@bighirofix Okay so as I was saying, I saw clips and was like "even if the two don't become real friends or a couple at the end, I can just write a fanfic of the two being on friendly terms, right?"
Unfortunately, it turns out Chelsea, the mermaid (who basically is an evil version of Ariel, is ageless and is actually Queen Narissa, who she claimed was her mother...meaning that Chelsea is way older than Ruby. Plans scrapped. DreamWorks? More like Dream-Breaker-Works!
Planning on seeing Mulan on Saturday since that's gonna be Lunar New Year. It's been years since I last saw it, too... @Tyranexx will like to hear this!
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I agree. I often hear people complain about Hollywood not making original movies anymore, but when you ask them if they've seen anything other than (wannabe) blockbusters they say no.
The best movies of last year were all indie gems and international features: Poor Things, Saltburn, Maestro, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Society of the Snow, The Killer, Perfect Days, Past Lives, Air, Are You There God It's Me Margaret,...
Tons of great movies are released each year, but you have to look past the big budget ones.
I'll try to post my thoughts on every movie I see from here on out, to spread the goodness and warn of the crap.
I saw Orion and the Dark this week and I quite liked it.
It has some truly imaginative visuals and above-average animation, a nice message, great voice acting and a beautiful original score.
The first two acts are a bit predictable and nothing I hadn't seen before. It made me think a lot of The Little Prince for example. But the third act, and especially the finale, went places I wasn't expecting and to be honest, at first I wasn't liking it. But when I finally understood what they were going for, I fell in love with its creativity.
Not a perfect movie by any means, but definitely worth watching.
I also saw I.S.S.
This seems to be a very divisive movie, but I'm happy to say I enjoyed it well enough.
It's not a great film or anything, but I liked how ambiguous it was in not explaining everything, including the ending. It was a tense enough ride for being a thriller and I cared for most of the characters.
The special effects were good enough and I liked the original score.
This one is a bit underrated imo.
Complaining about how movies (plus music, fashion and society in general) was better backintheday is all very Simpsons meme, innit.
Some folk hit an age when all the cool/popular stuff right now doesn't connect with you anymore but the secret is instead of waving your fist in the air cursing the new fangled things you don't get like Marvel, TikTok and Taylor Swift or putting on a backwards baseball cap to hide you balding grey hair desperately trying to be a yoof by pretending to like John Wick films, baddiecore and K-pop is just to not care and find the stuff you do like.
The Zone of Interest ain't your everyday movie. I liked it but didn't love it.
The movie follows Rudolph Höss, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, who lives right next to it with his family. While the movie is well acted, directed and shot, it's the sound design that was the most impressive aspect of it for me. The first time I heard those screams followed by a gunshot, I was startled. But as the movie progressed, I somehow got used to it, which is quite disturbing if you think about it. That to me is the biggest strength of the movie. In the beginning you ask yourself how on earth this family can possibly live right next to a concentration camp, but in the end I was asking myself if I could get used to it. I kind of hate myself for having that thought, but that's what the movie did to me.
I have feeling this one is going to linger in my mind for quite a while.
I'm starting to wonder if "Turning Red" was put second on the list instead of third (as it was originally released after "Luca") because it was closer to the Lunar New Year.
By the way, I lost interest in doing this a few years ago but I'm gonna do it for 2023: I used to do a simple three-star rating system (similar to Nintendo Power's "traffic light" system whenever they review games, where green means it's a must-buy, yellow means so-so, and red means "avoid it"). So in this case, three stars means I enjoyed it, two means it's alright, and one means I didn't like it.
M3GAN (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Missing (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Knock at the Cabin (⭐️⭐️)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (⭐️⭐️)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Peter Pan & Wendy (⭐️⭐️)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Little Mermaid (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Elemental (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (⭐️⭐️)
Nimona (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Barbie (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Oppenheimer (⭐️⭐️)
Haunted Mansion (⭐️⭐️)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Monkey King (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Five Nights at Freddy's (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Marvels (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Trolls Band Together (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Leo (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
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Wonka (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Migration (⭐️⭐️)
I’ve been on a binge of movies which folk seem to either love or hate just so I can join in the arguing of how great/rubbish they are.
Book Of Henry, the film that Colin Trevorrow left Star Wars for because this was his passion project. I liked it, I can see what he was going for in a throwback 80/90s family film only tonally it’s a mess, there are lots idea (not enough follow through though) but there’s multiple things taken out of context which will make you go eww.
Romance & Cigarettes, loved this! Kinda fees like a Coen brothers musical.
Eileen, it’s kinda an anti-Carol and it’s more what I wanted Saltburn to be. Big thumps up!
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, yeah I found this eww, 9/11 is being used as a prop and I hate the kid where the choice to show he’s possibly autistic is to make him an annoying little brat. Tom Hanks phones in a performance (pun!) but at least Sandra Bullock makes some effort.
Knock Knock, the Keanu Reeves does a Nicholas Cage move. Thematically and narratively I don’t think it works well enough but I was happily entertained throughout. I do think it’s probably a bad idea having Keanu as the lead, as you’re waiting for him to start going John Wick on people rather than being put into the wringer.
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