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Prince of Darkness

 

The practical effects aren't as good as I would have expected from a Carpenter film and the plot feels like it was written by throwing every scientific buzz-word from the 80s at the page. You do get to see Alice Cooper impale a nerd with half a bicycle though.

 

6.5/10

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The Siege: 7/10 - Before 9/11 Avon Barksdale and Lance Reddick were part of the FBI in Brooklyn. This feels like your average '90s thriller. Maybe it felt sensational at the time but other than an army helicopter taking out a gas station I feel like we've seen everything in this movie happen before IRL. I found it interesting that Bruce Willis won a Razzie for this. I thought he played an uptight dick army general pretty well.

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Raya and the Last Dragon - 8/10

 

Yeah, I spent $30 wanna fight about it? I really really liked this movie. This is easily the best Disney or Pixar film since Moana. The message is fantastic(especially given the last few months) but it’s never too on point that you roll your eyes. The characters are great. Yes it’s technically a princess movie but really only on the technicality that they bothered making her Raya a princess. The side characters she meets along the way are also great. 
 

I wouldn’t put in the upper tier with the golden era movies or Moana. While it nails the 1st and 3rd acts the middle feels a bit rushed and the scale of the world sometimes feels oddly small. Also, and this is personnel taste, I really could have used some songs in this. The score is spectacular but everything about this oozed musical. A couple great songs could have bumped this up to the next level for me. Very much enjoyed it. 

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Raya and the Last Dragon - 8/10

 

Yeah, I spent $30 wanna fight about it? I really really liked this movie. This is easily the best Disney or Pixar film since Moana. The message is fantastic(especially given the last few months) but it’s never too on point that you roll your eyes. The characters are great. Yes it’s technically a princess movie but really only on the technicality that they bothered making her Raya a princess. The side characters she meets along the way are also great. 
 

I wouldn’t put in the upper tier with the golden era movies or Moana. While it nails the 1st and 3rd acts the middle feels a bit rushed and the scale of the world sometimes feels oddly small. Also, and this is personnel taste, I really could have used some songs in this. The score is spectacular but everything about this oozed musical. A couple great songs could have bumped this up to the next level for me. Very much enjoyed it. 

 

looking forward to watching when its free for D+

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Mad Max 4k

 

8/10

Kino Lorber did a hell of a job on the 4k restoration. 

One of the things I love about this film is there is a lot of "queerness" on both sides and its never really mentioned or not mentioned in the way an 80's action film would. I am not sure if Miller intended to show it as way to show the "decline of civilization" or as a way to show how people may just not care once the end come around.

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Tenjho Tenge: 8/10 - This is another anime I had wanted to see but for some reason just never got around to sitting down and watching it. Sure I was aware of the girls with the big bobs and the small girl who transforms to have big bobs but didn't know about much else.

Oh yes and the theme song which is also pretty awesome

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ANYWAY - Overall I enjoyed it with a bit of reluctance with some aspects of the story. If you're unaware the story is about a bunch of high school students and the whole school has a bunch of different martial arts clubs and they all battle to become class president (or at least that's what I got out of it). Though my main issue is with the concept of high school kids (seems like a normal high school) beating each other up and the idea of beating and killing them. Something like Kill la Kill I could get behind because it was so absurd and it was obvious that that school was only for fighting.

 

But if you can manage to get past that there is a lot to like. The action is good, the level of detail for the animation is actually quite good (and looks very crisp on this blu-ray version). I thought the story for the most part was good, however, the majority of episodes are flashbacks, like so many episodes dedicated to the past they might as well have set the anime in chronological order. Then the show ends on a somewhat of a cliffhanger. I had to check if I was missing something. 26 episodes and it ends somewhat abruptly. It's been 15 years since this came out so I doubt it will get wrapped up. If anything it's made me curious about the Manga (which I've read is actually a lot more over the top than the anime)

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Coming 2 America - Didn't Finish/10

 

Jesus christ...just why? It's like they set out to make exactly the type of washed-up, ultra-late-to-the-party sequel to a cult flick everyone dreads. I somehow made it 45 minutes into this before turning it off and I'm not even sure why. Just bad all around. 

 

The Black Death - 6/10

 

From the get-go, I didn't like the cheap digital look and aggressively overdone shaky cam but I'm a sucker of dark medieval stuff and there really aren't many films like it out there. I actually like the initial setup a lot and there are some gorgeous shots and atmosphere to be found. I was expecting something more interesting from the third act and while it wasn't terrible, it never came together for me.

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The Black Death - 6/10

 

From the get-go, I didn't like the cheap digital look and aggressively overdone shaky cam but I'm a sucker of dark medieval stuff and there really aren't many films like it out there. I actually like the initial setup a lot and there are some gorgeous shots and atmosphere to be found. I was expecting something more interesting from the third act and while it wasn't terrible, it never came together for me.

 

Is this the Sean Bean movie from 2010 or something else? Cause that was simply titled Black Death, so was curious.

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1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Is this the Sean Bean movie from 2010 or something else? Cause that was simply titled Black Death, so was curious.

Nope, that'd be it. Thought it was The Black Death! I had been meaning to see that actually since it was originally announced but never got around to it. It's free with Prime. It's not bad by any means and it has some very cool elements and moments. 

 

Funny enough, I think the cover image kind of gave me the slightly different expectation. It's one of the coolest things about the movie and yet the shot never occurs unless I nodded off or something.

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58 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Nope, that'd be it. Thought it was The Black Death! I had been meaning to see that actually since it was originally announced but never got around to it. It's free with Prime. It's not bad by any means and it has some very cool elements and moments. 

 

Funny enough, I think the cover image kind of gave me the slightly different expectation. It's one of the coolest things about the movie and yet the shot never occurs unless I nodded off or something.

 

Man I thought the movie was surprisingly awesome! My brothers, wife and I went in expecting an okay movie but the soundtrack, twist in the third act, and epilogue/ending we all found to make it something much more. 8/10 for me heh. Definitely not an action movie as the cover suggests though.

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1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Man I thought the movie was surprisingly awesome! My brothers, wife and I went in expecting an okay movie but the soundtrack, twist in the third act, and epilogue/ending we all found to make it something much more. 8/10 for me heh. Definitely not an action movie as the cover suggests though.

Oh I actually expected it to go all in on the medieval superstition based on the cover for some reason. It's very dark but I expected more...superstitious darkness somehow, hard to describe. Kind of like if The Church (the 80's Italian flick) had less cheese, I'd love to see a movie go all-in on the period's Hieronymous Bosch/woodcut looking horrors. I've been seeing that poster for a long time so I thought it'd be like 'we're going into this cave and there are full-on necromancers and medieval devils and shit' haha. Again I didn't think it was bad at all just it didn't really come together as something that really stuck with me in the end.

 

That shot of him kneeling in the church and praying early on was amazing. 

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When Marnie Was There: 8/10 - When people think of Studio Ghibli movies they think of whimsical fantasy worlds or something like that (With the exception of The Wind Rises I suppose). This was more of a grounded movie dealing with mental anguish. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I like somewhat realistic anime movies / shows. I can't really think of anything bad to say about the movie. The animation is beautiful and the subject matter is compelling till the end.

This was nominated for an Oscar but lost to Inside Out which I haven't seen, so I can't really say if this movie got robbed or not. :p

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Ocean's 8 - 5/10

 

Definitely one of those movies that I totally forgot exists. I have to say, it's pretty good. It definitely passes the Bechdel test (basically if there are any scenes where women are talking to other women about something other than a man, the movie passes the test), and that's pretty refreshing. In fact, there are hardly any scenes in the movie where the characters ARE talking about a man. However, the fact that we get the first all-woman heist movie since Thelma & Louise and what do they do? They rob the met gala to steal diamonds, with nearly 40 minutes of the movie taking place at the gala. That screams of "what would women steal if they were thieves:hmm:?" (and yes, the movie was primarily written and directed by a man)

 

My pontificating about social messaging aside, it's still pretty good. It hits all the beats. For the most part, it hits all the same beats as Ocean's 11, which isn't a bad thing, as that movie fucking rules. If I hadn't seen that movie like 10 times and was able to follow everything beat-for-beat, I'd probably like it a lot more. There are definitely points where it lacks some of the tension of previous Ocean's movies, but that might be because there's only so many times you can copy that formula before the tension is removed completely. "How will they get away with it this time?" etc.

 

Honestly, I think it would be pretty cool if they did a giant Ocean's mashup. I'll never turn down a good heist movie.

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Mank 3/5

 

very well done but i kinda thought it was boring. some interesting scenes here and there. amanda seyfried is amazing though. movie would have been better off if somebody went in and tightened up Jack Fincher’s script. 

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6 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

Ocean's 8 - 5/10

 

Honestly, I think it would be pretty cool if they did a giant Ocean's mashup. I'll never turn down a good heist movie.

 

My wife and I recently rewatched all the Ocean's movies (including 8, which she had seen but I hadn't) and while Ocean's 12 remains my favorite, I have to say 8 was very meh, my wife felt the same. I guess when you don't have Soderbergh it just isn't going to be as good.

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My wife and I recently rewatched all the Ocean's movies (including 8, which she had seen but I hadn't) and while Ocean's 12 remains my favorite, I have to say 8 was very meh, my wife felt the same. I guess when you don't have Soderbergh it just isn't going to be as good.

I look at it like Ocean's 8 just kind of rehashed a lot of the same beats as Ocean's 11/12, which are both excellent movies. So it can't be THAT bad, but it also can't be that good, either. You're kind of hamstringing yourself. It's kind of like The Force Awakens. It's not a bad movie by any means, but it's like "I've already seen this before, only done better."

 

Another thing that Ocean's 8 failed at is establishing characters. Ocean's Eleven is a masterclass at establishing an ensemble cast. That movie has 13 central characters (how "central" they are varies, but still), and it establishes ALL of them to a point where you know at least some of their backstory, why they're there, what their motive is, etc. And it's less than 2 hours long. The DCU could have used that.

 

Ocean's 8 doesn't do that very well. Cate Blanchett's character is just "look cool." Awkwafina is a street hustler that knows how to use tinder, but has no relationship with any of the other characters, and that's pretty much all we ever get from her, and that pretty much goes for everyone else.

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1 minute ago, Fizzzzle said:

I look at it like Ocean's 8 just kind of rehashed a lot of the same beats as Ocean's 11/12, which are both excellent movies. So it can't be THAT bad, but it also can't be that good, either. You're kind of hamstringing yourself. It's kind of like The Force Awakens. It's not a bad movie by any means, but it's like "I've already seen this before, only done better."

 

Another thing that Ocean's 8 failed at is establishing characters. Ocean's Eleven is a masterclass at establishing an ensemble cast. That movie has 13 central characters (how "central" they are varies, but still), and it establishes ALL of them to a point where you know at least some of their backstory, why they're there, what their motive is, etc. And it's less than 2 hours long. The DCU could have used that.

 

Ocean's 8 doesn't do that very well. Cate Blanchett's character is just "look cool." Awkwafina is a street hustler that knows how to use tinder, but has no relationship with any of the other characters, and that's pretty much all we ever get from her, and that pretty much goes for everyone else.

 

Yes - all of this. The characters all barely interact with each other, and it's weird since the whole point with Ocean's films is the ensemble. You are 100% correct. It felt like a cover version of an Ocean's movie rather than the real thing. 

 

Also, Ocean's 11/12 are so damn good. 13 is fine, but not on the same level. 12 is easily the funniest/coolest/most quotable but 11 is still so good.

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6 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

It felt like a cover version of an Ocean's movie rather than the real thing. 

That's a very good way of putting it.

 

I think 12 was so good because it was able to build on the first. Imagine how terrible the Avengers probably would have been if they introduced Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Loki, Hawkeye, Wanda, Thanos, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Ant Man all in one movie, let alone the entire Guardians cast. Granted, it's not a 1:1 comparison as super heroes need things like their powers established, etc, but it still establishes how impressive Ocean's 11 was in its writing. 30 minutes into the movie, you know everyone, you know their personalities, you know at least the important parts of their backstories. And a lot is fleshed out by how the characters interact with each other.

 

We don't need an entire backstory on Rusty and Basher. The scene where Basher is introduced by Rusty bailing him out of a bank robbery, then the way Basher interacts with them for the rest of the movie tells you all you need to know. Compare that to a movie like Birds of Prey, which also had a pretty good cast, but they spent way too much time on their backstories to the point where I was like "GET TO THE FUCKING POINT."

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2 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

That's a very good way of putting it.

 

I think 12 was so good because it was able to build on the first. Imagine how terrible the Avengers probably would have been if they introduced Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Loki, Hawkeye, Wanda, Thanos, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Ant Man all in one movie, let alone the entire Guardians cast. Granted, it's not a 1:1 comparison as super heroes need things like their powers established, etc, but it still establishes how impressive Ocean's 11 was in its writing. 30 minutes into the movie, you know everyone, you know their personalities, you know at least the important parts of their backstories. And a lot is fleshed out by how the characters interact with each other.

 

We don't need an entire backstory on Rusty and Basher. The scene where Basher is introduced by Rusty bailing him out of a bank robbery, then the way Basher interacts with them for the rest of the movie tells you all you need to know. Compare that to a movie like Birds of Prey, which also had a pretty good cast, but they spent way too much time on their backstories to the point where I was like "GET TO THE FUCKING POINT."

 

Yes, 100%. The character element in Ocean's 11/12 is next level, you nailed it.

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