Nov. 28th, 2017

ericadawn16: (Surprise)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Does it have Zac Efron?
Does it have Aubrey Plaza?

Yes? Then, I will almost always plan to watch it.

It also takes place in Hawaii which meant a Jurassic Park tour as a subplot...YES!!!

Some of it was that...Oh my gosh, I can't watch because I know something's going to go terribly wrong but it was funny. I really enjoyed it.

Also, Crisis on Earth-X are some of the best four hours of television, period. I can definitely see where the DC films are a huge disadvantage. They have to assume some of their viewers have no idea who these people are while the tv series get to assume everyone knows what's going on already.

It even has Russell Tovey. Hello, Alonso!
ericadawn16: (Curious)
Ghostbusters

How can you mess this up? Really?

The cast is awesome. It has so much potential but was just so...subpar. It took forever to get to the actual villain and while I love making fun of whiny white guys as much as the next progressive...what a weak villain! It's like being disappointed by Kylo Ren.

Of course, Chris Hemsworth is nice but they really didn't utilize him that well. I wonder how it would be now after Thor: Ragnarok. The Higgins cameo was awesome though.

Also, it is the writing because the comics with the characters are awesome.

Dammit, no, do not make Victor Garber pull a Yondu! Shh, don't bring up Jack Bristow...
ericadawn16: (GrrArghh)
Star Trek Beyond

It feels like this should have an exclamation point. Beyond!

First of all, Jaylah, I love her so fucking much. I'm not sure I could truly be happy with any sequels unless she was in it...although Saldana makes it sounds like they're done even though I really liked this one, so much better than ?Star Trek Into Darkness.

I love Beastie Boys but this film was preceded by TWO trailers that also used "Sabotage" and it was just...really? Even though it should have been awesome because it was actually a reference back to the first film. No joke about modern era music being called classical music will ever top "Toxic" in Doctor Who anyway.

I guessed the plot-twist way ahead of time and it's always disappointing when Idris Elba is the bad guy.

But Sulu gets to have a husband and child for a tiny 30 seconds or so...which is better than nothing? Are we seriously supposed to be happy about better than nothing?

So, the DC television series have awakened by slash goggles once again.
ericadawn16: (Sleeping)
I love the cast but it didn't really matter. It was filmed in the Tampa Bay area and had its US premiere at Tampa Theatre. The story was about real events in Florida, too.

Now the confession, unlike The Punisher, I recognized a lot of the places but I think I've only been to the bowling alley...and there was no minaret shot, almost unforgivable.

It was a little predictable but it was a real story concerning Pablo Escobar so...those dots are easy to connect. It was a little hard to watch when Cranston's character had to stay in his undercover persona with his family. I liked it though.
ericadawn16: (Weird)
Jason Bourne

This was supposed to be so good and I...slept through part of it.

My mom: How could you sleep through it? It was so exciting!

I mean it had twists and turns and all and I liked the guy that I didn't know then but I know now is Riz Ahmed.

(shrugs)

I know I was annoyed with the use of females. You had Julia Stiles who's had a really awesome arc through the film series where she goes from working for the enemy to helping Bourne and...and they kill her off almost immediately in this one. It pissed me off so much. It's like watching The Bourne Legacy where Oscar Isaac is killed right away.

Then, there's Alicia Vikander. I love her in basically everything she does but this makes me want to watch The Man From U.N.C.L.E. again where she was awesome AND not evil!

If they have another sequel, I hope it also has Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz.
ericadawn16: (Jubilant)
Captain Fantastic

I LOVED this film!!!

On the surface, you have Viggo Mortensen being adorable with all his on-screen children. However, his estranged wife dies from suicide. She had bipolar disorder and tried to treat it without medication by living off the grid and trying to distract herself with all the children...they have six of them. Eventually, the disorder wins.

Her funeral means that Viggo and the children have to encounter capitalism and everything that everyone else considers normal. There's plenty of discussion about whether raising the children so removed from regular society has been a form of child abuse and not prepared them to be around other people. There's lot of discussion about the pitfalls of consumerism. I'm about as left as can be and so is my mom so I really enjoyed watching all of this. There is this one part where he kind of loses it and they steal stuff from a store, that was the only part we hated.

Ben: [stops the bus to lecture his moping children] We can't go to mommy's funeral. We have to do what we're told. Some fights, you can't win. The powerful control the lives of the powerless. That's the way the world works. It's unjust and it's unfair. But that's just too damn bad. We have to shut up and accept it.
[now turning around in his seat]
Ben: Well, fuck that!
[starts the bus back up and turns on loud bag pipe music]
Kids: [all cheering]

*******************************************************************
Rellian: What kind of crazy person celebrates Noam Chomsky's birthday like it's some kind of official holiday? Why can't we celebrate Christmas like the rest of the entire world?
Ben: You would prefer to celebrate a magical fictitious elf, instead of a living humanitarian who's done so much to promote human rights and understanding?
*******************************************************************

Rellian: If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
ericadawn16: (Weird)
Suicide Squad

(sigh)

This is another film with so much potential and then...nope. I think a lot of it has to do with the Enchantress. Until Valerian I thought Cara Delevingne was a bad actress but I really liked her in Valerian so I think she has the Kristen Stewart disease...she needs a proper director to get her best talent or she gets lazy. Not that she had much to work with...Enchantress was such a stupid character in this and then, it makes me more infuriated that they wasted Enchantress which meant that Marvel couldn't use Amora so they used Hela but made Hela a combination of Amora and Angela.

UGHHH

Okay, also...Adam Beach! I was so looking forward to him in a superhero film. He's awesome just...himself. Then, there's the fact that he's First Nations, a native Canadian. Do you realize how few indigenous people are superheroes? And what happens?

He's used as the disposable character to prove that ANYONE COULD DIE!

Fuckers

I might not have been exactly fair to the film once that happened. I was that pissed. Honestly, it could have made for some great social commentary...you have a group of people seen as disposable that are almost all minorities which is often true in real life.

I didn't watch Birds of Prey, my college years were not very conducive for television watching unless I could get people to watch it with me. This was my first real live action Harley Quinn and I loved her. She's still a bit obsessed over the Joker...I ship her with Ivy. She was my favorite part even though it does annoy me that Suicide Squad is why Harley will never actually appear in a real capacity on Arrow or Gotham. NEVER

Damn

But I might re-watch it to see Hopper not being Hopper

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