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Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Taekwondo Centipede
Give me strength.
Another pablum product for the masses. Let's just take a spurious CGI blob and give it some arbitrary martial arts skills, then sell it to all the dull pawns, in order to vacuum all the money out of their pockets. There is an absolute dearth of good films to watch, but they spend good money on predictable detritus like this.
When are we going to see "Drop-Kick Maggot", or "Skidmark Parasite", or something thrilling like "Wedgied Purple Borneo Frog-Popper"? It makes as little sense as this drivel. The fact this theme made it to a fourth film is a sad reflection of our society.
Stunning and brave.
Bird Box: Barcelona (2023)
The Blind Leading the Blind
Having marginally enjoyed the original "Bird Box", it made sense to take a look at "Bird Box: Barcelona". From the outset, it was apparent that this film would offer very little resolution from the original story. The plot appears directly ripped off from M. Night's film, "The Happening" in many ways. There seems to be a deficit of new ideas out there, where everything new is a retread of something else. The writers strike must have been in full-swing when this was made, so it gives one the feeling that they were torturing the audience, rather than entertaining them.
"In Bird Box: Barcelona", the basic high quality of the acting and production value were eclipsed by tedious and confusing writing and scripting. The characters had no redeeming features worth caring about. The gratuitous CGI and constant meaningless, arbitrary violence made the film an unwatchable mess. The English dubbing sounded like A. I. robots, rather than professional voice actors. Unless you are a glutton for punishment, I'd suggest you skip this catastrophe.
Better Call Saul (2015)
Better Call Saul : Best Prequel Ever
As a die hard Breaking Bad enthusiast, I love Better Call Saul. The first three seasons are a bit clunky and look like they are taking the longest path possible to the metamorphosis of Jimmy to Saul, but enjoyable nonetheless. Finally, Season 4 is coming out and I just finished the latest episode (3 or 4) and I must admit, for those who gave up on this show early, you are going to miss out. Season 4 becomes every bit as good as Breaking Bad and all your favorite characters are arriving in droves. I got sick and tired of Chuck in the first three seasons, but the story intensifies by S4 when the writers kind of put his character on the back burner in favor of the heightened drama and players we remember from B.B. It looks like the producers listened to the pleas from B.B. fans to bring BCS up to the same sort of level.
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Style AND Substance : Pleasant Surprise
"Nocturnal Animals" was a great film to stumble upon this afternoon. I sometimes don't shop for a film, but simply look at the title description and rating before diving into a film like this and wait to be surprised or disappointed. This movie was one of the greats as far as watching a film cold is concerned. Right out of the barrel, the opening scene gripped me in a visceral way, which is the intrinsic point of "art" after all. We see the gallery with the shocking spectacle projected on screens, which pan down to the sculptures of the subject as a reclining nude. The thematic device of the reclining nude appears several more times in the film, both as a horror and in the context of appreciable art and real life. I'm not going to ruin the film by giving a laundry list of what happens after that, but having watched the film, I must admit that the layered story-line, the careful weaving of symbolism, the transcendent tendrils of recurring imagery and an engrossing juxtaposition of timelines, where truth is stranger than fiction and art mimics life, really is composed as if with an artist's brush and it really gets down to the marrow of our daily existence and our psyches. The film makes us think about the choices we have made in our past and what we could have done to change the outcome.
As a side note to the armchair malcontents, the likes of which we see far too many these days; get over yourself. The plethora of reactionary attacks of hatred unleashed upon any film that dares to be creative or different are unwarranted and quite frankly, despicable. If self-loathing nincompoops want to "review" something; why not review your own life? Yes. I'm talking to you. Most of you trolls who leave the imbecilic one and two star Reviews are semi-literate, immature, inadequate, spiteful, self-aggrandizing, pompous, contemptuous, unenlightened, spiteful, egotistical; as well as being the worst type of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers on the planet and if tasked to make a movie on your own, could not do so if your life depended on it. If you hate movies that require any type of thought or creative consciousness outside the norm; just watch the films intended for people who are at the lowest point of intelligence on the Bell Curve and leave the rest of us alone. We do not care what you think.
Sorry. I had to get that out of my system. If this movie was so terrible, as the oafs living in their parents' basement seem to think, then all movies are bad.