Damien Chazelle

A woman wakes up in a fallout shelter with two strangers.

Intense, gripping, intelligent, and pretty weird. It clearly doesn't give a crap what audiences expect or what Hollywood assumes people should want from a movie. The result is something that's pretty awesome for the right people, but is definitely not for everyone. Some people left the theater we were in when the violence got too intensely realistic, and others were vocally confused ("What is this movie?") when the escapism kicked show more in.

Concept: A
Story: B
Characters: A
Dialog: A
Pacing: A
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: A
Music: B

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 3.5/4

(Mar. 2016) show less

Great movie. It’s kind of like the antithesis of the stereotypical sports’ movie. I enjoyed seeing band portrayed in a movie. The manipulative character is portrayed very well. The ending is the best part of the movie IMO - it feels happy (to the point of a lot of people thinking it is happy) but it actually is very dark if you think about it.

An interesting look at the build-up to the launch and the flight of man to the moon concentrating on Neil Armstrong. It details the effort that all of this was on the men and their families. Neil lost a daughter to a tumor before everything starts and this does concentrate on the people and not the mechanics of the events. A film about people not things but is also a film mostly about men. It would have been nice to have had a cameo from one of the computers.

A drummer has a sadistic teacher.

It's tense and gripping. It would have been intolerably stressful (you're basically watching someone be psychologically destroyed for two hours) if it weren't for occasional injections of humor.

Concept: D
Story: C
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: A
Music: A

Enjoyment: C

GPA: 2.8/4