Movie Review Rant 2024

I watched Transfrormers: One on Saturday. It was a lot better than I expected. Not all of the jokes landed, and some jokes I could see coming from a mile away, but the story was great. The themes of corruption and extremism were handled quite well, and Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry were surprisingly good as Orion Pax/Optimus Prime and D-16/Megatron. And the film itself looked amazing, especially with the surface world.
 
Wicked was a cute film that still manages to pale in comparison to its Broadway source material. The casting was mediocre (Ariana Grande for Glenda, seriously?!), yet I found myself enjoying all of the musical numbers and impressive CGI during some of the scenes. The film explored some of Oz’s societal complexities and the Wizard’s role in demonizing Elphaba at the behest of twist villain Madam Morrible. The film suffered from making itself “lighter and softer” than the source material, but was overall a mostly strong film that was deserving of the praise that it shored up. 7.5/10
 
AndyJ08 said:
Wicked was a cute film that still manages to pale in comparison to its Broadway source material. The casting was mediocre (Ariana Grande for Glenda, seriously?!), yet I found myself enjoying all of the musical numbers and impressive CGI during some of the scenes. The film explored some of Oz’s societal complexities and the Wizard’s role in demonizing Elphaba at the behest of twist villain Madam Morrible. The film suffered from making itself “lighter and softer” than the source material, but was overall a mostly strong film that was deserving of the praise that it shored up. 7.5/10
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In my opinion, it was a 8.75/10 and I feel like Galinda is basically a role created for Ariana Grande. Even though it didn't follow the source material 100% (like most movie adaptations for plays), it still addressed the big themes and topics in the play like the animals
 
I saw Troll Hunter (2010), a Norwegian Dark Fantasy film, the other morning. It was a really enjoyable find, and I quite liked the attempt at realism the film made by mostly treating the trolls like other animals in the forest, attempting to paint an ecological picture with them. I'm a fan of 'big monster' films from Jurassic Park to King Kong, so I already knew I'd probably like it, and the big Jotun at the end did not disappoint. It's supposed to be somewhat of a dark comedy, which made it pretty fun to watch.

Watching it Dubbed was also pretty fun, Norwegian is a nice language to listen to. Maybe that is just my 1/16th Norwegian 'heritage' shining through (Spoken like a true American :p)
 
MOG2012 said:
In my opinion, it was a 8.75/10 and I feel like Galinda is basically a role created for Ariana Grande. Even though it didn't follow the source material 100% (like most movie adaptations for plays), it still addressed the big themes and topics in the play like the animals
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To be honest, I feel like I’m a little biased after seeing the play, but I still really enjoyed the movie.
 
Last week I rewatched The Boy and the Heron at my local cinema. I noticed several new things that deepened my understanding of the movie, but there is still so much I don't get... can't wait until I can watch it on Netflix.

I believe the heron character is based on a pun between the words for 'heron' and 'fraud', which are homonyms in Japanese.

This movie also features an interesting portrayal of pelicans... I think it has to do with the christian legend that pelicans feed their offspring with their own organs but I'm not sure.
 
Thought I’d give one of these a try, seeing as I just finished watching Mufasa: The Lion King in theaters…

This for me was a long time coming, as I was really curious as to how they would execute an all-original story with the photo-realistic style of animation that Disney’s been pushing for in their so-called “live-action” remakes.

Regarding this style of animation, the film’s approach to depicting the animal characters was indeed a vast improvement over the 2019 “remake”; for the animals in this film were far more expressive and maintained a balance between realism and character that did not bear an uncanny feeling.

However, I will admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of every song that had lyrics, and that there were some pacing issues that seemed to rush the story along, which felt a bit too quick for my liking.

While I won’t spoil everything else about the movie, I will say that the film did fill out the promise of being dedicated to the late James Earl Jones, which to me showed that the filmmakers did care into honoring his legacy.

Finally, as an avid fan of The Lion King franchise, I thought the film wasn’t all too terrible, and to that I give Mufasa an 8.5 / 10.
 
I just saw Kraven the Hunter…
Overall, 6/10. I was surprised in how much I liked it, somewhat entertaining and it doesn’t deserve 16% rotten tomatoes imao. It was a mix of confusion and I kiss (and smack) to comic book movie fans, it included the chameleon, foreigner, rhino, and calypso which were all decent surprises.
 
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