I am so tired. I am going to Vancouver tomorrow to work on my doc, edit a friends movie, and see my friends Jack and Louise and Chris. Anxious about travel and fascism and all the projects I am juggling and needed a little…Hope. And this sure did the trick. Probably my least favorite from the original trilogy (just doesn’t hit me as emotionally as V and VI…even the prequels hit harder for me on the feelssss). It’s obviously groundbreaking…
Weak script overall but I think it’s just because of the production troubles between Miller and Cameron. There’s so much about it that works. Just oozes lesbian and trans subtext, which is rad but also a tad frustrating considering like…it was 2019 and everyone hated this one anyway. Wish the subtext was just literal and that they had just made it a gay terminator movie. Like make Dani and Grace lovers. Have Sarah be a middle aged butch. You already…
There was plenty to like so I’ll start there:
- cinematography: every frame was gorgeously composed. Looked like a painting. Quite a feat for a film with one of the least interesting color palettes of all time.
- Willem Defoe: “I’ve seen things that would make Sir Isaac Newton crawl back into the womb” is one of the best lines of 2024. Perhaps the only correct casting in the film…
- the approach to Orlock’s castle was the best of…
I forgot to log this last week because it’s been a whirlwind. Watched the movie one last time (for now) with the crowd in NYC at our theatrical premiere. I don’t much of the night. I don’t know how to emotionally process the response that people are having to this film or how cool this all is. I think this is all going well. Maybe? People tell me that it is. Richard Brody likes the movie and that’s cool.…
