Was dragged to Wuthering Heights over the weekend. Didn't hate it as much as I was thinking I would, but still a waste of time. Dumb story. Dumb characters. Just...dumb.
Yeah I took my wife to it since I knew she'd like it.. I didn't hate it. I mean I could watch Margot Robbie just stand there so...
The acting was pretty good, the aesthetic was very cool, scenes and sets and costumes all well done.
Basically if your goal was to take a generic romance novel and make the best produced movie for all time of it with the cover art as your guide then this is probably the best example of that possible.
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My goodness Black Phone 2 was terrible. I enjoyed the first one but couldn't even finish this one as I didn't care to see the last 20 minutes which is extremely rare for me to not finish watching a film. It appears like they had a decent enough budget but the material was just so bad like it was hatched in in an amateur's basement.
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Saw Hamnet today, a great movie but in no way a feel good story, the acting is beyond great, the story strange and sad, I ended up trying to hold back my tears but I'd had overdose training in the morning and lost a kid a few years back to an OD so was in a fairly emotional place to start off with, maybe not the best day to watch a movie about a boy dying
As a parent this movie was very difficult to watch. Great performances but the agony and depth they go into around grief was unlike anything I've watched in a long time. As someone who's experienced some loss lately, that was a tough revisit.
My goodness Black Phone 2 was terrible. I enjoyed the first one but couldn't even finish this one as I didn't care to see the last 20 minutes which is extremely rare for me to not finish watching a film. It appears like they had a decent enough budget but the material was just so bad like it was hatched in in an amateur's basement.
Oh it gets worse in the last 20 mins
A movie that got worse and worse as it went on
So perplexing the route they went after the first one
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Scream 7 was not good, it felt really predictable and the ending lacked any real punch. I think it's time for this franchise to die, there is nothing new they can do with Scream 8......unless they go to space.
Scream 7 was not good, it felt really predictable and the ending lacked any real punch. I think it's time for this franchise to die, there is nothing new they can do with Scream 8......unless they go to space.
"Scream 8: No one can hear you scream...in Space!!"
That might be so preposterously ridiculous that I might actually consider watching it.
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I watched Interstellar for the thousandth time. Of course I am bawling whe the wife come home. Thinks i am rididiculous. She would never make it through that slog. Great slog though.
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Absolutley love that movie
Hated every minute of it. Thought it could have been ended in any possible way…and still would have fit. Gobblede#### in its entirety for me.
It’s a typical Nolan movie. The plot is completely non sensical. At times feeling like a series of vignettes loosely tied together by a common thread.
It’s got a lot going for it. The performances, the score, the visuals. It’s got heart.
But Nolan has always struggled with story. He’s no Mel Gibson. All his movies are like this. He writes a bunch of cool scenes and has an idea of the themes but the plot/story can’t be scrutinized because it never makes any sense.
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More James Bond. Feels like I began the Brosnan quadrology a month ago, so I had to go back and read what I wrote on letterboxd.
Goldeneye 3/5
I expect to get roasted for this: nostalgia has been kind to GoldenEye; watching it again, I'm far less inclined. It is not a bad movie, but it is entirely overrated.
The first act is a mess: uncertain tone, awkwardly cut, and lifeless. It races through exposition without establishing momentum, mistaking volume and velocity for narrative drive.
The film steadies somewhat with the (re)arrival of Sean Bean, who supplies a hint of menace and gravity. Supporting characters are basically caricatures, and the action sequences sprawl without purpose. The tank chase now feels overlong and ridiculous. The screenplay strains for seriousness it never tried to earn, repeatedly pulling the rug out from under itself with unexpected tonal lurches.
Tomorrow Never Dies 2/5
Might be the most ‘ok’ 007 film of them all. Not quite as bad as its reputation, and it at least has some vibrancy and colour. As Bond villains go, Elliot Carver is among the weakest. You can see what they were aiming for at the dawn of the internet era, and there’s uncomfortable symmetry with the world today, but Carver lands as a thin, unconvincing antagonist.
The World is Not Enough 2/5
If you're able to mentally excise the really bad parts– treat them as outliers–then taken as a whole, I guess the movie sort of works. Oddly, this is probably Brosnan's finest, nuanced turn at bat, like he was really settling into the role of James Bond. I already talked about Marceau, Richards, and Carlyle (great, terrible, absent). “I thought Christmas only came once a year” jeeeesus chr--right, ignoring the bad parts.
Die Another Day 1.5/5
I actually like Toby Stephens here, but the character he plays is a joke. It doesn't help that the writers pulled this script straight out of their ass: the leap from North Korean colonel to British-Icelandic business magnate in 3.4 seconds isn't the foundation you want to build on.
Halle Berry was OK. Her Cuba scenes were . . . watchable, much less so in Iceland. Also, I'm pretty sure no one involved in this film's production has ever been to Iceland--but now I'm just being pedantic.
I'm now nine 007 films in (11 if you count the two I haven't reviewed yet), and so far zero Bond villains have been pedophiles. Huh.
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Watched Die My Love last night. Has a great cast, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Cameo from Nick Nolte.
I guess this is about a woman with sever post partem depression going into sever psychosis. For the most part it is a drag, it just doesnt click, some ok spots but not enough to draw you in. If you are into seeing Jennifer Lawrence in the buff, this is your flick, she really seems to be into it in this movie.
6/10....8/10 for Jennifer.
Was dragged to Wuthering Heights over the weekend. Didn't hate it as much as I was thinking I would, but still a waste of time. Dumb story. Dumb characters. Just...dumb.
I read the book in High School and I hated it. A pack of undomesticated equines couldnt drag me to that movie.
Like you said, everything was just dumb.
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Ugly Stepsister was fantastic, felt like a dark fairytale come to life with some insane body horror scenes that will leave you feeling unwell. I'm going to be thinking about that ending for years.
The basic premise is a re-telling of the Cinderella story but this time through the stepsister's point of view, and in order to improve her chances of marrying the Prince she undergoes some dark ages cosmetic surgery.
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In inadvertently watched an evil AI tries to take over the world double feature the other night. These two movies have way more in common than I expected.
Megan 2.0: A strange decision to abandon the horror elements and interesting over reliance on technology themes from the original to make a generic save the world action movie. There are some good moments here with Megan being an interesting character with fun dialog but it’s mostly a mess. Was bored by the end and disappointed from the muddled themes that seem to undo the good message from the first movie. It’s a bad Terminator 2 remake. 4/10
Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning: This movie is way too long and doesn’t live up to the last 2 epic instalments, but is still a mostly fun ride. The plot is a bit of a mess trying to wrap up the story from the previous one while also putting a bow on the entire story, and too much time is spent explaining the plot with melodramatic conversations about saving the world. Also could tell this was lower budget with a lot of scenes taking place in small rooms with a lot of the action being small scale fights. The two big action scenes, with the sub and the planes, are some of the best ever though with edge of your seat excitement and tension which makes watching this worthwhile. 7/10
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