The Wolf of Wall Street was okay. It got better as the movie went. Really, it annoyed me a lot at the beginning because it reminded me of my two straight friends and their admiration of Leo's character and how much they wanted to be him and I was like, lol. So straight. Sorry, guys, but you'll realise that I have special place in my heart for hatred of hetero boys. Which is a bad thing, I know that, but that doesn't mean I'll ever let go of it. Anyways, I got used to it the more I watched it and it was pretty funny when leo and jonah got high as hell and they couldn't walk and jonah hill wouldn't GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONEASDKJKSFASJKF. It was a good enough movie but I wouldn't go around recommending it.
The Imitation Game was good. I had no idea what it was about going in, just that Benedict played some sort of math genius or something trying to crack a code. Apparently, the code was the nazi secret language lol It was really interesting and it showed the soldier side of the second world war, which I myself haven't seen much of. It was good, I enjoyed it and I can see why so many other people did. Nice watch, so you should get to it, but if you don't have the time, you'll be okay.
The Pianist was also really good. It was sad. It was nice how they made the characters so lovable but ofc, they're jewish people in WWII so ofc, their characterisations only made it hurt more. I watched this right after The Imitation Game and even though they said Hitler was the enemy in TIG, I completely forgot about the jewish people and I guess The Pianist reminded me of that fact and broke my heart. Anyways, I'm gonna colour the following sentences red because they are spoilers:
I'm bummed that we don't really know what happened to the family and that because they didn't even mention them in the epilogue, we have to assume they died in the concentration camps. Would've been sadder to for sure know what happened but maybe it's reflecting that a lot of the holocaust survivors also never really knew what happened to their families which is very sad :( Also, I absolutely adore the fact that playing the piano so beautifully saved his life. That was a good scene. Anyways, the film also reminded me of a film that james recommended me called La vita e bella and that was legit, SOOOOOO GOOOD. I don't want to overhype it, but if you liked The Pianist, you'll love this movie, also known as Life is Beautiful. Because honestly, it was such a gorgeous movie and the transition from one side of the plot to the other was so abrupt and sudden, that it really hit hard. I recommend both, come on, guys, do yourself a favour and watch la vita e bella. Or The Pianist, lol.
The Green Mile was pretty g. I had no idea that it was a Stephen King book so the supernatural part was a surprise for me LOL But yeah, nice movie with an intriguing plotline. Spoilers:
The big complication though was that Tom Hanks had no idea what to do with the magical dude, but come on, magical dude could save lives literally. Lives that couldn't be saved via medicine. Get him out of death row!!!! Then again, thinking about it now, I guess the big question really was, should you play god? I do love storylines where the character has to decide whether he's big enough and has the right to decide who lives and who dies. And there was the consequence of death. The fact that if big black dude saved a life, either big, black dude had to die, or someone else did. But helloooo, death row. Then again, percy wasn't on death row so hm :/. Okay, you know what, that was a really good story, holy hell. In retrospect, it was really well told, damn, King, you killed it.
Boyhood was that recent literal coming of age type film and it was as good as people were saying it was, really. When it first came out and when it started winning all these awards, yeah, I was pretty skeptical. I kept looking at it and thinking, sure, Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the movie, filming the actors as they grew but should someone really get a gold medal for just that? Because he and the cast spent a good portion of their lives filming the thing, that automatically makes it a good movie? But I was being ignorant and in watching the movie, I realised that it was the story itself too. The simple story of boyhood and how accurately and effectively Linklater expressed it. And Ellar Coltrane, the main kid, absolutely killed it. He himself literally grew up with the movie and he was good to it. Maybe he was just being himself, going through his own phases but that was the brilliance of Boyhood. It was a fancy home movie that made it onto the big screens. And that's where Linklater's genius was. And yeah, this is going onto my "he put a lot of time into his work and for that alone, he should get a gold medal" thing but what I'm trying to say is that he did that and justified it, and that's why it's such a good movie. It was also nice to know that Coltrane was born in 1994 and so the movie kinda ran through our own childhoods, the kids of 1994-1995. It was nice seeing a kid like us grow up and experiencing all the nostalgia that comes with that. That was a good bonus. Patricia Arquette was great too. The only downfall I guess was Richard's daughter, Lorelei Linklater, who played the sister. She was not pleasant to watch. Her lines were overdramatic and typical but you try not to blame her because she's a kid but then you start comparing her to Ellar and you're like.... Then again, maybe it was on the writing. It did feel like the writers went really cliche with the angsty teenage girl character and in that, the movie was a little lacking. Or maybe this all boils down to the fact that I was a small boy like Ellar and not a small girl like Lorelei.
Okay, that's it. Thanks for reading!!!!! Just needed to do my comments on movies thing I'm doing this year. Bye, photo post soon this week!! <3
