Pretty well done, but not really my cup of tea. I thought it was sad and kind of depressing, not scary. And I can appreciate that the acting is very good, and the story interesting and pretty unique, but I wouldn't call it the best movie I've ever seen. I have questions about the plot though, like who insists that their 13-year-old go to a high school party? What person with a nut allergy eats food without asking if there are nuts in it? Why was Charlie not carrying an Epipen? Why did none of the characters feel like they were connected to each other? Why did there need to be a demonic element? Is Ari Aster okay? Also I wish they'd done more with the miniatures, because that shit is cool.
I'm 36, and while I'm too much of a weenie to have made it past night 3 in the first game, watching others (particularly Markiplier) play through the series is what got me into watching let's players on Youtube. I thought this movie was great! Was it a good movie? Nothing to write home about; the animatronics were fantastic, the sound design was good, Matthew Lillard is a gift, but otherwise it was sort of middle of the road. But I had a great time watching it. I laughed a lot, I pointed wildly at the screen so my cat could see the easter eggs, and near the end when Afton took off the mask I did a big Super Bowl touchdown reaction. I'm gonna make my mom watch it, because it's something connected to a thing I'm very much interested in, so I want to share it with her, and it's not anywhere near scary enough to get to her (she's very, very bad with being startled, and I didn't find that much of anything besides the three Balloon Boy jumps were actually startling).
Buncha boring fusspots on this site! Instead of judging this movie against other Pixar movies, or other movies with similar plots, just enjoy it for what it is: a gorgeous movie with inventive little details (I especially liked all of the Fire clothing being made out of metal and glass), a great soundtrack, and an excellent message throughout about race, racism, immigration, and how people treat each other. My mom and I just watched it and while yes, it's not Pixar's strongest, and we both liked Inside Out better, it was still a fun hour and forty minutes, and the sort of movie where if I spotted it on TV, I'd probably hang around to watch it.
I wasn't prepared for this to be a better movie than the original. I also wasn't prepared for it to grab me for its entire, very lengthy runtime. But boy did it. I judge movies I watch based on how much they do or don't keep my attention (i.e., am I doing something else while watching), with bonus judgement for if they make me cry at any point. I watched the entire thing avidly for the whole time, and it made me cry three times, so, 11/10, amazing movie.
At the start I did find myself with multiple plot related questions, and a couple of them still haven't been answered, but they also don't really matter because the movie was so enjoyable. The visuals, alien biology, environments, music, all of it was amazing. The little details of things really made it for me. If you didn't like the original, you may not enjoy this one, or it might surprise you. There's so much packed into it, because it didn't have to do the introductory stuff that the original did; this one is just story and action and emotion for three hours, and it was so good.
Edit: After percolating on it for several hours, I will admit that a lot of the story has the same issues as the original. The ham-fisted colonialism is even more present in this one, the villains are cartoonishly one-note entities, and the industry vs. environment element is like that meme of the kid walking down the street with his ears covered while a girl follows him playing trombone directly at him. With Jake fully into the Na'vi thing, and Quaritch in an avatar body as well it loses the white savior angle that the original movie had, at least. I'd like to think that maybe there will be some layered character development in the upcoming three movies, but I really don't know. I do still highly recommend this one, and I stand by my 10 rating. It's a beautiful movie to watch, and extremely engrossing (especially if you allow it to be).
Never seen Sherlock, have no interest in ever seeing it. I adore this show, and wouldn't compare it to anything else! It's such an interesting take on the characters, and the acting is fantastic. Lucy Liu is who I want to be when I grow up, TBH. I do wish Moriarty had been around more, but I understand for plot reasons that wouldn't really work. If you like Sherlock Holmes, mysteries being solved, good character development, and interesting characters, you'll love this show.
I thought this movie was amazing, if a little obscure for mainstream viewers. Its plot is essentially that of The Lion King (which is itself a retelling of Hamlet), but done with a violence that is breathtaking. So much attention was paid to the details of costumes, music, and set pieces! The mythology is genuine, and extremely satisfying. I wasn't actually expecting a couple of the plot twists, or the ending, which I think means the writers did a good job. If you enjoyed Game of Thrones or Vikings (I haven't watched the latter myself), you'll probably like this. It's also not a happy movie; the settings and events are bleak, for the most part, but sometimes that's what a movie needs to be. Absolutely worth a watch.
This movie was dumb and honestly kind of bad, but it was bad and dumb on purpose and I loved every second of it, so that's okay. Amazing performance from Mr. Cage, it takes skill to do a whole movie with no lines at all and still convey personality. Beth Grant was fantastic as always, and everyone else was suitably over the top. It was great, definitely keeping it around to watch when I need a laugh.
I love this version, and I feel like people who dislike it went into it expecting the usual formula of obvious redemption and happiness at the end. In my opinion, this one was much more realistic and gritty, and it was all the more excellent for it. It touches on real, plausible things that could easily have happened to drive someone to be like Scrooge. I thought the part with Ali Baba was wonderful, and helped humanize him immensely, the same with the pet mouse. I admit, the first viewing, the use of the f-word was jarring, but let's face it, the first recorded use of the word was in 1503. People in the 1900s would've been using it too.
I thought this movie was spectacular, so well done! The cast was wonderful, but Vera Farmiga and Isabelle Fuhrman really stole it, especially the latter, she did such an amazing job as Esther. The writing was really good too; you can tell from the start that something's up with Esther (there wouldn't be a movie otherwise, to be fair), but the actual twist is kept until very close to the end. The music is good, the tension was just right, there were several lines that made me laugh, and the violence was pretty tastefully done. Definitely watch it going in as blind as possible!
This one was interesting, felt like a completely different franchise after all the others. And it was good, I liked it a lot, but it suffered from horror movie characters in a major way, that the others didn't because they were self-aware and silly enough to not have that problem. This one, I had questions, which were mostly "why is X so stupid?" But the characters were interesting, the acting was extremely good, and the violence was positively tasteful compared to other entries. Also goddamn but Fiona Dourif looks so much like her dad.
This movie should have been too dumb to watch, but instead I loved it. I love that Jennifer Tilly and Brad Dourif seem to have so very much fun doing these movies, and I was not at all prepared for the stunning nonbinary representation in the form of Glen/da. What a wild ride, very crude and ridiculous for most of it but well-executed for being that.
Jesus, I didn't think things could get more gruesome than Mason's Rats and parts of Swarm, but this one had some really grody moments that made me squirm. Also I gotta be honest, I would've been way more satisfied if it had just been bioluminescent goop and weird spider aliens and then everyone died or some of them bailed and just got out of the cave and had it nuked from orbit. It coming down to Cthulhu was almost disappointing after all the other shit, but I can appreciate the way it was represented, that was pretty damn cool. Also, nice to see Christian Serratos again, she did an amazing job. The animation was really good for a lot of parts and then glaringly, obviously animation in some other parts (mainly with bright lighting and certain facial angles). Really good, overall, but yuck.
Very, very good! I'm not always a fan of found footage, but this was quite good, very well done. A bit predictable in spots but completely unique in others, and executed flawlessly. It does have several scenes that many people would find disturbing, and there are quite a few dead animals, just so you're warned.
Really, really beautifully done. Amazing cast, and while liberties were taken with some of the facts, it was for the benefit of the story, which conveyed the vital points of Turing's story quite well. Poor man, largely unappreciated in his time.
Jeff Goldblum and DeWanda Wise absolutely carried this movie. I appreciate what they were trying to do, and I'm glad the cast had a good time (especially the OG 3, it was delightful to see them together again) but this movie was a mess, there were way too many story threads and not enough time to deal with them all. This needed to be two movies, with more dinosaurs involved. I had such high hopes, especially after seeing how cool the Dino Tracker site they put up was (which, as it turns out, was mostly clips from this movie).
Besides the enormous number of plot threads — we saw probably six different locations in the first ten minutes of the movie — there were some serious problems with the dinosaurs themselves, in my opinion. I came to this after recently binging Prehistoric Planet and also the Camp Cretaceous show, and the differences are glaring. In this, the dinosaurs seemed to be either slightly unfinished-looking CGI or practical effects (either puppets or animatronics or some combination of the two) being handled by people who had never done so before. The closeups on the atrociraptors reminded me of the Goombas from the 90s Super Mario Bros. movie; the teeth didn't make sense, they looked like anglerfish teeth. The lystrosaurus (which I had to look up) looked like some type of Star Wars alien, and not in a good way. The dimetrodons were neat, but we barely got to see them. The dilophosauruses were definitely puppets, and looked/moved like it. I think my favorite was probably the therizinosaurus, a species I only know from playing The Isle, and which looked cool, sounded cool, added tension, and was incredibly badass by the end. Quetzalcoatalus was great too, but not around for very long. But the key to good CGI and good practical effects is having them be realistic enough that the viewer doesn't notice that they're not actual living things. Many, MANY of the dinosaurs in this failed that test.
It wasn't a bad movie. But considering its budget and the acting talent involved and the enormous weight of plot resolution it had riding on it, it should have been an amazing movie. The great thing about the Jurassic Park/World movies is that even when they're pretty bad (looking at you, The Lost World), they're still fun to watch because DINOSAURS!!! This one doesn't quite even manage that, there are too many people and too few dinosaurs. If you're a fan of the series, obviously watch this to wrap up all the plot, but I doubt I'll be watching it again.
At least Rexy's still alive and back on top. Also I guess the ending, with the dinosaurs mingling with regular animals, was pretty cool, if a little hamfisted.
Edit: Alright, I watched it again just so I could properly absorb all of the nonsense that happened. Besides the previous issues I had, I was more aware this time of the number of things that seemed to be happening just because they looked cool, and either served no real purpose in the plot, were never explained, or both. Owen riding a horse and splitting one parasaurolophus off from the group had no point and wasn't explained at all. Owen and Claire have been living with Maisie in that tiny cabin for four years? With no mention of school or jobs or anything? The stuff with the locusts was explained but didn't need to be there; they could have found some other reason for our heroes to go to the Biosyn sanctuary, easily, without the complication of prehistoric locusts. Everything in Malta could have been excluded and covered in some other way, and was entirely to look cool and have dinosaurs running around. I don't know. It was trying to be a Jurassic movie AND Indiana Jones or some sort of espionage thriller at the same time. It was too scattered, too many locations and new species that really WERE there just because, not enough of the old favorites, and again, too many story elements being handled at once. And the dinosaurs are still largely sub-par for this franchise that pioneered modern dinosaurs in movies. I would've much preferred a movie that detailed how humans were adapting to living with dinosaurs around the world, because THAT would've been very interesting to watch.
I was not expecting the show to hook up with the plot for Fallen Kingdom, that's neat! I'm not completely good with how they portray Wu in this, he's a little TOO smug, in my opinion. Also Brooklynn should've just left the laptop in the vents somewhere, the chances of it being found there seem pretty slim.
I asked my friends if they'd understand if I wanted to stay behind because a newborn dinosaur had imprinted on me and we'd been through a lot together, and my friends said yes, absolutely. I feel like my mom would understand as well, as long as like, further help and supplies were sent to help me out. Also this is all rhetorical, because I can't even jog without hurting my ankle, and I hate being outdoors in anything more than 70F. What I'm saying is that I understand where Ben is coming from, 100%.
This was sort of a weird start to the season. We missed a lot of time and they only sort of explained how it was passed, Yaz and Brooklynn were being bitches to each other for what seemed like no reason, and they dealt with the conflict of leaving Bumpy behind AFTER a failed attempt to leave. I don't know, it just felt like I'd missed an episode or something. Still good, but lost points for that.
This was a movie about how some people just don't do well in solitary settings.
Okay, I jest, but not entirely. This movie felt like a stage play, with the limited environments and extremely limited cast, not to mention the language involved. Many people would probably consider this an art film, and a movie that's being strange on purpose, but I appreciate it for pushing several boundaries at once. I expected Willem Dafoe's performance - he seems to be drawn to super weird movies - but Robert Pattinson was also a landmark performance. The way the plot dove in and out of both realism and fantasy was superb, masterfully done. Are these two men going crazy, or are you the viewer going mad instead? Was it all imagined by Thomas the younger? The sound design and cinematography were also amazing, all the creaks and drips and the blaring of the foghorn, the shots that are either so close or so far that you're not sure what you're seeing.
It was an EXTREMELY weird movie, and while The Witch felt longer than its 1.5 hour runtime (in a good way), this felt like it went on forever (in a good way). Those who are into such things might find that watching it while high or drunk lends it a different feel altogether.
All the people saying this show was boring, badly-paced, poorly-written: I don't think we watched the same show. I respect your opinion, but clearly you all missed something crucial.
I LOVED this show. I already loved Loki, and this expanded on the character brilliantly. He spends the show getting put in situations where he can't just magic his way out of things. His ego gets the better of him multiple times, as it should. But through the course of the show, he develops as a character and a person, because there are things going on that are much bigger than him. One of Loki's greatest traits has always been that he has far too much empathy to be a real villain. This really demonstrated that, to me. Episode 5 was the best, in my opinion, but the finale was also amazing. This show didn't leave me with questions like some of the movies have, like "why didn't X just do blank instead". I'm excited to see where they go for season 2!
And those of you who found Sylvie and Loki kissing to be gross or "incest," y'all are babies. It's only incest if you're related; alternate versions of each other doesn't count. I have Kingdom Hearts and the Lutece "twins" from Bioshock Infinite under my belt, this made sense compared to that, tbh. And honestly, doesn't it make sense that Loki would fall for himself, essentially? He said himself that he's a narcissist. Anyway, I haven't been this excited for two characters to kiss in a long time, I was so happy.
This movie was a bit slower-paced than I was expecting, and than I prefer, but it was still quite good, and it's impossible to ignore the impact it had on future media. At the time, I can see how it would have been terrifying, that someone could attempt this kind of thing. The scene where a face is surgically removed (and the camera doesn't really cut away, though it is at a discreet distance) made me squirm, because I'm not good with that sort of thing. It must have been shocking for viewers of the 60s.
Definitely worth a watch, if only for the cinema history. Just don't go in expecting anything like current horror.
Boy this movie's a real stinker. It tried in some respects to be just like the original, what with the people plucked seemingly at random from their lives and put into this facility of cubical rooms, each with six doors out and into the neighboring rooms. But other than that it's like a cheap knockoff. Halfway through and there's only been one death, and we didn't even get to see it! None of the rooms have any traps, and while the first person we saw was missing a shoe, that seemed to just be an easter egg nod to the original.
The addition of quantum theory was an interesting choice, but wasn't executed well and just ended up being super confusing. Extend a cube into a fourth dimension, but the fourth dimension isn't time? What does that even mean? Okay, there are parallel universes, meaning we have multiples of the same characters running around in this place, but to what end, why would someone want that?
Also none of the characters are likeable at all. I was waiting for most of them to die just so I wouldn't have to listen to them anymore. One of the great things about the original was how everyone had something to contribute to the group in their efforts to navigate and get out, and the jerk character ended up being a good person, while the seemingly good guy ended up being a really really bad person. In this, too many people had secret identities or ended up being completely inconsequential. Also why did Max and Julia decide to bang? No one knows.
The ending was rushed and didn't make much sense, but I'll admit I was more engaged in the last ten minutes than I was for the entire rest of the movie. I guess it's worth a watch if you liked the first one, but it's not connected to the plot of the first one in any way, and doesn't explain anything from it; if anything, it just creates more questions.
Not as good as season one, but much better than I was expecting after Bryan Fuller left and took Gillian Anderson and Kristin Chenowyth with him. MUCH better than I was expecting. It really departed from the book, by necessity, but touches base with it repeatedly. Orlando Jones continued to be too damn good for the show, which is why they fired him for season three. The new storylines were really well done, woven nicely into the original story, and they give a lot more depth to several characters. It's not flawless, but most shows aren't, and I don't quite get the hate I'm seeing in other comments here.
Not as good as the first one (which was not a flawless movie, but one that I enjoy a great deal), but still pretty fun to watch. It felt rushed, and it didn't need to be, with a runtime of an hour and 37 minutes; they could've stretched it out over another 20 minutes and it might've been better. Also, without a ton of knowledge of the comics, Carnage felt like a nice nod to the bit that I DO remember from what I read, where Venom effectively has a child.
The only reason I'm not giving this a higher rating is because of what happened with the special effects, that I just learned about recently. According to what I've read, the creature effects in this were originally all practical - amazing, phenomenal practical effects; look up Studio ADI on YouTube, they have a number of videos of behind the scenes stuff regarding the animatronic and model creation used in this film. But the studio execs apparently felt that the practical effects were "too 80s" and had them largely overridden by CGI. Apart from the videos on YouTube, the original cut is lost to us. I stand by what I've said in the past, which is that the CGI isn't that bad in this. It's no Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, and it doesn't hold a candle to the animatronics originally used, but it's not that bad.
Apart from that, I feel this movie perfectly captures the tone of the 1982 movie. The music fits, the lighting and set design matches, and the sense of isolation and paranoia is the same. It's really a damn shame about the effects, because it seems like the entire movie - including the effects - was a love letter to the 1982 movie. They worked very hard to match the parts of the Norwegian base that we see in that one, down to the broken glass and scorch marks. The story is good, too; it doesn't try to replicate the beats of the 1982 film, instead giving us a separate viewpoint on what happened.
That was possibly the longest two and a half hours I've ever experienced, and I've had to wait my turn at a Social Security field office multiple times.
I liked it a lot more than Hereditary, and I can't even pinpoint why. I knew all the spoilers going in, so nothing really shocked me in terms of the plot. I felt some hardcore secondhand embarrassment in the first 40 minutes or so. I likely will never watch this movie again, although I'd be more willing to do so with this than Hereditary, which was largely sad and depressing. Midsommar, by contrast, feels a bit like if Wes Anderson made Swedish horror. I laughed a couple of times, I smiled, I agreed with all of the decisions that were made by characters, and I'm not sure why I'm not rating it 10. I guess it's that it's not a super accessible film, emotionally. Its weirdness is offputting to a lot of people, I imagine.
Really beautifully shot and paced movie, I enjoyed it a lot. The weird timelessness of the setting - 80s synth music, black and white tvs, older cars - made the whole thing feel sort of dreamlike. The story was unique, the subtleties of the acting were fantastic, and it was just a really fun watch!
An okay watch, not as good as the first part. There was more violence and gore in this one, and a lot of dumb decisions made by everyone but Sarah. But it was fun once, and kept the claustrophobic atmosphere of the original really well, and the very good jumpscares. Sound mixing could've been better; the quiet parts were too quiet and the loud parts were too loud. Also the crawlers made a lot of noises that were just straight unaltered hyena sounds, in this one and the first part. At least mix them with something else, damn!
I don't understand why Sarah freaked and kicked the one sheriff and pushed the other one to run off into the caves, though. Like, the freakout is understandable, but why attack people and run away? The ending was stupid too, trying to introduce a conspiracy sort of element for no reason.
Not the best movie, but certainly not bad. I definitely appreciated the openly queer angle (on top of being mutants, because what are mutants if not a metaphor for all types of marginalized people), and I thought the setup and acting and writing were all pretty good.
The ending broke my suspension of disbelief, I'll admit. I would much rather have had the climax of the movie be a big mutant-powers showdown with Dr. Reyes, because clearly she had some powers of her own. The whole demon bear actually being a tangible entity in the real world just felt kind of cheesy and out of the blue. I get that Dani's out of control powers were making all sorts of things manifest in reality, but the bear showing up when Dani was half conscious seemed... convenient? Like it wasn't attached to her as much as the other things were? I don't know.
As a whole, it's definitely worth a rewatch down the road! And I don't know if they're planning a sequel for this, but I'd be interested if they were, to see where the story can go from here. I have no familiarity with how these characters were presented in the comics, if they all were, but this seems like a solid start for a new storyline.
I adore this movie. Honestly, the only reasons it doesn't get a 10/10 from me are that visually, it's very dark at times, and the music is honestly a bit much for a lot of the dramatic scenes where the focus should've been on cool monster sounds. The sound design is fantastic, the special effects are amazing, and the story is good. Things are carefully framed so that you only see bits of Godzilla until at least halfway through, which helps communicate his sheer size really well, and when we do finally get to see all of him it's for a big action shot that looks great. Bryan Cranston is stellar; he feels very Harrison Ford in this, not that I've seen him in anything else.
The people who complain that this is a monster movie and that the human story is weak and unnecessary: what would you prefer? We don't have telepathic access to Godzilla's thoughts, so do you just want a movie with no dialogue where it follows him around and we have to try and figure out why he does what he does? The human story grounds it and gives the movie a purpose. Godzilla's actions wouldn't have meant as much if we were without context for the fact that he's here to help, not harm. If you couldn't relate to any of the humans in the story, I personally feel like that's on you, not the actors. If you're just here for monsters, try the sequel, which I thought was also excellent but not as solid a movie.
