Saturday, January 11, 2025

10 more movies from 2023/2024

 

Ant Man and the Wasp:Quantumainia  2024/ 6.4/ 125 min Figured I’d start out with a good old Marvel movie to get things going. I liked the other ant man movies ok, and that’s what I thought of this one. It was OK. It did seem like 3hrs instead of two but maybe all the time manipulation in the movie affected me too. I have to agree with masses on this one (which I rarely do) and give it a 6.4

Migration 2024/ 83 min/  7.4  I went into this knowing animated movies always have too high of a rating, even though I generally do like them. During the movie I try to figure out what the target age is that the movie was made for. I’m guessing about 7 years old on this one. And I’m not sure if I approve of the overall message of the movie being “don’t be safe” for little kids. Feels like, it’s OK to get in a van with a stranger, kids, it’ll be an adventure! It’s OK to play with the clown in the storm drain kids, it’ll be an adventure.  I only give this 5.5 cause it’s at least short.

Borderlands   2024/ 5.8/ 101 min:  I gotta throw a disclaimer in here. I have spent many, many, way too many hours playing Borderlands, so I knew all the characters before the movie started. Turns out, I didn’t need to as this movie is fine without prior knowledge. I liked this movie and don’t understand why it bombed so bad, but it won’t be the last movie me and the mainstream disagree on. I give this movie a 7.3

Gran Turismo 2023/ 7.8/ 135 min   Another day, another video game that I’ve played turned into a movie. A true story of gamers getting a chance to race in real cars. This one was a pleasant surprise and didn’t just seem like an advertisement for the game, although you will see a million Playstation logos.  Gran Prix is not my kind of racing, but the race scenes are well done. I can agree with this rating of 7.8.

Civil War 2024 / 6.9 / 109 min:  Picture any zombie cross country road trip movie but without the zombies. America is in a civil war and the movie is about 4 press people that you never care about, covering a civil war they never explain. Most of the movie, I just wanted all of them to die so it would end. Don’t know where that 6.9 rating came from because I gave it a solid 5.0 and felt generous doing it.

The Fall Guy  2024/ 7.1/ 127   I went into this skeptical. A movie based on a TV show I wouldn’t watch when it was on. Plus, Ryan Gossling left a horribly bad taste in my mouth when I forced myself to watch La La Land years ago to see what the hype was about. This movie had wayyyy too much love story to it, but some great stunts allowed me to power thru.  I give it a 6.6

Five Nights at Freddies 2023/ 7.5/ 110 min   Not since Freddy Got Fingered have I seen a worse movie with Freddy in the title. I have always asserted that Freddie Got Fingered was the worst movie of all time. But I got sucked in with this movie’s 7.6 rating and paid the price. Chucky Cheese gone wild. Not enough gore to be a horror movie, but a plotline so dumb it must be classified as a horror flick. I give it a 5.0 and want my two hours back.

Werewolves  2024/ 6.2/ 94 min  This is 2025 isn’t it? And you are going to tell me we still can’t make a werewolf that doesn’t look like it’s wearing a rubber mask. All this new technology and I cant get a real looking werewolf? The strobe lights in the first part of the movie almost gave me a seizure and I’m not epileptic. This movie steals its plot from the Purge movies, all you have to do is survive till morning one night a year. I wasn’t sure I’d survive the hour and a half. But I made it, and give this one 4.8

A Complete Unknown  2024/  7.8/ 140 min  Yeah, I watched it in sheistervision without subtitles. Which means I understood the dialogue about as well as I understand the lyrics to any Bob Dylan song. I’m not sure someone who wasn’t raised in the 60’s will be as enthusiastic about this movie as I was. As a songwriter, the man was amazing.  As a singer, not so much. It’s pretty long, has lots of drama, but the frequent music allowed me to power thru. I did learn that everyone in the 60’s was required to smoke.  Not sure I go as high as the mainstream, but I do give it a 7.0

Monster Summer  2024/ 6.2/  98 min     I wanted to see just how far Mel Gibson had fallen. Starring in a movie based on a recycled Scooby Doo plot, I guess that’s pretty far. And old lady Caruthers would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those damn meddling kids! The whole movie is just one big witch hunt. I’m guessing target audience is the 12 to 14. I give this a 5.4

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