Yeah it sounds like every rock star documentary ever, I don’t know what Switch was expecting. Every rockumentary with a living artist is equal parts hagiography and greatest hits collection.
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Akira.
Oh man, it was wild.
“Neo-Tokyo is about to explode…”
And what an explosive movie it is… Gorgeous cel art, a film packed with themes on corporate, militaristic, scientific greed, sci-fi philosophizing… its a lot.
Basically, how I would try to give a brief synopsis is:
In a near-future (well, “past” now) dystopian Tokyo, a young biker gets into an accident, and is pulled into a web of human experimentation and ultimate power. But that’s putting it really lightly.
It’s a lot to wrap your head around, particularly the significance of “the kids” in the movie, and the climax at the end. It takes its sweet time building up the tension, giving it a break, and throwing in some abstract visuals and meanings to events unfolding.
idk im bad at trying to explain something, especially if I want to be vague but sound intriguing
The climax is an insane, grotesque scene that’s wonderfully animated. Fantastic job for the animation team, this movie was stunning. The city vistas and explosions were awesome. Some trippy visuals and warped animation too.
I didn’t totally like the editing however – a lot of scenes end fading to black, only to hard-cut to the next scene, but keeps the tension involved from the last scene. Usually fade-to-blacks are used to reset tension and ease you into the next one. It felt pretty jarring to me.
You can also see where plenty of films got their inspiration from here. What kind of stood out to me most is Amazon’s animated show ‘Invincible’ basically remakes the satellite scene from this movie. Plus, I was randomly reminded of the movie ‘Lucy’ by Luc Besson, which kind of has a similar, more direct, less elaborate “ultimate power” story.
I was very very surprised to see That Bike Slide happen like 5 minutes into the film. Went by very quickly, and I’m surprised it has had such an influence on pop-culture with how many people keep referencing it. I can’t deny that damn bike is really cool though!!
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Idk then 
but listening to Bowie talking so much about himself for 2 hours wasn’t the best thing for a non Rock fan, I would have liked it more if they would talk more about his music, the music affected the people aswell and this whole doc kinda repeated itself after a while “I’m unique, I am a sculptor, I paint” // “David Bowie was always ahead of his time and ahead of his fans”, but it’s my personal opinion.
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Since I don’t wanna be all negative, one of the better films I watched lately was Nope, it feels like the director wanted at all costs to have incredible moments that would get the audience to go “wow” and would practically get you amazed, and he did, there were incredible moments in this movie but the funny thing is some of which don’t feel related at all, it feels like the director made them purely because of how good these are, which is weird but it’s great to watch, and the movie and the plot overall were great, great characters and a really great film overall.
Actual spoiler:
holy fuck the fistbump was unbelieveable, I couldn’t even fucking blink at that moment, my eyes couldn’t leave the screen, he did a great job
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I think the original teaser trailer will remain one of the best teasers for a film I’ve ever seen. After having seen the film, you can connect the dots of what’s going on, but without having context it reveals just enough to get a sense of what to expect, but still not revealing anything too substantial. Leaving many chilling moments in the film intact. Perfect.
I actually saw it again tonight before Akira played, and it still wow’s me.
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Nope is awfully underrated, movie of the year for me
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That title’s probably going to go to Everything Everywhere All At Once for me, but I also really enjoyed Nope this year too.
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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once was incredibley great too, but nah, I choose Nope, this movie was a masterpiece
That motherfucking fistbump, that thing gave me goosebumps lol
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That really was a chilling scene all around. Kind of felt like Jordan Peele had a much larger idea for it, but couldn’t figure out how to expand upon it, so he managed to get it to work as a character backstory in Nope.
But that’s just my opinion…
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I feel like that was pretty much it, that moment was practically stopping me from thinking this movie was a 10/10, he could’ve connected it by making the chimp freaking out because of the Alien, and then it connect greatly with the thing that created Jupe’s trauma killing him eventually, but what we got was a great scene that only served as a backstory of a side character, that’s not the best thing ever, but hey, I enjoyed it
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because it’s a snuff movie?!
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yes
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Has anyone seen Vengeance? If not, you definitely should.
The plot follows a writer turned podcaster from New York as he investigates the suspicious death of woman in Texas. I feel like saying too much more would ruin it, and I might have already said too much, so… go check it out! There’s no such thing as a guarantee but you probably won’t be disappointed.
It can be a little ham fisted with its messages and themes and a bit high on itself with how smart it is at times but, overall, it’s a solid 9.25/10
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Good luck, it is a specific taste!
Am I crazy or does this look like it’s going to be really good?
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Watched The Matrix Resurrections. I went in expecting to absolutely hate it, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t enjoy the hell out of it.
Not as good as the original, of course, but a damn sight better than the other sequels. Plus it gets bonus points for making me laugh more than I thought it would. 
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In my continuing effort to watch more movies, I finally saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . It’s one of those movies I’ve always meant to see but for whatever reason never got around to and @Screaming_Meat’s (relatively) recent list of favorite movies put it (and several others 
) back on my radar.
It was great. I’m sure I’m not the first person to notice that Redford and Newman are terrific together and I was surprised by the the amount of quality banter between the two. It was certainly a lot looser than a lot of the (older) westerns I’ve see, which I appreciated. The plot was pretty loose, too, a little robbery, a little evading the law, a little hanging out with the gang, but full of great moments.
I do have to confess, though, that somehow over the years, I’d gotten it into my head that the movie ended when the two of them jumped into the river, to their deaths, and that all their talk of going to Bolivia was one of those pipe dreams characters talk about but, tragically, never get the chance to do. So imagine the weird moment of cognitive dissonance I experienced when I discovered that happens halfway through the movie (minus them dying, of course ) and the entire last damn hour takes place in Bolivia. 
Still, my stupidity aside, it was a lot of fun. 
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