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Free Guy (2021)
Really, really liked this movie
As my first post-Q movie, I'd have enjoyed almost anything that wasn't showing in my house, but Free Guy was totally worth taking a shower and leaving the house to see.
I've been playing games since I was five and we got a console with Pong, Breakout and some weird basketball game on it back about 1975 or so. I've been playing games ever since. Even better, I'm like Guy - I don't play the bad guy, so I really enjoyed that part.
Only a couple of things I wish - that there had been a nod to (or a bigger one if I missed it) Skyrim and that these guys remake Ready Player One. Please.
Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)
I want to love this movie
But I just can't because the book is one of my favorite books of all time. I'm pretty reasonable when it comes to movie adaptations of books. I realize that you can't typically cram a book into a two hour movie, although there are some notable exceptions, especially with LotR out there.
Regardless, I expected so much more from this movie, especially since the author of the book, Sarah Bird, wrote the screen play. Bird herself called it "an exceedingly mediocre screenplay made into an exceedingly mediocre movie", so I guess she knows how some of us feel.
It's worth a watch on one of those days when you're bored with the Hallmark Channel, but really, go buy the book. Lizzie is so much more interesting and there are characters that aren't in the movie at all who are amazing people that I want to know. (The book is set in Austin, so if you've ever lived there, you'll appreciate it that much more.)
Yesterday (2019)
Closer to a 9 if you like cute, nice, neat movies
None of that is bad, either. My husband Wasn't sure about this movie. He was worried that this would end up being stupid or just a total disaster at the end. I had a bit more faith and caught him in a weak moment when I knew he'd watch it with me.
I've always liked alternate timeline stories. I thought this one looked pretty interesting when I first saw the trailer and I was right.
As it turns out, my husband and I both really enjoyed this movie. It is a fabulous break from the reality of this world, it has excellent music (as you might imagine), and the love story is very nice with only a couple of those roll your eyes moments where you want to yell at the characters to just stop being stupid and spit it out!
I think we were somewhat worried that the whole thing would just implode due to Jack being found out, but that didn't really happen. While it wasn't a rock and roll ending, it was a good ending.
This is definitely a movie you could watch with your family. I don't think there was anything that would have embarrassed me in front if my parents - although I think my dad will be really picky about the tempo of Help!
I'd give this an 8.5 if that were an option and I may change my rating to a 9 because I liked it that much. Since I don't compare movies to each other - I think about how I felt watching the movie and how I feel after it's over - I'm not comparing Yesterday to anything else. I hope those of you who watch it will find it as charming as we did.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Ramesses not black; stop complaining (about that point anyway).
Ramesses was not black, or remotely negroid. He would most generally be though of as almost "Roman" in facial features and had smooth straight red hair. They have his body and many of his children's bodies to prove it; it is not open to opinion. Nefertari, his first wife, is not negroid either - lots of paintings to go along with the sculpture of her (but they don't have her body in the museum so I guess you can continue to complain about that casting choice....). Point is, hate it as a bad movie but quit the ignorant racist and "whitewashing" claims about the casting. It is flat out wrong, ignorant since the information is out there, and mostly just indicates racism on the part or the accuser. Egypt was HUGE and was not " mostly" any race. A few thousand years of mummy remains of all classes (more or less preserved due to caste, but easy to study still for race) proves they were very cosmopolitan and the movie goes to great lengths to show a great many races. That alone is unusual for Hollywood movies; but don't give them any credit when they try and they won't see the point of trying at all much less improving in that regard. Sheesh, the tiny digital people were multiracial too; let it go already.