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ng heart decide to cure them and so save them from death when they get sent back to their own universes again this makes no sense strange disagrees so he and spidey fight spidey forces strange out of the picture for a while but also enables the bad guys to escape and regroup with one who received the cure helping to face off against the others who did not meanwhile peter s friends mj and ned try to call peter using some other mcguffin device only to end up bringing into their universe both tobey mcguire and andrew garfield s spider men or your friendly neighborhood spider man and amazing spider man much bonding inside jokes touching stories and mutual support ensues as well as a final battle that also brings back doctor strange peter has to make a final sacrifice in order for strange to fix the rupture in the multiverse this movie has broken records as the first pandemic era movie to get to 100 million on its opening day and the first to top 1 billion it is the second highest or tied for second highest rated mcu movie just behind black panther it squashes together not only a dozen villains characters and heroes into one movie ala end game but also squashes together three cinematic universes which is a sure fire crowd pleaser so i was prepared for another boring fan service marvel movie that is a well made and entertaining b shallow a collection of irrelevant actions scenes with superficial emotional growth c watchable but not good i am pleased to say that it is better than the usual marvel movies although still not a great movie it was entertaining well acted and well shot of course it was not too shallow the characters and the story moved and developed more than usual yes it was a collection of action scenes but the scenes between the kids peter and his friends and between the spider men were interesting and contained depth these are actual characters who have real backstories and real arcs to use as backgrounds for their reactions and dialog and this helped tobey and andrew were particularly welcome and captivating as was william defoe s green goblin still a few scenes with depth is not a deep movie like a real drama movie on the down side unless you have seen all previous spider man movies as well as the avengers infinity wars end game movies and some daredevil and maybe some other mcu television shows some of the backstories and characters will be new to you and therefore will have less depth you will then watch the film and feel less since these backstories with some notable exceptions are not explained this detracts from the movie for such viewers also the extended fight scenes while pretty to look at as usual were eye candy with little dramatic depth if you are a fan of these kinds of movies you will love this one if you are not you probably won t change your mind but it will not feel like a waste of time if you actively dislike these kinds of movies this one won t change your mind hearts beat loud a little independent movie starring nick offerman and kiersey clemons as father and daughter frank and sam sam and frank play music together informally in their house sam is off to college soon they create a song that frank thinks might give them a chance at music success so he pesters same into recording playing an maybe touring while sam is more interested in her new girlfriend and upcoming college this plays almost like a john carney movie once begin again sing street with original music interspersed with scenes and dialog pregnant with emotion the lyrics and music written by keegan dewitt counterpoint recapitulate or develop the story the movie and some scenes may be a bit slow and the story may be unoriginal but it is sweet the music is pretty and everyone does a fine job other featured actors include toni collette and ted danson who shine understatedly when they are on screen i didn t know anything about nick offerman before watching this other than that he is megan mullally s husband and a comedic actor of some kind it was a nice surprise to see him perform in an appealing comic dramatic role and do it well worth watching if it comes your way jagged a documentary about alanis morissette told in her own current voice and the voice of her band from the time of her childhood up until jagged little pill came out and upended music in the 1990s i have seen many documentaries about musicians lately this one stands out it might be because i love alanis music especially from that period or it may be that she is a great musician this is an important piece of music and it is a decent story not a fantastic story just a decent one a decent story seems to elude most other music documentaries alanis has famously distanced herself from this film saying that she was betrayed in its making and that it represents distorted facts i am not sure what her problem is and i wish she would clarify there are only two negative insinuations that she makes one is that she was involved with adult married men in the music business when she was 15 years old and that over time she has learned that these men took advantage of her and were in fact pedophiles and abusers i don t think this is a huge revelation since she sings about this in hands clean and other songs she does narrow down the people to specific times and companies where she was working in the documentary the other negative comment is about her all male band mates who attracted and slept with many female fans during their first tour which she found in retrospect to be distasteful and anti feminist again i don t think this is a huge revelation worth watching if you are into the subject at all at least until we hear some kind of clarification from alanis respect a biopic about arethra franklin the queen of soul music jennifer hudson plays arethra before she died aretha actually picked hudson to play her forest whitaker plays her father and marlon wayans plays her first husband marc maron plays the famous producer jerry wexler who releases most of her music and mary j blige plays family friend and singer dinah washington the movie takes us from youth until her 1971 amazing grace gospel performance this film follows the same cookie cutter story of every other musician biopic early struggles a troublesome marriage first success a fight with a music label that results in a change of labels a troublesome addiction too much success leading to bad behavior and a denouement that involves a re centering and launch into future success with a heartfelt performance at a special place maybe that s just the story of all successful musicians the movie hits all of these tropes without getting anything deep or original out of any of them its distinguishing factor is her struggle with religion and her deeply religious yet philandering father it was enjoyable while it is technically well done it is not amazing everyone does a fine job even if some parts of her life are left unexplained and unexplored and hudson is a great singer in her own right under the skin scarlett johansson plays one of two aliens she drags women and mostly men off into some kind of death or stasis in order to understand them or transport them to her planet or something she wanders around sometimes naked talking little weird scenes occur in some kind of odd space where her naked victims follow her as she walks on a flat surface while they descend step by step into some kind of black oil in which they float and can still see it must be metaphorical but i didn t see the point looking up on wikipedia from a synopsis of the book on which the movie is based the themes are supposed to be about animal cruelty environmental decay sexism and immigration i didn t get any of that from the film all i got was nice scenery tedium confusion lack of a comprehensible story arc and an unsexy look at scarlett johansson the film took a chance by being different from the usual sort of films we see it fails spectacularly but i give it some credit for that no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels movies review friday november 26 2021 movie reviews dune 2021 eternals the eyes of tammy faye the father king richard pixie spencer dune 2021 as an aside i saw this in a 4x movie theater and i can tell you that 4x movie theaters are not worth the extra cost every once in a while my seat vibrated slightly distracting me from the movie then i felt the seat kicking me in my bottom there are kids who will do that for free in regular movie theaters finally during a huge rain scene on film i felt a slight mist in the theater skip the 4x on the other hand this is a huge well made sci fi film of multiple worlds that deserves to be seen in a theater as for the story and characters the director dennis villeneuve and the rest of the staff do a great job enabling the characters to emerge the story retains its essential form while being accessible to people who have not read or forgot the book at least i think so it s possible that the emperor sending troops to aid the harkonnens fight against the atreides might get lost on someone who never read the book which is important but not critical at least to this movie which is only the first half of the novel the story dune is a planet with an important spice that enables interstellar travel while also turning blue the eyes of anyone who hangs around it for a while the planet is nearly entirely desert with little water and little life however there are some desert mice some huge ass sandworms that detect the slightest movement on the surface and the freemen nomadic and essentially bedouin native warriors who resent the presence of the spice mining operations of the empire the emperor kicks the harkonnens off of the planet for some reason and sends the atreides faction to continue the operations but it looks like they might have been sent to fail the harkonnens sabotaged some of the equipment and they and the emperor later attack the atriedes on dune meanwhile duke atreides wife jessica is a bene gesserit some kind of mystic with mental powers in a long line of trained woman mystics who has a son paul that she has trained in these ways much to the annoyance of the rest of the bene gesserit she did so because she thinks paul may be the fulfillment of a thousand years of prophesy simultaneously paul seems to fulfill some freeman signs of being a prophet too and he is having visions of a freeman woman he will meet and wed and maybe die in her arms timothee chalamet rebecca ferguson oscar isaac josh brolin and others do fine jobs not too mopey not too dreamy not too chaotic effects music and cinematography do what they should it s not the greatest film of this decade but it works and i enjoyed it i am looking forward to part 2 eternals this boring entry into the marvel universe is a collection of marvel scenes apparently written by not exceptional 12 year olds once again we have a bunch of super heroes with undefined powers that can do anything except when the plot wants these powers to not work so well so as to provide some tension didn t work once again immortal and invulnerable non human beings run through every human emotion and die from human fatal wounds like asphyxiation although they don t breathe and chest wounds although they have no circulation or blood once again a marvel movie tries and fails to explain why super powerful beings did nothing while the other movies played out not getting involved in earth events is not an excuse for not stopping thanos now suddenly they seem to care about humans but they did not apparently during the last five millennia once again a marvel movie fails to explain where all the other marvel superheroes are at an event that threatens the entire planet earth some of these other superheroes are gods right and once again a marvel movie glosses over massive destruction that should wipe out a planet instead the destruction affects only a few miles around it the characters are fine but one dimensional the marvel humor runs shallow the plot makes an attempt at least the eternals have to choose between helping keep humans alive on earth or helping a celestial be born which is their actual mission so there is some slight moral dilemma otherwise whatever the eyes of tammy faye i knew very little about televangelists and about prosperity gospel before this movie and only a little about jim and tammy faye baker played beautifully by andrew garfield and jessica chastain based on the documentary of the same name this film must have involved a lot of input from tammy faye who is portrayed quite sympathetically as is televangelism in general the story is how the two met in college where jim was promoting the idea that wealth god s blessing and so they should make money by promoting god various other televangelists and other kinds of ministers have other ideas with this and with each other so while on the whole they are all working to turn people from sin and to christianity they also present different sometimes contradictory methods and messages in different styles the bakers end up collaborating with and butting heads with others for example tammy believes in loving everyone including homosexuals and bringing them closer to god while jerry falwell and others reject this idea the movie covers the financial fraud and theft by jim baker as well as his and others possible homosexual dalliances it skips some of the nastier things that the bakers and other prosperity preachers did such as telling the poorest people to take out bankrupting loans to give them the bakers money as proof of their belief this was supposed to result in being paid back many times over by god but typically resulted in lost fortunes bankruptcy and even death when people ran out of money to pay for cancer treatments etc but that would make it harder for tammy to be a sympathetic screen character this was quite a good movie interesting well acted well scripted and well shot i didn t see the documentary if it is good some might ask the question why this movie needs to exist the father this tour de force from anthony hopkins is a crushing look at a man with alzheimer s it s impossible to describe without giving away the film but the simple explanation is this anthony plays a man who has alzheimer s he does not accept this but he is not always sure of his memory olivia colman plays his long suffering daughter other characters appear or disappear and that s all you need to know both of them as well as the director play the scenes with sensitivity and creativity it is engrossing puzzling and marvelous this is not a feel good movie while it is sometimes depressing it is so well done that it doesn t really matter think oh let s say kramer vs kramer level of pathos but it s not as miserable as some movies like ones about slavery poverty or horrific abuse so you don t want to kill yourself after watching it still that makes it a movie that is not for casual movie night with 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