What was the last movie you watched?
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"NOSFERATU" (2024) - 5/5
Beautifully shot and ethereal to look at. It's very much a mix of the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel and the original Nosferatu film in one (The Creatures design in this one is heavily inspired by the original Bram stoker novel, he's got a big bushy mustache).
There's one scene in particular which I love, it's at a crossroad at night with the moon light filtering through the trees above mixed with light snowfall and a dark carriage comes to pick up Nicholas holts character and he's entranced by it and floats into it.
Bill skarsgard is amazing in this, probably his best work, his voice is very deep, rumbly and menacing, see it in the cinema just for that, lily rose Depp is alot great! She has alot of physical acting she has to do and does it really well, it's a great performance. The rest of the cast is also amazing but these two were the standouts Imo.
The film is a slow burn and slowly builds up the dread, a couple of jumpscares here and there and some body horror but it's not that much tbh, I'd more so call this a very Dark fairy tale, alot of sexual undertones of grooming, consent and even rape to the film and it's erotic in some parts but that's usually how vampires are in literature, think of how vampires usually are? It's Man who stalks the night looking for a young girl and then he sneaks into her room to drink her blood. The act of drinking the blood has alot of sexual undertones in it's nature as usually its forced upon the victim but it "feels good" to them so they don't resist it. I'm sure you all get the dark implications.
Overall, it's a good film but I feel some might be put off the the pacing and dark content.
Beautifully shot and ethereal to look at. It's very much a mix of the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel and the original Nosferatu film in one (The Creatures design in this one is heavily inspired by the original Bram stoker novel, he's got a big bushy mustache).
There's one scene in particular which I love, it's at a crossroad at night with the moon light filtering through the trees above mixed with light snowfall and a dark carriage comes to pick up Nicholas holts character and he's entranced by it and floats into it.
Bill skarsgard is amazing in this, probably his best work, his voice is very deep, rumbly and menacing, see it in the cinema just for that, lily rose Depp is alot great! She has alot of physical acting she has to do and does it really well, it's a great performance. The rest of the cast is also amazing but these two were the standouts Imo.
The film is a slow burn and slowly builds up the dread, a couple of jumpscares here and there and some body horror but it's not that much tbh, I'd more so call this a very Dark fairy tale, alot of sexual undertones of grooming, consent and even rape to the film and it's erotic in some parts but that's usually how vampires are in literature, think of how vampires usually are? It's Man who stalks the night looking for a young girl and then he sneaks into her room to drink her blood. The act of drinking the blood has alot of sexual undertones in it's nature as usually its forced upon the victim but it "feels good" to them so they don't resist it. I'm sure you all get the dark implications.
Overall, it's a good film but I feel some might be put off the the pacing and dark content.
Klaus. 10/10
A really beautiful christmas movie, well-written, beautifully animated, a delight to see 2D animation again, which truly carries Christmas spirit and gives a great origin story for Santa Claus.
I definitively recommend it for you to watch it. It's amongst the best animated movies I have seen these last years, alongside The Wild Robot.
A really beautiful christmas movie, well-written, beautifully animated, a delight to see 2D animation again, which truly carries Christmas spirit and gives a great origin story for Santa Claus.
I definitively recommend it for you to watch it. It's amongst the best animated movies I have seen these last years, alongside The Wild Robot.
Good Will Hunting.
10/10.
A brilliant movie full of witty and soul-searching dialogues, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck becoming stars in the best way possible, with an absolute perfect performance from Robin Williams, amazing scenes and some of the best speeches in movie history such as Williams' monologue in the park, the scene where Sean and Will talk about how Sean met his wife and the baseball match, Will demolishing the NSA or the "It's not your fault" scene.
10/10.
A brilliant movie full of witty and soul-searching dialogues, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck becoming stars in the best way possible, with an absolute perfect performance from Robin Williams, amazing scenes and some of the best speeches in movie history such as Williams' monologue in the park, the scene where Sean and Will talk about how Sean met his wife and the baseball match, Will demolishing the NSA or the "It's not your fault" scene.
I also Watched "Conclave" (2024). A very good film about one's own faith and ideals, its worth watching even if you're not religious. Beautifully shot film and a nice musical score. I hope Ralph Feinnes gets the Oscar as I think he deserves it. 4/5
Also watched "The Order" (2024). Extremely well shot and a nice musical score, Jude Law is amazing as is Nicholas Hoult. It's a very timely film considering the stuff going on in America right now. 4/5.
Also watched "The Order" (2024). Extremely well shot and a nice musical score, Jude Law is amazing as is Nicholas Hoult. It's a very timely film considering the stuff going on in America right now. 4/5.
I saw the 3rd Sonic film back in December and absolutely loved it. So glad they toned down the obnoxious, forced, cringy parts with the human characters and it was a lot more likeable this time round.
Jim Carrey went all out in this film in many ways and it was a very emotional, heartfelt experience, as well as absolutely batshit hilarious and insane as expected ofc.
Keanu did a wonderful job as Shadow and the voice acting for Sonic and Tails are so fucking great, but Idris is pretty damn good as Knuckles too, really adds gravitas and thus depth, authority to him and makes Knuckles more respected and taken more seriously again.
Hearing Live and Learn in it just made my Sonic Adventure 2 obsession days in my youth cry from happiness!
I'm so fucking mad to THIS DAY though, that we haven't got a fucking remake or at least a remaster at worst of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 but they "remaster" Sonic Generations to add a few hours of Shadow content as a blatant cashgrab for the new movie whilst delisting the original?! The "Remaster" requiring far money and better PC specs to run too? Thanks Sega! (Also delisting the Dreamcast and Mega Drive/Genesis games collection for NO GOOD/SANE REASON AT ALL!)
But yeah, very good film, much better than I expected.
All in all, I'd say an 8 out of 10 I guess. Maybe even a 9 at absolute best. The best Sonic film and video game film adaption I've seen by far.
Jim Carrey went all out in this film in many ways and it was a very emotional, heartfelt experience, as well as absolutely batshit hilarious and insane as expected ofc.
Keanu did a wonderful job as Shadow and the voice acting for Sonic and Tails are so fucking great, but Idris is pretty damn good as Knuckles too, really adds gravitas and thus depth, authority to him and makes Knuckles more respected and taken more seriously again.
Hearing Live and Learn in it just made my Sonic Adventure 2 obsession days in my youth cry from happiness!
I'm so fucking mad to THIS DAY though, that we haven't got a fucking remake or at least a remaster at worst of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 but they "remaster" Sonic Generations to add a few hours of Shadow content as a blatant cashgrab for the new movie whilst delisting the original?! The "Remaster" requiring far money and better PC specs to run too? Thanks Sega! (Also delisting the Dreamcast and Mega Drive/Genesis games collection for NO GOOD/SANE REASON AT ALL!)
But yeah, very good film, much better than I expected.
Seeing Metal Sonic appear was fucking rad but then a whole army of them after one of them gave Sonic trouble there and then Amy just appears and takes them all out immediately with her hammer being thrown!? WTF?! But she looks great, the best version of her so far even and I'm sure her voice acting will rock, although I'm a little scared how they're gonna write her in this day and age too.
On that note too, I'm sad there was no appearance of Rouge either too, especially given we have Shadow now but maybe she will be saved for a later surprise reveal for the 4th film, at least I can hope and cope on that?
On that note too, I'm sad there was no appearance of Rouge either too, especially given we have Shadow now but maybe she will be saved for a later surprise reveal for the 4th film, at least I can hope and cope on that?
All in all, I'd say an 8 out of 10 I guess. Maybe even a 9 at absolute best. The best Sonic film and video game film adaption I've seen by far.