Films
Fantastic Four (2025)
Wow… just wow! It took Marvel 6 years to get a good move out since End Game. And it was well worth it! Be ready to cry… that is all I am going to say about that… Also, it turns out that the after credits scene of “Thunderbolts” does not tie into this Fantastic Four movie. It’s… weird. Perhaps it ties into the next Avengers movie…
Anyhow, if you like superhero movies, this is one to wathc.
How to tame a what?
Holy… this was WONDERFUL! Both kids and adults should love this live action remake. Full disclosure, I saw the first animated film, and fell asleep on the 2nd (due to other reasons), and never seen the other films/series. You… have… to… watch… this.
Sinners
What the.. .ever… This is REALLY good… in the last 20 minutes. The first part is quite a bit slow. I really hope they do a sequel.
Oh… watch until the very end of the credits…
Super! Man?
This film was a mixed bag, unfortunately. I think every single other character in this film was AWESOME! Especially Lex. Superman…… Ugh, there is no way to sugar coat it. He is the weakest Superman in film history and most of comics history. I love the actor giving the best he can with the script he was given. But .. damn. It was sad to see how far the character has fallen :/
Mad props to the Firefly captain trying his best to not laugh at his own hair cut.
~sigh~
Another move flop this year.
F1, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Ironheart, The Old Guard 2
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