Last Movie You Watched

Seen lot's of stuff since the last time I posted here.

The Nun, First Man, Venom, Halloween, Bohemian Rhapsody, Grinch, Robin Hood, Ralph 2, Crimes of Grindlewald, DP2 PG-13, Mortal Engines, The Mule, Spideverse, Aquaman, Bumblebee, Escape Room, Glass etc.

I thought a lot of it was good and some of the others not at all.
And that's all I have to say about that. lol

 

Can You Ever Forgive Me and If Beale Street Could Talk. Both are really good, especially the latter one, which is absolutely amazing and I'm sure it will be high on my list of favourite films of 2019. The fact that it didn't get a Best Picture nomination is a joke.

 

Alita Battle Angel

Yesterday evening, and I liked it quite a lot.

 

Watched it on Wednesday. A slow burn, but a compelling story with some complex moral questions for the characters involved. I really enjoyed it.

 

Just watched How to train your Dragon 3. Very good.

 

Unfortunately I was forced to endure a Madea movie last night. I'd never seen one before and had never planned on seeing one but they're apparently a guilty pleasure of my girlfriend which officially makes her a guilty pleasure of mine. It wasn't the new one, she wasn't interested in seeing that one at the theater because she heard it wasn't very good (even by Madea standards) so she settled for waiting until that one is available to stream. She wanted to go see a different movie, Escape Room, which I had zero interest in seeing so as a compromise I watched Madea Goes To Jail with her at home. It wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, I'm somebody who has seen such crapfests as Weekend At Bernie's 2, Super Mario Bros. and more than one Pauly Shore film (not even a decent one like Encino Man) in the theater. Not to mention all the crap I've seen thanks to the guys at MST3K/Rifftrax, but at least with those they are making fun of them. So I have a pretty strong stomach for terrible films and it's certainly not Birdemic or The Room bad. None of those films made money hand over fist like these Madea movies though, and that I cannot understand.

I was surprised to discover that Madea is sort of a secondary character in these films. Or at least in this one and my soon-to-be-Ex (just kidding) informed me it's pretty much the same formula for all of them. The majority of the film was an over-the-top drama (more like a corny soap opera than a film) about a drug-addicted hooker and the lawyer who is trying to help her because he feels guilty about his fraternity gang-raping her when they were in college. His fiance (also a prosecutor) is jealous of the attention the hooker is getting and trumps up some charges to get her sentenced to something like 17 years in prison. Not exactly the dumb comedy I was prepared for. In a completely separate/less-developed storyline, almost a different film, you have Madea (who I admit had some funny moments) having her run-ins with the law that would eventually send her to prison where the two storylines intersect about 2/3 of the way through the movie. Don't worry... they get released once the fiance/prosecutor's trumped up charges are exposed.

If it had been all Madea it might have been a somewhat watchable, albeit stupid, comedy. The rest was disjointed, boring, poorly written and poorly directed/edited. It was made so badly made that it's hard to believe this is a big franchise. It just felt like such an amateur production. I wasn't expecting much but it still failed to meet my expectations. And with these three paragraphs I think I've put more thought into reviewing it than they did making it, so I'll stop here. Except to point out that this same girlfriend now refuses to go see the Apollo 11 IMAX movie with me... maybe I'm not joking about the Ex thing.

 

Recent movies i watched yesterday and last night were Insidious Chapter 3 and Insidious Last Key.

Later today or tonight ill be wathcing Insidious 1 and for VHS the old 1990s movie Three Fugitives

 

10/10/classic/one of the best movies ever made.

 

Café de Flore

 

It was amazing. Lots of footage I've never seen and all the footage shot during the lunar orbits and landing were unreal in IMAX.

 

Saw Captain Marvel. It's a solid entry into the Marvel pantheon. It's mid-tier overall but IDK how much more you can expect from an "origins" movie anymore. They've been played a bazillion times. Would have been better to keep things in the Black Panther/Spider-Man route and work her in elsewhere first IMO. I like Brie Larson. Sam Jackson is always great. Ben Mendelsohn is amazing as always. Annette Benning and Jude Law work really well with what they are given as well.

The pacing is a bit staggered and I found the smaller action scenes much better than the big ones, in fact they left me underwhelmed.

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But now I do worry about her future the same way I always worry about Superman in movies. It's difficult to make what are essentially gods feel relatable or ever in danger. They have to find a way to "nerf" her a bit post Endgame. Maybe the Tesseract is involved.

 

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She is no Thor in which he is a legit "god". It helps that she has quote un quote Earth origins. So, get enough hits in she'll go down.

 

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No, but that goes to show you the great lengths they went to keep Thor more grounded because he could have basically won *most* of the Avengers fights by himself. I would have preferred they didn't solve ALL her inner turmoil so fast. It'd be like if Rey was over her parents being drunks who sold her off at the end of TFA.