My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- Arrival
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dune
- Enemy
- Sicario

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
04.10.23	Internet	It's been long enough to where I don't remember what happens in this and I was watching one of those youtube videos where Roger Deakins talks about some of the movies he shot and they showed the sequence toward the end where Jake Gyllenhaal's driving through the rain and the photography there is really well-done. Plus now Denis Velleneuve has made quite a career for himself, I think this is the first movie of his that I saw so I thought it'd be fun to revisit. Very good. Liked it very much. Very dark.
01.19.14	Netflix	Some little girls are taken and families are upset while Jake Gyllenhaal tries to be a tough cop. I thought this was a very solid thriller and really loved how it took its time and reveled in the dreary east coast-ness of the weather and the palette. Roger Deakins hard at work. Paul Dano gets the shit kicked out of him which is nice because I find something about his face makes me want to do that. Satisfying conclusion... nothing to complain about here. Except... why does every DVD now have an ad for Blu-ray on it? They just show scenes from random movies and tell you how awesome Blu-ray is... but it's still 480p so it doesn't sell Blu at all. I don't get it and it seems like from now on any DVD produced will have this ad. DVD is my favorite medium and it's undergoing a slow and degrading death.