#the eye film review

[variousqueerthings]

very funny when people on letterboxd describe a movie as "didn't reinvent the wheel" and it's like. lisa frankenstein. cocaine bear. i just don't think that was their intent as movies youknow. i think it was to have a fun time.

[sunshine-tattoo]

The Hills Have Eyes (1977): Crazy mildly inbred hill people

Me- boring. unoriginal. honestly kinda bigoted.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006 remake): Mutants from the 1950s automic bomb testing on poor rural communities in the Nevada desert.

Me- political. unsettling. fantastic. A+.

[atlas-dr0wned]

im convinced people on letterboxd hate fun; i keep going on to review movies and seeing most of the reviews talking about how much the film sucks and they didnt even smile once throughout it, meanwhile i thought it was a silly film that didnt take itself too seriously in the best way

[finalgirlgretchen]

oh girl be fucking for real

[hannahwatcheshorror]

THE EYE (2008)

Bad and boring. Only worth watching because Jessica Alba is a decent actor and is nice to look at. Interesting idea poorly executed. They mixed up SIXTH SENSE with ODD THOMAS and gave us a pile of crap.

⭐.5

Jessica Alba plays a blind woman who gets a cornea transplant from a Mexican woman who sees dead people but also reapers? Either way it's rough all around the edges and is barely made passable by Jessy being hot. They manage to fill almost an hour before they just tell us that the donor was called a witch and hung herself. Twist, the visions were of a future that Jess avoids by playing terrorist and, shock! She is blinded again. Teaching us that sight isn't everything, except for that one time, when it let her save a ton of people. Feel good tunes play as the credits roll. Bite me. 

[bestreviewguy]

Blue Eye Samurai is a masterpiece! Not only does the Netflix show excel in storytelling, but the animation, characters and ESPECIALLY the action scenes are truly mind blowing. The story revolves around a samurai who wishes to stop the reign of an Irish tyrant whom is using guns to overthrow the country. (Keeping it light on spoilers) However, this is not only the conflict in the show. There is also a very interesting dynamic between the main character and an antagonist who wants to get revenge for dishonoring him as our protagonist is the one to blame in his eyes. This adds depth to the show as their relationship isn’t a typical revenge plot and more of an enemy turned friends dynamic. The best thing about this show is the action scenes. Blended with a stylish animation, the VERY violent and mature tone compliments the sword fighting perfectly. My personal favorite is episode 6 but to be quite honest, each episode just one-ups the last. Another thing that’s done excellent is the characters. Each one is different and not a single one is wasted. This show is truly a treat that you have to check out if you have Netflix, love samurai’s, or just need something good to watch. I’m gonna give Blue Eye Samurai a 10 out of 10.

10/10

+ Great cast of characters.

+ Engaging mature story.

+ Fantastic action scenes.

+ Not a single bad episode.

+ Unique animation style and beautiful graphics.

[emeto-film-critic]

James Bond: GoldenEye - 1995

SAFE

[neonbodyache]

margaret qualley’s “CON.TROL.YOUR.SELF” scream from the substance has not left my mind since the day i heard it. movie of all time

[theinfinitedivides]

someone tell white people stop reviewing Bollywood by mediocre Western standards i'm f*cking crying rn

[horrorcrawl]

Eye of the Devil (1966)🏹

Director: J. Lee Thompson (Filmways Pictures)

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Occult, Cursed Lineage 🏰

Notes: French Vinyard, Lavish Interior Sets, Great Cinematography, Religion, Creepy Siblings, Magic Amulet, Cult Ritual Magic, Castle, Sharon Tate, David Hemmings, Black/White Film 🤍🖤

Review: There is almost a romantic quality to this film that took me for surprise from the start. The sparkle of the dresses and eerie buildup to the trance like acting of the siblings Odile and Christian played by Sharon Tate and David Hemmings which add a weirdness to the film that keeps things on their toes. The slow descent from dreamlike to nightmare for the main character was an enjoyable watch however there was a lot of unanswered questions left by the end. So prepare for things to just happen without explanation or context of meaning. This film does feel maybe slightly older compared to some of the other films coming out at the time with camera tech and fx but still a nice watch.

Overall I give Eye of the Devil (1966): Worth the Watch🍇

[azazel-dreams]

Sinbad and the eye of the Tiger

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I saw The Wild Robot a few days ago, and I think I would need to see it again to know how I feel about it. Visually, it was gorgeous: the coloring, layout, animation, effects, etc etc were all just a treat to look at, and while it seems to be following the recent trend of blending aspects of 2D and 3D, it's stylistically distinct from the others. Like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, it would've been worth seeing for the art alone even if everything else had sucked. I felt like the score was doing a lot of heavy lifting in terms of narrative and emotion as well. I did cry a couple times in the theater.

That said, I couldn't help but be hung up on the writing the whole time I was watching it. It often felt too straightforward and preachy. There were multiple times where a character would make a statement about an emotion and I would wish that we had instead gotten to witness the emotion for thirty seconds instead. (To be clear, this isn't an issue with Roz or overly literal robot speech styles: that's my jam and I love it. All characters were guilty.) This would ruin most movies for me, but again, the art and music were carrying so hard that I'd end up feeling the emotion anyway.

It also felt like the pacing was strange: it felt very storybookish in that one thing happened and then another thing happened and then another thing happened and now the movie's over. There were three climaxes: Brightbill's migration, Roz saving all the animals from the blizzard, and the final robot fight, but all of them felt like they were fairly equally weighted so each subsequent one felt less impactful because, what, again?

I feel like I would have liked the movie better if:

1. Less dialogue period. Maybe Roz is the only one who speaks, and the animals communicate through body language. If they must talk, maybe rather than learning animal language through a scan in a montage, Roz slowly learns their language throughout the film from the ones she's close to. I feel like that would've been more impactful for their relationships and the theme of Roz having to learn how to do things differently than she was programmed to. (see footnote)

2. If they took out that stupid old freaking goose. Mentor death was a layer that did not really add to the movie, the goose wasn't there long enough for me to care, and having one old goose who doesn't hate Brightbill for some reason doesn't really help connect him to the other geese at all. Have him form a connection with someone rather than having this wise old grandpa bird show up out of nowhere for no good reason. I'm not even glad he died because I'd rather he hadn't been in the movie at all.

3. Give the movie a little more time and use it wisely. Everything is in montage form. Give us a couple non-montage scenes of the characters doing stuff together so it's more impactful when they break up. Alternatively, take away at least one of the three climaxes so the focus doesn't feel so scattershot.

4. Tie the human civilization into the themes more. I don't think there should actually be humans in the movie, but there seems to be something there about how the animals learn they're stronger together, and the human civilization seems to have sealed itself away from nature in biodomes (probably for safety from the effects of climate change), and they chase the geese away, unlike Roz, who takes all the forest animals into her own dome-shaped house. But like, the humans seem to be doing fine. I feel like it'd be way more interesting if there were background glimpses of things beginning to fall apart juxtaposed with the shiny advertisement videos for the robots. I think it'd help make that theme of outward focus and making the world a better place stand out more.

In conclusion, I do think it's a very beautiful and worthwhile movie to see. However, it could have been a masterpiece with less heavyhanded writing and tighter, more coherent theming and plot. And that kinda bugs me. It could've been perfect.

(Footnote: Pet peeve territory, but it also would've made more sense. Roz is presumably programmed to pick up human language with grammar and syntax, and while I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for talking animals in an animated movie, they are absolutely not talking like humans would be even if they appear to be speaking English for the audience's convenience. That montage literally showed Roz doing like a find-and-replace language reconstruction on those little projector screens, and like... really? Animals have a language that is analogous to human language structures and nobody has put that together yet or it would be in Roz's database. Shut up. People have been WISHING animal communication worked like that for ages, but it doesn't. No way algorithms designed for human language syntax structures would work on animals and no one would know. Either handwave it completely or get me a semi-satisfying explanation; don't put that crap on the screen and force me to think about it.)

[thecinemacritic]

REVIEW: The Hills Have Eyes (2006) is a deranged, intense, gruesome, and greatly directed and performed horror film, which improves on the Wes Craven original.

[leitargia]

Minha experiência com o filme "Eyes Wide Shut" de Stanley Kubrick

FILME MUITO FODA!!! porem é a primeira e ultima vez q vejo pois.. surpreendida e traumatizada

um filme que fala sobre segredos, decisões que tomamos em um relacionamento e a importância da comunicação. também mostra como pessoas que convivemos diariamente podem esconder segredos sujos e se tornarem seres completamente diferentes quando estão sob a liberdade do anonimato. além de que a gente ver uma pequena demonstração do que é a elite e a indústria artística no geral

isso eh so oq peguei enquanto assistia. e devo ressaltar que em 02:38h de um filme que teve nenhum tiquinho de pressa em desenvolver a trama, estive envolvida em cada segundinho pq ele é muito imersivo e bem dirigido.

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Hills Have Eyes (Aja, 2006)

Compared to the original, this firmly places our POV with the heroes, which arguably makes this dramatically sturdier but conceptually less interesting. The original mirrors the villains to the heroes, establishing them in detail as a parallel family unit, and letting us grasp to some extent their intelligence and sense of strategy. To some degree, we're meant to identify with them along with the heroes. Here, the villains are kept in the periphery, lurking in the shadows like monstrous silhouettes. (The makeup effects are appropriately hideous.) It's an effective choice in letting us feel besieged, but also a less subversive one in challenging our perspective, and it means that the casting of recognizable actors like Billy Drago and Robert Joy in those roles is mostly for naught.

And while Craven kept the politics of his movie implicit in the premise and its post-Vietnam context, this one insists on spelling them out. There's a Democrat voter hero afraid of guns but forced to use one, a miniature American flag being put to grisly use, and a speech by one of the villains explaining their circumstances as blowback for the American military's actions. This does feel like the work of foreign filmmakers actively trying to make a statement about America, while the original was the result of a more lived in perspective. I don't think any of this grinds the movie to a halt, but it does feel a bit clumsy.

All that being said, this is still a pretty potent piece of horror and near the top of the 2000s remake wave by virtue of the gruesome panache with which Alexandre Aja executes the material as he finds the most heinously violent ways to punctuate the beats it borrows from the original. And like the crueler horror films of the era, some of this has the visual texture of a rusty nail, but unlike those, this is at times beautiful in its harshness, with Maxime Alexandre's cinematography capturing the hostile landscape of the Moroccan desert locations in punishingly bright sunlight.

[mifunebooty]

Film noirs when they cast men who were the pretty boys of the 1930s: what if we fuck him up