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The Menu (2022)
How fed up are the people that make our food?
Just right in front this is my favorite movie of 2022 with "Triangle of Sadness" right next to it. Many times i thought of it since watching, performances and story are tight and we need a second course of this!
Probably an instant classic that not too many people talked about but this movie will find his connoisseurs for sure.
SPOILER: you will be surprised even though the trailer i remember watching felt like it already told way too much of the story before. It was one of the cases where i was not sure if watching the movie was still a good idea after seeing too much of it right away in a 3 minute appetiser... but boy was i wrong, i would eat it right away again if possible.
The characters working in the industry of hospitality are so terribly fed up with their situation, that they are willing to s'more the guests (the most insufferable of them, i hope) right on spot. And a "to go" option is not planned on the menu...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Meh. in spaaace
The first Guardians movie was a pleasant surprise - back in 2014.
What followed was less and less funny or convincing, the second movie (2017) felt like a copy of the first one but with different characters to fight against. Not bad but forgetable.
Now after watching Volume 3 a month ago, nothing of it is still there in my brain - main characters are sweet and i am sure whoever liked them back in 2014 is still watching to catch that experience from the first movie.
Unfortunately it can never be achieved in Vol.3 - weird ideas and everything else is there, but it is just not that entertaining anymore. The space Superhero movie wave might have ended with this one. Goodbye, see you in 10 years when they need to reanimate you for rea$on$...
Da hong denglong gaogao gua (1991)
Exceptional. My favorite Chinese made movie.
Made to be kept in mind. Beautiful and tragic.
It is a masterpiece, especially because it plays out to be a drama. Shot in just a few locations, just enough to not let your eyes get bored by interior scenes with people talking to each other.
Gong Li is as beautiful as she is talented, we suffer with her from the first moments of the first scene in the movie until the end, when she discovers a secret, a dead persons body and in consequence her faith - resulting in a true heartbreak for us watching her.
My favorite Chinese movie, pictures and story will never leave you. Great. Amazing. Powerful.
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
NOT bad, not great - it's 60:40 watchable but waaay too long
Wow, such a great first 20 minutes of a movie, everything the director and Phoenix do is great for one hour. And you can even find great actors and performances in the second part of the movie, but not that much worth watching for in the second half.
Anyone watching has to have the feeling that studios giving too much freedom to a director results in a movie like this: too long, the best ideas are shown after 60 minutes and everything else is just somewhat mysterious or should have been cut out entirely. Why do you show scenes to an audience? Where do we need explanation, where do we need none at all?
It has not been a great year for movies so far,
the first hour is worth watching and you could watch further if you like to but it was not my thing.
And Mariah Carey will never sound the same to me...
Asteroid City (2023)
Are we alone in the cinema?
Is this a movie about Roswell and how the United States and the world dealt with it?
I would say yes, because the key scene seems to be the the "you can't wake up when you never were asleep"-setpiece that we visit twice (2x) in the movie.
We did not sleep, there were those aliens really landing in the desert in America and people saw it, but continued to live their life as if nothing too important happened... fascinating if that was indeed Wes Anderson's intention.
Roswell or Asteroid City, 1947 or 1955 - do we look back and SEE what happened? What do you think?
Not sure if that is my favorite WA movie - to me the characters in the early ones, especially Bill Murray, were much more memorable.
Not bad, not average - just very little that "sticks", except the alien topic of course.
L'ingorgo (1979)
Less entertaining, more a great "proof of concept" movie
Usually it is a good idea to throw some people into a movie with a large ensemble, that can act and have proven to do so before.
It makes me feel very good to think back to watching the movie, but two scenes stand out to me, hauting violence against a young woman, true nightmare fuel.
And the very much reaction to that violence by a gentleman also caught in the traffic jam, unbelievable scene.
Nothing else to say we should all watch more movies from that time period which either play in Italy or are made by an Italian director, because they clearly knew what they where doing back in those days.
Mandy (2018)
Panos Cosmatos for the win!
Loved this one, even or maybe because i do not really watch horror or that much fantasy movies.
Nicolas Cage is.
Just.
An artwork.
Driven mad by the cruel murder of his loved Mandy, we watch him truly, deeply hurting people until our lights go out - every character in this movie is somewhat memorable. The cast is just impressive, the movie is maybe a tiny bit slow in the beginning but with the arrival of the children of the new dawn the plot kicks in and we never stop or go back in pace.
I loved Andrea Riseborough in this and always understood the scene in which she is killed as a form of "baiting" the audience into thinking she died, but we are really not seeing her dead (somebody is burned in a body bag while Nic Cage is drugged out unconscious, him waking up finding the ashes of the corpse he was tied in front of the next morning).
...if i am honest, still waiting for a sequel... ;)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Beautiful is exactly the right word to describe that movie
What else to say than this is my favorite movie? I mean it's so beautifully made and EVERY character is simply at least lovable. I don't know what makes the film so special but i love the cast, the location of Knight's Ridge and the story but especially the music and the way it makes you feel. I've seen the movie 3 or 4 times and can't think of any person who could not enjoy this movie. If you watch it for the first time you'll quickly fall in love with it and make your friends see it too, so did i and there are no complaints until this day...
Have a good look at my favorite scene: Young Natalie Portman and Timothy Hutton talk about love and life and Winnie-the-Pooh in front of the house of Natalie Portman's parents (which are never be seen in the movie).