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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
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Melania - Shallow, sycophantic and absent a single unguarded moment, melania is a near two-hour infomercial disguised as a documentary. It does nothing that a sloppy campaign ad on network TV doesn't do, it's like a skippable ad that you can't skip. And extremely tone deaf and boring. And that's me attacking it with no bias. I just like learning. I want documentaties to give insight into the person. I'll watch a documentary on anyone or anything. This is very dull surface level propaganda. I walk away empty.
the basketball diaries - Basketball diaries is a true story based on the life of Jim Caroll. A man of many professipns who comes from a troubled past. The movie is a reflective transparent look into his life of drug addiction and excess. And the 2nd half of this film perhaps portrays the nasty, debilitating struggles of addiction. As someone who comes from one of the Opioid capitals of America and see addiction in my friends, and even family. Leonardo Dicarprio perhaps paints that somber portrait of self destruction better than anyone. It's terribly moving.
Cartagia:
The Shadow Riders - Very well-crafted for an early 80s made-for-TV joint. Pretty good cast, sturdy L'Amour plot (though nothing special). Music doesn't really fit the production.
The Housemaid - Campy trash but entertaining campy trash.
Strange Darling - Just an absolute showcase of killer performances from Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner. Really loved the dynamic between them. Looks absolutely phenomenal, with really striking lighting.
Return of the Street Fighter - Fights are good, plot is non-existent, missing some of the brutality that made the first stand out. It's totally fine.
Wicked: For Good - Look, I know the first half wasn't perfect, but I still really like it... what happened? The second half of the play isn't as strong, either, but they really dropped the ball across the board here.
Dead Heat - The overall concept is a lot of fun, and it wants to play everything fast and loose, but the humor is super hit or miss. Might have been better played completely straight.
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Super Mario Bros Movie
The Mario Movie truly sucks. It is the typhoid fever of movies. I am so sick of it's hype, it's sequels hype, kids loving it. The posters. It all feels like i'm in the bad dream. I'm sorry. I hate the idea, execution and finesse for the movie. It's another example of us eating spooned garbage designed for consumerism by a company or better yet companies who lost the plot. I can't even pretend it's good and the sole reason is Chris Pratt. Almost exclusively. And anyone with objective thinking will agree. It's dumpster foder
Remember when companies would actually give a care in the world about respecting source material? Remember when VAs were unknown and talented? Remember when they wouldn't cast some American Irish Catholic sellout who can barely act as himself to play possibly the most notable Italian accent in pop culture outside of Joe Pesci? It'd be like having Mr. T play Link. Mario is "its a me, mario" and hes peppy. Hes all over the place. But most of all hes an italian plumber from new York. Its the most simple premise to nail. First at least get the character correct. Then distort it later. It is so insanely idiotic Hollywood's obsession to just recycling the same 5 names to play roles. Collective multi film contracts have killed film industry as a whole. Jack black is also beaten to death but at least I can imagine him as Bowser he sounds like Bowser. Bowser rarely talked in the games and being gruff is about all that's needed.
Chris Pratt always plays himself. This isnt mario. And truthfully. The price you pay a Big budget actor to do this. You could have either gotten the actual voice of Mario or if he didn't want to do it. Get someone who sounds literally exactly like him. The Mario impression is so abundant online. It's not hard.
Why do I gotta hear my film Mario sound like a blockbuster Employee 4th generation American who eats CBD brownies. No New York accent let alone Italian. No pep. No spunk. Even without the accent he doesnt have the pitch. It single handedly removes the character from any premise of objective immersiveness. It's a complete joke.
Oh did they just phone in a side character? Maybe give Wario to PewdiePie? Nope. They ruined and half passed the titular character and possibly the most iconic video game IP ever. So sad.
It does numbers off little kids who know no better and weird millennial fomo
Chris Pratt as Mario was and always will be one of the worst decisions in film history. Im sorry. You couldn't have chosen a worse actor to play Mario. So with the main character ruined. They try to fix it by flashing lights and making goofy sounds and songs for kids attention spans.
It's bad bad lol.
Literally 10/100
Cartagia:
Extreme Prejudice - Justified by way of cocaine fueled 80s machismo. Great cast, loads of squibs, and just an all around good time.
Zootopia 2 - Rehashes the themes of the first, but with enough of a twist to still feel pretty fresh. The meta jokes almost all made me chuckle, but it does lean on them a little too much. All-in-all a solid Disney sequel.
Iron Angels - Super brutal with tons of squibs, gunfire, torture, and henchmen deaths. The kind of discovery that makes me so happy that a lot of lesser known and forgotten Hong Kong features are getting attention from boutique physical media labels.
Iron Angels 2 - A little lighter on the action, but with a far more coherent story. Also arguably not even a 'girls with guns' film, since it spends a lot of time with the male Angel and his bros.
Bottoms - Liked it even more this time. Love how it juxtaposes pretty drastic realism against complete absurdity.
3:10 to Yuma - Thought it was fine in 07 and thought it was close to great today. Ben Foster is an absolute menace.
Iron Angels 3 - Worst of these by a huge margin. Gunfight choreography is abysmal, plot is non-existent, and Moon isn't even involved in the final action sequence - which also has a laughable hero entrance / reveal.
It's not all bad, though. A badass evil white lady is the main villain, the body count is huge, and there's an incredible kickboxing interlude in the middle of the film that might be the best fight in the whole franchise.
Infernal Affairs - Infernal Affairs vs. The Departed is maybe the prime example of style and execution being the key differentiating factors when comparing an original to the remake. The plot is exactly the same, but the movies couldn't feel more different, and they were only made 4 years apart. I still personally prefer The Departed for how much a focus it puts on developing the personalities of all the characters, but Infernal Affairs is still a perfectly paced breakneck thriller.
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MICHAEL - Intensely magical, perhaps doesnt tell the average fan anything they didnt already know but I learned a lot about the man. Michael's legacy is so sad and cruel that this is a great visionary portrait into his life. Directed by his own brothers, sisters and family. It is really well done. With deeply emotional but also amazing parts of symphonic mastery. Jafarr captured the soul for sure. One of the better biopic of recent memory.
devil wears prada 2 - It's a elegant and cute return to fashion. Pun intended. The cast is superbly talented but it perhaps lacks the syncopation and overall mood of the first. It's fine and had nice twists but overall didn't engross me like part 1. Mostly due to a more subdued Miranda Priestley. Imo Emily Blunt is the star of this one in both character development and story pushing drama. Which sets the stage. It's funny and great but often feels like the shadow of something monumentous
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