Hey everybody I was at Vancouver Film Festival last month in one of the last films
I saw there was Lady Bird, and it was pretty good
This is the directorial debut of Greta Gerwig from Francis Ha now she actually also wrote Francis Ha with Noah
Baumbach and from what I can tell from her performances
She does seem like a naturally funny person with her having complete creative control in this film
I'm pleased to say that the humor does work very well much of the film was genuinely funny and the majority of
Performances brought that together really well saoirse ronan was great Laurie Metcalf was great Lucas hedges was just fine
He has no issues in the range of awkward and quiet, so he was actually pretty fitting for the role
It was only at the point in the film where his character was actually
Required to show any real emotion that he kind of started to suck that didn't last all too long though
So I can't really complain much this film was an enjoyable watch that is sure to please many people
But if you're looking for any kind of interesting directing
this is not where you're gonna find it much of the film was very boringly and
Repetitively framed a few of the shots had some really obvious
And preventable lighting issues with the way this film was presented on a purely aesthetic level
This seems less like a film you would find in theaters and more like some random film you would find on
Netflix that you've never even heard of the only other thing I could say that was particularly
off-putting about the film would be parts of the script overall it was funny and well-written and had a great sense of
personality to it
But there's some parts that definitely felt a little
Obnoxiously cliched so much so that I don't really consider what I'm about to say to be a spoiler at all
But I'll throw on the warning anyway click to this point in the video if you don't want to hear it three two one there's
Your warning and go now
It's not really the most important plotline of the film
But they seriously pulled the whole hey
Let me pretend to be somebody else so that the cool kids will like me trope where in the main character
Successfully becomes accepted by the cool kids, but then she has to pretend as though
She's not really friends with her comedic best friends sidekick and her comedic best friend's sidekick is obviously hurt by this
Like oh, no. It looks like you're too cool for me now
I thought we were friends, but then later the main character finds out that the cool kids are actually assholes
And she prefers not to be a cool kid so she goes back to her best friends sidekick and is like I'll be friends with
You again, and then everything's okay, because they're best friends
It is seriously difficult to think of a plotline that would be more cliched than what I just
Described the inclusion of this plotline in the film is just absolutely awful like I said
It's not really the focus of the film the rest of the film's plot is much more digestible
I just feel like that whole annoyance easily could have been taken out anyway
I still would recommend this film although not that ecstatically it was good
It was enjoyable
But it does not achieve anything greater than that
And I'm giving this one a 6 out of 10 and lastly to close off the festival
I saw the new Todd Haynes film wonderstruck, and it was pretty fucking annoying now
I understand that a lot of people were excited for this film because of the people involved Todd Haynes himself has directed some pretty
critically acclaimed films Edward Lachman as cinematographer and Carter Burwell
Composing the music with all of these pieces combined you should theoretically have an amazing film right well, maybe for some
But it certainly was not the case for me or the three other people that I saw the film with if we're going to
Individually judge the elements of directing cinematography and music composition those were all great
But the story fucking sucked the entire fucking film just had this obnoxiously
overinflated sense of
Self-importance the presentation was basically just shouting look look at how significant
This is but none of it was it was just a bunch of unimportant boring bullshit
Hey, wow look he's over here, but did you know that 50 years ago?
There was a little girl who was also over here, and she was also deaf wow that is so incredibly significant
Let's keep cutting back and forth between the two scenes
I mean neither of these scenes would be very
Significant at all if we weren't cutting between two different scenes of basically the same thing 50 years apart
But because they're doing similar things 50 years apart from each other
It's all of the sudden significant now aren't you impressed?
I know it's weird to say this
But because the score was so mystical and well composed it actually made things a lot worse
Because the music as it was presented in the film was
Constantly giving off a sense of something greater than what was actually being shown and you're left with a film that is literally
Insisting its own significance upon itself when there is none what you're showing is. Just really not all that special
Please stop trying to aggressively insist
it is the story was just so boring and
Unspecial that it was absolutely cringe-worthy to watch the film continue to insist upon its own importance
If this musical score was used in a different film that actually had an important or significant plot
It would have worked great
but unfortunately
It's wasted on this pretentious turd from what I can tell the older scenes were shot using actual film which was pretty cool the movie
Looked pretty nice overall the acting was alright
I guess but I can't really say that I was all that Wow with the child performances
which were most of the
Performances often times I couldn't tell if it was the fault of the actor or the way they were being directed
a lot of it just seemed very unnatural and
Unconvincing there was a scene where the only
Characters in a room are two deaf people and one gives the other something to read and they read it out loud as though
They're projecting their voice for a theatre performance like this was definitely not just uh-oh I'm reading out loud to myself
Because that's what I do
It was just so
Painfully obvious that they were projecting their voice for an audience
But with both of you in the room being deaf who the fuck was that for?
Meanwhile the film score is just beating into our heads
How emotional and important this whole scene is oh man just listen to him delivering this closing monologue
We've learned so much also
This is not really a Julianne Moore film because she is barely in the movie despite appearing quite prominently in nearly all of the
promotional material, so that was kind of lame
But not nearly as lame as the film's story and just how seriously they expect you to be taking it
It's a really lame movie. It's cheesy and dumb. It is an annoying experience
And one that I do not recommend
There are individual elements of this film that are unquestionably well-done
But it really doesn't matter how much icing you throw on if the cake is made of shit?
And I'm giving this one a 2 out of 10