John Wick: Chapter 4 10/10
Action sequences I had never seen : the shooting in front of the Arc de Triomphe in the traffic lanes for example, the f** shooting with incendiary bullets filmed from above in the style of a retro video game, the excellent role of the fighting dog, already present in the previous one but reassessed.
And OMG John goes to a Club Hölle in Berlin!
The electro soundtracks are just perfect. I wish they were on YT right now.
A few downsides: the universe doesn’t worry about people, tourists and policemen who never intervene, billionaires can privatize public places as they please… we don’t learn much more about the High Table and its role, it is only a pretext for internal quarrels. and the gifts of the blind to see everything is exaggerated.
Massive entertainment clearly with an elaborate aesthetic.
I agree completely. 
The scene with incendiary bullets filmed from above in one shot is probably my favorite scene in the entire film series. It even had the same soundtrack as the club scene in the first movie, one of the best compositions in the series too. Would love to listen to the rest of the OST again.
Noticed the Berlin club too, even though the name was shown very briefly! The famous Berghain bouncer even had a fun cameo here.
Glad to finally have Japan represented in the series. I loved the aesthetics, even the smaller details like the soldiers that were otherwise similar to the ones in the third movie wearing menpo masks.
Yeah, Caine seemed ridiculously overpowered considering his condition but in the end he didn’t make it. Felt bad for the guy, he wouldn’t have been involved in the business anymore had it not been for his daughter.
I couldn’t have imagined a different ending, this is how it was meant to happen.
10/10
Saw 65. Enjoyed it, had fun, Adam Driver really is a great actor. The movie is only 90 minutes and honestly I wonder if it was meant to be longer in some parts. But it does feel nice and brisk. A good time.
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (English Translated: Thief Ran Away).
Thriller Suspense Heist and Hijack movie with unpredictable ending. Watched this kind of movie after a while.
Credit goes mostly to the story and screenplay, the plot keeps on changing after each 10/15 minutes. Versatile actress Yami Gautam is one of my favourite. This recent released hindi movie is available in Netflix in english audio/dub.
It all starts when a flight attendant and her boyfriend on the flight plans for a diamond heist. Things goes as planned but unfortunately a terrorist group hijacks the plane and the plot shifts to a terror hijack movie.
Leila’s Brothers (or as I call it, “Baradarane Leila”). You might find some of the actors familiar.
finally got around to seeing everything, everywhere, all at once. been wanting to watch it for ages.
it was… it’s just brilliantly put together (and funny. and sweet. and sad). the opening 30 minutes alone is masterful, economic storytelling. i could pick at that section alone for days. the film is thematically and emotionally complete in a way few others are. like parasite, i’m baffled it won oscars; i think it’s too good for them 
speaking of… i’ve watched it 3 times in as many days.
Saw John Wick 4. Thought it was great, thought the pacing was great despite the 170 minute(!) running time. Hope the upcoming spin offs can be just as good.
Odeon in the UK are selling popcorn tins to tie in with the Mario movie, and honestly, I kind of want 1 or 2, they’re surprisingly good looking.
FFS how do you share an image on this website, I don’t get it.
Might as well be magic. I only get internet through my phone at the moment, it’s so difficult to do anything on this thing.
All Hallows’ Eve
Terrifier
Terrifier 2
I don’t really know how to talk about these… Every time I want to talk them individually, I realize they’re all essentially the same. However, trying to lump them together doesn’t do the clear improvements made across the nascent franchise any justice. So I guess I’ll try do both simultaneously; we’ll see how it goes…
The first (All Hallows’ Eve) is mostly just a collection of short films that writer/director Damien Leone made while trying to get the character of Art the Clown (more on him later) off the ground and then half assed a movie around. The second (and first to carry the name “Terrifier”) is an actual movie on its own merits but it doesn’t really have a bone fide protagonist, functioning mostly as a vehicle for Art’s increasingly grotesque kills (though it does have an oddly compelling twist). The second is very similar to the first but introduces its first true protagonist and final girl in Sienna Shaw (more on her later) and features some great practical effects (much improved from the earlier entries).
Long story short, this series first came to my attention when I heard about all the hullabaloo surrounding how gruesome the most recent entry was purported to be. My interest was piqued and the rest was history. It was also fascinating listening to the director’s commentary and seeing just how much the series evolved from those early short films, not to mention Leone’s own evolution (he got his start in makeup and special effects). Watching the films go from relatively plotless gore fests to a spiritual battle between avatars of heaven and hell while the creator not only honed and mastered his crafts in makeup and effects while simultaneously learning how to write plot and character was truly a journey I didn’t expect to take in a series of low budget slashers.
Now I just want to talk briefly about the two main characters of this series, Art the Clown and Sienna Shaw, before wrapping this up. Art is a legend in the making; he’s as silent as Michael but as animated as Freddy. It’s truly a wonderful combination and a delight to watch. Sienna is much the same and is already up there with the likes of the great final girls like Sidney Prescott and Nancy Thompson. After hearing about the care and attention that went into these two characters perhaps more than anything else in the series since the very beginning that only makes perfect sense and I look forward to seeing if they do take their rightful places among the greats as future installments come out.
All that said, this series isn’t for everyone. In addition to the excessive gore (which isn’t as bad as all the furor made it out to be (unless I’m just more desensitized than I thought)), the series is plagued by average (at best) acting, particularly earlier on. According to Leone’s commentary, all lot of the actors, especially in the first film and the short films were local film students so that probably has a lot to do with it (to say nothing of the low budgets). Don’t get me wrong, no one was truly bad, and there are some standouts on the opposite end as the films progress, but don’t expect world class acting. Also, if you have a fear of clowns, I would definitely stay away. But, if you like gore, inventive kills, and/or colorful killers, not to mention want to get in on the ground floor of an ascendant slasher franchise that has made improvements in plot, character, makeup AND effects through three films, I’d highly recommend these.
Got dragged to yet another movie theater, this time by my aunt and uncle. Went to see Air, the movie about struggling shoe company Nike’s attempts to sign Michael Jordan when everybody (including Jordan) knew he was going to sign with flashy Adidas.
It’s a bit hagiographic–it definitely feels like a Nike ad at times–and there’s some of the typical Hollywood true-story hand-waving–one man with a vision, breaking all the rules, because the only person who believes in him is himself–but it’s a lot of fun with some surprisingly good humor and excellent performances from Matt Damon and the rest of the cast.
Viola Davis, in particular, is absolutely damned perfect as Deloris, Jordan’s mother. If she doesn’t get some supporting actress nominations next award season, there’s something wrong with the world.
Just saw the Mario Bros movie. It was great, way better than I was expecting. I especially loved all the Nintendo references. My favorite was the Gamecube startup as the ringtone for their phone. I hope when they make the inevitable sequel they adapt stuff from Mario Galaxy.
I just saw Refield with my sister. It’s incredible. I’d say twice as good as last years Nicolas Cage where he plays himself. He’s the perfect Dracula. Go see it in a theatre. You won’t regret it.
No Country for Old Men was craazy, creepy, and quite fun.
Kooky Texas dialogue is fun to listen to. I love their expressions and way sentences are structured.
Javier Bardem was terrifying. That coin scene near the beginning of the film was the ultimate goosebumps inducing scene. Like I’ve not felt that scared at a movie THAT hard before…
Great, gritty action, ugly gore and sneaky shootouts.
Also I swear this gun Josh Brolin finds is some similar model to The Silverballer. It all looked so familiar to me…
That is because it appears to be the M1911, the gun the AMT Silverballer is a high-cal clone of but I am no real expert on guns.
The last week i spend an ungodly amount of time watching movies. I re-watched 3 of my favorite movies of all time; The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Puss In Boots 2: The Last Wish and my all time favorite Die Hard. But I also saw 3 new movies. Those being Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Suzume & The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
I’m not gonna waste y’alls time by reminiscing over films i dearly adore. So for the only thing I’ll say for Fox, Puss and Mr. Mcclane is: GO WATCH THESE MOVIES RIGHT NOW THEY ARE SO IMPECCABLY FANTASTIC AND COME CLOSE TO NEAR CINEMATIC PERFECTION WATCH THEM WATCH THEM WATCH THEM.
As for the new movies i watched, I’ll go in the order that I watched them. Starting with:
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
This is a movie I expected nothing of, I may be a massive loser nerd, but I’m not a DnD nerd. But this movie was great fun! It follows the bard Edwin and his fantastic companion the barbarian Holga on a quest to retrieve Edwin’s daughter from a previous party member who betrayed them 2 years prior.
Though that may seem like a simple premise it quickly devolves into fetch quest into fetch quest, side path after side path after more complications seem to come up. And it’s not a bad thing, these offshoots let the characters shine and put them in difficult situations where they have to think of creative solutions to get out of. And creative solutions is something what this movie does best. I think that all the “set-pieces” are memorable, interesting and the characters find a unique way out of them other than just hit everything. Despite that the movie does also have a lot of hit everything, sometimes fun, like most fights Holga is involved in and sometimes a bit boring, like the Paladin fighting the thayans in the underdark.
What this movie doesn’t do so well is characters sadly, and I don’t mean character chemistry, the entire group works well together and they bounce off eachother well. But I feel like a lot of characters could’ve used a lot more speaking lines and screentime to define them better. the people that suffer the most from this are Simon, Doric and the Main red wizard villain. And on the emotional spectrum they could’ve done a better job establishing a relationship between Ed, Holga and Ed’s daughter Kira. Because the emotional ending kinda deflates because of how lacklustre its been set up.
Also usefull to mention, I went to the theatre with a friend who is absolutely into dnd. So he could point out a lot of fun references and the things they did during the movie. Like most of the spells being in the game and being accurate. Them using some really cool creatures from the game like the displacer-beast and how cool it was to see stuff like this on the big screen was.
But all in all this is a love letter to dnd if you love it and a really fun adventure movie with the most creative action scenes from a big blockbuster you’ll see in a while. And despite its flaws I walked outta the theatre satisfied with what I had watched.
7.3/10
The next movie I went to watch was an anime movie from the acclaimed director that also did Your Name. That movie was:
Suzume
Suzume is a movie about a young girl meeting a hot young man and slowly falling in love with him over the course of a roadtrip across japan to close mythical gates. Also the hot young man is a three legged children’s chair for 55% of this movie.
Suzume was a pretty spectacular film, dealing with really interesting themes of letting go of loved ones and using the love you used for them on loving new people and new experiences. It made for a very interesting coming of age story where you could see the titular protagonist, suzume, evolve both emotionally and physically as she goes around japan. This is helped by the gorgeous visuals both in normal scenes and scenes where’s shes stopping the worm from destroying a part of japan, usual from places a child might go, like a school or an amusement park.
Though the story and characters are great, despite the story dragging a bit, the real star of the show is the gorgeous, wonderful, beautiful 2d animation. mixed with smart cgi animation. You know you’ve got good animation when I’m unsure if something is 3d or 2d animated. And it’s clever animation too, the way Souta (the hot young man whose a children’s chair for most of the film) moves around as a chair is really amazing. and the way he shows subtle emotions in his chair form without them anthropomorphizing the chair is genuinely brilliant.
all in all, this is just a wonderful, beautiful anime film that might be a bit confusing and a tad to long in the tooth, but it’s a fanatastic package overall and worth seeing for the animation alone. 8/10
And we finish with the movie I saw today:
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
I can’t believe it, this turned out fun! not good, but extremely fun!! I didn’t think Illumination had it in them. They finally made a movie that topped the first despicable me in terms of quality. I’m sure the millions of references and nostalgia everyone has towards Mario helped immensely.
Though that’s a bit condescending from me. I genuinely think the Mario movie is great fun. Despite it having a lot of illumination hallmarks. A realistic artstyle when a more unique one could’ve helped it stand out more, mostly in the lighting department. Pop songs that add nothing of value but are only used as a look at this guys remember this. and comedy undercutting some impactful parts (mostly mario and luigi getting eaten by the piranha plant before quickly bursting out in superstar mode, but it shows up in other parts of the movie too). But that doesn’t stop this movie from just being a good adaptation of the fun world of mario, and a little donkey kong. Showing a surpising amount of variety in the creatures and locales. Using the music we all know and love really well and most characters here are represented really well.
I absolutely loved the relationship between mario and luig and mario and peach and bowser was an obvious stand out. But like the dnd movie i wish some characters had some more screentime. Mostly Luigi but toad too. As it often feels like the were more mcguffins (luigi) or just standing there and helping when the plots needs it (toad). I also don’t like that they put some of Daisy’s tomboyish personality into Peach. Despite Peach still being really good.
And for the rest i really loved most references. Foreman spike and jumpman were great, the gamecube ringtone on luigis phone, punch-out pizza, kid icarus on mario’s nes, all the different enemies and background props in the mushroom kingdom, the suicidal looma, etc etc. It’s obvious this movie was directed by the guys who did teen titans go to the movies, because holy mackerel mario, what a ginormous amount of references.
all in all, the mario is just a fun turn your brain off look at the pretty well animated but nothing spectacular reference fest with a few heartfelt moments and tons of love for mario. 6/10
The suzume movie is actually good?? The trailer made the film look so, so weird with that chair, it turned me off from it completely 
yea that chair, it’s a very unique choice. But a choice I’m glad they made, especially considering how that chairs ties into Suzume’s personal journey. which is a weird thing to say. But go watch it, the chair itself is probably my favorite bit of animation each time it moves.
The chair does look cool animation-wise, I was just… worried about the content of the story.
Like… another love story, but with a chair?? At least he’s not a chair for like 80% of the film…?