I can't remember if I talked about The Breakfast Club here. Anyway, despite it showing its age, I enjoyed it. Maybe a bit too upbeat and... what's the word... when the tone changes so quickly... anyway, so a bit too much of that for my taste, but overall a thumbs up.
We've suffered through Euphoria, and it was such a dumpsterfire, I don't understand how can 20+ year olds like this aside from the cinematography. The parade episode was good, dare I say quite enjoyable, but everything else was tanted by how badly the main character is written. She's pathetic; basically she fucks everyone over for drugs over and over again, and in the next episode we have to feel sorry for her. We've fastforwarded through her scenes, because it was the only way the episodes could have been watched; except for the parade episode. That was the only one (+ the first episode) we could watch without fw. She behaved like a normal human being who was just worried about her sister. Anyway, by the end of the show, other cracks began to show as well. Like, okay, jock guy breaks into someone else's house and beats him up, fine. But by the end of the season he is like a member of Ocean's 11. God... I can't wait for season 2.
The Place (2017) from Paolo Genovese. If you have already seen Perfect Strangers, than you know what you are in for, but if you have not, then I suggest you check that movie out. The last 20 minutes of it is utter garbage imo, but still a very solid movie overall. The Place doesn't spend any time heating up the scene, unlike Perfect Strangers, it starts in the middle of it all. The setting is very simple: there is a mysterious guy sitting at the back side of a café, and people come to him for help. He can offer everything and anything, but he can only give these things in form of a deal. A deal, which requires each individual to do something from their part. Most of these deals require them to do horrible, horrible things. If you are easily triggered by the mere mention of awful things, then you probably want to skip this movie. There is nothing violent shown, the whole movie takes place in The Place, which is the name of the café.
Just like with Parasite, I can't really tell too much about the movie, because it has to be experienced, but it revolves around how far are we willing to go for our selfish reasons. Though it was more interesting to me what these people actually wanted, because those are the things we can relate to.
Good for you, my gf enjoyed it. And to be fair, I did not suffer either, it was more... embarassing and tone deaf. You got to love the character arc of the police woman. She is introduced as this great sleuth, who should've been promoted to captain, but of course, a damned man took all the credit for a solved case, so he got the promotion. Then she proceeds to be utterly useless and outsmarted by HQ and the rest of the Birds, then at the end she resigns, when the captain steals her thunder again. I don't know what kind of thunder exactly, because she did NOTHING, while everyone else was at least good at one specific thing. She had a "FUNNY T-SHIRT LMAO XDDDDDDDDD" I guess.
I would unironically watch a movie about Huntress + HQ. Well, not after Birds of Prey, because now I know what to expect, but from actual, talented writers. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was sooo wasted.