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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
The Night Monkey Gets MJ
What a great movie! A perfect mix of humour, action, plenty of surprises mixed with romance throughout. If you don't understand the meaning of my review's title then you'll have to go see the movie to get it. There are TWO must see post credit scenes at the end. It helps tremendously if you've seen Captain Marvel to understand the last one.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla was a blast, forget the critics!
I've seen every classic Godzilla movie in my youth and this newest one exceeds all of them by far. I never thought that my middle-aged self could scream with so much delight from all of the awesome action from the King of the Monsters. The graphics were great and the monster battles were thrilling. I didn't go to see this movie for in depth analysis of character development....I went to see it for the Monster kicking Monster's butt action and it thoroughly delivered. Godzilla King of the Monsters did for me what Avengers Endgame could not.....it brought the kid out in me again in a hellacious kaiju thrill ride.
Unicorn Store (2017)
Unicorn Store....more like Unicorn BORE
I had absolutely no clue as to what the plot was to this dull lifeless film. I literally started to fall asleep 20 minutes into it. Even Samuel Jackson dressed in that ridiculous suit couldn't save this movie. I hope Brie does a better job in Avengers Endgame because her character in Unicorn Store had me wishing that THANOS would really snap his finger and turn me into dust and end my misery of watching this movie.
The Silence (2019)
A Quiet Place Redux clone
To start things off I saw A Quiet Place and rather enjoyed, It was refreshing and original. Then came a similarly themed Bird Box on Netflix and I thought that was OK and watchable, Now comes The Silence, A Quiet Place wannabe that just doesn't have the oomph or pinache of the original. It had some good moments but were too few and far between. One problem I had with both A Quiet Place and The Silence is the premise that humans are too inept and powerless to keep from becoming prey/food for the creatures. They're attracted to sound so why not set up some humongous speakers and amps in an empty stadium or city, crank it up and get all those suckers to gather there, then have an an F-22 drop a tactical nuke on them and blow them all to kingdom come. Hell, they did that to the aliens in Alien vs Predator:Requiem. They can do that in these movies too.
Captain Marvel (2019)
A decent but not great Marvel film...could learn a thing or two from Wonder Woman
Casting aside all the backlash and controversy surrounding this movie I went to see it anyway before Infinity Wars Endgame comes out. It could've been better. Brie is a beautiful and talented actress but she was rather wooden and uncharismatic as Captain Marvel. I could never relate to or feel any attachment to her because she was so emotionless. Her one liner jokes really fell flat and barely anybody in the audience laughed. They tried too hard to make her as comedic as Robert Downy Jr.'s Tony Stark and it just didn't work. She never has the range of emotions that Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman did. From the joy of seeing a baby in a stroller to her first ice cream cone to her anguish and pain from Steve Trevor's sacrifice I identified and felt these emotions also. I didn't get that from Brie Larson's Captain Marvel.
Samue Jackson in his digital younger self was a hoot as was Goose the Cat. This kitty stole the show in my opinion. Carol Danvers memory flashbacks to introduce her origin were confusing at times. The writers were trying to cram too much background information in the first hour . It wasn't until well into the second half that things got interesting and the action picked up. Another big problem is that they wayOVER-powered her in this movie to be the Avenger's main weapon against Thanos in the upcoming Infinity Wars. No bad guy could even touch her in Captain Marvel. She holds off an entire fleet of Kree warships all by herself and has all of these awesome powers that she just only recently learned to control. Flash forward 25 years when Nick Fury sends her that distress signal and she's probably a thousand times more powerful. Thanos is pretty much toast.
I will say that the the two post credit scenes were good and almost worth the price of admission as was learning the hilarious and true reason why Nick Fury lost his eye and how the Avengers got their name. Do you need to see Captain Marvel before Infinity Wars...no. But if you have two hours and have nothing else to do it might be worth your time.
Bird Box (2018)
A decent post-apocalyptic film...worth a view.
I saw this last night on Netflix and I thought that it had some good moments. The scenes of mass suicides and people killing themselves in very graphic fashion though are a bit much and I wouldn't recommend this for young kids, it had lots of profanity also. Having seen A Quiet Place recently, I would say that the two films do have common elements like alien forces decimating and hunting the human population and young mothers struggling to survive with their children against all odds. At least in A Quiet Place, we get to see that the invaders are hideous, slimy, vicious looking creatures reminiscent of ALIEN but they can lured by sound and be killed with human weapons and that gives humanity hope in that film. In Bird Box, we never get to see what the invaders look like, they never directly harm humans, they make humans see with their own eyes their inner most fear and this drives them to kill themselves in the most horrific ways possible . This makes the creatures/invaders in Bird Box far more invincible and dangerous. Humanity has little hope of survival in that film...how can you kill something that you can kill you the instant you see it.