Tag: movies

The Sheep Detectives is worth a watch, because who doesn’t love talking animals? It felt like that classic film, Babe 2: Pig in the City.

I went to watch because I read that it was Knives Out with sheep. Yup.

Charming.

3 of 5 stars.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 doesn’t have any of the charm as its predecessor. It wanted to say something about the present, because it dealt with media, both the dying mainstream magazine and the social media. Yet, it didn’t make any sense.

The main character was still Anne Hathaway except now she was no longer the young naive assistant. She was a writer laid off from a small print magazine who was hired to help conduct PR for Meryl Streep’s editor. Emily Blunt was the head of a fashion house. But why was she here? Beyond the need to see her, she wasn’t really needed.

The movie was a trifling thing. Why did I want to go watch it?

2 of 5 stars.

Project Hail Mary is a fine movie. It reminds me of early 2000s films. I wish we got more like this — something that all audiences can enjoy. Though it sounds nice, there is a danger to that thinking. What we’ll end up getting is something we’ll forget about days after watching.

I post this review several weeks after having seen it in the theaters. I can’t remember much. It was enjoyable at the time, but now it is just a blur. I wish we’d get a BluRay of this. I doubt we’ll get one. Physical media was great. The world burns…

3 of 5 stars.

Hoppers is straight up madness. Here’s the plot: the main character uses an invention to “hop” into a beaver robot to save her favorite pond. She gets to meet the animals who act like animals, then the animal council shows up and takes the madness up a notch.

I’m writing this review vaguely remembering what anything was. All I can do though is to implore you to give it a watch, and you’ll see and experience the madness, too.

3 of 5 stars.

I thought GOAT would be the G.O.A.T., but sadly, I was wrong. It made plenty of money its first weeks out in theaters which made me hopeful for a good animated movie like we had when Pixar ruled the silver screen.

Nope. Not the case.

The story was shallow. The motivation of the characters, the portrayal of them, and their story resolutions were all very shallow. There was barely any substance to it. Many platitudes to make your eyes roll. It was a boring. It tread very familiar territory.

So I wonder why it was pulling in the numbers? Are we thirsty for entertainment? Is this all that we get?

*meh*

3 of 5 stars.

I went into Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die thinking that it would be a fun romp like Everything Everywhere All at Once, but sadly, I was disappointed. I wanted it to leave me feeling good after the characters had battled whatever was causing the dystopia. It left me hopeless. Very dark. Is this the sign of the times? That there is only endless suffering and now matter what we do we can not get out from under it?

The movie is a classic time loop. The character caught in the loop must find the perfect combination to break out, and once they have escaped the world is as good as they had it before. Yet, not really in this movie. It ended and yet, it had to continue. It left you in one of the worst timelines. Now you end up thinking about the other loops and how dark and desperate those are. Nothing is good and you are left in a worst timeline.

Dark. Like I said.

It couldn’t have been best for us because the current world situation is also the worst timeline, and there’s no time loop to jump back into to find the right set of circumstances to make the best timeline occur. We are all in this loop together forever…

3 of 5 stars.

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.