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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Eternal Sunshine, The Matrix & Being John Malkovich meet.
The title says it all, this is an inter dimensional love story between a mother and a daughter. By the end of the film you realize why she prioritizes one alternate reality over infinite others. 8/10.
Guava Island (2019)
A Grown Man in Tiny Red Booty Shorts
There is not much to say about this film because not much happens, it seems like Donald & staff used this as an excuse to hang out with Rihanna (why anyone would want to do that I don't know), and to showcase some of Donald's songs. Despite my opinions on this dead end movie that has no story or character arc, the musical parts are quite charming & a couple of the songs are still stuck in my head for days now, until you get to the music festival. During this lengthly scene, while the main character is performing, he has his eyes open so wide that it looks like they are going to pop out of his head, why he is doing this I don't know but it happens the whole scene & distracts the viewer from a tense build up the film is trying to accomplish. Donald Glover's acting is decent in this, just nothing interesting or memorable is done with his character aside from his music, Rihanna is extremely hollow & wooden in her performance & I don't understand why anyone would cast her in a movie no matter how high the payday is, and the talents of the brilliant Leticia Wright are completely abandoned in this movie due to lazy and uninteresting story writing. This could have been a lot better but at least the set is pretty to look at. 6 for the catchy music but if you're reading this, do yourself a favor and skip this one.
Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
Butchered
There are a few things in this episode that were pretty good but as a long time fan this does not feel like the show I started watching 8 years ago, but a hollow shell of what it once was. The people in charge of writing a producing this show have butchered and cut out all of the things you love about this show. Watch with an open mind, this is not the GOT you know and love, it's more of an expedited express version of Game of Thrones. Hopefully there will be prequels and sequels to tie up some of these loose ends directly involving the characters we love, but I hope the people who were in charge of writing this are not involved in any way, shape or form. These writers knew everyone would be angry from this ending but they put it out anyway, starting to think all of these corporations hate us.
Mid90s (2018)
A complete rip off of 'This is England' & 'Lords of Dogtown'
In Jonah Hill's directorial debut, he proves that just because you were born into Hollywood, doesn't mean you should be writing & directing films. As a fan of Jonah's films & projects ('Maniac', 'Superbad', 'Wolf of Wallstreet' etc), I was eager to see the first film written & directed by him. The film starts out strong, and if you were a kid in the 90's like me, there is a lot of memorabilia you might recognize. However, other than a few visual treats for 90's kids, this movie offers absolutely nothing of value and falls flat in the extremely vague & mundane process. Here are the problems I have with this movie in no particular order. Soon after the main character meets the group of boys who will become his new friends, you are immediately ripped out of the 90's when the group is skating down a busy California street, and you notice that most of the vehicles in the scene are from 2010 and later. How hard is it to find vehicles that were made in the 90s? This drastically removes the viewer from any kind of immersion that could have been built up and also comes off as just plain lazy scene creation. Moving on, there is a scene where the lead character Stevie (who looks like he is 10 or 11, pretty sure his parents are lying about his age for roles) is involved in an extremely cringe worthy, unnecessary, & unrealistic sexual scene with an older girl. I had to fast forward this part of the movie. Not sure what the hell Jonah Hill is doing writing/filming/thinking about children in this kind of way, but dude definitely has a screw or two lose to be coming up with that kind of bs. The film continues with even more unrealistic nonsense, a heavily intoxicated teenager decides he wants to drive his friends to a party. The more mature, older and sober friend proceeds to sigh and say "let's just get in the car" (which makes absolutely no sense). The drunk teen ends up flipping the car, injuring the youngest boy prompting hospitalization and no one goes to jail, the cops never even show up, basically no questions are asked because that's how the real world works right? I feel like Jonah Hill has no idea how real world situations work, or how actual people behave, or he is just trying to create the childhood that he wishes he had. Either way his attempt to create complex and diverse characters and relationships comes off as a bit lazy & derivative. It seems like he is trying to loosely imitate the magic/chemistry of films like 'This is England' & 'Lords of Dogtown' but unlike those brilliant movies, this one manages to go absolutely no where while completely wasting the time and talents of amazing established and rising stars such as Katherine Waterston & Lucas Hedges. Also, I must note that here is definitely great chemistry and strong acting coming from all of the boys from the group and they will go far in their careers no doubt, but this film offers absolutely nothing to remember and it seems like Jonah just made it because he could with no clue about what he was actually writing.