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Kong : Skull Island was absolutely woeful. Dire, shambolic, uninteresting and Tom Hiddlestone is probably the worst tough guy in modern memory. He stinks as the The Night Manager and he stinks here. Silly giant things give way to silly characters and even sillier set ups while Tom takes everything soooo seriously. Samuel L Jackson cashes his 500th film paycheck and John C Reilly and John Goodman phone it in. Brie Larson literally has nothing to do and the ethnic couple actually survive. You'll want to watch it because King Kong but don't even bother.
In the stinker stakes The Great Wall takes a fair beating. Equally as nonsensical, Matt Damon is the greatest bow and arrow shooter slash mercenary with a heart while the guy who has his eyes gouged out that one time plays his bro. Fighting green things that could more easily take over China than we're led to believe and Willem Defoe and gunpowder something zzzzzzzz. Dozed off there.
Moonlight is okay until you realise what it's kind of about and then it plateaus into this samey oh it's all about his orientation snoozefest. It's got some good performances but it's just too low budget, and the subject matter is fairly boring. That it goes hand in hand with Manchester By The Sea makes sense, equally trivial subject matter acted well. That these two were Oscar contenders shows how bad most mainstream drama has become, and why TV has taken over as the premiere dramatic medium of the time. The acting is good, the script is okay, you just can't make a bad movie when it's populated twangy Bostonians fighting in pubs.
Jackie was instantly forgettable, the same goes for Live By Night and I fell asleep in the overtly pretentious La La Land but Hidden Figures was a time well spent.
Logan was a good throwback to gritty action built up well throughout the first couple of acts and let down by the third. Kind of wallows in the finale but on the whole a decent flick with some well played out fight scenes. Hugh does his beaten up best while the gringo hunting Escobar plays a good baddie. Professor X steals the show and sucks to be that family in the bush trying to eek out a living being too nice to folk.
I was hesitant about watching Ghost in the Shell as like many it holds a dear place in my film collective. I was fairly impressed with the design of it though, the futuristic aspects, the way they shot it and the locations alone were quality. Done superbly. They'd kind of Hollywood'ised the story and it's deeper meaning though, which was kind of the crux of the story. Introducing certain characters to play out this wishy washy storyline did it alot of harm, and the general whitewashing also took away from what they were trying to do.
Took the munchin along this Holidays to Beauty and the Beast which wasn't a patch on the original. Ewan Macgregor as Lumiere? Pulease. The Boss Baby was hilarious even though I did doze off near the end. Worth it to watch the preview to Despicable Me 3 which look an absolute hoot. Moana was a good flick, really well done.
To round out caught up on some classic films and while Steve McQueen's Junior Bonner was a tough film to chew through Billy Liar looks as fresh as the day it was made. An excellent portrayal of the times, with great performances right across the film. Tom Courtenay plays the title character in an perfectly unhinged display, caught between the constant lies and ever digging a deeper hole for himself.
In the stinker stakes The Great Wall takes a fair beating. Equally as nonsensical, Matt Damon is the greatest bow and arrow shooter slash mercenary with a heart while the guy who has his eyes gouged out that one time plays his bro. Fighting green things that could more easily take over China than we're led to believe and Willem Defoe and gunpowder something zzzzzzzz. Dozed off there.
Moonlight is okay until you realise what it's kind of about and then it plateaus into this samey oh it's all about his orientation snoozefest. It's got some good performances but it's just too low budget, and the subject matter is fairly boring. That it goes hand in hand with Manchester By The Sea makes sense, equally trivial subject matter acted well. That these two were Oscar contenders shows how bad most mainstream drama has become, and why TV has taken over as the premiere dramatic medium of the time. The acting is good, the script is okay, you just can't make a bad movie when it's populated twangy Bostonians fighting in pubs.
Jackie was instantly forgettable, the same goes for Live By Night and I fell asleep in the overtly pretentious La La Land but Hidden Figures was a time well spent.
Logan was a good throwback to gritty action built up well throughout the first couple of acts and let down by the third. Kind of wallows in the finale but on the whole a decent flick with some well played out fight scenes. Hugh does his beaten up best while the gringo hunting Escobar plays a good baddie. Professor X steals the show and sucks to be that family in the bush trying to eek out a living being too nice to folk.
I was hesitant about watching Ghost in the Shell as like many it holds a dear place in my film collective. I was fairly impressed with the design of it though, the futuristic aspects, the way they shot it and the locations alone were quality. Done superbly. They'd kind of Hollywood'ised the story and it's deeper meaning though, which was kind of the crux of the story. Introducing certain characters to play out this wishy washy storyline did it alot of harm, and the general whitewashing also took away from what they were trying to do.
Took the munchin along this Holidays to Beauty and the Beast which wasn't a patch on the original. Ewan Macgregor as Lumiere? Pulease. The Boss Baby was hilarious even though I did doze off near the end. Worth it to watch the preview to Despicable Me 3 which look an absolute hoot. Moana was a good flick, really well done.
To round out caught up on some classic films and while Steve McQueen's Junior Bonner was a tough film to chew through Billy Liar looks as fresh as the day it was made. An excellent portrayal of the times, with great performances right across the film. Tom Courtenay plays the title character in an perfectly unhinged display, caught between the constant lies and ever digging a deeper hole for himself.
And apparently low budget is either equivalent to rubbish or boring, or both.
