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The Twilight Zone: Six Degrees of Freedom (2019)
Finally! A return.
Finally!!!!! Like others I've been disappointed by many of the new twilight zone. The acting and direction have always been stellar, but the stories are lacking that really twilight zone punch. This episode finally has that!!! Hoping this is the start of a new trend.
Look Away (2018)
All atmosphere, no substance
This movie looks beautiful, the acting is great, the mood and music is great but it still manages to fall flat. Just like Maria, the film is beautiful on the surface, but underneath you see it for its deformed half-baked self.
Ready Player One (2018)
Mile-a-minute nostalgia sometimes caries the Film, but a fun ride overall.
If you've read the book, go in knowing that many, many, things have changed. The core of the story is still there, but the journey is different.
That being said, as an avid consumer of book>film movies Spielberg's choices make sense for once. Fan's of the book have to agree that watching Wade play pixel games like Joust and Tempest as major plot points would be difficult to make exciting. So why not have mile-a-minute nostalgia in a car race instead? Wait was that Akira's bike? A light cycle? Was that Duke Nukeum driving the Batmobile???
Other changes probably have to do with getting rights; It may have been hard to get the rights to replay Monty Python's Holy Grail frame by frame, but there's still a nice nod to it in the film.
If you're at all into video games, 80-90's pop culture, or that certain magic you get from Spielberg's "Hook" or "E.T" you'll have fun spotting the Easter eggs in the film. Sometimes the references carry the plot where it lacks in writing or slows in pace, but you know what? I didn't care. I was having fun watching the ultimate pop culture mash-up.
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Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
fun for kids and adults
I was pleasantly surprised watching this movie after all the bad things I heard about it. The animation was awesome, the music was awesome, and it was a very cute story. YES it was predictable but what do you expect from a movie called "Gnomeo & Juliet" an entirely original plot?! of course not, and if you didn't may I recommend to you any of these fine 36 movies http://www.IMDb.com/find? s=all&q=romeo+and+juliet
I am an adult with no children but I love animated films and Gnomeo and Juliet was a lovely surprise. Lots of jokes to keep me interested but not too dirty for kids - and of course the amazing Elton John soundtrack to keep me singing along = Fun for kids, fun for adults!
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Great Film, best yet!
Well I must say I was really impressed. I'm really loving the fact that the movies all but two, were done by different directors. It makes everything feel so fresh because every director has a different way of looking and seeing things.
the port key to the tournament was really well done, everyone grabbed the boot and was warped up and it looked awesome Quwitdich cup was good, but not enough qwitdich at all! The death eaters were creepy, and had really tall pointy hats on which was cool the "dark Mark" was kind of lame, it was like a skull with this snake growing out of it and a big cloud.. and they changed it and made Barty Crouch Jr. let off the dark mark instead of Luscious Malfoy... they totally left the other house elf out... because she was supposed to have stolen harry potters wand to let off the mark so they thought harry had let it off... but that didn't happen Fred and George played a much bigger part then usual in the movie and I LOVED it... the script really let their characters show through more, and had them selling their tricks at all the tri-wizard tournament games. They were hilarious and it was awesome.
another interesting part of "upping" a character was Neville, the movie totally expanded on the fact that he was really great at Herbology. And instead of DOBBY giving Harry the Gillyweed for the 2nd challenge it was Neville who found it out and gave it to him. But I liked that to because I know it's building up towards other things that are going to happen in the book and....
****Book 6 spoiler if you haven't read it don't read*** I guess J. K Rowling and the director wanted to show the importance of Neville more NOW so that when they reach that movie the fact that Neville and Harry are connected and that either one of them could have become the 'chosen one' in the prophesy won't be as weird...
******************************* there was no kiss!!! and I thought there would be, but some really cute tension between Ron and Herminone.... who by the way looked stunning at the Yue ball! Cho Chang.... randomly IRISH?!?! what!! I mean still Chinese, but with a harsh Irish Accent No Oliver Wood makes me Sad.. :( Fleur, and Krum hardly spoke in the movie at all, i think Krum had like 3 lines, and so did Fleur, I would have liked them to talk more.
The CGI was actually GOOD in this movie, which made me happy... cuz god the CGI has been pretty terrible in the series (see back to the first harry potter and the mountain troll) the final challenge was kind of disappointing. No riddles or anything, just the forest attacking, and krum going crazy.
OK resurrection of Voldermort... it was creepy and when Cedric Died it was really sad.... Voldermort looked really funny... he really reminded me of a monk or something. He didn't seem scary enough. When Harry and Voldermort battle and their wands clash it is AMAZING, when all the ghosts come out and Harry sees his parents and they talk to him it made me cry, it was a really nice scene...
Harry coming back with Cedric after escaping was also really good, you can see how Danille Radcliffe has improved his acting GREATLY since the first film... he was crying over Cedric's body and then Cedrir's dad came over, and it was pretty emotional....
ummm.......... Fluer wasn't hot enough in my opinion, and they never mentioned she was half-harpy.... maybe that's why.
OH and RITA SKEETER!!.. OK REALLY good casting, she did an AWESOME job.. but they only really mentioned that she was writing annoying stories twice, and they never said she was an Anitmagus, or that she was really THAT sneaky and got information by turning into a bug... which was sad... but she was pretty sleazy and there is a hilarious scene with her and Harry in a broom cupboard....
I can't think of much else that was changed right now but all in all it was really good! Again... so everyone should go see it next week!!