Author: AdmiralCrayon

First up I just want to point out that I rented this movie on Amazon Prime for $5 and it said “HD” yet I still couldn’t see or hear shit and I feel scammed. I get that this movie is from 2002 but that isn’t even that old, I’ve seen much older movies with much clearer visuals and sound, maybe it’s the British accent ? Oh well, great movie. The plot is pretty standard for this type of movie, it doesn’t really reinvent the wheel. It’s a zombie movie, but it shines in other ways. I love the attention to detail, I love how zombies are actually threatening in this, they run. This is prior to World War Z, this wasn’t a thing back in 2002. I love how Brendan Gleeson (or whatever his character’s name was) has the dumbest death of all time, and that when Jim goes back to the roadblock later in the movie, the zombie’s corpse still shows up in the background. The romance is extremely surface level but it makes a lot of sense in a setting this gloom, they just try to find joy where it’s available (and I suppose the soldiers also get that part…). Solid. Also yes, I’m planning to watch the other movies.

If technology and money isn’t an issue then why won’t they make a tank that can store more astrophage…
I would’ve hated this movie if it was not for Rocky, I liked it quite a bit but the claustrophobic space setting is not really for me, and I guess that’s what’s preventing me for giving me 10 stars like everryone else. Still a fun watch and I really liked the cheesy ending.

Disclaimer : this is the point of view of a guy who did not read the book.

It kind of overstayed it’s welcome for me, some scenes felt unnecessary, like why would Tristan ever leave Yvaine without a warning for Victoria if he found out he doesn’t love Victoria? That can definitely wait.

I also find the ending bittersweet, Victoria hadn’t done anything wrong, she seemed like a sweet lady and was introduced to us as “the love of my life” according to Tristan, and I was definitely rooting for Tristan to come back home, kick Henry Cavill’s ass and get back with her, but they decided to turn Victoria into a villain right before the end for no apparent reason.

Overall it was still a cute story, a lot of good moments, I was expecting a lot funnier but what it didn’t provide in funny haha’s, it provided in heartfelt moments (and Robert De Niro was awesome).

A bittersweet tale about a family finding happinness in what seems to be endless suffering. I really enjoyed the relationship between Paul Dano and Steve Carell, whom portrayed someone I could never see portraying; a not very funny character. He killed did though, and so did Paul Dano, despite having like 2 lines in the entire movie. He is really good at being an angsty teenager.

A note about the grandpa: I was so ready for bodies to have been mixed up at the hospital and for the grandpa to not be dead, but I was pleasantly surprised, this felt so much better. The anticipation came from me feeling like we barely knew the character so it would’ve been a little anticlimactic to kill him off. But this is how life works, you don’t get to decide when you die, and even though he did die, he was still there for the journey.

Speaking of the journey, I liked it way better than the super american ending, that’s where the juice of the movie lies, that’s where the bonds are made, but I must say that the little family dance at the end was pretty cute.

Soundtrack was pretty damn good and I was captivated through and through. I thought the movie ended abrudtly and was excited for the final tournament, which spoilert alert, never happened. But the more I think about it, the more I like it. I couldn’t help but root for Marty even though he’s the most narcissistic asshole of all time, the movie made you root for him for all the work he’s put to get there. I loved that the has-been actress was played by a has-been actress, even though I should really despise Gwyneth Paltrow for her Goop nonsense.

The movie was filled with non-actor cameos but they honestly did a pretty good job so I’m not too mad about that. Kevin O’Leary pretty much just played himself, this movie was pretty ironic overall.

Just a good watch.

List of things that annoyed me during the movie include :

• “The first fox and bunny police duo in all history of Zootopia”
  Okay but it could’ve been literally any other animal duo and there’s a very good chance it would’ve been the first as well, this is localized in a single city and there are like 5 animals in the entire police force. That doesn’t really sound like an achievement.
• Shakira’s terrible song which just sounds like a knock-off version of Waka Waka but so does all of her other songs so I didn’t expect much
• That “let’s expose our feelings scene” which was pretty cringe
• That horse mayor suddenly fighting off the villains like they’re nothing but they’ve been scared of them the entire movie
• The ending resolved way too easily and there was basically no suspense or thrill
  

List of things I liked :

• Patrick Waburton
• Ke huy Quan

For no other reason than I just like them.

Overall still pretty solid, Pixar does know how to animate and I had a good time laughing at all the silly jokes. Bunch of references crammed in there as well.