Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

Sully

Entertaining enough if Clint’s direction is as basic as it gets but it works and it’s a solid 90 minute watch.
3/5

Shang Chi and the ten rings

First trip to the cinema since Covid began \o/. New dune and bond trailers/hype as wetted my appetite so thought I start going back now. Cinema was about a third full so plenty of space and felt quite comfortable.

As for the film, A mixed bag for me. Someone mentioned above liking this more than Black Panther but I felt the other way. The fighting in this is outstanding, really liked the score and sometimes it looks great too. Also appreciate they tried to do the full martial arts epic too. There is a lot to like about the film.. Just, I felt at times it was a little obnoxious especially when it didn’t need to be. It kinda of leans into hero and crouching tiger whilst also leaning to modem American comedies and obvious merchandising opportunities. The film has been praised by a lot of people for this, and some stuff is quite funny and good fun but at times it felt a little tonally awkward.

3.5/5 Provably just about scrapes into second tier marvel for me. Maybe a high 3.

The Predator

It's that bad I had to stop myself from laughing. The fact it uses the theme from the original film is an insult.

Saw Shang-Chi last night - first cinema visit since March 2020, whoop!

Film was great. First 90 minutes feel like a refreshingly different take on Marvel: Shang-Chi feels a lot more down-to-earth, his vibe with his friend Katy is fun & frothy; it almost plays like an Ant-Man film, except there's typically angsty familial stuff going on, and of course lots of really insane fights. There are some incredibly set-pieces, although probably the best one is the first big action scene on a runaway bus.

Unfortunately it does go a bit OTT at the end with huge CGI spectacle that unfortunately obscures some of the choreography and takes away from the humanity a little bit. In a similar way to Wonder Woman, if you've seen that; excellent film that feels a little bit different, but then just has to have the craziest, biggest FX showdown at the end.

Anyway, overall I really liked it and I can't wait to see more Shang-Chi in the MCU.

Doesn’t bode well when GOTG is already down the Marvel pecking order for me. I liked the sequel more.

Monster Hunter - 2/10

I've seen some proper turds this year so far but this is one almighty, monster sized one. I thought it was be a bit of light-hearted fun. A bit of a romp. I even like a few of the Resident Evil films director Paul W.S. Anderson did but the last one was utter shite and I didn't think he could do any worse. I was wrong.

He just seems to do three things with the camera in this film. Orbits, zooms and slow-motion. Constantly. They can be really cool but when you see them for what seems like thirty of so times, it's excruciating. He's just trying to hide how utterly shallow and crap this film is but doing the shiny shiny thing. It doesn't work.

I've never played any of the Monster Hunter games but they can't be this boring. I imagine that after all these years the franchise has a deep, rich and dare I suggest an interesting history to pick from. Instead what we get is shoot things with arrows and big guns. Over and over.

The only thing I got out of this is that if you ever get teleported to another world, make sure you have a Hershey chocolate bar with you. If shared with your adversary it'll prove that you are a caring, smart, intelligent person and will forge alliances that were previously not thought possible. There's one slight problem with this plan in reality though. Hershey "chocolate" tastes like the most venomous, vile shit that the most evil of monsters could only drop out of it's evil asshole or assholes (depending on how many it has)! Probably. Disgusting stuff.

Anyway, I digress. To give the film some credit, it looks as though there's been a fair amount of money sent on the effects and the creature designs are impressive. I assume they've been taken from the game.

Bottom line? The film is the same quality of a Hershey bar. I assume Hotel Chocolat were not interested. 

He's not exactly wrong with the score. It's a fucking awful film that I gave up on after half an hour.

Hershey's also famously taste like sick, the score is accurate

I thought it was because it was meant as a last resort food ration and if it'd tasted good soldiers would have eaten it all at once?

Yeah Hershey’s is the absolute worst.

The Informer

I do like the lead, and I'd happily watch him in more things. This isn't a great film, but solid enough. Everyone is fine, and the story unfolds at a reasonable pace. A small point, but I appreciated that the fights weren't between super ninjas and that it actually took time to choke someone out.

6/10

Does it mention that the chocolate tastes exactly like sick?

Adam Ragusea, who BTW does fantastic informative Food/History YT vids had one on this 


www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adam+ragusea+hershey+

I remember a student gave me a big bar as a thank you gift once, I'd never had one before and was excited to try one. I managed one square before washing out the taste with some juice. Truly terrible.

Wrong Turn (the new one) - 7/10
Much better than it has any right to be, I think linking it to a crap franchise was the wrong move as its a good film in its own right and not just for the genre. Go in with an open mind and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Some decent actors in it too

Spiderman Far from Home - 6/10
2nd viewing as I couldn't really remember any of it and the new one is out soonish. Yeah its not great, it ticks all the right boxes but something is missing. Also I'm sick to death of the Tony Stark love in, to be honest I was sick of his character by Age of Ultron.
Gyllenhaal is brilliant in this though, its a shame he wasn't in a better film