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Wonder Egg Priority (2021)
Emotional rollercoaster
I haven't been this emotionally afflicted by an anime since Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Superb animation, amazing storytelling, fantastically created characters and philosophical, existential horror. I can feel this show pulling at the pit of my chest as I write this review. Highly recommended.
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Don't listen to user reviews! Watch for yourself.
There was a monumental bias built against this movie from the get-go. It didn't quite help that the soundtrack which was meant to build up to this movie (curated by Ariana Grande) was a huge let down, but the audience seemed to have killed this movie before it was even given life, buried it and left it to die. Audiences generally don't like films with strong feminist messages, and it doesn't help that everyone who hates Kristen Stewart has never seen her in any film other than twilight (which says more about their poor taste than it does about her acting. She's the first American women to win a Cesar award; but that information will fly right over their heads because they only absorb mainstream media and then pretend to be above it). Watch it for yourself. You might not love it, but it's a lot better than any of the nay-sayers are pretending it is.
Cam (2018)
Suspend your disbelief
I'm going to try and keep this as brief and vague as possible because going into this movie with minimal information is your best option.
After watching this movie, wrestling with the themes it offers and reading the reviews, I've made a conclusion. This is a really good movie. Or, at the very least, it's a hell of a lot better than anyone expected it to be. Brewer gives a phenomal performance. The movie lives and dies with her character and she managed to keep me enthralled all throughout. The cinematography is glitzy and titillating. Overall, a worthwhile watch.
The only reason I'm writing this review is to tell you this: the number one complaint I've seen thus far concerns the ending and how loose ends are left untied, and questions unanswered. There are many threads in the movie that are picked up and never resolved, with the biggest offender being that we are never given a proper explanation as to what caused the events to take place, or what we are dealing with. Don't expect answers. You won't be given any. As for me, I've decided not to draw my own conclusions. I'm leaving this movie with its threads untied and loose. I don't need all the answers. Quite frankly, I'm happy with what I've been given. Asking more of the movie puts an expectation on it that should never be there. It never promised to be Spielbergian.
If you're willing to keep your expectations from getting too high, you'll be greatly surprised by what the movie has to offer.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Rami Malek leaves you wondering what Bohemian Rhapsody could have been...
I walked into the cinema with little expectations. I had seen the lukewarm (not bad) reviews from critics and expected to be disappointed, but found myself mildly interested by the end of it. Let's get one thing straight; this is not a good movie. I give it 6/10 because it had all the right ingredients to be a good movie, and for the most part it was, but it chose to gloss over crucial details that I've now come to learn and that causes the movie to fall short.
I had no interest in Queen prior to watching this movie. I knew of their hits because, let's be real here, who doesn't? But I had no idea who the band was or what their history was like until I'd seen this movie, and keeping that in mind, for no longer than a second did I believe anything happening on screen. The rest of the band is painted with the lightest of brushes. Their every word and action makes it seem as though Freddie was this egotistical rockstar who threw them back and forth with his escapades and they were silent little lambs who were subject to his poor choices, and I didn't buy it for a second. After looking up the band and doing very, very, very little research I was able to see through all the tales the movie tries to spin. Dates are changed, lies are told and important details glossed over in favour of the mess of a meal the director serves to us, and by the end of the movie it felt more like a work of fantasy than a biography.
This movie's saving grace comes in the form of a scene stealing Rami Malek. His performance is electric. With a longer than two hour running time, there wasn't a single moment that I found myself bored watching Rami channel this flamboyant rock god bravura. Without him, this entire movie is nothing but a supercut of superficial moments in a great bands history.
I wouldn't watch this movie again, but I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it because, if nothing else, it's extremely entertaining. I just wish they'd given us the bitter truth instead of this candy coated shallow piece of work.
Twilight (2008)
Take it at face value
I may have rated it a 7, because that's my overall consensus, but I absolutely adore this movie. I know all you kids think you're hip or cool because you're too edgy to watch twilight. You only watch "real" movies. "This is so unfaithful to vampire movies". "Kristen Stewart cant act, omg!" "It's so cheesy and cliché."
I roll my eyes every time I have to read a review about how you rolled your eyes at the film. Watching twilight, for me, was kind of like being sprinkled with pixie dust. It just feels like something magical. If you're going to be obnoxious and start tearing the film apart to compare it to much better pieces, you're going to come out short. Twilight is no cinematic masterpiece, but it is an epic love story. The movie is very cheesy and very cliché and these things works to it's advantage. It isn't trying to be something more than a fantastical movie about a girl falling in love with a supernatural being and all the glitter that surrounds it. If you take the movie at face value and stop comparing it to better pieces, because that's not at all how you watch a movie (morons.), Then you'll definitely enjoy twilight.
Fyi if you're one of those people who likes to jab Kristen Stewart, I find myself again rolling my eyes. She's an incredible actress, you just have no taste in films. Have you even seen cafe society? Clouds of sils Maria? Personal shopper? Goddamnit, ADVENTURELAND was released around the same time as twilight and it was freaking brilliant. Acting isn't about giving an Oscar worthy performance every time the camera pans to you, it's about fully embodying a character, and she nails Bella as an iconic character in an iconic movie, whether you agree or not.
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (2011)
Mediocre effort at best
This show has moments of inspiration but it overall boils down to no more than that - a few good moments. For a show based off of Lego toys, it's quite an accomplishment. Though, among some of the better shows currently airing (Steven universe; adventure time) this show falls quite short of being good. It follows a very formulaic approach to its "gifted child has to find his path" story. The action scenes are well put together, the story occasionally intriguing despite sinking into cliché territory, and the animation is top notch. It's the poorly developed characters that sink this ship. They're all irredeemable, generic, standard issue vessels to fuel this canon. None of them show any of the complexity that you'd expect of them, and they don't leave you feeling like you need any more of it. A show with great potential that can't overcome the obstacles that it sets for itself.