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The Magnificent 7 10/10

The original? No. The recent remake. Yes. A remake. Yes, a perfect score.

Holy smokes this is an honest to god balls to the wall flat out rampaging western like you read about. I am absolutely floored by just how styl'n and engaging and well crafted this movie is. Action packed and mercilessly awesome. It just nailed itself a top 5 position on my all time favorite westerns list, right beside the likes of Silverado, Open Range and The Quick and the Dead.

Denzel Washington absolutely KILLS IT as a bad ass cool af cowboy gun-for-hire. Chris Pratt doing what he does best only this time as a freaking cowboy. Ethan Hawk makes for a remarkably convincing bad ass southern gent. The whole cast is outstanding. The bad guy, though convincing, could have been better - and all I could keep thinking whenever he was on screen was "Should have cast Gary Oldman." Really the movie's only weak link. The rest is fun as all get out.
 

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Lights Out 7/10

A decent horror film. I really liked the original short, which did cause uneasiness and fear, unlike most horror movies honestly. The full length movie had its moments, but once the creatures story is explained, it becomes very meh. The acting is...existent, I guess? I wasn't impressed by the actors' performances.

The monster, though, is done very well. The director took painstaking care to make sure the monster was always a silhouette in every scene. The director never "cheated" with the lighting, so it was all done naturally.
 

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Justice League

Better than it could have been, worse than it should have been. Totally interested in seeing a cut that isn't butchered by the studio.
 
Star Wars VIII: The Fast and The Furious Jedi


I dont know much or care much about Star Wars but it wasnt a bad film. I enjoyed the humour and there are some good actors in there (Isaacs and Gleeson are stand outs). Theres a lot going on and there are some cool scenes but oh my bloody god more than half of the film felt like filler and it was annoying as hell. More than half of this very long film could have been axed and it would change literally nothing.

It also feels like watching a Fast and the Furious film. Remember that one where the runway goes on forever but the distance theyre traveling isn't as long as the scene itself? Well there's a scene like that and it was so damn distracting. But the whole film is like that to be honest.

Also, they need to figure out how powerful characters are. In FA Kylo could stop laser blasts in the air, yet in this film he has a hard time taking out some grunt characters. Again, distracting as someone not into Star Wars, basic continuity in characters and concepts seems off kilter here so its hard to know what is on purpose and what is just wonky writing or directing.

6/10

God damn i wish they'd axed those two very dull and pointless characters.
 

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 4.5/10

There are going to be a lot of potential spoilers in my review so be warned before reading it.

I have more bad to say than good about this movie. There are just so many problems I have with this movie. The plot was very poor in my opinion. I feel like nothing really happened. The main crew was just escaping from The First Order and Rey was with Luke learning more about Kylo's past and being trained, I guess? Other than that nothing happened. This entire movie was pretty pointless and just seems like it was a 2 and a half hour intro for the next movie. Honestly this entire movie would be 30 minuets long if people just weren't so stupid. If the leadership of the Resistance new what their plan was all along, why didn't they just tell everyone and abandon ship as soon as possible. Especially knowing that Poe would try something. Waiting for the last second was a waste of time and a waste of the life of the Resistance members. They also knew one person had to stay and run the cruiser, so they could have easily all escaped with everyone jumping ship while one person turned around and blasted into hyper speed destroying all the First Order's ships. I don't understand why they decided to drag this section on and make it all ambiguous and just make this the main section of the movie when it was probably the least important part, the most annoying part, and the most boring part.

The parts with Rey and Luke just felt glossed over. It did go over Kylo's past but barely. They were just like, "Oh Luke tried to kill Ben and he became Kylo. Cool". I find villains more intriguing if you know their history and I wish they focused more on this. The Jedi training was underwhelming and just dumb I guess. Nothing much really happened with Luke training Rey. This section also lead to the most underwhelming part of the film when Rey keeps focusing on who her parents were. They built up all this suspense with them making us feel like the reveal of who her parents will shock us. It was all pointless though because it turns out her parents where no one and she's just a nobody. Cool, nice letdown. There's not much to say about this section as again, not much happened.

The side plot where Finn and Poe needed to find that code breaker dude was one of the dumbest most mind numbing things I ever had to sit through. The romance between Finn and that other character was just cheesy and dumb. They kept failing on every task they had to do which was annoying and made the section feel more pointless. During this entire 30 minuet section of the film nothing happened at all. I feel like there was no character building. They added a bunch of new characters that no one cares about because they are just here for this section for the film and they will probably never return (And I hope that one girl, I forget her name, doesn't comeback because I feel like they will just turn it into a love battle for Finn between her and Rey). I wish I could elaborate more on why this section of the movie was so bad, but there's not much to talk about it. Nothing happened during this part, it was all pointless because it was a failure, and it would have never even happened if the incompetent Resistance leaders just told everyone what their plan was. It just felt like padding to make the movie longer, but they could have just made the movie longer by focusing more on stuff that actually mattered.

Speaking of stuff that actually mattered, Snoke's role in this film was abysmal. No backstory was given and he was killed in the most pathetic way possible. He was cut in half while his back was turned. Great villain. Why is this movie focusing on a weak sub plot and a boring space chase and not giving us any insight on who the villains are. They could have built up the lore for this sequel trilogy but no, let's just have a movie where nothing happens.

Luke's role in the film really pissed me off too. Especially towards the end. He didn't seem like a jedi master, he seemed like a coward. He sent a hologram or something to fight Kylo Ren, and he died by just disappearing into nothing. Wouldn't have it been cooler just to see him get blown apart or even cut in half and make Luke seem more human, but nope it had to be as disappointing as the rest of this movie. They just confuse us and make his seem like some sort of god when in reality he doesn't have the decency to actually show up and not die like a coward. It was also infuriating that they kind of glossed over his death like it didn't matter at all. The talk about i briefly and then go like "How are we going to build the resistance now". Like, cool, Luke wasn't an important character at all let's just act like this doesn't effect anything.

The only good I can say about the film is that the visuals where amazing and the score was also outstanding. I feel like they built Kylo and Rey's character more, even though I wish more characters where developed in some way. Other than that I feel like this movie was just overall abysmal and disappointing.
 

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Darkest Hour 9.5/10

Starring the fantastic Gary Oldman and chronicling the days of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's new govt in the wake of Europe's ongoing fall to Hitler's Germany, Darkest Hour is a tense laser focused inside look at Churchill's rise to power and Britain's defiance in the face of imminent defeat on England's Darkest Hour. As France and Belgium fall to the Nazis and with Britain's army held up at Dunkirk, Churchill is appointed to oversee what appears to be for all intents and purposes Britain's final days. Against continued calls to sue for peace with Germany from within his own govt, Churchill is adamant that only a strong show of military defiance is all that stands between Hitler's Germany and the fall of western civilization. Opening with Churchill's appointment to Prime Minister and concluding with the infamous "We Will Fight Them On The Beaches" speech, Churchill must contend with the evacuation of Dunkirk and ready Great Britain for war.

Gary Oldman is unrecognizable as anyone other than the enigmatic Churchill himself. The movie is dark and grim and beset with a grimy grainy filter that may have you convinced that you're watching a 40 year old film. The tone of the movie is as dour as the darkest of days in which it is set. And Oldman's performance is outstanding as ever.
 

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The Last Jedi

Ok, there's a moment in this movie that turns it from a dull if colourful kids film about pew pew into an insult. I want to sit here and type that it's a fine enough way of spending two and a half hours doing nothing special, but it's legit aggravating how stupid this film is at times.

Force Awakens is better. Adam Driver is the best thing in this film, just like the last one.
 
The Last Jedi

Ok, there's a moment in this movie that turns it from a dull if colourful kids film about pew pew into an insult. I want to sit here and type that it's a fine enough way of spending two and a half hours doing nothing special, but it's legit aggravating how stupid this film is at times.

Force Awakens is better. Adam Driver is the best thing in this film, just like the last one.

Which bit?
the casino planet bit that means literally nothing to the entire film?
 

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@Christmas Spirit
The bit when Leia tells Poe that the Vice-Admiral had a plan to save everyone all along. There was literally no reason for the Vice-Admiral to not tell Poe they were heading for an old base and that everyone could get to it in the cloaked transports. She had 18 hours to tell him, no reason to hide it from him, and he even asked directly. The only reason they go to the pointless casino planet is because Poe didn't know the plan. Going to the casino planet is the only reason Benicio 'I have a stutter which means I'm characterised, right?' Del Torro tells the First Order about the transports (how he knows this I don't know). So the Vice-Admiral gets all of those people killed for absolutely no reason other than she's a *****.

If she told Poe, you wouldn't have anything for Finn, Poe, or Rose to do, and they wouldn't have been able to paint her as a ***** and then switch it round by trying to make her look like a hero. That's bad writing. When you have to have a character do something that makes no sense in order to actaully have a movie, that's bad writing.

Also, when Rose stops Finn from blowing up the big cannon and justifies it by saying "We win by saving the things we love," and then the First Order immediately blow up the door and prepare to kill the thing she loves. This film was a series of women making terrible decisions for bad reasons, and men trying to clean up their mess.

Pew pew
 
@Christmas Spirit
The bit when Leia tells Poe that the Vice-Admiral had a plan to save everyone all along. There was literally no reason for the Vice-Admiral to not tell Poe they were heading for an old base and that everyone could get to it in the cloaked transports. She had 18 hours to tell him, no reason to hide it from him, and he even asked directly. The only reason they go to the pointless casino planet is because Poe didn't know the plan. Going to the casino planet is the only reason Benicio 'I have a stutter which means I'm characterised, right?' Del Torro tells the First Order about the transports (how he knows this I don't know). So the Vice-Admiral gets all of those people killed for absolutely no reason other than she's a *****.

If she told Poe, you wouldn't have anything for Finn, Poe, or Rose to do, and they wouldn't have been able to paint her as a ***** and then switch it round by trying to make her look like a hero. That's bad writing. When you have to have a character do something that makes no sense in order to actaully have a movie, that's bad writing.

Also, when Rose stops Finn from blowing up the big cannon and justifies it by saying "We win by saving the things we love," and then the First Order immediately blow up the door and prepare to kill the thing she loves. This film was a series of women making terrible decisions for bad reasons, and men trying to clean up their mess.

Pew pew

it was incredibly frustrating that no one told Poe what the plan was. What was he going to do? Literally, what would he have done with that information, not pad out the run time most likely. Its like Evangelion 3 all over again. If Misato had told Shinji what was going on in the first ten minutes we wouldn't have had a waste of time movie. Both of these films would have boiled down to "Oh, okay. Good plan."
 

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Bright 8.5/10
A dark and gritty Netflix original movie set in a modern day urban fantasy Los Angeles rife with disparity and racial tension only this time throw orcs and elves into the mix along with typical humans. The Shadowrun vibes are wafting strong off this one and it's just begging to be its own universe. It also stands as a sad reminder that the world still does not have a Shadowrun movie (but I'm sure they'd screw that up anyway). This gritty action packed suspense thriller gets balls to the wall bloody, violent and gruesome. The only thing holding it back is that as straight forward as the story is, essential plot exposition has trouble keeping up with the frantic pace the action demands. The characters are fun and the dialog is witty and gritty. Oh and Will Smith is in it.

A Christmas Prince 8.5/10
Look, I only watched a chick flick because Rose McIver stars in it and I kinda gotta pathetic crush on her, okay? Turns out that other than starring total Cutie with a capital C Rose McIver it's also a really really fun simple little Christmas flick. Another Netflix original movie. It's predictable, straightforward sweet and sappy but mercifully light on the melodrama. If you're in the mood for a lovely little Holiday movie, can't go wrong here. Also Rose McIver is like super cute. :pikalove:
 

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My god this movie SUCKED. The acting was horrific, it made 0 sense, it had no real plot. A mess. Truly.

It was so bad I couldn't stop laughing every time someone died.

3/10

Maggie

An Arnold movie about zombies. Not what you'd expect, when it was actually not about fighting them, but was about holding on when your loved ones are infected. Good movie, but a little slow.

7/10
 

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