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The Boys (2019)
One of my favorite series of all time
This show is hilarious, serious, dramatic, and fun all at the same time. Nothing I can think of mixes tones with this degree of skill. All of the characters are believable and interesting. Can't wait to see the story conclude.
The Mandalorian (2019)
Best Star Wars content since Disney took over
I really like this show and I think it really feels like Star Wars. Nothing more needs to be said.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)
Very NIIICE, but a little disappointing
This is a very funny movie, but I don't think it lives up to the first one. I really like how Borat's relationship with his daughter grows though.
The girl who plays Borat's daughter is a great actress. I hope her career skyrockets because of this.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Very fast, very fun, very predictable, very stupid
Let me start by saying that this is a bad movie. The plot is stupid, the dialogue is literally laughable, the conflict is absurd, and it left me thinking that it would've been better if Disney had never made this sequel trilogy at all.
That being said, I had a BLAST watching this film. It's like a fanfiction written by a 12 year old that doesn't really understand Star Wars yet, but knows how to generate the FEEL of a fun Star Wars story. It's so bad that it's actually fun to watch it all fall apart. Some of the cringier lines even have PERFECTLY TIMED pauses where you have exactly enough time to realize what the next line is and audibly say something like "She better not say it..." and then she says it.
This is the first "So bad it's good" Star Wars movie, and it might actually be my all-time-favorite "so bad it's good" movie because it's not exclusively bad. The effects are generally amazing (with a couple notable examples that REALLY stick out in a hilarious way), the actors are clearly skilled, and there are several scenes that are legitimately good (given their context within the story) and carry significant emotional weight. These facets of the story serve to enhance the hilarity of the rest of the movie. I Laughed out loud several times. Not at the jokes, but a laugh is a laugh and I don't think I've ever laughed that hard at a movie.
The movie theater I was in was roughly 60% empty, which really just enhanced the bizarre nature of the entire experience.
My wife fell asleep for several minutes and immediately started laughing whe she woke up because the movie is paced so quickly that literally nothing onscreen made any sense to her after missing about six minutes. This movie should've been at least two movies, but I'm so glad that it was just one bizarre sack of plot density and contrivances.
The first thing my wife said to me when we walked out of the theater was (while we were both laughing) "Did we seriously just watch that? Like, did that really happen? What the (censored) even was that?"
I'll avoid any possible spoilers, but I would NOT recommend seeing this movie in theaters. Disney needs to take a hit to the pocketbook for making the sequel trilogy in this manner. HOWEVER, I would 100% recommend watching this movie at home at some point because it is truly the most wild, yet EXTREMELY predictable, ride I've ever been on.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
It's good... But it's pretty dumb.
To the people mad at this episode for all the wrong reasons:
-No, Arya didn't "fly". The peak of her jump was MAYBE 2 feet in the air, and she was only in the air for MAYBE 10 feet. That's fully possible for anyone in good physical condition.
-No, Jon didn't think yelling would kill Viserion. He specifically shouted "Go, Go, Go." To signal Arya to run past the dragon into the godswood. She's seen in the same area as Jon right before this, so he clearly just SAW her and decided to sacrifice himself for a chance at killing the Night King.
-No, Arya didn't "Sneak past hundreds of White Walkers". The Walkers and Wights were flanking the door and it's clear that they noticed her making a dead sprint through the MASSIVE OPEN SPACE towards the night king. They had JUST let Theon charge the Night King through that same area, so it makes sense that they wouldn't bother stopping another person making a suicide charge. Two of the Walkers even LOOK at her as she runs past, but they clearly don't think NK is in any danger.
ACTUAL problems with this Episode:
-Wasting 40,000 Dothraki in an ultimately pointless charge. Even assuming that every Dothraki killed at least two wights in the charge, that's only 80,000. If they all killed three (seems unlikely given the vast numerical advantage of the wights and the low visibility for the Dothraki) that would only be 120k. The Night King has been implied to have closer to 200k-250k wights. So at BEST, they cut the army of the dead by half (more likely closer to a third)... This is entirely not worth it, given that the Dothraki are shown to be well over half of the force protecting winterfell. Their dumb charge made it so the ~8,000 unsullied, the ~5k-10k knights of the Vale, the ~2,000 wildlings, and the few thousand from the northern houses were forced to try and hold against a force that outnumbered them by roughly 7 to 1.
-The whole dang episode is way too dark. I understand that it was intentional, but COME ON MAN!!! I had to turn off all the lights in the room to be able to see the dragon fight at all. You can make it look ominously dark without making the audience feel like they're a mile under the sea and the current has stirred up all the sand on the ocean floor.
-Not enough people died. This would not be a problem had the characters not been shown in extraordinarily perilous situations MANY times, only to plot-armor or conveniently slide their way out of it. Brienne should've died like SEVEN times, Sam should've died once or twice, Jaime should've died once, Sansa/Tyrion/Varys/almost everyone else who survived the crypts by hiding in a cubby should've probably died, Jon had two or three scenes where he could've easily died, Dany/Drogon could've died a few times. After awhile, the stakes seemed to drop because everyone just kept living. Jorah, Dolorous Ed, Theon, and Beric had strong death scenes, but it seemed like they planned for more major deaths but then needed them to be alive to fight Cersei so they contrived something to save them every time.
-Where the HECK did Rhaegal go after he and Jon landed? The trailer for the next episode shows that Rhaegal is fine, but where the heck did he go while Jon was charging the Night King?
-What was Ghost doing the whole time? Like Rhaegal, the trailer shows that he's fine... But where the hell was he for the ENTIRE fight after the big charge? Was Bran warging into him and fighting? If so, wouldn't that have been pretty cool to show in some way?
-Arya killing the Night king was foreshadowed and explained and shown properly and blah blah blah... But it still wasn't very satisfying. If it had happened while Jon or another good fighter engaged NK and Arya stabbed NK in the back while he was distracted, then maybe it would've been fitting. Just having her kill the guy moslty on her own fell a little flat for me though.
In conclusion, this was an episode that COULD'VE easily been the best in the whole series... But it just wasn't. I liked it well enough, but it wasn't really a fully satisfying experience. I wish that the writers had been a little more fearless when it came to killing characters in this episode, and I wish the battle strategy had been better. 6/10, could've been a 9.5/10 with less plot armor, better tactics, and 25% better visibility
Rogue One (2016)
Good movie, maybe not great for Star Wars though.
Unpopular opinion for a longtime Star Wars fan, but I thought this movie was unnecessary and underwhelming.
Jyn Erso is almost an entirely blank character.
Cassian is fine. Nothing more to say.
K2SO was good. I despise "jokes" in star wars movies, but comedy is completely welcome.
Chirrut, Baze, and the Temple of Kyber change the entire lore around the Jedi, Lightsabers, and Kyber Crystals in a way that I thought was far more simplistic and far worse than the original lore. However, I did enjoy both characters, despite all of that.
'Director' Krennic is a generic imperial dude that holds a rank that nobody has ever really seen in the old movies, the old EU, or the new stuff, and it's unclear how high that rank actually is. He is intimidating and very believable. The rank-related gripe is all the negative I have for him.
Vader is 100% Vader in this movie and is therefore above reproach.
Saw Gerrera is MUCH older than when we last saw him, even though that was only like 20-25 years ago in-universe. It's a little jarring, but Forrest Whittaker plays the grizzled old warrior phenomenally. "Bor Gullet will know the truth!" However, it was really stupid that he didn't get on the ship and instead chose to get killed by a Tsunami of sand. "I'm done running." What the hell is this going to accomplish? Are you going to fight the mountain that's about to hit you? Just get on the dang ship.
The fight scene at the end threw a wrench into the banter between Vader and Leia in ANH. Her ship clearly participated in the battle. It's not like they jumped in and jumped out. Also, wasn't the ship supposed to recieve a transmission? Because they brought a physical disk on board. That's not the same thing.
Overall it was a good movie, but maybe not great for Star Wars.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Much better than I expected, but not perfect
I went into the theater expecting another flop from Disney Star Wars (Another "The Last Jedi" level atrocity), but what I found instead was an honestly worthy addition to the new canon.
The film actually feels like Star Wars; it actually uses material from the larger canon (including some embellishments on Legends Lore); but most importantly, it is an enjoyable movie with a plot that actually works to some extent.
A few points felt odd, but there wasn't a single time where I wasn't enjoying myself at least a little bit.
Ehrenrich is fairly believable as Han (not quite Harrison Ford, but you don't really think about the casting choices during the movie) although his personality isn't really the same as in the OT. This Han is less 'roguish' and more 'kind' than the slightly older version we meet in 'A New Hope. He's also more openly arrogant, but Han is played close enough to Ford's performance that it's believable that he's the same person at a different stage in life.
Honestly, I didn't particularly like Donald Glover as Lando. However this is no fault of Glover, I just don't like it when the actor is more well known than the role. Glover is too famous to play a character that had only been onscreen for half an hour before this point.
That being said, he played the role well enough that I occasionally found myself forgetting that it was "Donald Glover playing a role" and started just seeing Lando.
Some pieces of dialogue are kinda forced and some characters seem to do certain things SPECIFICALLY to pander to the audience, but it doesn't detract too much from the movie.
Also, the ending is just a tad drawn-out.
Overall, I would say that this is easily the best film that Disney Star Wars has ever put out (although it still falls shy of most of the pre-2015 content), and it certainly gives me some amount of hope for Episode IX and whatever follows.
TL;DR- The movie is good, but not great. It FAR outshines the abysmal failure that is Episode VIII, but it could have been a little tighter and smoother. I was invested all the way through a Star Wars movie for the first time in ten years. It won't disappoint.
Captain Marvel (2019)
Possibly the most "ok" movie I've ever seen
Brie Larson is not an amazing actress throughout this movie and I came away thinking that Carol Danvers was sort of bland as a character.
Sam Jackson was great with what they gave him, but Nick Fury has never been full comic support. That threw me off a little.
The special effects were generally great, but some scenes were very obviously CGI. Most notably, her flying at the end.
The storyline is literally nothing like the old comics and I'd argue that this story is much less enjoyable, but it's still fine.
Some acting was wooden and bad, which was extremely noticeable once the end credits scene rolled and all of the OG avengers stars were onscreen. All of their acting in that 2 minute scene was better than Larson's in any scene in the movie.
Tian long ba bu (1977)
This is the worst movie I've ever seen... 10/10.
I hate this movie so much that I love it. This is easily the worst story I've ever seen, the worst editing, and the weirdest movie that I'm currently aware of. The acting is fine, but literally everything else is just awful. 10/10. Would play at my wife's funeral.