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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
I expected more
Let me start by saying I have been a fan of carnage since his first appearance back in 1992 in the comics. I played the Maximum Carnage game on Sega when it was released. I watched the Carnage saga in the Spiderman comics. I even have all the comic books of Carnage.
There is zero reason Carnage was so watered down. Even in the cartoon he was a ruthless sociopath. There are comics where it is just a bloodbath in the wake of Carnage.
Trying not to bring in the bias of what the comics had vs the movie but it is very difficult. People wanted Carnage on the big screen to cause utter chaos and destruction. We (at least everyone I know as well as a bunch of people I spoke with online) wanted Carnage to force a team up of heros/anti-heros.
On to the movie...
Cletus was all over the revenge towards Eddie, which made sense (kind of) Carnage hated Venom, which made sense. (That is pretty much where the likeness ended)
Shriek should not have been in this movie. She was nothing like she was in the comics outside of her love for Carnage. Which was actually a spur of the moment on the first meeting, "oh you are psycho too? We are now an item."
Naomi was forgettable, her performance was bad, and she brought in hints of that bad accent she used in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Cletus was more concerned about his relationship with Shriek than anything else. This is a sociopath that has a notorious history of bodies in aftermath.
Eddie and Venom need to stop bickering, that should have ended with the first movie.
Venom needs to stop acting like a child.
The humor was terrible and never ending.
There was very limited "greatest serial killer of all time," mentality from Cletus, which is something he praised himself for all the time.
This was a sob story of Cletus's past, a love story between Cletus and Shriek, a bickering relationship between Eddie and his child-like symbiote Venom and a miniscule battle between Marvel's most notorious villain Carnage and the anti-hero Venom.
I have a few questions outside of the terrible plot and script. Why was Venom at a club? He is sensitive to sound, the very thing they used to beat Carnage. In fact Venom is slightly more sensitive to sound than Carnage is.
Why was it that Cletus and Carnage were not symbiotic? Those two are two peas in a pod.
Why was the CGI constantly showing Carnage with his tongue out? That is a Venom thing, not Carnage.
How in the hell are you going to beat Carnage so easily, without help, and kill him off the moment you finally get him on big screen? Even botching the first appearance means you could have taken the feedback and brought him back for a better sequel.
PG-13 does not work with Carnage, it barely scrapped by on the first Venom movie.
This poor dialog with bad punch lines on dark comics needs to stop. It failed in Justice League, it failed on the first Venom, it failed horribly here.
They could have done so much more with Carnage on the big screen, especially with all the pushed release dates. They were out of touch with what the fans wanted. We should have been terrified.
4 out of 10 just because I wanted to see Carnage in a movie and the CGI was good.
Run Hide Fight (2020)
Easily a 10 out of 10 for me
There were very few minor details that pulled it away from a 10/10, that is me just being nit picky so I left it at a 10.
Obviously the "critics" were bought off or biased against the film, this was a very good movie unlike so many hollywood standard films released. It has been a while since I was actually impressed and thoroughly enjoyed a film.
I can't wait to see more productions from this company.
Casual (2015)
Politics entered and killed the show
I thought it was a great show at first even though they kept pulling more and more away from the original plot. Watching Alex grow was great, the spiraling of Valerie was an interesting twist, the daughter was predictable and terrible written most the times, but everyone had their moments.
Once the political cracks started rolling in, I tried to ignore it, but is showed up enough for me to stop watching.
Keep politics out of shows, it was clear you were doing great for a while without them.
The 2nd (2020)
I should have looked up ratings
This was so terrible I couldn't finish it. About 1/2 through I started making fun of the acting and just mocking the movie overall.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Not worth the 2 1/2 hours
I went and saw this movie last night and I walked out learning something new about the Star Wars movies.
I learned I will never watch them again.
I was never a massive fan of the Star Wars movies, but I enjoyed watching them as they were decent entertainment.
After last night I realized one of two things, either people have always been able to breath in space in the Star Wars movies and I never noticed it, or.... Somebody didn't think it through when people kept on like nothing was going on when they were in the vacuum of space.
Also, someone want to explain to me how bombers work in outer space as well? (Bombs need gravity)
Why is the "force" given out like participation trophies?
Why the hell did Leia fly after being frosted with death from the vacuum of space?
How the hell does Rei have that much of a grasp on how to use the force after 2 minutes of meditation?
Since when did Rei master sword fighting?
Why is Kylo Rin such a whiny child?
Where the hell did Snoke come from and if he was so powerful, why did he get toppled so easily?
What was the point of Fin and Rose in the entire movie? They did absolutely nothing.
Why would nobody come to the rescue of the Resistance?
Why didn't they call for help 18 hours prior when they still had fuel?
Why did they even consider going after the First Order with as little forces as they had on hand to begin with?
How did the First Order suddenly have a device that can track through lightspeed if it wasn't possible or heard of, but Fin knew where it was and Rose knew how to handle it?
Who wrote in all the terrible jokes?
Who the hell gave this movie such good ratings?
Why the hell is Disney ripping off the original Star Wars plots? (Seriously you even used the walkers on a white planet again)
I am sure I can come up with another hundred or so questions
Wind River (2017)
Would have been better if....
... they didn't portray Lander/Wind River so poorly.
I used to live out on the Wind River Res, I was out in Lander for a few years. The place is not a frozen tundra that is as desolate as Siberia...
For the love of God, there is a casino there. I know, I lived less than an acre away from it. Lander is a town of 6,500+ people and growing, 30 minutes away you have Riverton, even larger than Lander. There are places people hang out all day and night regardless of the -20 degree temps outside. (My mom came to visit once and it was -27 and she was in shock because someone was walking into Safeway wearing slippers and a robe) Yes, the town is big enough for a safeway and in riverton you have a walmart.
So when the guy at the end was saying "There aren't any women here!" I about lost it.
Yes, Wind River has a high murder rate, yes there is a high drop out rate in schools, yes people get sexually assaulted there. But if you are going to make a movie about what happens out there, let's be realistic, people bail on school, refuse to work, and there is a higher than average murder rate because so many people receive per- cap and know they don't have to do anything with the rest of their lives but sit around and drink until their next monthly check comes in.
This movie would have been better as a stand alone, not trying to poorly portray what Lander really is like.
Suburbicon (2017)
Glad the ticket was free, wish I got paid to endure it though.
OK, I just got out of the advanced screening of this movie, I saw the IMDb ratings drop a few points in the time it took me to drive home. I can't blame the voters. In fact, as we were leaving the staff asked if we had any comments about the movie, I winced as if in pain, my buddy was perplexed, and the guy in front of us said and I quote, "Don't make a part two."
This movie should not hit theaters, maybe go to cable t.v. On a boring Tuesday night when nothing else is on.
Now, I put the spoiler warning and I bet you are wondering what the movie was about. Well, that is how you feel in the movie. The plot takes forever to kick in.
The quick run through, 1950's/60's suburbia (can catch that in the name) black family moves in the town. Town goes in an uproar, someone breaks into Matt Damon's house kills his wife.
Yes, there is zero correlation between the black family moving in and Matt Damon's wife getting murdered. In fact, you watch the movie and you will see the black family actually plays no significant part in the movie, they are just there for filler and to politicize the movie.
So now the wife is dead and you are wondering why. You actually spent the first half of the movie wondering why. Spoiler, life insurance scam.
Matt falls in love with his wife's sister, Matt hires hit-man, hit- man kill wife, Now the hit-man want their money, the life insurance company sees through the scam. People start dying, and the credits begin rolling.
You have no connection to the characters on the screen, you try to feel bad for the kid in the movie, but he is so emotionless you can't really feel bad for him. It makes it even more difficult to feel bad when your brain is confused because the writers/actors/director can't decide if they want the movie to be funny or serious. In fact the only person I thought was even remotely interesting was Uncle Mitch, but he only has about 2 minutes of screen time.
If I could speed summarize this movie, I would almost want to call it a murder mystery with a men who stare at goats twist, but it doesn't really click with whatever this movie was.
Rated 2 because the acting was decent at least.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
I would have rated it higher but....
... Stop casting Sam Jackson.
I can get over some of the plot holes, I can get over some of the script, I can get over the fact that they felt the need to drop bombs to get a geological reading instead of doing core samples. I can get over the fact that somehow military pilots were stupid enough to fly that close to a massive angry ape.
But for the love of God and all things holy, stop casting that washed up clown of an actor. Same boring actor with a stick up the ass attitude in all his poorly acted movies. Replace island and ape with plane and snakes, replace plane and snakes with water science lab and sharks. He has no depth as an actor, he is the same boring repetitive person we have seen for decades. It is time to retire him for good.
Outside of the plot holes and the terrible casting of the most has been actor of the century, John C. Riley stole the show on this one, he brought humor out of a bad situation and seemed to be keyed it right on time.
I am a bit burnt out on remakes and sequels, between that and the previous complaints of plot holes and bad casting. I think this movie will be a great red box or netflix movie in 5 years from now. Not worth the money of a movie ticket though.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Hollywood needs to just stop with stuff like this
Honestly I don't understand how Hollywood can sink this much money into movies and they still turn out this terrible.
Just like the first one, possibly the second movie not sure didn't see it, they use the same terrible plot. The super power government can't take on some wanna-be hot shot so they bring in someone with literally zero combat training to save the world from destruction.
A scrawny D.J. (Kris Wu), a next generation Angelina Jolie (Ruby Rose) in which Hollywood thinks we will buy into her 50kg ass- kicking abilities, a has been adrenaline junkie (Vin Diesel), some kinda fan service rave scene dancer/Maui Thai fighter (Tony Jaa), an invincible bullet dodging Donnie Yen, the rehashed burn out Sam Jackson that for some reason plays the exact same role in every movie he is in regardless of the script, and the absolute worst of them all O'Shea Jackson Sr. (because I can't stand his stupid self given ice cube name) which they thought he deserved to be called a Navy SEAL for the role of the movie with his ghetto gangster act crap.
Some of the worse special effects I have seen since the 90's.
Sam Jackson fakes his death just like in the marvel comics stuff, Vin Diesel gets recruited and can miraculously see through any and all ploys between global terrorist and the U.S. govt.
Vin Diesel then refuses to take highly trained military troops into combat with him, instead the script writers make them look like nothing more than dim witted high school jocks.
Vin Diesel recruits utter garbage for his team, see above about the scrawny D.J. and the forced female badass that is outweighed by a medium sized dog.
I am sure there was more to this movie, but no matter how hard I tried not to, I couldn't seem to prevent myself from tuning it out. I think the highlight of the movie was watching Donnie Yen or Tony Jaa fight scenes. The rest of it was extremely unbearable.
This movie needs to be hit with a heavy dose of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and let those guys rip it apart.
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Make your own opinion
I kept seeing reviews saying if you like the game you will love the movie. that wasn't the case for me, it was actually the very opposite. I loved the games but I couldn't find myself to get involved with the movie. Sure they had some spectacular shots of a guy jumping off a building.
I can even buy into the whole terminator salvation bring a guy back from the dead after lethal injection to steal his memories or whatever, a bit different from the games but fine i will take it. as the movie went on it seemed further and further from the game plots and attempted to recreate what already works by making it new and more flashy. outside the Hollywood flare to over sell the action scenes, I really didn't buy the role of the character. Hard ass only out to help himself, then out of nowhere he turns his views because he saw a vision. Story branded like so many other movies, hell even darth vadar had a magical pivot moment from one extreme view to the other.
This movie was on my winter watch list, I was stoked when I heard about it and couldn't wait to see it. I am thankful my ticket was free when I bought the bundle of games, I wouldn't have been happy if I payed for the ticket.
Off to watch another movie, here is hoping that turns out better.
Vikings (2013)
Downhill fast
Show started out great, I was really excited to see it each week when it first came out. However the past couple seasons have gone down the drain, last season we watch ragnar bury himself in addictions, this season they are killing off nearly all the original characters and trying to shift focus onto ragnar's kids to keep the show running.
I get the feeling people just wanted off the show and they rushed a bunch of murders to let people out of filming. I seriously no longer have interest in this show. I don't feel the need to anticipate the next show being aired. They pretty much pulled a walking dead and got rid of the main characters but wanted to keep filming for money.
Suicide Squad (2016)
Thanks but no thanks.
Possible spoilers
I went in the movie with reservations, I heard negative reviews, I heard good ones. As always I make my own judgment afterwards.
First and foremost, this is probably the worst and most over dramatized version of the Joker I have ever seen in my life. I was raised in comic books, they tried entirely too hard to make Joker look crazy. It seemed way too forced, he and Harley Quinn both look more like junkies than psychopaths. Not to mention they horribly botched the relationship of Jokers impression of Harley. I have no idea what they were aiming for and even less of an idea on why Jared Leto accepted that role.
Harley Quinn, again they spent way too much time and effort making her a sex symbol and made her look like some white trash/hood rat combo with minor Harley Quinn traits.
Deadshot, honestly, this was where I held most my reservations. I didn't like the idea of Will Smith in comic movies, but I think he did a fantastic job. The claim that Margot Robbie stole the screen just doesn't seem right as the movie centered more on the changes that he made as well as the leadership role he acquired.
Killer Croc, I don't even know here. This was just plain bad in so many ways. I will just leave this one alone.
Boomerang or whatever he was called, yet another utterly useless character I half expected to be killed off. Like the Joker in this movie he was a try hard with no real desire to see again.
Katana, yes because who doesn't like having someone show up that doesn't speak a lick of English. You know the very language that the rest of the movie was in.
Flag, no depth of a non-"meta human" kinda expected more than a minimal love story.
The enchantress wasn't bad when she wasn't doing some weird fish like dance moves.
Plot, terrible. Outside of the focus on Deadshot the plot seriously lacked. Why would you bring Batman into a movie for parts yet he keeps himself away from a several day long battle, especially with his decision to make a team after the doomsday problem.
I would have scored this movie lower if it wasn't for the occasional Harley Quinn like characteristics and the fact that Will Smith shined pretty well.
Whoever wrote some of those scripts and designed the characters should be exiled from Hollywood.