Post by Martin Stett on Oct 30, 2017 16:05:57 GMT
The Circle (2017) -- What the hell. This movie is such a misbegotten hash of decent ideas thrown together randomly without rhyme or reason. The only good thing about it is Tom Hanks, who manages to be somewhat menacing. I'd give props to an unrecognizable Bill Paxton as well, but unrecognizable is the only good thing I can say: his character is shit and he has no opportunity to make a decent performance outside of playing up his MS. 3/10
Rogue One (2016) -- I've posted my thoughts on this before, but hot damn is this movie fun! It is everything wrong with movies today (ticking clock plot, barely drawn characters, constant forward momentum) done right. It moves with so much speed that I don't care how much I should hate it. And if nothing else, the finale battle sequence is incredible. 8/10
Colossal (2016) -- If you're going to make a genre movie -- even a genre movie that is really a metaphor underneath -- you have to make the genre elements make some sort of internal sense. And they really don't here. The entire thing could be solved by simply calling the cops, pretty much. Which is too bad, because the actual story about how self loathing ruins the lives of these characters is pretty good. A little shallow, perhaps (Jason Sudeikis does quite well with a character that needed much more development), but the elements for greatness are all there. Anne Hathaway is great as always, impressing in a departure from any of her other roles. 6/10
It Comes at Night (2017) -- Post-apoc is my jam, and I really enjoy the genre elements that are used here. They're consistently creepy and scary enough to hide just how weak the character interactions are. There's no sense of who these people were before the world burned, and that's the real story of the post-apoc genre: looking at who people were before the end and after it, and trying to bridge that gap. Still, the oppressive atmosphere is so strong that I only notice these flaws after the movie finished, so credits to the director. 7/10
Rogue One (2016) -- I've posted my thoughts on this before, but hot damn is this movie fun! It is everything wrong with movies today (ticking clock plot, barely drawn characters, constant forward momentum) done right. It moves with so much speed that I don't care how much I should hate it. And if nothing else, the finale battle sequence is incredible. 8/10
Colossal (2016) -- If you're going to make a genre movie -- even a genre movie that is really a metaphor underneath -- you have to make the genre elements make some sort of internal sense. And they really don't here. The entire thing could be solved by simply calling the cops, pretty much. Which is too bad, because the actual story about how self loathing ruins the lives of these characters is pretty good. A little shallow, perhaps (Jason Sudeikis does quite well with a character that needed much more development), but the elements for greatness are all there. Anne Hathaway is great as always, impressing in a departure from any of her other roles. 6/10
It Comes at Night (2017) -- Post-apoc is my jam, and I really enjoy the genre elements that are used here. They're consistently creepy and scary enough to hide just how weak the character interactions are. There's no sense of who these people were before the world burned, and that's the real story of the post-apoc genre: looking at who people were before the end and after it, and trying to bridge that gap. Still, the oppressive atmosphere is so strong that I only notice these flaws after the movie finished, so credits to the director. 7/10
