Tag / Movie Review

by WetheGeek

The Mortal Engine of Aquaman

In an effort to get to new content I’m going to streamline a few of my reviews. The first set of reviews are for Mortal Engines and Aquaman.

Mortal Engines

While super pretty it left me wanting a lot more. It didn’t wow me and obviously I wasn’t the only one. It hasn’t made much since its opening and kinda rightly so. It came out at the wrong time of year behind giants like Spiderverse and Aquaman. I would recommend waiting till it comes out on Netflix instead of paying for it.

I give it a 4/10 ☹️

Aquaman

It’s DC and that pretty much says it all. It wasn’t terrible I’ll admit. I had fun. But it wasn’t great either. The tone was all over the place, Black Manta was a major disappointment, and it was extremely predictable. It was another movie that left me wanting more. I’m sad DC didn’t have another Wonder Woman level hit. But then again DC just hasn’t cracked the code yet.

I give it a 6/10 😐

I’ll see you geeks and nerds later!

-RytheGeek

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by WetheGeek

Marry Poppins still delightful

Mary Poppins Returns

I grew up in a house where you loved Mary Poppins or you were banished out into the cold abyss never to return again. So needless to say I was skeptical about how good it could be. I knew the cast was amazing but were they going to be THAT amazing. I was pleasantly surprised.

Sure it is very clear that Disney wants to cram as much of the nostalgia without doing a complete redo of the first movie (instead of kites we fly balloons. Instead of chimney sweeps being the lower class aide whom assists us on our way home its gas lamp lighters….they even tap dance too). But it was done in such a way that felt fresh and nostalgic- a weird combo that could only be done by Disney.

Lastly do NOT let anyone tell you that Emily Blunt is not a superstar Mary because they’re just sad and wrong. She is easily the best part of the movie and Disney’s best choice in the recreation.

All in all a solid B. Great choice for a family or a person wanting to relive their childhood.

-Luna

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by WetheGeek

Wrecking a path into our Hearts…again

The other day I watched “Ralph Breaks the Internet.” I had no expectations for it and thought it had a deep story but very funny. The story continues 6 years after the first movie. Fix-It Felix and Sergeant Calhoun are married, Vanellope and Ralph are still best friends, but now Vanellope’s game Sugar Rush is broke. So Ralph and Vanellope must travel to the Internet by a Wi-Fi router in search for the game part. Along the way, they come across a more violent racing game called Slaughter Race in which Vanellope falls in love with. Will Vanellope go back to her game or stay with Slaughter Race? Will Ralph be emotionally okay with the possibility of not seeing Vanellope every day? Well, you’ll just have to watch the movie and find out!

As a whole, I thought the movie was cute and pretty funny at parts. The princess scene that we saw in the trailers seemed out of place to me and kind of unnecessary. Warning: Because Vanellope met the princesses, that means she has to find her heart’s song which leads to her singing. However, there is a scene where Ralph and Vanellope bid on the game part and that part was one of my favorites. Overall, it was definitely a good movie. I went in with little expectations and was amused. Oh, and if by the end of the movie you were thinking they showed a scene in the trailer that wasn’t in the movie, keep watch till after the credits 😉

~MKAmethyst

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by WetheGeek

Harry Potter and the Crimes of JK

Crimes of Grindelwald, as a giant crazy potter head, was quite simply lack luster. Nothing annoys me more than when a whole movie is written as a two hour long trailer for the next film. That is what I got out of this film. I appreciate what this series is trying to do. It knows that me and my peers who loved the world of Hogwarts are adults and can handle mature themes. And it does grapple with them well. How much should we hide who we are? What are things that are appropriate to do for love? These questions were done well even if it was surface level. But most of the questions should have been dealt with better. Honestly it was mainly a C+ movie but we all already know we’re going to see the next one because it’s Harry Potter. Let’s be honest.

I will say it was also a beautiful film to watch. As always the special effects only have gotten better and it truly makes the viewer believe in magic.

But from here on we spoil so stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet. The last two seconds drop a bomb that spoils all the knowledge already set up. Dumbledore has another brother. And I want to forget that this is even a part of the film. It’s pointless but it also destroys cannon that exists. Nothing can annoy me more. There is nothing lazier as a writer to just change the world you created. Because the only reason you do that is you’re too lazy to fix an actual solution within created parameters. It’s upsetting. So if that is not resolved by the next film, Harry Potter will have a lot of upset fans they’ll need to remedy.

-Luna

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by WetheGeek

The monster under your bed?

I just recently watched “The Babadook”

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Let me say that you should never go into a movie thinking you already know the outcome of it.

I had asked the internet if they could provide me with their favorite Halloween movies for and this was the movie that one person had put up. When I think of Halloween movies, I think of Monster movies or plots about curses or something creepy happening to the main characters. So, there was a major bit of confusion on my part when going into this movie that’s about personifying depression.

Plot:

A mother and her son try to live normal lives. The mother had lost her husband to a crash when her son was born and it’s rolling to that time of the year again. One night, her son chooses a book called “The Babadook”. The book talks about the Babadook and how he enters into your life and he’ll only get stronger the more you deny he’s there. Suddenly, after reading the book, her son claims he keeps seeing the Babadook around.

Honestly, the only reason why I didn’t like the movie as much was because for the first half of the movie I was expecting monster lore, only to realize that the monster was already known to me. One of the things that I enjoyed (once I got over my confusion) was the way that they edited the music to match the mother’s thoughts: crescendoing as her thoughts become more chaotic and then suddenly crashing into silence as her reasoning puts her back into her fake normalcy. I don’t think that the movie was a really deep dive into depression but it is a good idea into how you can interpret it into a tangible monster.

I don’t think that I’ll be watching it again any time soon but I would like to rewatch it with the knowledge I have now and not the “Monster movie” idea in my head.

-Mabel

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by WetheGeek

Boo

I just recently watched Hocus Pocus

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I have always heard about the movie, how it is a “much watch” around the Halloween season but I never got around to watching it.

It was as I expected it to be:

A 90’s comedy film. Poor CGI and corny jokes

I’m not mad at it, though what I did do throughout almost the entire film was say “They put that in a Children’s film?!?”

I had TOTALLY forgotten that PG and G meant something different back then then it does now (in my opinion). I was just surprised when they showed the witches in actual nooses, taked about virginity, described ingrediants, and had that one witch who wanted to “play” with children, to name a few thing that made me think “Huh….”

-Mabel

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by WetheGeek

The Crow strikes again

I just recently watched The Crow.

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This movie had been on my watch list for a long time. I don’t really remember why I first santed to watch it but it was probably because of how people keep switching Heath Ledger’s death (cardic arrest via drugs) and Brandon Lee’s death (accident on set), probably because the two characters have pretty similer looks.

The Crow is about a young man who was killed when a bunch of thugs raided his house and defiled his bride-to-be. A few years later, a crow gives him the power to take revenge on the people who wronged him and his lover.

I guess you would call him a “hero”, or at the very least an antihero. He does do an awful lot of killing during this movie. It was a decent movie to watch, pretty basic in it’s plot, you could check out for a few minutes and still get a basic idea of what was happening. It is set on Halloween so if you’re looking for a Halloween movie, not a bad choice.

It is rated R for a reason:

Gore, drug usage, violence, swears, nudity, graphic content

-Mabel

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by WetheGeek

Over the Wall we go

I just watched “Over the Garden Wall”

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I had actually known about this series for a long time, a girl friend of mine had sat me down to watch the first two episodes with her maybe a year back. We did plan to watch the rest together but Korean dramas soon took over and we forgot about it. It wasn’t until a recently when my sister threw a party just for the explicit reason of watching the series because, for her, this is her must watch Halloween “movie”.

The series itself is about two brothers, Wart (the worrying philosopher) and Greg (happy-go-lucky singer), who want to find their way back home. Along the way, they meet interesting creatures and people and thus insues a mini conflict and resolve for each episodes. It kind of reminds me of Gravity Falls, but with a grittier character design.

It is a series that makes you say “Wait… What…?” multiple times. Some jokes you see coming from a mile away while others Jack-in-the-box you in the face. There are random moments that happen during one episode the come back later in a different episode to make sense.

The part I really enjoyed was when my sister took the opportunity when we were done watching to look up a YouTube video on 15 facts about Over the Garden Wall. I had no idea that famous actors like Tom Curry and Elijah Wood voiced characters in it. It also was apparently in production since 2004, which is incredible dedication on such a short miniseries.

I will probably have to rewatch it again at some point, it’s one of those series that things make a bit more sense once you see the end.

-Mabel

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by WetheGeek

Pixverse Part 6: Monsters, Witches, and Time travel! Oh my!

The Pixverse ends (currently) with Monsters University and Monsters Inc. After humanities final extinction and the demise of the robots earth is abandoned. Except for the animals. They have been there the entire time. Struggling to survive on a forsaken planet. With out the pollution from the robots and humans life can return to normal. Bugs are the first creatures to emerge as we see in A Bugs Life. They are much more intelligent and creative then we last saw in Finding Dory. They have entire societies and inventions. Eventually these bugs become bigger and we get the mostest we see in Monsters U and Monsters inc.

But those Monsters do one important thing. Time travel. The doors they use to scare kids are time portals. They go back in time to scare children.

Boo sees this as a child. She is one of only a few kids to see this. Riley from Inside Out also saw a monster (Bing Bong) but like most kids she thought she made him up. Boo on the other hand was convinced that her “Kitty” was real. She would spend the rest of her life searching for Sully.

How do we know this? Because Boo is the witch from Brave. The old lady who uses doors to create new houses? Sound familiar?

But how did she end up in the 10th century? Great question. Boo either helped create portals with the government or made them herself in her adult life. I lean towards helping the government. Why? We see simple portals used a lot in the second Incredibles movie. That is part of Jack Jack and Voyd’s powers. You see them use simple visual teleportation.

Before the supers went extinct the government (more accurately probably Buy n Large) discovered how to recreate this teleportation. Boo helped perfect the science and then stole it to find Sully.

She uses the teleportation door to accidentally go back in time instead of forwards. She spends her life going the wrong direction from Sully and leaves Easter eggs all throughout time (and the Pixar movies) for him to find her. In the end she finds the start of magic. Which is during the time of Brave. But sadly we never know if she found Sully again.

It has been a long six weeks going through the Pixverse. But we can summarize it really quick.

Everything is Boos fault. She used time travel and created hints and clues and used science in Times she shouldn’t have. Her science and technology (magic according to Brave) created a butterfly effect that would destroy humanity. The entire Pixverse is all Boos fault.

-RytheGeek

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by WetheGeek

Venom: Turd in the Wind or Surprisingly Sweet?

Venom

I was wrong. The critics are wrong. Every opinion I had about this movie was wrong.

When I walked in I was prepared to hate it. I didn’t pay for 3D or a huge screen, just normal movie tickets for my girlfriend and I. I had already been apologizing to her because I was sure this was going to be a crap shoot. Nothing even remotely interesting and probably pretty gross.

I was wrong.

**Spoilers**

Venom is a fun and interesting movie. It doesn’t throw a twist like Infinity War (or honestly any superhero movie since Dark Knight) but that doesn’t mean it was bad. Yeah I thought the predictability would bore me and because it was PG-13 I would be disappointed. I wasn’t. It did follow a pretty linear plot and that in of itself would be dull. But Sony did something that surprised me and worked really well.

Venom, the symbiote, was funny.

Surprising to say the least. The symbiote was the unexpected comic relief of the movie. It was aggressive and dark but also extremely humorous and polite. I enjoyed the banter between Venom and Eddie Brock more then anything. It was fun to watch the dynamic. They play off of each other and in many ways come to a fun understanding of what it’s like to be a crazed hungry human alien hybrid. There is one particular scene when Brock is being chased by the villains that the symbiote politely moves two cars aside so that Brock can escape. He didn’t flip the cars (like I expected), just politely moved them aside. The symbiote cared a lot more about not only Eddie but also most of humanity a lot more than I thought it would.

I really enjoyed Venom. Was it perfect? No. Was is predictable? Yes.

But it was fun.

Venom gets a solid 8/10 😃

-RytheGeek