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seekingferret) wrote2018-12-31 09:30 am
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Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse
Jews do not dance in this movie.
But in seriousness, I loved it. The animation was amazing, it was consistently funny, the story was compelling both in terms of plot and themes, and the voice acting was fantastic. The casting managed to do stunt casting that actually enhanced the storytelling... Nick Cage's Noir Spiderman was so amazing.
And it was a joy to see Miles Morales on the big screen standing shoulder to shoulder with Peter Parker as everything should be.
Diner
Jews dance in this movie.
I liked some of it, but other parts annoyed me. It's such a boy movie, and I wanted to throttle most of the characters more than I wanted to root for them to grow up. I never quite fell into its rhythms, and watched it in segments over the course of a couple weeks. But it does have some good and memorable dialogue.
Marnie
Jews do not dance in this movie.
I wanted to see this after seeing Muhly opera adaptation. Hitchcock transplants the original novel from England to the US Eastern seaboard and I found that made it less interesting to me, oddly enough. I think because the setting is so familiar to me that it just felt boringly default. But by and large I thought the movie was good. It has the trademark Hitchcock unsettlingly offset voyeuristic camera angles, and they achieve the typical Hitchcock effects. Sean Connery is as usual a little hard-pressed to play anyone but himself, but himself is a good fit for the role. And Tippi Hedron makes a good, tough but brittle Marnie, with a lot of layers of self to unpeel.
Jews do not dance in this movie.
But in seriousness, I loved it. The animation was amazing, it was consistently funny, the story was compelling both in terms of plot and themes, and the voice acting was fantastic. The casting managed to do stunt casting that actually enhanced the storytelling... Nick Cage's Noir Spiderman was so amazing.
And it was a joy to see Miles Morales on the big screen standing shoulder to shoulder with Peter Parker as everything should be.
Diner
Jews dance in this movie.
I liked some of it, but other parts annoyed me. It's such a boy movie, and I wanted to throttle most of the characters more than I wanted to root for them to grow up. I never quite fell into its rhythms, and watched it in segments over the course of a couple weeks. But it does have some good and memorable dialogue.
Marnie
Jews do not dance in this movie.
I wanted to see this after seeing Muhly opera adaptation. Hitchcock transplants the original novel from England to the US Eastern seaboard and I found that made it less interesting to me, oddly enough. I think because the setting is so familiar to me that it just felt boringly default. But by and large I thought the movie was good. It has the trademark Hitchcock unsettlingly offset voyeuristic camera angles, and they achieve the typical Hitchcock effects. Sean Connery is as usual a little hard-pressed to play anyone but himself, but himself is a good fit for the role. And Tippi Hedron makes a good, tough but brittle Marnie, with a lot of layers of self to unpeel.