It Follows
The scariest movie in years. Those who have played the game
Fez will instantly recognize the dreamlike synth heavy score by Disasterpiece. I feel like most slashers have an anti-sex agenda and this one just cranks that to a hundred. The first half is brilliant heart pounding stuff, pure smart entertainment. The second half is clunkier and makes the monster too literal. Still you should check this out, the best movie of 2015 so far.
Monkey Kingdom
Beautiful photography, one of the best looking films I've seen in the theater for awhile. Tina Fey's narration wobbly treads the line between informative and cheeseball jokes. I honestly wish there were more bad jokes, but then again there is a moment where a monkey jumps around trying to woo his mate, set to Salt N' Peppa's "What a Man".
The scene where the monkeys invade the birthday party is a masterpiece.
The Lost World : Jurassic Park
Julliane Moore : I'm here to observe the dinosaurs, nobody disrupt their ecosystem or I can't do my work. *literally 1 minute later she goes up a dinosaur and tries to pet it*
Julliane Moore : Stop touching the dinosaurs you idiots, I need to see them in their natural state. *carries a wounded baby t-rex into her trailer to perform surgery on it and gets everyone killed*
*Jeff Goldblum's biologically impossible black daughter tarzan swings on some rope to kick a raptor out of a window*
Goldblum : They kicked you off the gym team ?
I don't know if this is Spielberg's worst movie or if it's his masterpiece.
8 1/2
The first time I've actually watched this entire movie (although i stopped halfway and took a nap, then watched the rest later that night). I have mixed feelings on it. On one hand you have some incredible visual moments, like the opening dream sequence or the part where Guido's dream woman floats into the spa. Then on the other hand you have these infinite scenes with pretentious droning dialogue that feels like Fellini gave up on having these diverse characters and just wants to give a speech.
This movie obviously holds a huge influence over all the surreal cinema following it. I've seen so many segments and ideas completely lifted out of here in at least a dozen other films. I appreciate the creativity and ambition, but for every genius moment there are two half-baked ideas. Fellini criticizes his own film throughout and he's right to do so because there just isn't enough honest, real content here.
La Dolce Vita
I watched this one before 8 1/2 actually, they're both segmented and episodic, but this an almost opposite film. Here is Fellini exuding confidence, back to back enormous chaotic set pieces. I'd describe
La Dolce Vita as the kinetic love child of Citizen Kane and Sunset Boulevard. Every other scene is some sort of haze soaked wild party. The first is a massive entourage desperately prying for the attention of a lively A-list american actress. Then we have a segment where Marcello's (Rubini) estranged father sort of breezily bumps into him and they go have a night on the town. He even finds the perfect venue (a gathering of established intellectuals) to spout off philosophical bla bla.
The entire film is about excess but the the only part where La Dolce Vita dwaddles is the virgin mary episode, while technically impressive could have been completely cut.
Marcello's journey is filled with ambiguity and confusion. Bizarre turns, loud music, contradictions, dancing, hypocrisy, sex, cynicism, but once you arrive at the final scene Fellini knocks this illusive world down with a wrecking ball and the final moment where Marcello can't understand the child (his inner child) over the sound of the waves is the knock out punch.
Both films would probably be better the second time around, it becomes tiresome to keep track because of the poor dubbing (prevalent in a lot of major italian flicks). There's probably a hundred things I didn't even notice.
Unfriended
Rarely does a movie come along that is so out of touch, so stupid, so annoying, that you can't help but laugh for the entire hour and a half.
a modern masterpiece of bad movies
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