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Watched a bunch of movies in theaters the past couple days, brief run down:
The Fire Inside: I don't care about boxing, or sports; yet this was by far the best movie I watched yesterday. It's based on the real story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields who was the first American woman to win an Olympic gold metal in boxing (when she was just seventeen) and is the only American boxer (male or female) to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in boxing. Brian Tyree Henry's performance as coach Jason Crutchfield has Oscar "best supporting actor" caliber acting IMHO.
Sonic 3: I didn't even watch Sonic 2, so I am not the best person to review this. I fell asleep during parts of it. Bad guys, can also be good is the takeaway I guess? I dunno. If you stay all the way through the credits there's a teaser for something, but what that something is I couldn't tell you.
Homestead: I hated this. During the credits they do one of those QRCode "pass it forward" BS campaigns and tell you about how it's actually a TV series and you can watch the next episode if you buy someone else a ticket to see this movie? I don't think it deserved to be shown on a big screen. Candidly, I would have hated this movie even watching it at home (if I had a home).
Nosferatu: I watched this in IMAX. I fell asleep multiple times. Some shots were really well done as far as cinematography and frame composition, but overall; I just don't care. I am not into horror, there are way better horror films and it's totally not my cup of tea. It's almost as if they picked some of the best looking cast members just to make them seem even more beautiful in contrast to the freak show of Nosferatu. But like, Nosferatu originally was basically a Dracula movie which side stepped Bram Stoker's copyright I thought? Since that has expired and the credits even explicitly mention Bram Stoker's Dracula, I kind of felt as if they didn't need to remake Nosferatu. YMMV but I think the original had a lot more going for it than this ever will and in a decade, unless you're some horror fetishist, most will have probably even forgotten about this remake entirely.
Viduthalai Part 2 (Tamil with English subtitles): I think I may have seen the movie that this is a sequel to, but I am not sure. Moreover, I don't think it needed a sequel. This movie is not good. I fell asleep multiple times during it and even with the intermission it felt excessively long. I appreciate that Indian cinema has a lot of "cops are so corrupt, the criminals are actually the heroes" tropes and this is in that vein for sure; but it's not a very good take on that story IMHO.
Babygirl: I am not a fan of Nicole Kidman. You would think that having previously been Senior System Administrator for CNEMedia (aka Kink dot com and affiliated sites) I might have more empathy for D/s sorts of mainstream movies, but I don't. Just go watch actual porn instead, please. It's so much better than crap like this. Trivia: my past employer was approached to help make a sequel to 2002's Secretary. They passed. I get the impression that whomever was behind this movie, wanted to make something similar? The best character IMHO in the entire movie was Esther McGregor as Isabel Mathis (one of Nicole Kidman's character's daughters) and they gave her a friggin mullet. It's as if they were trying to make her look uglier than her mom and still failed? It has two upshots in the entire film: 1. a couple of songs from Barong Family/Yellow Claw collaborators, "Creep" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPqyaIxV54) being one of them the other in the credits is "LSD" but good luck finding a Barong Family/Yellow Claw song under the same name, even though when you hear it on a theater sound system you'll recognize it if you're a Yellow Claw fan. The second semi-redeeming part was the ever so short discussion around consent in the movie, but that lasts for all of 30 seconds, if that. So, a resounding no. Seriously, BDSM porn from the 1990s spends more time discussing safe words and consent than this thing. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman's character has been married for 19 years, has two kids and seems embarrassed about admitting that she wants to watch porn with her spouse? And goes so far as to sneak off to watch it on her own? To use a line from home-wrecker Harris Dickinson's (that sure seems like a porno last name) character: that seems "dated". Maybe this will appeal to glass ceiling smashing women CEOs? I think that is an obscenely small demographic though and more or less everyone in the movie is completely unrelatable.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl: this was probably #2 out of the movies I saw the past couple of days. It's hard to go wrong with Wallace & Gromit and their stop motion antics. However, if I am being honest, this feels more like a rehash of the first break out success, as we meet Feathers ("Have you seen this chicken?") the penguin again as the villain and are even given a plausible return of Feathers in another sequel conceit. I fell asleep during parts of the start and really only seemed to be able to stay awake after Gromit had been escaped his confines. Nick Park, who created Wallace and Gromit and apparently co-directed this, is also not really featured prominently in the credits, which makes me wonder if he was more hands off and coasting and leaving most of the work up to others? Anyway, it still has a good heart and it's difficult to be super negative about this franchise in general but it's definitely not feeling super fresh. Kind of like more recent Lupin the 3rd installments (Monkey Punch passed away and while we can celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Castle of Cagliostro which was Miyazaki Hayao's feature length directorial debut, a lot of the stuff since then has just been kind of mid and that's sort of how I feel about this installment of Wallace and Gromit as well.)
#Movies #TheFireInside #Sonic3 #Homestead #Nosferatu #ViduthalaiPart2 #Babygirl #WallaceAndGromitVengeanceMostFowl
The Fire Inside: I don't care about boxing, or sports; yet this was by far the best movie I watched yesterday. It's based on the real story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields who was the first American woman to win an Olympic gold metal in boxing (when she was just seventeen) and is the only American boxer (male or female) to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in boxing. Brian Tyree Henry's performance as coach Jason Crutchfield has Oscar "best supporting actor" caliber acting IMHO.
Sonic 3: I didn't even watch Sonic 2, so I am not the best person to review this. I fell asleep during parts of it. Bad guys, can also be good is the takeaway I guess? I dunno. If you stay all the way through the credits there's a teaser for something, but what that something is I couldn't tell you.
Homestead: I hated this. During the credits they do one of those QRCode "pass it forward" BS campaigns and tell you about how it's actually a TV series and you can watch the next episode if you buy someone else a ticket to see this movie? I don't think it deserved to be shown on a big screen. Candidly, I would have hated this movie even watching it at home (if I had a home).
Nosferatu: I watched this in IMAX. I fell asleep multiple times. Some shots were really well done as far as cinematography and frame composition, but overall; I just don't care. I am not into horror, there are way better horror films and it's totally not my cup of tea. It's almost as if they picked some of the best looking cast members just to make them seem even more beautiful in contrast to the freak show of Nosferatu. But like, Nosferatu originally was basically a Dracula movie which side stepped Bram Stoker's copyright I thought? Since that has expired and the credits even explicitly mention Bram Stoker's Dracula, I kind of felt as if they didn't need to remake Nosferatu. YMMV but I think the original had a lot more going for it than this ever will and in a decade, unless you're some horror fetishist, most will have probably even forgotten about this remake entirely.
Viduthalai Part 2 (Tamil with English subtitles): I think I may have seen the movie that this is a sequel to, but I am not sure. Moreover, I don't think it needed a sequel. This movie is not good. I fell asleep multiple times during it and even with the intermission it felt excessively long. I appreciate that Indian cinema has a lot of "cops are so corrupt, the criminals are actually the heroes" tropes and this is in that vein for sure; but it's not a very good take on that story IMHO.
Babygirl: I am not a fan of Nicole Kidman. You would think that having previously been Senior System Administrator for CNEMedia (aka Kink dot com and affiliated sites) I might have more empathy for D/s sorts of mainstream movies, but I don't. Just go watch actual porn instead, please. It's so much better than crap like this. Trivia: my past employer was approached to help make a sequel to 2002's Secretary. They passed. I get the impression that whomever was behind this movie, wanted to make something similar? The best character IMHO in the entire movie was Esther McGregor as Isabel Mathis (one of Nicole Kidman's character's daughters) and they gave her a friggin mullet. It's as if they were trying to make her look uglier than her mom and still failed? It has two upshots in the entire film: 1. a couple of songs from Barong Family/Yellow Claw collaborators, "Creep" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPqyaIxV54) being one of them the other in the credits is "LSD" but good luck finding a Barong Family/Yellow Claw song under the same name, even though when you hear it on a theater sound system you'll recognize it if you're a Yellow Claw fan. The second semi-redeeming part was the ever so short discussion around consent in the movie, but that lasts for all of 30 seconds, if that. So, a resounding no. Seriously, BDSM porn from the 1990s spends more time discussing safe words and consent than this thing. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman's character has been married for 19 years, has two kids and seems embarrassed about admitting that she wants to watch porn with her spouse? And goes so far as to sneak off to watch it on her own? To use a line from home-wrecker Harris Dickinson's (that sure seems like a porno last name) character: that seems "dated". Maybe this will appeal to glass ceiling smashing women CEOs? I think that is an obscenely small demographic though and more or less everyone in the movie is completely unrelatable.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl: this was probably #2 out of the movies I saw the past couple of days. It's hard to go wrong with Wallace & Gromit and their stop motion antics. However, if I am being honest, this feels more like a rehash of the first break out success, as we meet Feathers ("Have you seen this chicken?") the penguin again as the villain and are even given a plausible return of Feathers in another sequel conceit. I fell asleep during parts of the start and really only seemed to be able to stay awake after Gromit had been escaped his confines. Nick Park, who created Wallace and Gromit and apparently co-directed this, is also not really featured prominently in the credits, which makes me wonder if he was more hands off and coasting and leaving most of the work up to others? Anyway, it still has a good heart and it's difficult to be super negative about this franchise in general but it's definitely not feeling super fresh. Kind of like more recent Lupin the 3rd installments (Monkey Punch passed away and while we can celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Castle of Cagliostro which was Miyazaki Hayao's feature length directorial debut, a lot of the stuff since then has just been kind of mid and that's sort of how I feel about this installment of Wallace and Gromit as well.)
#Movies #TheFireInside #Sonic3 #Homestead #Nosferatu #ViduthalaiPart2 #Babygirl #WallaceAndGromitVengeanceMostFowl