Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I’ve seen people compare it negatively to Guardians of the Galaxy. But we already have a film that was a wannabe Guardians that’s a much better comparison for this: Suicide Squad. Imagine if the trailer house that cobbled together Ayer’s 2016 shitshow took over Snyder’s next Rebel Moon, and then went “Oh, everyone’s talking about Mad Max again, let’s pretend we’re that too.” And then they hung all of that on unlikeable, uninteresting characters that develop as much as the…
sorry for the spoilers but ive just gotta tell you the best bit about madam webb is the morbius cameo when he appears out of a cloud of bats in the shape of a webb in the middle of the fight with the bad spiderman with the bible name and the sydney spidergirl is like “is he with you?” and dakota webbing is like “i thought he was with you???” and then they all team up to kick bad spideys…
I’ve been getting somewhat into Barbie recently. That’s not exactly the coolest sentence to type as a 29-year-old male, but in my defence… shut up. In all seriousness, I have 2 young daughters and a partner who grew up with the dolls and the films, so it’s all very natural. I quite enjoyed Barbie In The Nutcracker as a light take on the material, and genuinely loved Barbie As Rapunzel as camp classic. So when we learned that a new…
Let’s get the obvious comparison out of the way first: yes, this has scenes that are reminiscent of Inception. But while that film’s intellectual merits can be parsed and discussed, Hypnotic’s cannot. There are rehashed elements that could once have been called “mind-bending”, but ultimately this is a hollow mystery box. Once it’s open, there’s nothing more to discuss. Just shrug and move on.
Really, the better point of reference would probably be The Number 23. Like that infamous disaster,…