technicallytyguy Reviews

Surf's Up (2007)

A severely underrated animated masterpiece

[9/10 · 31 March 2021]

No one will get the brilliance of this movie until they watch it in its entirety. No joke, this movie is absolutely hilarious, and unironically a little moving. You must watch this movie to understand what I mean. Do yourself a favor and pick a time to sit down with some family or friends and watch this movie. You won't regret it.

Whiplash (2014)

Extremely powerful but too intense

[9/10 · 30 March 2021]

I really do love this movie. It is powerful in the main character's overwhelming passion and drive to become the greatest drummer to ever live. I really do have an issue with the message though. The extreme levels of intensity that the music instructor Fletcher uses really does more harm than good for Andrew. He breaks up with his girlfriend, almost dies in a car accident, and gets obsessed in his single minded pursuit of perfection. It is an extremely interesting character portrait, but I don't think that it brings along a necessarily good message, but it is definitely a powerful one. It does bring along an extremely important psychological question: should you let your passion drive you to the brink of insanity in order to achieve your goals?

The Social Network (2010)

Absolutely captivating

[10/10 · 30 March 2021]

The character portrait of Mark Zuckerburg is so remarkably inhumane and intelligent that you really wonder what the man cannot do by the end of the movie. Absolutely brilliant biography.