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I didn't really have a problem with it. I think it helps that his character is an idiot and mostly exists as comic relief, it would probably be much more unbearable if he was a serious character.
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Agreed, we're at the stage where marvel's standards are slipping backwards. you can sort of smell the desperate commercialism of the movies now. There have been more duffers then winners. Not seen any of the recent stuff, so who knows it might be good or satisfying. i mean i liked doctor strange in the multiverse of madness and would love to see a 3rd movie, but i hear from die hard fans of the character it was pretty weak.
But i think disney in general are in a bit of trouble in general as nothing seems to be sticking properly. Remaking classics with realism isn't exactly working out and old winners from Pixar aren't hitting the spot either.
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Disney is just pumping out a ton of content, some of it good, some of it profitable and a lot of it mediocre or just bad.
Personally, I think Andor is the last Disney creation I've seen that I consider to be actually good and something I'd recommend to other people.
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Just watched Starman (1984) and K-PAX (2001) for the second time around. Both movies are about an alien that comes to visit Earth, though K-PAX got some more layers to it around the question of whether it really was an alien visiting or not. It was an interesting revisit, especially since both movies have Jeff Bridges in them. In Starman he IS the alien who visits Earth and in K-PAX he is the shrink who tries to understand the "alien".
I think both movies do a bad job at portraying how outerworld beings show their superior intelligence. In Starman, Jeff Bridges plays an alien whose species has had countless trips to Earth, so you would think they would know A LOT about its culture. That is not the case at all and Bridges kind of comes out as a complete tool at times asking about trivial stuff while at the same time can talk about just how primitive we humans are.
In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey plays the alien character and does a more realistic job in terms of the being's intellectual capacity, but also here I find the character he plays a bit too earthy for my taste, in that he is your typical HERO candidate that can save almost everyone, and he loves to strut around showing it.
Most movies just can't do the job correctly of making a distinct difference between us and IT, and unfortunately, that often means you will see tons of human characteristics in the alien, which is dumb. It's obviously cheaper that way and less time on the drawing board, but it also takes away the unknown and makes them less interesting and intricate.
That said, both movies have some good sides, and I'd like to point out that Jeff Bridges does use a lot of interesting body movements in a way to make you believe he does not quite fit in the human vessel he is using to walk around. Karen Alen does a great job as the grieving widow, Jenny Hayden.
Bridges also does a good job as the psychiatrist in K-PAX and Kevin Spacey does your typical Spacey job as the alien, Prot. It is basically Kevin Spacey playing himself, but he gets to call himself an alien.
I give Starman a 6/10 and K-PAX a 6/10. Not the best, but far from the worst out there. Your typical Sunday hangover movies.
I think both movies do a bad job at portraying how outerworld beings show their superior intelligence. In Starman, Jeff Bridges plays an alien whose species has had countless trips to Earth, so you would think they would know A LOT about its culture. That is not the case at all and Bridges kind of comes out as a complete tool at times asking about trivial stuff while at the same time can talk about just how primitive we humans are.
In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey plays the alien character and does a more realistic job in terms of the being's intellectual capacity, but also here I find the character he plays a bit too earthy for my taste, in that he is your typical HERO candidate that can save almost everyone, and he loves to strut around showing it.
Most movies just can't do the job correctly of making a distinct difference between us and IT, and unfortunately, that often means you will see tons of human characteristics in the alien, which is dumb. It's obviously cheaper that way and less time on the drawing board, but it also takes away the unknown and makes them less interesting and intricate.
That said, both movies have some good sides, and I'd like to point out that Jeff Bridges does use a lot of interesting body movements in a way to make you believe he does not quite fit in the human vessel he is using to walk around. Karen Alen does a great job as the grieving widow, Jenny Hayden.
Bridges also does a good job as the psychiatrist in K-PAX and Kevin Spacey does your typical Spacey job as the alien, Prot. It is basically Kevin Spacey playing himself, but he gets to call himself an alien.
I give Starman a 6/10 and K-PAX a 6/10. Not the best, but far from the worst out there. Your typical Sunday hangover movies.
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Watched the movie BUGONIA last night and i give it a... 9/10.
Great movie with a twist. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are really good in this for the roles they are playing. I dont want to go into too much detail about the movie but i highly recommend it. Its got some sci-fi but its mostly "psychological horror" but not overtly gory or anything like that (does have blood/violence).
The synapsis would be, a conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons) concocts a plan to kidnap a powerful CEO (Emma Stone) and get her to reveal that she is, in fact, an Alien, trying to take over the earth. All the dots are connected throughout the movie as to why this person was picked particularly by this conspiracy theorist.
The movie also touches on how humans are etc. etc. But the interaction between Emmas character and Jesse's is the crowning achievement imo. Worth checking out.
Great movie with a twist. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are really good in this for the roles they are playing. I dont want to go into too much detail about the movie but i highly recommend it. Its got some sci-fi but its mostly "psychological horror" but not overtly gory or anything like that (does have blood/violence).
The synapsis would be, a conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons) concocts a plan to kidnap a powerful CEO (Emma Stone) and get her to reveal that she is, in fact, an Alien, trying to take over the earth. All the dots are connected throughout the movie as to why this person was picked particularly by this conspiracy theorist.
The movie also touches on how humans are etc. etc. But the interaction between Emmas character and Jesse's is the crowning achievement imo. Worth checking out.
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Fight or Flight [2004] directed by James Madigan, starring Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Katee Sackhoff...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdsHRpjfqEI
Josh Hartnett plays a not so sober ex secret service agent called on a mission to sober up and bag some foreign enemy. If he does it right, he will get slate clean from earlier mishaps....you know the drill. The bag is on a plane and it turns out there is a bounty on it. Things escalate, people die..on the plane.
So, it is a fun movie for what it is, a very chill hangover movie. Josh Hartnett does a good job slapping people around. He steals the show and without him this movie would have been a slight chuckle at best. Think Bullet Train fighting, but without good actors. 6/10
Josh Hartnett plays a not so sober ex secret service agent called on a mission to sober up and bag some foreign enemy. If he does it right, he will get slate clean from earlier mishaps....you know the drill. The bag is on a plane and it turns out there is a bounty on it. Things escalate, people die..on the plane.
So, it is a fun movie for what it is, a very chill hangover movie. Josh Hartnett does a good job slapping people around. He steals the show and without him this movie would have been a slight chuckle at best. Think Bullet Train fighting, but without good actors. 6/10
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