mm has reviewed 20 films tagged ‘bluray’ during 2019.
Reviews tagged ‘bluray’ by mm Patron
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Spectre 2015
License to Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 4
It ain’t perfect, but it’s mine.
I really get why people are so bleh on this, but I guess I love Spectre for all the reasons most people don’t. This series is a weak spot for me.
I just love the atmosphere that comes with a spy movie. I love the shadows, I love the spectacle, I love the cool clothes and cars. Spectre falls short in the story department, sure, but…
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Skyfall 2012
License To Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 3
Skyfall is a Christmas movie. Because they say Christmas in it and I watched it on Christmas. Discussion over.
It is also the best Bond movie, because it works both as a fun spy adventure and as a movie.
Bond grows, hurts and is made vulnerable, a rare occurrence for this series. He’s also given an adversary that is garish, intimidating as well as a commentary on this world as well as…
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Quantum of Solace 2008
License To Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 2
Quantum gets a bad rap for some reason. Not sure why. It’s obviously the weakest of the 4, but is it bad? I don’t think so. Except the song. That is very bad. Will concede that one for sure. On top of the odd movies in this series being better, they also have way better theme songs. Huh. Go figure.
Picking up minutes after the last one ended is a fun little…
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Casino Royale 2006
License To Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 1
As someone who rewatched the Bond series in order many years ago, the change this series took between Tomorrow Never Dies and Casino Royale is just as if not more extreme than the
change between Batman and Robin and Batman Begins.The radical pendulum swing from the campiness of prior films comes close to feeling like an insult. Since Martin Campbell is behind the camera (after doing a similar recalibration with Goldeneye) this…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
Let’s just say it’s no coincidence that the people who say this “isn’t Star Wars” have awful opinions of what Star Wars is supposed to be.
Where The Force Awakens excels in delivering the greatest hits, The Last Jedi is an album of new stuff, retaining classic story elements while showing the maturity that the 8th movie in a series should have. Addressing the war in Star Wars being one of the most controversial, along with the audaciousness of showing that…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
Could really give a fuck about the story echoes or the supposed over-reliance on nostalgia (which is big coming from me) when the film has this much great action, characters and visual composition.
The original Star Wars was about a princess being rescued from a castle by an Arthurian figure who loses his Merlin at the end, and y’all dorks weren’t complaining about the “familiar story” then! Because we were kids watching a fantasy story, and *gasp* getting caught up…
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GoodFellas 1990
Losing my goddamn mind waiting to see The Irishman again next week. With this, Scorsese tells the beginning and some of the middle of a life in the mob.
The Irishman finishes up that story with the ending many deserve but don’t get.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018
I am that Harry Potter fan that unabashedly adores (most of) The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Cursed Child. It’s just me. A true party of one.
Every single minute Dumbledore’s on screen is magical here. Jude Law perfectly inhabits the character, bringing in some Harris, Gambon and book Dumbledore into his depiction of the character. He’s always been my favorite HP character, and this series has been time well spent with him so far.
On the opposite side of…
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Shutter Island 2010
You came here for the truth. Here it is.
Fascinating for Scorsese to pick for this phase of his career. The master of films without traditional plots adapts a story so dense it’s meaning changes completely from watch to re-watch.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
Zack Snyder didn’t fail, he just flew too close to the sun.
This rating isn’t as sarcastic as you think it is. I fucking love this movie.
Ultimate Edition, obviously.
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Toy Story 3 2010
The Road to 4: Where’d all this dust come from?????
This movie is emotional terrorism.
Those last 20 minutes.... those last 20 damn minutes......
2 is still the better overall movie in my eyes, but it doesn’t deliver the barrage of emotional haymakers Unkrich, Arndt and co are throwing. And by god does each one land twice as strong as the last.
I’m leaving in a few minutes for 4, AND I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY PREPARED.
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Toy Story 2 1999
The Road to 4: Emperor Zurg, Father of the Year
Wanna know how to write a good sequel? Watch this and take notes.
Toy Story 2 is when we knew this wasn’t just another movie series. While it has everything you’d expect a sequel to have (new characters, villain, backstories) they don’t overpower what this movie’s real superpower is: theme.
Toy Story is about Woody learning to accept he won’t always be Andy’s favorite toy. 2 is about him accepting that Andy…