Watching Locked Down as we’re living in “unprecedented times” will be a different experience than people in 30 years will have, which whether good or bad, makes it useful.
They need to know how cringe zoom chit chat is.
They need to feel the awkwardness.
THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH THIS FUCKING SUCKS.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a movie rely so much on news footage to tell its story. Snyder uses it for exposition, literally explaining the story as it happens and providing commentary so the audience gets what he's going for.
This movie is so dumb. I love it.
If the Snyder Cut isn’t this dopey and nonsensical, I will be very disappointed.
I never go back and watch Shyamalan’s movies, so by the time a new one comes out, I tend to forget how unhinged his dialogue and direction of performances can be.
I just don’t understand how he gets actors to speak Shyamalan, both in tone and cadence. It’s almost like he casts a spell that makes everyone go back psychologically to their first acting lesson.
This definitely has some “What? No…” Wahlberg moments in it, and they had me howling.…
In an alternate universe (whether better or worse idk) the ol' Snyder never got into the DCEU and instead spent the last 10 years making movies like this, Sucker Punch or the owls movie that I'm not 100% certain exists.
Instead, Army of the Dead is more of a return to his roots, his bloody, no-holds-barred, take-it-or-leave it roots.
There's not much in Army of the Dead that other filmmakers couldn't do but nearly every frame (partially because he shot the damn thing himself, king shit) is exploding with Snyder's dude-bro energy, which I'm a big fan of.
Reminiscence got off to a really fun start! I loved how the sci-fi, detective and noir elements were blended together, and it was obvious that Joy was psyched to get them in there.
But as it went along, I found myself a little overwhelmed by the twists, turns and depths of the story. When I saw what it was all leading to, I couldn't help but wonder how much you could have streamlined without losing the essence of the thing.
Yeah, it could have used an extra script polish or two, and it's very derivative of Seven and Prisoners, but I like a good detective/serial killer movie every now and again, and The Little Things scratched that itch for sure.
I've never been the biggest fan of anything Matrix or Wachowski, so my expectations coming in were pretty non-existent.
Seeing it post-Spiderman certainly was an interesting experience, as each grapples with the history of the franchise in their own distinct, but polar opposite way.
While I didn't love how this went about exploring that past, there's enough there to think about that will grow on me over the next couple days unlike that other movie which to put it kindly:…
Sheridan found his niche with American frontier action thrillers a few years ago and now he’s milking the concept for every last drop. I love it.
The idea of him getting his hands on something Batman-related is very exciting to me. I hope he gets the chance if it’s something he wants to do.
John Mulaney voice: A gazeboooooo!
Joe Biden ✅
Tom Brady ✅
Godzilla ✅
So many wins these last few months, I love it.
The human stuff is still pretty bad (love how often they show a character looking at a bended photograph of them with someone from their *dark past*) but there are a few kinda fun parts as opposed to KOTM which was a beating.
The monster stuff is still pretty cool and I had fun laughing at the goofy parts so 3 stars I guess.