"I'll hurt more than anyone here — no doubt. Second place or tenth place to me is the same thing: not winning."
I've fallen out of regular Crossfit classes (due in part to the great quarantine of 2020) but every year when I watch the new documentary I get sucked back in — it's crazy to think that some of the best and most moving and inspirational sports documentaries are of a sport that's only 20 years old.
"I hope that one day you can see in me the man that you once hoped I would be"
A very solid movie from a journeyed director and the underrated Ben Affleck, telling a seemingly personal journey of redemption through service; it teems with great acting and directing even though it is a little undermined by being a little cliché.
"Depends on whether they're smart pretending to be idiots or idiots pretending to be smart."
Very interesting to see a counterpoint to so many left-leaning movies, in The Hunt they're the bad guys — it works well, and like most right-leaning media it doesn't completely make sense, but it's one hell of a good time.
"As it turns out, I'm capable of much unpleasantness."
Wonderfully directed, it's such a weird movie, with an offbeat tone that doesn't match the authentic costumes or pageantry of the period it's set in; hilarious, dark, and meaningful, this is worth a watch (and perhaps even a rewatch)!
"You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruths."
Knives Out, while fun, falls apart under inspection - it's reveal isn't shocking, there's little suspense (you know exactly how and why the death happened in the first act), and while the cast is enormous and wonderful, it all feels a bit ham.