I have been on a Harry Potter fad for the past month or so and when my parents asked why movie we should watch as a family, I knew immediately that I wanted to watch a Harry Potter movie. This happens to be my favorite of the eight and so we decided on it. This movie is simply amazing. Although it doesn't include everything from the books, which just wouldn't be practical for a movie, it does include the vast majority and more than expected. The movie does justice to the book and that is really all that I ask from it. The casting for the characters introduced int his movie is great. Remus looks like a malnourished were-wolfish human and Sirius Black looks like a person who has been experiencing what was pretty much Hell for the past 12 years. Peter Pettigrew also looks like a rat in human for as well as rat form . Over all the choices on what to include and how it was included was really good and I do not have any qualms with it. The movie also looks really good. For example the Hippogriff looks and flies well and the time turning schemes are really fun to watch. The dementors look about how you expect them too and they are cgied in well. I really don't have any issues with how this movie looks, unlike some of the other movies, and I think it did a great job. It felt magical even after watching it so many times, although that could have just been that I have been back to being obsessed with Harry Potter for the past month.
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Although I never really played any of the games and don't fully understand the Nintendo world, I really enjoyed this movie. The voice acting was great, the pacing kept me entertained, and it was very visually appealing as well. The story and tie backs throughout the movie were great. Like it was mentioned that turtles weren't evil in the world where Mario and Luigi came from, and then at the end of the movie, it ends int hat world and Mario gifts Peach Bowser in turtle form saying something about him being friendly. I also really enjoyed the whole other world, there were different kingdoms and from my very limited Mario Kart knowledge, everything lined up really nicely. I loved the addition of rainbow road, and the kart making. I thought the movie was funny also, there were many parts that made me laugh, like when toad was given a monster truck as a kart unlike the rather small karts that Mario and Luigi had. Lastly, I liked the ending a lot. It ended with Mario and Luigi's father being proud of them, and this was a great ending because it was really what they wanted. Mario and Luigi stayed as plumbers and even got to plumb in their new world as well as their old world. The main reason I enjoyed this movie so much was because it was entertaining all the way through. The director didn't focus on any part too long, and the pacing was pretty much perfect. If the movie had been any longer or included any other plots, I know I would have gotten bored and would have enjoyed the movie a lot less than I did. I would give this movie a 9/10 on enjoyment but an 8/10 overall because it was childish, and I think I would only enjoy this movie a couple of times before I stopped liking it. I have mixed opinions on this film. It was good, but, I also left the theater wanting a little more. Something like 15 more minutes, or at least a little less background and a little more explanation. Let's start with the animation. It was great. The water and fire looked phenomenal, and the food looked delicious. The characters were designed in the typical Ghibli way, and that felt sort of nostalgic to me. Although it weirded me out that the Heron was also a man, the animation on the bird look fluent and the transition into a man was as smooth as could be. The colors popped and nothing looked out of place. There was little to nothing left to desire when it came to animation, and that was my favorite part of the movie. Something else that was amazing about the movie was the audio. The voice actors fit their characters, and they all had enough but not too much emotion in their voices at different points in the movie. Although it was dubbed, you couldn't really notice any issues with timing and mouth movements compared to words spoken. Also, they included music in all the right spots. Frankly, I could have used like one or two more scenes where they played music, but that may have taken away from the meaning in the scenes they did play music. Now for the plot/story. This is where the movie lost some points with me. I understand Miyazaki films are always relatively confusing and not entirely clear, but this film pushed that a little too much, I think. I found that I was telling myself throughout the movie that it would be explained at the end, or that it would make sense at the end, and I never really got that understanding. After talking about the movie in class, I will say that it make a lot more sense and that I enjoyed the movie a lot more, but the movie originally felt incomplete to me and that feeling has not entirely left me. The plot itself was great up until the final little bit. Mahito is grieving his dead mother, and gets the chance to save his new mother (who happens to be his aunt). That is a great plot that has a lot of meaning and is fitting of a Miyazaki film. The way they portrayed this is also great, Mahito goes on a journey that seems less than real, and he ends it by saving his new mother, and coming to terms with his mother death. What I did not like however, is that the world he travels to it just kind of thrown at you, and there is no real context (this is very Miyazaki, so I expected this), and they at the end of the movie, no real explanation. I found myself comparing it to Howl's Moving Castle. It was extremely confusing throughout the movie, and although you see it happening, you have no real clue what is going on. Then as the movie nears its conclusion, everything starts to fit together, and you are able to understand enough that you can piece together what you are not give. The only difference between the two movies was that Howl's Moving Castle had more explanation than The Boy and the Heron. I found myself wanting just a smidge more in terms of explaining the other world. The boy and the Heron ended a little quick for me. My interpretation of the other world. I think the other world was not made up, but sore of subconscious. Like, everyone could sort of tap into that other world when it was necessary. The other world, however, was really weird when you think of it from a time point of view. Everyone who has ever entered that world existed there at the same time as they entered it. It is like a timeless place where you are able to see people from the future, and past at the same time. I didn't fully understand it, and frankly I would have like a minute more of someone talking about the other world. In my opinion, this movie does not deserve the Oscar. It is a great movie, and don't get me wrong it is an Oscar winning story, but I do not think that it was just confusing enough that it shouldn't win. I loved the visual and audible aspects of the movie, and if there was an award for best animation, I think it would deserve it. I think the plot is solid, but the conclusion is not the best. If I had to rate it, which I do not feel good doing because I know that if I watch it again, my rating would go up, I would give it a 7/10. It was great in every aspect other than conclusion, and the movie gave me an unfinished feeling and left me wanting answers that I couldn't come up with myself. This movie is great. This movie had music, and romance, and drama, and action, and it was just great. I know it wasn't done to what actually happened in the circus, but like it would have been a completely different movie if it was. The movie would have been sad and gross, and it wouldn't have done really well. The movie says based off a true story, and technically it is, it is based off a true story, just nor done is a completely true way. The movie was done beautifully, and the music was phenomenal. It is my favorite musical movie, followed closely by La La Land. The movie looks amazing, the acting is good, and the music is even better. I love Hugh Jackman as Barnum, and he does a great job. The cast is generally great, and I do not really have any issues with their casting. I also like that they included some of the bad stuff that Barnum did (cheating on his wife). Once again, the music is absolutely amazing, and I could sing it pretty much all day. I know it is a musical movie, but it does not feel too music heavy like other musical movies. The music is integrated in a way that feels natural and normal, also the music as part of the circus makes sense. Lastly, the shots in the movie just look beautiful. The cinematography is more than good and the color pop in the circus. If I had to rate the movie without the true story in mind, I would give is a solid 8.5/10, it was musically and visually beautiful. The acting was good, and the story line was also good. This movie was amazing, however, I have heard so much about it being outstanding that I was not as amazed by it as I should have been. I like this style of movie, where you discover everything that happens towards the end of the movie and suddenly everything makes sense. This movie was also great in the visual department. There were shots that were amazingly done, and they were actually scientifically accurate in most of the shots. Like the black hole could have looked so different, but they scientifically made the light bend around it so it looked like there were two rings going around it, one horizontally and one vertically. One thing that I did not like about the movie is actually how they solved the issue. After such as great movie that was so action and visuals packed, I found the ending where he was actually the 6th dimension, a little lacking. I understand that it works nicely with how the rest of the movie went, but I still think that it was a little too much of a stretch. I also really liked the cast. Matthew McConaughey, who pretty much plays the exact same person in each movie, did amazing as an out in the hicks scientists/astronaut father of two. He put so much emotion into the movie, and it made sense the level of sadness he portrayed. Overall, the movie was excellent and would have been even better if I didn't go into the movie with the expectation for it to be absolutely life changing. I would give the movie a solid 8.5/10, it was really visually appealing, and the story made sense and was good up until the solution at the end which was a little too outlandish for my taste. This is a rom-com, and I love a good rom-com. Don't get me wrong, this was not an amazing rom-com by any standards, but I still loved it. It did not stack up to any of my favorite rom-coms, Crazy Rich Asians or My Big Fat Greek Wedding or How to lose a Guy in 10 days, but it still fulfilled its purpose of making my happy. It is about a country artist who got big right when his to be wife got pregnant, he walks out on her and comes back like 7 years later, and they are working through their relationship now. It is a cliché plot, and you know exactly what is going to happen (even the acting is sub-par), and yet you still find yourself rooting for their relationship and getting happy when it starts to work out. To my surprise, they did a pretty good job with the music that this artist supposedly made, and it did not feel half done. It surprised me because the rest of the movie wasn't quite have done, but it was definitely not done with full effort, and yet the music seemed to be. I really enjoyed this movie, but when compared to the other rom-coms that I wave seen and loved, I would have to give this movie a 6.5/10. It fulfilled its purpose and a little more, but it did not stack up to some other amazing movies. I would recommend it and might even watch it again, but I am more likely to watch a different rom-com instead. I have seen this move plenty of times and it never gets old. It is visually very appealing, and very action packed. Something about big monsters fighting big mechs makes for a great movie in my opinion. It is directed Del Toro, which is why I watched it, it feels nothing like a Del Toro movie. This genre of movie is recreated many times in things such as Battleship and Rampage, and yet I think Pacific Rim does it the best. It is a great movie to watch when you are bored, and it will keep you smiling and entertained the whole time. It has a sequel, which I also think is pretty good, but it is nothing compared to this one. I will state this again, this movie is basically just big monster fighting big mech, which you should never be able to make a whole movie about, and I think it does a brilliant job at it. I really like the Idea that the mechs are unable to be controlled by only one person, and that the people have to be compatible. This forces a sort of relationship and make the movie have more depth than just fighting. This is, however, a very common thing in mech movies/animes, and is reused in a lot of things, so I would take off a little for this, although I really like it. Overall I think it is a great movie, it will not help me with my 5-page paper at all, which is why I also watch a different movie this week, but it was a great re-watch. I would give it a solid 9/10 as I have seen it so many times, and it is still good. If this movie had come out without me having read the book, this would be probably the best movie I watched this year. Sadly, I have the knowledge of reading the book beforehand, and it really messed the movie up for me. Don't get me wrong, the movie followed the book accurately and included every single plot point that would have stuck out to you if you read the book a year or two ago. I read the book 6 months ago, and it was the best book I read in the past, probably, 4 years, not counting the times I have re-read books that I absolutely love. This obviously did not help with how I liked the movie. The movie portrayed things in a slightly different way than I felt they should have been portrayed. Things, like the love between Snow and Lucy, differed a little. It felt natural and true in the book, while it felt more forced and rushed in the movie. You also didn't see some of the characters get developed as much as they were in the movie. They completely cut out one largish part of the book also, it didn't really affect the ending of the book so it was alright to take out, but it was still part of the book and a decent amount of time is spent on it in the book. Realistically, they did everything to could have in a movie that was only 2 hours and 40 minutes, and should have been at least 6 hours. Realistically, they would have done this book in two 3-hour movies, but I understand why they didn't. I feel like the book is really easy to split up into two parts also, as the book really has two different stories in it. Overall the movie was great, probably the best of the Hunger Games movies, but it did not live up to my excessively high hopes, and it left me disappointed. If I had not read the book it would have been a 9/10, but since I did, it is a solid 5/10. I liked it. It was a good movie but, wow, did they not hold back with the gore. The movie followed a girl who believes in fairies and can see them. This is only really half of the plot, though. The other half follows a rebellion against the fascist regime. The movie was not hesitant to show blood, which made for some uncomfortable scenes that made me cringe. Once again, the ending was both sad and happy. You see our main antagonist die, but Ophelia also dies. She is however given a stop in her magical world, she is the princess. It is never revealed whether the magical world is real or not, like other people can't see the things that Ophelia is seeing, but a little too much happens for it to really be fake. Once again, Guillermo del Toro has combined fantastical elements with war, and it has worked. This movie seems to circle around the war bit way more heavily, and without the war bit the movie would have been much shorter. The movie was also gorgeous, I really like how his movies use no harsh lighting, there are no bright colors and everything is sort of dull. These dull colors, however, are really pretty and make for a gorgeous movie. I think this movie was really good, I really enjoyed it, and it showed me where the weird guy with the eye in his hand came from, so I give it a solid 8.5/10. It was slow in some places, so it is lacking a little, but it is overall really good. I found this movie weird. The message was good, and it did a good job of showing this message, but I did not really vibe with the weird romance. It gave Beauty and the Beast vibes, which for me is weird if it is not animated. The film itself was pretty, it was shot with a noticeable theme of blue and green, which as you can see is also on the cover. This is probably because our protagonist is obsessed with the water, and our creature or "asset" is from the water. It is at its core a story about people who break the norms and people who follow the "ideal" or "model" life. Eliza, our protagonist, is our norm breaker. She is obsessed with the water, and finds the "asset" interesting right away. She gave the impression that she was attracted to the asset, weird to me, as soon as she saw it, and this only grew throughout the movie. It grows to the point where we see her undress in front of the asset, giving us the impression that they had sex. I find the whole romance between Eliza and the asset really weird, it made me uncomfortable, and I feel that the movie could have had the exact same message without it. I understand that one of the minor themes in the movie was feminism and racial equality, but I feel that a completely new race, one that is, although similar to human, different enough to humans is a little too far on the racial equality idea. I would give this movie a 6/10 because it was good, but I found it really weird as well. |
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