also let me just say: it is the year of the Stuhlbarg

debaser says

welp in case anyone still gives a f about this thread, call me by your name was good!!!!!!

ew i need a new page for this movie because it really was a great movie

i'm not surprised some people have been calling it "boring" it does take its sweet time but the resulting atmosphere is something really singularly unique, and i've never really seen a movie this... sensual? its a movie that works on a sensory level in really unprecedented ways and for that i give it major props even tho i have minor issues that keep it from being this masterpiece that a lot of people make it out to be

welp in case anyone still gives a f about this thread, call me by your name was good!!!!!!

i need to see i tonya so badly

quick take updates:

I, Tonya: shookething, encapsulates the Sufjan song, very Scorsese, absorbing

Shape of Water: gorgeous, AMAZING SEQUENCES, sometimes A Bit Much, Pan’s labyrinth is still better, perfect cast

Brigsby Bear: lovable, “dope as shít”, really hard to hate on, almost a little inconsequential, better than the disaster artist

and also heavy-handed @okja

some quick hot takes on 2017 movies:

A Ghost Story: chilling, phenomenal, left me weeping

The Meyerowitz Stories: fun, Noah baumbach, a good time, NICE editing

Okja: NOT GOOD, overacting, insincere, tonal mess

gone too soon...

guess it's time for me to take this topic over, then

tl;dr on molly's game it's aaron sorkin back on his bullsht and that's a compliment because i love his bullsht and loved this movie

i'm not entirely sure it's actually good but i had so much fun

at any rate

i won’t really be able to frequent this site that much so my movie opinions will mostly be on letterboxd from here

it was fun posting here, peace out good ppl

debaser says

looking back I think I had too much of a desire to like Star Wars and was into the mindset of being contrarian to everyone else’s hate that my outcome was biased, and honestly, it’s definitely a huge mess of a movie

the star wars fan stockholm syndrome is so cute and i knew it was a thing in general but it really took people liking that abortion of a movie Rogue One for me to truly see how deep seated it is

even if*

you should see Columbus before March, though. you loved Lady Bird and I have a feeling you’ll love this movie for similar reasons, if they are completely different movies tonally and structurally

looking back I think I had too much of a desire to like Star Wars and was into the mindset of being contrarian to everyone else’s hate that my outcome was biased, and honestly, it’s definitely a huge mess of a movie

Remind me to pm you star wars takes when I'm not busy as heck

I've been meaning to see Columbus but I'm so overwhelmed with movies right now

i’m probably gonna continue to post to myself on this thread about this movie forever

fúck it, this is the newest addition to my perfect list

oh SIKE this movie takes place in COLUMBUS INDIANA not in the shítty state of Ohio, now that makes sense

and also makes me feel dumb

definitely gonna wanna keep a lookout for future movies Kogonda is involved in. breakout filmmaker of 2017 right here

way to start 2018 on an amazing note.

This movie is very close to a 10/10 and I really, really loved it. Enough to give it the first full-blown formal review on this thread

John Cho was also very good. At times you could really see how conflictedly cynical and vulnerable he was, and at times he was just oozing charisma. Him and Haley Lu share some amazing scenes together and their chemistry could not have been more perfect.

There’s also something to be said about how this movie uses its setting to its advantage. I really hate Ohio, being a staunch Michigander, but by the end I was literally in love with Columbus. It feels just as intimate as all the characters and you really come to fall in love with the atmosphere, which is fostered by the sparsely used (but amazing) score.

This movie’s premise is one I won’t spoil (I loved it so much because I knew nothing about it), but it’s one that caught me completely off-guard and left me crying like a motherfùcker by the end. Even this movie’s side characters were unbelievably organic that I felt like a movie could be dedicated to each and every one of them and I would love them all. I just loved these characters and I fell in love with this movie and I wish they were real.


In terms of flaws, I think the major turnoff of this movie for a lot of people will be by design: it is a slow-paced movie to the largest extent. For me, though at first it felt a little stale, eventually I came to love it’s meditative nature in a similar way to last year’s “Paterson,” only instead of romanticizing people in Paterson this movie romanticizes buildings in Columbus. But I digress. This movie is gruelingly slow, which if you’re not a fan of more subtle, subdued films, will turn you off. To me it was just perfect.

The more I think about it the more I love this movie and I can go on and on and relate it to my own personal experiences, but instead I’ll just say GO SEE COLUMBUS. It’s unbelievably overlooked, and a strong contender for my favorite movie of the year.

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Columbus... simply put, floored me. Going in, all I knew was that it starred Haley Lu Richardson and John Cho (both of whom I considered some of the most underrated actors in the industry) and that the movie has architecture in it somehow

The way this movie started I thought I knew what kind of movie it would be. The movie cynic in me was just like, “ok this is one of those movies that critics liked because it was pretty, but it’s so pretentious and full of itself that it’ll leave me cold.” Boy was I wrong.

It’s impossible to review this movie without mentioning its cinematography, the most obvious aspect of this movie. It’s the literal definition of “every frame is a painting.” The camera work is literally perfect and the shots had me drooling, making the movie worthwhile for that alone. Cinematographer Elisha Christian really flexes her eyes with beautiful (mostly still frame) shots, making this movie the most elegant film I’ve seen this year.

The writing is also something I can’t leave unnoticed. This is writer-director Kogonda’s debut feature film, and holy hell this guy can WRITE DIALOGUE. I swear this movie disarmed me by how real every line of dialogue was; similar to movies like “Moonlight” I felt like I was spying on real people that I honestly fell in love with and wanted to stay around, maybe catch a conversation with them and know what happens to their lives after the movie ended.

Haley Lu Richardson. HOLY FÚCK MAN. I think this is my favorite performance of 2017 so far. I’m a sucker for visual, subtle acting, and Haley Lu’s expressions throughout the film said so much with so little. I was so captivated by her I couldn’t take my eyes on her. She is the love of my life and this is the best I’ve ever seen her. Give her less than half a decade she’ll be a serious Oscar contender, if they choose to snub her this year.

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this is a movie I have SO MUCH to write about. more to follow in a bit

holy shít Haley Lu Richardson is my everything.

haley lu richardson, john cho, and architecture. what could go wrong