CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
March 5th
Directed by: Taika Waititi
I think there's a lot of good in this movie... somewhere. The opening scene is tremendous visually, it gave me the same feeling as Mad Max Fury Road, like I was watching a heavy metal album cover. I wish we could have kept up with that. I understand this film to be a bit of a hard left, I didn't watch Thor: The Dark World because I have about 5,000 movies I'd rather watch but my point is this is a comedy. It's funny and it's also not funny, which I think is a common thing in Marvel films. I think my major sticking point is I didn't feel that there were any stakes, maybe a side effect of the comedy, I felt that Thor: Ragnarok was completely inconsequential, and when you're making a movie that's part of a big comic book film series, what is it if not important to the overall story? It's not like we're saying anything important here. Yeah, I'm just kind of left feeling "who cares". I don't know if this is any better or worse than other Marvel movies of the day. What I do know this has in common with every other Marvel movie is terrible music.
Edit: I forgot to mention Hulk's voice sounded like it went through a free "voice deepener" phone app.
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2018 list
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CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2018 list
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CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
March 1st
Directed by: Johnnie To
I'm very impressed. I don't expect much out of Asian gangster films but here we have some really distinct characters that don't get muddled and a really fun to follow story. On top of that the gunfight scenes are completely wonderful. Like, top notch. I kind of want to watch this again right now. I don't know much about this Johnnie To fella, but I do know he made some Chow Yun-Fat romantic comedies in the '80s and I would actually kill people to see those. Someone please help me.
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Re-Watched in 2018 list
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles posted a thread "The date of films not appearing anymore"
“No one seems to have mentioned this yet, it seems slowly the year displayed beside the title of a film is disappearing. This was an incredibly useful tool, now when I want to know when a film came out” read more
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
7 years, 2 months ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2018 list
7 years, 2 months ago