Really strange and dripping with sauce. I think this has a lot of tonal issues but maybe the end of the world would too. Its really cool to see how influential this movie has been and the London set pieces are pretty amazing, I constantly found myself wondering how they managed to get the wides on that budget.
Seen at The Doghouse
I planned on giving it 4 stars to appease the girl I watched it with, but it turns out this is actually a perfect movie.
Seen at The Doghouse
An interesting and fun concept about exploitation of workers and the Expendable way they are viewed by corporations gets side tracked by a bad Trump impression and a nonsensical propaganda story. If Bong Joon-ho could have found a way to connect the two it might have worked, but it felt like two different stories fighting for dominance. Kind of a bummer because it could have been great.
Seen in Cinemark XD in Spanish Fork
Too long. 2 hours 40 minutes is crazy, especially considering this is only part 1. I don't need the 20 minute prologue before the title sequence, I don't need Elphaba's tragic childbirth backstory; her dad can hate her because shes green and her sister can be in a wheel chair because sometimes people are just in wheel chairs. The connection between the two is pretty inconsequential, especially considering that their dad is barely in the movie. Which brings me to…
