I had a non-speaking role in my friend's made-in-48-hours short film that won Best Acting in the competition, so I'm pretty sure that means my Oscar is a lock come March. Can Robert Downey Jr. say he was a ing actor for True West Film Center's 2024 best ensemble with just *waves hand around face* this? I don't think so.
Rating for the actual ASSEMBLED special, not the BANGING, JAW-DROPPING series (which is what the like belongs to).
This doc is a heartwarming little sightseeing trip down Memory Lane. The majority of the runtime is actually focused on the classic series, and all the creative voices that were present for it and returned for '97. It's nice to hear the enthusiasm that bled through into the series also bleed through here, and there's so much of it that it...basically turns…
Why the fuck do we need X-Men '97? Nothing I saw about the then- show gave me a convincing answer in '97's favor. The clips of X-Men: The Animated Series I'd seen looked goofy, corny, or embarrassing on their own, and I'd never witnessed anyone of my generation defend it, so clearly the prime quadrant for capeshit (guys my age) didn't miss the classic show. And anyway, Disney bought Fox to put mutants next to beloved MCU live-action characters, not…
When I was disappointed that the animals talked in The Wild Robot, it was because I wouldn't be getting this. Maybe it's following in the footsteps of a hundred things I've never heard of, but Flow is unlike anything I've seen, and it was a jaw-dropping experience that swung frictionlessly from soothing to stressful and back. I was ensnared as my own cat is when she tries to sharpen her claws on the snagging-but-unrelenting canvas chair instead of the other…
I forgot I watched this the second I turned something else on. I'm not really joking; I was logging TV on Serializd a couple hours later, only then experiencing a vague feeling that I'd left something uned for. Would not have finished this had Graca and I not been doing the Leo pointing meme every 10 minutes, since she's currently in the middle of showing me B99. This isn't even unintentionally funny enough to offset the pain.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Sam deserved death as soon as I saw her write while holding the pen like...that. So that just made the ending even more cathartic than it already was.
I'm not sure if I'm rating this high out of pleasant surprise, because I thought based on the reviews and ratings I saw that I was going to be served a serviceable, but ultimately unnecessary, side quest that's just tiding me/us over until Part III. But I was really freaking attached to…
"How would you know you couldn't make a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man if you've never tried?"
Flops immediately upon trying.
No sane person will ever understand where that's coming from because no sane person will ever make it far enough in this movie to witness the similar (and similarly incisive) philosophizing dialogue of Cassie Webb. Luckily for me, Graca isn't sane.
(Of course, the analogy breaks down when you realize Sony has now failed multiple times and still has yet…
Very sad to report I found this...a little boring at times. Pulled out an overall worthwhile feeling when the last act picked up though.
Just wondering why so much backstory was left till so late when there was so little character established in the present day for me to invest in. But there are flourishes in action and direction here that kept me going when my interest in the actual story lulled. And some solid jokes at appropriate moments.
Literally the first thing I thought when watching that scene was "I wonder how Patel phrased this bit of direction for them" lmao