IT Chapter II Wasn't a bad film, but didn't keep my attention at all. I think that the first one was a better film if I am honest. Really don't understand why the start of the film had to have a pretty gruesome homophobic attack scene either. I could understand it maybe if the attackers got murdered by Pennywise later on but they never show up again. Seemed a completely out of place and over the top way to get the first appearance of Pennywise in to the film.
I got the 4K Blu-ray of Suicide Squad cheap in a holiday sale, and despite low expectations I was still surprised just how terrible it was. That led to me skipping the more recent Harley Quinn movie without hesitation. From what little I've seen of it, I don't think I could stomach their version of Cassandra Cain, either. No way is Batman ever going to fear that frumpy kid they cast as Cassandra. Cassandra has the potential to eventually be a top 3 fighter (probably behind Karate Kid and Richard Dragon and close with her mother Lady Shiva at #3) in DC Comics.
Harley Quinn and the emancipation of the other actresses was not very good. All the dance fighting, and shoehorned lady tropes (omg girls fighting over a diamond), and lame dialog aside, I didn’t feel any connection to anything in the story. Just passing reference to the lamest joker in history. This is a DC problem. What universe is this movie in? What universe is any movie in? They are just machine gunning a bunch of stories with nothing to tie them together. Spray and pray something sticks. The tv shows are better than their feature films. And the cartoons are better than the tv shows.
I though Suicide Squad was alright. It wasn't great but it was fun. Something was just off with Harley Quinn. I mean the story and the tropes were bad but the directing and producing also seemed second rate. The acting was probably pretty good but it was hard to tell.
Palm Springs It was an okay Groundhog Day knockoff. Parasite Koreans make some weird movies. It had some pretty good dark humor but the ending was just straight up dark.
Greyhound it was short and a little bland. Some of the CGI was kind of bad. I think Das Boot did a much better job of showing this part of World War 2.
The Lighthouse It’s on amazon prime video. Watch it if you want to see Willem Defoe be an old man by the sea and rant about sea foam and such. The guy who was in twilight and is going to be Batman is also in it was fine as well. It’s basically those two in a lighthouse. But it’s heavy handed on the artsy fartsy stuff. Not in a thought provoking sort of way but more of a “well, that happened” sort of way.
The Running Man I'm not sure why I decided to watch this but it's actually a little better than I remembered.
Yeah it holds up pretty well. A story of a fascist police state America that uses dumb reality TV shows to placate the masses seems very plausible even though the movie is done in a very goofy kind of way. It also tells kind of a similar story to Hunger Games, but it does it in one movie instead of 4.
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado It was like half a movie. Maybe they ran out of money or the writer had a sudden heart attack and couldn't finish the script. 5/10 Spider-Man: Far from Home I'm not sure I like the direction these movies have taken. Spider-Man should not be Iron-Man. 6/10
I agree on Sicario 2. It had some good parts but it didn't really come together as well as I would have wanted.
Treasure Planet First time seeing it and I believe it's actually one of Disney's better movies. I had to look up why it flopped so bad. According to what I've read it was a combination of Pixar's new CG animation dominating the theaters and Disney actually wanting it to not succeed so they wouldn't lose more money on the sequel.
Netflix is has started promoting a TV-MA rated movie called "Cuties" featuring an 11-year-old group of rebellious twerkers. Something about an adults-only movie about 11-year-old girl twerkers doesn't sit right with me. I'm not linking that trailer here, but Netflix has one up. Great to see Netflix finds The OA to not be worth extending for a third season but they're making sure PedoBear has plenty of new content to watch.
Netflix also has 365 Days, a delightful movie that glamorizes kidnapping, rape, and Stockholm Syndrome. I guess they consider rapists and pedophiles to be an untapped market ripe for growth.
I didn’t know that Cuties was tv-MA. That’s messed up. Is it produced by Weinstein too? Either that or the FBI is getting a list of people who watch it are the only reasons I can think for this to be made.
lol just imagine it being a honeypot and you get added to some kind of government watch list if you watch it
I'm usually one of the last people who would call for censorship and have watched hundreds of "challenging" art house and foreign movies, including pretty weird stuff at international film festivals most people wouldn't watch. I thought movies like "Irreversible" were revolting but would defend it from being censored. But seriously who is the intended audience here for "Cuties?" If they were ballerinas, gymnasts, or whatever interested in some sort of culturally forbidden or suppressed activity in a fundamentalist religious country, I more than likely wouldn't have a problem with that. Little girls twerking and posing in disturbing and suggestive manners in a movie intended only for adults is a very different matter.
The audience is pedophiles. No one else would have any reason to watch or care about that movie. I'm not even joking.
But why would they want attention from pedophiles or people angry about children being sexualized? Doesn’t seem like the kind of attention any company would want.