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.…
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.
Sorry guys, I didn't hate this. I even kind of liked it. Not in a this is a good movie kind of way, though. More of an it was watchable and I didn't really hate any of it way.
That being said, I definitely empathize with anyone who actively despises this. Even if Jurassic Park isn't that special of a movie to me, I know seeing it was a formative experience for a lot of people. To grow up loving…
One of the things that makes U2's The Edge such an incredible guitar player is that he can't be mimicked.
If you gave Keith Richards, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Jonny Buckland, and Jimmy Page each a month and unlimited resources to perfectly recreate Edge's playing on Beautiful Day or With or Without You, some of them would get close, but nobody would actually be able to do it.
That's a long way of saying only Soderberg can do…
Robocop + Blade Runner = Upgrade
Once upon a time, movies weren't afraid to end on a down note.
The Godfather ended on a lie that would ultimately lead to the demise of a family.
In Rosemary's Baby she gives herself to the darkness and becomes the mother of the antichrist.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's final image is that of the main character being smothered to death post-lobotomy.
Spoilers btw.
Upgrade isn't anywhere near as good as those…
Have directors begun to run towards horror movies instead of away from them?
Hollywood's most profitable and popular genre has seen a renaissance in the last few years. Auteur sensibilities and nuance are being sprinkled into films which had been (justifiably) cast aside as tween magnets with no place outside of the fall movie season.
Starting with 2013's The Conjuring, certain horror movies have risen above that, receiving critical praise and most recently Academy prestige.
Naturally, the apex of this…
So let me get this straight, after 20 years of mediocre, disappointing and downright terrible video game movies, we finally get a good one and all the greasy haired, socially helpless fanboys can talk about is the main actresses breast size? Really?
I know everyone is the worst version of themselves on the internet, but this is just absurd.
Aaaaannnyyywayyy, I really dug Tomb Raider. It held my attention and was just gripping/fun enough to distract me from some pretty bland character beats. I’d be more than happy to go on adventures with Lara Croft every couple years. I hope this does well enough to justify them.
Finally, an answer to the age-old question: What if Kingsman was good?
Red Sparrow has been circled on my movie calendar for quite some time. Mostly due to Jennifer Lawrence finally shedding her Hunger Games skin. Now she gets to make movies instead of being in movies that make her. Between this and mother! I can't wait to see what other things she tries to get away with.
The end result is a deliciously violent, twist-for-the-sake-of-a-twist spy movie I love to see every now and again.
Game Night isn’t particularly funny, and the plot doesn’t make a lick of sense, buuuuut I enjoyed it. Bateman and Jesse Plemons were a ton of fun.
Like everyone, I was caught off guard by the reception this movie, no, this film has gotten. I thought: it can’t be that good.
Turns out, I was wrong. And it didn’t take me very long to find out why. It’s a rare movie that I don’t think anyone can outright dislike.
Paddington 2 is truly excellent and deserves to be in the conversation of the best sequels of the decade. Maybe ever?
2018’s slate of films sure has its work cut out for it.
P.S. Did anyone else get major Grand Budapest Hotel vibes from this or was it just me?