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Movies seen in 2024

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) - I liked the original Hunger Games movies, though the third and fourth did suffer a bit by being one book needlessly divided into two movies. They benefited a lot from Jennifer Lawrence's excellent lead performance and the more satirical elements. This prequel is the story of future Hitler Coriolanus Snow's younger days and his relationship with a Games' tribute (Rachel Zeglel as Lucy Gray) who he has to mentor. For some reason though, maybe just from the trailers, I assumed that Zegler as Lucy would be at least the co-lead of the movie. But she isn't really, this is all Snow's story and I think it suffers from never cutting to Lucy's point of view. Zegler is very good at making Lucy sassy and singing and stuff, but we never get as inside her head as we do with Katniss from the originals. I didn't really buy the romance between her and Snow as I don't think the film did a good job of showing why they fell for each other. Snow is kind of played at first like you don't know if he cares about Lucy or if he's just using her to win power, and I feel like this aspect is dragged out too long. The film itself is way too long at two and a half hours. And even if you just look at it as Snow's story and not Lucy's at all I don't think it really goes far enough with him either as it just kind of ends with him still at the very beginning of his journey into Hitlerdom. There are some good moments: I liked when the Tributes are thrown into a zoo when they arrive in the Capitol and Jason Schwartzman is fun as the tv persenter/shitty magician. But meh this isn't as good as the originals, doesn't have their edge and I wish it had been a dual narrative.
 
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Beverley Hills cop, Axel F 2024.

It's not terrible, it's just kind of unessisary.

Billy and Tagett are shoehorned in when the story doesn't need them and Taggert especially looks way too old.

Murphy doesn't sleep walk through it like the 3rd one, but it does lack energy.

Just watch the first one again.
 
Expendables 4 2024.

Jason Streatham kills a lot of people, some other guys are there too. Worst CGI ever.
 
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Expendables 4 2024.

Jason Streatham kills a lot of people, some other guys are there too. Worst CGI ever.
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My Dad loved those movies. Not sure why. Not sure if Dad knew what CGI is. He probably still would have watched that movie if he was alive today.
 
The Iron Claw (2023) - Wrestling family drama about the real life Von Erich family. As a movie, it's good. It's very well acted by all the main cast (particularly Zac Efron as the lead), the wrestling scenes look great, it's very sad and you will cry at the end. As a wrestling fan with some knowledge of the real world events it's hard to question some of the choices. The movie depicts the deaths of 3 brothers (plus mention of an earlier tragedy), and that all really happened, but in real life it was even worse as there was a fourth wrestling brother in the family who also died. It's kind of bizarre that the movie actually mad the story less sad than in real life, but I understand that including another brother would have made the runtime too long. It still kind of almost find it in poor taste when the brothers are talking about all they've lost and they're obviously meant to be the real people but one of them is ignored because he doesn't exist in the context of the movie? The wrestling stuff is mostly good but there's one later scene where they act like Kevin (Efron) fucked up in a match by beating up Ric Flair for real and got disqualified, but that would never have happened and doesn't make much sense even in the movie (given that Flair is cool with Kevin afterwards.) The guy playing Flair does an absolutely terribly impersonation of him and can't even "WOOOO" right. I know it doesn't have to be exactly the same as real life but Flair is one of the most famous wrestlers ever so it's really glaring. I'm also not sure if the early part of the movie depicts just how famous and loved the Von Erichs were in Texas at the time. But again as a movie it's definitely good and everything!
 
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The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare 2024.

It's Guy Richie directed, despite what the trailer would have you think Caville dosnt stick his tounge out all the time.

It's a fun romp and based on a true story.

If you liked Reacher you'll probably like this too.
 
Argylle (2024) - I know this flopped but I didn't know it was actually this bad. What happened to Matthew Vaughn? Wasn't he a really promising director once? Remember the really great fight scene in Kingsman in the church? This has several fights that are the exact opposite of that. The one with the CGI coloured smoke in particular was one of the worst fight scenes I've ever seen. I don't mind the movie being silly or full of twists - in fact I like this things! So it was kind of fun for a while. But the final act is so so bad and the ending is obviously setting up a sequel that we'll never see and makes no sense on its own. The cat was the best part but they put all its scenes in the trailer. But the good thing is that it's easy to just go online and read nerds complaining about stuff instead of actually properly watching a movie these days.
 
Ghostbusters frozen empire.

It's not bad, still heavy on the member berries, but the cast feels more organically mixed, rather than some forced cameos, although they still manage that at the library.
 
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) - Took a while to get going. When it was just apes talking to each other in stilted voices it felt kind of silly? The main ape was nowhere near as compelling as Ceaser from the previous movies. Best ape character is only in it for half an hour then dies. Gets better as it goes on and is pretty good by the end with some big questions about ape/human co-existence. Obviously tons of CGI and it all looks good. No Statue of Liberty though. I didn't think it was as good as the Andy Serkis ones but it's not bad!
 
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I just watched The Long Game (2023) on Netflix. Based on a true story about a Hispanic golf team winning a tournament in the 50's.
I recommend it. Good movie and storym
 
Wicked Little Letters (2023) - Based on a true story about two feuding women (Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman) and a series of poison pen letters. Lots of swearing from stuck-up 1920s Englanders. It was good fun, with very funny performances by the leads and the supporting actors. Not much else to say!
 
Jackpot 2024

Wether or not you like this film well depend on if you like Akwafina or not.

I don't mind her, and it's kind of a Shan Chi reunion.
 
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