The Shining

Yeah, it’s really that simple.

I don’t like how rotten tomatoes works so guess what, I just don’t use it. I really couldn’t give less of a shit how anyone else decides to use the website

I thought it was amazing, but to each their own

Yeah what a ridiculous statement lmao.

Pretty much all throughout movie history, movies have been made for Men by Men. Even now, most movies are still made that way

Well to get better the best thing to do is practice, watch movies, read analysis and over time you will be able to develop those skills on your own. There are a lot of common themes and common symbols that are used which can help.

Although I seriously question the why you would want to start writing video essays when you said yourself you are not good at analyzing film and even less good at articulating your analysis. Which are the two most important parts of a video essay

You could have just said that you don't like the new star wars movies...

Yep, Shawshank is known for being one of the best movies ever and it was a box office dissapointment

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Edit: it made 16M in its initial run compared to a $25M budget

Just piling on but I essentially do the same thing on my letterboxd and I love it. I watch a movie then I can go in, give it a rating out of 5 stars and write a little review about what I liked and disliked. It’s a lot of fun too to be able to go back and sort and see what movies I liked or didn’t like and why.

I also generally trust the letterboxd opinion on movies more than any other site (like rotten tomatoes, IMDB , etc) I find those ratings tend to fall in line more with my tastes more often than not

They are fun movies and great theater experiences. They don’t hold up as well outside of the theater (still decent but these are movies really made for the big screen)

I’m certainly excited to see what the next movie will be

I’ve also seen plenty of people talking about it online maybe not as much as stuff like EEAO but still a decent amount after the movie came out.

Also every person who I’ve had a conversation about movies with recently has asked me if I have seen Avatar.

Reddit just doesn’t like Avatar

I thought it was ok. A fun little rom com but I don't think its award worthy.

I for one am absolutely tired of black trauma/general POC trauma movies.

I am just tired of having the representation on screen being mostly the horiffic pain that was suffered by POC. I at this point refuse to watch them and I think it's the same for others

Yeah it feels so triumphant in the moment and then the movie ends >!and you realize have seen Neimann completely devoured by his determination, back into the cycle of abuse and devoid of all the things which kept him human!<

>!Even in an interview Chazelle said that he envisions that Fletcher has now been validated in his beliefs and will always think he was right to do what he did and that Andrew likely died in his early 30s of a drug overdose!<

Whiplash, on peacock

Popcorn and Peanut M&Ms

Yeah I’ve never been in someone’s house and decided to open all of the doors in their house to search for the bathroom rather than just ask

God’s Country

Wasn’t expecting much going in but I really loved it

What he is saying is he doesn’t understand why they remove them from the cars in production when it’s a normal part of our everyday lives.

He isn’t saying they should be zooming in and focusing on them. That would be unnatural

That’s exactly what he’s saying though?

He is saying it’s fine so long as it’s natural, what you just described isn’t natural and distracts you from the movie

I agree, everything is branded in our everyday lives anyways. As long as it doesn’t distract me from the movie I don’t care

It only bothers me if it takes me out of the movie with how obvious the product placement is. Otherwise I couldn’t care any less about whether the characters drink Heineken or the marvel superheroes drive kias

Wolf of Wall Street