Kung Fu Panda 4I wrote a whole review for this, probably my longest one so far, and it literally just deleted itself so I have to start over. I'm going to make one section for negatives and one for positives. Overall though, this movie was not good.
The pacing was so hard to keep up with, as there were numerous times different scenes were never revisited and were skipped in a very annoying fashion. The villain was pretty cool to begin with, but her fate is so predictable and when she is taken down it is less satisfying with how lame and fast the battle was. Poe dominated her even thought she had the "power of all the other dragon warriors" which was stupid. The audience is just evidently supposed to understand and accept all the magic stuff, which yes I know oogway was with, but that kind of took away from him because this rando gecko is just able to do all of what he did was really annoying. The furious five were gone. What?!? Why would you take out such an entertaining and nostalgic thing from this series? Shifu also got ignored after the first 10 minutes. Losing these characters made it not feel like a kung fu panda movie, and the new characters did not fill the holes. The jokes were ok, but mostly bad. Just like the TMNT movie that i reviewed earlier in the year, the woke jokes were really cringey and obnoxious and forced. On a positive note, the relationship between Poe and Mr. Ping is beautiful. The noodle restaurant is the same and I still love the temple as well. The soundtrack was great! The theme of KFP is iconic and they didn't overuse it and had a nice score from Hans Zimmer. The animation was great, and so were the graphics. The scene in the restaurant was genuinely funny and reminded me of the scene from Brave with the lucky duck pub. Overall this movie was bad, as I felt super let down. I loved the first two movies so much, the third was just ok, and so I had high hopes that this one would feel like one of the originals (it didn't). Sad to see the furious five out of the movie, and frustrating that Poe can't just BE the dragon warrior. There is no reason they have to keep playing with his title, just put him on a mission or something! 6.5/10
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I watched this at a friend's house last weekend after we got pizza and I will say, it was a fun one. The structure of the movie turned out to be really cool, as at the end of the movie you realize there is a movie within a movie, as Nick and Javi did end up making a movie of their experiences. It was funny, but not too funny, as I felt the comedic aspect of it was not overdone or at all forced. The Paddington scene and the acid scene were both funny, but it wasn't too dramatic and crazy. It was a perfect balance between an action, and a comedy. The storyline was slightly wishy washy, but maybe it was supposed to be that way to help show how crazy Nick Cage's life is. It is about a mid-life crisis and what came of it. I liked him reminiscing to his old self, (in the Javi's shrine) but the scene were he kissed himself was weird. I didn't like it and I thought it wasn't funny and was creepy. The set design was really aesthetic and visually pleasing. I liked the cars and Javi's house and also the town, and I figured out it was filmed in Croatia. I personally thought it was a fun one, and it was enjoyable to watch. It definitely wasn't too special, and it didn't try to do too much for what it was. I'd give it a 8.8/10. A solid B- tier movie. It isn't a huge score as honestly it just wasn't my type of genre, as I like more sci-fi movies or ones with a lot of suspense, but it was still pretty good.
Spaceman was a disappointing movie. It had so much potential, but there were just too many mistakes in the way it was written. It is pretty much about a man named Jakub, who is on a spaceship and realizes he is a terrible husband and he decides to improve thanks to a magic telepathic spider. Adam Sandler does pretty well, but I am too used to seeing him in comedies for it to really work for me. The movie itself is both an adventure, and a romance, and it doesn't decide which it is. The movie was way too slow to me. Sometimes a movie or tv show could take place in one or very few different settings, and I do sometimes like that structure. There was not enough going on in the ship other than the spider talking to entertain me for almost 2 hours. It should be a 45 minute long movie. There was some good contemplation and self reflection, which I liked, but I wished it focused more on the adventure to space and not the wife drama. Interstellar did it well as the protagonist fought internally with being a good father, and completing a mission in space. This movie was a terrible attempt at the same sort of idea. The spider was pretty cool to look at, and the space CGI was dope. It felt like they spent more time designing the ship and aesthetic and perfecting the CGI than they did figuring out what the movie was even focusing on concept wise. I would give it a 5.9/10 for being boring, not having a clear genre, and being too long.
Tombstone was my first western, and while I know it isn't the most popular or got the best reviews, I did enjoy it. The environment and the setting was the coolest part of the film for me. I loved the way the town looked and how the speech and dress of all of the characters made you feel enveloped in this time period it is set in. The fight scenes were dope. The gunsounds, and stunts were very entertaining. I loved the standoffs and the rivalry between the cowboys and Wyatt's friends as well. The plotline was pretty entertaining, but it wasn't that straightforward as at times it felt like maybe certain scenes served no real purpose and weren't that interesting. The last half of the movie felt a little like a rush. So the aesthetics were awesome. Super encapsulating, pleasing, and entertaining, which is what a good movie should do. Though the appearance and concepts were cool, I feel like it fulfilled every western stereotype and cliche. For a movie coming out at the time it did, I assume that there are many movies VERY similar to this one, and while i enjoyed it, I could tell it copied a lot of other Westerns. I would say I liked it, enjoyed watching it, and would watch it again. I think a western is something I would like to watch while sick, as a comfort movie. I would give it a 8.3/10, as I honestly just had a good experience watching it. If I had seen more westerns before this, I would guess my rating would be lower but I am not certain. My Dad loved this movie, and Mr. H I know you said there was another western you liked more but I forget the name of it (what was it?).
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