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John Wayne’s last movie The Shootiest is one of the better last movies by a star you are going to see. Directed by the guy is does Dirty Harry
Also one you might like. There is some decent stuff in it, and I think it’s his only directing credit “One eyed Jacks.” Brando also stars alongside old co star buddy Karl Malden. It’s not - great movie, but I think it’s enjoyable. |
“The Shootist” is one I always loved and it’s a note-perfect ending to a great career, but “One Eyed Jacks” is one I have not seen and had debated so so will stick it on my list. Is that the one with Brando in loads of disguises? If not I should stick that on the list too.
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Currently interrupting my Western viewing to watch this new Alan Partridge live show “Stratagem”.
I had no idea it was a thing but it is very good. |
That was great but I’m watching Josey Wales now and 20 minutes in the violence is relentless.
Classic Clint. |
Sam Peckinpah is accused of gratuitous violence… it’s like they never even saw a Clint pic before or any Spaghetti western really…
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They just can't make stuff like that anymore. I feel like Unforgiven was the last great western
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Backrooms - 7/10
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A Man Called Otto
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Teen Wolf: The Movie: 6.5/10
Entertaining affair if you were a fan of the Teen Drama about Supernatural. All the usual things are here. Derek getting his ass beat, Lydia being weird, Malia being a slut and Linden Ashby being the national treasure that he is. |
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If they want our nightmares for film plots they can try making my “every girl I kiss turns into a faceless dummy” nightmare into one.
I used to have that when I was a kid, one weird part was not being able to let go of anything I picked up. I think it was puberty anxiety mixed with self control worries. I had nightmares about Rutger Hauer terrorising me for years after I saw “The Hitcher” too. No nightmares nowadays…used to have a recurring nightmare about my teeth all coming out into my hands, they looked like coal. Fake fireplace coal specifically. The glass stuff. |
Going to watch a horror movie by Clive Barker called “Nightbreed” because I saw a bit and it looked fucking mental.
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it's so fucking stupidly satisfying
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Is it good? It looked pretty high value for Clive Barker. I just liked the term “Midian” because I bet that’s where the wrestler nicked it from.
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And Soon, The Darkness (1970) - 6/10
Decent little who-dunnit thriller Slaves of Satan - 8/10 I think this is the first Indonesian horror film I've seen and it was really good. Likeable characters, some great scares, and a fun twist towards the end. Slaves of Satan: Communion - 8.5/10 Didn't quite feel like the story flowed as good as the first one, but it's better in other ways so it all evens out for me. |
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Nobody is buying a Covid dream when they could have a healthy one for the same price.
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The scariest part would be waking up and seeing a calendar and your own withered legs
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Also loved his character in the movie Hostage as well. |
He was always a great character actor, everybody forgets he was in The Punisher playing a weedy goth type… the guy is probably the best working actor with the worst agent in Hollywood.
Look at the shit he churns out between prestige projects…he clearly cannot distinguish quality from crap. Making a slavery film with Will Smith recently is particularly egregious, and I thought his box-to-the-death concentration camp film was rough going… |
Knock at the Cabin - 7/10
Batista really is the best wrestler turned actor. Movie was fine. Nothing incredible, nothing terrible. Well-paced and enjoyable. |
In honour of Frank Drebin's return (or because I was browsing Crave and saw it was leaving soon)
Pitch Perfect - 8/10 Enjoyed it. Wasn't "ready" to see Max from Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist again, and wooing another braud...... I guess this was like a decade before that it stil.... TOO SOON. Wish that show would come back..... |
The 1st pitch was excellent.
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Destor's gonna miss Drebin when he's gone.
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Reference aside which one of us is leaving :(
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - 2 and 3/4 stars out of 4
I mean, you're getting what they advertise: Ant-Man, Wasp, and their family in an adventure in the Quantum Realm. What saves it from being an absolute drag, and it does drag at times, is that these actors can do these roles in their sleep and they remain likeable and interesting, even though it feels like some of them are somehow given LESS to do. You could chalk it up to all the things they need to cram in, setting up what's to come in this phase. It starts off with a similar problem that Captain Marvel had in that you're being asked to care about too much, too quickly. Seriously, it wastes almost no time kicking off the ride. How enjoyable the ride is depends on how much you feel from these characters and the visuals coming from these set pieces, because there is a lot to point out as fun and creative, even if the story isn't particularly gripping. Kang is no Thanos, in my opinion, despite his intricacies here, so it'll be interesting to see how much intrigue he draws. I do appreciate it not being the joke-fest the previous two entries were, even though there are a couple of good ones. I don't think it's the kick off Phase 5 needed, but I can think of much worse ways to waste two hours. Stick around for two post-credits scenes, which do raise some questions and are enough to get me curious about what's in store. |
I didn't read your reasoning for fear of spoilers but if MAG goes below 3 stars it might be a turd
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I always try writing without giving a lot away with these. I don't think I gave away any major plot twists. Most of what's really juicy is in the post-credit scenes.
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Im spoiler sensitive. It wasnt a dig at you. Once i read the title im just glancing at the score and thats it. No upside in risking it
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Pitch Perfect 2 - 7/10
Wasn't much in the way of a character arc/story in this one, but I guess I was still entertained. |
Pitch 1 is really good. They get worse with each iteration. 2 is shclock but the music is mostly ok with a gag or 2 that lands. 3 is abysmally unfunny and the music is forgettable to ok
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Pitch 1 though is a classic 80s teen love story through a pop musical filter
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Antman 3 - 6/10
I had a good time. Its very flawed but its still a good time. Dunno how much energy i have for my take but I'll give it a shot: Comedicly most the jokes dont land or will land the 1st time and fall flat on the call backs. 1 out of 5 bits get a chuckle. Doesnt ruin the film though. They move on the gags at a brisk pace so if the joke doesnt land there's always another one around the corner. Narratively i like it conceptionally but there are subplots that arent worth getting invested in. They spend their time well enough that the audience knows they dont need to care on these subplots so it can def make the film feel long at parts when the subplots are getting attention because you know its all irrelevant. The core 6 cast members are all mostly good. Scott Lang, Cassie and the antagonist all come off really well. With Jan, Hope and Hank being solid enough. And they do carry the film. I found the villain to be the most compelling Marvel villain not named Thanosor Loki by a wide margin. I was really invested in how they were building him up and its mostly good. Not perfect but itll do. There are some inconsistencies that irk me but theyre mostly the same one that were in antman 2. Contradicting how the powers were established in antman 1 etc. All in all i would say its fun and fine. Its the most enjoyable marvel film since doctor strange 2 |
Yeah I found myself constantly asking how the powers are working the way they were but then they ignored the rules they established pretty much from the get-go.
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania - 7/10
Another perfectly enjoyable product of the Disney Marvel Industrial Complex that I will never watch again. |
Carlito's Way (1993) - 5/10
Far and away the most uninspired work ive seen from DePalma. There really isnt any piece of this film that isnt unispired save for Sean Penn and a single scene with Vigo Mortensen. The writing, the cinematography, the score, hell the casting. Its all safe. Challenging no one in the production or the audience at any level. Now that said none of it is bad. I cant point to anything and say its done poorly. It isnt egregious or anything. Its just paint by numbers and generic. Maybe even lazy. But not poor. |
Leguizamo was ok. He believed himself atleast. Thats not much of a compliment. He was interesting when he was on screen atleast and thats something i cant say for most the film
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Sometimes there were nice tits on the screen :y:
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Id have been embarrassed to release this film 3 years after Goodfellas.
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My only significant memory regarding Carlito's Way is on our way back home from No Mercy 2005, we saw Eddie Guerrero in a limo next to us on particular stretch and he had the movie playing.
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Heat (1995) - 7/10
I think the thing the makes this work as well as it does is the theming. At a first glance we have a Gentleman Theif story and thats all well and good but the throughline is at its core dealing with a man's devotion to work and the sacrifices that are made for excellence. Each of the principle cast that get development, more on that point later, all have a female shadow that theyre trying to reconcile with. All hinging on their lack of devotion. The men all at one point or another chose their work over their women, who symbolically represent their personal life vs their work life. This inability to balance the two leads to disaster for all. The one thing i think the narrative needed was 1 character who had found a healthy balance or perhaps sacrificed work for personal so we could have explored what a better alternative could possibly look like...but perhaps that characters absence is a point unto itself. The opening action sequence stands out as the best shot sequence of the picture and its mostly due to the writting. A man goes to get a refill of coffee. While waiting a semi pulls the the curb. He abandons the coffee and hops into the semi. Cut to paramedics. Cut back the semi. After a short exchange the semi driver asks the former coffee enthusiast to stop talking. Tension between the two clearly hightened. Cut back to the paramedics.the dawn hockey masks. Cut back to the semi. They do the same. This short sequence is a really good example of how to establish a world and how a story reveals itself. We the audience enter the film knowing nothing. We dont know these people or what the stakes are. Each sequence is initially confusing, deliberately. Every step in this scene is on its face bizarre but we're learning second by second about the characters and their alignments in the world. Good men dont often wear hockey masks on a highway for example.if when they all wear them we know theyre a unit. The film has a host of flaws though. Two bothered me more than others. First its Al Pacino. He shouldnt be in this film. Now obviously this film exists to specifically pit Pacino against DeNiro. Not the characters but the actors. Thats the draw in 95. But nothing in the script is for Pacino. The character feels black more than anything and its a terrible case misscasting. The character is overly physical for an actor who isnt physically imposing and the dialog feels completely inorganic safe the diner scene with he and DeNiro where Pacino is finally not portraying a spastic black man in white face. And the performance he gives doesnt justify the casting either. Its 3 hours of melodramatic overacting that would only be toleratable if one or both of us were incredibly stoned. If it were him it would calm him down and it if were me atleast i could laugh. The other major issue is its a 3 hour pitcure, which is fine, that has about 15 principle characters, which is fine, but only 2-4 get any substantial screen time, which is not fine. Danny Trajo is a core member of the primary 4 robbers. Hes in about 7 or so scenes, speaks in maybe 3 of them, and gets about 5 words in each. The getaway driver is another. He gets 3 scenes. Hes fully tied into the theming inside these 3 scenes shown to be freshly out. Trying to stay clean for his woman only to choose the life (i.e. work) over her and fies for his choice. But it is im giving him this full back story contained in very small scenes that makes it all the more odd. In a 3 hour film a total of maybe 5 min is all the time we have for this subplot? And all the cast suffers from this. Kilmer especially. For a film this long to have such little time is a paradox i cant grasp. I imagine there's an entire reel worth of material that didnt make it. The theming is incredibly strong though and makes its message very clear. All in all i think its pretty good. |
Pitch Perfect 3 - 6.5/10
Was still vaguely entertained.... the music was not as good as the second, but the story at least had more of a "story".... however, that story does go off the deep end of taking what started as a grounded "realistic" universe and "jumping the shark".... |
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There’s a weird totally random bit in HEAT where one of the crew kills a hooker and they imply that he’s a serial killer.
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On the surface its pointless. Totally self contained scene that goes nowhere; however each main characters are paired against a woman. The women are symbolically the same thing. Perhaps with him his killing of them implies a man who's thrown away the notion of balancing the two worlds all together. In that scene she seems to anathema to him. More over he fails to function in either world. He's rejected professionally and he rejects the prostitutes affection...but like in all cases in this film it is the man rejecting the woman/personal life.
I didnt give him much thought but that is really interesting. He rejects her more emphatically and has less outside of the work than anyone else and still fails the hardest of all. He isnt presented with an inability to balance the two. Maybe thats the message there. You do have to try. To be a complete actualization of the self. Juxtapose that over DeNiro's character who has this great line "Im alone; im not lonely." Which is a total lie. So while this possible serial killer truly rejects finding the balance DeNiro internally has yearned for it but not pursued it. Deprived himself of it. Dunno. Very interesting |
The guy that plays the hooker killer isn’t Ted Levine, but Ted Levine is in it as a detective or something.
He should have been the killer. Goodbye Whoreses |
They look so much alike you could tell me he played both rolls and id buy it
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Star Beast: Alien Grindhoused - 4.5 out of 5
Its a Grindhouse style campy remake of the original Alien film that is mostly the same film but with a bunch of changes here in there that are subtle in some cases and major in others. |
Does it use the O’Bannon script?
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Oh what… it’s a fan edit.
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Pokemón: Detective Pikachu- 6/10
Look its fun and fine. When its cute its super cute and it does pretty good job at being cute. It respects the world. What it doesnt do is respect its audiences intelligence though. i take special offense when kids entertainment treats their viewers like theyre dumb. I think its the biggest crime kids entertainment can do. They are as dumb as you allow them to be. Literally the 2nd scene gives the villain away and in a detective story that is criminal. Here's a protip: if youre writting a whodunnit your casting economy cant be 1:∞ |
I'd like to introduce you to:
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Cocaine Bear: 9/10. Some excellent use of CGI. The design actually hints at a surprise near the end. Gory at moments, but funny as shit. Ray Liotta's last movie.
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Closer (2004) - 8/10
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Creed III - 7.5/10
Lost a point for Mauro Ranallo saying MAMMA MIA, but gained a point for Todd Grisham appearance. Was "worried" about this movie, especially after watching the first two movies again last week and thinking "I only care about this character in relation to Rocky" Worries were "a bit" warranted and found I struggled to "get into" Creed as a character on his own.... but the antagonist and story was pretty good and "unusually" fleshed out for a Rocky/Creed movie. So all that "together" got me into it even without Rocky Cool style in the fights in this movie too... though things get pretty weird in the final fight. |
there's something about seeing old arena footage in NYC that makes me feel displaced man. It's a feeling I cannot reconcile and unlike any other feeling I've experienced in my life. I can very clearly see images of the city, in that timeline, and yet I've never been.
This bugs me sometimes. Im probably just broken. |
Something in The Dirt - 2/10. Was promising at first and had an interesting concept ant I'd have probably given it like a 5 or 6 but fuck the ending is turrible. The last 15 mins or so can go eat a bag of dicks. Movie itself is kind of a mix of "found footage" (kinda, I guess), dramatizations, and recounting of events filmed like they are making a documentary. Like I said it was an interesting concept the way they did it, and the story, while cliche for the topic, didn't focus on one of the usual conspiracies/secret societies that most movies like this do. It was it's own thing for sure. But again, the last 15 mins made the whole thing blow. Don't watch this unless you want to be angry and confused all at the same time. Oh, and one of the co-leads is a fucking dick. A crooked smelly cheese encrusted dick.
2067 - 3/10. Meh. There's nothing here that hasn't been done way better elsewhere but it has it's moments. The problem is the lead can get very annoying, but I think it's written that way so he's doing what he's supposed to. It's just....bad sometimes. I dunno. I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it or anything but it's not something I'll recommend to someone. Probably won't remember it in a week as evidenced by the fact that having watched it...I'm like 98% sure I watched it before and thought it was meh and forgettable then too. Dark Web: Cicada 3301 - 7.5/10. This was far better than the last 2. It was also not exactly what I was expecting. Was a fair bit comedic, one of the supporting actors was excellent, and the story went in directions I didn't see coming considering I knew what Cicada 3301 was supposed to be going in. Also pulled a few twists that were completely out of nowhere in a good way. Glad they took liberty with it and made it their own. I'll probably watch this again. Was a good time. |
“The Gentlemen” - 2.5/4
Guy Ritchie with yet another home-soil gangster flick. He knows the routine by now, so do we. I’d say his casting in this was pretty woeful besides McConaughey so it doesn’t quite get the 3/4 a good Guy Ritchie film deserves. I wasn’t enamoured by the Hugh Grant movie gimmick either, it’s like pretension for thick people and it reminds me of that awful film he did with Andre 3000 and Jason Statham. The action and humour were typically well staged though so I can’t grumble too much. |
Irresistible- 2/4
Political comedies are never very funny so I’m not sure why I watched it. It was told from the wrong side. The film should have followed Chris Cooper not Steve Carell. |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 3.5/4
James Stewart playing a perfect role, John Wayne the same. Lee Marvin was always better as a villain and he has Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef backing him up so the characters are all very typical, but the way the acting flits between drama and comedy is excellent and the pacing of the storyline keeps the performances at a peak. I had my reservations when I saw how highly it was rated because I almost never agree but this time I have to say it’s one of the best Westerns without having any graphic violence. The plot pacing throws your guesses off too but all in all it is fairly predictable, it may have the best double bluff of all time in it though. There are several huge lines in it that pervade pop-culture to this day, a couple caught me off guard and I don’t like spoiling those things so if you are yet to see it then take the next chance you get. |
Scream VI - I give it a severed thumbs up.
Actually glad Sidney is not in this one, got to know the characters from the last film better and the story didn't have to be anchored to Sid. Good opening kill scene and definitely the bloodiest Scream so far. However, not my favorite Ghostie. |
Bad Day At Black Rock - 3.5/4
I wasn’t looking for a classic but I settled on this because I mistook it for a period Western when it’s actually set straight after WW2. It’s a tightly packed drama with an open mystery so you spend 80 minutes wondering if/when the nefarious townsmen will take out Spencer Tracy. I enjoyed it for the performances and what would have been an all-star cast back in the fifties. There is some very poor violence in it… I think even Spencer Tracy and Ernest Borgnine could put on a better fight than that if push came to shove. Borgnine was a big bastard back then, he would probably have hurt anybody let alone an old man called Tracy. Actors had crazy real names back then… |
Creed 3
7.6/10 |
Even if I wanted to watch Creed 3 I couldn’t do it purely on principle.
I hope Michael B Jordan falls off faster than Tommy Morrison. |
The Scalphunters - 4/4
An unappreciated comedy masterpiece in dark Western sheep’s clothing. It’s actually very well balanced between drama, comedy and Western which should have been harder to do given the storyline but that’s good writing for you. I watched it because it looked like a slightly more intelligent, less questionable Western and it turned out to be an early version of 48 Hours, in fact there is a case to be made for it providing inspiration at least. There are a lot of great lines and the racial element mixes with the fairly overt social commentary to create a self-aware but still boisterous comedy that doesn’t pander. It’s an honest film, even in the practical effects and stunts it’s all good and clean. Burt Lancaster opposite Ossie Davis as leads, Telly Savalas and Shelley Winters in support. The acting is natural but glossier, so it plays like a really well put together B movie long before Tarantino came around. I enjoyed it so much I’ll watch it again soon. |
Luther: The Fallen Sun 7/10
Big fan of Luther the TV series. This is Luther the Hollywood remake but with the same lead, ludicrously over the top and Andy Serkis is a barely believable villain. A decent watch though. |
Luther was amazing for three seasons, that Ruth Wilson chemistry was crazy.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - 6/10
Its shot really well but nihilism is about as interesting as a religious film about finding atheism...maybe that last one could work as a comedy... any way if your films point is nothing matters you should be able to get that across in less than 150 minutes. Not giving a shit is easy. Making people care is the craft. Its REALLY well shot though. |
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There were two action sequences that were SUPER good visually
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The Shape of Water (2017) - 6/10
I typically love Del Toro by my Spider-sense told me to avoid this. Finally gave it a go. The script has all the problems modern writings have and its that it tells you everything. Its a fairytale so its not like the story beats are supposed to be catching anyone off guard. It should be predictable. Fairytales arent about the ending. We know there are only two endings. A kiss or a coffin. In a fairytale we march through the acts waiting for the answer to that choice. No what it tells you is its opinions. Good art is subjective not for the sake of it but because of its versatility. It can mean more that way. It can develop layers that guide us in the future when a new problem exists that the author could have never forseen arises that the work can become a parable for. This tells you exactly what everything represents. It vomits it at you proudly. We dont interpret this script we endure it. As stated the plot is functionally dead until the final frames and the subtext is stripped out too. It leaves us with nothing. Fortunately while the writing may fail the cast doesnt. Everyone is great save Octavia Spencer who only has ever given one performance and only ever will give one performance. But what keeps me overall positive about this film is color. Its through color that Del Tero has perhaps managed to pull this film up a few notches. Id need a rewatch to REALLY analyze it and i dont want to see this again for a very very long time, if ever. The color green has immeanse subtextual relevance. Obviously The Creature is green. The labratory is green. The uniforms are green. The Cadillac is green. The antagonists candy is green. My working theory is based on what the car salesman says. "Green is the color of the future." Again this film lazily wears its metaphor like an exoskeleton so viewing the future as progress and green thus as progress most examples become self explanatory. The Cadillac though i think is the key. When the antagonist sees it he says he doesnt like the color. That he hates green. Furthermore the scene in his home he is seen wearing yellow. His wife wearing yellow offset by green. His daughter all green. His son predominantly yellow but green poking through. Yellow being the old and progress lurking underneath. Bursting at the seams. Taking it further his hand as it rots emits green puss. His body rejects the fingers. He rejects the green. Theres a lot more to disect there but ive written enough about a color. Except for Red. Its the second predominantly featured color. Notably in blood and the protagonists outfit in the final scene. I have no working theory on what red is. I suspect becauase its just striking against the deep greens and its "romantic." But its worth mentioning. At the very least it *is* pretty. But its telling that i leave a 2 hour picture and the thing i find most interesting is whats not explicitly stated... ...but it isnt all bad. Afterall it has a musical number. |
Have you ever seen “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”?
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Watching the Fablemans movie and it's something else. The performances are incredible.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) - 5/10
The embodiment of "fun and fine." The kind of movie that would play on the USA Network and youd come in 20 min into the film and end up leaving on the next hour and a half. If you're bored and find a free option give it a go. Some of the meta comedy is pretty good. 3rd act sucks the fun out a bit. |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - 3 and a half stars out of 4.
My biggest fear going into this was that I was going to find it an overrated mess as everyone and their mother around me just couldn't get off of its dong in praising it. And, yeah, it's not perfect nor the industry-changing spectacle I was expecting, but any nitpicks I found are more than made up with a ton of charm and humor and insight to where the movie can claim to wipe its ass with the entirety of the four Shrek films. Seriously, those look like amateur hour compared to what's here. I might be harsher than necessary as I've always found the original Shrek to be a boring, overrated fever dream. Things are done just so much better in this film. It's surprisingly mature, with its exploration of Puss's character and the dilemma he faces. Sure, it loses some luster as it essentially boils down to yet another fetch quest, complete with multiple parties looking to complicate things for our protagonist, but like I said, it succeeds because of the way it's approached, with clever reimagining of these literary characters, Goldilocks in particular. The animation is so much better, too. I don't know what it is about previous Dreamworks films, but other than this movie and the How to Train Your Dragon series, I've always found the way they animated human characters to be an eye sore. Things look infinitely sharper, better, and interesting here, and the action sequences take a page out of Into the Spider-Verse to make them more fun. Overall, fun is probably the best single word I could use to describe the whole thing. Getting through the Shrek movies has always been a chore for me, but I laughed more and was invested more here in the first 20 minutes than I can claim for those entire movies. The orphaned dog that Puss befriends alone is probably the greatest character created for the series aside from Puss himself. It's hard to find something to completely hate here. |
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Shazam: Fury of the Gods - 8/10
Pretty enjoyable, even if the trailer did give away way too much about it. You can tell that they thought the actor who played Billy was "too big and awkward looking" now because he was barely in the movie. Was always gonna be the problem with live action Captain Marvel.... the kid who plays Billy will always grow and that kinda ruins the "dynamic". They definitely could have made a better/more fun sequel, especially with some of the elements they introduced in the Rock of Eternity but I enjoyed it. I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 and then add .5 for Mary Marvel's sweater melons in the final act. |
I saw The Menu last night.
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“The Ox-Bow Incident” - 4/4
In 75 minutes this film does what takes some films hours. It is a simple but brilliantly told morality tale which takes no tangents and stays focused on the issue. It made me think of Kitty Genovese, Rashomon and Rod Serling. I enjoyed the sincerity of the actors, it has great strength of performance to go with the basic but powerful storyline. It looks Western, it sounds Western but there are no heroes and there is no victory to be found. This is the sort of film that inspired “High Noon” which then kicked off a whole anti-western scene. Apparently it is Clint Eastwood’s favourite film and after seeing it, that makes perfect sense. It was probably pretty high on Sergio Leone’s list too. John Wayne probably found it queer or communist. |
Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania - 3/5
Probably one of Marvel's easier films to make. Just shoot a few scenes outdoors then throw the cast in a big sound stage with a big ass CGI budget and do it up. Could have been better. |
Watching only Westerns for weeks has rendered me very cynical of anybody and everybody.
“Shane”, “Johnny Guitar”, “Never Grow Old” are the best ones from before my only-Westerns period. Now I appreciate Henry Fonda, Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster a lot more. The true hero of my experience is Randolph Scott, who in his fifties was a convincing forty year old. He couldn’t half make a B movie. |
I have fallen wildly in love with Burt Lancaster though.
Possibly the most likeable man on film pre-Clooney. |
I’ll be doing an “only war” period soon.
There are so many Westerns left to watch. Literally thousands. |
It's not a proper western unless Richard Widmark is in it.
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No, no, no.
It's Randolph Scott. |
Nobody is better than Alan Ladd in “Shane”.
It is the human version of Old Yeller. |
Ah crap I always forget the kid died in real life…
Not before making “Hud” though. |
I’d love to do a watch-along for “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers” with Destor.
It’s a western musical about buying wives. Tell me I’m wrong. |
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