What's the last movie you saw?
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A Quiet Place Day One.. 5/10. I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. Too much "feelings" than aliens chowing people...
Bad Boys .. Ride or Die. 7/10. Liked it... but I see they are getting old. (Me too)
Twisters: around 6.5/10. Pretty decent but not as good as the 1996 one. I liked how they reversed the status quo for the chasers.
A Quite Place Day One: 8/10. Really enjoyed it, more than the other two overrated movies. It has actual emotion which is quite rare to see done well.
A Quite Place Day One: 8/10. Really enjoyed it, more than the other two overrated movies. It has actual emotion which is quite rare to see done well.
Saw Beetlejuice 2 and it was alright. Certainly the best thing Tim Burton has done for a while—I didn't expect much going in given Burton's output over the past decade or so.
Bullet-point thoughts:
Unrelated to the movie itself, the theater forgot to turn off the bright overhead lights they use when they clean, so the the room was fully lit for the trailers and part of the opening credits. Herp derp.
Bullet-point thoughts:
- It's interesting how they handled the Jeffrey Jones situation. I think they had a little fun with including his character in such an off-hand/roundabout way.
- Monica Bellucci's character was more of a weird secondary plot device than a character...they could have pretty much told the same story without her and with a few minor changes. There was another character that initially seemed like they were going to be more significant to the story but ended up being disposed of once their purpose as a plot device was fulfilled. I'd say it has an issue with uneven characters and storytelling in general.
- Some aspects of the story just repeat things from the first movie and they make a few obvious nostalgia plays.
- Good practical effects, costuming/makeup, sets and CGI.
- Toward the end of the movie it tries to recapture the fun of the song and dance number from the first movie but just doesn't do it as well.
- It's funny that modern PG-13 standards wouldn't allow them to repeat the first movies single F-bomb. They tried to do it, but they bleeped it out—not sure if they thought that was turning it into a joke or trying to make a statement about it, but it's just weird to hear something get bleeped in a theater like I'm watching a TV edit. I wonder if it will still be censored in the streaming or disc release.
Unrelated to the movie itself, the theater forgot to turn off the bright overhead lights they use when they clean, so the the room was fully lit for the trailers and part of the opening credits. Herp derp.
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Sounds about right. Hard to follow.
Here's an analysis someone did about the movie, likening the uncle to Miyazaki and his magical realms he's created, and noting that it will all come to an end. Very poetic. And if the point of the movie is a swan-song (or heron-song?) of sorts, and a nod to his grandson that he accepts that Goro need not take over the studio and live his own life, then it's less about the plot, and more about the symbols and meaning that it had for Miyazaki.
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Deadpool & Wolverine 7.5/10 Quite a funny and entertaining movie that is just as much about saying goodbye to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine as it is about Deadpool. Cameos were of older heroes, so I felt like this was definitely targeting the 30+ crowd, which is nice. Multiverse stuff was mostly a parody, so it was alright.
Speak No Evil (2024) 7.5/10 Solid thriller even though a large part of it is predictable. James McAvoy is amazing as usual, pushing the family in really clever ways. The Ben character is super annoying due to his reticence to take action.
Speak No Evil (2024) 7.5/10 Solid thriller even though a large part of it is predictable. James McAvoy is amazing as usual, pushing the family in really clever ways. The Ben character is super annoying due to his reticence to take action.