This felt as derivative as I expected Mr. Nobody (2021) to feel. More roadtrip than I anticipated. There are a few good jokes one of which made me spit out my drink in Act III. I still don't know Valorant but I think they did a mostly decent job of video games in a movie. The boy child is insanely cheesy with his finger guns and the movie acts like this is a special signature move and not something every dad does at breakfast.
The reveal is handled poorly like a man revealing he's a gambler at night. Rather than that the family is in literal life or death danger from a group of people who know exactly who they are and what they look like. I don't understand why writers don't get this. A BIG threat doesn't get usurped by a minor threat. You can't get upset at your husband cheating on you if you're literally about to drown.
An excellent balance of action and character. I swore this dude looked and sounded like a younger Sam Elliott and darn it, he was. It's got just enough gratuitous nudity to barely cross over into the gratuitous side. It's got just enough violence to really satisfy your blood lust. Patrick Swayze is bloody charming. Kelly Lynch and Julie Michaels are both good in their roles, their roles just aren't written that strong.
Ben Gazzara is just :chefskiss: as the villain.
It deserves it's accolades. I can see why this is a favorite.
okay episode. nice balance at least.
ACAB
Bleh police hear you know a criminal the their first response is to turn you into an informant. What is the value in this for the you?
'We don't deserve that treasure. We haven't struggled for it' - These are words that people who look like them don't say.
The movie is tonally up and down. It feels like a movie out of time in a bad way.Not a good movie but there are a few jokes that are fun. Not enough to really make it worth it though.
and we have another after school special episode. considering the environment we're in, it's not unexpected. TV Fields want to talk about it. I wouldn't be surprised if next year we have TV shows talking about Israel Palestine or maybe some Eastern European metaphor for it. This one isn't as bad as the quantum leap one. although I have seen better this one at least matches the tone of the series. so it's very preachy and written like it's test dialogue. but again, the equalizer has a lot of dialogue like that anyway so it fits. it's a little cringe into the little obvious, but that doesn't mean it's not useful and it doesn't really seem to be taking away from the episode flow
I'll probably expand this later, but for now I think the movie was good. The cinematography sound design are all excellent. but I think the hunt was a better movie. I think this movie's attempt to maintain an apolitical stance hurt it. not in the box office obviously. but it makes the movie somewhat of a confusing mess. whereas The hunt while satirical is somehow more clear in its messaging.
I think I heard that. Jesse plemons Cameo was done as a favor to his wife. because no one else wanted to. but having seen the scene, I'm not sure why it's not that bad
Solid film now that I've finally seen it. I think Sung Kang who I do love was miscast as a good cop here. His presence which is super cool and laidback just doesn't fit the setting he's supposed to be in. I'd watch another one.
So much charisma and the main actor. Even his English dub has charisma.
What the heck is Antonio Banderas doing in this movie? I was so confused. I spent the entire movie asking myself. Is that really? Antonio Banderas. I haven't been this confused by an actor's guest spot since every time I watch Euro trip and I remind myself that Matt Damon is the singer and I'm not just imagining it.
It's a basic heist pretty basic. The confusing bit is the visuals. The visual direction is very weird in a way that I'm starting to associate with Russia
I gotta stop watching this while working. I had to keep starting and stopping so much I really can't tell if I like it yet. Episode 2 and 3 kinda run together in my head. Unfortunately I'm not sold yet but because I feel like a large portion of that could be due to me. I'm gonna have to give it another two.
Good but could have used maybe 2 or 3 more minutes to get some meat.
Dibs on the light skinned one being evil.
Not as good as the trailer. Not as good as Black Dynamite. But it was still fun. The biggest problem with the movie ironically is that it focuses too much on things like story telling and character growth. They're all very effective but they aren't the comedic aspects. The comedy is there and it's good when it's there. Also considering it's legacy I was hoping for more meta commentary.
Casting Russell Peters as the native group's Big Chief was a hilarious bit of that. I think the final town fight had clips from other films in it though it's hard to tell. I wish it had leaned in more to how some ridiculous some of the behind the scenes tropes were. At one point I thought the movie was going to end in a giant meta break like The Quest for the Holy Grail.
A great season as previously. Honestly the only thing that's really unbelievable in this show, is that in a world where everyone gets powers, that Jen is the only one who is trauma blocked. So many people get traumatized by the big and small challenges of life. The idea that no one figured out it was trauma until now is unlikely.
That's honestly my only nitpick with the season. It's a great season. I've read this is one of the best superhero shows and I'd disagree with that. It's not a superhero show. It's a comedy that takes place in a superhero environment at best and even that would be overstating it imo. Unlike say Boko No Hero Academia or Powers there's really no superheroing to be found.
I didn't like all the changes but they're all reasonable. They're all within character and they're all funny. It's eight episodes of great television. I'll see you next year for the third series.
the visual upgrades for season 5 are a bit jarring. It takes a little while to get used to it. I'm not even sure I like it. but the editing and season 5 episode 2 alone, is some of the worst things I've ever seen. I had to rewatch the whole thing just to make sure it wasn't because my internet was stalling and buffering the episode. It is just a mess editing wise in the top. It evens out in the bottom but still
i think this is the first episode of Luther anyone showed me. It feels very familiar. It's also an awful experience. Everyone is calling him a corrupt cop even his partner in the end but there's no context to whether or not he actually is. Having now watched the previous two seasons the dramatic irony shines through. I still don't like it as much but I can understand it better.
A long week. Shorter with some new players but still good works.
One episode in I thought it was a pretty good show. Two episodes in I was hooked. The cast is great. Idris is of course legendary from the jump. Indira Varma I kinda love in everything. Ruth Wilson wasn't that interesting in the first episode but honestly I was very surprised to see her come back in episode 2. She grew on me rather quickly.
It ends with a pretty strong gutpunch. It knocks Luther back even harder and what a thing it is to see.
I think Bloodlines was a more ambitious show. Bloodlines is a show that took fantasy creatures like Vampires and elevated them in a way that you just don't see.
Well that was an interesting surrealist time. Cage really went in on this one. It was a fun time.
It kinda says something about jail, that, in this show, this dude is facing being imprisoned. Having already been there, he decides he'd rather blow his brains out than go back. This is presented casually. The show doesn't see this as exceptional, barely noteworthy. The average viewer just understands this. It doesn't need to be explained. That says something kind of terrifying about our society. His crime to go back was kidnapping. It's not like he hurt the kid or killed someone.
It's fine. Nothing special yet. Justin is ruggedly handsome enough. The secondary team is compelling enough to meet minimum standards. We have his weekly tropes of fighting for money now and "Contract becomes legally binding upon success" etc.
If you have a gap in your line up this is competent enough to fight for a spot. We'll see how it looks three episodes in. Right now could go either way.
There is a fantastic joke at the endwhen the vampire next door starts to hypnotize the wife but it's not worth watching the entire movie for. It doesn't even have the legs to stand against the original A Haunted House. Unfortunately it's just empty.
It's a really well done show. I just don't care about it. It's nothing they've done wrong. All the parts are there but Loki is just a character who is somehow less interesting than Iron Man or any of the avengers outside of Hulk preMCU. This is like the opposite of Hawkeye where there was a character I didn't like but the show was very engaging and made me care for it. Loki is ostensibly a better show, bigger budget, longer runtime, more big names in the cast but, ehh.
It's all well put together and in the end I just still don't care.
Another great season. It really steps up the emotional component of Jack Reacher which isn't something I didn't know I needed, wanted or was willing to tolerate.
I mean for what it is it's a lot of fun. They bring everyone together for one bombastic adventure. It's a lot of fun. I completely forgot they tried to give Dominic a new love interest. Oh that's Don Omar.. well Leo and Santos are great comic fun.
I do think it's funny that at one point they have a car race to get a car.. and this franchise is so lost in it's ways even now that they just skip the race. "Let's race car for car" :cut: Next scene with the race over.
A much better episode. Fully locked me in now.
Color me cheesy. This is everything I wanted. Especially after that Rick and Morty episode and good lord so I hate when Rick and Morty "tackle popular culture" because they ruin it in the most hypocritical way possible.
But yeah it's a heist film and it's 100% what I wanted from a heist film. It's not the best I've ever seen but it maximized everything I like about the genre. If you're looking for original or fresh or new. You knew from the trailer this wasn't going to deliver. You knew from the trailer every beat this movie would take every double cross. Every surprise skill. Every fake out. You can see them coming a mile away.
For me. That's exactly why I loved this movie. As one of my favorite show creators calls it.. .Competency Porn. I'm not a fan of the "pornification" of linguistics but conceptually it does work.
Four out of ten and honestly, better than i thought it would be. For almost 40% of the movie's runtime I thought maybe this wasn't going to be a bad movie. I thought maybe what if they were wrong and this turns out good. Then I was proven wrong. Just like I was confused when Morris did his big speech. I was so shook but I'll admit they got me on that one.
Long and draining. Which is a shame because what I did understand I found compelling.
That was a well paced, well acted, decently CGI'd TV show that somehow I couldn't care less about. Supremely watchable but I just never invested. Somehow I was more invested in Season 1 and I think this might be a slight bump in quality. Maybe. Arguably. They're both very very solid seasons of TV. This one even has an excellent ending
There are some salvageable parts but the movie is a mess.
they had me in the first half. after the first wish it lost all steam
