Marriage Story (2019)
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling divorce that pushes them to their limits.
TL;DR: Do I recommend it?
> Sure. It's a very emotionally driven storytelling.
The long of it:
Studio: Netflix
Director: Noah Baumbach
Writer: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda
Runtime: 137 minutes
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Watched: on Netflix, September 30th
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± This film is a well written, well-developed, well-characterized, and well acted production. From start to end it's gripping and emotional and compelling. It presents the hardships of divorce (with a kid) on each side and their reasoning and irrationality in equal lengths. And they tell the story without necessarily villainizing either party, it's just a very human relationship coming together and falling apart.
Memorable aspect of the movie:
+ The acting. The writing, the dramatization and the back and forth.
- The ending. Not that it was bad or ruined the movie or anything (like in other Hollywood adaptations), but it was just too typically Hollywood happy ending. Which i suppose could be possible, so not necessarily negative, just kinda meh. Maybe just idealistic.
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Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown (2020)
Goblin Slayer and his party head up to the snowy mountains in the north after receiving a request from the Sword Maiden. A small village gets attacked, they encounter a mysterious chapel, and something about how these goblins are acting bothers the Goblin Slayer.
TL;DR: Do I recommend it?
> Yes, especially if you are a fantasy adventure fan or a d&d player.
The long of it:
Studio: White Fox
Director: Ozaki Takaharu
Writer: Kaguyu Kumo, Kannatsuki Noboru, Kurata Hideyuki
Cast: Umehara Yuuichirou, Ogura Yui, Sugita Tomokazu, Nakamura Yuuichi
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Watched: on January 3rd
Reaction:
± If you haven't watched season 1 of Goblin Slayer, worry not. The first 25 minutes of the full cut of this movie is a summary of everything that's happened in the series thus far. The movies is cute and very classically a d&d adventure in many ways. It's like an extra long, extra episode-y episode of Goblin Slayer. <3
Memorable aspect of the movie:
+ The adventure and how many things didn't go their way.
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all quiet on the western front is literally a movie discussing the futility of war, of how little boys sign up to march to their death because of propaganda fed to them by their teachers and mentors who prey on their idealistic view on life. it is a film that makes you watch death after death after death, without giving you a single cause or philosophy or ideal for you to soothe yourself with—because there is none. there are only boys and men, bleeding cold and alone on the dirt and mud. there is no worth. there is no reason. there is only death.
and you reduce it to a "war movie". it's based off a book brave enough to depict the realities of war in the charged political climate of 1929, and you call it "the war movie".
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