Challengers (2024)
★★★★½
This review may contain spoilers.
this movie is fantastic, def not what I was expecting. She lost the ability to play physical tennis so she started playing mental tennis, crazy can’t wait to rewatch
notes below
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- that fisheye shot of the court was cool.
- the score is really good, the way it came in was so cool.
- I like where the tv volume is sitting in the mix.
- I love that the film has been mostly silent up until this point, very quiet and contemplative.
- I like that you hear spider-verse starting in the background lol.
- I like how naturalistic the dialogue is, when they are eating there is such a realism to it.
- I'm loving these birds eye views of the games, much tension many wows.
- I love the piano in this scene on the beach.
- I love the way the dialogue bounces around in this scene in the bedroom, it's like music, the way they interrupt each other, it's so great.
- Zendaya is really good in this, the subtle things that she is doing are really working, there is this nervousness but confidence that is protruding through this flashback.
- the music is going so hard dude, like I thought I might tier of the cue on it but it's working for me.
- loving Josh O'Connor in this, doing some great acting of resentment but subtle, same for Mike Faist, the subtility of resentment that lingers in these flashbacks
- like this shot of them kissing next to the car.
- love the way that this film slowly revealed information, we start with none and end with all we need to know, this atlanta reveal is big, recontextualizes a lot on a rewatch
- why does he compare her to Jesus in this moment? what do you think he really means?
- that red light is so good.
- I don't think we needed the slow mo on him doing the action, more of his reaction? more of Tashi's reaction took to long?
- that final set is really freaking good, the score and the tension, the specticle they all come clashing together
