SPOILER WARNING
Contains moderate/mild-ish spoilers for The Brutalist, and very minor spoilers for Puss in Boots: the Last Wish.
Dune Part Two, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, and Princess Mononoke are also mentioned, but nothing is given away beyond what is shown in trailers and other promotional material.
Wow! What a masterful piece of cinema.
Let's start with the writing. Take this with a pinch of salt, as I have only seen this once, but as far as I could tell,…
CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR:
Gladiator
Gladiator II
The Lord of the Rings
The Hunger Games
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker
Doctor Who Series Twelve
People seriously need to demand better. It's Alien Romulus all over again. Stop praising films like these because the more we do, the more of their likes we'll see.
Unlike Alien Romulus, the characters were pretty engaging and sometimes pretty well developed. Honestly, I think there's a pretty good story in here somewhere, and given a…
This film is absolutely incredible.
Don't worry if you're not a fan of monster movies. In fact, the monster only appears on screen for a small fraction of the runtime. It's the characters that make this film so compelling.
Not that it's lacking in the spectacle department. The young Godzilla in the opening scene is fast and aggressive, which greatly contrasts his later, more aged appearance, where he's far bigger, slower and heavy enough that even walking around is gloriously…
Not as disastrously bad as everyone made it out to be, but definitely one of the worst X-Men films.
It has a sizeable share of plot holes and contrivances. And with regard to Jean, Logan, and Scott, it is especially irritating that they're trying to tell the same story that was already told so much better in X-Men 1, 2, and The Last Stand.
Surely the fun of the reset provided by Days of Future Past would be the opportunity…
