Somehow anti-corporation and also anti-poor people.
I wish I could remember who recommended this to me so I could text them a sad face.
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Burt Lancaster’s first western and Robert Walker’s last film before his untimely death.
Not too bad. A few good bust-ups, a couple gunfights and some interesting, and surprising, plot elements for the time.
Historically I am not a Coen Bros fan*, but I thought Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Miley Cyrus, Pedro Pascal, and Matt Damon would outweigh that. I was wrong, it did not.
The trailer presents it as a buddy-comedy/crime flick. This was pretty light on the comedy and pretty light on the crime part. It was more like the post-American Pie teen comedies of the 2000s (Eurotrip, Sex Drive, all the American Pie's that don't have any of the original cast), but with less jokes, and every now and then a scene with some criminals that felt disconnected to the rest of the movie.
* Exceptions: Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, Fargo, True Grit
Lisa Frankenstein feels so 80's, like Tim Burton was thinking a lot about Heathers and was inspired to make a teen rom-com horror blend. I love it. Also why wasn't Kathryn Newton allowed to bring some of this energy into Ant-Man & the Wasp Quantumania?
The trailer makes it look like Lisa is literally crushing on a corpse and resurrects him. She actually has a crush on a living classmate, and independent from that, the creature is accidentally resurrected. That doesn't make it any less weird of a concept but it feels like an important distinction.
Five stars for the visuals and cast. I think Wes Anderson movies look so good that I get distracted looking at everything and lose the plot. My eyes are working double time and my ears stop.
<I>Model House</i> had been on my watchlist for a short while, even with a plot summary that sounds incredibly ridiculous. However, maybe it's time to not look deep into a short summary about a film before watching it because the film's worth a watch.
I don't know if I'd fully categorize this as "Influencer Horror," but it falls into the mix because, you know, these women are models <b>and</b> influencers.
A few minutes in, I was ready to call it quits. Suddenly, we get some great character development and storyline, and then the real action begins. This is a home invasion film, but with an interesting twist to it.
<b>Final thoughts:</b>
Take a break from snapping selfies and watch this, especially with the Filmmaker Mode on an LG OLED TV. Because of the film's almost-entirely single location, this feature illuminated each scene with all of its gory glory.
I guess in this universe everyone just knows ghosts exist, because no one is that surprised about it. I love the mini Stay Puft marshmallow men.
I'm not sentimental about the original Ghostbusters in any sense, so I am not comparing this to its predecessor(s). This is a pretty easy and fun watch. The ghost action kicks off quickly. Mckenna Grace is endearing as Phoebe, especially with her dad jokes. She and Paul Rudd's Gary have great father-daughter chemistry, even though that is not their relationship. Overall it's not as funny as I would have liked, aside from those dad jokes and Paul Rudd doing his Paul Rudd thing.
This movie is pretty wholesome. The characters all feel realistic, like this family could live in my town (if they weren't fishermen). I cried a few times at the end.
I could see it being a bit too sweet and a bit too straightforward for some. Not for me though.
This is much funnier than the trailer presents. The humor has very late-2000s vibe, minus the parts that aged poorly. It is pretty predictable and leans into common tropes, but I laughed out loud a bunch.
It's like the Britney Spears "Circus" tour performed by the people of the Hunger Games' Capitol, except I like both of those things, and I don't like this. (Okay I like Lady Marmalade.)
I can't get invested in this plot or feel any emotional connection when it's so frenetic and wacky.
Godzilla's new accent color is pink?! Hi Barbie!
As a casual Godzilla/Kong fan, I went into this just wanting to have a good time, and it is definitely a fun theater watch. It struck a good balance between the humans the monsters. It was light on Godzilla and very Kong heavy, but I prefer Kong so that's not a deal breaker. There is some very heavy Planet of the Apes imagery. Kong is an ape so maybe that's hard to avoid, but some shots could be directly from a POTA movie.
<B>Me</b>: You should watch this now.
<b>You</b>: As you wish.
