great comedy

Maybe the most creative fight sequences I've seen. Enlightenment through celebration of the imperfect self and enjoyment.

Emotionally powerful, not as visually powerfully. The fury of old and new worlds pitted against each other as opposites, revealing their similarities, resulting in the destruction of both.

Youth regained through art

One of the best endings in movie history.

I respect the subtlety of suggestion here, the daring, the realism, but ultimately not an effective film for me, though I'm looking forward to a rewatch. I just think that without a story or character development, the things these people are feeling, the sheer terror, desperation, hope--aren't quite communicated to the audience.

One of the most surreal and simultaneously human experiences I've had.

Great for it's nonchalant attitude--made me not really care about story or anything else, just a plain fun watch!

Didn't need to be made, basically a rehash of Part 1, everything seemed reducible to family and business intertwining, resulting in the degradation of the family. Perhaps the height of craft, but other than some great performances, no magic here.

Afraid of real emotion, not sure how I feel about this extremely hollywoodized version of cancer. hm.

This is the experience of being on the internet, living in a life dominated by the virtual--all different types of film stocks, medias, people (random and known), rants, and ultimately, alientation--we are given no one character, instead too many; no one setting, no one story, not even one film camera/stock to fall into familiarity and intimacy with. Painful, exacting.

really quietly satisfying movements and animations, literally having music plugged in and infused into your body. also, felt a little bit like getting stoned.

I find myself giving the Godard films I don't really love 3 out of 5 merely for rewatch-ability and thoughfulness, even though I find Godard pretty love or hate.

Very effective cinematography and editing, but ultimately, like Bingham's (Clooney) rhetoric, too predictable.

seems style took over story in this one--therefore, ultimately ineffective use of style

No room to breathe or feel. Felt like sitting in a lecture.

unrate-able. the most visionary piece of shit ever

still modern today

so this at the beverly at midnight on tarantino's bday. huge cult audience, mostly mid-teens. never thought of it as being as hilarious as the audience did, it seemed most of the crowd came for the one liners.

film justifies selling crack and running down people who live in the ghetto through white hatred/revenge

Brilliantly executed drama, yet it was a little unclear as to where the narrative was going, it seemed like a lot of the scenes didn't add to the story, whatever that was.

I think the script could have been better, connecting more to the real-world struggles--but the genius of this doc is I think in the cinematography, which re-appropriates hollywood epic camera work and gives them new meaning: slow motion battle sequences are still tragic, yet because reality is what is so terrible, not the on-screen battle, etc. Is reality innately flawed, or is it the human character?

jaguar?

The camera as the lens of an ancient folktale, dreamlike, full of mal-logic, endearingly clumsy.

The silence in this film is amazing. Totoro is what happens when adults drift into boredom.

The characters are trying to wake up from life, break out of this day dream, this film they're stuck in. As am I.

Ultimately a little too much rhetoric for my taste, and some lame metaphoric work. Despite these gripes, there were some parts that really hit me.

Something about her literal depiction of emotions with animations really hits the pit of those feelings for me.

Not even bad enough to be good--yes, it was that bad/boring.

Those hills thick with green trees...I felt those images in my fingers, my hand running over the landscape squinching the greenery.