Re: Last movie you watched & your rating
Posted: 01 Jun 2022 02:25
I watched my twelfth & thirteenth films of the year:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — 8.9/10
2022-05-28: Pretty good. I might need to rewatch it, but I don't think I'm as head-over-heels about this as many people seem to be. It's good, don't get me wrong. Well-structured, nice comedic beats, great acting from the whole cast. But there were parts of it that felt awkwardly paced, and I think it tried to be a bit too "zany" early on in a way that ended up sticking out. I liked the themes, and they dealt with them well, but sometimes the actual action (as in forward progression of the plot) felt a bit too laborious. All told, minor gripes.
Tread (2019) — 6.0/10
2022-05-30: Documentary about Marv Heemeyer, the guy who went nuts and built a huge impenetrable tank and started bulldozing the whole town. It was fine, but I had some major structural problems with it. The primary sources were 100% either Marv's one tape that he made ranting about why he was about to bulldoze the town or the locals with whom he had a beef—no real experts or documentarians offering any analysis. The uncritical presentation of what was essentially one one-sided rant (not a series of interviews tempered by the fact that someone was asking him questions in any kind of structured way, etc.) felt half-cooked. So that was one problem. The other major problem I had was with the pacing. The documentary doesn't actually tell you what it's about till like an hour in! Major, major buried lede. I mean, I guess it's assumed that you know what it's about when you start watching it, but most good documentaries will at least give you an overview of the subject and then delve in deeper into various aspects of it. This one just starts with an hour of gradual lead-up, then finally gives free rein to the actual rampage. It was a relatively interesting event perpetrated by a thoroughly uninteresting guy.
2022-01-15: 7.1/10 The Eternals (2021)
2022-01-20: 7.8/10 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
2022-01-28: 9.5/10 Ex Machina (2014)
2022-01-28: 4.0/10 Love You to Death (2019)
2022-02-06: 8.0/10 The Lost Daughter (2021)
2022-02-11: 4.0/10 The Power of the Dog (2021)
2022-04-01: 8.3/10 High Life (2018)
2022-04-05: 8.3/10 The Negotiator (1998)
2022-04-14: 8.8/10 Scent of a Woman (1992)
2022-04-21: 9.0/10 The Batman (2022)
2022-04-29: 8.4/10 The Dead Don't Die (2019)
2022-05-28: 8.9/10 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
2022-05-30: 6.0/10 Tread (2019)
Plus these, from the flights:
The Green Knight (2021) - hard to rate this. It's very good, very stylish visual film.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) - ridiculous Nick Cage as Nick Cage movie. It was fun enough.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — 8.9/10
2022-05-28: Pretty good. I might need to rewatch it, but I don't think I'm as head-over-heels about this as many people seem to be. It's good, don't get me wrong. Well-structured, nice comedic beats, great acting from the whole cast. But there were parts of it that felt awkwardly paced, and I think it tried to be a bit too "zany" early on in a way that ended up sticking out. I liked the themes, and they dealt with them well, but sometimes the actual action (as in forward progression of the plot) felt a bit too laborious. All told, minor gripes.
Tread (2019) — 6.0/10
2022-05-30: Documentary about Marv Heemeyer, the guy who went nuts and built a huge impenetrable tank and started bulldozing the whole town. It was fine, but I had some major structural problems with it. The primary sources were 100% either Marv's one tape that he made ranting about why he was about to bulldoze the town or the locals with whom he had a beef—no real experts or documentarians offering any analysis. The uncritical presentation of what was essentially one one-sided rant (not a series of interviews tempered by the fact that someone was asking him questions in any kind of structured way, etc.) felt half-cooked. So that was one problem. The other major problem I had was with the pacing. The documentary doesn't actually tell you what it's about till like an hour in! Major, major buried lede. I mean, I guess it's assumed that you know what it's about when you start watching it, but most good documentaries will at least give you an overview of the subject and then delve in deeper into various aspects of it. This one just starts with an hour of gradual lead-up, then finally gives free rein to the actual rampage. It was a relatively interesting event perpetrated by a thoroughly uninteresting guy.
2022-01-15: 7.1/10 The Eternals (2021)
2022-01-20: 7.8/10 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
2022-01-28: 9.5/10 Ex Machina (2014)
2022-01-28: 4.0/10 Love You to Death (2019)
2022-02-06: 8.0/10 The Lost Daughter (2021)
2022-02-11: 4.0/10 The Power of the Dog (2021)
2022-04-01: 8.3/10 High Life (2018)
2022-04-05: 8.3/10 The Negotiator (1998)
2022-04-14: 8.8/10 Scent of a Woman (1992)
2022-04-21: 9.0/10 The Batman (2022)
2022-04-29: 8.4/10 The Dead Don't Die (2019)
2022-05-28: 8.9/10 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
2022-05-30: 6.0/10 Tread (2019)
Plus these, from the flights:
The Green Knight (2021) - hard to rate this. It's very good, very stylish visual film.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) - ridiculous Nick Cage as Nick Cage movie. It was fun enough.