#letterboxd life in film

[backstepping]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

[cinesoleil]

life can be so wonderful (2007)

[sainthypolith]

how i’ve been feeling lately..

[swanetteballet]

The New York dream ☕️ 🦢

[bistec-musings]

This is how you know gang really fw cinema

[akajustmerry]

And is this film that is the "answer to Brokeback Mountain" with "more sex, more sex, more sex" in the room with us right now, Mr Almodóvar?

[wormsdyke]

“visit his friend” they have gay sex 5 minutes in. “they celebrate the meeting” they get drunk and pedro pascal power bottoms while ethan hawke blows his back out raw. there’s a full ass shot of pedro pascal waking up the morning after, and i quote, “still smelling of cum” letterboxd what are you doing

[groovytimes]

My letterboxd year in review. Not as embarrassing as I thought.

[cinesoleil]

life can be so wonderful (2007)

[toriz0]

HEY. read my 116 movie reviews

[coldweatherhater]

i think its so funny when someone say they like a movie but can't defend it saying i like it but i know its bad i mean then you dont like it lmao ??

[agentnico]

The Wild Robot (2024) review

Oof, this review might annoy some people.

Plot: Shipwrecked on a deserted island, a robot named Roz must learn to adapt to its new surroundings. Building relationships with the native animals, Roz soon develops a parental bond with an orphaned gosling.

Right, so I’ve seen everyone raving about this new DreamWorks animation, from Rotten Tomatoes to IMDb to Letterboxd to my wife… everyone is loving Wild Robot! There is indeed lots to like here. Following Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’s success (and well deserved success at that!!), DreamWorks again uses that frenetic 2D/3D blend of animation that gives the whole experience a real picturesque quality, especially with some shots having that brush effect that feel as if they were painted. This is a gorgeous looking movie, and add to that Kris Bowers’ motherloading banger of a music score, this thing is a technical marvel.

Narratively though this didn’t click with me for some reason. I may be a Scrooge, but I felt the story was rushed and I could not connect with any of the characters. Voice acting left a lot to be desired too. With big names in the ensemble including the likes of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Bill Nighy, Matt Berry, Catherine O’Hara and Mark Hamill to name a few, none of them really struck a cord with me. Kit Connor as the little gosling was the closest due to having that child-like innocence that allowed you naturally to care for the poor orphaned fellow to succeed in finding himself and all that usual character development jazz, but again, I felt really detached from the whole experience. The story seemed all to basic, and as much as the parenthood factor is supposed to be endearing and sweet, again it was so rushed in the beginning of the movie due to the script wanting to speed through to dealing with the human and robot-centric world. Also Pedro Pascal’s fox 🦊 adds nothing to the plot. He just kind of joins in, which by the way what was his motivation in wanting to help the robot and gosling in the first place? Feel like I missed something, but he really quickly changes his tune from wanting to munch on the gosling for lunch to “oh let’s help the poor sod grow up”.

Again, I fully accept I’m in the minority of opinion on this one, and I’m not down with the cool kids for not appreciating The Wild Robot, but I say it as how I see it - this thing seems really overrated. My wife loved it though, so I must just hate love.

Overall score: 5/10

[honeylover]

how it feels to hear "that was such a good question"

[caleohateclub]

My Letterboxd Top 4 but in Gacha Club

(+ my reviews)

[quiveb]

[childactress]

a list of media inspired by, about, or loosely adapted from the life of mara banks:

a number of mid-quality songs by mid-quality bands and the mid-quality ex-boyfriends/lovers of mara's. that subgenre of rock/alt/indie/knockoff fall out boy that tells one-sided stories about attractive but damaged^tm girls with daddy issues who outright ruined the guy's life. accuracy and scathingness vary from song to song. you've heard one or two on the radio before their shelf life was up.

a comedy stand-up routine from one of mara's Big Exes. he never identifies her by name, she's this actress i was with for a while. they're less insulting and more utterly damning by their truthful (sometimes exaggerated for the sake of a laugh) reports of her unstable, mara-typical behavior during their time together, and she becomes a recurring joke throughout. she snuck into a show once, sat and sipped at the far-off bar with a far-off look, and stayed for about ten minutes. when he later landed a deal with netflix to film and release a stand-up special, he didn't include the routine in the material; mara doesn't know if that makes her feel better or worse.

starstruck: the banks story. a lifetime movie released a handful of years after arthur and donna's deaths, capitalizing on the tragedy in the hasty way that lifetime movies do. cheap, gently exploitative, the bad type of campy. it made mara (and her sister) pretty angry at the time, but now on a good day she can watch it with a bottle of wine and laugh at the sheer inaccurate nerve. the character of mara isn't around very much and is laughably depicted as a docile sweetheart rather than the spitfire that even pre-end times mara was.

mr. and mrs. banks. a 2020s biopic that also features young mara only briefly, instead covering her parents' marriage and careers with a thematic focus on their tragic love story in tinseltown. it's not a bad piece of work at all, written by a highly-regarded husband and wife duo. a turning point in mara's life: she possessively pursues and wins the role of her own mother, blonde wigs and all. it's a deeply emotionally invasive experience, obviously. and weird as hell falling in fake love with her own dad('s on-camera imitator). she turns in a hell of a performance and comes out the other end with a better reputation and a renewed if slightly cautious interest in hiring her, having reminded hollywood that hey, this girl can act. her world turns inside out, a psychological reckoning. she shakes off some bad habits, picks up a couple others; she dyes her hair blonde during the press tour - a suggestion from a studio suit to emphasize her natural close resemblance to her mother and thus promote public interest in the film (the americans who still remember the complete banks family unit: that's her now? wow, she looks just like her mom.) sadly, fatefully, she lives a long time seeing her mother in every mirror she passes, which has exactly the effect on her psyche that you think. an actress who came back from the dead even deader. tragedy come full circle. meet the new mara banks. a much, much slower kind of car crash.