Good or bad. These movies don't always get good reviews. I just watched Lucy in the Sky, and I wouldn't give it a good review but I actually was weirdly glued to my screen. I gotta reiterate that im not just shilling for lucy in the sky but it's just all over hbo right now and so i'm thinking about it. The movie is a failure overall. Sadly. But it has this really cool device of a constantly shifting aspect ratio. I think it's maybe coming off the heels of movies that came before: Mommy, The Grand Budapest Hotel. But Lucy in the Sky pushes it and really leans on it as a storytelling device. Like, I think in The Grand Budapest Hotel it's mostly aesthetic but it really isn't aesthetic at all in Lucy in the Sky. It was all for story reasons. Kinda cool. But the story sucked. I guess i sorta blame it on how prestige tv works. The director is a tv guy and the movie mostly plays like a good tv pilot and an interesting couple of episodes of a obviously gonna get canceled tv show. The movie just felt half baked story wise. You can get away with that in tv.. they're gunna answer that next season. but it doesn't work in movies so much.
anyway what movies have you felt like have introduced something new or reiterated a new trend that you see continuing into this new decade? I can see this shifting aspect ratio become a new storytelling trend and I'm actually really looking forward to see who else might use it and how else.
Submitted June 06, 2020 at 05:04AM by willianswalker https://ift.tt/2AMk7Os