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Whoops, that was a typo. I meant 9.5. Fixed it!
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I recently watched the original "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" with the tiny walnut head demons hiding in the walls of the house. I had to watch it because the last time I did I was probably six or seven and it scared the heck out of me. Watching it now as an adult, it was pretty laughable. I'll give it a nostalgic 5/10 because I could still see glimpses of it being scary and the ending is decent.
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It's garbage! I think a 5/10 is very generous of you.
Damn. Only a 9.5 ?Whoops, that was a typo. I meant 9.5. Fixed it!
It got a 5 only because I was able to make it to the end. Thankfully it was on Netflix, so I didn't pay anything extra to watch it.It's garbage! I think a 5/10 is very generous of you.
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Watched Shang-Chi and Eternals over the last two days at Imax. Both much better than I expected. Shang-Chi (7/10) probably because the expectation and hype had worn off and I could just enjoy it for the fun that it is, the amazing fight scenes and the truly OTT ending.
Eternals (7/10) is enormously flawed in a bunch of ways (too long, a lot of detail to absorb, title cards like that are never a good sign, some actors are great, some sleepwalk through it) but it has so much ambition and vision and seems really aligned with what Kirby did, that I couldn’t help but like it.
Eternals (7/10) is enormously flawed in a bunch of ways (too long, a lot of detail to absorb, title cards like that are never a good sign, some actors are great, some sleepwalk through it) but it has so much ambition and vision and seems really aligned with what Kirby did, that I couldn’t help but like it.
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Wonder Woman 84 - 5/10
Saw it was on Amazon Prime so decided to watch it, since I missed it in theatres due to some pandemic... Anyway, I thought it started out pretty good. I liked the Themiscyra scenes and it had some really great accompanying music. Could the film perhaps be better than I expected?
No.
Because then the mallfight happens and it's such a dumb action scene. The tone is all over the place. You have the criminal who is quite extreme in turning from a robber to a possible child murderer and then it's all slapstick sillyness when Wonder Woman steps in... Bad CGI slapstick sillyness.
I think it was just a lazy film. The story was lazy, acting was mostly lazy even Hans Zimmer was lazy by using music from Sunshine (which he didn't even score) and from Batman v Superman. Also every man is a sleazebag in 1984 apparently.
Anyway I gave it a 5 mostly because of the beginning, some of the music and Kristen Wiig. She was allright in this. Better than I expected.
Saw it was on Amazon Prime so decided to watch it, since I missed it in theatres due to some pandemic... Anyway, I thought it started out pretty good. I liked the Themiscyra scenes and it had some really great accompanying music. Could the film perhaps be better than I expected?
No.
Because then the mallfight happens and it's such a dumb action scene. The tone is all over the place. You have the criminal who is quite extreme in turning from a robber to a possible child murderer and then it's all slapstick sillyness when Wonder Woman steps in... Bad CGI slapstick sillyness.
I think it was just a lazy film. The story was lazy, acting was mostly lazy even Hans Zimmer was lazy by using music from Sunshine (which he didn't even score) and from Batman v Superman. Also every man is a sleazebag in 1984 apparently.
Anyway I gave it a 5 mostly because of the beginning, some of the music and Kristen Wiig. She was allright in this. Better than I expected.
My biggest disappointment with that movie is that they had Maxwell freakin Lord, one of the great all-time comic book characters, and they waste him in such a lame movie. . .of course, DC ruined his character first in Infinite Crisis, so maybe that's appropriate.
Anyway. . .
Halloween Kills: 4/10
The kills were OK. Everything else. . .ugh. In fact, the kills themselves suck, because they were so cartoony and inappropriate for Myers himself to be responsible for. *spoilers below* The one where he kicked a door into the woman who shot herself is probably the winner for stupidest. But the story was lame. Mixed messages that didn't make any sense. Characters were unlikable and felt awkwardly shoehorned in throughout without any real need. And the part where he essentially turns into unkillable zombie Jason Voorhees at the end completely turned me off. I enjoyed the prior one, but after this I don't really care about whatever comes next.
Tammy and the T-Rex (gory version): 7/10
Now this is a movie that knows what it is, and was solidly executed, particularly considering that it was conceptualized, written, and shot in nearly no time. Fun and funny, with some memorable, wacky kills, it's certainly the best Paul Walker movie I've seen.
I was struck by how much the guy from Weekend at Bernies looked like Robert Downey, Jr., also.
Anyway. . .
Halloween Kills: 4/10
The kills were OK. Everything else. . .ugh. In fact, the kills themselves suck, because they were so cartoony and inappropriate for Myers himself to be responsible for. *spoilers below* The one where he kicked a door into the woman who shot herself is probably the winner for stupidest. But the story was lame. Mixed messages that didn't make any sense. Characters were unlikable and felt awkwardly shoehorned in throughout without any real need. And the part where he essentially turns into unkillable zombie Jason Voorhees at the end completely turned me off. I enjoyed the prior one, but after this I don't really care about whatever comes next.
Tammy and the T-Rex (gory version): 7/10
Now this is a movie that knows what it is, and was solidly executed, particularly considering that it was conceptualized, written, and shot in nearly no time. Fun and funny, with some memorable, wacky kills, it's certainly the best Paul Walker movie I've seen.
I was struck by how much the guy from Weekend at Bernies looked like Robert Downey, Jr., also.
greygoose
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1 for Pedro's bizarre acting too.
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It truly was bizarre. I still don't know if it was good acting or bad acting. I keep thinking that he was pretty awesome in The Mandalorian and he does a good job there, so I like to think he did his best acting to make it look like bad acting... On the other hand, perhaps it's a good thing that his face is hidden behind a helmet 99% of the time in The Mandalorian...1 for Pedro's bizarre acting too.
greygoose
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He's a decent actor. Game of Thrones and Narcos was when I first knew of him. I think he was just having a laugh with WW84.It truly was bizarre. I still don't know if it was good acting or bad acting. I keep thinking that he was pretty awesome in The Mandalorian and he does a good job there, so I like to think he did his best acting to make it look like bad acting... On the other hand, perhaps it's a good thing that his face is hidden behind a helmet 99% of the time in The Mandalorian...
We did get a good Pedro meme out of WW84 at least.
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greygoose
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I read that in his voice too.
Alien Resurrection : 3/10. Most of those 3 are for Sigourney and Pearlman….cause I like them….
The rest of this film is total garbage, its way too long….and that ending alien hybrid nonsense is awful…..
I didn’t make it to the credits….had to tuen it off…
The rest of this film is total garbage, its way too long….and that ending alien hybrid nonsense is awful…..
I didn’t make it to the credits….had to tuen it off…
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I had absolutely nothing to do and nothing to watch tonight so I decided it's finally time to check out the Criterion Collection version of one of my favorite movies, Chungking Express. I've been saving it, and tonight was as good a night as any.
It's one of my rare 10/10 movies. It has an other-worldly quality you can't even put into words. The exotic backdrop of this insanely overcrowded, horrifically humid, cramped little city of Hong Kong in the 1990s feels like it may as well be another planet.
Like all Wong Kar Wai movies, it just makes your heart ache along with the characters'. You just want to believe that they can find each other, find happiness. Tony Leung is incredible. He just smolders with intensity in every scene he's in, especially when saying nothing. He makes smoking cigarettes look cool the way the Ghostbusters did.
My only critique, and it's not of the movie, it's of this new fancy edition that Criterion put out earlier this year, is that it ruined one of my favorite scenes.
This scene was always silent, with people passing and going while Faye Wong just stares at Tony.
Such a gorgeous shot. And in the new restoration, it has music playing. Faye Wong's cover of "Dreams" by the Cranberries. Not only does it ruin that beautiful silent shot, but it also ruins the montage later where Dreams plays as she's cleaning his apartment, cause now we've already heard it. What a dumb decision. Here I was, happy to FINALLY have this on bluray, and it was NOT cheap, and it turns out I'll need to hold on to my old DVD after all.
It's one of my rare 10/10 movies. It has an other-worldly quality you can't even put into words. The exotic backdrop of this insanely overcrowded, horrifically humid, cramped little city of Hong Kong in the 1990s feels like it may as well be another planet.
Like all Wong Kar Wai movies, it just makes your heart ache along with the characters'. You just want to believe that they can find each other, find happiness. Tony Leung is incredible. He just smolders with intensity in every scene he's in, especially when saying nothing. He makes smoking cigarettes look cool the way the Ghostbusters did.
My only critique, and it's not of the movie, it's of this new fancy edition that Criterion put out earlier this year, is that it ruined one of my favorite scenes.
This scene was always silent, with people passing and going while Faye Wong just stares at Tony.
Such a gorgeous shot. And in the new restoration, it has music playing. Faye Wong's cover of "Dreams" by the Cranberries. Not only does it ruin that beautiful silent shot, but it also ruins the montage later where Dreams plays as she's cleaning his apartment, cause now we've already heard it. What a dumb decision. Here I was, happy to FINALLY have this on bluray, and it was NOT cheap, and it turns out I'll need to hold on to my old DVD after all.
Been dealing with some health stuff, so a lot of downtime and caught up on some movies I’ve been meaning to watch:
Prometheus/Convenant: I had heard/read these sucked, but I enjoyed them both - Prometheus in the lead. I enjoy reading about “alternative” history and archaeology/anthropology, so these scratches that itch. Loved the suit/tech designs.
Daniel Craig Bond Series: I’ve always been a Mission: Impossible/Spy guy but somehow Goldeneye and Casino Royale are the only Bond flicks I’ve seen. I decided to fix that and watch the Craig movies because of the enjoyable discussion in the NTTD thread here. I loved them! Craig makes a very good former SOF turned intelligence operative, in the mold of when such agencies were “new” - I recall a statement from an early CIA guy that the ideal agent is an Ivy League grad who could handle himself in a bar fight. Craig just exudes confidence and charisma. As mentioned in the thread, like many apparently, CR and Skyfall are my favorites; I found things to like in all of them.
Johnny Mnemonic: I love William Gibson’s Sprawl series and several other “classical” Cyberpunk works from that time period; Gibson’s short story Johnny Mnemonic is arguably a “prequel” to his revered Neuromancer, which along with Blade Runner, really codified what the genre would be. The movie? I enjoyed it - cheesiness and all heh. The best thing about it is the design work - not that it’s spectacular, but that it is still very much classic Cyberpunk in the vein of Blade Runner, Nemesis, the Matrix, and not the “generic artstation special” that passes itself off as cyberpunk but misses the mark, thinking that slapping on jaw prosthetics, neon and synth wave is the entirety of the genre.
Prometheus/Convenant: I had heard/read these sucked, but I enjoyed them both - Prometheus in the lead. I enjoy reading about “alternative” history and archaeology/anthropology, so these scratches that itch. Loved the suit/tech designs.
Daniel Craig Bond Series: I’ve always been a Mission: Impossible/Spy guy but somehow Goldeneye and Casino Royale are the only Bond flicks I’ve seen. I decided to fix that and watch the Craig movies because of the enjoyable discussion in the NTTD thread here. I loved them! Craig makes a very good former SOF turned intelligence operative, in the mold of when such agencies were “new” - I recall a statement from an early CIA guy that the ideal agent is an Ivy League grad who could handle himself in a bar fight. Craig just exudes confidence and charisma. As mentioned in the thread, like many apparently, CR and Skyfall are my favorites; I found things to like in all of them.
Johnny Mnemonic: I love William Gibson’s Sprawl series and several other “classical” Cyberpunk works from that time period; Gibson’s short story Johnny Mnemonic is arguably a “prequel” to his revered Neuromancer, which along with Blade Runner, really codified what the genre would be. The movie? I enjoyed it - cheesiness and all heh. The best thing about it is the design work - not that it’s spectacular, but that it is still very much classic Cyberpunk in the vein of Blade Runner, Nemesis, the Matrix, and not the “generic artstation special” that passes itself off as cyberpunk but misses the mark, thinking that slapping on jaw prosthetics, neon and synth wave is the entirety of the genre.
Shang Chi : 5/10
Its been a long time since I have seen a film that was so studio produced like this…
Lets tick the boxes shall we?
I dunno I cant tell.
Seems like they tried to mix Crouching Tiger, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Fast and Furious 9 into one film …..and created a generic mess.
Try to please everyone and you end up really pleasing no one.
Its been a long time since I have seen a film that was so studio produced like this…
Lets tick the boxes shall we?
- Loud annoying side kick supposed to be funny
- Cute animal thing for awe factor
- generic kung fu fighting
- Bad CGI
- Huge plot holes
- Dead mom
- car chase
- reluctant hero
- cameo of more popular characters
- monsters
I dunno I cant tell.
Seems like they tried to mix Crouching Tiger, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Fast and Furious 9 into one film …..and created a generic mess.
Try to please everyone and you end up really pleasing no one.
greygoose
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It's on my watch list however I still have no desire to watch it.
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