RANDOM MOVIE
AND TV REVIEWS
DR. STRANGE
Doctor
Strange is fantastic...All round mind blowing from casting to story to effects
to soundtrack...Go see now...And then there's the cape...Totally cool...Want
one now...
ARRIVAL
The tag line of this critically lauded 'thinking man's' sci-fi movie is,
Why
Are They Here? After two hours of painfully slow exposition and a whole lot
of long silent walking, driving, and going up and down on the elevator thingy,
my question was, Who Cares Why They Here?...And finally, They Came All The Way Here
Just For That?...I'm in the minority opinion regarding this film...A lot of
people have liked and loved it...But when I ask them to explain it all I get is
a blank look...The emperor has no clothes...
FANTASTIC
BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
I had a great time with Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them...A total palette cleanser
after the foul taste left by Arrival...Fun, inventive, and fully
realized...More please...
ALLIED
I wasn't overwhelmed, but I did enjoy Allied...However, it is a perfect
example of a movie trailer hurting the film it's promoting by giving away every
plot twist...As a result you sit in the theater twiddling your fingers while
going through the build up to get to the plot points you've already seen in the
trailer...I also think the film was hurt by its strictly linear storytelling,
filled with time jumps (One Year Later...Three Years Later) in an effort to get
to all the tension filled stuff to come after the big plot twist (already given
away in the trailer)...The movie should have started with the plot twist and
then portioned out the backstory through the rest of the film...Again, I
enjoyed Allied and recommend it, but
with some reservations...
TIMELESS
Adding one television show to this list...I'm
enjoying Timeless...Each week I get
pulled in by the time period, which helps me deal with the inherent basic plot
of each episode...I'm hoping the show runners have figured out where they are
taking the sequential storyline...Best new show of the season IMHO...
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