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Fanboys (2009)
Fanboys will love it!
As a Star Wars and Rush fan this was right up my alley but somehow I didn't watch it until 2022. I guess the bad reviews buried it. I thought it was great. From the description and trailer I expected a formulaic road trip movie with low brow humor. And anyone with a brain could expect that and not watch it if you want something different. Where it exceeded my expectations was how funny it was. I guess you'd have to be a fan and have nerdy friends to get it but they nailed it. The guy who only plays Rush in his van. The Trekkies are even nerdier than the Star Wars fans. Humor is of course very subjective so I can see why many people wouldn't get it. But if you're a Star Wars fan, who appreciates the 80s/90s nerd culture this movie was awesome.
Hot Dog ...The Movie (1983)
Great for what it's supposed to be!
This is an 80s sex sports comedy. A prime example of low brow comedy. It doesn't have the great writing and actors of the 80s classic comedies. But it excels at what it's supposed to be. Fun. Dumb. Nudity. Funny. Action. Cliché. For it's time it had some good freestyle skiing when there's wasn't many other places to see it. It's not super funny but there's many classic lines and scenes, that still get repeated at Squaw Valley (ahem, Palisades) today.
Creating Woodstock (2019)
Excellent!
Its surprising this didn't come out until 2019. A lot of the interviews are from decades ago.
I liked hearing all the personal stories and peoples varying experiences.
The only thing I wish they included was more about the documentary movie and how it won awards, carried the legacy, and eventually helped the producers avoid financial ruin.
First Man (2018)
The greatest adventure of mankind reduced to one man's boring point of view
Spoiler warning.
What a wasted opportunity to show mankind's greatest adventure. Not just a boring movie but basically it means no one else will be able to make this movie the right way for at least a generation.
I get what the director and writers were going for here. A personal account from Neil Armstrong's perspective. But, this event was the first men on the moon. It deserved a much grander and exciting telling. They took what should have been a plot driven movie about landing on the moon and made a character driven boring art film. Of course it would be hollow if it didn't also have great characterization but that's now what this should have been all about.
The movie made it seem like Neil was a very boring guy. I would have preferred to see him portrayed as unflappable, because that's the quality which made him the commander of the mission.
There was almost no humor in the film. It would have been better to have more different emotional moments.
Music was sparse and often ineffective.
Very few external shots of the spaceships, etc. As noted they wanted to make this about Neil's perspective, but really? The greatest engineering achievement and adventure of all time and almost all is spent in a cramped, dark, capsule. Wasted opportunity. You need to see and feel the scale of this to appreciate what it was like to be in the capsule and that wasn't done at all. I wanted to see this movie on the big screen. But timing and poor reviews kept me from making it happen. I just watched it on TV and I'm not upset I missed it on the big screen because there weren't many big impressive shots.
The best part of the movie was by far Gemini 8. It was tense and exciting, but still have been done better. Landing on the moon was just okay, when it should have been mind blowing. Being a space nerd I've read the accounts and seen other portrayals and it should have been portrayed as much more exciting and momentous than it was. What I pictured in my mind was so much better than this.
I loved La La Land and I rarely like musicals so I think this director is very talented. I just think this was the absolutely wrong approach for this movie.
Free Solo (2018)
Must see it on the big screen!
Any movie about such a monumental achievement would have been good, the exceptional work of everyone involved made it great.
The movie was firing on all cylinders including story, cinematography, score, pacing, humor at the right times, etc.
The movies I choose to see on the big screen are ones with big action, effects, or scenery. This is THE most important movie to see on the big screen in my opinion because it's all real and the scale of El Capitan is hard to comprehend the smaller the screen is.
Interstellar (2014)
Many 1 Star Reviewers Didn't Get It
I saw this movie when it came out and recently returned to it after watching Passengers (a pretty good movie).
I wanted to respond to some of the 1 star reviews. Many of them say the science is wrong, but they probably don't understand the science. Most of the fantastical stuff this movie is based on current theories (e.g. that worm holes would appear as a sphere). These theories may or may not end up being correct, or feasible as used in this movie, but it's based on ideas from a brilliant theoretical physicist.
It's a deep, complex movie, and I got lost a couple times during my initial viewing. e.g. when Cooper went into the tesseract I thought it was too strange at the time (and it broke the suspension of disbelief), but later realized what was supposed to be happening.
So perhaps things could have been made a little clearer for the audience so it was easier to follow. And there's a few other things that keep it from being perfect. But it's incredibly ambitious and the atmosphere was really great.
Gravity (2013)
NOT the great movie it's rating suggests
There's no clear spoilers in this review but I talk about some plot points in general.
I don't understand why the ratings have been so high for this movie. It's just okay. The visuals are great, but the rest is mediocre.
Sandra Bullock's character is very annoying and incompetent for most of the film. Like a woman that trips and falls when being chased, it's just an excuse to ratchet up the tension with a weak character instead of a tough situation.
The character's back-story seems contrived, just to introduce some character arc.
It's shows satellites and space stations within site of each other. Completely unrealistic.
This movie completely lost me when it had a Vertical Limit "any good climber would cut the rope" type scene. A completely contrived situation that defies the physics of space just to try to be dramatic. All it did was completely destroy any suspension of disbelief I was trying to maintain.
On IMDb Apollo 13 gets a 7.5 and this movie gets a 8.6!!!!! Really?! Apollo 13 was SO much better than this movie.
If you knew nothing about space travel and how matter reacts in space this movie may be fun, but there are such HUGE holes in the story and impossible things happening that I couldn't get over thinking how ridiculous it was.
Brüno (2009)
This move keeps on delivering laughs via the bad reviews
I love SBC, Borat, and Ali G. Bruno WAS my least favorite character on his TV show. After all the bad reviews for Bruno, and warnings from friends it was just for shock value, I expected it wasn't going to be as funny as Borat. But it was even better IMO. My sides hurt from laughing so hard.
I'm very open minded and not easily offended. So this movie was tailor made for me. It was as funny as any other movie I've ever seen.
One of the funniest things about the movie is the reactions from people who ARE easily offended. And this movie is the gift that keeps on giving when you read the reviews from those people.
I hope SBC doesn't feel let down by the negative reviews and drop off inn popularity from Borat. To me this movie was even better, and the intense negative reactions are entertaining in their own right.
One of my favorite movies of all time!
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Good, but only if you like pointless movies.
I've read thru lots of the comments and reviews. Believe me I 'get' this movie.
A movie that doesn't follow Hollywood 'formula' can be very good. But this movie was pointless. And yes, I understand part of the appeal is there is no point, but so what. That doesn't entertain me at all.
They had to include the Bell character to have any character have any development.
I like movies that are entertaining on face value, and have a subtext and/or character arc that allow you to think and see some value and depth to the movie. This movie was entertaining at face value until the end. When it was over I was thinking back trying to figure out some hidden meanings, or something I have missed, and it wasn't there. Or at least make it so it doesn't break the suspension of disbelief and leave me sitting thinking what the hell? Javier Bardem was good. The only Oscar that was deserved. It makes me realize how much the academy is about politics and not inspired movie making.