Remember this is a Spider-guy that can survive this kind of fall. Also a specific window non the less, in his apartment. Why I suggest moving.
If I was to kill Spider-Man, I wouldn’t start by throwing him out of a window.
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That seems extreme when you could simply avoid the window or pay someone to board/brick it up for you. Then again you have watched the film and I haven’t so maybe there is some big reason that I will never know.
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Ha god no, It was just spoiled in my movie podcast. So we didn’t have to suffer. I haven’t watched a marvel film since the extremely mediocre Black Panther.
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Which podcast?
Imagine spending your own limited time on Earth watching Madame Web…
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The John Campea Show, I also listen to Kristian Harloff’s the big thing and other movie related podcasts.
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Yeah I think I have heard of Campea, I remember him being bigger or at least more disseminated in online discourse when the MCU was huge. I always found him a tad too corporate for my tastes but I am pretty selective in my choice of reviewers.
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Both Campea and Kristian were part of Colliders and their podcast series. Both theme and others have created their own podcast shows now. On their own terms.
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Trapped from 2002 on Netflix
Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Fanning, + Courtney Love. It’s about an elaborate kidnapping. It’s suspenseful but full of non believable incidents. You’ll keep saying “no way he would have allowed that,” or “that was pretty stupid of them.”
But it was entertaining enough, if you have seen all the other stuff that looked good.
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Saw Dune: Part 2 at the cinema today. I saw Part 1 in cinema and while I had a good time, I felt like it was a movie I more appreciated rather than actually enjoyed, if that makes sense. Grandiose but felt a little plodding. Part 2 though, perhaps because it is the conclusion of the book it adapts, while still being a slow film, feels like it has a far better pace to it, while also being grand and cinematic in scope. Really enjoyed this, deserves the to be called a sci-fi epic. It makes me want to read the Dune novels, and the idea that this director may return to adapt the next Dune novel makes me very excited.
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Dune: Part 2
I feel like I just watched a great 6 hour movie that someone cut down to 3 hours. It feels in parts rushed, in parts it goes nowhere with scenes, and some stuff just comes out of nowhere or with insufficient setup/foreshadowing.
I enjoyed the spectacle of it, the visuals and so on, but I just feel like it got butchered in the editing bay.
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So, definitely not just watched for the first time, but a follow-up to a post about a first time watch. Last night, I watched The Fast and the Furious for the first time since my first watch of it last fall, and I found that my opinion of it had curiously changed. It’s still not a very good movie and is still the weakest entry in the franchise, I stand by those observations I made.
However, I found myself watching it more fondly and enjoying it more than I did the first time. And it was by the end of the first street race that I realized why: it’s because, the first time I watched this movie, I had no idea who these characters were, why they did what they did, or why I should care. And since the cast of characters dispersed and expanded with the two movies that followed, it took until the fourth movie to start caring when the prime cast started to come back into focus, having followed their journey to that point.
And I think that’s why I like the first movie more now than I did the first time I watched. I now know who these characters are and what life has in store for all of them, and now, retroactively, it makes their story in the first entry more interesting. The series starts off pretty low, peaks in the middle, and then jumps the car into space, but taken as a whole, each entry is actually uplifted in quality and enjoyability when truly seen as one small part of a greater story.
Normally, that doesn’t happen; normally the first entry is considered the best and the rest of a series is trying to recapture the magic, or the second one is the best, and after the first two, it starts going down hill. I can think of only two examples that did something similar, both in relatively recent times: John Wick, which critically and commercially got better as it went, but only has 4 entries and even if they make another, that for sure will be the last one, still less than half of what FF has done; and Assassin’s Creed, which had a similar weak first entry and then climbed to success, but it’s a video game, not a movie. Its surprising that a series based around ridiculous car worship could turn out this good, or make its weaker entries look better in hindsight, but there it is.
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Finally watched The Beekeeper tonight, and I enjoyed it about ad much as I expected I would. Jason Statham of course is the standout, with his usual few words and many kicks and punches. However, I also really loved the performances of Jeremy Irons and Josh Hutcherson as the villains, and the two FBI agents were a delight. It had all the campiness of Statham’s other films, but where it works, it really works, and it comes off as a nice blend of John Wick and The Equalizer. The low points of the movie are really just everyone else’s acting outside of the five main cast members mentioned. Everyone else just seemed either too dull or too over-the-top.
The scene at the beginning where the old lady gets scammed was absolutely infuriating for three different reasons. One, because it showed the gullibility of an older person who isn’t the least bit tech savvy, yet has their entire life on a computer, like a stereotypical boomer. Two, because I know real people have been scammed for all they have in this same way and it’s enraging that they prey on people so vulnerable. And three, because the whole scene was so step-by-step that the acting wasn’t believable at all. Even her means of suicide wasn’t very believable. Setting aside the fact that women don’t usually resort to the method of shooting themselves when choosing suicide, we’re supposed to believe that this old lady who can’t even work her laptop keeps a gun lying around and knows enough on how to use it to self-terminate? Between the two factors, I don’t buy it, it seems like a bit of sloppy writing.
Gotta say, the part where the Beekeeper is hiding under the truck, knocks out the secret service agent, and takes his uniform to infiltrate the President’s party was so 47, I’d swear the scriptwriter had to be a Hitman fan. To say nothing of the whole concept of the Beekeeper program itself, which is practically a sister organization of the ICA, but who operate on principle rather than payment.
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I also just saw Beekeeper. It was fun. Standard Statham stuff really, but worth your time if you like that kind of thing (I imagine most of HMF does).
There is a scene where an ex CIA director (Jeremy Irons) is trying to explain to a bunch of delta guys and seals what a bee keeper is and he says “comparatively you’re all pussies.”
I think I’m now tired of the Jason Bourne/John Wick story premise where these impossibly skilled dudes can win a gun fight against 20 well armed men. I’d like to see a few more action flicks that are just slightly more grounded. It’s like Jason Bourne set a new bar for how capable the hero had to be and now new stories are trying to out do it. Time to go back to guys who occasionally make mistakes and can’t outfight 15 SAS at once.
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I forgot to bring it up in my previous post, but did you also get a bit of an Absolution vibe from some of the people they brought in to stop the Beekeeper? I mean, the Special Forces guys was more like Apex Predator, but the Scottish mercenary and his crew felt like someone Blake Dexter would have on his payroll, and the replacement Beekeeper felt like one of the Saints had a baby with Eduardo Flamingo from Gotham.
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Yes, the mercenary team at the end looks like it comes straight out of a comic book.
Cannot BEGIN to tell you how excited I am to watch the second film from Rose Glass (who knocked my socks off in 2020 with her debut, Saint Maud). This looks fucking amazing, with the bonus of Ed Harris sporting the worst haircut seen on film since Javier Bardem got to work with a bowl and a pair of scissors in No Country For Old Men:
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Just went and saw Late Night With The Devil.
A spooky 70s styled horror movie shot and presented as a lost episode of an old talk show.
It was good! I’d give it like a 7.5 or 8/10.
David Dastmalchian is mostly a character actor, been in many different movies in smaller roles, but I think this is basically his first lead role in a theatrical film! And he does a great job, playing a tv host who is gripped by his own show as much as his viewers, and how far he’s willing to let this show go on to catch big ratings.
It really captures the feeling of watching some lost media you’re not meant to see, very nice old 4:3 framing and most of everything is played to the camera as if you’re a viewer at home (or part of the live studio audience in a theatre)
The ending gets a little weird and some people might not like how they twist things up, but I liked the possible meaning behind it, even if the execution felt a little out-of-left-field.
Ah yeah, and DISCLAIMER: This film’s production used AI to create 3 interstitial program cards in the film. I watched this with a heavy heart, knowing that detail going in, but I went to see this to support all the actual creative people behind making this film, as it’s a great low-budget flick with great set design and terrifying to silly effects. 
(I think I recognized the 3 AI cards used anyway – the Skeleton one and the two Owl themed commercial cards. AI ““art”” usually looks like everything bleeds into each other and certain things can be half-finished for no reason…)
(Despite apparently being “low to no budget” there’s like 7 or 8 different production companies tied to this film. So many studio logos at the start, it began to feel like a comedy bit. But it’s not lmao.)
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Watched a Korean Zombie movie, it is full of action. Thankfully it has my language audio dub (else I miss the actor’s expression with subtitles).
The performance of all the characters was good, it is a good movie like Train to Busan.
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Dune: Part Two was awful. Simultaneously both stonily po-faced and yet also laughably silly, it was the worst of both worlds. Retrospectively made me like the first film (which I didn’t think was great) even less.
The first time that Denis Villeneuve has really faceplanted. At least he did it on the sand, I guess.
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WNUF Halloween Special better.
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