Stars: 4.5/5 ⭐️This was actually a pretty good rom-com, where when there is the breakup between the characters feels real, more or less, or maybe I've just lowered my standards for those parts of the movie. But, to step back for a second, this movie is about Asha, played by Pallavi Sharda, and I thought that her name was Aisha for like two minutes, cause that's what I kept hearing, but Asha used to work on Wall Street, I'm pretty sure, but now works for a company that gets grants and loans, and distributes them to people that could really use them. And her whole professional arc is about her selling a big deal. However, on the personal side, it's wedding season, which just means that there are a lot of weddings back to back, and her parents, specifically her mom wants her to be coupled up, so she decides to go on this date with Ravi, played by Suraj Sharma, a guy who went to MIT at 16, and now works for a start-up, or so he says. They're not exactly fond of each other when they first meet, but when they see each other at a wedding, they decide to fake date, so their parents don't keep throwing them at people, and they can keep all these people off their back. But, pretty soon, they realize that they like each other, and the best part about that is I like the characters, so I like seeing them together. And their initial meeting where they don't vibe, there isn't spite there, it's just that they don't vibe together, but as they get to know each other, they realize that they like each other. But then, there's a twist, so not only does Ravi work for a startup, but he's also a DJ, and is pretty famous on at that, where he's done some big parties. We also get the sense that he is rich, cause Asha overhears him place a big order of food from his dad's restaurant, and then we learn that he does that on occasion, not telling his dad, cause it seems his dad wouldn't accept his money, and the food goes to like homeless shelters or low-income families, and it's genuinely super wholesome. But then we get to the second act break, where the two break up. Asha nails her presentation in such a massive way that she gets a promotion over her boss, where she's offered a senior position in her company's headquarters in London, and she texts her sister, Priya, that she has big news, but the parents think that Asha and Ravi are engaged, so the parents wait for the two to come home, and they celebrate, but there's no reason, and secrets get out, with Ravi saying if they did get married, he has something to tell Asha. He did go to MIT at 16, but then he dropped out because he was 16, he didn't know what to do, and he never went back to finish college. However, he is doing an amazing job as a DJ and turns out that he did work for a startup, kinda. He DJ'ed some parties at Facebook during its inception, and they didn't have any money to pay him, so they just gave him stock instead, so he's like super-rich from the stock. Asha is pissed that he never came clean to her, until now, and is even more pissed because turns out the same name that he uses to get orders from his dad's restaurant, he used the fake name to donate to Asha's cause, which she didn't need him to do. But then they get back together at Priya's wedding, which if I was Priya, and people were declaring love speeches at my wedding, I would be mad. My wedding is about me, not them, so Priya is a great person for that. And so, Asha is about to go to London for her promotion, which she wasn't sure about, and since Ravi is a DJ, he is able to join her. Which is what I love about this movie, is that it is a feel-good movie where the characters are likable, and as I talked about before in my review for The Royal Treatment, there isn't any time spent on Asha nor Ravi being quirky so they seem unique, but just focusing more on making them kind people. So, this is a great rom-com movie, and I highly recommend it if you're into rom-coms, or if you just want a feel-good movie.
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Stars: 3/5 ⭐️So, I don't know why people liked this movie, because the characters should have not ended up together, because they have some issues. So, it follows Ben, played by Jack Quaid, and Alice, played by Maya Erskine, who are friends from college, having been friends for over a decade, decide to be each other's plus one's to the marathon of weddings, and after spending a lot of time together, they decide to start dating, however, they both have their inter and intrapersonal issues. Like, for Ben, which I would just like to say, why is Jack Quaid typecast as a loser human, to put it bluntly in all his stuff? Except in Scream 2022, but he was a loser for a different reason, but people always rip on his characters, and I don't know, I don't like it. But back to his issues, Ben believes in the one, because his father has been through two marriages and is trying for his third, and Ben grew up on the idea that he wanted to get straight to the marriage that would definitively last, which obviously there is no definitive way to tell that, which is what he learns throughout the movie. Ben also likes to project issues onto people's he's dating, and constantly questions if the person that he is with is the one, where he will implode a relationship out of fear of I'm assuming him getting hurt, it's never fully explained, because he does this with Alice obviously, but he says that it's more about how he doesn't want to be like her ex, but then again that could just be him deflecting from his own issues, and placing blame on other people in a sense. But, now with Alice, it's never fully explained her issues, even though she has them, as this is from Ben's point of view throughout the movie, but the most obvious place that we can look for issues is her parents, which have a tragic story. They didn't want to subject their kids to a divorce, so they decided to stay together, even though they have not been happy with each other for a long long time, and I think there are two things that Alice has internalized from her parents. One, masking her feelings with jokes, slights, and insults. Every time there's something wrong, she'll always tee up a joke usually at the expense of Ben. This is the other issue, she likes to take jabs at Ben, her boyfriend, and I don't see how he could continuously take that, because she can be mean sometimes, however, I think as I stated before, it's to hide her emotions. And here's the thing, I love that they have real issues, like normal humans, it makes them feel more human, the actors themselves are great, but the thing is, they never really work on their issues throughout the movie. Ben just learns a lesson at the end, which I guess is how people are, but it feels rushed, and we don't understand why Alice takes him back, because, yes, he's sad that he hurt her, and she's sad she got hurt, but it's not like he's somehow shown growth between the time they break it off, and he gets back with her, except that he can tell her that he loves her and before he wasn't sure how he felt about her, so that might be the change that she's looking for because she needs to be in a happy loving relationship, unlike her parents. But, in all, Plus One is almost like a grimmer take on rom-com with all the insults and slights and baggage throughout this movie, where the characters are hard to like sometimes. Stars: 4/5 ⭐️So, there's a lot of discourse online about the plot of this movie, and what it's really about, but since this is my review, this movie is about a man, Pete, played by Tom Stourton, who meets up with his friends, Fig, played by Georgina Campbell, Claire, played by Antonia Clarke, George, played by Joshua McGuire, Archie, played by Graham Dickson, and some random dude, Harry, played by Dustin Demri-Burns, that Pete's friends picked up at a bar, all for what was supposed to be a relaxing birthday celebration weekend for his 31st birthday, but it is anything but. It first starts with Pete getting to this mansion in the middle of the woods, in the middle of the day for his friends not to show up until the night, having gotten there before him, then gone to the pub, but never texting him that they did that, but only leaving a note, which like why? Also, they should have put it on the front door, which they did not. But then for the proceeding days, chaos ensues, where his friends are just straight up mean to him. They get mad at him, because he wants to propose to his girlfriend, and one of his friends who has liked him for some time, seemed upset, and people are saying that he was rubbing it in her face, or something to that effect, which we later learn, firstly, she guessed it, and secondly, she was never mad, although she leaves the day after hearing about the engagement, saying that she was having lunch with her aunt, however, she never leaves a note either, and the group gaslights Pete about how he made Claire super sad or mad or something. Which is worsened by the fact that Fig confronts Pete saying that he's doing a bad job, and he's being a bit crap. The next day just gets worse though, as Pete has a sneaking suspicion that Harry is out to get him, and with Claire leaving, Pete is at the mercy of his friends, where they just drive off without him to a pub, so he has to go walk to said pub with Harry, which he really doesn't like because Harry is doing everything to get on Pete's nerves. It gets to the point where Pete tells him to leave him alone, and Pee goes to find the pub himself. However, when he does, Harry literally chases him with an ax into the pub, which is just a prank, which is not a prank, that's just straight-up mean. But finally, they get home, but then go shooting, which again Pete is crapped all over on because he says he can't shoot for the life of himself, but then everyone gets mad when he does what he says, saying how it takes time to organize this stuff, and how much money it all costs, but he enjoyed himself, and that should be what matters right? It seems not. But then he gets home, and finally, his girlfriend comes to join them, and finally, finally, Pete loosens up, where he actually has a good time, and his friends are actually nice to him, but then there's an almost twist at the end. The friends, but really are they, do a roast of Pete, where they just take shots at him more or less, and he doesn't look like he's having a good time, and they tell him to reveal his deep dark secret, which he does, and that shocks everyone because that wasn't the secret they were referring to. The guy from the pub, is actually from Pete's past, but it was from one night, one party, and they kinda dunking on him for not remembering, but then he calls them out for being mean, but they say that he can't take a joke. Which seems to be the premise of the movie, but the thing is, there are times where they are just straight up horrible to Pete, and it's never followed by it's just a joke, or it's a joking manner, except after Pete gets freak out, such as the ax incident. I think the movie is summed up best by Pete when he tells his girlfriend that over the last decade, it doesn't seem like they matured as much as he would hope, because at the beginning he's asking what Claire does, and he's chastised for it, but then at the end, the friends turn on him and ask him if he knows what they do, although they literally said at the beginning of the weekend no work talk. So this movie is a movie that you could look at from many different sides, but from my side, Pete's friends are not his friends, they are mean and cruel, and like to make him feel horrible, for no reason, but Pete is a pretty good guy, although yes, he can be self-absorbed at times for sure. Stars: 4.5/5 ⭐️I'd say this movie is one of the closest that captures internet culture in a sharp savage way. Following Danni Sanders, played by Zoey Deutch, she, to get this guy Colin, played by Dylan O'Brien, attention, she fakes going to Paris for a writers retreat, especially since she wants become a writer. However then there is a bombing in Paris, and so her parents are super horrified and are scared for her, and so she fakes going to Paris for her parents, but then it gets worse, when she joins them at the airport, cause she's going to fake that too, there's a photographer, and they get all these photos of her, and then she sees and makes sure that her face is seen. Then from there, those photos become famous, and she becomes famous by association, after saying that that was her, but now she must continue her faking a terrorist attack, and the way she does that is she goes to group therapy, where she meets Rowan, played by Mia Issac, who is a gun violence activist, who has about 600k followers on Instagram, so Danni latches to her, although it's kinda weird, since Danni is like maybe 25 or something, and Rowan is 17, still in high school. So, throughout the movie, Danni gets closer and closer with Rowan, but there's someone out to get Danni, Harper, played by Nadia Alexander, who's picking up on all these clues about Danni, and it's not really a spoiler, but by the end, Danni is exposed, and we see that in the opening scene, and the movie is about how we got there. So, one of the things that I loved about this movie was the dated, and current mix of pop culture. Danni wears chunky rings, has like a candy bracelet thing for her iPhone, and does the hand over her head, kinda, I'm embarrassing thing. You know what I'm talking about right? And she also does the shy tapping two fingers thing, which is just so cringy, but it works here. Especially since it's mixed with talking about TikTok, and the importance of proper social media activism, because it makes it feel current, and Danni is just behind on the trend. Also, there are a good amount of real influencers in this, like BestDressed, Smokey Glow, and Reece aka Guy with a Camera, and I guess he also actually worked on this film, so props to him. This film also gets into a lot of topics, and one of the main ones is privilege, white feminism, and how people will do anything to seem a victim, even faking being in a terrorist attack, which is followed by a subtle examination of privilege, of how nobody fact-checked her, as she was a white woman in distress. It also deals with how two-faced the internet is because as she gets more and more famous, people are praising her, and getting on her side, and stuff, but as soon as she falls, she's ripped apart. She's doxxed, everyone says that she's the fakest person alive, which they're not wrong about, but they also send death threats, showing no ounce of remorse, which she might not deserve redemption, but the remorselessness of the internet is more telling of the others than her. But what I love most about it, is how it deals with trauma, which is amazing, while also kinda critiquing it, all in the #IAmNotOkay trend that happens in the movie, where it seems to be calling out fake wokiness around mental health, but also showing how people who are actually going through it have multifaceted struggles with it, especially seen in Rowan as she has a trauma trigger, as someone messes with her, and she seems to have a PTSD induced panic attack and then talks about how people will rip her to shreds for that. This is where we see the first time we see an uncurated response from Danni, and it seems like what she's gotten herself into is bigger than she realized. And the way that the main character navigates as well, where from the onset you aren't supposed to like her, because she's faking being in a terrorist attack, but the way that the movie moves, she's the hero in a sense, or at the protagonist, and Harper, the one who's going to expose her is the villain, which I thought was an interesting way of how we can be disillusioned in our own reality. So, to conclude, Not Okay I think is a great film about mental health, internet culture, and how sometimes, some people don't deserve a reception arc for their actions. Stars: 4/5 ⭐️So, I understand why critics gave this like a fifty while the audience gave it a 90, and they're both right for giving the scores because although The Gray Man is a great action flick, the emotional bits kinda get lost in the shuffle. But let me fully explain the movie, it's about Six, played by Ryan Gosling, who's hunted down by the CIA, specifically, this guy Denny Carmichael, played by Regé-Jean Page, and this sociopathic assassin Lloyd Hansen, played by Chris Evans, as they try to retrieve data that Six got that would expose Denny as a corrupt man. And so, Lloyd is kinda the most dangerous man in the game, because he has no morals or ethics, or anything, he does what he wants, when he wants, and he doesn't care if it hurts people, to the point that it seems like he enjoys it when it does hurt other people. So, as Six is getting hunted down, he teams up with Dani Miranda, played by Ana de Armas, who's his handler, whom neither of them has met prior, but they team up because Lloyd kidnaps Donald Fitzroy, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and his niece, Claire, played by Julia Butters, and tortures them to find out where Six is since Donald and Six have a father-son type of relationship, that's actually healthy, as we learn that Six killed his dad when he was young because his dad would abuse him and his brother, and Donald was kind, and caring, and gave Six a purpose. So, now Six and Dani are going to save and retrieve Claire and Donald, while Lloyd is going in guns blazing to murder him. Now, that seems very basic, and yes, the premise is, but the execution of the action sequences, combined with having a sleuth of stellar actors made this a fun watch. All the action scenes were turned up to a ten, where yes there were quick cuts throughout the movie, but also sometimes that would be because a lot was happening in a scene, for example when Six has to fight a group of men in a crashing airplane, so, yeah, crazy. However, when you peel back the layers to get to the emotional side, there isn't much there, and I think it's just because they didn't have enough time. There are 464 pages in the book that the movie is based on, and I would hope they go into more detail about Six's past because we only get two scenes kinda dissecting his past. One where it's like maybe 15 minutes of Six and Claire, where Six takes care of her while Donald goes on a mission, and the other being right when Six is almost about to die, we see how his dad would abuse him. However, for a man who has really no family, no home, not even a real name, you would think there is much more going on under the surface, however, that's thrown aside for flashy action sequences, which I will say are shot beautifully. The lighting and the cinematography are great, where the camera will literally weave throughout a scene, where it's like a targeting missile getting to whomever it needs to focus on, with the lighting making the cinematography even more cinematic. So, the Gray Man isn't a terrible film, in fact, I thoroughly enjoyed the film, it's just that there won't be that much emotion discussed throughout the movie, but I don't think anyone was going into this movie expecting or even wanting that. Stars: 5/5 ⭐️So, this was surprisingly darker than any of the episodes of Bob's Burgers, but I still loved it, because it was able to keep its light and optimistic tone throughout the movie. And for those uninitiated, The Bob's Burgers Movie is a movie spin-off/continuation, since it will lead the show into season 22, about a family named the Belchers, where there's Bob, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, Linda, voiced by John Roberts, Gene, voiced by Eugene Mirman, Louise, voiced by Kristen Schaal, and Tina voiced by Dan Mintz, and they all work in their family restaurant Bob's Burgers. But the premise of this movie, which has been led up to in season 21 is that there is a giant sinkhole that opens up right in front of the entrances of the restaurant, and to make matters worse, Louise goes into the sinkhole and finds a dead body, so now the kids decide to solve the murder, so their landlord, who's convicted of the crime, doesn't go to jail, so Bob and Linda don't have to pay rent, so they can pay back the bank, or they might lose their house since their apartment is above the restaurant, very much big city vibes in that regard, where they live by the waterside, in an unnamed town, but it very closely resembles San Francisco in my opinion. But back to the movie, while the kids try to solve the murder, Bob and Linda have to get creative when it comes to selling burgers, and they work with their friend, Teddy, voiced by Larry Murphy, where they decide to sell burgers down at Wonder Wharf, which is like Pier 39 in San Francisco. There's lots of drama that happens between the two storylines, but then the parents' and the kids' stories collide when the kids solve the murder, it gets really interesting because the family must work together to escape a murderer. Yes, a murderer, not a typical Bob's Burgers episode at all, however, what was typical, and hilarious was when the Belcher family was being held captive, they all sing about how they were feeling. Also, I should say, this show is a semi-musical show. It's not like every episode has a song, but maybe like 25 to 33 percent do, and sometimes the songs don't work, sometimes they do, as they're all comedic songs, but also in line with the plot, the movies songs were incredible, where they just worked on all levels, from musical composition to lyrics, to the situations the characters were in, and the absurdity it is to sing in those situations. Also, the animation is just next level, compared to the tv show, but that makes sense since this movie definitely got a bigger budget, however, if you're used to watching Bob's Burgers in the normal tv format, you might not like that it's the movie format, which makes sense, but since this is like an extended Bob's Burgers episode, it gets some getting used to. But what the movie set up for the 22nd season, I've very excited, because hopefully, it will lead into summer, where some series long plot lines like Tina trying to get with her crush, Jimmy Jr. voiced also by H. Jon Benjamin, finally having them possibly get together. There really aren't any other big ones, except for actually the opening credit sequence, as it starts with the re-re-re opening of the restaurant, and since the restaurant gets closed because of a sinkhole, it will now be the re-re-re-re opening of the restaurant. So, in all, The Bob's Burgers Movie is spectacular, and you will especially love it if you like the show. It's a family friend for sure, but the comedy is so sharp, with its one lines and physical gags, that it will have everyone in the family laughing for sure. Stars: 3.5/5 ⭐️So, I reviewed the first one a while back, and when I saw I could finally watch the new one, I was quite excited, because it has some people that I loved. Obviously, it had Zoey, played by Taylor Russell, and Ben, played by Logan Miller from the first movie, where they must solve their way through the rooms, but here we meet other people who have also escaped their rooms. So, there is Rachel, played by Holland Taylor, Brianna, played by Indya Moore, Nate, played by Thomas Cocquerel, and Theo, played by Carlito Olivero, although we actually never learn Theo's name because he dies very early on. And for a quick explanation, this movie is about a group of people trapped in an escape room, that's deadly, and it's kinda like a Squid Game thing where rich people watch the players try to survive the room. So, while the first one felt very quick with a lot of material, this movie felt like it needed to pad its run time, and although the twists in this movie were great, I cannot forgive it for padding the run time, because it felt a little stupid. Also, how the rooms are set up, just like the last one, these people are geniuses, because I don't think I would ever be able to solve one of the rooms, although then again there are 6 people in the game, and there is only one of me, but the thing is, with the rooms they were telling a story that none of our main characters knew. This is compared to the last one where each room was designed around a specific person, which was very helpful for exposition for the characters, whereas in this movie, we didn't know who really these people were, except for the clunky exposition they gave. But the thing that seemed the craziest was how they got all the people in one place, and that was how they got them all in one subway car in New York. Like, what are the odds that they're the only ones in the car, and there's nobody else? Impossible, especially because they were near where crowds were, so you would think there would be more people in the car. It just felt very lazy how the writers set this up, but obviously, there was no other way to get them all, since the only characters who wanted to go against Minos are our two main characters. However, there are points for this movie when it comes to the cinematography, and lighting of the scenes, and they some similar pallets to the Suicide Squad movie of 2018, where there were lots of neons used in this movie, and obviously the set design in this movie was top-notch, and they really brought it up a notch compared to the last one, where the rooms felt bigger and more detailed. The twist was also well done, and it made the movie even more twisted than it was before, so it makes me wonder what the third movie will be like, if they do even get a third movie, which I'm not exactly sure how they will deal with everything, as we learn in the end, FBI and Interpol have been after Minos for some time, but at the end of the first movie, Ben and Zoey couldn't go to anyone because they were seen as crazy people. So, the way that the third movie is set up was well done, because it was alluded to in the first movie, but I don't even know that I would want to see a third film, because the first two are very similar, and I feel a third movie that is so different would break the aesthetic of the film. Stars: 4/5 ⭐️So, Father of the Bride is a self-explanatory movie, as the movie is about the father of the bride, Billy, played by Andy Garcia, as he's getting divorced from his wife, Ingrid, played by Gloria Estefan, but they are not able to say their news yet, because their daughter, Sofia, played by Adria Arjona, beats them to the punch, saying that she got engaged and wants to have the wedding in a month, which is crazy, but it's pulled off. Also, in the beginning, Billy is trying to keep the news from Sofia, and his other daughter, Cora, played by Isabela Merced, who wants to be her own boss as a dressmaker, where she actually gets her shot doing the dresses for Sofia and the bridesmaids, which I thought was a crazy ask for someone to do in one month, cause it was like 5 unique dresses, with one of them being a wedding dress, so that's kinda crazy. Also, it seems like Cora might have been into women because there were little things about how she was talking to this woman, Vanessa, played by Ana Fabrega, throughout the movie, with Billy commenting at the wedding that he likes Vanessa, so maybe so, maybe not, but if so, I liked it, because these pieces of representation where the character's sexuality isn't their personality are good, but obviously I would love to see queer characters as the main characters, especially in these types of family-friendly movies. Also, many people agreed online that they were coded as such, so I wasn't seeing things, but for all we know the writer could just leave us on the fence about it as many filmmakers do. But then we meet the soon-to-be husband, Adán, played by Diego Boneta, who is the son of one of the richest people in Mexico, where his dad shadows Billy by a bunch, which Billy hates, since he prides himself on going from nothing to looking like he's in the one percent, and Adán's dad is like in the one percent of the one percent. Also with Adán's family, the dad has remarried someone who's like in her twenties, so very untraditional, which is exactly what Billy doesn't want. And the wedding planner is this really unconventional woman, with the stereotypical gay male sidekick, Kyler, and the two are funny enough to get away with the stereotypes going on, although the girl, Natalie, played by Chloe Fineman, leans into the stereotype of the fake woke woman, which probably happens a lot, to get more business, although she was very funny for sure. So lots of drama, and lots of conflicts, although it's all light since it's obviously a family-friendly movie, which I guess smashed at-home streaming records, or something along those lines, which makes sense because it stays in the family-friendly fun lane. Also, I haven't seen the original, but, I'm assuming the movie stays along the lines of the older one, but it probably diverges when it comes to Cuban and Mexican wedding traditions, as Billy and his family are Cuban, and Adán's family is from Mexico, which I should say is where Adán and Sofia are going after they get married, and have their honeymoon, which Billy also doesn't like, because he feels like his family is floating away from him, with the divorce, and now Sofia being in Mexico, when she was in New York, as she was attending NYU Law, then working at a law firm there, where she met Adán, as they surprisingly worked in the same building without either of them realizing it. And with moving to Mexico, Adán and Sofia plan to work at a non-profit firm, which Sofia wanted to do because she wanted to help people, although Billy thought it was Adán who wanted to move, it was actually Sofia who wanted to move back, and Adán is just following her instead, as he loves his New York life. And there are so many complications with the wedding, with having Cora and Sofia find out about Billy and Ingrid's divorce in front of everyone, which was quite shocking, but the ending I think was great. Sofia gets the wedding that she always wanted, and the door is left open with Ingrid and Billy having accepted each other, and where they are in the state of their lives and their marriage. Stars: 4.5/5 ⭐️So, I watched this movie on a plane, because I was bored, but I'm so happy I did. Although this movie does reference a lot of stuff from previous movies, this movie is so good solo, for the sole reason of its meta-ness. In the Scream universe, there are the Stab movies, based on the murders that happen in each Scream movie, and as the movies have continued, they've gotten more and more ridiculous, but there's an important point to the Stab movies, and that's horror movie logic. But for Sam Carpenter, played by Melissa Barrera, it doesn't really matter, because Ghostface is trying to kill her younger sister, Tara, played by Jenna Ortega, and Sam won't let that happen. But for Tara's friends, Amber, played by Mikey Madison, Wes, played by Dylan Minnette, Liv, played by Sonia Ben Ammar, Mindy, played by Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Chad, played by Mason Gooding, they're following horror movie rules, which really brings out the comedy of this movie, because they'll keep ragging on each other for not following horror movie rules, like no going to the basement alone, or no splitting up. Also with this metaness, they reference how the old Scream movies have kinda gotten out of hand, and Ghostface when they're revealed, they talk about how they want to go back to basics, the original, if you will, especially since Billy Loomis, played by Skeet Ulrich, Dewey Riley, played by David Arquette, Gale Weathers, played by Courteney Cox, and Sidney Prescott, played by Neve Campbell play a semi-big part throughout the movie. Also, there was one thing that got my cackling, which was teased from the beginning which was the third act twist, where there is a twist, and it's revealed who the killer is, and when Ghostface reveals themselves, they say "Welcome to the third act bitch." then shoot someone in the face, and it was like definitional bad bitch energy because it was the mix of horrifying and hilarious, and shocking, because you're like WTF, they're the killer! But speaking of the killer there were some characters in the movie that felt that they had no point in being there, but to only get killed. Like they had no motivation, no goal, no nothing, except that they were connected to the original people in some form, which I thought was annoying at times, because they're just bodies getting ready to be slain, so that was kinda stupid to watch. But on the contrary, the characters who were important were super dynamic, and it was so fun to watch them on screen because this movie had so many twists in it, some humorous, some semi-scary. And Scream, it seems isn't really a horror movie, but more of a parody horror movie, where they kinda lead into the absurdism, because for example, a character is killed right in broad daylight by Ghostface, and nobody sees this happen? Also, when Ghostface, has a knife getting pushed near the characters' throats, they don't push the knife to the side, to get it stuck in the ground or the wall, which is what I would do, but maybe that wouldn't be able to work, I don't know, but it kinda felt silly at times. Which I think is what Scream was going for. So, I would say, although this is a franchise film, where it does seem like you might have to watch the previous movies Scream 2022 stands on its own, as a fun thrilling horror movie that will have you continuously guessing who the killer is. Stars: 4/5 ⭐️This was very good, but also not very good at the same time, and I'm not sure how to deal with that. Following The Princess, played by Joey King, she must escape her captors, and help restore balance to the kingdom, by killing this guy who wanted to marry her, and take over the throne, but when she said no, he seized the castle and locked her away. So, I thought that was her motive throughout the film, which it was, however about 50 minutes to an hour into the film, we learn that she wanted to take over the kingdom when her father passed on, because she was a skilled fighter, just like all the men in the kingdom, and she could wield the power. Also, I think her character was a lesbian, and it seems like she has a girlfriend, Linh, played by Ngô Thanh Vân who helped her train to be an expert with weaponry. Also, let me say, the actress is 43, and Joey is 22, and they look the same age, which is crazy, but back to the point, The Princess, I'm pretty sure Linh is her girlfriend, and it seems like they were going to kiss in the end, but I think it was probably taken out because straight people don't like that, or whatever. So, the Princess she's killing all these people, and really the people who should get some big props, always, but especially for this movie are stunt coordinators, and stunt actors, because there were a lot of stunts, but the way that the movie worked, it felt all real, where there wasn't like 20 cuts per second or anything, and it seemed that Joey King did a fair amount of her own stunts, which is awesome for her because that would be cool to see her in the action genre more, since she's mostly been in dramas and rom-coms, so The Process excites me to see her in Bullet Train later this year. But getting back to the movie again, there really isn't that much to say, most people have given bad reviews because there aren't that many emotional stakes in the movie, and I agree, but sometimes it's fun to just see people fight each other for ninety minutes, plus there was a lot of comedy and creativity in the fighting throughout the movie, so there never felt like there was any similar fight sequence. And that's what I liked about it. I wasn't going into this movie expecting it to be full of drama, and by the trailer, it's obvious what you should expect from this film, which makes me kinda confused where people are saying it's bad, cause I feel like it does stick to its premise, and promise from the trailer of the movie. Also, a big theme in this movie is feminism, because it's about a princess who does the saving, and she doesn't even have a male love interest, which is great, and now thinking about it, I didn't even think she would, and I'm happy it stayed that way because there are movies like that that have male love interests for no apparent reason, looking at you Elona Holmes. However, I feel like the theme is a bit on the nose sometimes, where it can feel a bit rocky, and almost like fake feminism if that makes sense. But the film is great, it's fun, action-packed, and witty, with some even describing it as the cut scenes in a medieval video game. And I still believe that The Princess and Linh are dating, or have dated, or have feelings for each other because the two actresses' chemistry was amazing, and then they did a forehead bump, wrapping their arms around each other, while everyone cheered, and if that doesn't sound like straights writing a gay film, I don't know what does. |
AuthorRyan Jones is an aspiring screenwriting, and an environmental enthusiast and activist. Archives
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