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The Marvels (2023)
Enjoyable but with room to grow.
I thought it was a fun watch with a lot of potential. The characters were interesting and I do like Captain Marvel. I feel like she has interesting stories to tell, but not enough room to tell them. It did feel like we had missed something, but it could've just been to keep the runtime short? It was a very packed movie and it did work most of the time. However, at this point in the MCU it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the series and movies you have to before watch to fully understand the plot.
Only thing that really annoyed me was that we do not find out what happened to Aladna, and they only mention sending assistance to Hala.. The fight was a let down at Aladna as well, the failure did not feel earned. I felt like they could've helped more before throwing in the towel. I was completely with Captain Marvel when she said she didn't want to leave yet, it didn't feel like they had to do that yet.
Oh well. This movie isn't perfect, but it was a fun watch nonetheless with enjoyable characters.
Drag Me to Dinner (2023)
Great concept and cast, but that is all.
I was really looking forward to this! The concept is great with amazing cast. However, the execution is awful! You can truly see when they make a "real" joke because the cast laughs candidly and it's fun and relaxed. Most jokes are however, forced. The editing is incredibly jarring, there's too much happening and jumping between events. First, I can see that the decorations are done, next, they have jumped back before they're done with that and they're cooking. They should've made the editing more logical according to time. Should've also been honest that they are finished with the concept ahead of time and just slowly introduced it in the beginning instead of making it seem as they're on a time crunch. "this is what we have planned and will now make a reality". Incredibly difficult to follow along, TOO many jarring cuts with too many things happening!! I can see through the awful editing that this could've been great, the cooking could've been so FUN but all we got was the messy jump-cuts. We can't get to know the teams at all with the constant jumping around, so there's no real reason for us to cheer for any of the teams. I would have really liked a second season of this with a more calmer and logical editing.