Movie Reviews 2.0

That say that I'm quite excited by

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Them introducing what appears to be the Dr Strange from What If..

And also that Raimi's directing.

 

I liked that Dani Rojas was the bartender in the end credit scene.

 

The Unforgiveable.

Dammit! Wow! What a movie. Sandra Bullock did an amazing job as the main character. Wow!

 

So the Matrix Resurrections is utter bollox. I now know why Lawrence Fishburne did not return. I gather he was "busy, washing his hair".

Good call, man, good call. I hope your hair is now clean.

 

Matrix Resurrection, at some point it was filled with nothing but "meta", and then it's meta has its own meta. It felt like directorial masturbation.

I found the mid-credit scene in the Hawkeye season finale was by far more entertaining than Matrix 4.

 

Matrix 4 had some interesting ideas, but the majority of the action was crap and it is impossible to actually understand what the bad guys want. Jessica Henwick and Eréndira Ibarra made the movie though...

 

I suspect I'll stream the Matrix movie when it's available in a few months, but I can't say I'm particularly excited about it. First Matrix film was really good. Second one was OK, due mainly to some great action scenes, the third one was a pile of crap. I was always expecting a trajectory further downwards...

 

You can stream it today (or indeed yesterday) if you have HBO Max.

 

Ditto, and extrapolating the curve by the number of years passed since the original we end up pretty deep down.

 

UK based, so nope. I get all the streaming services here but for Apple (I refuse to shell out even more money for one more service!) so, providing it doesn't end up Apple-specific in the UK, I should be OK to watch it one night, tutting, rolling my eyes and muttering about what a load of old tosh it apparently is.

 

Trailer for the movie.



Seems like fairly mainstream, with Tom Holland who has a big Spiderman movie out now and Wahlberg as Sully. Video game movies haven't always featured a famous cast.

Very little gunplay in the trailer.

Are they going to tone that way down from the games? Or the climbing and acrobatics?

Nate in the trailer doesn't seem to wisecrack as much as in the games. Just a lot of Woah! as he tries to escape death-defying situations.

So not as much wisecracking in between dropping a lot of bodies as in the games?

 

I hope the Doctor Strange sequel takes the opportunity to at one point have the T. Rex song Mambo Sun playing in the background. It could even work in the ending credits

 

Well at least Sully will get his mustache.

 

I Saw Dune in the HBO Max streaming.
I liked it very much and it is only the first half of the original movie.
Yes, it is slow but I hope there is a second part, and maybe a third, coming.

 

They confirmed the second movie.

 

Dune the miniseries did a nice job with Alia not handling her ancestral memories particularly well. I'd give a shout out to the fantastic acting job from one particular ancestor that went with it, but I guess not everyone knows what's coming, so I won't mention that.

And nice job with the Tleilaxu as well. I can only hope the next film does a good job with Count Fenring, arguably the second deadliest person with a blade in known space, after Paul, as Lynch's film ignored the character, and the miniseries depicted him as more of a consigliere than a person who worked in the field, and got his hands dirty.

P.S. The TV series The Middleman had as one of its stars the actor who played Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, and in one episode they loaded the script with a lot of Dune references. Great show!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ivmq2

 

Who would of thought?
Esp after the cinema triumphs that matrix 2 & 3 both were

 

Whoa dune 2021 is really good. Awesome audio and visual showcase. The way they handled hdr also really adds to the scene and they handled it really well (e.g. Blinding bright lights properly used in proper scenes where it is make sense to be blinding bright)

It use of surround sound and low frequency audio is really good albeit not "in your face" like interstellar

 

The sound team were part of pre-production. I'm sure that's not unique, but it's not common.

 

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