Jack Brickman
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Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything you said. To me it was a swing and a miss, but a highly enjoyable one just because of how ambitious it was. I love how they tried to push boundaries in a way that most big budget sci fi (I'm looking at you JJ Abrams) is too scared to do.Saw Valerian last night: 7/10. I am a big fifth element fan. This is the most ambitious film visually i have seen for a long time. The visuals are stunning and the aliens are truly alien and exotic. It is very french and it is highly flawed.
The main things that let it down are the dialogue, its obsession with its lead characters romance and a stunningly bad performance from Dane Dehanne (who make keanu reeves look like he has range).
Cara delevingne is excellent and the plot is good but the forced romance is just jarring and dehanne inability to play the charming macho hero is catastrophic
Maybe it's because I kind of knew what was going to happen. Maybe it was because I watched it on redbox instead of in the theater. I don't know what it was, but Kong: Skull Island was kind of... meh.
I mean to see Logan Lucky, but never got around to it.There hasn't been anything released of value in weeks...
I mean to see Logan Lucky, but never got around to it.
Kingsman 2 comes out in a few weeks.
Bill N Ted's Excellent Adventure- 7.126/10
This rating is about 5 points of nostalgia. I was an 80s kid and this movie was very much about that. It was also filmed where I grew up (suburbs of Phoenix) so seeing places that were part of my youth growing up was a little trippy; I had forgotten they filmed it there. Was also pleasantly surprised how much of the humor still worked. Missy- I mean mom- jokes kind of carried it. The craziest part is how one of the film's major sarcastic messages- that even complete morons can succeed in America- has come to prove so true. The plot itself is also a surprising mindfuck- if 'Rufus' never comes back, they never form and never change the world. So what future did they come back from? Also, the 'future' they land in- was that when they planted the seed in the future in regards to the 'Wild Stallions' changing the world? I mean, they showed up, muttered two phrases, and those two phrases become the basis of society. Philip K Dick would have been proud, probably.