Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
"Better than Jurassic World" is literally the faintest of praise that I can give. At least this movie doesn't seem to hate women and I give the movie credit for the bravery of it's ending. Otherwise, its an uninspired film that drags on too long, and features one of the worst characters in cinema in Chris Pratt's Owen.
Ugh. I'm amazed that this film was even nominated for Academy Awards, much less won any. Rami Malek does not play Mercury as a actual human for most of the film, the movie seems to believe gay men just leer at each other, very little music is used in the movie, all of the members of Queen are portrayed as angelic heroes, and the Live Aid finale seems entirely out of place, taking up almost 1/4 of the movie's runtime.
Lily Tomlin is a genius. Her work in this film is remarkable. All of the cast does an excellent job, but she is always pitch perfect.
Watching three such talented women makes me sad that we don't see more movies like this. There's no love interest for these women (not really; Jane Fonda's character has a very weak plot involving her ex-husband, but I think it's more about the strength she finds without a man than it is about romance)…
Having rewatched all three of the Ocean's films within a short period of time (the last two within 24 hours of each other), I find myself puzzled by the second one. There's no doubt that the third movie is superior to its predecessor and that it captures some of the magic of the first film in the series. But what is different about that second movie? It is simply that the second movie was set in Europe, and that the…