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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
The only Action Movie I love!
Despite what others say I found this movie fantastic. It isn't mediocre nor does the story line mimic other super hero movies. It ties in splendidly with the first Aquaman movie.
It has fast paced action almost from the beginning. Of course family drama is carried over from the first movie, but is resolving itself throughout this one.
The baddie is cliche like every other baddie in this type of movie, but Jason Mamoa makes up for that. The fights are finely choreographed. The ending is unusual though. Brother fights brother, but this time the poisoned mind is killed with memories of love. Then all is well.
Yes the most enjoyable super hero movie where good truly overcomes evil.
Wednesday (2022)
Loved it but...
In the original Adams Family series Wednesday loved her family unconditionally, in this series she is a typical teen and resents her mother. She gives a nod to Nina Ricci's character wither her plaits. Also the cliccy fingers is typical Adams Family from series and films.
In the beginning Wednesday refuses to make friends by the end she has many. As a detective she goes down so many avenues I thought she would never get to the criminal. Wednesday also struggles with visions.
Meanwhile, she goes to her first dance, gets her first kiss. All in all its brilliantly written, but the homage to the series is out of place, and spoils the affect a little for me.
The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021)
Too short.
This would make a wonderful full length film but as it stands it's nothing more than a trailer advertising Loki the series.
I had hoped when I read the description entirely missing its 6min tag. It's not even a Simpsons episode length.
I just started to enjoy it and it stopped. Disney needs to glad a warning....this is not a film but an advertisment.
The Wheel of Time (2021)
A genuine 10 rating not false.
Whilst I don't approve of using ethnicity where none is needed I do find the dramatisation of the books interesting. Season One of The Wheel of Time has eight episodes and will focus on adapting the first book in Jordan's series, The Eye of the World. It also incorporates elements from the prequel New Spring and the sequel The Great Hunt.
Despite my initial thoughts on the first three episodes I do really like the what I see, however I have always been able to cut out memories of books when watching film and TV adaptations. My reaction to the first three episodes of The Wheel of Time is divided into three categories: the good, the neutral and the bad. There's plenty of all three to be found in the series but despite this it is good, showing promise. It's basically a story of good against evil.
In the book on which the first series is based, on the eve of Bel Tine, a holiday celebration, they meet a mysterious noblewoman named Moiraine, who displays unusual interest in them. That night, their village is brutally attacked by monsters called Trollocs, and Moiraine is revealed as one of the alternately revered and feared Aes Sedai, women who can channel the One Power. In the aftermath of the attack, Moiraine tells the young villagers that it is one of them who the Trollocs were seeking, and convinces them to leave and travel with her to the Aes Sedai's stronghold, the White Tower, in the faraway city of Tar Valon. As they travel, they discover that Moiraine believes one of them is the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon, also called Dragon, who lived thousands of years ago when both men and women could wield the One Power. He was the greatest warrior of the Light, but he made a fatal mistake in battling the forces of darkness that tainted saidin, the male half of the One Power, and sent every male channeler instantly insane. The destruction they wrought was called the Breaking of the World, and even four thousand years later the land has not recovered from it, and is why all men who can channel are ruthlessly hunted down and stripped of their ability to wield the One Power. Nevertheless, the Dragon Reborn is prophesied to be one who will both break the world again and save it, and without whom the world has no hope of survival.
Contagion (2011)
Its as if this film is glimpsing 2020
It starts with a dry cough.....familiar? Unfortunately the young woman thinks it is jet lag after a small affair with a past lover in Hong Kong
She drives home where she infects her son. When admitted to hospital it was too late and she dies. The hospital doesn't know what caused her to die but had to report it to the medical examiner.
The illness continues solely at first but soon becomes a pandemic. However, Matt Damons character is immune. Most films would then use his blood to make an antivirus.
It is scary but accurate for the spread of Covid19.
A Christmas Star (2017)
Deserves better reviews
I am reviewing it as an Irish Film but as a Christmas film. I don't understand some of the negativity here.
Ok, so with stars it should have been better but the story was excellent. When I was young it would have been a Children's Film Foundation Film because it was a children's film. It had a baddie in the shape of a developer who hates his childhood home. It had a young girl who knew what was really going on. Friends who let her down but rallied at the last minute, and then had courage to go to Stormont and tell the world.