Bullet Train. I didn’t know what to expect going into it really, but it turned out to be a super fun movie.
I guess Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. Sandler is known for being a buffoon but did a serviceable acting job here.
Renfield was hilarious in an Army of Darkness kind of rediculous horror way. If that’s your thing.
spoorloos
Left me horrified and speechless. Amazing Dutch movie!
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Free Guy! I had very mediocre expectations for that movie, but I ended up loving it.
I worked on it. It was really fun to work on too. I got to meet Taika Waititi at lunch one day. He introduced me to the TV show of WWDITS.
I’m not super into celebrity culture, but i’d love to hang out with Taika!
I’m not either but he is incredibly approachable and gregarious in person, so I wasn’t at all worried about him going to his people afterward and having me fired like some celebrities
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(Martin Lawrence/Jake Gyllenhaal)
might.
Yeah. I signed up for a goofy explodey movie, and got a lot more in quality and fun and heart than I expected from “Free Guy”. Even the science fiction premise details were far better researched than they needed to be.
Dune
My expectations were sky-high for Dune and they were still exceeded.
I was going to say the same. It’s a hard book to bring to the screen but damn they nailed it. The cinematography is phenomenal as well. I can’t wait for part 2! The second half of the book is definitely more suited for a movie format than the first.
I’ve genuinely been trying to understand how people like the movie so much. The first time I watched it, I thought it was bad. So I came back to it a little while later and give it a second shot. Maybe I was just in a bad mood that day? Everyone seems to love it. Nope, still bad. Even gave it a third shot a few weeks ago and it felt even worse.
I read the first 3 books a few times, but I always try to put aside the source material when it moves to a new media. And the movie seemed to me like it was just a string of barely connected scenes, tied together solely because they shared characters. It was almost entirely just book references without trying to make a story out of them. It was entirely spectacle, and they still couldn’t really get the scale right, which I think bugs me more than anything. It shows these giant buildings and ships that hint at vast crowds of people, and we only ever see a handful at a time on screen. Even “crowd” scenes are sparse. It feels like they’re trying to make Arrakis feel giant and daunting to show the difference between the expansive dessert dwarfing crowds, then realized they didn’t have the money for crowds so they just zoomed in on 4 people.
And they should have ended the story sooner. End with the climax battle and them getting to safety and save everything after for the next movie. Use that new time to actually get me invested in the characters, or the setting, or the story… anything. Make the first movie about palace intrigue as they know they’re in danger and not sure who they can trust and gaining allies. Instead, all of that got like, one scene each and only makes sense if you’ve read the book. The best thing I can say is they put a tiny bit more effort in to showing Paul using the Voice before it’s relevant to the story. So at least they cared enough about grounding that. Just not about literally anything else.
I desperately want someone to win me over and tell me what makes this a good movie. I feel like I’m missing something.
Bullet Train was fun as hell.
Edit: I just realized that I saw John Wick based on, “Hey I want to see a movie today. John Wick? No idea what this is, but if it’s in IMAX it might be fun!”
It was.
I just finished Host last night.
I had low expectations because of the Zoom format of the movie. I expected it to be real cheesy and low quality.
But man, I was blown away. The Zoom video chat made the whole thing feel more real and once the scares started, they really didn’t stop. It’s only a 50 minute runtime, so it’s short and sweet. Even when I knew what scares were coming, they still got me.
Train to Busan. Shit was INTENSE.
Babylon… I watched it recently and was pleasantly surprised.
Somebody should just put the rest of my filmography here already.
Ah yes, such a underrated unknown star.
Barbie
It was everything I expected it to be and I love it.
Yay
Recently,
Infinity Pool by David Cronenburg
and
Psycho Goreman. It’s everything it should be and more, but doesn’t pretend to be anything that it isn’t.
I do not care for hunky boys… Or do I?
Infinity pool was indeed a big surprise. The acting of Mia Goth is still superb.
The Suicide Squad
The first one was so bad, was surprised the sequel was watchable haha
:)
Mostly it’s the ones I didn’t hype for. Didn’t watch trailers or knew any plot.
Like when I watched some of the IMDb top 250 just one by one without really looking what the movie is about except its setup (the Good the Bad the Ugly - Western, Twelve Angry Man - court case etc).
After big let down of suicide squad i stopped caring about trailers and now enjoy much more movies.
Yeah, sometimes the hype kills the movie.
