Reviews

I sit here, recovering from Covid and pretty bored. I load up Amazon Prime and this movie is there telling me it's free to view. It has the piratey bloke from Game of Thrones so figured I'd give it a watch.

So... Toxic white masculinity is a demon and it hunts women at night. When it's not, then it's keeping the world running the way it wants to and if you try to fight it, you will die. The lead defeats it by running away, gets people who are trying to help her killed by it and then meets feminism who is an angel who tells her a few things and puts her in a Karate gi to go off and fight it.

The demon is lightning fast, kills with ease, uses telekinesis, and indestructible. It can also break the fourth wall and make the camera look away... He tracks his prey by the smell of her blood, which would make you think that someone covered in their own blood would be easy prey right?

Nope, there's always some poor sod in the way to die first. Like a house full of friends who she doesn't seem overly worried about, a car full of students who save her from some dudes who she doesn't seem to care about and a dog (specifically a bitch) which the demon is afraid of for some reason?

Anyway, against all odds she survives the night and lures the demon into a glass building where the glass is broken by stones and the demon crawls away leaving a black flammable liquid behind him to be set on fire to kill him.

The women then goes home to her daughter who she didn't seem overly worried about at all during the entire movie - The End.

It's actually not badly made, it has some genuinely tense moments and decent enough acting and effects but it seems to want to side line this to tell you women are strong and we all need to smash the patriarchy. A little more effort on the story and character development and this could have been 8/10, but nah - lets watch a woman having a period.

I enjoyed the original Candyman movie when I saw it years ago, less so the sequels which were, to be frank, garbage.

So, I thought that I'd give this a go and see if it could provide a proper follow up to the events of the first Candyman and deliver something tense, creepy and actually scary - the trailers showed promise, hence me going to see it.

Sadly, what it delivers is a couple of decent effects, no real scares and a whole lot of exposition.

This movie really wants you to know that the police are murderous white people who just like killing black people. It also wants you to know that white people are "bad" as it proceeds to show you a series of vapid, wealthy white people being killed - less than a few minutes in and the main character is talking about about society being run by white supremacists and when corrected with "you mean white people" he just says "yeah" - expectations set right there... Groan...

So we get a dull series of events, a few mostly dull murders, a confused and largely pointless scenes of 'stuff' which was really too dull to remember and then the police show up and murder a guy who is laid on the floor being propped up by a woman who moments before was about to be killed. Then we get to see what the film really wants to show - white police officers being murdered.

Honestly it could have been done worse, but only it would have taken some real effort to do so. It isn't a worthy successor to the original, personally I'd recommend people just skip this.

On a positive note, it looked nice. The camerawork was done well in the most part and I can only assume that the mix of obnoxious characters were intentionally obnoxious so they did that well...

One thing which left me puzzled (and annoyed) all the way through the movie was; why would a young up and coming artist not be more concerned about their hand and arm slowly starting to rot? It was literally dropping to pieces but all he did was pick at it a bit and wrap a towel around it. His livelihood and career literally requires the use of that hand but he only went for medical help when his entire arm was rotting and the rot was creeping up the side of his face!

All that said, I'm sure it will do well and win several accolades because of diversity etc. Having the overrated Jordan Peele won't hurt either.

I didn't know much about this series other than from what I saw on the amazing trailer.

Honestly, if I wasn't spending so much time at home these days then I wouldn't even have bothered to watch this but having enjoyed the show as a kid I thought I'd just succumb and let myself enjoy a bit of nostalgia.

The first episode started strong, I thought 'yes! This is so much fun' and captured how it made me feel as a kid which I never thought it would even come close to.

My initial enjoyment then dissipated however in the final quarter of the first episode when - they kill He-Man.

Not only do they kill He-Man, they also kill Skeletor! That's right, the two main characters are killed of early... What follows is a dull trudge through three episodes which I'll be honest, wasn't interested because the pay off with MOTU was always He-Man showing up and saving the day after a bit of mild peril and then a bit of a skit at the end from Orko. Oh, did I mention they kill off Orko at the end of episode 4?

Episode 5 is a bit better, by this point Eternia is a complete dump after the forces of evil have waged an unending war on the forces of good but Teela is able to bring Adam back from the dead! Hurrah!

All is starting to look promising, Adam holds aloft the mighty sword and says... Nothing.

He's stabbed through the chest from behind by Skeletor who, rather than die, hid in Evil Lynn's staff... Like really, wtf? Then Skeletor picks up the sword of power and says "I have the power!" and the changes into super Skeletor... The end.

During the (very short) mini series we see Teela become the new Man at Arms, King Randor snidely tell Adam that one day he hopes to be proud of him Duncan (the original and real) Man at Arms is of Teela, Teela throw a strop at not being in the group of people to know He-Man's secret identity, King Randor go all 'toxic masculinity', several fan favourite characters get killed off unnecessarily, and all the women (good and evil) come together for the good of the world because erm... men made them do all the stuff they did in the past?

I'm just disappointed that the makers missed the point of the original show so badly. It's meant to be a fun 'monster of the week' feature with the hero showing up to save the day at the end. This is not that. The story isn't very interesting, the voice acting isn't great (barring the ever excellent Mark Hamill as Skeletor).

I just don't know who this is for? Fans of Masters of the Universe want He-Man. That's the bottom line. What next? A Superman movie where Superman is killed in the first 15 minutes and the rest is about how he'd always held Lois Lane back?

I watched the whole series, I wouldn't watch it again and won't be watching any future series.

Ok, I need to get this off my chest first... IMDB need to take a serious look at how their reviewing system works because it's being abused. It's becoming hard to take the ratings seriously when you have dozens of first time reviews for a movie giving it one star and referring to politics, wokeness, actors political leanings and saying "this is the worst movie ever made". I get they're entitled to an opinion, but this isn't Twitter.

Now, on to the movie...

I'd not heard much about this movie, it sort of landed out of nowhere for me so I had no expectations. It's straight to Prime so I assumed it was probably going to be bad. I was wrong.

What you have here is a big dumb blaster which throws in a bit of pseudo science to legitimise itself! It's perfect for the Summer, I'd have been happy if I'd gone to the cinema to see this.

The alien design was... ok... They're sort of like the Geiger alien mixed with a Chinese dragon? I always wonder how they manage to get from one world to the next as they're more animal then advanced alien race - the movie addresses this (to an extent) which I loved!

The concept of going back in time and taking people who are already dead by the time the aliens arrive... I like that, also the way the time travel works and it's limitations too, quite interesting.

The action scenes are very good, with convincing cgi and a couple of moments which made me laugh inappropriately (people cheering at the sight of 'rescue Humvee's only to have them immediately destroyed in a graphic manner for example).

I plan to watch this again on Friday with friends and a few beers and pizza :)

If I have one gripe, it's the glaring plot hole surrounding the idea that the original plan was to kill the aliens in the future and not even try to save the 8 billion people who were killed when the war started??? Meh, who cares...

Ok, so I'll start by saying that I did enjoy watching this movie.

I'm a zombie movie fan, I also like Dave Bautista who is fast becoming the new. Dwayne Johnson, it's surprising how likeable they come across and seem to have a better range than some other supposed actors.

The good. It's bright, it's fast paced, it tries to establish each character and give them personality, the settings and zombies look great and some decent jokes.

The bad. It's too long, there's too much procrastination where people are talking but not doing, 30 mins could be cut from this and it would probably help the movie. It feels like characters are set up but then just thrown away unnecessarily. This isn't really a zombie movie, it's not a horror, it's not a comedy... It's a sort of hybrid action movie and I wasn't expecting that. Can the camera man not maintain focus!!! The shots often blur to bring your focus to a different character onscreen and I found it quite distracting. Too much of the daughter, she's annoying and too 'goody goody' for my liking.

I did like the way that the zombies had started to evolve, there are some good ideas, I like the zombie animals. I really liked how the zombie king/leader fella was smart enough to create a metal mask to protect his head and brain. I liked the hierarchy suggested but none of it goes anywhere.

It's worth a watch, it's not a movie I'll be watching over and over again though.

I watched both the original movies when they were released, they don't hold a 'special place in my heart' by any means but I do have fond memories of sitting down with family and friends and having a laugh watching it at various points in my life.

Both films were fairly basic but were fun, well played through and had a good supporting cast who we were allowed to develop an understanding of their character, even if they were kinda d*cks - Napoleon at Ziggy Piggy for example.

Here we have an ageing Bill and Ted who are basically pointless and clueless chasing around through time visiting themselves to steal their own song while their copy cat kids (both young women in their mid 20's acting exactly like Bill and Ted in the first movie only smarter) randomly collecting people which, started promisingly then it felt like the writers felt a pang of injustice in their Twitter account and.lost the plot bringing back a stoneage drummer, a Chinese flutist and people who are honestly so dull because they never bothered to develop ANY of them that it's all irrelevant.

I genuinely wish I'd not bothered. It's not the worst film I've ever seen by a long stretch, but it just feels like a cash grab mixed with a virtue signal. It's not Bill & Ted Face the Music, it's People who used to be Bill & Ted cash in with Diversity.

C'mon producers, you need to do more than copy ideas from past films and through in women and minorities to make a movie!

Well, I watched this on Prime.

Flippin' awful haha.

So the story goes... some lads go into the woods and meet some shadows in the road which attack them. One gets kidnapped, the other gets away but goes back later with a friend. They have a civil war pistol and a pump action rifle which lights a room up red or blue when fired. Needless to say they find the 'sasquatch' and run away from them to a wooden shed... with lots of windows... Obviously our heroes stick together; one runs away while the other shoots aimlessly and dies probably. The police speak to the guy who ran off and some nonsense goes on.... Honestly, who cares? There some police theory which is based on nothing really

Oh and there's a guy who quit his job to go hunt sasquatch who goes a bit mad.

It does have a gruesome scene where a guy gets his tongue ripped out. not cut out, pulled out like is was a post-it note stuck to an apple.

Genuine garbage, mildly amusing, but garbage all the same

I've been looking forward to this movie since it was announced. The concept sounded fun, the style and visuals seemed novel and (in the trailer) had a bit of a Thor Ragnarok vibe to it so this coupled with the best adapted of the DC heroes in the recent movies (and Gal Gadot looking super fine) I thought this couldn't fail.

It's very long, very twee, very sentimental, very... dull. Not so dull that you don't hope it will get better, I think goodwill generated from the movie kept me going to the end here, but it felt like the production team sat down and said 'ok, we've had too many action packed superhero movies, lets make one which is intentionally meh'.

The acting was good, the direction was fine, the special effects were... reminiscent of the first movie... but the storyline was just lacking in anything close to excitement.

The end battles (plural as we have two villains here) are for one none existent (literally a chat) and the second lasts for about a minute or so and consisted more of flying around on ropes than actual fighting.

I just don't understand what the point of this movie is as it doesn't seem to fit in with the recent movies and it's not strong/interesting enough to be a reboot! Heck, even Wonder Woman spends most of the time just walking around and talking with reduced powers and needing help from a man? And what a man, it's (as everyone knows who has seen the trailer) Steve who was last seen being blown up whose spirit returns to possess some random guy and nobody seems worried about that lol. Steve then proceeds to not be the hero he was in the first movie and just becomes a normal bloke.

I didn't hate this movie, I just wish I'd not bothered watching it as it sort of lessens my opinion of the character in recent movies somehow.

Ok, I'm not sure if the comedy was entirely intentional but in the latter parts of the movie I got some real Evil Dead vibes from this and I loved it!

I thought I knew where this was going from the outset, overzealous priest turns out to be a monster but then the second half arrived and it finally got more interesting - in my opinion.

The girl in this is very sexy, and oddly enough she remains very sexy when she's in demon mode lol. But I like her demon, it's a wise cracking 'naughty' one and I honestly expected her to say at one point "I'll swallow your soul!".

This is the sort of movie which will probably get an American remake but it really doesn't need it (although I could imagine an English remake being quite fun but again unnecessary).

I really enjoyed it :)