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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
Cartagia:
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come - The biggest strength of the first film is the simplicity of the set-up, so you are automatically giving some of that up to tee up a sequel, which is just a bit more complicated in the pursuit of one-upmanship. Still a ton of fun, and the cast is having a ball. If you liked the first one definitely check this one out.
WALL-E - Man, I really forgot just how much I love this. The score, the sound design, WALL-E and EVE. Just a masterpiece of a picture. The human story obviously exists only to appease producers who needed to make it marketable, but it's still a sharp and funny satire whose only major flaw is failing to perfectly match the tone of the rest of the film.
Eastern Condors - There is absolutely zero fat on this. Who needs things like characterization when a trio of lady guerrillas is just mercing folks left and right before we even see the first bit of action from Sammo Hung and his squad?
Pandorum - There is absolutely nothing here you haven't seen done better elsewhere, but it is still a totally fun space madness creature feature.
She Shoots Straight - Excellent stunt work (of course), good cast, and a fun plot that just gets a little lost in the melodrama in the second act.
The Departed - Marty makes a soap opera, and it is magnificent.
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood - Aged surprisingly well and is still pretty funny, especially considering all of the issues I have with the Wayans made Scary Movie flicks.
Lady with a Sword - Good stuff. A little bit more than your standard revenge tale by providing a unique hiccup in the heroine / antagonist relationship.
The Valley of Gwangi - The concept and special effects deserved a better movie than what is here. A bunch of bland characters in a boring retread of King Kong.
marvelvscapcom2:
Project Hail Mary - One of the most ambitious films in recent memory. It bites off a lot but manages to chew it. Also one of the most extraordinary and realistic depictions of space and isolation of interstellar travel I've watched. This movie proves that cinema still has fresh concepts or at least old concepts done in a fresh way.
Raging Bull - A window into the troubled and violent life of Jake LaMotta. When his ex wife was asked if he was really that bad as depicted in the film she answered no. "You were worse". Some gripping acting scenes throughout for sure. It also let's itself breathe. It doesn't insist upon itself.
kamikazekeeg:
Hidden Figures - With all the Artemis 2 stuff lately, I figured I'd watch something space related, and that lead to watching this movie. Never seen it before and it was overall a decent watch. Segregated era space race history. I looked it up afterwards and they took a whole lot of liberties to the story. I never mind them shrinking down larger groups of people into a single person, which is what Kevin Costners character is meant to be, they did the same thing in shows like Chernobyl. A lot of what they added or embellished seems to have been done more for the sake of...shining a light on that of segregation more generally, though to me it feels more like creating story beats for the sake of drama than anything else, even if the intention was meant for more noble reasons. Either way, it's a fine film.
kamikazekeeg:
K-Pop Demon Hunters - Don't know why I took this long to watch it, I think I thought it had abit more Korean going on it or something and also wanted to pay more attention to the animation, which is quite good, but since I tend to do hobby or game stuff while watching shows/movies, I kinda just put it off.
The movie is a ton of fun with some catchy songs to it. Decent humor, animation, it's a good time. I don't know if this was just me, but I did feel like the pacing was alittle...quick, I guess. It also felt like there were possibly some story threads that were kinda left untouched, as I felt perhaps there was going to be more with the demons that they weren't just straight evil, the other demon boy band members are non-existent as characters outside of two scenes, and then there's no conclusion to the drama with Rumi's adoptive mother, which I guess could be left to the sequel happening, as they never expected this to be the success it was initially and therefore things got cut or just deemed not as necessary to delve into.
Good watch, might even re-watch it sometime.
Cartagia:
The Tin Star - Basically an excellent two-hander between Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins that looks phenomenal. A character stumbles into the camera after a shootout in way that made sit up and say, "Oh that was so cool!"
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