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Thanks STX for not giving me us a screening and having critics sneak into it. I guess since The Bye Bye Man and The Space Between Us were significant critical failures why not give critics screenings for your next film starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega. It can’t be that bad right? Oh STX you came a long way from releasing The Gift.
It is weird that The Circle is shown as this multimedia platform with plenty of different purposes that at times are smart and cool until you realize, these things actually exist in our world. It's never really explained what The Circle really is. At one moment its Periscope then its Instagram Live, but then people talk about how it can also be a tracking device that can start or stop machines. I’m sorry but HOW?! You don’t really see coders do anything of the sort to make all these TED talks and philosophies that Tom Hanks and Emma Watson do onstage turn into reality. One of the biggest moments is when Mae unveils a new idea, it just works right off the bat. This girl goes from Mae to Emma Watson really quickly. Honestly, I would love to see Tom Hanks and Emma Watson as motivational speakers.
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Every year, we get a film where crazy woman or man enters the life of another woman or man threatening to take it apart due to their infatuation with either the person or their significant other. They’re always are released in September and released by Sony’s Screen Gems. Ever since they released Obsessed in 2009 they’ve bending…wait Warner Bros? What are you doing with an Obsessed ripoff?
What’s the deal with Warner Bros. trying to steal Sony’s thunder? Last month they attempted to do that with CHiPs in an attempt to cash in on the success of Sony’s 21 Jump Street and now we have Unforgettable which is NOTHING BUT A CASH IN ON SONY’S OBSESSED! FOR SHIT SAKE THE TIME OF THE RELEASE DATE BARELY EVEN DIFFERS!
Obsessed Release Date: April 24th, 2009
Unforgettable Release Date: April 21st, 2017
For God’s sake, Sony ripped off their own film nearly every year in the month of September with no but black actors. But Warner Bros? This is a new low for you guys to distribute this.
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Not only does this movie runs on Wright’s natural (and now iconic) style, but it also moves on rhythm. The music doesn’t only play as a mean to sell a soundtrack, but it plays as an intricate part of the story and the character development for Baby. Besides Baby being a lover of classic music from the late 20th century, he also makes tape remixes of sound he hears that day. I feel that the music featured is the music that impacted Wright's life, while the music Baby makes is just Ansel Elgort releasing his inner DJ. Have you listened to Ansel Elgort’s music? That boy has talent. I’m pretty sure the music he makes in the film is Ansel Elgort just doing himself.
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I got to see this at an early screening last week. I wasn't originally going to go, because I was super sick and my friend (who's father passed away a week beforehand after the fact I invited him to join me) wanted to go. So I went to the theater with tissue, cough syrup, and nasal spray in a Walgreens bag. I reviewed it earlier as well and let me just say these movies are still fun as hell.For a franchise that went on long enough to release an eighth entry, Smurf Family Franchise is an action sequel that never seems to run out of steam. By now, you shouldn’t enter these movies expecting an Oscar award-winning story or performance because these movies are still dumb as smurf. It's extremely crazy to think that this franchise began with guys stealing Panasonic VHS players to working for CIA groups and fighting against international terrorists.
I was going to go to the NY Premiere last night, but.....I got this hat earlier this week and I was absolutely fine with it.
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this is an indie movie with a significantly smaller budget than those blockbusters, but this is a story that is far much more superior and original than every creature feature released since Cloverfield. If The Truman Show, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Gift, and Pacific Rim had an illegitimate baby, it would be Colossal. Academy Award nominated director Nacho Vigalondo who has had a weird track record with making segments for anthology films such as V/H/S: Viral pulls an inspirational turnaround with a concept that is both original and creative. Instead of displaying action for the sake of the audience's amusement, he focuses more on character development with an absurd story that works so seamlessly. Remember last year where Swiss Army Man was the best what the fudge movie in accounts of storytelling, well this is this year's Swiss Army Man for me. Like Swiss Army Man, Colossal consists of a very weird tone that you would expect to predict every singular plot point from the trailer alone, but throughout you are thoroughly surprised how far both the story and some of the film's characters go.
Just like the Kaiju, Hathaway commands the screen with presence and strength throughout. Because of the film being also as a dark comedy, her timing and delivery is spot on. She mixes her performance between a thin line of comedy and drama and she does a stellar job balancing both.
FULL REVIEW HERE-
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Back in 1979, comedy legends George Burns, Art Carney, and [more theater legend] Lee Strasberg starred in a comedy called Going in Style where three friends in their elderly age decide to rob a bank. It was clever, original, and had a surprising social commentary. Now in the idealistic obsoleteness of Hollywood, its about time a remake was warranted. But instead of the legendary actors of the 70s (who are all dead now) we have legendary actors for our generation. From director JD of Scrubs. I mean from director Chicken Little. GODDAMN IT I MEAN from director Zach Braff, and the Academy Award nominated screenwriter/director of Hidden Figures comes Three Men and a Robbery —— I MEAN Going in Style 2017.
https://rendyreviews.com/movies//going-in-style-review
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Sony, the repulsive whores of reboots, are back at it again. Before they give us our third reincarnation of Spider-Man this July, they decide give us a fully CG Smurfs reboot nobody asked for. Yep, we're getting two Sony franchise reboots within the same year people! But who cares? It’s the Smurfs as you should’ve seen them in the first place. Besides, you can’t get worse than Raja Gosnell who, [as I said in my CHiPs review], is a poison to every film adaptation he gets his hands on....or can you?
https://rendyreviews.com/movies//smurfs-the-lost-village
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Welcome back to another episode of Americans Approaching Anime. The last time we left off the Hollywood studios, we saw Spike Lee attempt his own American version of Oldboy based off the manga of the same name in 2013. Lee was ambitious for he tried, but the film was both a critical and financial failure and never hit the amazingness of the manga let alone its South Korean film adaptation. It was neither a step up or a step down for Americans appropriating manga adaptations. Now we have Rupert Sander’s adaptation of Ghost in the Shell a film based off the anime that was based off the manga of the same name. Will this adaptation bring Hollywood up or get so low Dragonball: Evolution will have to be forgiven?
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Back in the 1980s there was a popular NBC television named CHiPs which was about the adventures of two California highway patrol officers starring Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada. It was a show way before my birth, but from the information that I gathered, the original show was a wholesome lighthearted show for the whole family. Today, Hollywood has brought back the beloved 80s series and TOOK A BIG SHIT ON IT!
Dax Shepard is no Phil Lord/Chris Miller.
LET ME SAY IT AGAIN!
DAX SHEPARD
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PHIL LORD & CHRIS MILLER
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With every film adaptation of popular TV shows nowadays, Hollywood has the tendency to take something that was light-hearted and make it dark, brooding, or inappropriately crude. With this Power Rangers film, it's great to see something that started off silly maintain it’s silliness.
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As you would guess it, Alec Baldwin’s voice performance is the driving force of the movie. No, it is not as unique as Baldwin voicing a Russian Santa Claus in Rise of the Guardians, but his delivery on his dialogue that works. With Baldwin’s voice interacting with Miles Bakshi (who oddly got his start voicing one of the Shrek babies), the jokes really write themselves. It's conceptually hysterical having an adult voice coming out an adorable baby (this is why everyone’s favorite Family Guy character is Stewie) so Baldwin’s voice is the perfect fit for the film.
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Personally I'm not one for creature features. I wasn't fond of Godzilla 2014 or Pacific Rim, but this gave me a real good time. I saw it last night and had an ultimate ball. It was the perfect turn your brain off blockbuster I've seen in a loooong time.
Let's just say 2005 King Kong don't have **** on 2017 King kong
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What I like about this film is right off the bat it expresses whole heartedly that this is a 100% new reimagining of King Kong. “What 1930s? There’s no 1930s film,” The film takes place in the time span between 1944 and 1973 during WWII and the Vietnam War. It’s like director Jordan Vogt-Roberts just saw Peter Jackson’s version and threw it in the trash like.
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Several years back in 2011, I had a conversation with my dad about the portrayal of Black people in horror movies. We complained how either they were the first to die or nonexistent in the film. We were both very sick and tired of seeing the same cliche over and over again. He even tried to think of his own version of a horror movie starring African-Americans. We just ended the conversation in the hope a director would come along and make a legit horror flick that both perfectly portrayed the actions of African-Americans without any stereotypes with the characters and come off as a good movie. We had to accept the fact that, that movie was never going to happen for we watched theatrical parodies from Marlon Wayans as a diversion.
UNTIL NOW!
Get Out is a film that simply answers the question, “how would black people react in a horror film type of situation.” If you think this is the horror version of the 1967 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, it is much more than that. The premise is a blend of that and the 1975 film The Stepford Wives while putting a modern spin on it.
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Don’t you love it when there’s a controversy for a movie? I can’t get excited for a lot of movies nowadays without hearing a controversy behind it. Ever since I saw Exodus: Gods and Kings in 2014, that was my first full exposure to noticing whitewashing. I was appalled with how much miscasting there was for that movie even while watching (and trying to keep my eyes. And this was a Ridley Scott movie. would say The Last Airbender would be my first example, but believe it or not, it was very diverse what it was worth. With some films where the entire cast is of a different ethnicity and the lead is Caucasian, I don’t have an issue with it. A film has to appeal to everyone right? Why is Matt Damon in The Great Wall? To put the American audience’s asses into seats. Boy was I wrong.
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A lot of people may compare this film to the 1987s hit comedy Three O’ Clock High down to the story being set in one day, but with a twist of the leads being teachers instead of students but this reminded me of a short-lived Fox animated TV series back in 2009 named “Sit Down, Shut Up,” which featured the voices of Jason Bateman, Will Forte, and Will Arnett to name a few. Though it was short-lived, it was funny and vulgar where the stars were the zany personalities of these animated teachers. If there was a fully live-action version of Sit Down, Shut Up this movie would be it, because it is cartoonish as shit.
FULL REVIEW HERE: https://www.rendyreviews.com/movies//fist-fight-review
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The John Wick franchise is becoming similar to the Indonesian The Raid franchise to me where the first film is stylistic and over the top with a simplistic story and great execution. It sets up its own rules, plays by its rules, and delivers amazingly choreographed action sequences WHEREAS IT’S SEQUEL dives more into this world all this violent madness takes place in. It gives the lead a bit more depth and character while cranking up its action level to eleven with numerous of innovative and imaginative set pieces at the foreground of where these action sequences take place.
http://www.rendyreviews.com/movies/john-wick-chapter-two-review
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6 minutes ago, The Futurist said:
This was bloody awful.
Dat cliffhanger :
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Dakota was as good as the first one to me, didn't feel a jarring diffrence on that front with the first one.
The sex stuff is as prudish as the first one.
The story, what story ?
Oh, and the theater had that Twilight scent ...
WHEN THE FILM ENDED I SCREAMED "THAT'S IT?! FUCK YOU!!"
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Well I'm going to a panel with DeHaan and Verbinski next week
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If anyone was to ask me what Fifty Shades Darker was about I would tell them:
- Ana gets a job
- Ana and Christian have sex some more
- OH, and they fuck over people who pose “a threat” to their relationship.
In other words, this movie is about absolutely fucking nothing! NOTHING! If you saw the first film, you saw it all. This nothing but an 118-minute cringe fest from beginning to end that is some way somehow significantly worse than its predecessor. Fifty Shades Darker is the equivalent of seeing an incompatible couple getting back together after a week only for their relationship to go back to stage one.-
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The film’s story is a combination of Bioshock, Shutter Island, and the Stephen King novel Misery. Somehow that sounds conceptually interesting but it lacks enough story to maintain your interest. What made things like Misery and Shutter Island relatively interesting were it’s genuine build up and suspense for the mystery that is going on around the atmosphere in the situation those characters are in. With A Cure For Wellness, you can easily predict the plotting and the answer to the mystery by the 30-minute mark.
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I saw this last night and wow did this blow me away
Yes, this is an indie movie with a significantly smaller budget than those blockbusters, but this is a story that is far much more superior and original than every creature feature released since Cloverfield. If The Truman Show, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Gift, and Pacific Rim had an illegitimate baby, it would be Colossal. Academy Award nominated director Nacho Vigalondo who has had a weird track record with making segments for anthology films such as V/H/S: Viral pulls an inspirational turnaround with a concept that is both original and creative. Instead of displaying action for the sake of the audience's amusement, he focuses more on character development with an absurd story that works so seamlessly. Remember last year where Swiss Army Man was the best WTF movie in accounts of storytelling, well this is this year's Swiss Army Man for me. Like Swiss Army Man, Colossal consists of a very weird tone that you would expect to predict every singular plot point from the trailer alone, but throughout you are thoroughly surprised how far both the story and some of the film's characters go.
Just like the Kaiju, Hathaway commands the screen with presence and strength throughout. Because of the film being also as a dark comedy, her timing and delivery is spot on. She mixes her performance between a thin line of comedy and drama and she does a stellar job balancing both.
FULL REVIEW HERE: https://rendyreviews.com/movies//colossal-review
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The Lovers | Azazel Jacobs | May 5, 2016
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