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Mob Land (2023)
Terrible
This movie looks like it was shot well, and that is a good thing because you have to watch awful dialogue being delivered for almost two hours. The plot wanders aimlessly through a small town "deep in the heart of Dixie", which the movie makes out to be rural Alabama but it was shot in Winder, Georgia. This fact produced the best part of the movie when my cousin who I was watching it with not only recognized the restaurant from multiple scenes but he had visited the restaurant during the filming and thus the chalkboards usually filled with restaurant information were wiped, not clean but illegible. Which kind of sums up the movie, they care enough to erase the writing but not enough to dress it with new writing. It's good to see John Travolta and Stephen Dorff getting work because either one is capable of firing off a sleeper winner, like Killing Season, but this one seemed just like a job for a check. Do not waste your time.
Oppenheimer (2023)
Mid
This movie is like if Terrence Mallick remade interstellar. It feels like the worse Nolan movie from a major studio. Watching it gave the experience of watching a three hour trailer. The non-linear storyline was interesting, and the movie is beautiful from a technical filmmaking standpoint but the story felt tired. The majority of the acting performances are top notch, with one exception, Emily Blunt, bless her heart is very inconsistent and stands out as the bottom of this illustrious class. By the end of the film I was waiting for the end card and this longing was not helped by the all too common terrible theater educate.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Solid Foundation on Which to Build
1st - After the Credits Nothing After the credits in the way of next-movie-setup 2nd - The 1994 Film The rating for this film is only .1 higher than the pitiful attempt to make a bad public access pilot that is the 1994 Fantastic Four movie(3.9), so I would like to press upon everyone that reviews this title to remember just how bad a comic book movie can be. 3rd - The 2005 Film After re-watching the 2005 film (5.7), and comparing the rating of that launch to this reboot, I am informatively-puzzled by the front loading of reviews relative to release date. Take your comic book loving self back to 2005, expectations were high, we as a society were still blissfully unaware of the horror, the horror to come in X3(6.8) and Spider-man 3(6.2). Electra (4.8) was fresh off the flop pile, but female leads have always been a detriment in a male centric story world. Fantastic Four was received with mixed reviews. It was stuck somewhere between the matter of factness of the fist two X-Men films and the childish cartoon days of the 1990s, and 1970s, and I think the 1980s as well. All in all it is watchable for a comic fan or someone with an especially specific social or emotional tie to the film, but in comparison to the 2015 reboot, it is laughable as an artifact in an evolving genre. 4th - As to the 2015 Film This is an origin story. The story is a linear one, as appose to something like Man of Steel(7.2). The majority of the story takes place when all of the main characters are of an early college age, 18-25ish. This is an origin story. After the Four get their powers some time is spent using them to solve the greater and lesser problems of people on earth. Some of these problems are cause by Dr Doom. This is pretty much what we all learned from the trailers, and the general plot is similar to the 2005 and 1994 films, and every comic book with Dr Doom in it. Except for the one time where he may or may not have saved a kitten. The characters are well developed, gritty and true to their world and the events in it. I have recommended the film to everyone that I have met since seeing it. Even though I went into the film with firm reservations, I feel like this is the best Fantastic Four Movie that could be made outside of Marvel Studios.
Post Script: The Silver Surfer movie is rated a 5.6 and they butchered, cooked and sold us all a piece of cloud Galactus for ten bucks a head.
Supernova (2000)
Worst Movie of 2000
I have seen over 10,000 movies in theaters over the last 25 years and this is one of two that I have walked out on. The other was the theatrical release of Alexander which on home media release was much better. There is no way on earth or in heaven that any release of supernova would be anything better than being water boarded with boiling water. Everyone associated with this movie should be ashamed of themselves, have their licenses to act revoked for some period of time and repay everyone that was foolhardy enough to go see this movie in theaters. Nothing about the production presentation or follow through with this film offers any redeeming value to the field and process of filmmaking. The basic message of this review is to illustrate how poor of a movie this is, and to recommend that anyone that reads this stays far far away from this movie. The only time it would be acceptable to watch is if you were trying to torture someone or in a relationship.