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Venom (2018)
Venom take me away....
I sat down to this movie with the rumors of terrible reviews in my head, but screw that. Venom ate someone in a trailer. That's all I needed.
Venom is direct and straight to the point. It builds up a little background, just enough to give some weight to what is to come. But it's enough. I don't need Eddie Brock's childhood story, or to see him getting his first journalist job. Irrelevant. Eddie is shown as a maverick journalist, who will do what he has to for the truth. That's honestly all we need to know. This is an action movie about aliens and humans morphing into one.
It was quick paced, brought in secondary characters and let them go as needed, with just as much as we needed.
We showed up for Venom wrecking carnage and eating people. To him being an antihero. And for him and Eddie to be bros as they had some violent good times. I got exactly what I paid for.
Tom Hardy delivered, the effects were great and didn't take me out of the movie once with any awkwardness. I was a little put off with Hardy's and Michelle Williams' chemistry. Both were fantastic, so I will chalk that up to me not feeling it. But ... who cares?
The real romance was between Eddie and Venom, and that chemistry was real and palpable. A true love story.
Get the origin stories of other Marvel films out of your mind, cleanse that palette for this. This movie is rougher, darker and obviously more violent. Doesn't make it better or worse, just different. This movie knew what it wanted to be and grew up to be it.
Nine stars for being awesome ... minus one star for no knowledge currently of a sequel.
Mortal Engines (2018)
A world if The Hunger Games existed, everyone would volunteer as tribute
The selling point of this movie in every preview was PRODUCED BY PETER JACKSON!!!!! Should have known we were in trouble right there. Not the Peter Jackson part, just how much they pushed it. But I guess knowing you spent $100m on a hella lot of very obvious green screen, you do what you got to.
Based on books, I can see why they thought this would be a good idea. It's such a grand idea of a world, that it would work in a book where time and explanation and your own visualization helps it along. Watching a huge structure with St. Paul's Cathedral bolted to the top cruise along eating other towns on top of a CAT excavator just gave me WTF face for almost two hours.
The characters were boring, even though I thought the actors did their very best with what they were given. Everyone. Was. Trying. Their. Best. Personally, I didn't feel for anyone, cared if anyone died, etc. Everyone was loosely tied together with super obvious connections. Not that everything has to be shocking or a surprise, but lose the convenience for everyone. But then again ... who has the time?
Since it comes in under two hours (thankfully), they had a lot of meat to serve. They need to hate each other! They need to tell their sad stories! They need to meet others and have possible interactions! They need to fall in love! Crap! We need to show more towns! Crap! We need an actual huge fight!
For a very expensive 2018 movie that people knew going in that there was a lot of physical world creation, I had really hoped for much better effects. And I am not an effects junkie, I can let things go. I can forgive a lot of things. But don't promise me bold and deliver me eh, we gave it a shot.
The ending was definitely not the planned ending. With four books, I would lay a bet with my bookie that there was a grand scheme of this being the next Hunger Games. Until they realized that young adult dystopia is not so much on trend anymore, steampunk is a very specific taste, and the entire concept was more than any movie could handle. I applaud though giving it a feeling of finalityl with the wait... just maybe? Hey guys, maybe we can have more money for a sequel? No? That's alright, I'll let you think it over. Just in case though, we'll get a good hug in.
Three stars for the pure size of balls to even attempt to pull this off... minus seven for it being ridiculous.
Real Cases of Shadow People: The Sarah McCormick Story (2019)
If you were forced to watch home movies...
This entire thing was like being forced to watch your most annoying friends travel videos from their boring road trip that you had originally declined to go on for that very reason. The only catch is that you don't know these people so you can't even make fun of them behind their backs. I wish I was exaggerating. But it's almost two hours of looking out a car window. That's not a spoiler, unless you think talking about your carpool home is a spoiler.