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The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)
Now that this style of animation is becoming mainstream can stop pretending this movie was "cinema"?
This movie genuinely bugged me. Yet I hear constant praises for this film for being so inventive, funny and wholesome when outside of the animation this just gives the feel of somebody's grandma or Amy Pascal writing the humor of the script. For example the jokes consist of memes from late 2000s and early 2010's like nyan cat and Numa numa, it was pretty abrasive, datedand cringe. The thing here also is that this movie was in preproduction since 2015 so the movie has no excuse for this type of internet humor. And I know that the Numa Numa meme was incorporated into the story, doesn't make it any less cringe to me, sorry.
The plot is so generic and predictable. I was just calling out every single scene that happened. "Oh a phone gets thrown into the trash, well I guess she is going to be the main villain of the story" and yep wouldn't you know it there it is.
Also this movie gives off Meet the Robinsons vibes which to me personally is more annoying than funny. They are so over the top and wacky that they just more so annoy me more than anything. I liked the dad because he was the only one I thought made sense to be silly and there was some charm to him. Maybe if you can imagine the dad writing the movie then it would be pretty meta but the whole story is about main character being a movie director so that is not going to work...
Now I would normally be more forgiving of the cringe humor, kiddy tone and predictable plot if the movie wasn't two hours long. The run time to me was the nail in the coffin for me enjoying this "cinema". They spend so much time with the stupid romance subplot between the Dinosaur kid and one of the neighbor's daughter and trying to insist serious emotional drama between the other characters, but the problem is that it is so over the top in its humor that I just can't get invested in it's drama so all I am just watching mind-numbing colors and noise with no stakes. Pretty colors and noise mind you but colors and noise nonetheless.
I considered giving this a 5/10 because while I hated the story, the concept, the characters and the humor, I wanted to see more of this art style so I initially gave it a pass. Now that the 2d and 3d artstyle is becoming more normalized in the animation industry this movie is easily a 3/10 for me. Enjoy it if you want but I didn't like this film at ALL.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Why?....
13 years.... 13 years and the best that James Cameron, the man behind Terminator 1 and 2 amd Aliens can come up with was poorly implemented HFPS and better looking water. He seriously looked at those youtube videos the put 60 fps in movie scenes and actually thought "wow this looks super cool" and decided to put in scenes that don't fit that frame rate possibly on a coin flip at random.
When I first heard that avatar 2 was being announced I thought that the worst thing that could happen to it was that it wouldn't bring back the magic that the first movie had. I never could've in a million years be prepared for the worst possible scenario to play out.
The reason why games work better in high fps is because people playing the games would be able to respond more accordingly with everything on screen, that is not the case for a film. The action and the dialogue scenes in this movie fly by so brief and quickly and looked so unnatural like that I couldn't absorb what is happening. And it's never consistent, one minute it is hyper as chihuahua on Crack and the next it is absolutely choppy. I guess to make the dialouge scenes give more space to breath but when the hfps is implemented is absolute random.
It is a shame too because there are some breathtaking images in this movie but are marred by this horrible new experiment. By the time that the final action scene kicked in my mind was just absolutely done. I stopped paying attention to the story and was just focused too much on trying to process the visuals to the point where my brain was actually physically hurting.
Please don't give James Cameron any more money, please don't make this movie a success. Petition your government to ban this film from the public consciousness. If this movie actually succeeds on the back of this high fps in movies meme then there is no telling what damage this will do to cinema going forward.
And I give this a 2/10.
Prey (2022)
This is definitely the best predator sequel but that's not really an accomplishment
It's a shame too because Prey has such an excellent concept but the middling execution makes this feel inauthentic. This really should've been made with the actors speaking Comanche because in the official version nothing in the performances or the dialog seperates this movie from any other dumb action horror movie made by hollywood. Yes, I know there is a dub but the dub doesn't match the lip movements so it is super distracting that you have no choice but to watch the original version instead.
I don't know if it is losers on the internet complaining that it would be too woke if the actors spoke Comanche or if it was disney with their hypocritical performative platitudes that sidelined the idea of the actors speaking Comanche but this was a huge missed opportunity. They are already making it with a low budget and putting it on Hulu anyway so it could still have been a sleeper hit and a genuinely great predator movie on par with the original but instead this film got compromised and is just decent at best.
My hope is that the success of prey at least encourages the predator franchise to do more period pieces with the predator in it, like say in feudal japan, the wild west and maybe for comedy's sake the emu war.
I can see why predator fans say that this is the best sequel since the other predator films were just trash, but the missed opportunities in this movie just left me wanting more.