Tag: movies

Thunderbolts has an asterisk because it is The New Avengers. Spoiler alert!

It was the post credits ending, but to get there was two hours of action. Now, people seemed to have been satisfied with the film. I don’t think I was. I hadn’t watched many of the MCU films in the last four years, and I don’t bother with the television series. Therefore watching this movie was like coming in half way through. I felt like I had picked up the comic and found out that I need to pick up the back issues to get what it going on and who these heroes are. Like seriously, who was that one character that was killed?

I’m just catching up. I don’t know any of these characters. I guess I’ll have to read the wiki!

3 of 5 stars.

The Friend is the type of movie we don’t anymore. A smallish movie with well established actors just telling a quaint story. Back in the day, you would go watch such films on a lazy Sunday with your mom. Nowadays, since they are few and far between, they are skipped altogether.

The Friend stars Naomi Watts and Bill Murray. It’s tells a story of Watts’s character struggling to find a home for Murray’s great Dane and dealing with his ex-wives after he dies. It’s a story about mourning, but also acceptance. And a big dog in a small apartment. Watts and Murray were just really great friends, maybe once lovers, but now the friendship kept them together. It is hard to say goodbye with a dear friend one whom you never noticed was one in the first place.

I hope we get a bit more of these type of smallish films, but the future of Hollywood is dire.

3 of 5 stars.

I completely forgot that I saw In the Lost Lands until I saw a YouTube video of several movies from March. It must’ve been a terrible movie.

It was.

And yet I think it was worth watching. Not for a good a move, but for just enjoying bad movies in theaters. It’s a good thing once in while. Not all the time, but once in a while you got to go and experience terribleness on a large screen.

Anyhow, it was a Paul W.S. Anderson film with Mila Jovovich in the lead from a story by the writer of Game of Thrones. David Bautista was in it, and I didn’t know he was Filipino, but he had tattoos that hinted to it.

1 of 5 stars.

The least I can say of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is that it does follow some story from the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. It’s rough structure is there in the text. Does it necessary follow what Tolkien has written? Well… maybe?

The story comes from the before the events of the War of the Ring in the kingdom of Rohan. When they were fighting off the Dunlendings and establishing the Hornburg AKA Helm’s Deep. It tells of the succession of the throne of the kings of Rohan for the end of the first line and the star of the second line which ends with Theoden at the end of the War of the Ring. A bit of history which wasn’t not known, but was fleshed out a bit well.

Since this isn’t really written by Tolkien, I was suprised at how well it adhered to the structure of Tolkiens story. There was the king. His fallen sons. The daughter. The nephew/successor. It was animated which is great for one of Tolkien’s tales. It was made to look as if from the movies, which made it all too familiar. As a Tolkien fan, I liked it.

3 of 5 stars.

Again, I forget to write up a post that I had watched The Wild Robot in theaters sometime this month. Maybe it could’ve been in September? It’s quite late to write it up, and I don’t remember what I wanted to say.

It was okay. I guess.

3 of 5 stars.