Don’t much like Baldwin personally but Hunt for Red October and original Beetlejuice hard to ignore.
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I like him as an actor. Hunt for Red October is great. He was also hilarious on 30 Rock.
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Gremlins holds up astonishingly well. This silly puppet horror comedy has absolutely no business looking as good as it does, genuinely great production values and some surprisingly well-shot bits.
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Obligatory
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“you just said noun and Gremlin like you’re playing mad libs, like a child. You have the brain of a child.”
So good
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Juror #2 (2024)
No idea why the studio buried this. It’s a good classic 90s style courtroom drama. Nothing blazing new trailers but some fun twists and an interesting premise.
It is likely to be Eastwood’s final film.
Grade: B
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I sure wish I could buy the DA’s crisis of conscience. Couldn’t really manage to at all. Thought that weakness hampered the second half of the film. Lots of really good stuff in it otherwise though. Thought the Nicholas Hoult arc was great, and really enjoyed JK Simmons.
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So you’re human?
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How many of you have seen Welcome to Collinwood?
He’s definitely one of the reasons that I’ll gladly defend For Love of the Game.
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Ya it was a little unbelievable. Also didn’t 100% buy the main characters moral dilemma.
I’m going to see Red One in an hour for reasons passing human understanding. I have not dreaded a film more in years.
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Pivot!
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This part I was on board with. Watching him do pretty much a 180 to a really self-serving rationalization at the end was great, I thought (that the wrongly convicted was a piece of shit criminal anyway, so “fuck it”); it’s a strong example of the bullshit people tell themselves in order to live with themselves. I guess my stance is that I fully expect that the DA would do likewise. I’m someone who fully believes that fair prosecutors do exist, but this just seemed like a stretch for someone with political ambitions and everything. Likely reflects Clint’s politics sincerely differing from mine; in this case, I do think the views I’m attributing to him are more naive than evil or immoral, but still I think that’s where my disconnect comes in.
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There is a lot more Krampus than you would expect.
Red One (2024)
The most beige, nothing of a film ever made. Totally devoid of a shred of artistic effort. Not so bad as to inspire anger. No good enough to pique even the most base level of interest. A whisper of nothing. Soulless. A yawning empty chasm.
Grade: —-
P.s. the woman who plays the bad witch puts in a performance sure to win the razzie. It’s astoundingly awful. It’s actually the only thing in the whole film worthy of note.
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Snack Shack (2024)
Adventureland did it first and did it better, but even with that, this is a very capable entry in the very specific “coming of age while working a crappy summer job in a prior decade” subgenre. Gabriel LaBelle has a bright future ahead, I think. Not that he has blown me away exactly, but for a 22-year-old he has shown me enough to think that there’s a good career coming.
3.5/5
Alien: Romulus (2024)
Uhh, this is one of the good post-Aliens installments? I guess that confirms why I’ve been wise to treat this as a franchise with only two installments. I’ll go back to doing that now.
I thought the movie set up an interesting premise and then turned into an uninteresting slog. David Jonsson, previously seen as the winsome co-lead of Rye Lane, was probably the highlight here. Good performance by him. And certainly Cailee Spaeny was solid. But man, there wasn’t a lot of meat on this bone. And I could REALLY do without artificially recreating and using the likeness of Ian Holm for any reason, let alone for a pile of nothing like this.
Honestly, watching it made me feel despair about just how many of the movies being released right now are sequels or prequels or otherwise franchise installments. And that’s not a feeling I really felt during the other, uhh, 13 of these such movies that I’ve watched just among the 2024 releases. The fact that I’ve willfully indulged that number surely means that I’m part of the problem.
2/5
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Smile 2
I feel like I put too much hope into this franchise (or at least I shouldn’t have watched the two movies so close to one another)
cons: relies too much on cheap jump scares, too much of the bad kind of plot twists. way way too long, no reason for it to be 130 mins as it is, could easily cut 40+ and not lose anything interesting
pros : the setting is a bit more interesting than the first one, as are the flashbacks. this has at least 2 or 3 good to great scenes (opening and ending included) so if you only take the best half hour (which is all I’ll remember in one month) this is actually a good movie.
overall not great, not bad, if it seems like your thing you may or may not enjoy it, idk (maybe not post-worthy but since I mentioned it a few days ago I thought I’d follow up…)
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