Love and Monsters (2020)

So an asteroid was headed to Earth that was going to destroy everyone, and humans solve this by sending up lots and lots of rockets to destroy the asteroid. The chemical compounds in those rockets rain back down on Earth causing cold-blooded creatures to mutate and become giant. A lot of people were eaten by their pets (fish, amphibians, reptiles, bugs) or while fighting the monsters. 95% of humanity is wiped out, and this is where the movie actually starts after a brief explanation of how humans caused their own monster problem.

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19tBHrZwOM

The thing I liked the most was that not all monsters are hostile and want to eat humans... plus the running joke about stealing food.

"The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name." QED.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

I watched great modern western with Nick Cave score to boot - Hell or High Water. I give it 8/10. I found it on
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Finally watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Wasn't great. Wasn't terrible. But... IMO it needed a stronger sense of urgency. What were the stakes again? And I never really connected with any of the characters as I did in say... Guardians of the Galaxy. The movie also reminded me of why D&D makes good high fantasy worlds to hang stories on, but those stories are often not more than a crazy-quilt of famous characters, locations and beasts... lacking a strong, cohesive, thematic or through-line. Kinda generic? That would seem to be why -- for me -- Middle Earth is a much more real place. Anyway...

... probably worth a watch if you're a D&D fan. Entertaining enough if you just want to turn your mind off. But not something you'll remember as a great fantasy movie you'll want to revisit. Or... maybe that's just me?

Are we counting Rewatches? Because gosh, I can't recall the last new film.

Yeah, we're counting rewatches.

Anyway, i saw Asteroid City and yes it was weird, but otherwise monotone.

Oppenheimer.

The end of the summer, a hot night, a friday-saturday party with friends, American Graffiti, i've seen ten, fifteen times, i don't know. What a great movie, soundtrack, actors. It has a lot of things about to speak; the Wolfman Jack, the cars, the Toad, the Pharaons.

Unbeliable that film was made by George Lucas, his best movie, easy choice.

Asteroid City.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

It was OK, but I will most likely not watch it again.

It's a comical light-hearted adventure movie, the kind they used to make, like Pirates of the Carribean, The Mummy, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey), and similar. I do miss these kind of movies.

Michelle Rodriguez was perfect as a warrior, but the big surprise was Justice Elio Smith, he was awesome as the sorcerer.

The main let-down was the character-writing for the supposed main character played by Chris Pine. For one thing his character was completely useless in the movie. He was supposed to be a bard but there was no evidence of that in my opinion, you would not have known he was supposed to be a bard, he could have just been a regular dude. All he did in the movie was cry and do nothing.

Another underdeveloped character was the druid-girl Doric, played by Sophia Lillis. She was great in IT but was very bland in this movie, her character lacked any degree of sympathy and likeability. Too cold and "edgy".

The story also felt rather rushed, with minimal exposition of the main story and the villains.It's not the epic adventure it wants to be.

Unlike the Pirates of the Carribean movies, this movie was rather lacking the character-development parts.

Thank the gods for South Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Chinese films, so I can actually get something good to watch.

It's always fun to explore post-apocalyptic scenarios in movies, and this one seems to have added a twist with the mutated creatures. The idea of humans inadvertently causing their own monster problem is both intriguing and cautionary.
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American Assassin (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1961175/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_american%2520assa

As nothing else interesting was coming from the TV, I decided to watch this even if a TV review bashed it, saying it is very poorly made and totally unconvincing, not realistic at all.

I was expecting it to be fat-Steven Seagal or 2020-Bruce Willis bad, but it was actually better than I expected. Not great or anything, but mostly still quite an entertaining action flick. I was also kinda surprised, after that unfavorable review, that it actually had one or few bigger name actors too (who are STILL big names, or at least were in 2017). Michael Keaton and David Suchet at least, and there were other faces too that I at least recognized...

Considering that IMDB has given ok-ish reviews for this movie too, I assume that unfavorable review was due to the reviewer's political views (that online magazine is tilted to left somewhat and e.g. quite anti-Trump), as in this movie the muslim jihadists were the bad guys, and especially as the haunting and powerful terror attack scene in the beginning resembled so much what happened in 10/7... It was easy to imagine that scene was from the Hamas attack (a sanitized version of it, no beheading and microwaving of infants in the movie, etc.).

Maybe if the baddies had been MAGA people, the movie would have received 5 stars from that reviewer.

I give the movie... 3 stars out of 5.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

I don't know what I was expecting, but I guess it was "better than this", because I was rather disappointed.

The last movie, which I'd never see before: The Burial

It was really funny for the most part and it let also breathe in some serious moments, which was nice.
Jamie Foxx really carried the movie.
Also seeing Alan Ruck was kind of a surprise for me. Man, this dude has aged ;-)