Seasonal rewatch of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). It’s amazing how many critiques the movie makes and how many are still relevant
Man of Steel.
I did enjoy it. Solid 8/10 on trakt.War of the Rohirrim.
It was all right. Fun and in-universe, but didn’t feel Tolkienesque or grand. I felt like it borrowed too much from, or tried too hard to connect with, The Lord of the Rings films. They were even immediately mentioned in basically the first line of movie, felt really unnecessary. It was chill though.
The Wild Robot. It was amazing.
TerrorVision, Video Dead, slumber party massacre 1&2, valdez is coming, the boys from brazil, the revenant, hall pass, horrible bosses
The Six Triple Eight - it’s a great story that I can’t believe I never heard before, some of the acting was great, but some characters felt forced. Like the sassy grandma or the mom worried about money. Or the friend with the potty mouth and the preacher’s daughter who always got offended. It really felt like they had a checklist of stereotypical characters to have.
I stopped watching about halfway through. I just couldn’t watch anymore after ::: spoiler spoiler the scene where she gets upset about the dog tags that ends with them just going, we’ll find his letters, then cut to swing dancing. :::
Gladiator. Last time I saw it was like 10 years ago and my wife hadn’t seen it yet.
IMO the sequel is average at best.
I really need to rewatch this one to see how mediocre the sequel actually is.Was she entertained?
Can’t wait to see the sequel
It’s good and entertaining but not amazing like the first. The spectacle the first one created was new for modern cinema, which the second still does but it’s lost the novelty, even by introducing novelty. Worth seeing, but not a classic, like the first. Most of the plot is a bit predictable and follows the plot beats of the first.
What we do in this life echoes in eternity, taken to its extreme.
Battle in Seattle (2007, trailer) - A remarkably stacked cast (Martin Henderson, Michelle Rodriguez, Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Carpenter, Andre 3000, Channing Tatum, Ray Liota and Rade Šerbedžija) give the dramatization treatment to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. The movie freely admits that no individual stories depicted actually happened, which undercuts the message a bit and does a lot to turn the whole thing into simple entertainment. There a LOT going on: the first internet-organized mass protest, a do-good-er on his last strike, police attempting to manage mass unrest, doctors and lobbyists with urgent needs that are overshadowed by rioting, non-violent vs black bloc protest tactics, and media coverage of the whole thing. Any one of these angles would have probably made a better film in isolation. Bunching them all together didn’t provide enough space for any to hit home.
Finally checked out Heretic.
I liked it, and recommend it. Hugh Grant is great as a charming psycho, and it’s refreshing to see victims that actually use thier brains.I like the beginning and the middle. The ending just not what i expected.
The reason he was doing everything? Or the escape?
The escape. I like why he was doing it but the escape seems like shorthanded. But great film though.
I thought
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the vent was odd. But then I remembered that room was basically a loop.
It was pretty quick, maybe if they added another minute or something of trying different things.
Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) just finished on tv as I scrolled past this post, parts feel directly ripped off from Big Hero 6, not bad, but nothing too amazing.
Also watched Baby Done (2020) with Rose Matafeo who I love, which was fun if a little heteronormative. Got a great gif out of it though, thanks for the reminder:
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I also started watching The Ghost Goes West (1935) earlier today but nodded off halfway through, not sure I’m missing much in terms of plot, but I might try and watch the whole thing through if I get the chance, just to see how Florida was portrayed lol
And then… Then there was Triangle of Sadness (2022) - private yacht going liberal Hollywood sniffing its own farts pretending to be at the vanguard of progressive thinking, or in the immortally centrist words of its creator: “I am equally as hard on the poor as I am on the rich”, which tells you everything you need to know really. Much like current events- there are brief and fleeting moments where the true villain/s get a minor sampling of what they deserve, but ultimately they still come out on top, and only after the victim is portrayed as the real villain (because the creators, and the privileged in general, can’t imagine another way, only the tables being directly turned, and their victims treating them the way they treat their victims), before the status quo, which was never under any real threat, is restored and liberalism wins once again lmao. The fact that it’s being lauded as some ingenious political satire is deeply depressing.
E: I also watched films like Junior and Sister act, and some of the other 90’s classics that are regularly on tv, but I’m sure no one needs introducing to them, and I also feel like I’m missing some other lesser known films, but my brain is a bit of a sieve lol (E3: to prove my point: I’d completely forgotten I’d watched Everything Everywhere All at Once, and definitely not because it was forgettable lol)
E2: also the latest Jurassic Park sequel is on tonight against fuck all else, so I’ll be watching that, followed by Ferris Bueller’s Day Off lol
- Beauty and The Beast(1991)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937)
