Movies
Posted: Sep 14th, 2021
Rating Meaning
The 1-10 rating thing doesnโt really mesh with my thinking. So instead, Iโve tagged movies with symbols indicating where they succeed. Doubled symbols indicate that a movie is superlative in that regard.
Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|
๐ | Made me laugh. |
๐ | Made me feel. |
๐ | Neat spectacle. |
๐ญ | Itโs a thinker. |
๐ผ | The score carries it. |
Some of My Favorites
- Strictly Ballroom
- ๐๐๐ผ
- Itโs dorky and quirky, but itโs a solidly executed rom com, and I canโt help but cry like a baby when I watch it.
- I Am Mother
- ๐๐๐ญ
- One of the most compelling cinematic depictions of an AI, tight emotional drama, and an amazingly designed pracical-effects robot costume.
Other Good Movies
- Memories (1995)
- ๐
- Three animated science-fiction short stories. The first story, Magnetic Rose, is especially excellent.
- Moon
- ๐ญ
- Mystery Movie on the Moon.
- Rocket Man (1997)
- ๐
- Iโll be honest. This move is probably objectively trash, and it ranks among my favorites purely for nostalgiaโs sake.
- Labyrinth
- ๐ผ๐
- David Bowie steals the show as the scheming ruler of an army of muppets.
- Baahubali and its sequel
- ๐๐
- Basically Hamlet, if Hamlet had superpowers. Borderline-nonsensical action scenes.