Agree with both of you.
One thing I didn’t like
The cheesy ending where she „grows up“, becomes „normal“ and embraces her real name „Christine“ which is also a bit on the nose.
At least they didn’t do the ending I was fearing, where she decides not to do college on the east coast because she just loves Sacramento and her family too much.
Lady Bird is awesome. Gerwig is quickly becoming one of the best working writer directors.
Go see Little Women now. It’s awesome too.
“We’re having quinoa, Marvin.” lmao
Adam Driver Goat
Movie Paterson.
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I thought that too, but someone on Twitter pointed out a few things that made me rethink the movie. She’s portrayed in a bit of the stereotypical ‘quirky indie film’ girl role, but the movie makes several points her quirkiness is only skin deep. She doesn’t have much emotion, far less emotion than her mom, at listening to an American classic, Grapes of Wrath. She doesn’t listen to any indie music really. I think at one point she says her favorite CD’s are those number 1 hit CDs. She’s slightly racist, and she’s repelled by her anti war ‘sex is no big deal’ bf. One of the key points of the movie is that she chooses to say she likes a mainstream song when the hip kids call it lame.
Her quirkiness is just a rebellion against what she thinks she hates; her family’s middle lower class poverty and mainstreamness, it’s not really a part of who she is. I feel like even if she would have stayed she would she find that she really did love the things she thought she hated; her bland name, her faith, and family and she would have ended up the same way
I actually found it a low key conservative film, in a good way
It’s been a while since I saw the movie. If I watch it again I will pay attention to that.
Anyway, I make an effort to watch all the oscar nominated movies each year. That’s why I watched Ladybird and didn’t know a thing about it. I went in there expecting to see a biography of the only person I knew with that name: Ladybird Johnson.
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Might have been a movie about Hank’s dog from King of the Hill
So Kill Team is on Amazon Prime and it’s good. I’m surprised it did get more attention when it came out in theaters.
I love Adam Driver and don’t mind slow movies but jesus christ I want there to be some plot, some conflict.
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Uncut Gems is a rough watch. Ranks very high on the “glad I saw it, wouldn’t see it again” list.
My local theater didn’t play Jojo or Parasite during their initial runs, but it’s doing an Oscar night thing where it’s playing all the nominees on the big screen and I am extremely hype. Will also try to catch Little Women based on Clovis’s recommendation or at least I will see it when it comes out on DVD. Haven’t read the book.
Is that the Best Picture showcase at AMC? We have that here too. It starts tomorrow but I don’t have anyone to go with me
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Parasite lived up to the hype. What an unpredictable movie.
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Parasite and Little Women are the two best films last year. Jojo is ok. Easy skip.
Watched Parasite a few nights ago. Almost turned it off halfway through, very glad I didn’t.
I don’t think I see it as quite the masterpiece that everyone seems to view it as, but I thought it was very good. There’s probably a lot of cultural context I’m missing that would add to the experience, but I just found the pacing to be a little off and I thought it struggled a bit between being like starkly realistic at times and being clearly farcical at others, to the point where I had a hard time knowing how to react at certain points.
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That feeling of being off-kilter is exactly what makes it genius.
You literally don’t know at times if you are suppose to recoil in horror or burst out laughing.
All the good guys are bad guys and all the bad guys are good guys.
One minute you feel bad for the rich and the next for the poor.
Did you see it in a theater? It’s better on the big screen.
Any other Horror recommendations? For awhile I was Guy Who Has Seen All The Horror Films but for the last 2 years I haven’t kept up.
On my queue right now:
Luz
All That We Destroy
Culture Shock
The Perfection
Eli
For sure. Off the top of my head:
Scary Movies to Tell in the Dark
Crawl
47 Meters Down
In the Tall Grass
Searching…
Unsane
The Babysitter (Netflix)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Bird Box
Clown
Rattlesnake
Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2U
Ready or Not
Midsommer
Ready or Not
Us
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It Follows
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