Tag: movies

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.

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.