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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Not a bad movie, just not a good Godzilla/Kong movie
It feels more like this is an Avengers movie and not a Godzilla/Kong one.
Sure it's a fun watch, and there's cool moments here and there. I also liked the villain a lot, the way he moved and his facial expressions were really uncanny and a bit scary. I would've liked to see more about him, how he became the king of the giant apes, his fight with Godzilla in the past and his banishment, and how he defeated Shimo.
I didn't like that Godzilla did basically nothing the entire movie. Almost all the focus was on Kong and the little iwi girl. They could've sold the movie as "Kong and Mothra" as well, because she had pretty much the same screen time as Godzilla.
And I don't know how to feel about Kong feeling "sad". He's been shown as this unstoppable force that only responds to that iwi girl, kinda like Hulk. But now he's acting more like a human: he gets sad because he doesn't feel comfortable in his new home, he is grossed out when he gets dirty in a fight, he pretty much cries because of a tooth infection and goes with the humans to get help.
And there's also a lot of conveniences in the movie. Like when Kong gets frostbite and they casually have a giant gauntlet made specifically for him that's undamaged and ready to use. Or that Mothra is there and only the iwi girl can wake her up, and then the huge "special attack" they can only do once by clashing the two giant crystal pyramids, which doesn't even do that much honestly and feels like they wasted it.
I don't regret watching it, and I didn't have a lot of expectations after watching the trailer, but it's just a mediocre film.
Wonka (2023)
I expected nothing, and got surprised
A lot of people like to compare new remakes with the original movies and end up falling in nostalgia, but this is not the case because it's a completely different movie.
This is the story of a young man named Willy Wonka, who has the dream of opening his own chocolate shop and fulfilling the promise he made to his mother.
Along the way he meets wonderful people, some of them small and orange, with a particular set of skills that will help him overthrow the chocolate mafia, overcoming his past and achieving his dream.
This Wonka, while still a bit crazy, is super charismatic, empathetic and gentle. His personality combined with his master chocolatier skills makes everyone around him like him, even his enemies to some extent.
The moment where he finally opens his shop only for his products to get sabotaged by the mafia is absolutely heartbreaking. Seeing how his chocolates caused issues and problems to everyone, watching his shop burn to the ground and giving up on his dream to save his friends just broke something inside of me.
The movie isn't perfect though, it's lacking a bit of that "magic" touch, that special something. Even if there was a lot of magical stuff happening in the movie it felt a bit forced, like they added that element just because it's a Wonka movie and it's something that has to be there, it just doesn't feel very well integrated in the world.
But in general I'd say it's a good movie, and I'm hoping they make a sequel because I want to see more of Timothée's Wonka.
Speed Racer (2008)
Probably my favorite movie of all time
I first watched this movie with around 8-9 years old. There was this old DVD rental machine, and my parents used to rent a couple movies here and there for me to watch. One time I rented Speed Racer, and it changed my life.
I quickly became totally obsessed with this movie, and I've watched it countless times since then.
I love everything about it: The acting, the characters and their development, the story and how it's narrated, the visuals and the music. All of it is absolutely perfect.
And the most important part is the messages it sends about family, overcoming obstacles together, and growing up. Also I will always remember Rex's speeches, both when he's young and tells Speed to "feel the car to understand what it needs", and when he's old also telling Speed "It doesn't matter if racing never changes, what matters is if we let racing change us" and "You don't climb into a T-180 to be a driver, you do it because you're driven". Such beautiful messages.
My favorite scene has to be the whole sequence between when Speed resurrects the Mach 6 at the Grand Prix and when he wins the race. I love that final lap in it's entirety and I can't help but scream "Go Speed go! Win the race!", and that's probably how him and Pops felt while watching the 43rd Grand Prix.
The opening sequence is also super good. I love how it tells you the entire story in flashbacks while Speed is racing and his family is watching him about to beat Rex's time. Speed not beating Rex's record is a sign of respect to his brother, but it also means that he's not yet fully grown up and still has pending issues with his past which he needs to overcome.
Overall, this movie is a rollecoaster of emotions, and while mainly high-paced (just like a race), it does a great job with the pacing and letting the viewer some moments to rest between race and race.
I get that some people might not like the visuals and just how colorful it is, and the way the fighting and action sequences are done in an anime-esque way, but that's exactly the point. This movie is based on an old anime, and it's probably the best live-action movie to adapt an anime in all aspects, characters, story, visuals and everything else. And it's one of the main reasons I love it so much.
Even though this movie might not be for everyone, I still recommend it.
Kai duan (2022)
Speechless
Lately I've been watching "Roanoke Gaming"'s channel, in which he describes all sorts of monsters and diseases in movies and shows. And Youtube recommended me other channels' videos, that's how I stumbled upon this series.
At first I thought it was just gonna be another show with a predictable plot and average acting and story. But after watching the first 2 episodes summarized in a video... I literally stopped the video and started watching the show myself.
It left me speechless. I cannot put in words just how good this show is. While the basics of the story may be simple: Girl meets Boy and they're trapped in a time loop, the way the events are told and how the story unfolds is absolutely amazing.
Also, the way the characters talk and their reasoning just feels so natural. And the acting, oh my god the acting is on point. Some of the secondary characters' backstories were also really good, specially Lu Di and the Watermelon guy's stories almost made me cry.
A bit of spoilers: There were many times they thought the loop was gonna end and, well, of course it didn't because there's still episodes left, but I still had a bit of tension in me because every time it happened it just made sense for it to maybe be the last loop.
The last few minutes of the last episode had me with my heart in the palm of my hands. I just didn't know what I was gonna do if Xiao Heyun wouldn't wake up in the last loop or if they'd forget everything that happened the day after the loop ended.
After seeing this show, I'm definitely going to check more cdramas.
Hush (2016)
Not a single good thing
Probably the worst move I've ever seen.
The whole movie is a complete disaster. They took bad protagonist / villain decision-making to the next level.
There's bad movies that are so bad they make a full circle and become good, but this is not the case. They tried to make a serious movie but failed catastrophically.
To this day I still regret the moment I decided to open Netflix, hovered this movie and played it. I have no idea how I had the strength to sit through the whole thing.
I have no idea what to write to meet the character quota so I will just write some random stuff until I can po.
One Piece (2023)
Anime live actions can be good
I'm a huge One Piece fan, and I went in on this show knowing that it was most likely gonna get ruined by Netflix, but I ended up with a huge surprise instead.
This show only gets better with each episode. It is absolutely unbelievable how good it is.
They managed to get all the emotion from the first 100 manga chapters in just 8 50-ish minutes episodes. And not only that, but they still had room for changes and improvement.
I loved all the changes they did.
- Using outfits from covers and other sources
- Making Usopp's nose normal so he can kiss Kaya
- Involving Garp, Koby and Helmeppo from the beginning of the story
- Mihawk finishing Don Krieg before Baratie
- Showing Zoro and Baroque Works' backstory
But probably the most important change of all, even if it might seem not that important, is the death of Merry.
We all know Oda hates killing characters, and pretty much all the deaths happen in flashbacks and not in the actual story. BUT, if they went on an killed Merry (which btw gave it even more emotion to the ship, because they named it after him), that means that they're going to kill even more characters in future seasons. And some of them might be brutal, seeing how they didn't care to show Zoro literally cutting in half Mr 7 (or Helmeppo's butt).
Other stuff I loved was the casting, it was absolutely on point (but I disliked the way some of the actors portrayed the caracters). The costumes were pretty good, though they need to work a bit more on this, because Kuro looked way too much like he was just cosplaying, and his minions looked really goofy. The fight choreography was stunning. Also, the vfx and cgi looked really good, specially Luffy's attacks, but other things like Zoro's swords falling apart after fighting Mihawk, and the explosion on Garp's ship caused by Luffy looked really bad, so there's still room for improvement on that.
There were other things I liked and disliked, for example how some conversations feel unnecesarily long.
But one thing I'm not sure how to feel about is how short the fights are. Like, yes it makes sense to get defeated irl after getting gomu gomu no gatling'd, but I also feel like we didn't get to see just how strong Luffy, Zoro and Sanji really are, and it's something I want to see next season.
Overall, the good points far outweigh the bad ones. And the changes they did made it a great adaptation.
The Nun (2018)
Boring, not scary, repetitive
The Nun is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I'll start with the good points: it's visually stunning and has great camera work, and the acting is also very good.
This movie fails at everything except camera/visual work and acting. It's pretty impressive how they managed to deliver something this horrible.
The "demon" if you want to call it that, is portrayed as one of the most, if not THE most powerful demon... but then all it does throughout the movie is hide in the dark, do some loud screeches and screamers and disappearing shortly after. And in the "final fight" all it does is literally just push people around, the only demonic thing that happened in the movie was the attempt to possess the girl.
There's screamers almost every 10 minutes, and they all have pretty much the same pattern, so it quickly gets boring and repetitive and by the time you've seen half of the movie all the atmosphere is completely broken.
The only two interesting things about the movie were how they used the blood of Jesus to seal the demon, and how the characters tied to the story of The Conjuring movies at the end.
You don't lose anything about The Conjuring verse if you don't see this movie. But you will save your time (and probably money) if you decide not to watch it.