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The Marvels (2023)
NightQuil
It was hard to stay awake during this movie, that's how boring it is. I almost walked out to go sit in the lobby it's so boring. I don't care what kind of agenda is being pushed in this movie, just don't be boring. I could not stop nodding off during this movie. Even though this movie is only an hour and a half, it was too long and hard to care about anything going on. I've seen both Oppenheimer and Flowers of the Killer Moon and never once felt tired during those and both are over 3 hours.
I actually didn't mind the first Captain Marvel movie. It was alright, I don't think it deserved all the hate that it got. But this one is terrible and maybe the worst Marvel movie yet. Which is sad because Eternals, Thor 4, Ant-Man 3, and Shang Chi exists.
Two of the biggest problems with this movie for me were Nick Fury and Ms. Marvel. It's sad what Nick Fury has been reduced to now. His character is now a joke and it's about time for Sam Jackson to hang it up with this character. There is a scene towards the end with his character and cats evacuating a ship that is so stupid, if I would have come alone, I would have walked out.
I don't know anything about Ms. Marvel because I didn't waste my time watching the Disney+ show. And after seeing this and seeing how annoying she is, I will never watch that show. Her voice and her yelling were so damn annoying.
I think this is it folks, Marvel is truly dead but truthfully, it's been dead way before Phase 4 or whatever phase this is. There's just no Iron Man or Captain America to hide how bad these movies are anymore. And no amount of cameos from 2000's Marvel films, fan service or backing a Brinks truck up to Robert Downey Jr.'s house is going to save these movies either.
Nope (2022)
Nothing.
I don't know what the hell Jordan Peele was trying to tell here. I thought this was going to be like a Sci-fi thriller but it's not that. I guess I should have known that after the second trailer. It felt like there was a good movie in here begging to be let out for real.
Jordan Peele likes to add things in his movies that doesn't really make sense. Like it's just there for his amusement only almost. The chick eating the cereal while drinking milk in Get Out, the rabbits in Us, and the killer chimp here in Nope. What the F did that have to do with anything? And the fist bump...why? Why did the monkey spare the kid?
I kind of feel bad for Daniel Kaluuya, he's a good actor but didn't seem interested in this. I can't blame him though because every other actor around him is super annoying, especially Keke Palmer who tries her best to ruin the first half of the movie. The kid that worked for Fry tries to ruin the second half.
The ending was flat and lame and very anti-climatic. At damn near two and a half hours I couldn't wait for this to be over, especially since the theater I seen it in was hotter than a sauna.
X (2022)
Good movie.
Saw the trailer on YouTube, some of the reviews online and that it had Kid Cudi in it and decided to give it a try.
I enjoyed the movie. I didn't really find it as gross and disturbing as many people are saying it is, I've seen worst in more major horror movies. The premise is a little ridiculous but no more than a blind man or a killer doll going on a murder spree.
Seen that there was a trailer for the prequel after the credits and I wouldn't mind seeing that either to get more backstory on the elderly couple.
Scream (2022)
Scream brought back for this?...
Not good.
Apparently being stabbed multiple times doesn't kill people anymore. The male twin is stabbed multiple times outside the house during the party at the end and is still alive in the final scene. The sister is stabbed multiple times in the beginning and lives. The worst one of them all was the main chick stabbing the boyfriend about 12 times and him STILL being alive to spit out some pointless dialogue. She then slits his throat and Sydney suggest that she shoot him in the head also because he could come back....wtf?
The chick who turned out to be one of the killer's, plays the same role here as she did in Once Upon a time in Hollywood. She brags about killing off Dewey but she has to be about 5'6, the killer Dewey was fighting with had to be around 6'0 but ignore that also. Gale shoots her multiple times and she falls over on the stove and catches fire and this was supposed to be Gale's kill and revenge for her killing off Dewey but the writers didn't even let her have that because she is STILL ALIVE after being shot multiple times and caught on fire!
This movie was a waste sadly, nothing new introduced, the new cast can't act (besides the guy playing the boyfriend). This felt very MTV movie-ish. The killer's motives for doing it was DUMB and already done before just with a modern update I guess, nothing really shocking here. The original cast didn't even really need to be here. Sydney doesn't even show up until the end damn near and wasn't even relevant to the plot really.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Standing Ovation.
Very, very, entertaining, with lots of fan service and surprisingly emotional towards the end. Didn't like Homecoming or Far From Home but this one is very good. Theater went wild at a lot of parts, I'd say more-so than Endgame or Infinity War. The ending finally fixes what I disliked so much about Tom Holland's Spider-Man and has me excited to see what's next for his Spider-Man.
No Time to Die (2021)
This is the send off for Daniel Craig's James Bond?...This!?
A piss poor way to send off Daniel Craig's Bond. I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would, it wasn't as "woke" as some thought or predicted it would be. No the new female 00 doesn't upstage Bond. She actually felt like a joke throughout which was a little disappointing to be honest. Yes it is long and there are a lot of lame jokes throughout and it doesn't really feel like a Bond film especially once you reach the end.
The End...which was terrible and I don't know who thought this was a good ideal to kill off James Bond and to do it in such an uneventful way. You can tell the writers were salivating at the mouth trying to come up with a way for him to die (and make sure the audiences knows he's really dead) by his death scene. Then the film just abruptly ends. There's a toast to Bond from M and crew and the final scene with his woman telling their daughter about him, then credits. It was just such a sorry way to send out who I thought was the best James Bond so far.
So who knows what's next. Maybe they'll go full "woke" for the next Bond film. His daughter grows up, becomes a 00, changes her name to Jane Bond or something, I don't know. It just felt like this film was just made to try to kill of Bond for shock value or they thought it would be emotional like Tony Stark's death in Endgame but it was neither, it was just blah.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Worst movie of the year so far...
Life is too short to spend it watching movies like Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
There have only been a handful of times in my life where I thought about walking out on a movie midway because what I was seeing on the screen just was not worth the time or even the price of the ticket. This Godzilla movie is one of those times where I thought to myself...I should just walk out.
I would like to say that I enjoyed the Godzilla film from back in 2014. I thought it had a pretty simple premise that made sense and looking back on it now, a capable cast (especially compared to this new one), not enough Godzilla but I thought it made sense for the first film and I thought the sequel would take care of that (boy was I wrong).
This one, King of the Monsters, is long and boring. With a bunch of characters I did not care for at all. The main male lead is horrible and doesn't fit the role at all. He seems like a better fit for a Fox sitcom rather than the lead role in a blockbuster Godzilla film. Godzilla once again plays second fiddle to the humans and even some of the monsters in this movie and it's even worse this time.
I paid to see a Godzilla movie and I don't felt I got that. I didn't pay to see Godzilla go into hibernation midway through the movie. By the time we get to the end of the movie and the final fight is happening there wasn't an ounce of care in me. I had already been bored to death with this horrible story that made no damn sense. I thought it couldn't get any worse than the 1998 Godzilla movie but this is worse, way worse. Stay home and YouTube the TV spot, you'll get more satisfaction of that than the actual movie itself.
Halloween (2018)
Wanted to like it but...
Wasn't scary, don't think they even tried to make it scary as they showed damn near every "jump scare" in the trailers and tv commercials. There are a couple of moments that are supposed to be funny thrown in that made me sigh. This is a horror movie about a masked man going around killing, nothing should be funny here but that's just my take. It takes awhile to get going. I enjoyed the two reporters trying to get Michael to talk and following Laurie's relationship with her family and her struggles with PTS but it was like get to the point already after awhile.
People are very, very dumb in this. Like, "there is a bus crashed off on the side of the road and mental patients wondering the street!". "Let me leave my child in the car while I investigate". Or "I know we are hiding underneath a kitchen counter/trap door in the kitchen and Michael won't likely find us but let me make as much noise as possible with my crying to help him find us". Or "I am a lady in the ladies room using the bathroom but why is this strange man in a jump suit and steel boots in here"? "And why is he opening every stall door?" "When he gets to mine I'll just tell him it's occupied" "Wait he won't leave...now he's just standing here, OH MY GOD TEETH!" And the list goes on.
I had high expectations (I don't know why). Jamie Lee Curtis did a good job I thought. As for Michael, this is a nitpick but he's unmasked a little too much for my liking. They never fully show his face but you see him from behind and from the side and he's an old, balding, white male with white hair. I kept expecting him to turn around and it actually be Richard Dreyfuss. The movements weren't Michael like, he moved almost like a robot or like someone was controlling him with a PS4 controller or something.
I just wish the movie would have been a little better. Especially when Michael finally returns to Haddonfield. It should have really picked up there but unfortunately the movie went down with lame kills, unwanted comedy, and the movie actually being edited badly. There is a scene where Michael is struck with a cop car and it is shot so badly. I hate to nitpick on something like that but it was so bad and obvious. The ending was flat and it was clear that the directors didn't want to kill Michael off because they want to make another one. If this guy traumatized you that bad, why wouldn't you make sure he was dead for sure. Why catch him on fire (they never show Michael actually being on fire) instead of shooting him in the head? He was standing right there?
I like the Halloween movies and hoped this would set them on a new better path but it might be time to FINALLY just let these movies and the Michael character be because this wasn't it.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
...kind of just there
This movie was ok. It wasn't good and it wasn't bad, it was kind of just...there.
It's a little too long. At times boring. Tries a little too hard to be like Tarantino but doesn't give you the satisfying payoff.
The beginning started off good and had me interested in the characters. But after a while it felt like this movie wasn't going anywhere. There isn't any real twist or turns and it was very predictable as to who was going to survive in the end. I guess the writer had a good idea at start but he didn't know how to end it. Just a bunch of random violence.
So out of a score of 10, I would give it a 5. Right in the middle. Started off good but fizzled out towards the end, especially when Chris Hemsworth's character shows up and slows the movie way down. There is a better movie out there similar to this and it's called Identity. And it has a way better ending.