Fast and Furious 9 was an entertaining movie, but outside that it has nothing going for it. It's got the now expected craziness of a fast and furious film, but it still is nice to see them pull it off.
With what the Fast Crew (Furious Crew?) has done now, they are basically superheroes so they are all in their secret base coming up with a plan to stop the bid bad guy. This big bad was used in the last movie, so that's one thing they have over Marvel movies. The movie also has 2 smaller villains. The first is a Star Wars referencing rich guy who is supplying the big bad with the tech to take over the world. His references are cheap, but he's so clearly evil that it doesn't make sense when he reflects on Star Wars quotes to decide that he actually sees himself as evil rather than good. The other smaller villain is John Cena who is actually Dominic Toretto's brother, that I guess has never been brought up in 8 PREVIOUS MOVIES! None of these villains are particularly interesting, but John Cena is a bad guy turned good guy by the end of the movie, so everything is alright. I've only seen one other Fast and Furious movie and it was the 8th one. But from what I can gather from watching the movie, there was a couple callbacks from previous movies. There was the main character from the first few movies, then there was an Asian guy who showed up that was from the 5th movie? This person was shown to have died, but they came back in this movie. I guess for die hard F&F fans this would have been cool to see these guys, but I was just "oh, I know that person was in older F&F movies." The movies also have some comedic bits. The movie isn't very funny, but it does have one bit that is somewhat funny. I have no idea what the actor's name is, but he goes through a similar revelation to Jules from Pulp Fiction. In the opening action sequence, the character is in a bad situation and will most likely die, however he gets shot at a whole bunch, but survives and manages to escape. Later he mentions it to the other members of the Fast Crew and gets ridiculed for it, but it was a decent bit. I knew exactly how the bit was going to go, but it was still ok. They go to space. As an entertaining movie, the movie gets a 5/10. As an actual movie this gets a 3/10.
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The LEGO Batman Movie is actually one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. This movie is a gem and probably my favorite of the LEGO movies. I just find that the formula of the LEGO Batman movie worked better than in the Lego movie. Batman is just funnier and also has a really good Batman story in it.
I think that the opening of this movie is perfect. The movie doesn't even start and the movie already lets you know what kind of experience you're going to have. The movie rips on every movie by having Batman narrate over what you see before things happen. The logo dialogue is very funny and it just keeps going by hitting all of the tropes for movies. Long logos, narration, reading a quote. It hits us with like 10 different jokes before we even get to the actual story of the movie. When we get to the plane its just a continuation. A large exaggeration of the amount of explosives on the plane with 2 best friends. You can't really get over how funny the movie is because of the amount of jokes per minute that happen. But if you don't pay attention to the comedy, which is hard, you actually realize that this movie has a really great Batman story. It's all about Bruce/Batman and his fear of being apart of a family, but not just being apart of a family. There is a fear of losing a family again. That is what Batman is afraid of and trying to prevent. All the characters in this movie are great. Batman acts like a literal child for most of the movie and it is funny when Alfred acts as the parent. Dick and Barbara Gordon are also good characters to join the Bat Family. The Joker and Batman's lovers dilemma is also a funny way to show their conflict through the years. Overall, I think that The Lego Batman is my favorite Lego Movie. The Lego Movie is still pretty good, but I think that I enjoy Lego Batman better 8.25/10 Did you know that the plural for LEGO is still just LEGO and not LEGOs? Anyways, The Lego Movie is a genuinely funny movie while also being a good story about finding your place in the world. I watched this with my brother because I wanted to watch both The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie because I knew how good they were, but it had been a while since I've seen them.
It's hard talking a lot about a comedy movie, but I think that the LEGO Movie is very funny. It combines the physical comedy very well with comedic dialogue. There aren't as many jokes as in the Batman movie, but there are still a fair amount of jokes and visual gags that are nice to notice. The detail with those visual gags is insane because I bet that if you just looked at the background whenever there is a large amount of characters you will most likely spot some background character doing something weird. Now this movie also has an important message of everyone is special. We've seen this story done plenty of times, but it is still pulled off well in the movie. Emmet goes most of the movie being told and thinking that he has nothing special about him and that he is just a regular face. When he realizes that he can make a difference he becomes special in everyone else's eyes, but he's been special from the start because he is unique. This makes the payoff of Emmet becoming a master builder so much nicer because of all the negatives we are shown of Emmet and the awesomeness of master building. Besides visual gags in details, the actual detail of animation for this movie is also insane. Every piece has there actual number on them. When you see a close up of a character's face you see little scratches and show its been worn down and used a little bit. The visuals are just crazy because all the bricks exist and you can actually build a lot of the things that you see in the movie and the scale is crazy. The Lego Movie is a very solid movie and should have won the Oscar for best animated feature. It wasn't even nominated. 8/10. Ramirez!
This movie was actually a lot better than I thought it would be. I knew the movie was funny, but I was expecting a lot more "kids" humor like poop and fart jokes. The movie deserves a watch. Unfortunately as a comedy it will be harder to write more detailed notes about the movie. The easiest thing to talk about would be the comedy and jokes, because a lot of them land. There is a bit where Dave calls his henchmen by name and tells them an action and his lines match up to a famous actor's name. Another funny bit is that when Dave reveals his name Skipper messes up his name progressively worse and worse. Every attempt is a D name, but the bit comes to an end when he finally calls Dave, "Ramirez!" I already knew this bit was coming, but it was still very funny. Another joke that is really funny is when Classified is trying to explain what the North Wind is and Skipper keeps interrupting him. All these parts I knew about, but they were still funny to me and the people I was watching with, which I think means something when you know a certain part is coming and you still laugh. Now characters wise there wasn't a whole lot to be impressed by since this story was more comedy based. Dave was very funny as a villain even though his plan almost seemed like a plot that Dr. Doofenshmirtz would come up with. The main character parts are with Skipper. He constantly and unknowingly brings Private down without realizing it and has a hard time giving a reason as to why Private is special on the team. Skipper doesn't realize what he's done until he loses Private. This is actually a very interesting thing to happen and I think that it was effectively done in this movie. You could do a very similar story in a more serious tone and I think that it could work just as well. As I mentioned earlier it is hard to talk about comedies past saying the movie was funny, but I still think that the movie is more than that and should be given a watch when looking for a laugh. quick 7/10. Perfect Blue sucks.
You get zero explanation. Also for John's sake please just watch the movie. Spirited Away was a... movie. I'm going to be completely honest and say that this movie did not meet my expectations at all. I have heard countless times that this movie is up there for the best animated movie of all time, but I find it hard to put it in my top 5-10. This movie does have it's nice moments, but with the astronomically high bar that was set it unfortunately brought down my opinion of the movie.
Even though my expectations were not met story wise, I thought that the film stood out very well in the visual department. The colors of everything were very well used and extremely beautiful. This also translates to shot selection as well and the wide, outside shots were very well done and extremely detailed. Not only were the shots very pretty, but the character designs were very creative and interesting. The frog people were interesting, and the humans also looked very interesting, but the other spirits looked especially odd, but in a good way. There were some designs I hated though. The witch was extremely uncomfortable to look at, and while that might be the point of the design, it wasn't just uncomfortable to me it also wasn't good in my opinion. Haku's design wasn't bad, but for some reason I felt odd whenever he showed up. He just looked out of place with the other characters. Yeah he was a human, but he didn't fit in to me. I also hated the baby. I didn't need to see the baby. With an extension of the character design is the actual characters and their personalities. I did watch this in dub so that might have had some effect on my opinion. Chihiro was a nice protagonist even though she was a little whiny for a little while. I did watch this in dub so that might have had some effect on my opinion. As I mentioned about Haku earlier his personality didn't really fit in my opinion. He was very flat and not interesting, I didn't really see the connection between him and Chihiro and I didn't even feel bad when he was injured. Yubaba's appearance wasn't fun, but her character was a nice antagonist. I also liked the split between her and her sister being opposites. The No-Face was an interesting character, but after it joined Chihiro on the train I almost forgot about them. If I were to say my favorite character it would probably be either Kamaji the boiler guy or Lin who helped Chihiro. They both had great personalities and really fit into the setting. The mom and dad sucked, but that was because they didn't do anything. We don't talk about that stupid baby either. Another absolutely great thing with the movie is the star studded cast. The amount of voices I recognized was insane. The ones that I recognized were Lilo from Lilo and Stitch, Meg from Hercules, The abominable snowman from Monsters Inc, Grandpa Tennyson from Ben Ten, I know that there are a whole lot more, but hearing those iconic voices was a very big surprise. Now onto the part that I was dreading to talk about. With the amount of good things I've seen about this movie, I was expecting a massive and insane story, but I didn't get that. Now with how much I've seen I also had no idea how the story was going to progress in the slightest. When Chihiro's parents turned into pigs I was very surprised because I had no clue what was going on or what was going to happen. I also thought that No-Face was going to be the main antagonist of the movie with their design. That also didn't happen. Now without all of the surprises I had I felt that the story was a little lackluster with the expectations set. The movie was 2 hours long and although I don't think that it was necessarily slow paced for the whole time, but when the movie ended I found myself thinking "that's it?" I wouldn't say that I 100% agree with this, but it almost felt like nothing happened at times. It's hard to back up this point, but it did feel like the story didn't really amount to anything in my opinion. I wish I enjoyed this movie more. I think now that I now what the movie is about and what happens in the end a rewatch would probably have me like the movie more. Expectations 10/10 Actual Rating 8/10 Yes that is the real title of the movie. I have no idea who's idea it was to make it that, but the movie is good so it gets a pass.
This movie almost doesn't feel real to me. I'm not a huge Transformers fan, but I absolutely love them and I remember seeing this movie as a kid, but I had almost no recollection of the plot of the movie. As I watched more of the movie it started coming back more, but I made up so much stuff that was in the movie that I thought was in it. However, this was 80-85 minutes of pure fun and nostalgia for me. I will also just get this out of the way now. I will always root for the Autobots to beat the Decepticons, but the Decepticons are the better Transformers. I'll start off by saying that this movie has the shortest exposition part of the story mountain. There is less than 10 minutes of exposition before poop hits the fan. It also stays that way for the entire rest of the movie. As soon as the story starts, it just keeps on going. It hardly slows down, but I think that fits the style of the movie. This movie was so aggressively 80s to me. When I think of the 80s this is what I think of. Bright animation that isn't the greatest but it makes sense why, and some great rock music. One of the things that I thought was in the movie was Bon Jovi's "Livin on a Prayer," but I made that up in my mind and it was a completely different band. However, that doesn't change the fact that the music chosen and made for this movie are great. If you've seen the Michael Bay Transformers movies you know that both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are pretty important to the movies and lots of the story revolves around them, but this movie just straight up doesn't have them. Optimus Prime is killed pretty quickly on and he doesn't have a lot of screen time. Bumblebee is also a non factor in this movie and is on the screen for what felt like 5 total seconds. I'll take a guess and say that if I was watching Transformers in the 80s, this would have absolutely crushed me even more than now. It's crazy to me that the characters I know of as the most important and coolest of the Autobots are just not in the movie. However, we do get some cool characters like Hot Rod, Galvatron, and Unicron. Although I said once the movie starts it doesn't feel like it stops, that isn't necessarily the best thing to happen. The pacing of this movie did feel a bit weird to me and made the movie not so great for me. I will say that although the pacing isn't great, the movie is just a blast to watch and so enjoyable to watch. 8.5/10. |
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