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Sour Grapes (2016)
Reassuring to know someone is screwing these people over
Nothing quite so satisfying to know that a regular guy gets to do a little bit of justice for the rest of the world and screw over these filthy rich folks whose hubris and sense of superiority is very clearly betrayed by the fact that they got so easily fooled by a guy who appears to have not done that much research and made many many mistakes along the way. The balance of the universe while not fully restored at least has given a small victory to us little guys getting screwed over by these a*holes. Take their money and run, Rudy!
Batman Begins (2005)
If the Dark Knight didn't exist this wouldn't be rated so high
This is not a bad movie and it is an entertaining movie. For me, if something is decent and good production value and okay to watch it begins with 5. From there the movie really has to work at it to be worthy of more. This was okay but nothing to write home about. It was an enjoyable watch but I won't be watching it again any time soon. I'll sure watch Dark Knight over the years but this wasn't all that great. If the love for Dark Knight combined with the mourning for Heath Ledger didn't combine to make everyone praise the entire trilogy as one lump sum of genius, then I feel that people would be okay with Batman Begins but wouldn't love it. It would just be seen as fine, decent, moderately entertaining, a far greater depiction than any of the weird stuff that came before it, but ultimately still something to watch after work on TBS (if that channel is still around and then go to bed not particularly better or worse for it. That's about it.
Before I Wake (2016)
Decent but not great compared to other horror, but not good on its own
This can drag and get boring. It's not really that scary, but would be a "scary movie" I'd be fine with mature tweens watching, as its never really gory or abusive or foul. It's just generically "spooky" but for adults is not really that frightening. Compared to most other horror films, it is passable but there are other horror films that actually are frightening so it feels like it would be a disservice to say that its "good compared to other horror" - it's okay compared to other horror, it has all the production value, but otherwise it's a big old "meh." You won't be hurt by watching it, but you won't miss out anything special if you don't watch it.
The Ritual (2017)
Not bad, just not good either
The main lead is handsome, so that's a plus. It felt like Blair Witch without the recording gimmick and instead of a teenage urban legend, a lightly touched upon reference to good old fashioned Nordic mythology. I think they would have done better to simply never have shown the monster because goodness gracious, does it look ridiculous! The main problem is that it isn't scary, gets pretty boring and repetitive, and gets worse with the reveal of the monster and the monster's worshipers- not better. They would have done well to take advice from that old adage "less is more" or to simply go the "inexplicable strange happenings that are never fully explained" route. Then there could have been more time spent looking through the densely packed woods and trying to figure out if anything's out there- which was by far the scariest and best part of the film.