Yeah, those slow motion scenes that are about 5fps are rough.
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Nobody 2. Slightly less garbage than the first, but still garbage. Odenkirk does slightly better, but he is still a hugely expressive comedic actor in a role that is all about implacable stoicism. Nielsen is so much better than her bucket of sick of a role. The fight scenes are slightly more inventive, but this film is just as soulless as the first. The climax is equally worthless, I found myself looking at a blank wall during the ‘height’ of the action, which is nothing more than a bunch of pre-arranged traps that have less inventiveness than Home Alone. A pointless film.
Greenland, on HBO. (I don’t care what it’s named this week, it will forever be HBO to me).
Very typical disaster porn at the hands of a comet that miraculously no one saw coming. Throw in some family drama for extra plot points and some meh CGI and off we go.
An entertaining if somewhat shallow and predictable end of the world as we know it flick. Drink every time our protagonist survives an internal organ destroying shockwave if you hate yourself and your liver. 6/10.
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It’s funny, I’ve been seeing ads for Greenland 2, and I have never in my life heard of the first one.
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I was praying for the entire family to die.
Anaconda. A stupid film, but not a bad one. I’m unsure what it is exactly, but most of this mess works; Rudd isn’t afraid to look genuinely stupid, Jack Black is delightful, and Steve Zahn is a low-key comedy genius. Thandiwe Newton, in a terrible wig for some reason, is noticeably not as well-written or given the same opportunity for jokes. It lacks the genuine oddness of the original, which is not a good film, but makes up for it with some light-hearted good intentions. Predictable, but safe, mild fun.
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The Naked Gun was funnier than I thought it would be. You, of course, have to enjoy screwball comedy, but the movie was a nonstop assault of gags and many of them landed. I thought the trailers were generally awful and I didn’t think Liam Neeson was the right man for the job but he did well with the role. A pleasant surprise.
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Keeper. Decent atmosphere, but Tatiana Maslany carries almost the entire thing on her back.
Sisu: Road to Revenge. Better than the first, just very silly from the start, no fucks given.
Anatomy of a Fall. Very up itself. I liked the ambiguity, it felt real, but a lot of the courtroom dramatics felt silly.
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