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Moonlight - Barney's Incorrect Five Second Reviews
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I'm not sure where to even start with this one. There are so many scenes done in such a unique way that I haven't seen before. It's a tough movie to talk about since I went in not knowing a single thing other than the title, so I wouldn't want to spoil any plot surprises.
It's weird that I saw this in the same year I saw Closet Monster because this is the perfected version of the other.
It is almost as good as Boyhood and follows the same idea of a young man finding himself over various stages of his life (but this time with different actors). Speaking of which there are so many incredible performances, it's tough to single out specific ones. Alex Hibbert playing young Little is amazing, as are many others.
Honestly guys, I think this is one of the very best movies of the year. I need someone else to see it to discuss the ending with me. I'm not sure I've ever yearned this badly for an epilogue before.
You know how Grand Theft Auto IV tried to offer some skin-deep insight into the modern-day African-American experience through Franklin? Well... Moonlight will take you 100 fathoms deeper, to put it lightly. You will feel it.
Highly recommended. Get ready to be challenged.
Heart rating: 5 stars (it just doesn't get better than this for moving you)
Brain rating: 4.5 stars
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I picked seeing this over Arrival. That was a difficult decision.
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This sounds like a typical movie I'd DVD or even cinema-watch with the hype of the Oscars OR catch up years later, wondering why on earth I was watching all the garbage I watched in 2016 instead of this. Just to name a few, this happened to me with Boyhood, Spotlight, The Room and The Wrestler... I only feel ashamed about The Wrestler.
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This isn't Hell or High Water which needs the big screen
Oh crap, HoHW just left our budget theater. I kind of assumed it was character driven and not a real cinematography movie. Oh well.
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The whole thing is verrrrrry slow paced, and for me that worked well enough in the first two parts, but really didn't in the third. Those first two acts had some real moments of poignance, but the third just kind of happened, and very slowly at that. I get that it was probably more real that way, but there is a point where very slow pacing in a movie is not giving you some kind of purpose, but just feels slow. Hard to say more without spoiling things. I was primed for something bigger to pay off emotionally in the third act, as it had at times earlier, but it just didn't for me, though the end was nice. In this case, I appreciated the destination of the third act, but not the journey.
On the whole, Boyhood was more interesting and meaningful, though this had its own very interesting nature and meaning, for the most part.
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Still, I think and hope it gets respect come Oscar. I agree with you Act III is weakest but that doesn't take away from how perfectly amazing those first acts are! It's still a crazy good film.
So glad you saw it!
So is Sing Street still your favourite so far? More than this?!
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Much respect for Moonlight, but it didn't stick the landing.
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Why can't you see it, though? Do you have Redbox in Canada? Should be there. Or on iTunes, etc.
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Because it was like remembering my teenage years the way I wanted to remember them and not the way it actually happened.
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Vlad wrote: I liked Sing Street a lot.
Because it was like remembering my teenage years the way I wanted to remember them and not the way it actually happened.
This. I make all kinds of references to great music from my childhood, but I'm listening to it retroactively, because at the time I just listened to crap.
This was a fun, joyous movie.
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