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Phoenixmgs

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Deadpool Vs Wolverine.

Much like Spider-Man No Way Home, this is a movie that was built for millennial nostalgia and not much else. And much like Spider-Man No Way Home, it's a fun movie, but not necessarily a "good movie." Too much of the movie relies on the audience being aware of 20-30 year old movies that are outside of the MCU, and in some cases being aware of movies that don't even exist and the Hollywood drama behind why they don't exist. For people who weren't invested in super hero movies before Ironman, or who aren't engrossed in the latest Comicon gossip, this movie would be an absolute mess. For those who have an awareness of not just comic books but the industry surrounding them, they probably laughed at a shoe store called Liefeld's Just Feet.

A lot of this can be forgiven (by me) because my friends and I are part of the target audience, and the movie is overall pretty fun. The jokes also mostly hit, and this is the most I've heard a movie audience actually laugh in quite some time.

The movie pokes a lot of fun at the current Marvel "multi-verse phase" and how much the multiverse sucks and how hard Disney are fucking it up. I actually considered that Disney might be actively trying to pull the plug on the whole multiverse concept and might be using this movie to say farewell to the concept as they reboot things. This would be highly welcome, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

This movie is very much a product of its time. This will not be a timeless classic. A lot of the content of the movie only really makes sense right now and its jokes will probably be significantly less poignant in 10 years time (or whenever the next Blade movie gets released).
Yeah, the movie was entertaining but I'm not sure if it's legit good. I feel like it was all played too straight for a Deadpool movie, he doesn't fuck around with the TSA and they kinda just "tell" how stupid the multiverse stuff is vs "show"ing it. I felt like even the 1st Spiderverse movie (and the 2nd is even more ridiculous) had more fun with the multiverse and had more unique Spidermen than all the different Deadpools in this movie. Plus, pretty much all the actual plot points hardly make sense like how they got Wolverine in the movie was a pretty massive stretch.
 

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The Hobbit (1977)

Watching some of the earlier animated Tolkien adaptations with some friends, starting with The Hobbit, produced by Rankin/Bass and Japanese studio Topcraft. Which, believe it or not, would later become Studio Ghibli.

This version of The Hobbit is short and cheap but, honestly, not altogether bad. The Hobbit was a short book, and only a fool would ever need more than a couple of hours to adapt it without leaving out anything too important, the movies 80 minutes cover most of it, if in a very simplified, truncated form. Bilbo Baggins is a Hobbit leading a quiet, unremarkable life, until a visit from wizard Gandalf and his entourage of 13 dwarves ropes him into an adventure to recover a stolen dwarven treasure from the greedy dragon Smaug.

Hobbit '77 covers all the basic setpieces from the book, the hungry trolls, the underground city of goblins, Gollum, the wood elves, Smaug, the battle of five armies, albeit all in a fairly utilitarian fashion. There's not very much in terms of impressive visual setpieces, the animation is about what you expect from a made for tv production and none of the imagery is quite as evocative as, say, Rankin/Bass's Last Unicorn, which, at least around here, was a bit of a TV classic when I was a kid. What Hobbit '77 has, though, are some weirdly iconic creature designs. Bilbo's encounter with a slippery, amphibian looking Gollum is honestly, the highlight of the movie. Gollum has always been the very definition of a weird little guy and I can confidently say, this is probably the weirdest of a little guy he's ever been. Some other ones, like a bizarre feline looking Smaug and some really odd wood elves fall a bit flat, but their designs are still kinda fun.

It has a lot of weird quirks typical for animated movies of the time. It's a musical, kinda, and all of the songs are quite bad. It's that sort of Donovan/Peter, Paul and Mary sounding cheesy American folk music, and not really a very good version of it. A lot of "this is where you're supposed to cut to commercial break" editing. Very hit and miss voice performances. It's a very American take on Tolkien. Now, I do think that, if there needs to be an American Gandalf, John Huston is actually a very good choice but the only other standout is Otto Preminger playing the king of the Wood Elves with a thick German accent.

Hobbit '77 is not a very good movie, exactly, but it is a rather enjoyable one. For what it lacks in budget or run time, it makes up for in folksy charm and casual weirdness. Both of which, honestly, I think complement what is in essence a light hearted childrens book that only vaguely hints towards the mytho-poetic gravity that Tolkien's more mature stories of Middleearth would take on. It's a quick, fun and amusing watch. And it has a lot of weird little guys. You gotta love some weird little guys in your fantasy movies.
 
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The Hobbit (1977)

Watching some of the earlier animated Tolkien adaptations with some friends, starting with The Hobbit, produced by Rankin/Bass and Japanese studio Topcraft. Which, believe it or not, would later become Studio Ghibli.
You can actually see some Hobbit animation sort of stuff in Ghibli's early work, especially what they label as their first film, Nausicaa (it was technically still Topcraft, but it had the major creative forces of Studio Ghibli behind it, so it's retroactively considered the first Ghibli film). Tell me, for example, that the town mystic Obaba doesn't look like she hopped straight out of The Hobbit.

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I imagine the success of Mehgan spawned this movie but Abigail on Peacock was better than it had a right to be.

Gets a B from me.

I'd explain more but you'll get it from the trailer.

Trailer deleted: just watched it. Holy moly it left almost nothing for you!

Briefly, group of criminals is lured to a house in theory to get ransom money for a kidnapped child who turns out to be a vampire. They are actually there to be dinner.
 

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You can actually see some Hobbit animation sort of stuff in Ghibli's early work, especially what they label as their first film, Nausicaa (it was technically still Topcraft, but it had the major creative forces of Studio Ghibli behind it, so it's retroactively considered the first Ghibli film). Tell me, for example, that the town mystic Obaba doesn't look like she hopped straight out of The Hobbit.

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The line work's a lot cleaner, but she sure does.
 
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Deadpool Vs Wolverine.

Much like Spider-Man No Way Home, this is a movie that was built for millennial nostalgia and not much else. And much like Spider-Man No Way Home, it's a fun movie, but not necessarily a "good movie." Too much of the movie relies on the audience being aware of 20-30 year old movies that are outside of the MCU, and in some cases being aware of movies that don't even exist and the Hollywood drama behind why they don't exist. For people who weren't invested in super hero movies before Ironman, or who aren't engrossed in the latest Comicon gossip, this movie would be an absolute mess. For those who have an awareness of not just comic books but the industry surrounding them, they probably laughed at a shoe store called Liefeld's Just Feet.

A lot of this can be forgiven (by me) because my friends and I are part of the target audience, and the movie is overall pretty fun. The jokes also mostly hit, and this is the most I've heard a movie audience actually laugh in quite some time.

The movie pokes a lot of fun at the current Marvel "multi-verse phase" and how much the multiverse sucks and how hard Disney are fucking it up. I actually considered that Disney might be actively trying to pull the plug on the whole multiverse concept and might be using this movie to say farewell to the concept as they reboot things. This would be highly welcome, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

This movie is very much a product of its time. This will not be a timeless classic. A lot of the content of the movie only really makes sense right now and its jokes will probably be significantly less poignant in 10 years time (or whenever the next Blade movie gets released).
Is there a Bryan Singer joke? If there ain't I'm going to have to call into question the actual edginess of this movie. The Deadpool movies have overall felt like corporate sponsored 'taking the piss' rather than actually taking some risky shots at industry people.
 

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For the longest time I thought the dad boasting about having four-wheel drive (at the start of the movie) was the movie presenting him as a big dumb dad in love with his car, but then I found out this was actually product placement by Audi where the movie had to mention the four-wheel drive capabilities of their new model.
 
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I found the first hour or so of this movie unbearable upon rewatch. I'm surprised you were so forgiving of all the Dr Strange stuff, I was pulled right out of the movie with how stupid it felt. And how unlikeable Strang comes off as. That said, it's amazing that the three Spideys have so much chemistry together. Its oddly enough something we haven't gotten before or since, with the Spider-verse movies mostly focusing on Miles, Peter B, and Miguel.
 

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If you are wondering why this was even on my radar to watch, I'm one of those people who, if I consistently hear a movie is bad, and I have an opportunity to watch it without paying for it directly, the temptation is always there to see just how bad it is.
 

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I found the first hour or so of this movie unbearable upon rewatch. I'm surprised you were so forgiving of all the Dr Strange stuff, I was pulled right out of the movie with how stupid it felt. And how unlikeable Strang comes off as. That said, it's amazing that the three Spideys have so much chemistry together. Its oddly enough something we haven't gotten before or since, with the Spider-verse movies mostly focusing on Miles, Peter B, and Miguel.
On paper, I was forgiving of it. However, the Doctor Strange stuff was the entire reason this was only 4 stars instead of 5, and I would have gone even lower if it weren't for the fact that this movie did at least hit me hard emotionally when it counted.
 

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Totally Killer on Amazon Prime

Gets a C+. Don't think too hard. It has super stupid elements. And, who is this movie for? Some of the violence is pure NC 17 stuff. Other times it has the tone of an episode of Scooby Doo.

In 1987, a serial killer stabs 3 girls 16 times a piece. 35 years later, the besty of those girls is murdered.

The daughter of the woman murdered in 2023 then goes back in time to confront and stop the killer back in 1987. Cuz, time travel is even easier than it was in End Game.

Enjoyable trash.

 

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Longlegs (2024)

Horror movie not exactly starring although prominently featuring Nic Cage. Cage plays the eponymous antagonist, as a woman FBI investigator with alleged psychic abilities is drawn into a case of a serial killer who has been murdering families with daughters around a certain age - in this sense, it's more strictly a crime horror. But does this FBI agent have some connection to the killings?

In atmosphere, this movie is pretty effective. It's got some properly discomforting moments, and lots of elements of its settings are well chosen to promote an unsettling feeling, such as the number of claustrophic interiors. The lead is strangely blank or for much of it - you might wonder slightly autistic? - and this also helps the feeling of oddness. And Cage is an obvious choice for the volatile and creepy antagonist, given the role asks for a certain schtick he specialises in. However, although getting much of this right, some elements are a little passe - creepy dolls are overused by now, and the antagonist's appearance is redolent of a different type of horror movie. Although that said, maybe that's because this movie perhaps doesn't quite decide whether it wants to be a supernatural horror (IT, Nightmare on...) or a more realistic serial killer horror (Se7en, Silence of the Lambs), or is trying to keep the viewer guessing. Some of the plot coherence is decidedly iffy, and make you wonder why the hell people did certain things. Maybe you're just supposed to suck up the ambience, and not think about it that hard.

Anyway, overall, it's pretty good. It's just a shame it was almost unbearable to watch at the time because it was one of the hottest days of the year and the screen we were in had an A/C malfunction, but at least the cinema gave my wife and I free vouchers for another film.
 
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Deadpool vs Wolverine
It's a funny movie. A bit too much into "lol random" territory that got overdone by the end. And sure, flashbacks and clips from elsewhere, but why so many. Anyway, not a bad time. 6/10
 
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