Oh, and it’s a shame the digital version is presented at a fixed 24fps. I don’t know if I would have liked it much, and I know it was in the theatrical release to help 3D screenings feel better, but would have been nice to have the option.
@tchaten Yeah, it felt like 90 minutes of good-looking fan service, which is totally fine! Not gonna be on my top movies list by any means, but I'm glad I finally saw it.
@matt knowing what the blue mushroom did ahead of time was such a joy in the theater as most discovered tiny Mario only after he ate it - so glad cat suit Mario was included
P.S. I’m on Letterboxd and post all my reviews there as well. I’d love to follow more people there, so drop your profile 😁 https://letterboxd.com/mattbirchler/
@nathansnelgrove Yeah, definitely not among his best by any means. I feel like there were moments where it comes together, but so much of it was rough.
I’m going through the whole series, and I’m a bit worried that it’s only downhill from here 😬
@marcoshuerta haha I don’t remember the details of the book, but I did read it as a kid and was surprised that basically everything was different from the movie.
@matt Hard disagree - this was the one that surprised me the most in the rewatch I did last year - had a blast with it; liked it more in recent viewings than when I originally saw it - also do really appreciate a big blockbuster like this that is only 90 minutes such a rarity these days
@tchaten Oh no! Honestly this is easily the worst movie I’ve seen in 2023 personally, but I am jealous you’re getting enjoyment from these films 😊 I want to like them, I really do!
@alpine Thank you so much! I’ve always found the best way to find good things to watch is to find someone with similar taste to you, and see what resonates with them.
@matt Our little local community theater is running this in a couple weeks. Of six friends watching the preview during the Asteroid City showing we went to as a group—all of us 90s kids, one of us not conservative (or very conservative) at the time of release—my wife, was the only one who saw it or even remembered it existed back then.
All six of us thought, based on the trailer, that it could easily be mistaken for a modern Netflix hit from any time in the last year or two.
@NateBarham haha the effort is noted and understood 😂
That’s a good callout actually, it does feel a bit like it could be on Netflix these days. I was pretty young in 99, but when I think back to the way the world was back then (I was conservative at the time as well) it made me appreciate more how outside the mainstream this really was for the time.
@matt Yeah, the group were anywhere from 15-19 in 99. And it was one of those things where we were surprised that only one of us had seen it / heard of it, but then because of time period and upbringings immediately not at all surprised.
@tchaten I am! I’ve only send the first one and fell asleep during the second one, but it seems like a series I can actually enjoy throughout since people seem to most agree each one is at least good.
@matt Numbers 2, 3, and 4 are not good, but number 1 is a masterpiece. It's a remarkable anime-style fantasy-action film set in a fictional universe that's easy for viewers to comprehend, and its intense narrative justifies all crime scenes like poetry. Trust me, it's a fantastic movie.
@Albertkinng I trust you thought it was fantastic 😝 We all have our own scales for things and personal preferences. I feel like you take my review as not liking it 😂
@matt I’m playing with you, man. I love everything you do! John Wick has become like Star Wars between fans and haters. Nothing against you or your comment, I just wanted to let you know how much I liked it!
@matt I really liked the first 75% of it. Then she stabbed her father after she thought he was attacking her but it was the demon instead yada yada and it kind of went off the rails for me. Not terrible. But probably wouldn’t recommend when there are other better horror movies out there to watch. If you haven’t seen Smile, saw that a couple weeks ago. Much much better IMO
@matt Haha. Yeah but I think we can appreciate something different being done in the horror genre. I’ve been watching horror movies since the early 80s and it’s hard to spook me nowadays. lol. I feel like I’ve seen everything that can be done. Smile seemed to get me a little bit, maybe it’s just the bizarreness of the actual smiling and then knowing it was going to trigger something after the smile that got me. I’m tempted to go see The Nun 2 in theaters this week.
@nortools Thank you! The oner I'm thinking about is in the restaurant near the end where we follow a few characters all over and go above and through walls over and over. It really blew me away this time.
@ravipatel@tchaten For sure. I used to be all in on streaming everything day one, but I’ve come around over the last few years. A theatrical release makes a movie land more for some reason.
The biggest bummer here is despite the Apple TV version of this supposedly having the original Spanish audio, the player only let me use the English dub.
@lance For me, I think the women in the movie were pretty inconsequential in ways that are pretty typical of "great man" movies, which was a shame. Maybe there's more that I missed, but that was my impression on first viewing.
Interesting. This was a smash blockbuster hit when it came out in 1987 ($320 million worldwide). Audiences loved it. Farthest thing from boring. I guess mileage varies.
@brianstorms Yeah, I hoped for more, but I don’t think it’s aged well. More recent audience reviews seem a lot more middling, but I definitely seem to find it worse than the average person.
@stevenodb haha, well one thing that helped was deciding I wanted to watch a lot of stuff, so that got me in the habit of just picking something and going.
Also Letterboxd is a great resource for seeing what other people are excited about right now, and I can always find something on the front page there if I'm not sure what to watch.
@CaptainLou It’s a good idea. Where would you expect to be linked to? I haven’t done it this far largely because there’s not an obvious/useful place I can think of.
I waffled on “good” vs “great” for this one, and I think my answer could vary by the day. If you’re remotely interested in this one, I highly recommend it.
@matt stupid question, but is is possible to change the poor-okay-good-great scale to something else (localize it or use other words to explain the reaction) on quickreviews.app?
@teisam Not a stupid question! Custom names were actually in the original, and there’s code on the back end to handle it, but I don’t have a UI for setting them right now.
I removed it about a year ago when I saw nobody (including myself) using it, and I wanted to simplify the UI a bit. I’ll consider bring it back, though!
I might, honestly 😂 People seem to generally like the second one more, so might give it a shot. It's on the very of being a fun movie, but this one fell on the wrong side of that line.
@matt Out of interest how do you feel about these films with Rowlings views on trans rights?
I was a bit too old to read the books, but came to love the films. Had a tradition where every few years we’d watch one each Sunday on the run up to xmas.
Can’t do it anymore because of JK. Though in most cases I’m torn between seperating the art from the artist, not here, because I feel so let down. I do appreciate the cast being pretty public about disagreeing with her though.
For HP, I obviously don’t approve of JK’s stance on things, and that does taint the experience for me some. That said, I really adore the story and the other people involved in bringing them to life (who as you said, have made it pretty clear mostly dont share her opinions). The story is also about love and acceptance, so the whole situation is all the more frustrating.
@renwillis It’s a bold choice 😬 I’m not above separating the art from the artist in some cases, but I don’t like Gibson nearly enough to offload his…well…everything.
@matt I love this format. I've always wanted to do movie reviews and for a bit considered starting a site on my selfhosted setup at home but I really don't have an eye for design in the slightest so I was never happy with how it looked. Kudos
@matt I am super biased about this one, I’m a sucker for shark movies, I do watch this one often. The second one is in theaters now and cannot wait to see it (probably will buy it on iTunes tho). And I mean real shark movies, sharknado doesn’t count, no one should watch those movies 😤
@matt Well, it is in a whole different league than Clue! It’s pretty bland to be sure but if you have some guilty pleasure watching Shark movies, it’s not a bad one.
@garrettzumini Thisbis the challenge of my system lol. I think most movies are okay (“did I like the movie? Yeah, it was okay” is the vibe I have for this review class), but whenever I say a movie was “okay” my mentions seem to think I hated whatever movie it was 😂
@matt in theaters it was totally random which one you got, and the old school iTunes one I got did the same thing where you could only find all of them in the special features. Jeez that app is really like “yup let’s just suck up and stomp any whimsey” It reminds me of when DVDs of shows got released with terrible generic music so studios didn’t have to pay for residuals of what played when the actual eps aired.
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