The only movie I’ve ever walked away from angry was The Hobbit. I think my hatred of that film was amplified by how I was working six day weeks and I had spent a big chunk of my one day off going to see it. Never saw the other two but they look awful, such a shame considering that LotR is the greatest trilogy of all time.
Dark Knight Rises is pretty fucking horrible. Has a massive cast of great actors who barely have any screen time and deliver cringey dogshit lines. The fighting choreography is pretty horrendous, there’s nothing creative it’s just guys throwing generic punches. Things just happen with no explanation or respect to time. Batman does not grow as a character or develop at all, he’s static the entire movie. The cinematography relies on a motif of realism, but the writing goes against this at every possible turn.
Not to mention the whole thing with societal change being a threat to wealth, therefore bad.
Only movie I’ve ever walked out on, and after watching it all the way through with friends later it’s the only movie I flat out refuse to watch.
Batman does not grow as a character or develop at all
no, he gives up his sentiments of noblesse oblige and retires to live a simple aristocratic life in southern europe.
obviously nolan is an old tory and the movie’s politics are “bad”, but Rises is probably the only thematically interesting of the three.
Okay everyone, shut the fuck up:
T h e H a p p e n i n g
Holy fuck if you want to absolutely hate looking at Zooey Deschanel’s face, watch The Happening. They keep zooming in and it’s so weird! It’s so fucking weird!
And you’ve heard the plot is stupid and bad, and one of the big stupid things is it’s a movie about the wind directed by someone who apparently has never been outside ever - like the wind comes toward them step by step blowing 90 degrees away from them and you see the blowing grass getting closer. And they run away from it…
But like
There is a very short series of shots where Marky Mark reacts to something a train conductor says, and I swear to God they shot 3 takes of Mark ad-libbing his reaction, and then just put all 3 takes in sequence next to each other. Just one after the other. Like these were 3 complete reactions, starting with hearing it and then reacting and then falling quiet.
It was something like " What do you mean!!.. … … …What?? No!!.. … … … Gasp! No! That’s terrible!"
I felt like I was having a stroke, and I’m not even sure if I can trust my own brain. But I remember it.
Birth of a Nation. Utter trash.
