Everything Everywhere All At Once is conceptually right up my alley, and while I didn't hate it, I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as I expected and have no desire to see it again. I found films tone a hammy saccharine and not in an enduring way, with a reliance on gaudy, inelegant quirkiness. That being said I'm not invested in my critique, because I genuinely think it's entirely a subjective thing in this instance, some weird brain blip that just couldn't connect with the film's tone and presentation, rather than me genuinely feeling a film is overrated or whatever. I was just so surprised how little it landed for me.
Interstellar has all the pieces of a tremendous work of art and then all the bullshit that unravels it. Nolan hasn't remotely the chops to even touch the fringes of Clarke and Kubric's 2001-esque scientific cosmic spiritualism. I've gone through several legitimate phases of convincing myself "it's not that bad, because the highs is so fucking high, I should rewatch it!", and the moment Hathaway's character starts rambling about love being a dimension my brain collapses and the one dimensional idiocy of the script seeps through and I remind myself how much I loathe it. To be fair though, that resentment is compounded precisely because of how much of it I do love, which probably isn't fair.
Both Avatar films are dumb fun cinema with amazing technology but otherwise mediocracy incarnate due to their snooze-worthy scripts. Cameron is obviously insanely talented, and I just can't breath the word Avatar whenever discuss the strengths of his output.
Primer is ass. No amount of heady ideas can push it past its dry as bones script and characters, bland cinematography and direction. Again another film well and truly up there as a "this is made for me!" on paper that completely failed to meet any expectation I had.
Bohemian Rhapsody sucked. It seemed more interested in selling itself entirely as a resurrection Mercury through Malek, leaning heavily on the recreated live performance, than actually telling a deep, compelling, and accurate biography of Mercury's persona and life. It's a tremendously shallow film that glosses over so much of Mercury's identity and complexities, and I'm baffled it won any awards at all.
Cloverfield sucks.
Despite enjoying a lot of Lanthimos' output, I really didn't like The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Again another film that had me super interested based on the people attached to it and its concept.
