Bria Lou Reviews

  There are quite a few duplicates between this year's list and last year's, but so far this is the only one that warranted a second review. I'm really glad I watched this again. For whatever reason, I couldn't connect with it when I watched it last year, and my review showed that. This year has been a much more successful re-watch. The performances in this film are widely considered to be iconic, and with good reason. All of the actors do an amazing job, but Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins play off each other so well. They are perfect in their individual roles, but also have the perfect chemistry together to make this work. But the story itself is what's most interesting. There's so much going on, with two equally entertaining storylines running alongside each other. On the one hand we have the serial killer storyline, which by itself would be a really interesting movie through the element of solving a mystery. And then we have the Hannibal Lecter storyline, w...

Next up for the Bucket List was a re-watch that I hadn't seen in a really long time. This was the first movie of the Bucket List that I felt like I needed to watch again as soon as the credits rolled.  I don't know what it was about watching it this time around, but I didn't like it as much as I did the first time. I didn't really connect with the story, and it wasn't that enjoyable to watch. Because I already knew and liked the story, this didn't taint my view of it too much, and I expect it was just a case of not really being in the mood to watch it. But in general the film is great. It won a good few Academy Awards, the most deserving of which was for Anthony Hopkins, who was completely amazing in the role and stole every scene he was in. Though Jodie Foster was also excellent. It's a great film and it's entirely deserving of its 'classic' status. I just wish I had enjoyed it more this time around.