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The Shape of Water (2017)
Beautiful and Haunting
This is easily Del Toro's masterpiece. The Background Score - Hauntingly Beautiful. Cinematography - Brilliant and blue is my favorite color. Sally Hawkins and Richard Jenkins are great in their interactions and Michael Shannon is menacing as his authoritative and dominant character. It was simply a love story between a god-like sea creature and a mute, timid girl and that last shot was mesmerizing. A MUST SEE!!!!
Palo Alto (2013)
So Boring and Predictable
This is considered a modern classic? Why? How? It's nothing original, a very dull movie about teenagers. It had next to no good moments, and really the characters are very unoriginal and not interesting. The movie very poorly shows backgrounds of the characters, even the main ones. Literally a movie without a plot, there is no goal of the movie, no action.
PASS
The Shining (1980)
Overrated Horror
Unfortunately it did not, but now I know what I don't like most about these movies: it's the terrible pacing. Despite having all the time in the world, Kubrick is simply incapable of escalating the tension gradually. I felt the same thing during A Space Odyssey where nothing happened for hours and then the computer went crazy in a span of 5 minutes.
Here, Jack Torrance who is obviously supposed to go crazy gradually during their stay seems to be mad right from the start, so the director basically skips the interesting part. This also means that he can't really take the character any further and even Jack Nicholson's cartoonish overacting gets boring after a while, and you're just waiting for the never-ending chase scene to be over so you can move on to other things.
Simply, overrated.
Salinui chueok (2003)
Grim but forgettable fare
Given the grim subject matter at hand, it's amazing just how funny so much of this movie turns out to be. Blessed with a sly sardonic humor and a willingness to make fun of its characters even while evincing a great deal of affection for them, "Memories of Murder" plays less like a conventional cop movie and more like a regional comedy filled with rich insights into the subtle truths of human nature. The relationship between Seo, the investigator from Seoul, and Park Doo-man, the more rational of the two local officers, is intriguing and complex, as we watch them bicker and brawl and engage in petty power struggles, while slowly coming to realize that each has something of value to teach the other if only they can set aside their egos long enough to listen. Saddled with even-then antiquated technologies, Seo and Park are forced to rely on good old investigative footwork and informed intuition to try and solve the case.
Star Wars (1977)
The First and Still the Best imo
Star Wars: A New Hope was one of the most influential movies of all time and has excellent elements of film. George Lucas did an amazing job writing and directing this movie, John Williams did very well on the score of the film, and the editing helped make this movie as successful as it was. I believe this is the best Star Wars movie made because it was the beginning of this 43 year long now franchise and there is almost nothing bad to say about this film, it is almost perfect.
Ah-ga-ssi (2016)
Well worth a watch
The Handmaiden contains multitudes: It's a sumptuous romantic period piece, as well as a sexy spy thriller, replete with secret identities and triple-crosses. It's an extended commentary on Japan's occupation of Korea in the 1930s, and it's an intense piece of psychological horror from one of the masters of the genre, Park Chan-wook. But more than anything, The Handmaiden is just pure cinema, a dizzying, disturbing fable of love and betrayal that piles on luxurious imagery, while never losing track of its story's human core. For Park, the Korean director of crossover genre hits like Old Boy and Thirst, the movie feels like an evolutionary leap forward in an already brilliant career.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Perfect Coda for the MCU
I have never felt so emotionally exhausted after watching a Marvel movie, but Avengers: Infinity War had me experiencing all sorts of emotions. Sadness, hope, despair.
Everyone left the cinema, spellbound, each reaching for the phone to find out if there was an explanation for anything that happens to the movie characters, and most importantly what the ending means.
Survive the Night (2020)
Farm invasion thriller
This cleverly conceived thriller is about a doctor and his family trapped inside a farm by two criminals. The film is well-paced and the camera work is slick. Bruce has a surprising larger role then I expected as the grandfatherly patriarch and he's effective enough to keep be engrossed. The rest of cast are admirable. With the stand out being, Shae Buckner who plays a unhinged but sympathetic criminal and does well to add layers to the role. The single location setting is brought to the fore here by expert claustrophobic direction. The violence is intense, sometimes graphic but never over the top, and completely tense. It's not a big blow 'em up adventure story, it's just as dark, gritty, and realistic, in which things never go according to plan and innocent people always get hurt.
Unfortunately, after an engrossing game of cat and mouse, the conclusion is somewhat weak. Staple clichés crop up and the film goes for a crowd-pleasing finale that doesn't quite feel right. Still watchable though and a recommended stream.
Trauma Center (2019)
Solid little chase thriller
I would certainly classify this as more of a thriller than an action film. What makes a thriller good? It's the suspense, the nail-biting, tense situations the film presents that have the audience at the edge of their seats at all times. The intimacy of the film is the main thing that makes it so fresh and interesting as a thriller, if it was taking place around a city or in a town it would not be half as suspenseful as having it all take place in a hospital. There's a couple great set pieces that use the location to its maximum. And the wonderful cinematography creates a frightful atmosphere for the audience to get engaged in.
It did, on the other hand, make some cliché plot developments. There are some moments that were so typical they took me away from a movie that was clearly trying to stand out, but was clearly forced by the studio to have some predictable plot points.
Let's move on to the actors. Bruce sadly only has a few moments and he's dreadful to watch at this point in his career. There's flashes of his brilliance but its mostly late stage Marlon Brando syndrome where he looks like he's reading cue cards. Nicky carries the movie and her performance in this film was much more nuanced. You could see that she was a much more complex character. She showed vulnerability, sadness, anger, depression and hopelessness, all through her eyes and expressions, as his role did not require extensive dialogue. She was the star of the film.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Dissapointing
Not great, not bad just felt like the mary sue little girl in this ruined the story. The directing was sooooo on the nose and over the top. I can't see why this guy has any hype? Not really much else to say but skip this. Much better horror movies out there.
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Masterful no sjw nonsense here
Great cast, great script, just works on every level as a fun and complex father/son story. Watch this on a big screen!