jashezilla

Hear me out, but this might be a perfect movie??

So dang funny, yet still so heartfelt at the same time. Love how it plays like a family-friendly adventure movie straight out of the 70s/80s but additionally, and more importantly, becomes a really endearing and nuanced character study of a father and daughter struggling to connect.

Ant timpson is straight up flexing on us with the visuals here too. The sprawling nz landscapes, the campfire constantly separating the two leads, the insane aspect ratio change as the film kicks into gear...

all in all, i'm super blown away by bookworm. Elijah wood and nell fisher are outstanding, it's fun and charming, and just so incredibly fresh. I would've been obsessed with this as a kid, and i'm super impressed that i'm so obsessed with it now.

My mind is still reeling trying to make sense of what I've just seen.

Tenet is incredible. An absolute powerhouse of a movie. The concept, the visuals, the sound, the acting, all mind-blowingly good.

Sure there were a couple of things I didn't love. A few too many exposition dumps in the first half of the movie, a few cuts and edits that disturbed the pacing a bit, but honestly, none of that can hold a candle to the film as a whole.

Definitely going to have to watch this again soon and do more of a review, just need to try get my head around it a little more first.

This is a film that genuinely frightened me the first time I watched it. It shows that horror movies don't all need to just depend on jump scares and their second-rate plots. Alien gave us relatable characters, a well-developed story, creative cinematography and a fear that lingers long after Ripley signs off.