[olderthanIusedtobe]

I enjoyed Passengers. You could go ahead and watch and decide for yourself if it sucks or if it's decent.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Watched John Wick Chapter 2 last night. They tried to up the ante way too much from the first one. Jumped the shark at some point. Pretty convoluted plot, too. If you like a high body count and lots of head shots and red mist, this is the movie for you.

[Backpacker Joe]

I liked the heck out of Passengers. Good story line, good plot. Good acting. Like how it ended as well. I went and saw Wonder Woman again. Love that movie!

[Backpacker Joe]

Jack Reacher 2 was semi bad as well. Many second movies have been bad lately.

[gb]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Sometimes I can suspend my disbelief, sometimes I can't. I laughed hysterically during Vertical Limit, and it wasn't supposed to be funny. They got pretty much everything having anything to do with climbing terribly wrong in that film, even w/ Ed Viesturs as a technical consultant (I can only assume they completely ignored everything he told them). Stallone's Cliffhanger was pretty bad too in that regard. I'm not an astrophysicist or any other kind of scientist. I don't really care if a film doesn't realistically portray interstellar space travel.

[gb]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[Backpacker Joe]

LOGAN! I didnt like it! I didnt understand any of it. I dont like seeing these characters so vulnerable! But more than that, it didnt describe WHY these characters were where they were at this time! WHY was Logan dying and so weak????? What was up with Charles? Frankly I dont understand why Hugh Jackman would make such a movie! Im extremely disappointed! Ten thumbs down for Logan!

[mike]

[gb]

Watched Wonder Woman yesterday after recommendations. Although action flicks generally bore me, this was a really good movie with great character development and pretty cool special effects in fighting scenes. Recommended.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Just watched Logan last night (already had it from Netflix before I saw the negative views above). Didn't hate it, but didn't like it that much either. Too long, several stretches of it were tedious. Aging/physically/mentally declining Wolverine and Prof. X were no fun at all. The Wolverine movies in general are a mess. No continuity at all, each basically exists as if none of the other Wolverine or X-Men movies occurred. The girl was pretty kick ass, but with her being mute most of the way thru the film other than screaming, she kinda seemed like a knock off of the feral little boy from Road Warrior.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Double feature tonight, although the movies couldn't be more different. Lego Batman Movie was pretty funny. Will Arnett just kills it as Batman, plenty of other strong vocal work as well. Was mostly just a fun, silly movie, and yet a pretty darn good deconstruction of the Batman mythology and skewers the history of the character in TV and film. And most other superhero movies while it's at it. The other movie was Before I Fall. Maybe there's something wrong w/ me, I keep watching YA films even though I'm well beyond that age range. I liked it. Maybe cliched, but it was decent. Yet another iteration of the Groundhog Day setup, this one set in high school with the clique of pretty, popular, mean girls. I like Zoey Deutch (there's just something about women named Zoey or Zoe or however they spell it). I like Halston Sage, too, although she had a pretty thankless role. Kept up the Hollywood tradition of 20 somethings playing teenagers. Jennifer Beals is an ageless wonder.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Another double bill. "Collision" was an enjoyable B grade movie. Wasn't trying to be more than it was. Really solid cast. Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones are younger actor/actress that have gotten some acclaim, and Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins did a fair bit of scenery chewing. Both of those guys, but Kingsley in particular don't seem to be very choosy about their roles. Just as happy doing totally cheesy stuff as Oscar bait. The other one was "The Zookeeper's Wife." Jessica Chastain was really good. Well done, based on a true story film about the plight of the Jews in Warsaw, Poland during WWII. Chastain's character and her husband rescued and sheltered over 300 Jews at their zoo, which was defunct during the war. It was however occupied by Nazi troops during the day, so they were sneaking them right under their noses.

[Kascadia]