I’ve been watching Moon Knight with my kid every week and love it. First episode was a 9/10, second and third episodes were a 7/10 and the latest was back to a 9, or an 8.5. Oscar Isaac genuinely pulls off two different characters.
The Adam Project was…okay. Entertaining and fun but obviously sci fi time travel stuff often involves pretty lazy explanations of stuff and features huge plot holes. Ryan Reynolds and the kid who plays his 12 year old self do a good job. 5/10.
Netflix made a movie called The Bubble - comedy about rich actors shooting a movie during the pandemic. Tried watching it when my sister visited last week. It featured some funny parts but was just awful. It should have been a 10-15 minute sketch where they could have packed all the jokes together and it probably would have been hilarious, but it was 2 hours and I decided to start cooking food halfway through it and glance in every once in a while. 2/10.
It was better than “Bly Manor” (many of the same actors/actresses) and had a decent build up. Sometimes I guess I just want my horror to end in horror instead of wrapping everything up neatly.
Michal Clayton on Netflix. “Problem fixer Michael Clayton is brought in to clean up the mess after one of his law firm’s top litigators suffers a breakdown while representing a corrupt chemical corporation in a multi-billion dollar legal suit. Under pressure to appease the firm’s clients, Clayton finds himself torn between his desire to do the right thing and a pressing need to pay off spiraling personal debts.”
New York City, big money, lawyer stuff. Above average for the genre. 7/10.
The Dry on Amazon. “When a federal agent (Eric Bana) comes back to his drought-stricken, rural hometown to attend the funeral of a childhood friend, his return opens a decades-old wound… the unsolved death of a teenage girl.”
It’s mystery/thriller with a new case and an old case. There’s lots of clues and red-herrings and flash backs. Again, I feel like I’ve seen 100 shitty Netflix movies try to tell a story this way and suck. This was SO much better. Plus Eric Bana. And it was nice to go to the rural country side after a New York City movie. As a prisoner of the moment, I’ll give it a real enthusiastic 8/10.
Go see Top Gun: Maverick on the biggest screen you can.
Between that and Dune I’m regaining faith in our movie industry’s ability to make great films that entertain without a barrage of woke crap getting shoved in your face.
Well you should be a satisfied consumer overall then, wouldn’t you say? It’s not like you’re living through the 1980’s with almost no progressive woke storylines, characters or narratives to be found in most cinema. Let me tell you, those were dark times indeed.
I remember back in '86 when we had some really gnarly lake effect snow, which led to awesome dad-constructed snow forts, which led to awesome Star Wars Hoth battles with our awesome Star Wars toys. We had the AT-AT and speeders and snowtroopers and everything.
Of course this naturally led to spirited discussion among my six, seven and eight year-old friends and I about whether Lando Calrissian was a transgender lesbian space communist, a pansexual fuck-fiend into woke feminist robots or a cisgender heteronormative male out on the hunt for some regular old female action.
We had to wait 32 years for the release of Solo to learn that Lando is, in fact, a pansexual fuck-fiend into woke feminist robots.
I was being sarcastic dude, I don’t really like “woke” stuff in movies, it makes movies feel corny. No words can describe how fearful I am for the new Blade movie Disney/Marvel is making. They’re gonna screw that up….
Say what you will, but Gen X wrote Twilight. It’s just that Millenials and Gen Z couldn’t bear the thought of homoerotic vampires with sparkly skin and werewolves with abs, long hair and atypically dark tans.
It’s based off of a series of semi-trashy but fun novels by a guy who co-wrote with Tom Clancy a bunch. I’ve read five of them, am now on the sixth, and they range from not great to pretty good, so while I wasn’t expecting much, I really couldn’t have pictured a worse final product than what I just watched.
It looks as if they mashed all the books together, kept the general plot line from the first but just throw characters in at random. Not a second of it makes any sense. One of the top figures at the CIA is not a middle aged man like in the books, he’s like 30. The original trainer of the worlds top spy is also not a middle aged man, she’s like a 70+ year old woman. They pretty much eliminated all middle aged men from the movie, except Sir Donald Fitzroy, an old British spy who is now just Billy Bob Thornton. They must have thought it was bad to keep the Korean assassin as a Korean guy so they cast a skinny Indian guy, I could go on and on, it’s just hilarious.
It’s got Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob, Chris Evans, etc. so it’s not as if it’s a nobody cast, it’s just all bad choices.
It’s a 0.5/10. It’s not a fun kind of bad either, just frustrating.
While reading reviews of The Gray Man and marveling at how many people were positively gushing over it, I found a review that I was in full agreement with. It said to go and watch Target Number One (Canadian indie-ish movie released in the US as Most Wanted, it’s on Prime Video), starring Josh Hartnett, some French-Canadian dude, and Jim Gaffigan.
Jim Gaffigan TOTALLY kills it, just amazing acting from start to finish, Hartnett is great, the story is based on true events (and stays fairly true), and I was very happy to sit through the 2 hours.
Tough to grade without going overboard because I watched it after the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time, but I think I can safely give it a 7/10.
We started the gray man. Have about 30 minutes left, and I think I am calling it quits.
I believe in the sunk cost fallacy. It drives my wife crazy though. I’ll stop shows when I no longer enjoy them. Half way though a season, I’ll just be like this went in a terrible direction, and I will not be watching anymore. She thinks because of the time we had into it that we should finish it. I think if I am not enjoying it anymore, and don’t see a reasonable possibility of enjoying it, that I should stop watching.
I was being sarcastic dude, I don’t really like “woke” stuff in movies, it makes movies feel corny. No words can describe how fearful I am for the new Blade movie Disney/Marvel is making. They’re gonna screw that up….