Fight scenes were awesome, the plot..... absolutely was not.
A really, really pretty adaptation of the original story.
Really, REALLY pretty indeed. I can hardly recall a recent movie that had such brilliant set-, costume- and art-design in general. Very well worth a watch even if only for that.
Wow!!!! This is just trash... I was actually looking forward to this... such a let down...
Movie was ok. Not up to the hype. Typical 'hero fights fights hero then they fight together against a common enemy' type plot.
Streamed via HBO Max
Story-wise, it's the weakest compared to other MonsterVerse films. This film is more focused about Kong if you're wondering. I couldn't stand that Millie girl, to be fair I wish the human parts would be removed because I only want to see Godzilla & Kong fighting. But it's entertaining to watch.
Was there a plot or I’ve missed it?
People gave me a hard time for watching every movie in the Sharknado franchise.
That has NOTHING on this movie and just how bad it is.
At least Sharknado knew it was bad and worked off that. This movie feels as though it thinks its actually serious and a good movie.
JFC. I can’t even.
Downloading a power source...................... WTF
I'm embarrassed to say I watched it. I'd rather watch a episode of Corner Gas.
It's a creepy, atmospheric slow-burn. The theme of loneliness explored here is interesting, as is post apocalyptic story of the dead seeping into our world.
Democrats losing their collective x#x# , totally awesome.
Is this a terrible joke?
Let me rephrase. Whether this is true or not, it's a terrible joke.
To what purpose for the storyline was the part with Millie Bobby Brown in this movie? Completely pointless.
I don't know what I expected but this was just terrible. The story was all over the place and fights weren't even that great. How does this get a 92% on Rotten tomatoes? I would skip this one.
If you are looking for a movie that pushes a racist agenda, this is your movie.
Black Christmas isn’t so much a horror movie as it’s a “toxic masculinity” allegory. After pulling a prank on the AKO fraternity the girls of the MKE sorority find themselves being picked off and hunted by mysterious men in black cloaks and masks. Featuring Imogen Poots and Carl Elwes, the cast isn’t too bad, but they’re stuck playing rather cliché stereotypes. And the film just won’t let up on the Me Too politics. It fact, it seems to forget that it’s a horror film; as most of the kills take place off-screen or are cut away from – denying the audience the blood and gore that they’ve come for. Incredibly disappointing, Black Christmas is a jumbled mess that’s more concerned with knocking the patriarchy than delivering scares.
The movie is entertainment and horror fun in it's purest form.
It seems people who are expecting a serious horror are disappointed by this, but being a Raimi fan (Evil Dead), I knew to expect a black comedy in this too. If you watch it with that mindset, it's great fun and highly entertaining!!
Nice historical movie, a bit slow sometimes, but totally enjoyable. Saoirse Ronan made a great work with her performance; Margot Robbie has been wonderful as always.
Black people playing the role of british lords and asian actresses as court ladies are the big mistake of the movie. The politically correct counts more than historical facts.
An honorable mention goes to the customs, which got the nomination for Oscar 2019.
I soooo love it how the trailer completely ignores that the all-female Ghostbusters movie ever existed. Like it never happened, like it was only a bad dream. :heart:
EDIT:
Just watched it. I can't say the movie was spectacular, but it was darn spectacular to me.
I believe the movie paid all due respects to the Ghostbusters and that it was carefully made not to disappoint. It worked!
And yes, I'm high on nostalgia while typing it.
P.S. Anyone else got emotional when Ecto-1 first sounded the sirens?
I love on how the actors we're all cheesy when portraying as their "persona's" while filming the TV show.
A very successful horror decent atmosphere, it's just a pity that the end will be a more interesting end and find out how it will turn out, if they get out of the madhouse and if they survive at all, you won't know. All that remains is to watch the second part and hope that the unraveling of the whole film will come. But even so, a very successful horror with a decent atmosphere, my rating would be a bit higher, but for that end I have to give a mark less, so I rate seven points out of ten, but still a very well-crafted horror. Sorry my English is very bad.
It’s not a movie.
It’s just another bland, soulless mass product that’s primarily aimed at the Chinese market.
Now that WB is the only real studio releasing big movies, it really shows what a joke of a studio they’ve become during the last 5 years.
Not that they didn’t release crap before that, but at least there was something like a good Mad Max, Harry Potter, Matrix or Lord of the Rings film somewhere to be found in their slate.
It would seem Villeneuve and Nolan are the only real talents that are left at the studio.
For nearly every other film they make, they seem to think that appealing to the lowest common denominator will give them the biggest return on their investment.
I.e. the action scenes are more important than the story or the characters, and the scale needs to be huge, even if it looks tacky and fake.
3/10
Very cheaply made. Terrible acting and story. As usual, trailer is better than the movie.
no idea and no skill
Utterly disappointed. Movie felt very rushed and the editing was awkward. They skimmed right through any sort of world building. For example, literally zero explanation of why the Lin Kuei was sent to kill Hanzo or what the motivation is for Bi Han to align with Shang Tsung... or how he was able to live for centuries. The addition of Cole was completely unnecessary. MK is too rich with characters and lore that this addition is completely unjustified. The movie was stuffed with fan service and zero substance. No Mortal Kombat tournament actually took place and they had the audacity to make Shang Tsung say next time he’s bringing an army? Die hard Mortal Kombat fans should feel insulted by this movie.
If this movie isn’t evidence of the need to turn down CGI in Hollywood, I dunno what is.
For as many things as they got right, they got just as many wrong
Overall, the movie was kinda bad. It has some good easter eggs (tho some of them are nonsense), but also too many cheesy-one liners noding the games (you know, "flawless victory", "fatality", "finish him"), kinda force them into it just to look cool. The acting was meh (except for Sanada, who seems the only one who can actually act); the story was rushed and without too much development. I liked they included some less-known characters like Reiko, Kabal and Nitara. The only cool thing is that the keep their promise on the bloody/gore side, so at least we had that. No more than a 5 over 10
