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Army of the Dead (2021)
Stay. Away. (Light Spoiler)
Great Idea tor a movie. Some really interesting plot threads.... Executed horribly. Like, not even a little bit good.
I can't even express how many plot holes there are in this film. One tiny one, let's leave the door open to Vegas where all the Zombies can escape when we first go in.... Seriously that's what all the characters do. That sums it up. Do not waste your time. I beg you!!
Interns of F.I.E.L.D. (2016)
Not for me
This show is such a curious topic for me.
Having been a subscriber to Screen Junkies for a few years now, loving their Honest Trailers and SUPER loving their Movie Fights i must of been one of the first to subscribe to Screen Junkies Plus (where this show can be watched). Even dedicated my 2016 amateur editing vid to them on my youtube channel mbrandon11.
Some decent shows on SJ+, not least of all "What's in the Box" with Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes, very funny and some other shows that aren't bad at all. All in all worth the 2year subscription fee.
On top of all that the creators clearly have talent in their ideas, nice dudes, funny and extremely knowledgeable of all things movie related so guess the first downfall for me was having very high expectations.
Without getting into the plot as you can really go read about that anywhere in much greater detail than i can spell out, I don't think anything hit for me.
The awkwardness behind the jokes seem to be trying to aim for some of the great ideas behind such comedies like "The Office" yet pull characters such as "Black Skull" straight out of the campiest 90's cartoon series like "HE-Man". So very quickly we seem to be subjected to humour that just doesn't seem to flow correctly from the characters which, for me, left a real feeling of disjointed chemistry anytime characters were talking to each other.
With the short runtime of each episode this is a big problem and found that there was no way to recover from it and truly limited any love you could feel towards the characters. So when a show like this relies very heavily on said characters and writing, rather than any continuous action or big set pieces it certainly leaves a lot to be desired.
That all being said the idea was/is great, effort is fantastic and the fact this is a first written project for these guys means i'm sure they'll be kicking on and getting better from here but for me personally this really didn't do it on any level and I did truly want this to be great.
Writing narrative sure is harder than it looks, I appreciate that and will always continue to support their work on YouTube and Screen Junkies Plus.
Spectre (2015)
My First IMDb (Quick) Review This is Why...
I don't think i've ever disagreed more with an opening consensus of a movie! (Currently 8.2 on IMDb and 83% on R.Tomatoes) I would have it at around 3 out of 10. Here's why. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, released July, is probably in my top five movies of the year thus far. It knows exactly what it wants to be and nails it. Why do i mention this? The only argument i can foresee against my disliking Spectre is someone saying "It's a silly action movie, it doesn't take itself seriously". No
Rouge Nation is that, Bond is something else and has been since Casino Royale (which i thought was fantastic).
C.Royale was gritty yet still quite light, Quantum of Solace was a train wreck and Skyfall was brilliantly gritty and dark. Spectre tries to achieve the same theme yet misses it by a long shot. The film opens with a sequence that seems to of been taken from an unused Steven Segal or Jean Claude Van Damme movie script which doesn't belong in "reality" at all. One convenience after another later continues the extremely choppy, over convoluted story line where Bond visits everywhere but Disney Land searching for a man that wants to kill him one minute and play with him the next.
This goes on top of the fact that i realised half way through that i was just simply bored. The action seemed to only consist of chases and when it did have a rare glimmer of hope that was very quickly ended in way too easy circumstances.
In the end Bond still wants to live in the world that the Bourne Trilogy started, gritty espionage, which did hit the mark on two occasions as previously mentioned but now failed twice as it tries to inject the adrenaline shot that is Mission Impossible action. Wasn't for me i guess smile emoticon.
p.s. Random note. I swear i saw a frame out of place!! I'm not sure if i will ever get to the bottom of it but i'm sure of it, which by Hollywood standards is simply unacceptable. This would make sense as apparently was rushed in being finished.