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Florida Project- I don’t care for miserable movies about miserable people living miserable lives. What a drag. I did however really like the down and out Orlando motel setting.
Excalibur- NOW WE’RE TALKING. I don’t know if I’ll ever forget being 6 years old and watching that fully armored man wrestling with that lady. I can’t believe my parents took me to see it. But hey, it made a huge impression on me and I’d call it one of the most important movies of my life. I think I have a big percentage of that movie completely memorized. Up until LOTR, it was the best high fantasy movie ever made...ironic since Boorman was set to make LOTR in the 70s and wound up using some of the ideas he had for it in Excalibur.
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I wanted to watch Lady Bird on our flight back from San Diego, but for some reason none of the "new" movies were functioning on the flight, so I ended up watching Thor: Ragnarok instead. I appreciated the fact that the director took a far more comedic outlook on it to replace some of the heavy-handed sturm und drang that hangs over all Thor stories since Walt Simonson reintroduced the character to its mythical roots. I thought they went a little far with the slapstick routine, but it was fun to watch the fabled Ragnarok take place (even though I'd played it out dozens of times with TSR's old Viking Gods minigame.) I also watched Beatriz at Dinner, because I like both Salma Hayek and John Lithgow but, man, they needed a better writer on that one. There was no real story progression. It was just a bunch of "poignant" scenes pasted together and Lithgow's role was so ham-fisted and stereotypical as to be pointless. He could have been a series of cue cards for Hayek.
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think i'll go see Love, Simon tonight...
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JUMANJI (with The Rock): I was floored. It was great. Super entertaining. I just wish they’d have foregone the cheap dick jokes because it made me a little uncomfortable watching it with my 9 YO.
Shape of Water: Had no clue that the first 2 minutes would include full frontal nudity and a masturbation scene. Should have guessed because Guillermo. I liked it, wife hated it.
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Starts off like Perks of Being a Wallflower, then morphs into You’ve Got Mail, and eventually becomes a pretty effective drama
Really good and unexpected. I gotta sleep on it and I’ll write a review tomorrow.
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These days, there are better ways to spend your viewing time. This movie is well done, but depressing as fuck throughout, and unless you want to see Martin Freeman just kill it, which he does, you can give this a pass.
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I also watched Black Panther yesterday, which was decidedly not cool.
*** totally major Black Panther spoilers ahead ***
Somehow I missed the fact that the writer/director of Creed was the same auteur behind BP. I turned off Creed after 20 minutes, as I didn't care for the acting or script. I'm thankful I wasn't aware of BP's pedigree before watching, as that would have dramatically colored my viewing of BP. As it was my experience was mostly unbiased.
I'd like to be generous and say that Michael B. Jordan was miscast or misdirected in both Creed and BP, but I suspect that I simply don't like him because his acting is subpar. And whether the fault of the actor or the director, I found the gangster-prince-turned-gangster-king character in BP to be annoying and unfunny. The new king's "wassup" mannerisms rubbed me all the wrong ways in all the wrong places. I found the thick-necked Andy Serkis villain to be far more charismatic and entertaining, and I couldn't believe that they killed him off as early as they did.
BP also seemed to borrow scenes from other movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and James Bond. My moviegoing experience was interrupted multiple times by thoughts of, "wow, that's just like the scene from...". But perhaps it was unintentional. Who knows.
Anyway, I almost posted this in Barney's 5-minute review blog for BP, but I didn't want to clutter the blog with a distinctly negative take. And I've been known to have cranky first-time reactions before. I hated Harry Potter the first time, but eventually I grew to love it as the new generation's Wizard of Oz.
By my best estimate, I enjoyed about 20 minutes of BP - including the more exciting action scenes. Perhaps the other two hours will grow on me. Or, more likely, there will be a sequel that I'll avoid like the plague.
Other stuff: Liked Ladybird and Mr. Right (w/ Sam Rockwell). Didn't care for Florida Project (switched off @ 30 min) or Jumanji. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single Jack Black movie that I've enjoyed. Maybe High Fidelity - before JB was a "star" - and the first Kung Fu Panda?
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I wasn't particularly impressed by Black Panther either, but your inability to finish a whole movie really depreciates the value of your opinions.wkover wrote: I turned off Creed after 20 minutes,
Didn't care for Florida Project (switched off @ 30 min)
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Gregarius wrote:
I wasn't particularly impressed by Black Panther either, but your inability to finish a whole movie really depreciates the value of your opinions.wkover wrote: I turned off Creed after 20 minutes,
Didn't care for Florida Project (switched off @ 30 min)
God knows how many movies I've watched in my lifetime, but it's tons and tons of them. And I've finished 99.99% of them.
I'm now at the point in my life when I won't waste time on stuff that I don't like. If I'm partway through a book and don't care for it (at all), I'll stop reading. Ditto for movies and TV shows. Though some TV seasons will get better over time, of course. Particularly in year 1.
Turning off movies and closing books is a recent development in my life (started about 2 years ago), but I'm much happier for it. I no longer feel the need to finish just to say that I did. Time is the single most important currency on this planet.
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Anyway, I'm happy to switch the conversation into a more productive direction.
I'm wkover, and I occasionally turn off movies when I think that they suck and have no chance of getting better.
Please prove me wrong. Are there movies that you thought were terrible for 20 minutes, and then miraculously got better to the point where you actually enjoyed them? There are probably a few, but for me they're definitely in the minority.
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