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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
kamikazekeeg:
Last Breath - Always a got a thing for an underwater movie, so this one is a diving incident with a pipeline repair crew, true story situation, bad weather leading to a diver getting left on the sea bottom and then it's about trying to save him as he runs out of air. Decent enough story. Nothing super stand out, but being that it's a true story situation that doesn't have anything big and flashy going on, it does what it needs to with a couple recognizable actors and solid performances.
Cartagia:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Just terrible. I mean, really terrible, and yet it is still way better than I remembered.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Megan Fox is legitimately missed, and Rose Huntington-Whiteley does not even come close to filling her shoes. The action is an unabashed spectacle but is missing any real emotional resonance with the story. Also has the same problem of the last film, treating any unnamed Transformers as generic robots that can do whatever the plot calls for at that moment.
Transformers: Age of Extinction - Something I appreciate about these movies is that they didn't forget they need to be car movies in addition to being about big robots... until halfway through this nearly three hour movie. I actually was super into this for the first hour or so, but man, it just keeps going and going. Then it pretty much drops the ball with the Dinobots.
Transformers: The Last Knight - The only one of Bay's entries that could reasonably be considered an actual kids movie, while also being the least Transformers-esque. I appreciate the attempt at a lighter tone, but that's completely opposed to how utterly grim the stakes are. Mark Whalberg parries a sword swung by a giant robot. Anthony Hopkins is having a ball.
Bumblebee - The best of these movies by a large margin, but it still has a few of the same issues as the previous five - namely tonal balance. Are the Transformers intergalactic murder machines or toddlers?
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - Better than any of the Bay films, but not quite as good as Bumblebee. An all-timer 'You're never gonna believe this!' ending.
The Harder They Fall - Absolutely stacked cast and packed with style, but the second act really drags. Doesn't help that the villains are far more interesting than the heroes, either. Has that Netflix sheen where, despite the fact they obviously spent a fair amount of money on it, it still feels cheap.
Cartagia:
Friendship - I didn't dislike this or anything, and even though I knew the general premise going in I wasn't really locked in to its overall message and vibe until the finale. It's got funny moments, but honestly didn't get as crazy as I expected based on the pedigree, and the moments I laughed the most were all smaller moments. Good performances all around, and excellent music choices.
kamikazekeeg:
Minecraft - Gonna be honest...I made it to Lava Chicken, which is around 40 minutes in and stopped lol I didn't expect it to be good and I'm usually all for a silly comedy, but the whole thing feels like a bad parody. I'm also kind of a Jack Black apologist, I like him in most anything, but this is just cartoonish levels of Jack Black done in the wrong way. It's all playing directly to the camera and it just feels off to me. I've watched all the way through far worse movies, and it's not specifically bad, to me it's just not working. Maybe I'll go back, I don't know.
Sully - For a more serious and better movie, got around to watching this. I'd actually seen clips for awhile, bad habit of watching clips for movies on there sometimes, not many, but for some reason, a few would pop up for this one about the flight tests at the hearing, so I'd seen all that, but the movie is a decent biographical drama, nothing flashy, nothing over the top, I appreciate that they didn't hype up the actual crash with big music or anything and we even get it kinda twice from different viewpoints slightly at a certain point before the crash and it works well for that. I didn't even know this was a Clint Eastwood film, and I think he can understand when a movie needs to be as grounded as can be.
As usual for a biographical drama, I like to look up the wiki, see what people thought, how accurate it was, and it sounds like they did a decent job. There was maybe abit too much to make out the Safety Board investigation as being more out to find Sully as being in the wrong, which I can sorta see in the film slightly, but didn't think it was too aggressive, and that's about it, otherwise it's apparently on point, so good to know.
Cartagia:
The Long Walk - Felt kinda flat on a technical level, and I don't think it really hit the right notes in the ending, but it's another solid dystopian contest from Francis Lawrence. Excellent cast generally does a great job selling loads of expositional dialogue.
RoboCop - The only thing that has aged about the film is that some the satire doesn't seem so far fetched today. ED-209 is maybe the greatest stop motion creature ever made. While often called an action movie, there's actually very little action, with great editing and an amazing soundtrack giving the illusion of action.
Batman - The only other movie that feels like this is Batman Returns, and even then, some of the more noir-ish aspects are missing. 80s and 90s Burton was untouchable.
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