Alien: Covenant ugh. many scenes were filmed in rooms so dark it's hard to see what's going on. premise is ok until it gets to them landing on the planet and what happens afterwards. very murky with the explanation of what happened with the black substance from David. His viewpoint doesn't make a lot of sense. Overall it was ok. Could've been a ton better. B-
Double feature. Baywatch - as bad as imaginable and in the first 3 min you had Zac Efron and the Rock dropping about 35 F bombs each!! It was a PG tv show and they made it raunchy profanity filled sex obsessed movie. The plot was right from the show. It sucked. It was a bomb for a reason. Equally bad- The Mummy. Holy shit it was bad. Really crazy plot that was confusing and just weird, really weird. Nothing like the Brendan Frazier movies. And with Russell Crowe's Spoiler Dr. Jekyl and another movie With Javier Bardem in the Bride of Frankenstein - more monster movies are coming sadly. Overall it was just odd and murky. Could've been solid. It was freakingly bad.
Wonder Woman-not as bad as i was expecting but the villain thing was lame. kind of stupid too. That part kind of killed it for me. I will say Gal Gadot is hot as WW.
Caught a bunch of the "Die Hard" movies over the weekend (1-3). Was surprised when I went back and saw what superlative ratings Roger Ebert gave the later offerings (3.5 - 4 stars), while only giving the original 2.5. Would have gone just the opposite way - 4 stars for the original, an average 2 1/2 for the rest. Also re-watched "Ronin" - again, some very strong reviews, but I just don't see it. Performances were fine, but it just seemed too in love with itself with intrigue (a mysterious package with contents we never know, to be turned over to a client whose identity we never learn) and attractive locales. Meh.
I never listened to any movie critic and especially Siskel and Ebert. 2 blowhards that thought of themselves as the norm for what makes a great movie work etc. I'll judge it for myself.
and yes the later DIE HARDS were a quick cash grab. No need for movies 4 and 5. And #3 would've been better as #2 and then end it.
If I like something, I like it; if I don't, I don't. But I usually like to go back after the fact and see what some critics thought - maybe they bring a point-of-view on something that I hadn't thought of or realized.
Agree 100%. I thought 2 was as silly as you could get. I know there's quite a bit of suspension of disbelief with these movies, but 2 was completely ridiculous. One thing to take out 10 or so thugs with guns in Die Hard, but to single-handedly (okay, okay - he had help from a janitor and the airport's communications director :-* ) wipe out a virtual platoon of ex-Special Forces Ops...?
somewhere on the web is something about movies that won best picture oscar and bashed by critics bf it won the oscar. some of the biggest movies torn to threads only to get the last laugh.
yeah axe he's no Rambo ! and there's a bigger problem with Die Hard 2 - the airplanes circling running out of fuel! BWI is very close to Dullies so fly there. Philly isn't much farther. And DC has another airport - Ronald Reagan Airport! To have a plane crash and people die bc it ran out of fuel is silly. to have numerous planes circling in the air waiting to land is even dumber. In times of crisis land anywhere safe-DC, Baltimore, Philly.
I was thinking the same thing. "Oh, we're going to lose our radio contact capability for a couple hours - just circle the airport in the interim." WTF?
47 meters down. ugh mandy moore can't act her way out of a wet sack let alone a shark cage. her dumb sister in the movie coaxed to do stuff she doesnt wanna do like go out to drink at 1 am, hook up with 2 guys they don't know and go in a cage surrounded by great white sharks. the sharks look massive btw. the boat matthew modine has looks like a smaller shitty version of the Orca from JAWS. Typical disaster movie. not enough shark attacks. plenty of dumb logic too like TALKING WHILE your air is LOW. Ugh. Cars 3 - more like morality tale 3. Pixar going for the quick buck here with this crap. Spoiler new age car beats mcqueen. mcqueen gets all sensitive about losing. seeks help. gets into some weird training and leaves. goes to his or doc hudson's roots and comes back. some side story of a trainer car. the ending is so dumb. this is like Rocky 3 story line.
the first one was great. the last 2 sucked. this last one seemed like rocky 3 but for cars. hahaha. and i know mandy moore isn't intellectually stimulating either. hahhaa
the lost city of z. solid flick. a tad long but the true story of percy fawcett who was a british officer who was asked to settle the boundary lines of 2 feuding countries in the Amazon. He goes searching for lost city of gold 3 separate times under harsh conditions and attacks from savages. really crazy story. very solid though. B+
the circle with tom hanks and emma watson. Spoiler a odd movie that begs many questions of privacy and what is truly yours vs the public. watson gets dream job for a company that goes well beyond the norm for privacy and wants to own everything and wants to have their nose in every part of their employees lives. even offers to help with watson's dad's illness. they make her drink something that has a tracker in it to track her body metrics of heart rate, cholesterol, bp, etc. watson has the face of "what the fuck, but never asks it." she says once "you got to be kidding me," when it comes to putting trackers in kids to prevent kidnapping. it's all way too creepy and no one seems to care about how big brother is watching, crazy and wrong all of this is. it's like 1984 for Orwell. finally things happen and watson decides to put the CEO and other partner on a live feed and everything they do including all phone calls and emails are public. that doesnt go over well. to me it's all too creepy to have everything live and open to the public. now the book was written pre-facebook but with the technology we have now, it's not too far from our current tech world. i just hope not as creepy and damn so approving by everyone.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 - Dead Men Tell no Tales... It should've been called "The Search for Ways to keep milking this franchise!" They need to stop making these movies. It was bad. Depp wasn't funny and it was slapstick crap! Even the plot sucked! Bad! F-!
Bleed for This-true story of the rising career and then car accident and comeback of boxer Vinny Pazienza. Doctors said he would never walk again, let alone box and he did and won titles after the accident. Actor Miles Tenner does a great job as Paz in the recovery scenes wearing a Halo. Aaron Eckhart does well as Trainer Kevin Rooney. Great stuff. B+
Spiderman-Homecoming F-! Spoiler too much Ironman. Too much Tony Stark. The actor who is Spiderman is whiny and complains the entire movie. The villain is not really a villain but out for his own gain. he's not some maniac like the Green Goblin. Having the Stark angle ruins the whole image of Spiderman as the suit went from being home made by Parker to a tech suit from Stark. He tracks him the entire movie too. This is another non-Spiderman thing that doesn't happen in past movies. Spiderman is not an Avenger. It's stupid to tie him into them. And where is J. Jonas Jameson? Nowhere to be found. Another bad omission from this movie. Same with the girl he likes. It's not Mary Jane or even the other one. It's Liz. Wtf is Liz? Lame. The first 45 min was all mashed together too. All too quick and no real development. No idea what the hell was happening. Just bad all around.
