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In Fabric (2018)
Flip the acts around and you've got a great film
If the second half of this movie was the 1st act and 30 minutes shorter, we'd feel so much more tension for the main character.
I don't mind the whiplash that happens with switching characters, but the order it happens in hurts the film more than it helps.
Otherwise, the funny parts were funny, performances were great, writing was great, and I loved the cinematography and presentation overall. It's a huge shame that it tanks in the second half for me.
Character Requirement: the dress itself could have been presented in a scarier way, but I think they were going for a classic B movie camp, which they pulled off in that case.
A Serious Man (2009)
Lots to like, but I just didn't connect with it.
Great writing and performances across the board. To me, the story was alright, but I felt like I was missing something. Almost like "growing up in a Jewish-American family" or "theoretical philosophy" was required reading that I didn't do for this film. Lots to like, but I just didn't connect with it.
La tortue rouge (2016)
Visually stunning, poor pacing
Obviously this film is gorgeous. The artstyle and animation are perfect is pretty much every way.
The pacing really killed it for me. It was slow and methodical but couldn't provide any deeper insight because of the lack of dialogue. I get that you have to read between the lines, interpret the characters' actions and interpret the visuals, but I think it hammered home the same point one too many times. The overall plot was fine, I would've preferred if it was either condensed in time, or expanded upon with anything else.
The Number 23 (2007)
Great movie on paper, lacking execution
This movie probably looked great on a storyboard. All the major beats and twists, and how things get revealed would have made for a great little thriller. But somehow they didn't execute it well. I don't know if it was the writing or the directing, but I felt like the film spends too much time on really simple things and then glosses over the interesting stuff.
5/10: it's a movie.
Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons (2019)
A decent documentary for those with nostalgia
If you grew up alongside some of the interviewees, looking at this art on store shelves, then you're going to love this documentary.
I started playing D&D at 5th Edition, so I don't have the same nostalgia, but I did enjoy seeing how the art changed over the years, how the art affected other people, and how TSR artists look back on their experience.
I think this movie could have really benefitted from a narration or some more consistent music. And I would have liked if it provided a better history lesson of the start of TSR, rather than just, here's an artist --> look at their art.
Considering it's exclusively made up of interviews and imagery, they did a pretty good job, but it definitely could have been presented better.
Willy's Wonderland (2021)
Somehow fun and boring at the same time
Not great, even with the goofy weirdness of The general premise and Nic Cage's performance.
Just a predictable and (intentionally) campy plot interspersed with the occasional bonking of a robot. But the funny parts and violent parts weren't great enough to make this more than a 5/10 (just a movie), and some other choices like the weird fisheye on the edges of the screen and not giving Cage any campy one-liners brings this movie down a peg.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Lots of meaning to pull from this great film
Technically, Donnie Darko is proficient enough is every way, so the real meat of the rating comes from the story.
Of course, the story is great, with excellent writing and pacing. And it's filled with philosophical meaning and metaphor that is really up to the viewer to decide. Themes of mental illness, nihilism, and predestiny are all worth ruminating on. This is the kind of movie where you get more out of it the more you think of it.
8/10 for the theatrical cut but is love to see what depth is added by the directors cut.