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2nd Nov 2018

Slender Man (2018)

I rented this movie from RedBox

Honestly... wasn't really my thing. Maybe if I had played the video game, I'd have been more into it? I don't know. I thought it was poorly written and too self absorbed.
The plot was convoluted and the acting was decent. The effects terrible. I couldn't get scared the CGI vines and cheap Windows Movie Maker editing effects.
I expected more with all the hype around this character.

Mistake Status: Saw a few when rented. This movie holds nothing for me to want to revisit. Maybe some day if I get the game, I'll consider coming back to it.

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21st Oct 2018

Reprisal (2018)

I rented this from RedBox.

It was an okay film. Nothing special, but not bad either. A fairly run of the mill good guys vs bad guys bank robbery movie.
I will say I was disappointing that once again Bruce Willis, one of my all time favorite actors, was more sidelined as a supporting actor in the film. He had some great moments, but I rented the film for him!

Also this is the second film I've rented recently where the actor playing the bad guy was the bad guy. And he's actually pretty good! But it's just an all right film


Mistake Status: Caught a few during the rental. If I ever get around to trying to collect all Bruce Willis films in the future, I'll probably get to this one again. But other wise, no plans to revisit.

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20th Oct 2018

Venom (2018)

I saw this movie in theaters.

It was actually much better than I anticipated. I went into this movie with low expectations and having already spoiled a bit by online reviews by the likes of Doug Walker.

As far as a film goes on it's own... it isn't really all that bad when you break it down and look at it. The pacing is choppy at some points and the editing was awful in several situations. In fact I'm pretty sure the whole plot hole about the old Asian lady taking 6 months to find the little girl was probably the result of bad editing. But the characters aren't really all bad. The villain works, even if his motivations are weak and unexplained. But the actor behind the role did his best and really made him have a strong presence on screen. I just felt the Symbiote he got paired with, Riot, was to singular.

The acting from Tom Hardy was really well done, his talents shining through in the otherwise dull spectacle of a typical Sony film. The movie oftentimes couldn't decide what genera or tone it was going for, switching between horror suspense, to straight up hero action, to dark comedy, to buddy comedy, or just straight up comedy. Movies can switch around like this and work, but this one does not. When there are interactions between Eddie and Venom where the film turns into a more buddy comedy, it really works great. If the whole film had been done that way, it could have been great!

But as it is, the movie was held back. Trying to be too dark and serious at times with the subject matter, but constrained by a PG-13 rating. And even for a PG-13 film... it felt censored. It was like borderline PG. It really feels this movie was killed in the editing.
And I've even heard that Tom Hardy has stated that a lot of the film was cut out, including most of his favorite scenes.
This movie really had potential, but fell flat in too many aspects. There is also the strange thing of Venom existing in a world without Spider-Man. They tried to make it work with a more original origin story here... but still it looms over the film like a shadow and something missing. Seriously, having a Venom movie without Spider-man is dumb. Like what if they decided to make a Joker film set in the 80's without Batman?.. oh wait.


Now one thing, and spoiler alert... in the end credits scene, it's revealed that Woody Harrelson is in prison playing the part of Cletus Kasady. Who is the psychotic murder that becomes Carnage... I can not wait for the sequel now! I can fully get behind Woody playing that part and I'm super excited to see how he does it. The movie will be a ton of fun just for him alone. Just hopefully they learn from this film and improve the next. Like... if it's a film about Carnage... you can't do PG-13. You just can't. Learn from Logan and Deadpool.


I'm right on the fens of giving this movie 3 and 4 stars. I would give it 3 and 1/2 if I could. I'll just round up to 4 stars.


Mistake Status: I saw a few in theaters, forgot most of them by the time I got home but submitted the 3 I remembered. Like all superhero movies, I'll get to it eventually and really break it a part. That's my bread and butter

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18th Oct 2018

Skyscraper (2018)

I rented this movie from RedBox.

It was pretty good. I'm more and more starting to see The Rock as one of my favorite actors. He's really come a long way since Scorpion King.

This movie is a good suspense thriller and action movie blend. I don't really have any real complaints about the movie, or super praises. It was good, fun to watch and a nice popcorn flick. Visually stunning, and great acting.

Mistake Status: Caught a few while watching the rental, I may eventually own this movie and go through it again.

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11th Oct 2018

Hotel Artemis (2018)

I rented this movie from RedBox.

I actually really enjoyed this movie! It was well written mostly and had engaging characters.
At first it seemed to be billed as an action film... However there actually isn't very much action in the movie except in the opening scene and towards the end. Its more a character drama, but it's great!

The acting is well done and the idea of a John Wick style hospital for criminals is a cool one, though it does seem they coped the hit man hotel idea from John Wick as a hospital for this film.

My only issues with the film, and why I'm giving it a lesser rating than full, is all the damn sub plots that are thrown in there that don't really lend to much. It's pretty well done, but in the end it's like. What was the point? And the redemption arch for the Nice towards the end just felt so out of place for her and not earned. Perhaps if we had seen more of her history and past with Waikiki, it could have felt earned. But as it is, it just felt forced.

Mistake Status: I struggled to find even the one that I did. I was really into this film and often forgot to look for mistakes, which is a good thing! I'll have own this movie some time and really dive into it again. Even the mistakes on IMDb seem like they aren't really mistakes.

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I rented this from RedBox.

The inevitable follow up to the first two films I guess. It's not a bad movie, but it hits every cliched beat a sequel can it seems.
I rented this movie to watch with my 4 year old son, and it held his attention very well. But that's pretty much to be expected and this movie seems to be for a younger audience than the first two films.
Again, it wasn't a bad movie, but it was very very predictable. I figured out the twists of the romantic interest and who the captain really was even before she was on screen. There were no surprises.

What I really didn't like though was the ending of the movie in the "final battle "

Spoiler warning!

The ending is that the ultimate weapon that destroyed Atlantis is a sheet of music... Which Van Helsing starts playing on his DJ booth. It's a rad techno beat that some how mind controls the Kracken into becoming a destructive blood hungry monster... How do they fight this? Johnny pulls out his DJ stand and using Drac's powers... plays more soothing and happy songs to break the mind control. With the first two not being strong enough until they finally use... Macarena... as the song to beat the "evil techno" that Van Helsing is playing. I am not joking.
The final conflict of the film turns into a DJ battle to mind control the Kracken. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.


Mistake Status: I caught 3 of them while watching with my son. I may revisit these films some day if I ever own them or get them for my kid. But no immediate plans to do so.

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4th Oct 2018

The Predator (2018)

I saw this movie in theaters.

Like most other Predator movies, it still doesn't hold up to the original. The first film was a mystery, suspense, action thriller sci-fi and ahead of its time. This movie tries to be an action sci-fi comedy.
And where it does get a few good laughs on some of the jokes, it mostly falls flat.

The writing is nothing special and the visuals are noting unique. The characters seem all the same, and there is very little to be left unexpected.

All that being said, it's not a bad film. It's entertaining and fun. It's just nothing special.

Mistake Status: Caught one while in theaters. I plan to eventually go through the Predator movies for mistakes.

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4th Oct 2018

Blockers (2018)

I rented this movie on RedBox.

Eh, it's just a sex comedy with most of the usual beats in such films. It's like American Pie or Superbad all over again just with different characters and slightly different plot.

Some of the stuff is pretty funny, other times it's just meh. I had some laughs, I had some cringes. Over all it was an all right movie but nothing special.
Though I will say this is where I'm starting to see that John Cena is actually becoming a decent actor. It's hard for wrestlers to do this kind of acting and be good, but he's getting there. Still along ways to go till he reaches The Rock, but he's... at least decent now.

Mistake Status: Found a few on the initial viewing. No plans to revisit.

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I rented this movie from RedBox.

A typical C movie low budge zombie film with little substance. This is supposedly a remake of the 1985 Day of the Dead film, however I never saw the original so I can't judge it based on that.

The effects are bad, the acting is terrible and the plot kinda stupid. It has an interesting idea with a zombie made from a human that has much higher immune counts than usual only partly turning and being the breakthrough they need to create a vaccine. However, it's just a bad movie. Very little saving grace about it. It's not really worth your time.

Mistake Status: I caught a few mistakes on my initial viewing of the rental. I don't have any real plans to ever revisit this film. Maybe some day if I start going through a bunch of zombie movies like I am animated hero films, I may do this one again. But Zombie movies like this are a dime a dozen.

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2nd Oct 2018

Hereditary (2018)

I rented this movie at RedBox.

Honestly, this type of movie just isn't my cup of tea. I don't mind a suspense thriller here and there, and I do like a few horror films. When it's packed on constantly as hard as this film does it just bogs me down. I'm also really not too comfortable with all the satanic stuff that films like this have, but that's just me.

That being said, this film actually did a really good job at what it was doing. I found myself following along and staying with it regardless. It was well written and the acting was good for the most part. Some of the scenes with the child actors weren't so great, but mostly it was good. I don't really have much bad to say about other than the story itself and the ending are really not stuff I like. But it was done so good that I have to give it a higher rating at least.

Mistake Status: I struggled to find any while watching it the first time. Some of the ones I found I had to get from IMDb. I have no plans to watch this movie in the future so no more mistakes from me.

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1st Oct 2018

Gringo (2018)

I rented this movie from RedBox.

The film was all right. Nothing special. It started out kinda boring but as it progressed it got better. The characters are pretty good and even funny. The ending was a bit of a surprise actually, but it worked. Could have been better, but it wasn't bad by any means. I enjoyed it, at least once it picked up.

Mistake Status: Caught a few while watching it the first time. I have no plans to revisit the film.

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I own this movie on DVD.

This is an odd one. It's set in the Arrow-verse but also not. It supposed to serve as a prequel to the Crisis story line in the Arrow-verse but done animated. Several of the cast in those shows come back to voice their respective characters, but not all of them.
This was done as a 12 episode TV mini series but spliced together as a movie on the DVD. It appears the animation and story was rushed, and it shows.
The animation of the mouths are especially weird, as the upper lips on most of the characters are shaded too dark and it just makes everybody look like they have a really thick mustache for an upper lip... Especially The Ray.

This story can't keep track of itself. It's supposed to be about a new superhero trying to learn his powers, and come to terms with himself and his place in this world. Or the other one. However the film quickly devolves into more of a political agenda film more interested in Ray struggling to come out to his parents that he is gay and how him not doing so is making it so he can't effectively use his powers.
The Councilman figure he works for is a very unrealistic character in today's word, even publicly stating on TV they wish to have a community built of people only they see as desirable and actively evicts people who are different like Muslims.
Honestly, he would have fit in perfectly as a character on the Nazi overrun Earth X, but being a high office holding figure on the modern Earth 1 set just doesn't work and him having been able to keep his office.

It's all done as a plot device to ram into your head that the main character is gay and that him coming out to his parents is the real struggle here...

You know, and not that he has the super brain of a robot from another universe over run by Nazis and that those Nazis are actively looking for it and threaten his world and the multiverse... Oh no, that's not important at all. No the Nazi Supergirl with Hitler's ideals wanting to raise the Nazi flag over all the Multiverse isn't important at all. What we must focus on most of all is how ever will Ray come out of the closet to his parents, stop a Councilman from shutting down his humanitarian department and trying to keep his new powers secret from his secret boyfriend. Yeah, that's the more important story! Screw the Supergirl Nazi that threatens everything in existence, We must make sure his parents find out he's gay in a special way.

Then there is the issue of it taking place supposedly in the same continuity as the Arrow-verse. Most of it I can see... and I may be wrong on this as so far I've only seen seasons 1-3 of Arrow and seasons 1 of Flash. But in the movie they suddenly have to go off and fight a giant.... robot that's rampaging through the city. Like building size robot and have to stop it with a web of laser arrows. This kind of thing would work fine in an animated film like this sure. But this is supposed to be in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash. Which would mean that you could have done this movie fully in live action and it would have fit. But I can't see a giant robot like that in this very cartoony fight happening in the Arrow-verse and be taken seriously as a story at all.

Honestly this doesn't really feel like a Superhero movie, but feels more like a coming to terms with sexuality movie and political agenda that had a Superhero skin put on it and forced into the Arrow-verse. It doesn't flow, it gets distracted by itself and has it's priorities all wrong.
These two things could potentially go good together, but this film does not pull it off.
I only give it a 3 star rating because it's not a terrible movie and when the story is focus on the hero stuff it does get pretty good at some points. And the exchanges between Cisco and Ray are hilarious.
Just when the movie switches gears to force it's political agenda, it comes to a grinding halt and then the animation of character lips looking like mustaches, even on the girls, is just super distracting.


And then I come to the thing that really rubs me the wrong way with this film. I had to come back and edit this part of the review after I gave it some more thought and I'm downgrading my rating to two stars because of this.
The main character, Ray, portrays himself as the victim and is put in a position of the film where the film makes want you to think he's the social justice warrior fighting for equality and all that... when the character is actually a huge dick.
And there are a few examples of why I say this.
Number 1. He doesn't fight for his man. After he admits to his boyfriend in the film, Jacob, that he can't come out to his parents because they are "very conservative" Jacob basically breaks up with him on the spot because he doesn't want to be a dirty little secret. Which I understand. Ray doesn't say anything back and just lets him walk away. He just sulks and this causes him to doubt himself more and struggle with his powers which forces the whole point of he can't master his powers until he accepts himself as gay angle of the film. And at the end, he never goes back to make things right with Jacob.

Number 2. He abuses his powers to get what he wants. Yeah, it might be seen as a way of getting social justice for this moment, but it doesn't excuse the fact of what he does. The Councilmen shuts down his humanitarian department so he can't help people any more. What does Ray do? He tries to right a wrong with another wrong. Once he gets his powers, he breaks into the Councilmen's office, literally breaking in through the window, and threatens him and blackmails him into opening the department back up. Not a very heroic thing to do... but the movie plays it up that it was. And his friend even calls him out on this but he just shrugs it off. This also never plays into the film again. We never see the department reinstated and only just hear a press conference the following day of the Councilmen turning over a new leaf... We never see any other positive benefits of this... nor any bad ones. The Ray gets away with this scott free with no consequences what so ever. Some role model there, kids. Black mail and threaten your politicians to push them into making changes that YOU think is right, whether you are or aren't.

Number 3. And this is the biggest issue for me. So in the film after Overgirl beats the crap out of him and gets away with Red Tornado's cortex, he finally comes clean to his parents and tells them he is gay. They accept him completely. Tell him their love for him is unconditional and that they are happy if he is happy. That's all they want. Things are going good for him. So then after Ray goes over to Earth X and fights off the Nazis... he decides he's needed more there and won't return home. Well that's all good and all, but he refuses Vibe offering to send him back to Earth 1. So what's the big deal? Okay so Vibe and Cisco are the same person on Earth X or Earth 1, and each has the ability to send Ray back and forth between universes. Ray refuses to go back home, where he left his parents with no clue as to what happened to him. They don't know he's a superhero now. They don't know he's gone over to another dimension to fight super Nazis and save some other Earth. He just came out of the closet to them and they accepted him whole heartedly unconditionally. And this was after Overgirl blew a hole in their home through Ray's upstairs room and he took off. This hole never got fixed so he took off leaving them worried with not knowing where he is, and left them with massive property damage that they have no way of explaining. He leaves behind Jacob also, never making things right just so he could stay in another world and fight Nazis. He has the ability to travel back and forth with Vibe and Cisco and make things right in his own life and have time to fight Nazis... but he doesn't. He leaves his parents sitting after they did so much for him and accepted him after he came out to them.
I'm sorry but this guy just really rubs me the wrong way and I'm giving this movie a two star because of this.

To clear the air, my political, religious, and sexual views are not what is influencing this review. It's the content of the movie, the message it's trying to get across and the very messed up bad way it's doing it with flawed characters and logic and bad animation that are causing this review.

Mistake Status: Skimmed through it on a viewing to find a few mistakes here and there and get the film established on this site. I will go back through it much more thoroughly later on when it comes this movie's turn in my rotation.

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I own this movie on DVD.

So, 11 years after DC Animation studios started with their line of original movies, we come to The Death of Superman. The first movie they made with this line up was Superman/Doomsday. This new movie is effectively a remake of that film, but set in the new continuity that was created after the events of Flashpoint Paradox.

This is a new way of telling the same story, and this time having the Justice League fight against Doomsday. They tried to up the violence in this film and in many ways it does work. The animation has come a long ways since the 2007 Superman/Doomsday, but not devoid of mistakes as I can easily spot.

This time around they did make the fight between Doomsday and Superman much more brutal, and gave it a feel that Superman was really struggling. Though some parts of the original film did do that better. In both they do end the fight by crashing down back into the city from space like a meteor and I will give this new film props for doing that scene better in every way. In the 07 film, Superman just holds onto Doomsday and dive bombs right into the city with little hint of struggle, and the impact alone is what kills Doomsday. Superman walks away and then collapses with just a little blood coming out of his mouth before he "dies." In this film it's done much better. While falling down from space, Doomsday is just whaling on Superman the whole way not letting him have a chance to fight back much or steer their decent, showing that there was a reason they fell back into the city endangering more people. And Doomsday just walks away from the crater leaving the bloodied Superman helpless as he heads towards Lois. And they give Lois a very awesome and strong moment here.
The way Superman does finally defeat Doomsday is amazing. And they did similarly to the Batman V Superman film where Doomsday kills Superman at the same time by stabbing him pretty much. But it's done much better... And Doomsday looks great in this film. Unlike the that cave troll "thing" that was in Batman V Superman. The animated version looks ten times better and even more realistic than the live action CGI crap. That's just sad.
Hell the 07 Doomsday looks better than the live action one.

The emotional moment of Superman dying in Lois' arms is also done much better in this version and even brings tears to my eyes.
One thing I don't like about it and the main reason i'm giving this 4 stars instead of 5 is the start of the fight with Doomsday and the rest of the Justice League. He does completely wipe the floor with them... but it's done I a very "fluffy" way I should say. To that point, Doomsday had been show to grab and kill people in an instant. Like grabbing the Atlantians that find him and crushing their skulls in a single motion. But in the fight with the Justice League he suddenly becomes much less vicious or dangerous, with his fighting dumbed down so that the animators don't have to have members of the League being killed. And this even happens very frustratingly bad later when Lex Luthor tries to step in and fight Doomsday. Doomsday rips open his mech and grabs Lex, pulling him out and just holding the mortal human there. But oh, we can't have Lex being killed off like that now can we? So rather than doing what would actually happen with Doomsday crushing Lex or ripping him apart limb from limb... this violent rage monster of gore that has no restraint just throws Lex like a baseball where Superman can swoop in and save him unharmed...

Another thing I don't like about the film, is how Lex is portrayed. He's just a whiny brat with a squeaky voice. I didn't like his voice in the 07 film either, but even that was better than this.
I don't know, maybe it is just because I grew up hearing Clancy Brown as the voice of Lex for so many years. It's hard to hear a high pitched voice behind the character and take him seriously or have any credibility at all.

The 07 Superman/Doomsday is more like two films rolled into one though, with the fight with Doomsday and Superman being killed just the first half. With the second half of the film picking up with a clone of him made by Lex trying to take over until the real Superman comes out of his coma and is strong enough to fight his clone.

This film is all about the fight and death, with the film setting up the continuation in the next movie for the Rise of the Supermen. I'm really looking forward to that next film. This one is good, but some parts could have been better. But that's just my opinion.


Mistake Status: Skimmed through it on a viewing to establish it on this site. Later on when I get to this film in my rotation I will give it a much thorough look through and rip it apart for each mistake.

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21st Sep 2018

211 (2018)

I rented this from Red Box.

Well the idea for the story sounds pretty solid itself. But the film is poorly excited. Much of the writing is bad and the dialog clunky. When the lady cop and her rookie partner are talking, I would swear it's like listening to dialog and acting straight out of The Room.
Many of the plot threads that are started see to go nowhere. Nick Cage's acting is really good as he tends to be but again, he's the best in the film and the only one really trying. Well that and the kid. The kid playing Kenny is pretty decent for a child actor. And I will say the guy playing Steve isn't awful.
My main problem is with the villains. The merc team robbing this bank are supposed to be super intelligent and crafty in getting out of these situations. Yet in the end they literally rush out hauling heavy bags of money on their shoulders into the line of fire of the swat team and other cops and get gunned down in seconds. Yeah... brilliant plan there guys.
The film falls flat in action sequences, realism and lots of stupid characters. One construction worker even stupidly and for unknown reasons elects to sprint into the line of fire between the cops and thugs and gets shot... like what did you think would happen dummy? And at one point the kind is shown suddenly to apparently be very smart with electronics and is able to rig a phone charger with a key and a 9 volt battery to charge his cellphone... but nowhere else in the film does he do anything remotely like that aside from getting his head shoved down a toilet by bullies.

It's not exactly a terrible movie. But it's not good either. It's boring, slow, predictable, and has stupid "smart" bad guys.


Here is a link to my Two Scraps review of this film on Scrap.tf.
Https://scrap.tf/raffles/PQ2L2B.

Mistake Status: Found a few when rented. May buy Nick cage movies in the future to go through again.

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20th Sep 2018

Ocean's Eight (2018)

I rented this movie from Red Box

I honestly couldn't finish the film. It wasn't really bad... but boring. It just felt like the same thing all over again with just a different twist of having a female cast. It feels like it was trying to cash in on the female Ghostbusters thing... which did't work out anyways. I only got maybe 40 minutes into the movie at most and took it out. Just boring.

Mistake Status: Was too boring to look for any.

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20th Sep 2018

Future World (2018)

I rented this movie from RedBox.

Ugh... This film... I couldn't finish it. So what is it? Well.
Apparently it's a post apocalyptic future where the last robot is a hot chick and some dude is trying to find some temple by a lake to cure his dying mother... But I couldn't finish this movie.
I only got about 27 minutes into it and couldn't sit through the next hour of this crap.
Some movies are so bad you enjoy watching the train wreck unfold... This is not one of those movies. This movie is bad, and is boring. I just couldn't sit through it. Nothing inspired, no vision, no originality... And to think that James Franco himself was the director of this film! Like... the hell? How did he get Snoop Dog into this? Or Milla Jovovich? Milla is literally credited as just Drug Lord... and James Franco is Warlord. And get this, they got Lucy Liu into the film as well. And how is this bad ass martial artist actress used in the film? She's lying in bed sick and barely talks.

This movie is bad, boring, and uninspired. Just skip this one.

A link to my Two Scraps Review of this film.
https://scrap.tf/raffles/X6EMHQ

Mistake Status: No... not going back. can't do it.

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I rented this movie from Red Box.

I'm really on the fens about this one. I would put it between 2 and 3 stars if I could. If the rating system was on a 10 star level, I would have put it at around a 4 or 5.
The Jurassic has definitely had it's ups and downs, and while this not the worst of the bunch by far... it still lacks a lot. The characters are bland, and Chris Pratt is not given much room to shine in a dull and uninteresting character. And with his character being the second best in the film... that's a problem.
The story has begun to devolve to much into a cartoonish like battle off good dinos vs bad dinos with stagnate humans padding the run time.

It was a bit refreshing when I saw the military leader guy not being portrayed in the stereotypical gruff military colonel fashion that his type of character is usually portrayed as. But then that was ruined by him turning on the main character. If he was the stereotype, the betrayal would have been expected. So it happening like it did actually was unexpected... but not in a good way. It came off as an eye rolling disappointment of "Oh great so it is that kind of character after all" just when I was starting to like the guy.

The visuals in the story are great, and I won't shy away from admitting the fact that I almost shed a tear on the Long Neck on the lava dock scene... you know the one. But the whole movie felt like a rushed, half-assed segway trailer to part 3.

Mistake Status: Searched partly when rented. No current plans to revisit but may happen in the future if I decide to do the Jurassic Park series

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I rented this movie form RedBox.

After seeing a preview for this film, I didn't realise what it was. But then an interview on YouTube caught my eye where James Franco and Tommy Wiseau were on a couch with Dave Franco and talking to a host. That's when I realised this movie was about the making of The Room. I decided to rent it and give it a watch and it was good!
Funny, and a deep look at the interaction of friends and one crazy guy.

I've actually never seen The Room, but after watching this I do want to now. I have a new appreciation for moves so-bad-their-good. I felt James did an excellent job recreating Tommy's persona and mannerisms. I really enjoyed this film and must buy it some time.

Mistake Status: Caught a few on my initial viewing of the rental. I do plan to buy this film on DVD in the future, and at some point I'll give it a more thorough examination.

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11th Sep 2018

Killing Gunther (2017)

I own this on DVD.

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the world's best hitman, Gunther. He's world famous but nobody knows who he really is.
Well this other group of people get the idea to be the ones to kill Gunther, so that they can be famous for being the hitmen that killed the world's best hitman. But nobody would believe them without evidence... so they decide to film the whole thing.
The movie is a mockumentary about this group trying to set up traps and situations to trap Gunther and take him out while getting it all on camera.
However things don't go according to plan as Gunther seems to be 3 steps ahead of them every time and tears their plans to shreds! It becomes a hilarious action comedy of a game of cat and mouse... where the mouse is the cat's worst nightmare!

Honestly I think for a low budget film like this, it's great. The jokes are funny, the characters work well and it's just a very well put together film for what it is. And I swear, the creators had to be fans of CinemaSins as some of the jokes are almost direct references to things he points out. Like the line about the "Zoom and enhance cliche" was priceless.
The acting is pretty good, the special effects look great, the humor is on point, and Arnold is as hammy and funny as ever.
The only down side is that Arnold himself actually doesn't have much screen time. He's sort of the mysterious figure in the shadows for the first two thirds of the movie till he finally reveals himself. And the twist at the end is great! Fits him perfectly.
Hell both twists...
HELL ALL three TWISTS!

And the movie actually manages to be a bit unpredictable, which is a very big breath of fresh air.

My Two Scraps Review
https://scrap.tf/raffles/RLFMEL

Mistake Status: Not yet searched when rented. I just bought the DVD so may go back into it in the future for mistakes.

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5th Sep 2018

Tag (2018)

I rented this from Red Box.

Hands down one of the funniest movies and one of the best comedies I've seen in years. I was laughing from start to finish. I loved the movie, I loved the idea, and they really did great with it.

It's refreshing to see their still is the ability to make a good comedy these days without TOO overloading it with sex and drug humor. Granted their was some of that in the film, but it wasn't the focus or over done. Though a lot of people would say it's too much.

The writing was wonderful, with the jokes and interactions between the characters being engaging and funny. The occasional slapstick was also greatly executed, and from the first couple scenes had my rolling. And the emotional moments of the film also hit pretty hard. Just all around amazing movie and I would love to buy it. So glad I rented it.

Mistake Status: Searched partly when rented. May buy in the future.

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