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Cocaine Bear (2023)
Great Movie, but Not Enough Bear
Yes. It's worth watching. The movie overall was fun to watch for me and everyone else in the theater with me. If you're considering watching it, I recommend going for it. I gave it a lower rating because I thought a lot of the movie fell flat on what it could've been in my opinion. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, and I'm the type of person to easily give 9 stars to my favorite comedies, since I recognize that a film doesn't need to be deep or dramatic to be great and enjoyable. After walking out of the theater though, I thought that an entire side plot could've been wiped from the movie entirely, and it would've made the movie not just the same, but much better.
The first half of the movie was perfect for what it was trying to be (outside of the side plot that I'll mention later). It's a wacky comedy about a bear who got into a bunch of cocaine and thus became the most feared and dangerous predator on the planet. It was the concept grabbed the interest of audiences, and it was exactly what I went into the theater to see. I was having the time of my life.
By the second half though, the movie's fun meter noticeably dropped when the plot became less about how the characters were gonna survive in the woods, faced against a bear high on cocaine, and more about the side plot where a bunch of cocaine was thrown out of a plane, and a couple criminals were tasked with retrieving it from where it all landed... oh, and there was a bear in a few scenes for comic relief purposes. At that point, I was just sitting there, wondering how the movie was going to end off. To avoid spoilers, all I'll say is that the ending was weird, even by this movie's standards, and it left me unsatisfied.
Overall, I liked the movie better when it was simply just Cocaine Bear and not whatever the screenplay writer was trying to make once he got bored of typing out 50 pages of Cocaine Bear.
Shin Gojira (2016)
Too Much Talking
Me and my friends were excited to watch this movie because many people were praising it for being the best Godzilla movie. After watching it, I'd say that either I'm just not a fan of Godzilla, or filmmakers are consistently failing to realize that the appeal of Godzilla is the character who's name is the title, and no one else.
You couldn't convince me to name a single human character in this movie if it could save my life, which is interesting for a movie that heavily prioritizes human screentime over Godzilla screentime. If I were to roughly estimate, I would say that only half an hour of this 2-hour-long movie actually involved Godzilla, and the rest of the movie was just a bunch of nameless government officials in a board room talking about how they're gonna deal with the Godzilla problem. Whenever there is action, it's GREAT, but there's just so little of it that even the best action you have to offer in that amount of time isn't gonna be enough to redeem the movie from 90 minutes of actual white space. The worst part is that even during the action sequences, it would continuously cut from Godzilla wreaking havoc back to people talking every few seconds. It's infuriating. One particular scene stands out as being one of the most memorable scenes I've ever watched in cinema, but that's only convinced me to give the movie 5 stars instead of 4. In reality, it just disappointed me more because that scene showed me that the movie could've been great, and it just wasn't.
Overall, this was probably one of the most disappointing movies that me and my friends watched because it had the potential to be great, and it fell flat. Still worth watching if you're interested, but don't go in with high expectations.
Willy's Wonderland (2021)
One of the movies of all time.
So many people have been saying, "Five Nights at Freddy's would be so much cooler if they replaced the night guard with Nicolas Cage." and if you wanna know if they were right and/or if anyone even said that in the first place, the answers are yes and yes. This movie is so epic that it has changed the definition of the word "epic" entirely. Every other movie is bad now because they aren't like this. Still think I might be wrong and that maybe it's just my personal preference? Fear not, for I watched this movie with my friend, and he has the exact same thoughts on the movie. If we could give this movie an 11 out of 12, we would. If you still think this movie isn't worth watching, I feel sorry for you. Have fun living a life without having seen Willy's Wonderland a single time.