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Ghosters Phantom Patrol (2023)
Get Your Ghostbuster Vibes On
If you liked Ghostbusters your going to enjoy this indie film. It has a very familiar feel but with new awesome looking specters and some quirky new heroes. If you want to see some amazing special effects done on a shoe string budget this is the movie to see. It will have you asking, "How did they do that?" The acting was surprisingly good too. It is hard to find good family films these days and this movie fills the void while providing plenty of excitement for the whole family. You can feel safe letting your kids over 7 watch it. So pop some popcorn, dim the lights, and hunker down with the kids for a fun ride.
Unbroken (2014)
Devoid of hope, torturously long
What a shame that this story was done so dark and delivered in such a boring way. It was so one dimensional, so flat. There was nothing to bring light to the darkness. After awhile you just don't care at all, you just want it to end.
One of the things they teach writers is "Show - Don't Tell". At the end of the movie they tell us some things that they should have shown us in the movie.
Much of the character development in movies comes from the dialog between the characters. After the first twenty minutes of the movie they no longer make any attempts to have meaningful conversations between the characters you are supposed to care about.
It seemed like the director became completely focused on trying to make us feel uncomfortable and tortured and without hope, like the main character, but along the way she lost the real value in the story. She dropped the thread that should have made it all feel connected.