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killjoygem · 2 years

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Btw I really reccomend the movie Do Revenge. I usually find netflix movies aimed at gen z cringey but honestly it was really good. It really has that feel of "early 2000s high school flick" while still having its modernity, and they did a good job of criticising overly performative fake progressiveness without slipping into bigotry, which is something I feel a lot of gen z aimed media struggles with

It was also just really enjoyable and funny, there was some feel good moments and also a GREAT plot twist that creates a nice little bit of drama and heartbreak towards the end of the movie

The music was fantastic, I loved the opening with a Hayley Kiyoko song, considering one of the main characters is queer, it was a nice touch to open with that. Brutal by Olivia rodrigo was also a great choice, it really fit the movie's vibes. I was genuinely tearing up at the montage with with Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish. And finally, Bitch By Meredith brooks was a great song to finish up with, "im your hell, im your dream, im nothing in between" is really fitting for the relationship between Drea and Eleanor

#also eleanor is explicitly queer like she literally says it out loud and talks about past relationships and has a female love interest #her coming out experience is actually a huge part of the movie bc it forms her main motivations (she is already out when the movie starts)#do revenge #netflix #originally this was just gonna be a reccomendation post but it turned into a film review oops

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fujosh1dreamer · 2 months

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It's boring. I'm sorry to everyone who like it but man what a yawn fest.

Where's the comedy.

Everyone just keeps talking about all the people that the firenation has killed. Which sucks but can we talk about something else.

Sokkas not funny. Irohs not funny.

Sigh. Another one down.

Thx netflix.

#atla #atla live action #avatar #avatar the last airbender #avatar: tla #avatar sokka #avatar aang #atla katara #katara #atla review #atla zuko #zuko #iroh #uncle iroh #im bored #atla netflix #netflix original #netfix

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rickchung · 9 months

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They Cloned Tyrone (dir. Juel Taylor).

Netflix's kooky sci-fi riff on retrofuturistic '70s-era blaxploitation films is a genre-bending experience starring John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx as a trio of street-level hustlers, a dealer, pimp, and ho. They're all trying to get by when they discover a series of conspiracies in their neighbourhood. There's an impressive fidelity to style and tone that cements the film as a fun and stylish genre ride into themes of paranoia, mind control, white dominance, and enslavement.

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herigo · 5 months

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mandoreviews · 4 months

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📽️ Set It Up (2018)

This is such a fun movie. The chemistry between the two main characters is fantastic, and they’re both so much fun. I love an enemies-to-lovers plot (this is sort of one), and this had the added element of growing closer while working together. It’s not a movie to be taken too seriously; it’s supposed to just be fun. It’s very easy to enjoy.

Sex/nudity: 3/10 (no real nudity or sex scenes, but there is a LOT of sexual talk and innuendoes)

Language: 6/10 (two f-words, three c-words, many uses of sh*t, other words scattered throughout)

Violence: 0/10 (I don’t believe there is any)

Overall rating: 7/10

#review #movie #movie review #set it up #drama #romance #comedy #netflix original #netflix #zoey deutch #glen powell #taye diggs #lucy liu #joan smalls #pete davidson #tituss burgess #jake robinson #cody calafiore

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blossomdapple · 1 year

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Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who liked The Witcher: Blood Origin

#i don’t wanna feel stupid for having an unpopular opinion lol #also to the negative reviews calling the cast of characters uninteresting: really???#i thought they were pretty interesting actually #mine #twn #the witcher #the witcher netflix #blood origin #the witcher blood origin

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isobelleposts · 1 year

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What I’ve Been Watching This Year

by Isobelle Cruz [April 13, 2023]

March has passed and I figure it’s too late to follow through with a post on the female directors I love, so instead, here’s a short list of the shows and films I’ve been watching this year in no specific order.

Beef (2023)

Directed by Lee Sung Jin

My most recent and favorite watch…lo and behold, Beef. A show about two extremely vulnerable and flawed people masking themselves through pride and borderline pettiness. Beef has it all from road rage, heist, and arson, to child abduction.

The Netflix Original starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeung features some of the most lonely characters I’ve seen on film. Danny Cho is a struggling self-proclaimed contractor that works every opportunity he’s given to keep him and his brother afloat while also standing by his promise to buy their parents a house in Los Angeles. With all of that weight at hand, Danny resorts to attempts at suicide and at the perfect time, meets Amy Lau—a woman just as lonely, struggling, and desperate at life as Danny.

But I promise you, it is not as touching as I made it out to be.

Danny and Amy take turns attacking each other after a road rage incident—pissing in Amy’s bathroom floor, vandalizing Danny’s truck, breaking into her house, fucking his brother, kidnapping her daughter—it never seems to end. … Until it does, in the middle of nowhere. The final episode of Danny and Amy in the Deserts reminded me of animals in the wild, a representation of what humans are in the grand scheme of it all. Beef is a must-watch for the hot-tempered, prideful Asians out there who are looking to see themselves on screen

Aftersun (2022)

Directed by Charlotte Wells

Aftersun was an experience. It was uneventful yet somehow spoke so much to me about the joys I’ve been holding myself back from and continue to do. I’d say that Aftersun is so well-loved because of how much it’s able to connect with its audience, despite their varying experiences in life.

It reminded me so much of a trip I had gone on with my father when I was about the same age as Sophie. It’s happened, it’s passed, and I can’t say it really made a drastic impact on my life. But it was there. It is now a memory—which is exactly what the film was. Instead of showing a major turning point in the protagonist’s life, it showed a memory, and it was enough for me to love.

Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)

Directed by James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart, and Will Graham

Let me start off by saying how rich the production for Daisy Jones & the Six was, firstly through their music. I still remember when I first got my hands on the book and searched the band on Spotify, knowing very well that no results would come up, but now there they are—-with 3 million monthly listeners and 24 songs released.

Although the production and marketing went beyond my expectations, the writing seemed to lack, unable to show depth and establish the characters’ relationships with each other. The show went straight to the point, as though the writers had been scared of losing the audience’s attention by putting more focus on the little things, which I would doubt. It lacked the craziness that was found in the book. It lacked the drugs, women, fans, and the skyrocketing feel of their career that were always present in Reed’s works.

Nonetheless, these things never dragged down my rating of the show. It was interesting to finally see what Daisy and Billy’s chemistry looked like on screen and hear their lyrics come to life, which were, oh, so difficult to read on paper. Amazon Prime did its job to reach DJATS fans’ expectations and to entertain newcomers to the fictional band. — Let’s just hope Netflix does the same for Evelyn Hugo.

Suzume (2023)

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

My first anime experience in the cinema. Suzume’s soundtrack blasting from the speakers and Makoto Shinkai’s breathtaking art displayed before me brought this urge to jump through the screen. The atmosphere his art carried through the room was something I wish I could do with my own works.

Throughout the whole watch, it didn’t come to me that this was a love story between two people. There was that obvious crush Suzume had on Sōta, but it surprises me to hear a few people refer to this film as romance. It was moreover an emotional adventure, shining light on the lost souls that have made inches of the world alive.

My favorite scene, before Sōta is turned into a keystone, wherein Tokyo is shown in slow-motion with people going through their everyday lives—eating, shopping, and commuting–-while not knowing their world was on the brink of end, made me ponder of the unseen things that make life the way it is. Everything that has brought everyone to where they are.

There had been times when Suzume and Sōta would prepare to lock up a door once again and I’d think to myself, when will this end? It was as though listening to a song that would repeat the same line over and over again, but besides that, the pacing was captivating---had my eyes stuck to the screen the whole time.

Suzume is exactly what you would expect from Makoto Shinkai. Beautiful art, music, and an okay story.

Babylon (2023)

Directed by Damien Chazelle

Ask me if I’m tired of watching films set in Hollywood and I would likely say yes. But that doesn’t stop me from doing just so over and over again. It surprised me to see how negative the reviews on Babylon have been and almost allowed myself to be swayed by them, but thankfully, had chosen otherwise.

Although I do see where some of the negativity comes from.

The film has been branded as “ Chazelle’s attempt to pander to the Academy for another best pic nomination” by audiences, and as yet another film showing off the lavish and wild lives of Hollywood. Inequality, drugs, women, abuse, and everything. What’s new?

Well, I don’t really care about what’s new or what makes Babylon a poorly-made knockoff of Cinema Paradiso or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Chazelle was able to keep me entertained and laughing throughout its 3-hour duration, and sometimes it gets really tiring trying to make cinema a technical experience. I can proudly say (shaking as I type this) that I loved Babylon.

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clove-pinks · 1 year

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I am away at a furry con (MFF) since Thursday, and now I'm watching the 2022 Netflix production Scrooge: A Christmas Carol for the second time. The one with DILF Scrooge, or as my wife called him, MILF Scrooge (for Miser I'd Like to F—).

Fair warning that I am a huge Christmas Carol fan and love/would fight Charles Dickens (like most people who have read a lot of him), and I enjoy this story in many different iterations. The Netflix animation looks cheap, but you get used to it, and I personally loved the new elements added to the plot, which kept it interesting while adhering to the same basic frame. Scrooge now has a lovable old mutt to humanise him (which belonged to Jacob Marley, who is now a dog guy), Marley is an older man with crazy Continental moustachios, and there are rock opera-esque musical numbers. If it's painted in very broad strokes, so is the original.

I liked the nod to the historical Charles Dickens by making child Scrooge in this version work at a blacking factory due to his father being in debtor's prison. They really didn't do justice to the 1840s clothing usually depicted in historical versions of A Christmas Carol—everything was very darker solid colours like a later 19th century look (and props again to the Muppet Christmas Carol for going so hard with the costuming). Scrooge's nephew wears trousers with the hem at the ankle and what looks like spats; I would have liked to see him in 1840s-style trousers with instep straps. Or least a very low hem, as shown in all fashion plates of the forties.

Several characters have TV Tropes-worthy Incurable Cough of Death, it's great. This is why the world needs more 19th century authors still getting TV and movie adaptations (although maybe not more Dickens, who has way too many already).

The costuming may not be very good, but we get a lot of Scrooge in his dressing gown and I feel like they went for a more 1850s aesthetic? Big sideburns but not nearly enough stripes and plaids. At one point in this version Scrooge yells at a young couple smooching that he sees from his window, reminding me of Old Tomkins.

All of the voice actors nail the singing parts, which helps.

My wife accused me of liking the characters because they "look like Frank Mildmay." Sweetie please Frank Mildmay is from a much earlier part of the 19th century; not all of the 19th century men I like are interchangeable!

While this version is not really "historically accurate" by any metric, it was maybe accidentally more accurate by making the extended cast more racially diverse. A real area of working-class London in this era would have a noticeable amount of Black people, European Jews and other immigrants, Lascars, etc. So that part was more realistic despite the musical numbers.

Accessibility note: the captions are great!! I rely on captions due to auditory processing disorder, and these were unusually good, describing sound effects and musical cues as well as dialog. A+ job on the captions.

#shaun talks #a christmas carol #scrooge a christmas carol #netflix #charles dickens #1840s #fashion history #in which i casually mention being at a furry con #in the netflix animated christmas carol review #accessibility #yes i can add a john leech cartoon if i feel like it #he illustrated the original christmas carol after all

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milliondollarbaby87 · 23 days

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Scoop (2024) Review

The story behind how the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about accusations against him and his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Scoop (2024) Review

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deshigeek · 24 days

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Netflix’s Avatar Season 1 Leaves Huge Room For Improvement

It’s going to be a lot, I mean after the blunders in Avatar Season 1, but seeing how close they’ve gotten, not abandoning the world-building for needless character drama or over-sensational set pieces created from a green screen. Netflix might have gotten a big head after the success of One Piece live-action and neglected the needed attention. The actors need to step up, there should have been more episodes, also who thought ruining King Bumi was a good idea?

#deshi geek #deshigeek #netflix #web series #reviews #netflix series #netflix original #live action #deshi #geek #deshi geek reviews #film reviews #avatar the last air bender live action #avatar aang #avatar the last airbender #netflix avatar #avatar #avatar fandom

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chaneajoyyy · 1 year

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Time for the new season of Sex/Life

#let’s chat #sip tea #talk tv #talk sex/life #talk netflix tv shows #sex/life #tv shows #netflix original series #netflix tv shows #netflix #season 2 review #season 2 #2x01 #live-blogging

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myimaginarymary · 2 years

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TV Show Appreciation:

SPINNING OUT

Aesthetic:

Summary:

After an accident that left her traumatized, Kat Baker finds herself stagnant in the world of figure skating. Meanwhile, Kat’s mother is pushing her long-dead figure skating dreams onto Kat’s little sister, Serena. With no life besides figure skating, Kat finds herself with an unusual proposal to become partners with the notorious playboy, Justin. Justin is in need of a partner and believes that the scarred Kat is the perfect match for him. Kat doesn’t trust him at all and her growing feelings for Justin makes her question her choices. With trying to balance family life, skating, and her fragile mental health, Kat finds herself struggling and in fear of falling into the deep end.

Review:

This series is a beautiful yet saddening tale of love, trust, and discovering one’s self. Kat Baker and her mother struggle with bipolar disorder which causes them to fight while Serena is on the outskirts. The family is a complicated one and Kat’s struggles reveal more accurate depictions of struggling with mental disorders and bipolar. The show also realistically depicts (though not entirely) the life of a figure skating in contrast to other movies such as (infamous to all figure skaters) Ice Princess. One thing I find amazing about the show is the tributes to real skaters in programs and costumes. Some of these skaters include Alina Zagitova, Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir, Kaetlyn Osmond, and Yuna Kim. The intro is a stunning one and includes real footage of skaters. The music is incredibly peaceful and I actually listen to the theme when I feel stressed or nervous. The theme is “In The Water” by Joy Downer, btw. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after the first season.

Trigger Warnings:

Mental Illness/Bipolar Disorder

Self-Harm

Sexual Abuse

Physical Abuse

Fake Blood

Extreme Mania

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buildoblivionthenwewilltalk · 2 years

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less than 24 hours kids how we feeling

#some of these are popular theories #some are comic references #some are batshit #i only want to be right about maybe four of them #i also steered clear of hints in early reviews and interviews because that doesn’t seem fair #i am being normal about hit netflix original the umbrella academy based on the comic by gerard way and gabriel ba #I’d also like that clairvoyant klaus and floaty klaus thing to be true #most of these are klaus centric tbf so ya know #tua #the umbrella academy #season 3 #bingo card #hype hYPE HYPE #bingo

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rickchung · 2 months

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Spaceman (dir. Johan Renck).

Despite a compelling dramatic performance from [Adam] Sandler in fine form and taking the material very seriously, Spaceman fails to truly come together into a singular worthwhile effort. Its scattered nature as a melancholic science-fiction character piece feels thin throughout, even with the thoughtful artistry on display. Things never rise above anything much more than a contained tale about a sad and stranded astronaut pondering his life and fate.

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herigo · 6 months

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mandoreviews · 1 month

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📽️ Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

I think I liked this one better than the first, but only because it explored more of Enola’s relationship with Tewkesbury. The two movies are pretty similar in quality. The first one did a lot of setting up, so I also enjoyed this one more because I already knew the main characters. I really enjoyed both movies, though. I know a third one hasn’t officially been confirmed, but I hope there is another one because these are good movies.

Sex/nudity: 1/10 (kissing)

Language: 1/10 (mild British exclamations)

Violence: 4/10 (a little more gruesome than the first one, several fights, some deaths on and off screen with bodies shown)

Overall rating: 8/10

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