Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

It does reset Spider-Man back to the established, mundane status quo, though. Wiping out three movies worth of characterisation just so you can finally get to where Spider-Man is ‘supposed’ to be isn’t big or clever.

Although I haven't seen it yet. I just lost all care after End Game. Watched the Spidey after that but haven't seen a Marvel film since.

And I was day 1 at the cinema for pretty much all of them. End Game was just the perfect closure of an unbelievable feat pulling of a universe of films like that.

I know there's so much money involved and now D+, but they really should have taken a break.

Watched No Way Home on TV tonight as well, it's still a thoroughly fun time but two things continue to stand out about it for me.

1. The spellcasting scene really is 5 minutes of absolute fuckwittery by two seemingly hyper intelligent characters. Surely someone could have scripted a better way to engineer all of the multiverse shenanigans.

2. Garfield absolutely, positively steals the last hour of the film.

That is all.

Started watching Shin Ultraman on Prime. Jeez the Japanese don't mess around, firing on all cylinders straight out the gate! It's got that schlocky 1950s vibe going on. Watch the first ten mins, it's hilarious.

I like No Way Home a lot but it is a bit gimmicky and fan-service heavy. As in, that’s mostly all it is, but then I’m quite close to one of the two demographics it was written for so of course I enjoyed the ride. I do think people got a but carried away at launch saying it was possibly the best MCU film but its almost certainly up there with GOTG3 as among the best two post-Endgame.

Rents No Way Home. Shows up on iPlayer one day later.

Whiplash

An absolutely terrifyingly tense movie with a masterful performance from J. K. Simmons.
The music is fantastic, the story is simple and gripping, the direction is great.

I absolutely love this movie.
(4th time of watching)

10/10

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Hot Fuzz

Watched this with our 13 year old last night. I think I’ve probably seen it too many times as it’s gone from hilarious to “that was fun” for me. He enjoyed it but not as much as SotD.

7/10

I love Hot Fuzz. So many quotable lines.

Me too, but I think I may be overly familiar with it these days. 

Rebel moon part 1 (Netflix)

Well, that was a shame. It had some almost good elements, eg Antony Hopkins' robot, and some interesting lore/world building. And well, it's big budget sci fi, so a must see for me. But most of the rest was bad or mediocre.

The lead was having to do way much work - eg she was both the instrument of the empire, now out in hiding, and the reluctant hero, and then the rousing speech maker, etc. the farmer was then reduced to one basic action. It should have been the farmer rousing everybody, including the reluctant hero, into action and fighting back. Or other films would have had a child or something.

The slo-mo, oh the slo-mo. I'd been warned by the other reviews on here, but my goodness is it just pointless.

The music is decent, but never transcends, and is forgettable.

There is sooo much talking, with almost soap opera acting and shots of people watching stuff and frowning. Every body gets a go at a speech at least once.

Meh/10

The Equalizer 3 (SKY)

Old Man Denzel kicks butt in Italy this time. Quite slow to get to the actual butt kicking parts but was some nice bits visually beforehand

A decent end to the trilogy

7

Mindhorn (iplayer)

Julian Barrett is an actor who was big in the 80s pulled back into his former detective role by a real life murderer.

If you like Alpha Papa or Hot Fuzz I think you’ll be into this. Its not as cinematic as they are but its hard to argue against it when Barrett is going scene for scene with Simon Farnaby and Steve Coogan. The whole whole cast is littered with great performances and cameos if you’re into post-SOTD British comedy films.

And its only 80 minutes long.

2nd part is slightly less Meh, but still in the Meh spectrum.