Category: Entertaining

I can’t blog much these days as I suck at it. Well I picked up watching movies over the holidays and I need to catch up to what I saw. Let’s see the last film I wrote about was The Running Man which I saw in November of last year.

So here’s a digest of the movies I caught since then:

Rental Family (3 of 5 stars): My Japan fascination comes out because I only watched it for Japan. Interesting but very much trying to get Oscar attention. Worthy to watch though.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (3 of 5 stars): Cheese balls. It was easy to think this film was going to be bad. It wasn’t that bad. Dumb maybe but entertaining in its own right. The magic was always film technology and screenwriting to make it work.

The Housemaid (3 of 5 stars): I didn’t think there would be a twist. There was. The perfect husband, wife, or family never exists in pretty, young nanny movies.

Song Sung Blue (3 of 5 stars): Made me appreciate Neil Diamond. I didn’t think there would be a twist. It was too real.

Anaconda (2 of 5 stars): This should’ve been more amusing. I didn’t think there was anything humorous to the deaths, but no one really died except the baddies! Could’ve been better.

The Running Man or as I’d like to call it #luigiwasright.

They picked the most angry man to be in running man. It was also a call to kill all billionaires. Surprisingly it bombed out at the box office. Like who would’ve known that a film trying to convince us that the world is shit because of the rich would’ve done nothing for anyone.

3 of 5 stars.

One weekend while checking out the movie listings, I see Roofman. It looked like something to watch. So I watched it. It was based on a true story of a thief who would go through roofs to steal loot from stores. He gets arrested, then escapes prison, only to hide in a Toys R Us where he falls in love with a store employee before ultimately being caught.

Yeah. I guess it was something I was interested in watching.

Movies are better in the theatre. I wouldn’t have watched this on streaming. But I went and paid my $15 to see it. Did I get my money’s worth? Maybe, but it was nice to be outside the house.

3 of 5 stars.

Good Fortune was a movie I watched a while back. It starred Keanu Reeves as fallen guardian angel. Not one that became evil, but one who’s lost his angelic powers. He was hilarious in that role.

The movie was written and directed by Aziz Ansari. It wasn’t as funny as the movie he had playing in his mind before he put pen to paper. Plus, it didn’t make any sense. It was about the gig economy and how terrible it is for everyone. It wanted to be this versions “It’s a Wonderful Life” but failed in every aspect.

I don’t know why I went to see it. Most likely because of Keanu. I miss that dude-bro version of Keanu so much that I guess I had to go to a movie that was getting bad reviews. I’m just including my own.

2 of 5 stars.

As I watched Tron: Ares, I felt that it was soulless. It was as cold as a computer. Yet, I liked it initially better than the previous release. Why’d I feel that way?

It had better action, a more moving story, and it made a bit of sense.

Then a month later, I don’t know why I even liked it. I found this post as a draft several weeks later. I have to post a review, this review just to keep the streak alive.

It wasn’t the best. I hope though they will try to connect it to the previous Tron, but I doubt it considering it lost money for the studio.

3 of 5 stars.

There is an issue of bronze age Marvel “What if?” that asked the question, “What if Sue Richards had died?” Spoiler alert for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In that issue, Sue Richards died giving birth to her son. Her death drove Mr. Fantastic crazy that he decided to kill the villain who had a hand in her death — a villain clueless as to his participation, Annihulus. It was a good read. I remember it to this day. I had thought of this as I had watched Fantastic Four.

While it was a big hit at the start, I believe it fell off quickly. It should’ve had been better with Galactus. It could’ve been better with Namor in love with Sue Storm. Yes. In that “What if?” issue, it was Namor who recognized the despair in Reed Richards. He was the one to attempted to save him. I thought more of this tossed off issue than the film.

Yet, I am not so intrigued for where Marvel’s cinematic universe goes next. As I said, I am bored of superheroes.

3 of 5 stars.