MARCH WATCH PARTY - Donnie Darko (2001), The Florida Project (2017), Towering Inferno (1974)
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"After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes."
- IMDB
I'll say this, when I got to the end, I was literally like "If it wasn't actually time travel, then what the hell was going on?" So thanks to reddit, I feel affirmed that I followed the story correctly.
Overall this was a great movie. Definitely passes the vibe check for the emos in the world. Frank the Bunny is an iconic piece of pop culture. I was very please with the casting as well. A lot of people that I recognized - from Drew Barrymore to Ashley Tisdale, to that guy who played the son of that crazy dude from Independence day. Jake Gyllenhaal knocked it out of the the park. I guess he really didn't have schizophrenia in the end, but Jake would play the hell out of that diagnosis if he ever had to portray it. Recommend me more movies where Jake goes insane please.
Mad World. Pretty sure this film solidified the song's place in pop culture as well.
My Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆
"A single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life."
- IMDB
This movie was a bit sad. A young mom who made / makes bad decisions, living in a hotel with her daughter, and maybe isn't making the most effort to fix things. Not an uncommon scenario. I think the mom loves her daughter but is just irresponsible. Also they're living in Orlando & the kids just get to walk around I95 like what. Disney is nice but literally the entire area around it, especially the crappy motels, like that's basically the ghetto bruh. I loved how despite the unfavorable circumstances, Moonee is presented as your average rambunctious kid - and I think that's the point of the story. It's also an interesting study of the low income citizens of the city, which I think explains the weird ending when the girls just run off to Disney World somehow. I kinda know where they lived so I don't think they'd actually make it there realistically for reasons. But it did resemble the contrast between the tourist destinations vs the real world around them.
My Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆
"At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it."
- IMDB
This is one of the earlier and pinnacle disaster films from the 70s. A lot of movies from this era tend to shock me because this decade really pushed boundaries for what was allowed in film - like Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Rocky Horror. Watching people fall out of the building or running around completely on fire was insane to me just because I didn't expect to see it. The production of this film is also a big step in cinema. The technical aspects and practical effects were so well done even by today's standards. I know some people will appreciate these details even more than me.
I also stepped back a little and realized that the disaster film genre is just a bunch of people projecting their fears into film. I never really considered if disaster films were based on any real instances - some definitely are - but many are not. Like 2012 has come and gone but Woody Harrelson is still here.
My Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆