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The Pedal Movie (2021)
Well made but too long, yet still misses things
This is a great history of pedals and the love of pedals, the manufacturers as well as the players. They also touch on how some players are more of pedal players or technology players, rather than guitar players. (If The Edge has no effects, does he make a sound?)
There was also a wealth of information on the various pedal manufacturers, technologies, circuits, and mystique. However, on the whole it never focused and went on far too long.
In the process, only a very brief mention was given to DSP "pedals". Or even effects built into newer amps. The limiting factor of pedals (other than the cost and singular focus) is that you can not effectively change settings mid-concert or mid-song.
DSP based pedal solutions can save endless "patches" and settings, opening up a world of freedom, while incorporating many (though of course not all) features from the pedals they were based on.
In the end it could have been an amazing hour-long documentary, or possibly extending it to cover other subjects. As it was, I had to watch it in many pieces to be able to make it all the way thru. Still it is worth a watch for guitar players, and will likely have you going to check out some new pedals!
In Search of Darkness (2019)
Maybe too much of a good thing
This movie is a great review of 80s horror with many movies discussed and many interviews. Someone actually reviewed this as a 3/10, essentially complaining that there weren't enough interviews with big name actors/directors, and too much time on big name movies.... that it simultaneously had too much behind the scenes info but horror fans know all of it??!...you can't please some people.
I felt the production was great, the interviews were interesting, and even as an 80s horror fan I didn't know most of it before. Some movies were my favorites and others I missed at the time.
The only issue is that it is not cohesive. It is 4.5 hours! I wouldn't say it dragged necessarily, but it could be been an amazing 2 hour overview, remove some of the parts that aren't quite as interesting, or parts that aren't saying something that different, and sum it up.
It's still great, and I think if watched in segments like a series it would be even better. Any horror fan or just 80s movie fan could watch any portion and be fully entertained, but the entire portion could be too much for some to swallow.
Durante la tormenta (2018)
An amazing movie with a fatal flaw
This is a really good movie with clues and a mystery and very believable and great acting. The story is even pretty unique although it borrows from some other time travel movies.
The fatal flaw is the main character's motivation. She saves the boy from dying and inadvertently sends her life down a different path where she doesn't meet her cheating husband and instead becomes the most talented head of surgery in the hospital, saving lives everyday. She even has a different love, the boy she saved, a love interest. But noooo...this is not enough for her.
She has to risk her own life and the lives of everyone she saves in the hospital so that she can go back to her cheating husband and have her exact daughter that she knew. No thought of adopting or having a child with her new love or any thought to the lives she saves as a surgeon. She has to fricking kill herself on the outside chance there is time to save the daughter as she knew her.
I really liked her character until she did this. But still the movie survives as a 7 to me.
Captain Marvel (2019)
I'm just an average movie goer, never heard of Captain Marvel before
I was never into comics and 99% of what I know about Marvel and DC are wheat I've seen in the movies, so I am just an average movie goer. I liked the story and despite some questionable turning points and predictable "surprises"... the FX, the 90s America, the origin story...it all worked for me.
In order to come up with a fair rating, it helps to compare it to other movies. For example, there is no fair way to rate this as a 1 since I could make a movie using my phone that was 2 hours of nothing but my bare feet that could objectively be rated a 1. And some of the top rated films on IMDB like The Godfather are rated 9, and this is not that.
I think Deadpool earns an 8 rating for so much humor and originality in a superhero film, and Deadpool 2 is right up there. So Captain Marvel is a 7 to me. You could argue a 6, but anything lower than that IMO is unfair when compared to the crap movies out there with 1-5 ratings.
It's also nice to see a different kind of superhero movie, it doesn't have to be Thor or Batman or whatever. Captain Marvel carries the movie well and there are some funny parts and some great FX and some plot holes too, but at least it's something different. It deserves credit for that.