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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
I thought this would be obscenely average...I was very wrong
Strong cast, good acting, likable characters and good special effects made this movie far more enjoyable then I expected. This is a summer popcorn movie released early and what a treat!!! My expectations were low going in but by the end I was hoping this movie does well in regards to word of mouth and $$$. It's not going to win any Oscars but it's a wonderful escape for a few hours. Oscars are rigged anyways😄
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Wholly, and entirely underwhelming
The original was a part of my childhood so I was excited for this movie ever since I heard about it. I did have some concerns though. Concerns that were present in every minute of this movie. A disappointment but the thing that I was most surprised by was there was no heart. Good actors and very little chemistry hurt this movie. However it will still make a billion dollars so I'm sure Disney will be fine. Disney is kicking so much butt that even their bad movies destroy at the box office.
Moana (2016)
A strong original property to birth another Disney franchise
Moana has enough cute, lovable characters with strong entertaining songs and gorgeous animation that even at times when I found myself bored (and there were a few) I can see where this has the ability to expand into another tent pole franchise for Disney.
Voice acting was spot on which seems to be a standard with Disney these days. Actors brought real emotion to the screen and comedic beats hit perfectly. Dwayne Johnson as Maui was charismatic, charming and all around stole the show, making me wonder if there is anything this WWE Star can do poorly at all?
Animation was gorgeous, seriously. The ocean was a character in this movie and makes me wonder if was and intentional choice or because the animation and water texture was so strong that the byproduct is that the ocean can't help but be turned into a character. I'm not sure how much testing goes into these Disney movies but it's clear whatever Disney is doing they are paying attention to the details and doing their homework in order to release a product that will sustain them 20-30 years from now with the nostalgia that I feel from movies like Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast of any one of many Disney films from my own youth.
Rogue One (2016)
A strong Star Wars entry with very vague potential spoilers
It has its flaws, lulls, questionable cgi and flat dialogue moments but overall SWRO is so good that it makes these moments forgivable. The movie feels it has a weightiness to it a desperation with real consequences that had me feeling like no one is safe.
I stayed away from any trailers or media on this movie at all. To me, this movie seemed very character driven, I found myself invested and on board with character motivations and caring for these characters that I knew nothing about previously. The story was engaging and woven so nicely into the Star Wars universe that it had me wondering whether this was a screenplay written in the time of the original trilogy that never got made.
I found it a relief that unlike TFA which I also enjoyed but found it borrowing from ANH on several story plot points, RO was not recycling but actually adding and expanding what we know of the Star Wars universe. I see a definite potential in the SWU in these stand alone single entries to expand and take the franchise in places that you couldn't otherwise go within the main Star Wars franchise movies.
RO has a darker, more at stake tone to it then I expected and I already knew the ending before I went to it but found myself so invested that I was wanting and hoping to be wrong about the conclusion of the film.
Disney seems to have a real knack for doing right by their properties these days and I hope we get to enjoy this kind of quality for decades to come.
Ghostbusters (2016)
The fanboys seem to forget history
This is an example of a movie that seemed to be universally hated before anyone actually saw it. A true testament of North American fanboyism and a remarkable ability to forget the past.
I found the movie to be funnier as I watched it again and again. I don't think it's amazing but it is far better than, say, Ghostbusters 2 which even now has seemed to hit some movie history blind spot that these idiot fanboys seem to forget was a horrid second entry to a very funny movie in the first Ghostbusters. I found these 4 women to be funny and play well off each other. Chris Hemsworth's comedic beats were high points to the film and I found myself chuckling with every interaction he had with the women.
Again, this is not an amazing movie but it certainly doesn't deserve the hatred that it seems to have received especially in light of the last entry into this franchise. It has it's weak points and jokes that fall flat as most comedies do but it didn't make me wish for my time back like Ghostbusters 2 did.
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen
I realize that I am not the target audience but I wonder what self respecting teen girl will watch this movie and think it's good and I am a Kevin Smith fan but not a teenage girl. There is something genuinely poor about watching American actors do poor...very poor impressions of Canadian stereotypes. I personally have been in Canada my entire life and have never heard anyone say "aboot" instead of "about". It also strikes me as odd that the movie pokes fun at the Canuck and is shot in America. If your going to make such fun of Canada it would be nice to put some money into the economy of the country you are so freely jesting about, after all this is the "True North" trilogy. I found with surprise Jen Schwalbach to be unexpectedly funny and the bright spot of this...film, this may have been in part that her role plays into what seems to be the "angry feminist" persona she seems to have in real life. This seems to be a family pet project movie, a trilogy in which both the Smiths and Depps can make family memories and say that daddy's and daughters made a movie together but this certainly doesn't add stock to most involved. I would also fear that it hurts the image of the average Canadian and seems to make us look like the idiot nice guys however I'm not sure enough people are going to see this movie for me to care to much. Definitely one of the if not the worst movie I've ever seen. Hopefully "Moose Jaws" marks either the upswing of a new season in Smiths career or the point in which he is no longer given money to make anymore movies....I'm guessing neither though.