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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The 8+ rating threw me off, not worth the time.
Long scenes that don't add to mood, character arc, motif, aesthetic or anything else that I would expect from a film. Mostly reticle acting, some OK. The story itself just seems to me like a bunch of bros dealing with their stupid ideas and regretting some of them, but mostly just acting like total a**holes. The rest of society seems to think that they're cool or something, and they don't seem to have very good reason to even survive in their own world, so they basically drift between intensifying chaos and doing whatever they feel like. I didn't hate the movie, but I did hate wasting more than 3 hours watching such nonsense just to get some obvious metaphors that have been drilled on any other b-movie. Not worth it.
I Kill Giants (2017)
Great metaphor, great acting, terrible story...
From the beginning, anyone wonders whether the giants she talks about are real or not, but the storyline doesn't really fit in the end, and most viewers will probably feel like outbursts and effort she puts in really would not have gone unnoticed... Still, some parts do work and I believe the everyone did their part really well, so I decided to stick to 4 stars. Maybe it's an OK movie to watch with kids, but, for adults, it looks like a mature movie that just didn't know how to handle its premises, so it all just crumbles into a meaningless mess of blood and tears, unlike all the different giants in the story, which don't really serve much narrative purpose.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
I cried my heart out
The focus on one simple premisse certainly makes this movie more powerful and complex than probably any other Marvel movie, or even any other action movie. Sure, you get your typical punch lines, jokes, and weird subplots, but the story has a terrific driving force. Without giving away details, the story helped me understand many problems in our society, and also why a good narrative needs one strong message to make people relate to it. The dialogue, the scenarios, even the characters only serve this purpose, they do not stand alone as much as they have their own "lives" in that universe... And Marvel certainly didn't want to just push this message, but it bought the idea and created a masterpiece out of a blockbuster: not in terms of cinematography or acting, but in terms of narrative and film experience. You might need the context from the previous movies to truly relate to this movie, but the characters explain enough to not leave anyone hanging.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Love it or hate it, this movie may change your life
So many accolades everywhere, including the Oscars, and yet so many hecklers on IMDB just evaluating the movie as 1 or the worst movie they've ever watched. This tells me that it messes with you, it brings discomfort that some people just cannot handle. I watched this at the movies after a much anticipated hype - probably the first trailer that didn't tell me the whole plot. I was not disappointed. I watched it again at least twice after it came out on streaming, there's always something I see from a different perspective, a new lesson in a way. It's humbling. Yes, the movie has plenty of silly or weird parts, but if you don't understand their purpose, you definetely did not understand the movie's true potential and its basic premisses.