Category:Genre: Drama

Moonlight (2016)

Take away some of its pretentious arthouse movie gimmicks, and there is a beautiful story to be had here.

Ah, classic Argentinian softporn, er, arthouse – many hot guys, ample nudity, a sweet love story between two guys, but meager payoff.

Why remake a perfectly fine animated movie, only to make everything look awkward with live motion acting?

There is a great, inspiring story in here… buried under excessive “creative liberties” and lazy caricatures.

The awkward-looking Asa Butterfield is the only thing that saves it from the one-oogie mire.

A movie about necrophilia being… romantic and spiritual? Believe it.

I really want to like this one more. It’s one of those things that make you feel smart just by watching it.

This is a very sweet love story set in space… provided one can accept the premise and how the movie tackles this premise.

And we all leave the show bored out of our wits.

The satirical messages can be hard hitting, but the movie itself is a bit of a pretentious miss. Maybe the book is better.