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Zootopia (2016)
Zootopia: Meh
It's rare to find a movie that fails in one category but pulls itself up in another, only to cycle through this pattern many times over. Zootopia feels like it's trying to pull itself up until it adds another plot point into the film.
So my main issue with the movie is that it ties up it's plot-points too quickly near the end. Like, it resolves the mystery, Weaselton, Mr. Big, and Nick and Judy hating each other in about 10 minutes.
The action scenes were all good, the train scene being a genius scene. The issue is the movie feels it needs to add something to the plot which doesn't do much to the film to put in another scene, like how we have to have a panther go savage just so we get a chase scene in the jungle.
The issue holds true for not any other area of the film. There's also the villain's motivation, and if you haven't seen YMS, that motivation is "I'm really really racist". It would have been nice for Bellwether to be developed on more instead of coming in and having no reason except being racist for being evil.
All in all, Zootopia does have a lot of good things. The music is good, the action scenes are fluid, the characters are great, I loved the world, but the villain killed the movie for me. I can find enjoyment in this, but it's not the best. Watch it with some friends, or alone if you just love Disney. It's a good film, but it could be better.
Unfriended (2014)
Unfriended: How Not To Enter The Horror Genre
See, the issue with making a horror film is you have to make it scary enough to let newcomers know what they're getting into. Unfriended seems more like a movie based around building up it's scares than actually scaring, and it does so decently. However, the issue lies in everything else.
Not only are all the characters one-note, but the plot is just kids dying as things happen. There are a few good techniques, like the camera in Ken's room and Ken's death scene in and of itself, and the music choice is decent the 2 times they use music. Most of the death scenes were badly done. I liked Jess' the most out of all of them, because it was at least weird, but some like Mitch's and Ken's looked really lazy.
There's also the buildup, which is just everything going very quiet until a jump-scare. Sometimes a scare doesn't even come, it's just slow buildup for nothing. I did like one scene near the end, where Blaire got a reminder about a test, and they used that well, as it allows the characters to realize how pointless it is.
The movie's writing is decent, if it was an indie first time movie, but it had a budget, unlike some much greater films. It's like they decided to focus all the money on the re-shoots, and the ghost itself feels like a more in-depth character than the main ones.
I feel as if the film was trying to hard to scare people, it forgot how to do so. That's why this film is really not worth seeing unless it's with a group of friends to see how bad it is.