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Observe and Report (2009)
Not for everyone
Great movie. It had light and dark. Deep characters with real motivations. One of my favorite coolest visual scenes of a car driving in a mall since Blues Brothers. If you look at anybody's review below a three just click on their other reviews where they give 10's to Navy Seals and Paul Blart Mall Cop. It's not for everyone for sure and that's why they can all look forward to Shrek 6 with some sweet Smashmouth soundtrack and another Spiderman movie. Make America Great Again!
Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
Just let it go...
The story (series) has to end at some point. I didn't love this season like the previous. I ripped the white walker battle episode curse it was too dark but looking back now I'm like yea it was dark and she came out of nowhere and Bran didn't really do anything but wait to be stabbed in face.
It seems everyone wants a perfect ending to a seven year affair. It's never gonna happen and your not gonna make everyone happy.
The series was great and I didn't mind how all the characters in this episode ended up.
I don't regret watching 70 plus episodes of a well written visually awesome sword fighting tv show. Let's be honest it's a sword fighting tv show.
It did make me appreciate the Sopranos season ending a lot more.
Think about it. Instead of a montage of all the characters doing what the writers hope you like it cuts to Sam going tota...
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
Sometimes you eat the bar...
This seemed like a short love lost ww2 story that didn't make it passed the producers. When showed the door the desperate writer (late on rent and hasn't eaten for two days) turned around in a last gasp..."What if he killed Hitler!". Producer strokes his monopoly mustache and raises eyebrow. "Hmmm. That's something but not quite enough lover boy." The writer starts to leave then turns back in one last desperate gasp in the door way... "What if he hunts Bigfoot to save world!!!" Producer rocks up from his chair..."That's gold kid!" ...and sometimes the bar eats you.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Seven seasons and we get...
A night fight where you can't see anything. No explanation or motivation of the white walkers. No Bran taking control of a wolf or dragon. No wildfire. No zombie uncle Benjen. No Bronn. What the hell is Bronn doing during all this? No faceless dude or man-e-faces or whatever he called himself. No Cersei riding on the mountain's back to the rescue. No zombie headless Ned. And where was the breastfeeding kid? What the hell happened to this show?
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Watched Guardians again to get bad taste out of my...
But I never liked super hero movies to to begin with and got suckered in by a couple good Marvel movies.
Time travel is a such an easy lazy fix. Only interesting charter was the potbellied super hero that wanted nothing to do with any of it.
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Second time was the charm
Loved watching this movie better the 2nd time to be able to keep up with all the characters and sub plots. All the scenes held my attention and the attention to detail on this movie was just crazy. Every featured actor was fantastic. A bundle of very different characters mashed up in Hollywood with all types of different aspirations.
I saw this move when it first came out and thought it was just a good Coen brothers movie. I stumbled on YouTube clips last night and stated watching. There were 10 or so clips and what I noticed was each clip of different scenes would all have the same "best part or scene in the movie" in the comment section. It was like watching 10 shot movies with different actors knocking it out of the park. I get that plot and story flow are a big deal for some people and this movie can seem like many fragments scattered where the viewer is trying to figure out what's going on. All I can say is watch it one more time. What seemed like good fragments comes together to make what think is my favorite Coen brothers movie.
PS. Eschelon's Song by The Red Army Choir is probably the best closing credit song ever and if you don't choose to watch the movie at least YouTube this song for serious inspiration.
Rogue One (2016)
Best Star Wars Since 1977
First off I like movies made by Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson types. If your into movies made by James Camron or Joel Schumacher then rock and roll and watch Navy Seals.
The movie is best Star Wars since the late 70's because....
Its Main Cast
The hero witness the worst (two times) and has a great motivation.
The Supporting actor doesn't steel story from the hero's story (they didn't cast some big name male hero actor to distract from the her story).
The droid is aggressive rather then passive.
The antagonist has a clear motivation (bureaucratic power plays was cool to watch).
Cinematography
Great visuals (From the farm planet to the desert out post, rain planet, tropical beach with a space battle squeezed in).
Story
It was dark. The hero is trying to save her dad while her partner is sent to kill him.
The story shows characters not trusting anyone (even the droid) which is refreshing to watch in a Star Wars movie.
The force is just a myth or abstract idea that some guy who didn't have it but believed in it so much he did amazing things based on faith.
The story ends with a lot of death for a lot of people but ends with hope.
Burn After Reading (2008)
Occam's razor
Really liked this movie based on its simplicity of its characters and plot.
Lots of people expected action and drama cause it had major Hollywood stars. The great thing about this movie is it felt so real to watch broken characters engaging other broken characters with real life problems like job washout, aging, adultery and best of all entitlement.
All the characters felt very real and all were flawed to a point you weren't rooting for anyone. Very rare and refreshing just to sit back and watch.
What I took away from this flick was the fact the Big Government really had no idea what the hell was going on and Hollywood loves to make Big Government the all knowing enemy. The last 2:50 of this movie rank up there with great Coen brothers endings.
I feel people wanted more Hollywood which like usual they didn't do.