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Palm Royale (2024)
Enjoyable fun campy
Ok it can be a bit silly. It's meant to be a bit over the top. It gets better as it goes on and finds its way. Kristen Wiig does a great job and Ricky Martin does a great job as as being the straight man (no pun was intended here) adding a layer of sanity to the crazy antics of the rest of the cast.
Carol Burnett's role increases throughout the season and she proves she still has it. It has a solid cast with most in the correct roles. There are one or two that are miscast but on the whole the show pulls it together. Good entertainment if you like campy over the top comedy that doesn't take itself seriously.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Eat Pray Love meets the Matrix and John Wick
I just don't get it. It's a hot mess of a muddled movie. It mixes the story of the existential issues of a mid-life crisis, with countless fight scenes courtesy of the Matrix with nods to John Wick.
It seemed that someone came up with that concept first and then did a movie around it. Maybe it was considered original or it's just a jumbled collage of various movies. With scenes of being sucked into a bagel black hole (yes- black with white centre) contrasted with recuring googly eyes (white with black centre), none of it worked well for me except perhaps the last 20 minutes. The first 1.5 hours, I could have given a complete miss and parts were just unwatchable. I don't get the 7 Academy awards/Nominations. Maybe it was a slow year but there are much better movies that won none in other years.
If you have not seen it, don't put it on your must watch list or just skip to end for the life lesson.
Only Murders in the Building (2021)
Addictive, different, well paced
Refreshing different, interesting, with just the right amount of comedy. Styled with Agatha Christie plot twists and with use of some unusual film techniques borrowed from Chicago, Grand Budapest Hotel, it stays fresh. Short, and Martin have great chemistry with Selena providing a slightly flat but solid third musketeer. It works so well.
Great overall casts with a few well known cameos with a number of newer actors as well.
We totally enjoyed the episodes and often watched several in one evening.
So good it's was hard not to binge watch and we finished the first season in a week. Loved every minute of it.
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Slow - just ended rather randomly
Perhaps I just didn't get it, but the script never seemed to get off the ground. The story started, continued and randomly ended.
No character breakthroughs, just nothing.
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Slow and predictable
Minimal dialogue, almost like it wasn't finished.
Slow and contrived. Concept had potential but needed a few rewrites before filming. Would not watch again.
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Absolutely nothing new - thin plot
Repetitive action, odd cameos that add little.
One line plot. Screenplay can't be more than one page. Go to next scene location, kill lots of professionals that seemingly can't shot straight. Repeat. Was much better when we used the fast forward.
Skip it. There are much better movies to spot our time.
Moneyball (2011)
Gets better each time I watch it
Not a standard action movie.
Some of the best scenes are quiet and simple on surface. A well constructed story that at times is fascinating in both subtlety and depth.
Performances by Brad Pitt, Hoffman and Hill draw you right in. Simply one of my favourite movies.
The end is simple subtle yet very powerful.
Real footage (I believe) augments seemlessly with key scenes adds to the emotional build.
A gem of a movie.
Yes Man (2008)
Delightful, light, unexpectedly funny
A much better movie than I expected.
Not generally a J.C fan, but this was measured, well paced and just fun to watch. Carrey hit the mark and paired well with Deschanel.
Transporter 3 (2008)
Choppy Directing
The first two were well paced.
Scenes are short and has frames removed in action sequences that creates judder. Not well cut, editing is poor. Scenes are all there a re- edit could make this a much better film
This one seems rushed.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Too hard to follow
This storyline was impossible follow. So many unconnected scenes. The storey boarding must have been a mess. A lot of backstory randomly interspersed with relevance hard to determine.
Aquaman (2018)
Contrived , cliche, predictable,
Couldn't finish it. One of the more poorly written movie's. So much borrowed from standard template and not done well. Dialogue is so cliche