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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
It was fun and we loved It
As a big fan of the old Tim Burton stuff, I really wasn't sure what to hope for out of this movie. I made a point to avoid any trailers or reviews going in.
It's a totally new movie and very different from the first aside from a few throwbacks. Early in the movie, I wasn't sure what kind of direction it was headed. The movie has a much broader setting than the original, which was essentially confined to the house. It all ended up coming together and was a lot of fun.
The theme song was slightly reworked and it was honestly one of my favorite things about this remake. The worst part was Lydia's hair style. Why would they do that to her? It was distracting the whole movie.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Never lets up and well done
I decided to skip it in the theater because I'm just bored of all the sequels and remakes and I was tired of Chris Hemsworth even though I like him, but I liked Fury Road so gave this a shot in streaming.
From the very beginning it's high stakes seen after seen. I felt like I couldn't miss a minute. It seemed like someone was always one misstep from death or worse. Great cinamtography and action sequences. The movie is almost non-stop action from begining to end, but still didn't seem gratuitous.
It's a true prequel to Fury Road and Hemsworth was solid playing a very different type of character for him. Enjoy it!
Founders Day (2023)
It was just bad enough to finish.
The writing was so bad I was wondering if we'd have to walk out only five minutes in. It seems like something written by a high school student who waited until the night before it was due to start. Eventually it got bad enough to stay just so we could see the train wreck unfold.
Cliche storylines and horrendous acting throughout. Several scenes brought us to laughter, but not intentionally.
I do have to give credit, I didn't know who the killers were until the end(it's a cheap Scream rip-off from the start so not a spoiler). But it turns out that's only because it made no sense to the plot whatsoever.
Based on a True Story (2023)
They forgot to finish the season
I'm not sure what happened, but the show was building a story and tension and just ended. Not with a. Finale or anything, it was just over. We were watching this series and went to watch the next episode only to find out there weren't any. Came here to confirm there are only 8 episodes because it ended so abruptly.
It was decent even though it's a knock off of Only Murders in the Building. The premise wasn't really worked out well enough, there's just really no way they could make the story hold up to reasonable scrutiny. Also, they started adding random "imagined" scenes as the series went on. They seemed like they were added only to be shocking and graphic, but weren't relevant to the story. Oh well, they can't all be winners.
Strange World (2022)
Extremely Dull
The characters were not interesting at all. Most had no unique characteristics. There was almost no plot. It was basically the old "I'm not you dad, I want to be my own person," story. The biggest issue was that nothing that happened in the movie mattered. The man discovers a new energy source that they start to use for everything. The energy source gets threatened. There are no stakes, because even if they lose their energy source, they could just go back to what they were doing a few years prior. Ultimately they voluntarily give up the energy source which proved it didn't matter. The world they entered was strange as the title suggests, but the world was still rather boring with nothing exciting or particularly interesting.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Pretty underwhelming.
Was excited to see this with the family, but the story just never went anywhere and the second half was largely a retread of the original movie. Half way through the story had potential, but seems like they threw it out in order to pander to old fans with some questionable effects. Kind of boring overall.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
One of my favorite Nightmare movies
I've been a huge fan of the franchise forever. Own all of them and even was an extra on part 4 where I met Robert England while he was having his makeup done.
With that said, this is one of my favorites in the series. I think it presses further into the psychological thriller category than any other in the franchise.
This is a loose remake of the original and includes about half a dozen remade scenes from the first movie. However, there is much more focus on Freddy's backstory.
A lot of people have given it bad reviews because it's not exactly like the other franchise films, but that's the best part. This movie takes the franchise out of the campy slasher movie genre(not that there's anything wrong with that)and into a much creepier and more sophisticated field.