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After Midnight (2019)
Sometimes movies truly are a waste of time.
So the plot here is pretty simple:
Guy lives out on farm with love of his life
At some point love of his life is no longer in his life
A mysterious beast attacks his house nightly
So they questions you ask during the film are:
1. Where is his girlfriend? Dead, alive, just a break up? Did the monster get her?
2. Is there really a monster or is it in his head like his friends think?
The majority of the movie is flashbacks of times with his perfect GF. They clearly love each other, which makes you assume she maybe died at some point but he hasn't accepted it? Did he kill her and is a complete nutjob? Is HE the monster?
The rest of the movie is scenes with the beast attacking the house. You never get a good look at it accept for one time it eats his GF's cat and you see it for a split second. Otherwise it just leaves behind damage done to the house, which friends suggest is a bear or mountain lion.
So what's the actual answer to what is going on? Well the GF was just bored of their relationship and headed on down to Miami for a reunion, and simply had her phone off so she could have space.
The monster? Yup it's real. Shows up in the last scene with the entire cast and our main character kills it.
The end. No explanations, just the end. 1 star for a nice soundtrack at times.
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Absolutely incredible!
It was 1996, I was 16 years old. I was watching The Great White Hype with my brother and cousin and there was a scene before the boxing match where Damon Wayans hyped himself up with his "inspiration" by watching a clip from Dolemite. We all agreed we HAD to find that movie.
We were instant fans and loved quoting Rudy Ray Moore and chance we got. No one around us had any freakin clue who we were quoting.
This film starring Eddie Murphy just put a massive smile on my face. It's such an amazing movie and as a fan of Dolemite I never knew what he went thru to make it big. The cast is amazing, with Wesley Snipes also delivering a great performance.
I do think this is a film everyone can enjoy, but I'll be bias and claim my brother, cousin, and I enjoyed it just a little more than most that haven't heard of this man before.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
If you are in the mood for a great shark movie check it out!
Man I don't get the bad reviews on here. It's like people who were in the mood to watch a romantic comedy were forced to watch this instead or something. This has everything you could want from an edge of your seat shark thriller, even offering a unique setting so now it's scary sharks and claustrophobia!
I see a lot of complaints about the leads being snobby girls but.....that's how they are and that's the situation they got themselves in so why the hate? If anything the suffering they endure should put a smile on your face if you really dislike them so much.
The film is full of plenty of jump scares, creepy moments, and everything you need to make an effective scary shark flick. The final act gets kind of bonkers and over the top....but I ate it up honestly.
I enjoyed the first film and this is a great follow up. If the director want to keep churning out Shark horror I'll keep watching.
Serenity (2019)
I actually think this COULD have worked...
Honestly it's not a terrible concept. A boy that lost his father to war in the Middle East is now a young teen living with his mother and very abusive step father. So to escape his horrible reality he creates a virtual world where his main character is a fisherman, who is his father. The island is all made up, full of NPC's, and just running according to their code.
What doesn't work about this movie is this information is not known early enough, and you go from watching a drama that you assume is based on reality to......well it's all a videogame.
I'm no screenwriter BUT I would have taken a slightly different approach. It's a sad thought, a young teen so desperately missing his father that he creates him in a virtual world to connect with him. The movie should have honed in on that more. The son should have been on the island of Plymouth in his own virtual form, interacting with his dad, making his intentions known about killing the step father in real life. As video game dad becomes more self aware he does his best to guide his son and tries to convince him not to murder anyone. Now the son struggles with even listening a computer creation at all.
We needed to connect more with the son in the real world. See his home life, go to school, etc. See how his father's advice in the game is translating to real life. Perhaps in the end we see he was every bit ready to murder his step father, but the re-creation of his father was the voice he needed to guide him and talk him out of it.
If done correctly I think that could have been a heartwarming story.
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
This movie had no idea what it was...
It was filmed well, music was nice, it didn't look cheap, and Sam did a fine job but.....nothing else works. The movie doesn't make any sense. In the end you just wonder what they were going for. Were big parts cut? Was it meant to be more supernatural or something? Why are their scenes that mean literally nothing?
You will NOT walk away from this one satisfied.