original by caroline

prompts are in the notes :)

rewatches: baby driver, star wars: episode 2 - attack of the clones, star wars: episode 3 - revenge of the sith, scott pilgrim vs. the world, romeo + juliet, hope floats, suicide squad, the truman show

progress: 30/30 :D

🌸🌸🌸

top 8:
1. dog day afternoon
2. the tragedy of macbeth
3. romeo + juliet
4. house of 1000 corpses
5. scott pilgrim vs. the world
6. zodiac
7: showing up
8. the truman show

bottom 5:
24. ender’s game
25. sherlock holmes: a game of shadows
26. all of us strangers
27. baby driver
28. suicide squad

psa: i won’t be including bowling for columbine or panic! at the disco: …live in chicago in the ranking because they aren’t traditional films. i also usually do top 5 and bottom 3 but i changed it to top 8 and bottom 5 this month because the quality gap between the movies i watched was drastic af.

• biggest surprise: tick, tick…BOOM!
• biggest disappointment: all of us strangers
• funniest: house of 1000 corpses
• saddest: bowling for columbine

🌸🌸🌸

thoughts i have:
A lot of these movies have similar themes on creation, failure, and purpose. Showing Up, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Soul are basically the same movie in different fonts. Hedwig and the Angry Inch kind of has the same themes, especially through the ambiguous ending.

Romeo + Juliet and West Side Story are both retellings of Romeo and Juliet taking place with modern gangs. Barbie as Rapunzel and Pretty Woman feel like they has some inspiration from it too because, even though they aren’t tragedies, the couples in both movies come from different worlds and, especially in Pretty Woman, have to leave people that they knew behind. I feel very strongly about Romeo and Juliet retellings because I believe that sometimes they can set the houses up to lean kind of good guy / bad guy and i think it’s important to show that the point of Romeo and Juliet is that tradition / violence kills the young people in love and that both houses are at fault. So basically now I want to watch like every Romeo and Juliet retelling hahaha.

Ender’s Game, Baby Driver, and The Truman Show follow very similar character arcs. The main characters are taken advantage of / have their actions controlled and are able to overcome it by leaving that world behind but it’s told in different genres: Ender’s Game is a sci fi, Baby Driver is a stylized crime romance, and The Truman Show is a dramatic comedy. I love seeing the same themes in different art mediums and even told different through the same medium, like film. To an extent, Wonder Woman has the same theme. Even though she isn’t exactly controlled, Diana’s mother shelters her from the real world and the truth about her relationship to Ares to protect her and she has to leave Paradise Island to fulfill her prophecy.

Hedwig, Carol, and Scott Pilgrim are like the worst people ever. There’s just something about movies about terrible people that have gay people in them. Also the Star Wars prequels are literally about the rise of space Hitler so he’s also like the worst person ever.

I also really like movies where the main character is kind of short tempered / show-off / “everyone around me is crazy and i want them to know i’m better than them” type. Sherlock Holmes is literally the blueprint for that character (RDJ in general plays this character a lot, Paul Avery in Zodiac is another example). Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon also has that characteristic. He was constantly stressed tf out, especially in the scene where he was yelling at the male hostage about having to make all of the plans and have all of the ideas. Less directly, Baby in Baby Driver was kind of like that in the sense that he liked to look like he wasn’t paying attention but then be able to pull off every stunt perfectly or show up whoever was doubting him.

Wonder Woman and 1917 are about like basically the same event in WWI where some British soldiers have to cross No Man’s Land to give information to other British intelligence but Wonder Woman is like supernatural and 1917 is more gritty / realistic(ish). Both movies are good at different things but I’m obsessed with one / long takes so I like 1917 more.