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Snowpiercer (2013)
an interesting social commentary?
I honestly don't know how to review this movie. it was interesting to watch, but didn't do more than go through the motions of what the plot called for. Every characters perfectly played their part, as if they were being directed by someone.
Which might be the aspect that made the movie less engrossing for me. Everyone is too much the, stereotype is too strong of a word, but they are too much on the nose for who they playing. so it felt like i was watching a movie, instead of being drawn into a story.
Once thing I wish movies like this would stop doing is try to make them hopeful. this is a movie showing just how horrible human beings are. So it shouldn't end on and kind of 'maybe some of us are worth saving' note.
The Predator (2018)
Predator, for the fun of it.
A predator comes to earth and kills humans. We've seen the premise a few times now, we know what to expect.
Except we're wrong.
This isn't a masterpiece, it's a predator movie, it is fun, it is gory, and it managed to get me to more to the edge of my seat a few times. Like some of the other reviewers, I'm not sure what people who give this movie under five stars are looking for. you're never going to get philosophy in a predator movie, the first one, the one many proclaim as being so great wouldn't gross it's budget in today's market. It's only 'great' because it was a brand new take on an old concept.
Okay, enough harking. This movie is fun. the character are simplistic and easy to grasp, but a few get added depth as the movie progresses.
Is the autistic spectrum the 'next step' in evolution? I'm going to leave that for the researchers to determine, it felt forced here, but the kid is a decent actor.
Is the idea they would splice human DNA into Predators sound? Only if you forget that Humans have beaten them multiple times, and clearly the one that we know had human DNA was the runt, possibly borderline reject.
This movie is for the people who remember that Predator movies are about having fun, about watching people overcoming insurmountably odds and come out on top, and you know what? for once we actually have a Main characters in one of these movies who has a better motivation than just "I'm going to get revenge" or "I need to survive" This guy gets involved in all of this to save his son. I'm sorry, how can you not root for that guy?
So sit back, grab the popcorn and get ready to have some good, old fashion, summer action flick fun.
Captain Marvel (2019)
your classic summer action movie
I enjoyed the movie.
Is it a great movie? *looks at the stars he gave it* Nope. Is it a good movie? *looks again* maybe? Is it an okay movie? yep. is it fun? yep. is it flashy? oh yeah? Am I a simplistic man who likes mindless entertainment? No, but it's a marvel movie, I don't sit down to watch those expecting Shakespeare. (and to be fair I wouldn't watch Shakespeare at all, sorry to all thespians out there)
Look. when the premise of a movie is established Marvel woman is powerful beyond all things is going to fight bad guys, why do you look for some political statement or dislike the movie because it didn't play to your desire level of sexiness in a woman (actual complaint from a roommate of mine)
for me the movie wins point on the fact they it subverted one of the biggest conflict in the Marvel Comics (with my roommate also hated, does doesn't have a problem with Samuel Jackson playing Fury, even though in the comics he was white until the movies came along)
I came in to watch fun fight, a bit of well paced humor, touching character interactions and got all three. the fact that we have a woman telling a man she has nothing to prove to him, is just a bonus (that she kicked his ass is just what he deserved)
Look, you want a masterpiece you and add to your mantle? Go watch Citizen Kane or something. You want to sit back have a fun two hour and watch a cat scare people? pick this movie. if you can leave your expectations at the door, you'll have a good time.
The Dark Tower (2017)
when there isn't enough time to tell the story
I don't know the books, and I'm not a fan of King, so let's get this out of the way.
The movie was okay. good visuals, decent acting, but nothing that made me sit up and pay attention.
What I did notice was that there was a lot of the story missing. I haven't read the book, as I said, but I could tell they script writers tried to get everything in, or at least more than could fit in that amount of time because by the time the movie was over I was left with a 'so whose story was this again?' feeling. we get Jake, who the camera focuses on, but is ultimately nothing more than the McGuffin, Roland, who is treated as a side character, but he's the one with something to overcome, and Walter because... because the movie needed a bad guy? to be honest, I don't get why Walter's there at all. let alone what he got as much screen time as he did. I think the movie would have benefited from giving Roland that screen time so we could see more of his growth instead of going from. I'm down in the dumps, to I'm badass in half a dozen cut scene.
This is a movie I up someone will pick up and make a TV series out of it, because what it left me with is the sense that if given more time, it could have been an amazing story
Stargate Origins (2018)
A stargate does not make a stargate movie
Taking on it own merit, Stargate Origin is an okay movie, at best.
Unfortunately for it, the title makes it impossible to take it on its own merit, this wants to be an origin story to the Stargate franchise, and as such it suffers from just about every flat after the fact origin stories suffer from in that it tries to both have an impact on the franchise, while not actually impacting the franchise.
in the case of this movie it means that everything that happens in it has no relevance to what comes after the fact, so it might as well not have happened. if that was it, I wouldn't have any problem with it, the capsule story if a standard of serialized TV, so it would be fine here, but they then commit the sin of wanting this movie to be 'vital' to the series by making it the reason the rest happens, and taking away all agency of the characters who are supposed to have had a part in the creation of the original team.
Minor spoiler to the Stargate Movie Follow
Katherine doesn't stay with the project because it is dear to her heart, no, she does do because she was programmed to stick with it and to form a team to return at a later time to destroy Ra. The leader of the city who works with the team wasn't just someone who had enough of being subjugated, no, he too was programmed into the position he is in specifically to work with them, in destroying Ra.
Including this movie in the franchise doesn't just make the original one less meaningful, in invalidates some of the important characters in an attempt to get some extra bucks out of hopeful fans.
The franchise has tons of potential to mine to give the fans good, meaningful stories, unless their hope is to kill the franchise, I have no idea why this was ever made.
Higher Power (2018)
not the moral I wanted to to be given
Higher Power is the story of a broken man turned into a weapon with the goal of saving the earth, no matter the number of people who need to suffer to get there.
The story isn't bad, the relationships between the father and his daughters, as well as his own demons, is interesting to watch, as well as the progression of his character, but ultimately it's a movie that tells us men in power can use whoever they want, so long as their goal is to save more people than they hurt.
I just can't agree with that, and because of that, the ending doesn't work for me.