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Where’s the dichotomy?
Batman is supposed to be ambiguous: is the Batman Bruce Wayne’s alter ego, or vice versa?
This iteration of the character is pure Bat, with Wayne but a thin veneer that he seldom wears.
Also, shirts and socks. He seldom wears them. Because toxic female gaze, I suppose.
By the same token, the villain(s) are supposed to be flesh-out, engaging characters, that in their own way highlight the darkness of the protagonist. Here, Catwoman is just a feline-in-distress, the Penguin a walk-on role, and the Riddler absent for 2/3 of the movie. At least he does his job in the end.
Both the script and the photography remind me of Fincher’s Se7en, which is a good thing in many ways, but also feels generic in a way, or possibly just too realistic. The movie does not bear the mark of the Bat, the slight touch of insanity that has been the hallmark of previous movies, even the bad ones. All dark and orange simply lacks flamboyance.
As another example, fight scenes: they are neither cartoonish (Burton), nor overly brutal (Snyder, Arkham videogames, although they do angle towards that in the end). Here they’re tepid and uninspired. Neither Pattinson nor Kravitz can produce convincing physicality.
This Batman’s voice just doesn’t do it for me either. Too smooth. No grit. The Bat is supposed to growl “I’m Batman”, not croon that he is sorry at someone’s sob story.
The music too often sounds like William’s Imperial March or Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters. Originality is hard.
As for wokeness: pretty subdued for current day Hollywood. Yet another black female Mayor, all white males are corrupt (and I mean all, let’s deconstruct icons), hence Gordon’s race-swap, and female saviour. Catwoman hasn’t looked like Michelle Pfeiffer in decades (and Kravitz definitely is not Pfeiffer), and this Selina Kyle is aggressively, well, woke, as is each and every single black female according to Hollywood. She gets a pass for girlbossing, cause that’s part of Catwoman.
Created: 10-28-2024
Stallone is not intellectual but intelligent
The 80s fashion of deriding Stallone as a muscular moron, well, was justified by the subsequent Rambo movies, I guess.
But this one has more depth than meets the eye, with an engaging if somewhat awkward script, Stallone trying his honest best (he got better with age), and an outstanding Dennehy.
Created: 10-28-2024
Classic documentary about the 21st century.
A 90s reductio ad absurdum of political correctness results in a pretty accurate description of current date, current time.
Beyond the meme potential, this movie is just stupidly enjoyable from beginning to end.
Stallone is at his best as the straight man (in the comedic sense, although quite likely also), and Snipes is just brimming with inspiration. And joyful madness. And possibly unlicensed pharmaceuticals. The incarnation of genial evil.
We still have a few years to wait to solve the mystery of the 3 shells.
Created: 10-28-2024
Blade has finally ice-skated up the hill...
... that it could die on.
The addition of a Scooby gang wasn't the best idea.
21-yo Biel and 26-yo Reynolds are fantastic as cheese-cake and beef-cake, but Biel is not the greatest thespian ever, and Reynolds' brand of comedy is somewhat tonally at odds with the Blade universe.
Purcell and Posey are definitely brilliant, though.
I probably wouldn't rate it this high without the prior installments, though.
Created: 10-28-2024
A more polished Blade
I actually like this 2nd iteration better.
Snipes and Kristofferson bring more of the same, but within a tighter script, with better photography and choreography.
The tacticool factor is now turned up to 11, with the addition of a semi-ensemble cast.
Created: 10-28-2024
Some franchises are always trying to ice-skate uphill
Snipes sells the movie with his shameless, balls-to-the-wall approach to the character. He's neither as over-the-top nor as good as in Demolition Man, but he is Blade, no contest.
Kristofferson also is an outstanding casting choice.
Without them, the movie would be tepid at best.
As it stands, it's cool and flashy in just the correct amounts.
But we still had to wait 14 years to Black Panther to get the first black super-hero on a theater screen, but, why bother with facts.
Created: 10-28-2024
Sci-fi masterpiece
As in old-school, socially and humanly relevant science-fiction.
Scott's best in my opinion, which is a pretty high bar.
Ford's best in my opinion, which is a pretty high bar.
Hauer's best, well, you get it. Same goes for Young.
Created: 10-28-2024
Very intersting and factual
This single-season series by NatGeo is just a thumbnail sketch of what can be said about the dynasty that rules the fledgling nation of North Korea. It's a good way to get a basic grasp of what's going on north of the 38th parallel and how it came to be. The transition of power from Kim Il Song to Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un is an interesting story. Kim Il Song was carefully chosen by the USSR to rule the post WW2 nation after the Japanese occupation. From there, it's the oft repeated example of socialist dictatorship being backed by Soviets. This series is fact-based and well presented.
Created: 10-28-2024
Safe, non-woke youngster entertainment
The voice actors are first class, the animation rivals any around. The movie had a lot of great bits like when Sam first figured out that the lucky penny was real. There was the kind of animated slap-stick that make the Minions so entertaining. Simon Pegg was, as usual, top-notch. The chemistry between Simon and Eva was outstanding. The problem with this movie was a lack of any real plot. The story line was scattered and forced. I would love to see this cast of actors and animators try again with a screenplay worth watching.
Created: 10-28-2024
So lame…
It’s supposed to be a subversive romcom about abuse for rich white liberal women in their 30’s.
It’s super boring ! It felt like the movie was still beginning when it ended. I did not felt engaged at all but I maybe I just don’t het romcom…
And now to the wokeness. At first glance nothing. Everyone is white, everyone is rich, everyone is American, everyone is straight as an arrow. Even I would demand more diversity…
but man the feminism ! It’s not as bad as some movies that have it front and center but it’s clearly propaganda on many levels. You know this moments when the movie look at you on your couch and tells you “it’s still time to go and vote for democrats to smash that toxic masculinity kids !”, I am not kidding there’s one such moment in the movie.
The only point I might give it… maybe… is if it helps peoples who are in abusive relationships (also some men, just saying) but I don’t even know if it would honestly…
Created: 10-27-2024
Cheap but entertaining.
Cheap is relative: the reported budget for this is enough to shoot a whole Godzilla movie. Still, it’s the cheapest instalment in the Hellboy franchise (as far as I know), and it does show at times, such as the opening sequence, which suffers from average CGI and a very flat-feeling picture. Almost reminded me of the first Evil Dead. Might have been on purpose.
Kesy does a very good job as Big Red, although the make-up, especially the hand, could have been better. They should have dropped the bad CGI and spent the money there. Like animating the tail; the tail was always very expressive.
But Kesy’s got the smack-talking, wisecracking no-frills bad-assery down pat, more than Perlman ever managed.
The mystical Southern mood is pretty well set, and the music is spot on.
The script is classic Mignola Hellboy; it doesn’t get much better than that. The reworked ending has some real good in it.
Now for the bad: the script writers forcefully inserted a DIE hire (DIE, not DEI, I’m old-school like that), because it won’t do to have all white male leads. HB technically is a bright red male, but he was raised white, I suppose.
The original comic by Mignola and Corben is pretty stream-lined, even minimalistic to an extent, and it's a two-seater. The extra character is disruptive and useless in most scenes it appears in. Noisy too. Must be my age showing. Rudolph is quite fetching, but nowhere near enough to make the addition bearable.
She’s not overbearingly girlbossing, and there’s no preaching. It’s an unfortunate in-between, really: the Morally Superior (tm) will see the character as tame and subjugated by The Patriarchy (tm), and the intellectually not-impaired will just wonder, if it serves no purpose, why put it in?
And of course, she saves the day, because of course. Drivel, I tell you, woke drivel! (shakes fist at the sky).
Created: 10-26-2024
