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Dinosaur Hotel (2021)
Please tell me this was made to be a joke
There are movies that are good enough to consider as a B-Movie and then there is this. I honestly believed that there could never be a movie that made Birdemic look like a Hitchcock masterpiece. Where do I start? First, the concept. I can imagine the executives drinking at the Christmas party and joking about ideas. "Hey, we need a movie." In the back, a drunken writer (I use this term loosely) states, "Uh, wha abot Jer-assick pawk buh in hotel." Then, Somehow this gets the green light. Oh, the acting. The lead character seems to be unable to separate her teeth to speak for the majority of the film. Every conversation feels like the characters are holding back just as much diarrhea from their rear ends as they are from coming out of their mouths. It is as if someone scoured a certain website that ends in "HUB" for the actors. Honestly, I'd not have been surprised if one of the male character asked why his step-sister was stuck in the dinosaur. This is so next level bad. Let's get to the CGI. EVERYTHING about it was bad. Lighting, vectors, everything. In fact, near the end there is a scene where the dinosaur attacks the female villain at the staircase and when they show the lead character, the background has the villain out of focus as if the camera was focusing on the main character, but not the dinosaur. Nope, that guy was in crisp clear focus besides the fact that the person it was attacking was out of focus for being behind the focal point. There are also scenes where the dinosaurs don't even have shadows. All fight scenes are so poorly done that there are times that the actual punches are done out of frame so you can't see how poorly it was done. Now. Let' be honest. If you want to watch a film for the sole purpose of laughing at all these amazing things, please watch it. If anything, after watching it, ANYTHING you se will be better by comparison.
The Departed (2006)
Martin Scorsese nearly got it.
I'll give credit where credit is due. If any one could have pulled this movie off, it was Scorsese. I have been a fan of "Infernal Affairs" since I first saw it 4 years ago. I have always been a fan of Asian films such as "Friend" and "Shiri" and when I went to see "The Departed" I was not aware this was a remake. After the first 30 minutes, I realized what it was. The cast put together was most superb and the acting had me entrhalled. I noted that many of the emotions in the movie held true, yet many of the subtleties did not. I must admit, knowing what was going to happen, other than the end, did not hold me in suspense. Watching the cast pull the movie off did. DiCaprio has had his best role yet. Better than "Catch Me If You Can." SEE THIS MOVIE. BUT SEE THE ORIGINAL TOO. Both stand on their own as excellent movies. Now to remake "FRIEND"