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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

I fully expect that film to have a scene where he personally swings a wrecking ball painted with a US flag at the Berlin Wall. Otherwise I will be disappointed. :p

I'll wait for streaming though.
 
From the reviews it sounds it isn’t a biopic at all. Anything that would paint him as anything less than a living god isn’t in it.

The confirmation bias in the reviews is hilarious. You can really tell the only people seeing it are people that know they’ll love it. Which as previously mentioned, isn’t very many people at all.
 
I saw two movies this week, both sequels of beloved films/franchises of mine. One was pretty solid and imho opinion added to the story, the other was straight trash that will hopefully be the end of this nostalgia kick and lead to the beginning of the end of CEO of said studio...

First the good:

Alien: Romulus. I give this a solid B-. Arguably the best sequel after Aliens (not saying much) which is a solid contribution to both Alien and Aliens. I won't spoil anything except to say it takes a lot of parts of Alien and combines them with parts of Aliens and makes it work quite well. It takes place 20 years after the destruction of the Nostromo and looks and feels like it. Very claustrophobic, very tense with just enough "Game Over Man!" to make you really get scared. Throw in some ties to Prometheus and it really ties the good parts of the franchise together and jettisons some of the real trash. You can tell the director really loves the films and I am glad to see it is doing quite well. ($290 million WW) The $80 million budget was put to great use and the actor who played Andy was fantastic! Even the obnoxious cameo worked!

Now...*sigh*

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. D- and that is being generous. (mainly because 1 part genuinely made me laugh) I am not sure how you can have a film that has 4 storylines (almost none of which is fully realized or fleshed out) in a film that lasts like 90 minutes or so...but they did and it was terrible. If I didn't know Tim Burton directed it I would think the director had no idea what made Beetlejuice a great film. I did enjoy the way they wrote out Jeffrey Jones and Catharine O'Hara and Willem Dafoe chew all of the scenery but Jenna Ortega is phoning it in and Winona Ryder is just not good. Michael Keaton is putting in extra time as Beetlejuice and trying his damnedest but there is just no reason for this movie to exist. The stakes are dumb, the stories are mediocre (which is not surprising but even for this they were bad) and it seemed like all they were doing was making a movie where they could go "hey look its a sandworm!" or lets make Beetlejuice do this for a laugh! That is all this is, a Di$ney-esque quip-a-thon where nothing even attempts to be scary it is all sanitized and easily predictable (I called one of the major twists two sentences into the plot showing up) and you never truly believe any danger will befall any of them. (don't even get me started on Monica Belucci that storyline was so dumb) The first film is cheesy, but Beetlejuice is menacing and is out to get rid of the living as a bio-exorcist. Now...he might as well show up in a Marvel film no one even seems to care half the time. Honestly, it is Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (even steals from it) levels of bad. And the budget was twice Alien: Romulus and looked 5 times as bad. I hope it bombs so horribly David Zazlov is forced out by the board (yes I know it won't happen) and maybe we can finally be done with all of these studios taking films from the 80s/90s and adding mythos to it no one ever asked for.

I will say one thing in spoiler tags: Despite the multiple storylines the film needed to do a stupid musical number towards the end just to stretch for time. That is how little they cared about anything happening in the film. The one funny part was after Beetlejuice and Lydia are reunited and she gets back home he shows up with a guitar lip-syncing "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx which was perfect! They went to that well a lot though...Beetlejuice lip-syncing his origin tail as told by some guy with an accent, a 4 minute long version of everyone singing "MacArthur Park" at the wedding with a band (which is nowhere near as cool as the stuff done in the first film) and him lip-syncing Spanish when he plays a bullfighter against a terrible looking Sandworm...somehow claymation looked better in 1988.

If you ever watched the Beetlejuice cartoon back in the day, it is a lot like that only way worse and way longer. This film should have never been made.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Why would I want to go watch a movie about the man that destroyed America?
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Because apparently The Hollywood Blacklist was good and Reagan was so smart he fooled the Russians into believing he was stupid and beat them all by himself. And they love him for it!

(that is what I read in a one scathing review)
 
I finally watched Dune 2 yesterday. I love it!
I remember that the 1st film didn't make me feel this way, I wasn't so excited after watching it. Actually, I didn't want to watch movies yesterday evening at all. I planned to play some slot online games, take a bath, and go to bed. But my partner persuaded me to watch the movie together and I didn't regret that I agreed. Great movie! I'm looking forward to the 3rd part.
 
MissThundercat said:
We should resurrect that thread!
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Those were the days!

BTW it has come to my attention on a movie board I frequent that my feelings (and those of my SO) on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice were much harsher than most and a lot of people liked it. Please note, as always, that I hope everyone who sees it enjoys the hell out of it and I am the outlier. My criticisms and disappointment is my own :)
 
Handyman said:
Those were the days!

BTW it has come to my attention on a movie board I frequent that my feelings (and those of my SO) on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice were much harsher than most and a lot of people liked it. Please note, as always, that I hope everyone who sees it enjoys the hell out of it and I am the outlier. My criticisms and disappointment is my own :)
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I take your and Kep's reviews like that of Mikey reviewing cereal.
 
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