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Nope (2022)
5/10
From a video production student stand point, the constant switching from letterbox to full screen is irritating, disjointed, and comes off as amateurish. Like, it actually looks bad. The constant cutting to black and unnecessary chapter cards don't help either.
Keke Palmer's character reminds me of one of those people who talks to people on speakerphone in a grocery store. Incredibly annoying, just want to tell her to shut up.
The parts about the TV show are really cool. Really feels like something you would find on one of those lost media iceberg videos. Even though, it has nothing to do with the main story.
But the rest of it is such a drag, so little happens that's actually relevant to the story. Just watch Signs, Arrival, or even Local58's Skywatching. And of course, they had to have the cliche "fake sacrifice" at the end.
All in all, I'm never going to Fry's.
Halloween Ends (2022)
So frustrating.
Halloween Ends huh? I want that in writing. I mean, we all saw how it ended, but the skepticism is high. I mean, I gotta hand it to them, they actually committed to killing him off. But come on, we all know the one thing that could bring him back. Anyway, it had some decent ideas, however, it had a lot more just baffling ideas, and all in all, it was just so poorly executed. I mean, there are chunks of this movie that doesn't even feel like a Halloween Michael Myers movie. The last half hour is written like a sitcom. No more Halloween movies please, unless it's the long awaited sequel to Season of the Witch, which even then, I don't want Blumhouse or David Gordon Green near.
According to the director, rather than being an over the top slasher film like Kills. Ends is a "intimate coming of age story". This is the wrong franchise to do that with man. It doesn't work. This movie is just a big f you to how this trilogy started. Michael Myers survived a fire at the end of the 2018 movie, and you're telling me a single snap of the elbow is going to kill him off? How anticlimactic.
There really isn't a way or reason to do more sequels, reboots, or whatever to the traditional series. I'm just so done with Michael Myers. Laurie Strode became one of the most annoying slasher movie characters between Kills and Ends. This is a trilogy I don't plan on ever watching again. I mean, I think 2018 movie is okay, Kills was kinda fun, but I just don't know about Ends. Just watch the original three films for your Halloween fix.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
I don't get it.
I have tried watching this film at least four times in the past couple years. I am a human being, the fact that sooo many film nerds call this one of the best films ever made is disgusting. I've always wanted to try to understand this, but I just can't anymore. It's too much for me, and I've seen Requiem for a Dream twice. I could probably never sit through Irreversible, not that I ever wanted to. Sex in film depends with each film. Eyes Wide Shut and Perfect Blue are incredible films, and I honestly, I can't even explain why this one bothers me. Because Perfect Blue also has a disstressful sexual atmosphere to it, but A Clockwork Orange is just so much worse.
However, despite the obvious scenes that I cannot stomach to watch, there are some parts I enjoy. The opening scene, with the colors/titles, the long zoom out, and the synth music is perfect, it's so good. It makes you think you are about to see something great. The music in general is actually pretty good, and the Beethoven is well used. And yeah, it's Kubrick, the editing and cinematography are pretty incredible. I read the book in my senior year of high school, and it was atrociously boring compared to this film, which isn't a compliment. Some of the dialogue is pretty stupid though.
I think I'm done giving this a chance, at least for a while. I saw it on IFC in September 2020, right after watching Eyes Wide Shut. Then on Showtime in July 2021, then HBO Max in April 2022, and now July 2022 on TCM. Each time I've seen it, I've gotten further in, but there is nothing about it that makes me want to see the end. I don't even care if Alex is cured or not, I just want him to die by the end of it. He deserves it. I like Kubrick, but I don't know what he was thinking with this.