Blessedly I was pouring myself a drink and setting up my snacks so I missed the title card. In general I feel BBFC title cards are *slightly* tilted too far in the 'well, you've ruined that twist' direction at the moment.
25) Ballerina. Exactly what you want from a John Wick movie - brilliant, needlessly artful fight scenes. Ana de Armas steps brilliantly into the central role. The film’s best shot is a direct lift from John Wick 4 but who cares?
27) Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. A really disappointing misfire, this. Lacks energy, lousy with references to the past (who is the imagined Mission Impossible viewer who wants THAT?), feels like a rote 'okay, what's my big book of Final Episode Cliches' at times. A mess.
DR was atrocious so I'm not surprised. Making the big final bad guy of the franchise a screensaver but also to have both run almost 3 hours long puts me in mind of this
Very telling that the film went out of its way not to name the US city that was to be sacrificed - a better written film would have had a lot of fun with that
Contains possibly the most forced, unnecessary piece of backstory I've ever seen (the CIA henchman). A minute of screen time in an already overlong film which added precisely nothing to the plot.
incredibly self-serious, very dumb, but maaaaan the way the villain goes out had me laughing (though the entire contraption of the last 20-30 minutes was not so much creaky as a big rattling bag of springs and broken gears)
One thing I feel I’m very much in the minority on and can’t understand why after seeing it was that even people who didn’t like the movie as a whole praised the submarine bit, when to me it was a crime against the genre: a boring action sequence. It felt interminable, which is a tension killer.
SPOILER ALERT: I loved the film very much, but I thought the return of the money at the end was a step too far. Just the guitar would have been fine. No one's that unmercenary!
Top of my must-watch list but unfortunately no sign of it appearing in cinemas here in Spain. It will probably be out internationally on streaming or disc before it gets a theatrical release. Universal Studios obviously too busy hawking pointless How To Train Your Dragon remakes.
Totally agree. Loved its delightfully British awkwardness. Took my eight-week-old to a parent and baby screening and you could hear the genuine laughter from different people at different moments. While obviously not a blockbuster, one i’m also really glad I saw on the big screen
We went with the kids, my wife is _obsessed_ with original.
It elicited proper rolling tears from me, which the original never did. Perhaps because I’m older, or because stitch is a misbehaving little shit, but a cute furry one at that.
literally came out of it as you posted this; very fun caper, and I'm enjoying this phase of his career where he's clearly having a midlife crisis and fixating on the idea of his legacy, both artistic and interpersonally
bit to sketch-like in some places, certain plot-points end up being malnourished but I can't really complain about the whole as the whole thing breezes through in a very pleasing way
My most eagerly anticipated film of the last several years. I'm so sad that I can't see it in the cinema. Can't wait for it to be available on streaming.
For the first half I assumed the Helen plotline was going to somehow put a totally different spin on the rest of the action. Was pretty underwhelmed to find out that the dreary conversations on balconies were presumed to be satisfying enough by themselves
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Such a lovely film
Sorry about the analogy but it's the best I can come up with.
It elicited proper rolling tears from me, which the original never did. Perhaps because I’m older, or because stitch is a misbehaving little shit, but a cute furry one at that.
Kids loved it.
“You’re very kind.”
I also love The Darjeeling Limited which is one people tend to disparage.
I don't know what this says about me.