Mini Movie Reviews: Mission Impossible: Fallout, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting, Christopher Robin, and BlacKkKlansman! : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mini Movie Reviews: Mission Impossible: Fallout, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting, Christopher Robin, and BlacKkKlansman! / AntMan3001
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| 説明 | Damn, I’ve been so caught up in the Smash Ultimate hype that I forgot to upload some reviews for some new films that I’ve seen in the past couple of weeks! Anyways, here's a few films that I've seen recently are here are my short thoughts on them!Mission Impossible: Fallout -You know how people say there are 'dumb fun' action movies? Well I believe this is a fun action film of average intelligence. Now I've only seen one other Mission Impossible film, Rogue Nation, and this one is about on par with the last installment. I've never been too big of a fan of this franchise, I just never saw the draw and was never a Tom Cruise fan. Like Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Fallout has great action and stunts but I feel falls flat in terms of story. I also just didn't feel any stakes in this film seeing that there six other films before it where Ethan Hunt turned out just fine. At the same time, I just can't find any connection to these characters, maybe because I jumped into this franchise in the fifth installment. I also found the film incredibly predictable as well. I fear all of these elements may leave the film forgettable for me, because that's sure as hell what happened to the last one, I know I saw it, but can't tell you what exactly happened in that movie. What I will remember though is the fantastic score of this film, I loved it! But overall, I went into this film expecting a great stunt show and I must say I did come out satisfied!Score: 7/10Eighth Grade -Am I the only one that genuinely enjoyed middle school? Now although I personally didn't connect or relate with the experiences that Elsie Fisher's character goes through in this film, I think it's safe to say that we've all gone through the same emotions when we were in our early teens. Bo Burnham expertly conveys what anxiety is like for a kid cinematically, I picked up on all the various sound and camera techniques he used in the film and I was very impressed. I believe those techniques expressed those emotions better than the characters themselves. Where the film looses me is the story itself, at times I felt like the film was very 'Ready Player One-y' where the things that us "kids" would find relatable and real overshadowed the story itself. There was also a lot of self reflexive cringe in this film that I believe worked a lot, but didn't at times. Eighth Grade also has a lot of great humor, I found the dad and that kid Gabe to be highlights. Overall, Eighth Grade has it's downs, but I think it was still a solid debut film for Bo Burnham and I'm very interested to see what he tackles next!Score: 7/10Blindspotting - Okay now this film takes the #1 spot as the best film with the worst trailers. The way I first heard about this movie was during that program that plays BEFORE the trailers, and to me it just seemed like some cheap TV movie. But after all the praise I heard about this film, I had to go check it out in theaters. Safe to say I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. Blindspotting is sophisticated, humorous, terrifying, tragic, and extremely heartfelt. I'm so lucky to be witnessing this new movement of directors coming out of inner city areas like Oakland being born. Sure you could say that this was already going on with directors like Spike Lee and his films, but this feels different.A main theme of this film is well, blindspotting, looking at things a certain way, but being unable to see another side or dimension to it. This is perfectly explored through the lives of the two main characters, Collin and Miles, where one can't quite seem to see the one side and other has to pay for that fact. We get to explore four days of these two people's lives and it came with all the adjectives I listed earlier. These two have such a great chemistry that you're completely invested in both their highs and their lows. It was really amazing to watch these characters grow, I'm astonished that this sort of development came from a first feature director, because it felt like the person who was behind the camera's been working at this for a looong time.Now with these kinds of films there are of course some pretty political themes and messages that I thought were handled pretty perfect for the most part. The inner critic in me says that some of the film's themes didn't have to be so on the nose, but I feel like in the times we're living in, maybe they have to be so obvious for some to understand. I really hope more people go out to see this movie, and I especially hope this movie's release date doesn't make itself forgotten come Oscar season, because I really see some Best Picture potential right here.Score: 9/10Christopher Robin - Winnie the Pooh was always one of my dear favorites when I was a kid, so it's safe to say that I teared up almost every time I hear Jim Cummings's voice. Christopher Robin was such a splendid film to watch with people of all ages. Seriously, I couldn't have picked a better film to watch in a packed house. Maybe I would've felt differently about the film if it weren't for everyone's energy and their awing and laughing. Now yes, the movie is quite a slog with the plot surrounding the human characters is not being all that interesting and well developed whenever Pooh bear and friends aren't on screen, but the film more than makes up for it with their presence. The essence of these characters in which I love so dearly are captured perfectly. The humor in the film was great, basically every other line Eeyore said killed the audience which made the experience all the better! Like Christopher Robin's own journey in the film, Christopher Robin made me remember why I love the Hundred Acre Wood so much.Also, if you find any of the stuffed animals creepy in this film, you're absolutely nuts. This film makes me want to go out and buy a Winnie the Pooh of my own, but then I remember... I have to buy textbooks...Score: 8/10BlacKkKlansman -One of the biggest mic drops in cinema history. BlackKkKlansman was exactly what I thought it was going to be and more. It had the humor, the attitude, those sweet 70s vibes, and of course some incredible political commentary. Spike Lee pulls no punches in this film, I was enthralled with how he was able to say a thousand things in just one shot. One very memorable shot was, without giving spoilers, how he framed a character walking by a poster of Nixon that perfectly reflects what's going on in our country today, I was blown away. What I found also surprising was that the film also explores of what it meant to be Jewish in America during the time this film takes place as well with Adam Drivers character. I thought it was handled excellently.Now BlacKkKlansman presents a similar dilemma for me that Blindspotting did for me where I at times thought some political commentary on the film became too obvious, specifically with the ending. But as I said in my Blindspotting review, I really do think that in this time that it does need to be that obvious. While BlacKkKlansman did have me leaving the theater embarrassed, ashamed, and frustrated, I believe that was completely the point. Now why I don't believe BlacKkKlansman is as good as films like Sorry to Bother You or Blindspotting which both tackle similar issues that came out this year is because I feel as if BlacKkKlansman really would have benefited from more stylization to drive its message home. Sure it has it's own flavor, it's a Spike Lee film after all, but I guess I was expecting it too be a little more different from films I've seen before.That being said, I still really enjoyed this film and with films like this, Sorry to Bother You, and Blindspotting, this year's Oscar's is going to be nothing like we've ever seen before, especially since we have that dumb ass "Best Popular Film" bullshit as well.Score: 8.5/10 If you have seen any of these films, let me know what you thought of them in the comments below!If you like these mini reviews, I upload these almost EVERY DAY, both old and new movies, on my Letterboxd account! 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| 撮影日 | 2018-08-12 12:59:24 |
| 撮影者 | AntMan3001 , Orange, America |
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