Oh, so got a bunch of DVDs on sale quite a while ago, and getting round to watching them:
The New Mutants
Quite a departure from the usual X Men films, this one is doing the Logan thing when they decided to cross the superhero stuff with a real movie, so to speak. Except for the end, when they went back to CGI superhero blather, which was a letdown.
For the most part, there's only 6 characters. Four female which the story needed and two male which were just there to tick diversity boxed, I guess, as they added nothing to the story. No, being a mutant with a tragic backstory about not being able to control their powers when they emerged isn't important, as it comes up in every single X Men film, including other characters in this film. So, about characters and acting and suspense rather than CGI. Anya Taylor-Joy was...um. The whole thing about the sexy/damaged woman with the horrific childhood trauma wandered across the line between tragic to cringe a few times.
On the whole, a good movie.
Borderlands
Ok, I went in to this film knowing people had said it was bad. But, then, lots of people said that about Charlie's Angels...ok, they were right, that was a bad film, but watchably so.
Borderlands, though, is just flat out awful. As if they went out of their way to make it bad, and throw away $100 million on rubbish for the sole purpose of making hard-working filmmakers without that sort of money cry. People would hire Uwe Boll to make films, with the intent they'd terrible for a tax dodge thing, but his films were just miles better. I might change my mind after I sit and think about it for a while, but after having just watched it, I think that this is, without hyperbole, the worst film I have ever seen.
Some of the visuals and costumes were nice, but really, the best thing about this film is that people might stop saying that Street Fighter is the worst videogame adaptation film ever made. And Raul Julia was only in that because he knew he was dying and needed the money to ensure his family would be alright once he was gone.
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