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Black Panther (2018)
Good, but a tad underwhelming too
Black Panther is certainly a good movie, but I don't feel like it truly capitalizes on its interesting premise and setting enough to elevate above other Marvel movies. It still follows the formula and doesn't stray far enough away from it to make truly distinct. However, I did love the action scenes (which there was surprisingly little of), Michael B Jordan as Killmonger (surprisingly good villain to be honest), pretty much all the Wakanda stuff, the soundtrack and the core story. I just wish it had been less restricted by the studio. Black Panther is a good film, but it could've been a great one, which is disappointing.
It (1990)
Why do people like this?
I watched this movie with a few friends, and most of us had seen the new one before the first one. One of my friends, however, had seen this one heaps before, and said that he thought it was great. And honestly? I can not possibly fathom why anyone even remotely likes this movie for what it is, and there is absolutely no possible argument to be made that this miniseries is better than the new movie. I don't really know where to start, but the thing that really kills this movie is the pacing and the acting. Maybe its just the limitations of the times or budget or whatever, but the whole thing just doesn't work. All the actors, including Tim Curry as Pennywise, are just really bad. They aren't engaging at all not only due to the fact they are bad actors, but also because the writing is genuinely terrible. Worse still, the whole thing is over 3 hours long, and it was terrible waste of time.
I also just looked up the budget for this movie. It was $12 million. You know what horror masterpiece was made for a million less than that? Alien. 1979. 11 years earlier. I know this was a TV miniseries, but apparently they weren't trying very hard.
Steer very clear of this rendition of It.
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
A steaming pile of disgustingly potent f*cking garbage.
Transformers: The Last Knight may just be the worst movie I've seen in the last few years. While it may not objectively be a 1/10, my utter lack of enjoyment and the pain endured during the movie warrants the lowest of the low.
It's been a month or so since I've seen it, and while I don't remember everything from it, there is one thing that I cannot ever forget that highlights its incompetence. Most movies have a particular aspect ratio, and if it changes, it is usually gradual, scene to scene. The Last Knight, however, cannot even keep its aspect ratio same in the same scene. Did they use different cameras for the same scene? Clearly, no even gave enough of a sh*t to fix it in post. It's disorientating, a lot like the movie's plot, dialogue and general terribleness. Maybe the different ratios are a metaphor.
Jekyll + Hyde (2006)
Jekyll + Hyde destroys the subtlety and groundwork of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous novella
To be blunt, Jekyll + Hyde was terrible. In the original novella, the idea behind the characters of Jekyll and Hyde was that he was meant to create Hyde to represent the evil side of himself, and so that he could partake in these evil activities without notice. In Jekyll + Hyde though, from what I gathered, his reasons for creating Hyde were purely materialistic. He just wanted to be someone different who would have confidence and be able to talk to girls, and creates a pill derived from ecstasy that only changes his personality (very minimally too) into a bad person, and continuously has sex with different women and kills people, and there seems to be no real reason why. In this excuse for a movie, there is not even a transformation from Jekyll to Hyde, or vice versa. It's hard to tell when Jekyll is Hyde, or when Hyde is Jekyll. The idea is supposed to be that Hyde looks vastly different, or at least has a defining feature that separates him from Jekyll. There is nothing in this movie to indicate this, apart from the fact he inherits more violent tendencies and of course, as mentioned, has a lot of sex. It really just seems that he becomes addicted to a drug that changes the way he acts, rather than a drug that makes him a completely different person. As for other aspects of film-making, the cinematography was uninspired, the acting was pretty terrible and the script, aside from story issues, was written terribly, and had many parts that felt unnecessary.
In case my opinion had not come off clearly enough, I think Jekyll + Hyde is a very poor attempt at film-making. Not only is the original story of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde completely butchered, but it is also put into the genre of teen slasher horror, perhaps the most heinous type of genre to evaluate such a book into. The original has traces of horror, yes, but it also thrives on its subtlety and the telling of the story, and quite frankly, Jekyll + Hyde does neither of these things.
Pass Thru (2016)
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
Whether Breen knows of his incompetence as a director and filmmaker is purely unknown, but what I do know is that Pass Thru, like Fateful Findings, is perhaps one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It's so genuinely, awfully terrible but yet it reeks of passion and charm and, whether he likes it or not, Breen accidentally creates some of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Sublime. 7/10 purely for entertainment value with a bit of influence from actual quality. So funny.
Suicide Squad (2016)
An absolutely terrible venture in filmmaking.
Suicide Squad is just bad. It's really, really bad. The acting is terrible. The CGI looks awful. The pacing and story makes me wonder if they were even trying. The editing and look of the movie make me want to hurl. The first half hour is just a constant barrage of music being thrown at you, making the world's most expensive music video. However, it's pretty (unintentionally) funny to watch in bits, so its worth it for a meme with some friends but literally nothing else.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Just absolutely awful.
It's kind of like watching yourself slowly being gutted. It's long, painful, and you leave feeling that you've left a bit of yourself behind in the room you just came out of. Never under any circumstance watch this revolting excuse for a movie this a smear on the underside of Hollywood's belly.