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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but not in the case of Rebel Moon
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. The hype leading up to it had me going. But what I ended up watching was just bad, really boring, and derivative of other, better franchises in the worst ways it could. Bad writing, lame dialogue, weak story that just borrows everything from other movies and shows, cheesy space-nazi bad guys, mediocre CGI with overuse of color filters and blurry camera effects to try and disguise the mediocre CGI, and boring action sequences that seem to be more slo mo than regular speed. Really so much slo mo in this movie it started to get predictable and irritating maybe halfway through it. The slo mo in the action sequences actually made the main character seem less bad ass despite obviously being used to try and achieve the opposite effect. Also, the main character felt like a bunch of tropes on legs.
This movie was so bad I would rather watch Battlefield Earth.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
As cringeworthy as I expected from the trailers
Within the first five minutes or so the main character is talking to the camera at the audience and that was the start of me rolling my eyes. It just got worse from there. Weak writing with a piss poor fan fiction quality of writing. Easy mode character origin and the character is just a big bundle of pandering and virtue signaling. Of course she is better than the Hulk all around right from the start and looks like green super model and not Hulk looking at all. The humor is lame and cringe which just adds to the suck factor. Hard pass for me.
Prey (2022)
Mediocre contrived experience
Frankly this movie felt as contrived as I thought it would be. The Predator design looks like cheap cosplay quite at odds with the technology that seems as advanced as any of the stuff from the later movies. Somehow a 100 lb girl can go toe to toe with an advanced alien hunter that outweighs her by a couple hundred pounds at least. I really "like" how she can not get her ass kicked in hand to hand with the Predator where a trained special forces operative like Dutch almost gets his ass kicked in a similar encounter. I rather like Amber Midthunder after seeing her in Legion, but her character is pretty shallowly written in this film, she has one whole facet to her character and that is to be strong woman, but I figured that was going to be all to expect from this. Her character lacks that something that made a character like Ellen Ripley work. I found the dog to be more interesting to be honest. This isn't gonna go down as one of my favorite movies in this franchise. The movie has plenty of clichés as well, including but not limited to the overused line "If it bleeds, we can kill it." (Cue the eye rolling cringe). I won't say this movie is a hot garbage or a dumpster fire, but it didn't really do anything for me on any level other than another mediocre entry in the Predator series. The tie to Predator 2 is pretty thin and brings up more questions than answers.
Eraser: Reborn (2022)
Should have erased the idea of making this movie before it was made
They should have called this a sequel because it would have been maaaaaybe slightly less piss poor as a sequel than as an attempted reboot...nahh this movie is crap regardless. I don't think any of the cast members are better than "C" grade actors, they are all bland and forgettable and uninteresting. Which describes the whole movie, bland and forgettable and not worth having been made. This movie is so pathetic it practically plagiarizes scenes from the original movie. The CGI is lame and looks like it was pulled from out of a vault from 25 years ago, the CGI is no better than the original and some of the bullet effects look stupid and unnecessary.
I immediately went and watched the original movie after I watched this so I could get the horrendous taste of this awful joke of a reboot out of my brain.
Foundation (2021)
A treat for the eyes yet cancer for the mind
Foundation should have remained in the written form and this show should never have been made. It is a disgrace to the books.
The one thing it has going for it; it is visually appealing. That is it. The story is a mangling of the book. The characters are chliched and lacking depth, and some seemed to have been changed from the book to a noticeable and lame degree. This is the name Foundation and names and places from the book slapped on a different story that frankly sucks compared to Asimov's works.
I'm not even gonna go into how this feels like a woke, virtue signaling hot garbage version of Asimov's Foundation. I was equally interested and apprehensive about this being made and my apprehension was correct, now I'm just disappointed and irritated by this horribly wasted attempt at doing this classic book series any justice.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Mediocre sci-fi thriller with good effects and terrible writing
This movie is like someone tried to mash together Starship Troopers and Edge of Tomorrow and did it poorly. The characters are cliched, the dialogue is mediocre, the story feels really forced and not well thought out. The music is pretty standard fare and a little too loud at times. On the positive side the creature design is pretty damn good I must say and definitely a lot better than I expected. The effects are also pretty good and the lighting is better than expected. The acting is passable for a blockbuster type sci-fi action movie.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
More like Blunder Woman 1984
I thought the first movie was decent, but this sequel is just plain terrible. This writing in this movie is so bad it tries to mess with things from previous DC movies...any of which are leagues better than this mess. The story is actually neat, but the movie comes off as either too corny, too drawn out and downright ridiculous in certain parts. I found it ridiculous when she is lassoing the lightning and then just plain stupid when she was "flying". I had more interest in the movie's main villain than I did in any of the other characters. The ending tried to be clever but just felt lame. I felt no emotion when Wonder Woman had to let go of Steve Trevor, the only part of the ending that had any effect on me was when the villain reunites with his son. The CGI and effects in the movie are decent, but just like the previous movie slo-mo is used to emphasize just about EVERYTHING action related in this movie and it just drags it down immensely. I detest the extreme overuse of slo-mo in both the Wonder Woman movies.
I find Gal Gadot to be medicore as Wonder Woman, she just comes off as somewhat flat at times or else overacting and not selling it. The rest of the cast is decent with the exception of Pedro Pascal who was great in his role. Kirsten Wigg didn't really stand out to me and neither did Chris Pine, Pine seems no different to me as Steve Trevor than he does as Captain Kirk. Setting the Mandalorian aside, Pedro Pascal was the only reason I watched the movie all the way through.