{"id":23617,"date":"2019-02-10T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=23617"},"modified":"2019-02-10T23:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:15:43","slug":"i-review-every-movie-i-saw-in-2018-in-3-sentences-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2019\/02\/10\/i-review-every-movie-i-saw-in-2018-in-3-sentences-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"I Review Every Movie I Saw in 2018 in 3 Sentences or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23640\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2019\/02\/BeFunky-collage-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Reading from top-left to bottom-right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Avengers: Infinity War, The Wolf of Wall Street, The End of Evangelion,\u00a0<\/em><em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Anomalisa, The Revenant, Burn After Reading, The Tale of Princess Kaguya<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Not all of these movies were released in 2018, these are just what I saw during the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Django Unchained\n<ul>\n<li>A well told, over-the-top revenge story. Never before have I wanted so much to see the hero triumph over his villains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom\n<ul>\n<li>The fact that I watched this in China was the only thing I remembered about this movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Black Panther\n<ul>\n<li>A good Marvel flick made memorable by its villain. The final fight ended with a touching moment that I didn\u2019t expect from the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Avengers: Infinity War\n<ul>\n<li>An achievement on all fronts \u2013 writing, visuals, and direction. This movie has achieved the near impossible task of making a fresh movie out of roughly 20 tried and true main characters. Deserves all the memes and attention it gets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ant Man and the Wasp\n<ul>\n<li>Better than the first Ant Man, but that isn\u2019t saying much. Marvel made an excellent marketing choice releasing this right after infinity war \u2013 I don\u2019t think I would\u2019ve watched it otherwise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Batman: The Dark Knight Rises\n<ul>\n<li>The script gets muddled in some places, but the movie has its moments. Though nowhere near Ledger\u2019s Joker, Bane is great nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Captain America: The Winter Soldier\n<ul>\n<li>Tells a usual Marvel story with an unusual amount of amazing fight choreography and debates on morality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Deadpool 2\n<ul>\n<li>The same Deadpool we know and love but with more budget. Didn\u2019t really stick the rewatch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Comedy \/ Dark Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wolf of Wall Street\n<ul>\n<li>A hilarious yet harrowing exploration of a life of excess. I made the mistake of watching this movie on a flight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burn After Reading\n<ul>\n<li>Very similar to <em>In Bruges <\/em>in terms of minor characters and events always becoming vital to the story. An excellent script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nightcrawler\n<ul>\n<li>A tad boring aside from Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019s performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Isle of Dogs\n<ul>\n<li>The most Wes Anderson out of all the Wes Anderson movies I\u2019ve seen. Has great animation, but otherwise not really my thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs\n<ul>\n<li>Six western stories that will make you laugh, cry, and gasp. Some I liked more than others (and I know this will be an unpopular opinion) but here is my list of the stories, in order from my favorite to least favorite: 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Hateful Eight\n<ul>\n<li>My least favorite Tarantino movie, but that doesn\u2019t mean much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Grand Budapest Hotel\n<ul>\n<li>Heartwarming, sad, funny, and well directed. Wes Anderson\u2019s style is apparent but doesn\u2019t come at the cost of anything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Drama<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taxi Driver\n<ul>\n<li>A tad overrated in my opinion, but an amazing movie nonetheless. Some of its moments will stick with me forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Deer Hunter\n<ul>\n<li>A Vietnam-war epic that goes to great lengths to breathe life into its characters \u2013 including making its introductory wedding scene an hour long. It uses this to great effect, but I still feel immature for getting bored when the movie would go more than 30 minutes without a gunshot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blood Simple\n<ul>\n<li>You can see the beginning of the Coen brother\u2019s distinct dialogue and direction, but it falls a little flat in those two areas. The film\u2019s use of music, however, is superb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Revenant\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t watch the Revenant. I felt the Revenant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anomalisa\n<ul>\n<li>The best stopmotion movie I have seen and one of the most underrated movies of all time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Silver Lining\u2019s Playbook\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t watch a lot of romance movies, but this might be my favorite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\n<ul>\n<li>This is by the same director as <em>In Bruges<\/em>, and also contains its excellent scriptwriting, characters, and use of music. The same dark comedy style as this movie\u2019s predecessor, however, doesn\u2019t really fit with the change in subject matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seven\n<ul>\n<li>A tad overrated. The style wasn\u2019t quite campy enough or dramatic enough to find its place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Animated<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incredibles 2\n<ul>\n<li>An amazing family movie, but doesn\u2019t approach the first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The End of Evangelion\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t get it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse\n<ul>\n<li>My favorite movie released in 2018. Impeccable animation, story, voice acting, and music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Tale of Princess Kaguya\n<ul>\n<li>My favorite of the Ghibli movies I\u2019ve seen so far, complete with one of the most emotional endings I have seen in a long while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Howl\u2019s Moving Castle\n<ul>\n<li>A heartwarming story with amazing characters that lost me at its conclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spirited Away\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the best animation I\u2019ve ever seen, with excellent voice acting and character design. In my opinion, the quality drops a tad whenever scenes don\u2019t take place in the awe-inspiring Yubaba\u2019s bathhouse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Big Fish of Begonia\n<ul>\n<li>Has a story chock-full of animated fantasy clich\u00e9s, but manages to pull everything off rather well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reading from top-left to bottom-right) Avengers: Infinity War, The Wolf of Wall Street, The End of Evangelion,\u00a0Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"featured_media":23645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,2722],"tags":[1409],"coauthors":[2972],"class_list":["post-23617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ae","category-reviews","tag-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23643,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617\/revisions\/23643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23617"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}