ABRAMS, the Cast, and thousands of crew have put into making this film. It is the last Star Wars film of my lifetime and possibly yours. I have only given a one rating to one film out of the thousands. Your one rating is a reflection of the lack of maturity and knowledge you have of film making. Joseph Campbell, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, & Rian Johnson spent thousands of hours, used massive amounts of natural resources, directed hundreds of actors and extras to keep mythology alive for our contemporary culture.
One major component of all primitive cultures and contemporary cultures is mythology. The Neanderthals, Mayans, Incans, Druids, American Indigenous cultures used mythology to explain and explore that which could not be explained. Just because we have smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and computers that are connected via the internet and social media (which ultimately, I believe, was to unite sentient beings) to share mythology and grandiose movies such as Star Wars doesn't mean we should prematurely try to ruin the experience for everyone. Mythology is endangered just like Planet Earth. However, through mythology, we can come together in a theater and marvel over the incredible warp and weft that makes up Star Wars.
It is a cautionary tale that we should heed lest we be destroyed in energy consuming wars. Good and Evil have been philosophized over since we evolved legs and eyeballs and crawled out of our Planets Oceans to share the Natural Resources that were once abundant. Films such as Star Wars are part of a 42 year tradition in many families. It is a world wide phenomenon and can serve to unite, inform, and elate sentient beings from all over our Planet.
So, before you give this movie a one, think of the almost eight billion humans on the Planet and how Star Wars employed and changed the lives of millions. It is a present. It should not be spoiled by bots, people paid off to simply give it a one, or hateful fans who feel betrayed because Kathleen Kennedy is a female genius or that the star of the film is a female. Think before you react. The mythology in this film is critical for more ways than I can write about here. So, read Joseph Campbell, Jung, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Buddhist texts, Vedic texts, and take a grand view of what has come before us. Use Wikipedia to look up Joseph Campbell and his massive body of work. Then, buy some ebooks and educate yourself and you will see the warp and weft of all these mythologists woven into a contemporary masterpiece that is Star Wars.
The Disaster Artist (2017)
OFFENSIVE CONTENT
Awful waste of time and not a great representation of a mentally challenged sentient being. Please, before watching this movie, take a look at other content to stream. This movie lacks the respect for a #metoo era. Inclusivity, love, & logical family are not the main premise. Instead Franco relies on telling a story about a man who breaks all rules and boundaries. Life without guidelines is chaos and a great deal of collateral damage can occur. It's too bad this was nominated for an Oscar. That slot could have been open for someone much more talented.
Sweetbitter: The Pork Special (2019)
ANIMAL CRUELTY
A pig is slaughtered on screen. Animals are sentient beings. Meat is murder.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
A Waste of Time and Money
This is the most poorly written of all the Avengers movies. It is action scene after action science with a few lines and a great deal of flashbacks to original Marvel Superhero films. This is the worst time travel movie I have ever viewed. TV Shows such as Outlander and Game of Thrones deal with time travel and flash backs respectively. This movie could have had an hour of superfluous action removed and more money could have been utilized for writers to make the story more concise and give us a chance to say goodbye to our favorite Marvel superheroes. In addition, the costumes were cheesy and as I viewed the film in IMAX I noticed that the costumes didn't fit the characters well. For example, the most ubiquitous costume problem was that their boots appeared to be two sizes too big. The sets were not convincing while the cinematographer would show the whole set then zoom in on a character's oversized boots. By the time, the war with Thanos began during the last 45 minutes it was total chaos with Tony Stark martyring himself for all Avengers and humanity. The writing, in the end, failed to unify all the films. I hoped the writers could pull together the twenty two film collection with a solid introduction, body, and conclusion. The end product was too much action, very little dialogue (except boring hazing), cheesy costumes, poor sets, too many character's whose fate was unclear.