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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Army of the Dead EH/OK
In case you’ve heard/read nothing about this new Netflix
movie, it’s a heist/zombie movie wherein a group of people are tasked with
entering Las Vegas (which has been bordered off to contain zombies within) to
retrieve a large sum of money with promises of a reward before the city is
blown to smithereens in a few days. Zack
Snyder was at the helm, who was behind a bunch of superhero movies, but also
the passable Dawn of the Dead remake,
so he’s dabbled with the undead before (it was also his feature film directing
debut). Did this need to be 2 ½
hours? Hell no! I don’t think most movies need to be that
long. It wasn’t necessarily boring in
the general sense, but it certainly felt as long as it was; I thought it was
over 40 minutes before it actually was!
It is more of a zombie movie than a heist one, and I actually liked it
better before they entered Sin City when we got to know all the characters;
this ultimately felt like a subpar Resident
Evil film (didn’t at least one of those take place in Vegas as well?). There’s a group of undead that are more
“intelligent” than other mindless gut-munchers, they don’t talk though, just
grunt, and their existence is infinitely more silly than frightening. There was a zombie tiger and horse that were
pretty cool, plus a pretty cool mauling by the tiger that would’ve impressed me
whether the big cat was a zombie or not.
That’s really all that stood out in this overlong heist/zombie film that
was fairly standard in regards to both genres.
5/21/2021
Bonus review:
Tom & Jerry EH/OK
I did watch Tom &
Jerry as a young‘un enough to say I was a fan, but it wasn’t one of my
favorites. I did like the movie that
came out in 1993 (at least back then), also called Tom & Jerry: The Movie (this movie is labeled both Tom & Jerry and Tom & Jerry: The Movie in some places), which I still own the
VHS for. The thing I remember about the
show and the other movie though was that they were 100% animated. This movie takes the animated characters and
merges them with real people and real locations (the Big Apple, to be exact;
mainly a hotel hosting a celebrity wedding).
In fact, all the animals are the only things animated. Why couldn’t the entire film be
animated? As a film itself, it’s not as
bad as it could’ve been, but it’s still not exactly worth watching and I’m glad
this wasn’t my introduction to Tom &
Jerry, which, unfortunately, will be for some of today’s young‘uns. [I reviewed at least one feature-length
animated film featuring the titular cat and mouse contained in this blog---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2017/11/mooby-reviews-111617.html]. 5/19/2021
Other movies and TV show(s) I’ve seen and their ratings (see above):
The Funeral Home >>>OK
(In Spanish with
subtitles)
Minari >>>OK/G
(Mostly in Korean
with subtitles)
The Nest >>>EH
Time Lapse (2015) >>>EH
Trickster >>>OK
(6 episodes;
currently available on Shudder)
---Sean O.
5/22/2021
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