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Moonage Daydream (2022)
Spectacular Filmmaking
In the end, this is an absurdist masterpiece.
Not all will apprehend the transmission.
Good luck.
If you're able to step out of your comfort zone, if you're open to thinking in a different way, if you're curious about looking at the nature of reality in a way you never have before and seeing through the lies that you have been inculcated with from birth... hell, even then there's no guarantees, but you might have a chance at understanding something you never thought you would. Bowie is just the conduit but also the embodiment, empty and full. He realized what most never will, this documentary shows you a door to this understanding.
Can't Stand Losing You (2012)
All together...
Awful. If you're a fan do NOT watch this, it'll mess you up as it's done me.
I don't think there's anything interesting or likable about Summers and his narration is simply the worst. Music from The Police isn't the focus here and what is used is lost on what an insufferable lot the 3 of them together are. No mystique, The Police have officially been gutted for me.
Also, too much time spent on his mediocre photography, not impressed.
The Harder They Fall (2021)
Well...
Look, it's not "great". But it's worth watching just to see Majors and Stanfield burn up the screen, they were really good. King, who has talent, feels dimensionless throughout. At one point she has her chance with a monologue to establish something more of who the character is and it's empty and flat and felt like just a run through before filming, maybe it was. And Elba, who I expect more from, where were you, man? The stoicism didn't work especially with all of your close-ups at important moments, I guess the director should take the hit there.
For anyone able to critically view the movie it's in no way a 10 and it doesn't have to be, that's not what's important. I enjoyed many aspects of the film, as I mentioned there are several very entertaining performances and that's a lot. I loved the unexpected use of reggae music. I liked how at a few choice moments the actors would sing and in particular when Majors does and the shot moves in on his vibrato and snarl, I wanted other unexpected moments like that.
Something else I was distracted by was the set of the town, it looked like a set and it shouldn't. Maybe it was a intentional aesthetic choice but I don't think it works out well here.
I could keep unpacking several other aspects of the film but instead I will say there's a lot of good here but as it is with many movies, too many missed opportunities.
Yeah, I doubt many will find my review "helpful", but it's the sober truth.
Flickan som lekte med elden (2009)
I Just Finished...
... and I just had to come here and state what a terrible movie this is, absolutely terrible, painful and boring! There's too much to cover about how it goes wrong but the #1 reason I hated it as much as I did is Rapace. I couldn't tell you the last time I saw an actor in over their head like she is in this, it's embarrassing for her actually. Even the cigarette smoking was awful and since there's so much of it, I found it totally distracting. The screenplay was clunky and anything that might have come together faded away about an hour in and this massive sag began and went on for 20 minutes before they tried to resuscitate the viewer with a bunch of creepy villains, but it was way too late for anything like that. It has no energy and no one to feel for.
I'm really disappointed about the amount of favorable reviews, I don't know what kind of movie you thought you saw. And I tried not to think about the first one and how good it was, but this is a whole other. I sincerely encourage you to just pick something else to watch, life is too short for this nonsense.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017)
Umm...
No, it's not the perfect blend of ANYTHING as another review says! It's frightening that someone would see it that way and slap a 9 on it?! I can't support this kind of movie making, it went bad in ways I wouldn't even try to describe. Absurd and awful.