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Honest to god i think about it every day since I saw it. So much I appreciate in it, it was really everything I could want in a movie

Priscilla (2023) 7/10 Great companion piece to Elvis, showcases a lot of the darker aspects of their relationship. Extremely jarring to watch back to back due to the frenetic energy of Elvis and how deliberately quiet and still Priscilla was. Only really wish it was longer (spoiler: movie ends after their divorce, I was thinking it would follow through until his death as Luhrman's movie still dabbled in that a bit) and the ending felt like it didn't have as much punch as it should have, though it does end on what should be a more positive note for her. Funny I never had any knowledge of Elvis or anything surrounding him prior to watching either of these, and wound up viewing both movies in a far more positive light than a biopic about a musician I already had a bias towards (Queen)

For some reason watched 3 music biopics in a row Bohemian Rhapsody 4/10 A series of fast-forwarded events with zero tension or insight into the band members as people or how they went to being one of the biggest bands in history. Really disappointing. Constant use of their songs as points of excitement that don't land because within the context of the movie, we are not built to be invested in their creation. Maestro 3/10 Similar issue to the above but it pissed me off more because BR at least tried to showcase a lot of the history, in a pretty terrible way. Maestro took an extremely famous gay composer, one who lived an extremely interesting life pursuing many forms of music and activism, and focused on none of it. We are repeatedly told about who he is as a person and things going on his life after the fact by other characters, while the actual screentime is focused on meandering dialogue that reveals nothing to us that is meaningful or transcendent. It also feels like it uses...

Just gonna throw in various movies I saw in 2023 as well Excalibur (1981): 10/10, a new all time favorite. Visual perfection, and despite critics maligning the lack of character development, I feel anything but that. Boorman did not want to focus on individual characters instead of the flow of time, but the characters' lives are still written and as a result the character can immediately intuit and ruminate on what they've been going through and experienced in the large leaps forward in time periods. Also one of my favorite climaxes of any movie I've ever seen. Can't praise this one enough. Stalker (1979): 7/10 First Tarkovsky film I've seen, was honestly slightly underwhelmed, but at the same time there is a great deal to think about and interpret from the film's final stretch. He's widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time, so I think I need to give some of his other movies a try and see how they gel with me. Could definitely be missing something here...

Asteroid City ??/10 Strange movie, a lot to think about. I don't know that it moved me exactly, but there's a lot it does narratively that impressed me. Think it's Wes Anderson's most complicated film, and it looks fantastic.