Colossal It's been said, but it's
really not the movie the trailers make it out to be(I basically expected the trailers with a stronger emphasis on the alcoholism metaphor), after the first half hour or so it starts getting pretty dark and less zany. On a meta level I thought it was pretty neat that it was an original screenplay with a limited budget that takes place in a few locations but it doesn't feel like it's being particularly limited by it. Plus Anne Hathaway.
MoneyballI went back to this one after not really falling in love with Molly's Game and came to the obvious conclusion that Moneyball/Social Network/Steve Jobs all elevate Sorkin's writing with really great technical productions. There's this one shot where Brad Pitt is driving home and has to turnaround on the highway that isn't a big set piece but it's executed slicker than almost anything in the former.
A Most Wanted ManRewatched this one for the first time since it came out. It's notable for being a contemporary John le Carre adaptation and Philip Seymour Hoffman's last(?) role and he's great as a German spymaster in this. I love Homeland and Bourne, but somehow I found this more tense and thrilling than those without a single explosion or gun being fired through the whole movie. To be honest, it's everything I wanted from the Tinker Tailor adaptation(which I still really like for the performances and production design, but it kind of loses me with the plot and characters a bit.)
RIP PSHoffman. :'(
Brigsby BearIt's a Lonely Island production so you might expect something more slapstick but it's actually a pretty sweet and sincere movie, somewhere around Room(the Brie Larson one)/Lars and the Real Girl and a little Napoleon Dynamite.
watched the cure for wellness. movie was 100% different from how the trailer portrayed and it ended in a way I didn't even expect 2/3 of the way through the movie. I thought I was in for some insane psychological horror and an extremely stylish movie, instead I got a pretty straightforward 1950s style plot.
Horrible. Don't ever watch.
...but it
*was* batshit insane and arguably extremely stylish.
I thought I was getting Shutter Island and ended up with something that's almost an amalgam of that and mother! and...Chinatown?
It's pretty much only worth seeing for the batshit insane "trainwreck" factor. Like...they gave the Pirates of the Caribbean dude 40 million dollars and he came back with this, and then they had to stick it in almost every multiplex and make up TV commercials for it? Really? Wow.
