Hmm… first film post this year. In general, this family does not go to the theater. We only have 1 theater in town and the next nearest one is almost 1,000 miles away. Due to the monopoly, we see a lot of… interesting practices compared to .. say… Renton, Washington. Bad seats, big concessions mark ups, squished rows, profit fees for tickets, the list goes on and on since the 90s. However, it’s the only one we got, so… This year is a huge exception due to the sheer amount of content we are interested in… in both theaters and home…

My youngest wanted to see this. She is -really- into the F1 scene. So… I took her. I didn’t expect much until I heard Brad Pitt was in it. Loved the guy since Legends of the Fall. With no spoilers… I hated the first 15 minutes, but loved the rest of the film… and I haven’t seen any car racing since the Indy 500s back in the 80s… I think. This is one of those films that.. IF it was filmed in 4k, special effects in 4k, mastered in 4k… (aka, not a fake 4k bluray)… I’ll buy the 4k bluray and the stream.

Hmm… I barely made it through one episode. Too much mumbling… new slang, and scattered brained ideas. It doesn’t help that it’s a quarter season instead of a full season. Ugh. I will probably watch another episode or two to see if it’s worth it’s salt… But so far, another loss in MCU’s belt adding to the list since 2019.

I… loved the first film. I had to watch it again before watching the second as there was such a long time between them. I… don’t know what happened but the second one is bad. Very, very, very bad. You can tell the weapons were plastic, it was if they forgot to hire any kind of special effects team. It had a tv series “movie” feel to it, and the ending sets it up for a tv series. I feel really bad for the actors.

I’ll just say this now. This is a bad flop. The fact that many people went to see it before the word got around makes it even worse. no ties to the failed previous Jurassic World films, and certainly no ties to the Jurassic Park films. Yet another island (how many were there?), and mutated dinos made to look. Well, quite frankly, like they were missing a lot of brain cells.

I liked how they brought in Black Widow, and the (new) Blade. I like how the family was introduced into the film. Other than that… no. Just no.

The rest of the films on my list this year are…

Nobody 2 Tron 2 Superman Avatar 3 Wednesday “Season” 2 Fantastic 4 The Running Man