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Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie (2017)
A great closure to a great series!
Hey Arnold was an awesome series to watch as it had heart, good messages to preach and well told stories centered around Arnold and the city folk. However fans were left unsatisfied with the ending as we were left with unanswered questions about Arnold's parents and whether Arnold and Helga would eventually reveal their mutual feelings for each other.
The Jungle Movie brings the needed closure for the fans as it finally answers those questions.
The vibe felt just like the original series, except with updated and cleaner animation. It had a perfect story to tie up loose ends.
Other than the story being top notch overall, there were a few nit picks I felt should be addressed.
Some scenes could've been longer to give weight to the emotional aspect. Gerald should've been given a different reason to be mad at Arnold instead of what we were given.
There was also something wrong with the Arnold/Helga dilemma. I doubt she would go as far as throw away her locket just because he left her to warn the captain of another ship. Maybe if Lila was more present in the movie something would happen that would give Helga more of a reason to give up hope on finding mutual love in Arnold.
Also the reunion of Arnold and his parents. The scene could've been longer with Arnold finally talking to his parents for the first time. Longer and more emotional.
The pig going back to warn Arnold's grandparents was a bit of a stretch but I was fine with it until they showed the pig's flashback and the grandma apparently understanding what the damn pig was saying! It felt out of place as it probably would fit in another cartoon, but it surely doesn't belong in an Arnold film.
Other than that this film was perfect as the finale to the original series.
I recommend watching it, as the flaws are small nitpicks that can be overlooked.
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
A very well executed film with interesting ideas and themes.
I thoroughly enjoyed this film as an artistic view on the dark side of humanity. It explored themes of morality and temptation and free will. Keanu Reeves plays Kevin, a successful lawyer that's never lost a case that is offered a job at a powerful firm in New York, Charlize Theron plays his wife Mary Ann, and Al Pacino plays Kevin's boss and mentor who is revealed to actually be his father and Satan himself.
The more successful Kevin gets, the more he tends to end up abandon his wife. The film brings the idea that we are tempted by Satan to commit evil acts. But he doesn't control us and make us do these things, rather he tempts us with promises of whatever we desire, or whispers ideas into our heads and we do evil things in reaction and of our free will. Which I found to be a powerful message. The idea of the big, cold New York City being the "devil's land" or "the city of Babylon" was a nice touch.
People may have a problem with the nudity, but I was fine with it. It was an important part of the story. The female body and sex is shown to be another aspect of temptation.
So the whole point of the movie is, the devil exists and pushes humanity to do whatever we want for our own selfish desires, but at the end of the day what we do is all of free will. We have free will to give in to the temptations, just as we have the free will to resist and try and stay as morally good as we can.
My only problem with this film is Keanu Reeves. He was very good in this film, its just emotion was needed in a few scenes. Especially the death of his wife. He is crying and screaming as she dies in front of him, yet the very next scene he is walking down the hallway with his emotionless face and mono tone voice again. Dude, your wife just died. I would still be in a little moment of shock and sadness. I would just break down in tears a little here and there as it hits me over and over that my wife is dead, my voice would be in different tones. Nope, he is back into the usual emotion again, with barely any sadness under his monotone voice and facial expressions.
Other than that, Al Pacino is amazing, Charlize Theron is also good. A very good entertaining flick, with a dark atmosphere and a powerful message on the deep root of evil in humanity.
Suicide Squad (2016)
An entertaining but messy film
I was super excited to see this movie, only to be disappointed. The good things about this movie are the portrayals of Deadshot, Harley Quinn and El Diablo. They were the highlight characters of the movie and the only ones given the spotlight. Well except El Diablo. I loved the humanity of Deadshot and the insanity of Harley Quinn. The action sequences were quite good. Only good. That's pretty much the only good things.
There are many bad things about this movie, and we'll start with characters and writing. Deadshot, Harley, El Diablo and the Joker are the only characters that I genuinely liked. Some of the others were useless to the plot and are given no character development.
Enchantress was a horrible choice as the villain, she should have stayed as part of the squad. The plot of the film is the squad being sent out to stop Enchantress from wrecking havoc in the middle of the city as she is busy making a weapon that will be used to wipe out mankind. No reason, no good enough reason on why. The reason Enchantress is a horrible choice is because she is an all-powerful witch with godlike powers. Considering how powerful she is, she is an unrealistic villain against the squad. Only El Diablo realistically had any chance against her. Had a better mission been chosen against a villain that could actually be taken down from this squad, this movie could've been better.
Joker was also a disappointment. I like the modern gangster take on him, but that's all he is in this movie. He isn't insane enough, and a force of chaos. Just a love sick gangster. His relationship with Harley also should've been a bit more abusive. His subplot in the film wasn't needed. Taking Joker out of the film, and keeping him in the flashbacks could've given more time on fleshing out the other characters. Hope they do better with Joker's character in future films.
The first half although better than the second, spent too much time explaining backstories of some of the characters through flashbacks. Bad characters, boring plot, wrong choice of villain and many writing and editing problems, rather than focusing on the squad working together and letting them be criminals who save the world by doing bad things for the government.
Other than that, an entertaining film but just a mess.