[Spoiler Alert] Film reviews and ratings

Margeret Qualley. She's done some interesting things as an actress, even just this last year. I lowkey liked Drive Away Dolls, while I wasn't a huge fan of Kinds of Kindness. Seems a lot of critics and cinephiles were the other way around, :/

The ending is undoubtedly the weak link/most questionable aspect of the movie. TBH, the Substance is probably the movie from 2024 I've spent more time thinking about than any other, as in thought provoking etc, and the ending I've waivered on, from they just didnt know how to stick the ending, to the ending being like an absurdist extent to ow completely disproportionate, in a film that the story is so much about balance, keeping it, for the end to be so completely out of all concept of balance, mirroring the story it is telling itself, sort of thing.

I think I've got far too much free time to think about stuff like this, lol.

 

Just watched Conclave.
Was quite good until the
Bullshit ending.

 

The Truman Show. 3rd time I think

Carrey's best role imo. Loved it. Starting to wonder if we're actually in it and the movie was taunting us

 

Highly recommend The Father

Anthony Hopkins plays a man with dementia. The film is shown from the perspective of the person with dementia. Very well done. Fair warning, if you have a family member with dementia you may find this quite upsetting. Brilliant film though.

 

Hamilton.

First time for me. My daughter adores it so I watched today but warned her I'm not a fan of musicals and don't be mad if I get bored.

2 and a half hours later I don't think I closed my eyes incase I missed something.

Top notch.

 

The Popes Exorcist.
Not bad

 

I was literally the same, it was because of my daughter that I took her to the theatre to see it because she kept going on about it so much, and since then I've listened to the soundtrack of it countless times, from go to woah!

So well written and concieved masterpiece. Just brilliant.

 

Since David Lynch's passing last week, have been doing a sit through again of all of his movies, from Eraserhead right through to Inland Empire. A true surrealist visionary. Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, The Straight Story etc. Even his version of Dune, even with it's faults and hoeky effects is still worthwhile as a curiousity as much as anything, but it is telling that was really his one and only real mainstream 'Hollywood studio' film, because an auteurs, such as Lynch, does not really fit their mould, and the studio interference on that project is telling, to say the least.

His weather reports during lockdowns were pretty funny, and the interviews he conducted with real people that he met along the way were sometimes a bit dull, sometimes a bit dry, sometimes genuinely funny, but all of them were real, which as a while made the project interesting and worthwhile.

Rest in peace.

About to revisit the entire of Twin Peaks once again - including Fire Walk With Me, which I held off on from doing with his other movies, as wanted to do it as part of this seperate Twin Peaks, but even as a stand alone, it's still good.

 

Should look up the light atom theory of simulation


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