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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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Men OK/G
After an incident involving her soon-to-be ex-husband in
London, a woman travels to the English countryside. Eventually, things get weird and truly
bizarre by the end, often making me think I was watching a David Lynch movie
(Alex Garland directed it, who also directed Annihilation, which I was a big fan of, and wrote 28 Days Later and Never Let Me Go; check out my review for Annihilation here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2018/03/mooby-reviews-3818.html). I’ll admit I did look up explanations
afterwards, even watching a making-of featurette, and one was very close to my
interpretation (the director even alluded there may be different conclusions in
that featurette). There is nothing quite
like this movie out there, at least in execution, and, for that, it deserves
some recognition. Of course unique
doesn’t necessarily mean acceptable, but I found much of this to be oddly transfixing
(hence the David Lynch reference). It obviously
won’t be for everyone and will likely instigate discussions, polarizing or
otherwise, but try and keep them civil (like always) as this is only a movie
and people are different (needless to say).
8/10/2022
Lightyear EH
This is essentially a movie-within-a-movie, this movie being
part of the Toy Story universe, as
we’re informed in the beginning that this is the movie that made Andy want a
Buzz Lightyear toy in 1995. Did we need
a standalone Buzz movie? Judging by this
film (currently available on Disney+), absolutely not! I thought Toy
Story 4 was unnecessary (my review is here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2019/06/childs-playtoy-story-4.html).
What’s next? A Woody standalone
movie? I’m not a fan of westerns, so I
don’t know if I like that idea (perhaps a TV series depicting all the major toy
origins might work instead of feature films?).
I’m not a fan of space movies either, but this was just a big dumb
action movie that, quite frankly, bored me and I couldn’t wait for it to be
over about halfway through (it’s over 100-minutes). I did like the cat (Sox) though, and think it
deserves its own movie. If the target
audience is the younger set, I believe much of this will go over their
heads. As for the adults that will watch
it with them and/or are fans of the series, they might be bored like I
was. What do I know though? What do I ever know? I know film criticism is entirely subjective,
but, once again, Rotten Tomatoes disagrees with me, there being (as of this
writing) 75% positive reviews out of 303 critics (well, at least 25% of them
agree with me). For a better animated
movie featuring a giant robot, watch The
Iron Giant (which recently had its anniversary). 8/8/2022
Other movies and TV show(s) I’ve seen and their ratings (see above):
Are You Afraid of
the Dark?: Ghost Island >>>EH
(Nick; 4
episodes)
Escape the Field >>>EH/OK
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery >>>OK
(Netflix; 6
episodes; In Italian with subtitles)
Gone in the Night >>>OK
---Sean O.8/15/2022
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