Challengers - Review (No Spoilers) - Zendaya Delivers In Luca Guadagnino’s Savage, Sexy Tennis Drama
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2024
- My review for 'Challengers', directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Zendaya
Follow Me on Twitter: / colebrax
My IMDB Profile: www.imdb.com/name/nm1529083/
Wrong Reel T-Shirts for Sale: teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel
#Zendaya #Challengers #tennis 
Развлечения
LOVED this film. I don't play or watch Tennis, but these tennis scenes were exhilarating. The three leads were outstanding. Great direction, Cinematography and editing. And the score by Atticus Ross and Trent rezner was so good hearing that in a Dolby Cinema, it almost made me feel like I wanted to start dancing in the theater as if I was at a house music festival haha 🕺🪩🪭
I thoroughly enjoyed it as well. Luca Guadagnino is rapidly turning into one of the most interesting directors active today. Fingers crossed, Zendaya's fans show up in droves.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock I know. I want this movie to do so well. My audience was having the best time, it was packed and there was a lot of laughing and visceral responses to what was going on. So they were engaged in the story.
Saw it this evening in Dolby but want to see it again in IMAX. Was blown away by the film and how Luca incorporated tennis play throughout even in simple conversations. Zendaya was also a producer on this film and the writer is married to Celine Song (director of Past Lives). Totally agree the script was so refreshing. The Emma Stone pivot comparison is interesting given they both have Spiderman history.
You could even take the Stone/Zendaya comparison one step further to Kirsten Dunst working with Lars Von Trier on Melancholia. Seems like going from working on Spidey movies to art house directors is a tried and true path at this point.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Ah so true! And so great to see all three women doing excellent work recently!
Great reviews. Zendaya having an amazing year so far.
Totally. Technically this movie was supposed to come out last Fall but they wisely postponed it during the SAG strike so that she would be available to promote the release of the film.
i’m one of those zendaya fans you mentioned lol my friend and i have tickets for opening night! rarely would i ever say no to a movie full of hot people anyway but daya can make anything a must see for me 🤤
Very cool! I hope y'all enjoy it as much as I did. I'm rooting hard for this movie to find a proper audience. Fingers crossed, Zendaya and Guadagnino will work together again.
This movie was absolutely electric from start to finish!
I was surprised how real the tennis looked in Battle of the Sexes but with wooden rackets you didn’t have to move as fast.
It’ll be interesting seeing how realistic the tennis is in Challengers given how fast and basically superhuman today’s players are. There’s not much action shown in the trailer.
When the placement of the tennis ball on the center of the racket again was such good storytelling. Loved this movie
Just take my money dammit.
Luca Guadagnino is developing a serious hot streak. Feels like he's entering the prime of his career.
The ending is so badass.
Wow! I kept seeing these u tube promos for this and saying No! But now I really want to see this!
Loved this movie so much! I've been obsessed with Luca Guadagnino since Call Me By Your Name and I loved all his major movies since then: Suspiria, Bones & All and now Challengers! He just delivers!
I loved Call Me by Your Name, so I am looking forward to this one. Thank you, James!
Edit: I may be absolutely wrong, but I was thinking about the plot of Challengers, or at least what I think the plot may be, and I am getting Y Tu Mama Tambien vibes. I could be wrong. Regardless, I am pumped for this film now. Also, sorry for using the term "vibes". I know it is cringeworthy, but I am still waking up, and the coffee has not quite kicked in yet.
I loved Y Tu Mama También and had the unique and awkward pleasure of watching it next to my stepmother in the theater.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock - Lmao! Oh, wow! That is awkward.
The only awkward movie-related story that I can offer in return is that a friend of mine had a one nightstand with his long-time crush. What movie were they watching when they sprung into action, so to speak? Free Willy. Needless to say, when he told his friends what happened, the jokes wrote themselves.
Great review. Movie experience golden goose will always be the writing. This is a stunning movie and a greater direction of production
Luca Guadagnino is rapidly turning into one of my favorite directors working together. He's amassed a really cool filmography in a relatively short period of time.
You prob knew this already but Justin Kuritzkes’s partner Celine Song…
I did not know. That's quite a power couple.
Also in both Past Lives and Challengers there are characters name Art and Arthur…. How wild is that?
And they're both about love triangles
It's a shame Luca Guadagnino isn't as big (or bigger) of a draw to this movie as Zendaya...who as she stated has never been the star of a movie. I was pretty impressed with her in Dune and Euphoria, so hoping the best for her! Anyway, can't wait to see this!
This movie was amazing. I don't think people are expecting what this movie brings. The writing, the acting, the editing, and the directing. It was so sexy and good. Zendaya really brought her A game. And, yeah, that scene with her and Josh in the dorm 🥵🥵🥵🥵. This reminds me of when Anne Hathaway went topless in "Brokeback Mountain" because that was sort of her way of saying I'm not a kid anymore. I enjoyed all aspects of this movie, including tennis eve ln though I am not a tennis fan. But thanks to movies like "King Richard," I can certainly appreciate the competitiveness of the game.
In my Top Ten of 2024.
Yo Jimmy Hancock! Have you been over to X-Men 97 yet?! Ho Ho Ho Jimmy, are you gonna splitting a grin for that one. Go Getcha!!
The trailer didn't appeal to me. Not planning on seeing it. Like you said, a little unclear on the marketing.
This is a surprise for me. The trailer was pretty uninteresting to me.
Well hopefully I've excited your curiosity to a degree. I can't promise everyone will enjoy it, but it is definitely one of Guadagnino's more entertaining movies.
The only issue I have with the film (maybe its the film student in me) is that it feels that Tami (Zendaya character) doesn't have a character arc or doesn't change or consequences by the end of the film and the end tennis match is for me just director telling the audience "look at me I'm an artist, i can do all these crazy artic shots and slow-mo for the 20th time in ten seconds."
I had a slightly different interpretation on the ending where Zendaya's character, who is obsessed with the idea of seeing some real tennis from the beginning of the movie, finally gets to see these two dudes face off to the best of their ability.
Hmmm.. on the surface not my thing but you may have sold me.
If I can just put the movie on more people's radar, then my work here is done.
I just changed my mind going to theatre when I saw zendaya as a lead cast. Sydney sweenie would have been a better cast.
Sorry, but didn't much care for this -- Jules and Jim (1962) for Gen-Z, and little else to recommend.
I dont know.
She cant act 🥱
Same character and face.
Really dont get whole hype around her.
Same wuth Tom Holland.
Manufactured succes.
Timothy Chalamet actes circles around them.
What have you seen her in? Did you watch Euphoria? If not, you didn't really see her acting showcased very well
@@purekinema cmon.
The same can be said about R Pattison .
_Did you see him only twilight ? '
After one bad franchise - he had one great job after other. With indie directors. 👻 Zendaja - 😅
Seen her in dune (terrible chani - worst casting of a great movie )
Spiderman - 🥱🥱🥱
Greatest showman - 🥱🥱🥱
Cgalangers - her acting 🥱🥱🥱
Same face, boring acting.
Industry plant.
So out of 5 projects she was great in one 👻
I am glad you like.her 🥰
@@salomaonplanetsaturn Didn't know you watched Challengers. If you did, then you can have an informed opinion. But in the others she doesn't get a chance to star.
Y tu mama tennis bien.
That was probably the most over directed film I’ve seen in quite some time. That close up zoom in where Zendaya is crying by herself taking her brace off had me laughing.
Some might say over directed, I'd say hyper stylized.