Movies Rapidfire

Saw a bunch of movies the past few months, have some opinions in reverse order of when I saw them.

You’ve Got Mail

These two deserve each other, I say, with no compliments to either.

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Ben-Hur

Man, I thought there would be a lot more homoerotic shirtless vengeance in this than there was :/

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Master and Commander

Boats? Boat. A fun watch.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

A good adaptation of the prequel. I thought the actors for Snow and Lucy Gray did a great job. I’m disappointed they didn’t make Viola Davis say “Hippity hoppity”, c’mon, she'd have killed it even more.

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The Marvels

The most I’ve enjoyed an MCU movie in a while, though I admittedly only bother seeing a few of them. (Wakanda Forever’s best part was its opening as everything after left me unable to take the domestic politics of Wakanda seriously, the second Dr Strange movie felt very stupid to me, Captain Marvel worked better for me when contemplating its tropes than when actually watching it, and I have no memory of the second Ant-Man.)

Geez, I guess before The Marvels, Black Panther was the last one I actively liked? Anyway,

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Bottoms

A co-worker asked me if this film was good or bad and I went ??? I don’t know ??? I did deeply appreciate both the Total Eclipse of the Heart and the It’s Complicated needle drops.

Barbie

I mostly enjoyed watching the expressions of Margot Robbie and America Ferrera, including when said expressions were directed at each other. And the Closer to Fine and Billie Eilish song moments were great. Plot-wise...eh, it’s like Bottoms, where I think it’s best to enjoy the individual jokes than expecting it to all hang together.

Red, White & Royal Blue

Solid and fun adaptation. I didn’t mind most of the changes from the book, like Alex’s un-divorced parents, or Alex already knowing he’s bi, or Britain having a king instead of a queen. The only change I didn’t like was Princess Beatrice being Henry’s younger sister who has never Been A Problem for the royals, when in the book she’s the more troubled older sister - the book’s dynamic is way more interesting.