Starts with AOL you got mail and then Bill Clinton’s reassurance that preparations for Y2K are finished .
It’s a lot of fun. I love the retro modem sounds, AOL browser, burning CD’s and labeling them with Sharpies. The movie totally nailed the feel of 1999.
The teens gather for a Y2K party and all hell breaks out at midnight 2000. Sentient machines are attacking and killing teenagers. Great stuff.
Well, I finished the movie. The first half had me very excited. It dragged in the middle. Some characters got very annoying and they didn’t die. Too much rap influence in the story. It did end strongly.
Death of a Unicorn. Comedy-horror with a stellar cast.
If you love films with unexpected plot twists and jump scares, then this film…isn’t one of them. In fact pretty much the entire plot is fairly predictable (as are the jump scares) - the only thing I didn’t see coming a long way off was the very, very end.
Fortunately the cast really is very good and delivers a lot of actually quite good comedy (and sometimes quite subtle - “You must stay for dinner. Griff is making my famous moussaka.”). Will Poulter seems to be on a casting roll of late but Anthony Carrigan (a.k.a.NoHo Hank) as Griff really makes the most of his supporting role and minimal dialogue.
The effects are a bit erratic - some very good, some distractingly clunky. Most of the gore is played for laughs.
On the whole, an entertaining film but a forgettable one.
A Minecraft Movie is good, silly fun. Never mind the terrible script, lazy acting, and cringy songs. It’s got good action, good humor, looks great, and is very Minecraft. I enjoyed myself watching it.
My son, almost 8, loved it. This is not surprising. He spends almost all his screen time playing the game.
One thing they did really well was explain the myriad of stuff in the Minecraft world. It can get expositiony, but mrs.gnu says she never felt lost or confused. She knows exactly nothing about the game, but was laughing throughout.
If you’re a Krampus completist, be sure to catch A Christmas Horror Story starring William Shatner. Krampus puts in two appearances; at the end he’s duking it out with Santa Claus while zombie elves are infesting the North Pole. Fun.
And then you have that wet-fart of a film with Dwayne Johnson that came out this past Xmas. Krampus was the best part of that misstep.
I just watched Things Will Be Different, a time travel movie that tries too hard to be clever. It reminded me of Predestination, which I really didn’t like. This was more enjoyable, but in the end not very satisfying.
Paddington in Peru - with the grandchildren. Probably best for over 5/6 years of age.
This is an Indiana Jones movie. Paddington (PD) is on a quest (not for treasure) for his dear auntie who saved him as a cub and is now missing. There is the villain competing on the quest for a different (greedy) reason. Some hapless accessory characters (PD’s ‘family’) and the daughter of the villain. You have PD warding off danger, not with whips or guns or guile - but with dumb luck, politeness, and the grace of oG. PD is basically a much cuter Jar Jar Binks doofus - but much more endearing. You have the PD hat much like Indy’s, chase scenes with massive waterfalls, jungle, PD on a LLama, a large rolling stone trying to crush him…
It all comes out well; auntie is found, one villain is saved, another is revealed, I stayed awake the whole time.
Take the children of wait for streaming. It’s okay +.
Kind of odd how they didn’t really reveal how Bill Murrays character died until almost the middle of the film. Overall character development was slow and weak.
And the solution to the dog was predictable a mile away.
Another surprisingly good, not well known, movie: The Life List. A woman is “encouraged” to do the tasks she compiled into a list when she was a teen. Sort of a romcom with some more serious moments.
Don’t know most of the cast. The one I best know is Connie Britton from Spin City, etc. I always thought she was good. (She appeared in The To Do List in 2013. Hmm.)
Good acting, story moves along despite being a bit over 2 hours long. Nice soundtrack. Not sure why this is only 47% at RT, Audience scores at RT and IMDb are much higher.
The biggest neg IMHO is the lawyer guy plays it too close to Hallmark movie for me. Also, legally speaking wills can’t force people to do tasks like these.
Yes, this is a remake of the 1981 Possession movie, but before you even judge you should realize this is really just a another attempt at a very similar story and it does not try to equal or outdo the original.
Some of the overall plot points remain the same, but the main differences are:
the husband is 100% innocent victim in this movie; their relationship was fine before
no “octopus monster” or whatever. It’s more like a punching bag with a head
no doppelganger storyline
someone else does the “go crazy” scene like in the subway(it isn’t the wife in this one)
It is a decent movie on its own and its ending is something David Lynch would come have come up with, though it feels very forced.
All the performances are really good and I actually found this enjoyable on its own.
It streams on Netflix if you are interested and is just over 90 minutes long. Not high art like the original, but a good movie on its own.
I have to say, a remake is interesting, but the internet hate for this movie (in contrast to your comments) is immense. I wonder if knowing the source material (a lot of the reviews don’t reference it at all) helped it for you.
After spending 40 years of my adult life watching horror movies and thrillers, I finally found one that is the worst. Rubbish movie .
I know not to trust internet reviews, or the 3.5 on IMDb, in fact it makes it a little more interesting. I will watch it, but was planning a rewatch of the original anyway, especially since it just landed on kanopy.
I was surprised by this, but indeed that’s the IMDb rating. No RT scores yet. (Google Reviews give it a 1.2 out of 5 with almost all ratings a 1. But I’ve learned to ignore Google Reviews since they skew really negative.)
I mean, not really. It’s certainly not high art and not going to win awards, but it is well made and works as a pretty solid little horror movie.
I think the idea of remaking Possession(1981) is what I would expect to get it low ratings. It’s a strange idea, but I decided to simply see the movie for itself.
Draft Day, 2014, saw it on Netflix. Kevin Costner movie with him playing the Cleveland Brown’s GM who makes a bunch of moves that he shouldn’t have made in the first place, but whatever. I like movies about… as Inna puts it… people who make decisions, and by that standard, this was a good 'un.
Prior knowledge of how the NFL draft works is recommended. There were a lot of pauses while I explained to Inna what/how/why was happening. No big deal, but one may be a bit confused.
and all hell breaks out at midnight 2000. Sentient machines are attacking and killing teenagers. Great stuff.